XZ Protocol v0.75 -- Preregistered Structural Decision Replay at Software Supply-Chain Effect Boundaries (FROZEN)

A preregistered structural-decision replay of the XZ Utils supply-chain compromise (CVE-2024-3094), built as a bounded verification instrument and audited by independent AI systems across four vendor families (Claude/Anthropic, Kimi K3/Moonshot, GPT-5.6 Sol/OpenAI, Gemini/Google) over 25 consecutive rounds (R7-R31). Every round produced at least one byte-false claim (Class A defect) at H = 1.0. The defect migrated monotonically from code to structure to provenance to automation to prose to the repair mechanism itself. The code layer has been clean since R22. The central empirical finding: the instrument cannot verify that it has no remaining byte-false claims about its own verification properties. This deposit contains the FROZEN protocol (v0.75, 75 amendment entries, 44 shipped files), 16 unmodified seat reports from R28-R31, two peer reviews, the six-string verification methodology (v7), the synthesis paper, and the complete program corpus.

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Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
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2026-08-17
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21984211
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Scientific Computing and Data Management
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XZ Protocol v0.75 -- Preregistered Structural Decision Replay at Software Supply-Chain Effect Boundaries (FROZEN)

Bilal Syed Arfeen
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Scientific Computing and Data Management
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XZ Protocol v0.75 -- Preregistered Structural Decision Replay at Software Supply-Chain Effect Boundaries (FROZEN)

Bilal Syed Arfeen
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A preregistered structural-decision replay of the XZ Utils supply-chain compromise (CVE-2024-3094), built as a bounded verification instrument and audited by independent AI systems across four vendor families (Claude/Anthropic, Kimi K3/Moonshot, GPT-5.6 Sol/OpenAI, Gemini/Google) over 25 consecutive rounds (R7-R31). Every round produced at least one byte-false claim (Class A defect) at H = 1.0. The defect migrated monotonically from code to structure to provenance to automation to prose to the repair mechanism itself. The code layer has been clean since R22. The central empirical finding: the instrument cannot verify that it has no remaining byte-false claims about its own verification properties. This deposit contains the FROZEN protocol (v0.75, 75 amendment entries, 44 shipped files), 16 unmodified seat reports from R28-R31, two peer reviews, the six-string verification methodology (v7), the synthesis paper, and the complete program corpus.

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