Artian Monitored-Recurrence Reference-Switch Preregistration: An Activation-Gated A1 Test with First-Detection Resonances

Can a quantum-recurrence staircase notice which clock scheduled its measurements? Monitored quantum recurrence produces integer plateaus whose jumps occur when eigenphases of the one-step unitary merge. Standard quantum mechanics protects the integer winding spectrum, but it also predicts that the physical locations of those jumps are unchanged when two qualified schedulers are exchanged after ordinary clock transfer. This preregistration turns that invariance into a reciprocal, two-device laboratory test. For device \(d\) and preregistered transition \(j\), the fitted roots enter only through the log ratio \[ y_{dj}=\log \widehat{x}_{dLj}^{\,*}-\log \widehat{x}_{dAj}^{\,*}, \qquad \widehat{\Delta} = \frac{\mathbf 1^{\mathsf T}\Sigma_y^{-1}\mathbf y} {\mathbf 1^{\mathsf T}\Sigma_y^{-1}\mathbf 1}, \qquad \widehat R_{\rm MRRS}=e^{\widehat\Delta}. \] The ordinary quantum-control point hypothesis is \[ H_0:\qquad \Delta=0,\qquad R_{\rm MRRS}=1. \] The QTT A1 point hypothesis is not automatic. It becomes executable only after a pre-data hardware-and-rank certificate proves that the autonomous role realizes the proposed source-time terminal, the disciplined role realizes the laboratory terminal, and the A1 map acts once on each one-step interval. Under that activation theorem, \[ G_{\rm act}=1 \quad\Longrightarrow\quad H_{A1}:\qquad \Delta=\log\!\cos\!\left(\frac{\pi}{8}\right), \qquad R_{\rm MRRS}=\cos\!\left(\frac{\pi}{8}\right) =0.9238795325\ldots . \] If activation is not proved, the registered outcome is \[ G_{\rm act}=0 \quad\Longrightarrow\quad \texttt{TARGET\_NOT\_ACTIVATED}, \] so a unity result cannot be used to falsify A1 through an apparatus that never realized the required terminal. The paper also proves that a constant terminal amplitude multiplier cannot move the conditional-mean transition, distinguishes the topological plateau integer from its dynamical location, derives the single-application exponent \(q=1\), and freezes reciprocal role swaps, finite-horizon sweeps, Hamiltonian tomography, hidden timing injections, blind labels, covariance-aware inference, and five legal outcomes. Three independent adversarial reviews test the quantum-recurrence theory, the timing apparatus, and the statistical/falsification logic. The release contains the 26-page paper, numerical certificate, source code, synthetic figures, three review reports, complete checksums, and blank machine-readable laboratory packets. It contains no laboratory result and does not reinterpret existing Barkai-group measurements as evidence for QTT. Stable concept DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.21703683 Main book: Quantum Traction Theory: Main Book v10.01 Website: quantumtraction.org