Operational Transition Test (OTT): External Blind Component-Transport Challenge v0.4 - Frozen Prospective Protocol

This record contains the frozen prospective protocol for the OTT External Blind Component-Transport Challenge v0.4 — the first external-source challenge of the Operational Transition Test. Context. The reduced V–C–X criterion passed its prospectively frozen internal synthetic Crucible in v0.3 (H1–H4 PASS; results DOI 10.5281/zenodo.22117125; frozen protocol DOI 10.5281/zenodo.22117014). v0.4 tests the transport of that criterion into independent external source families that were not designed together with the criterion. What is frozen. V/C/X semantics and numeric thresholds are unchanged from v0.3. CAE is the decisive external V track; IPC 2020 total-order HTN methods with pinned Lilotane are the decisive external C/X track. No external full-VCX label is manufactured. Two candidate translations were rejected before freeze for semantic mismatch: direct IPC-plan-validity-as-V and XLand-rule-subtree-as-macro. State at publication. The external challenge has NOT been run: no CAE, IPC, Lilotane, or any other external source was acquired or executed; no source-feasibility check was run; no DOI-derived seeds or splits were generated; no development candidate selection, held-out ablation, or hypothesis scoring occurred; no RUN_AUTHORIZATION.json exists in this deposit (template only). Boundary. This deposit claims no external validation, no cross-domain confirmation, no universal emergence, and no validation of LOGOS-44. It establishes a public, independently timestamped state of the protocol before any external result is observed. Integrity (SHA-256). ZIP archive: d26c1126fe95279255c272028e652e4c3989bbe23200ee608d6fe892d4c97b29; manuscript PDF: 6dbbb9a641be801a74357e01bafd34147c060f64110ebeed28cd92e88181499d; canonical protocol root (= SHA-256 of PROTOCOL_MANIFEST.sha256): 48583fb7c3803854a7c427e2d0e6df1e64398a87d06c35cbe7329b7428beeb3e — all 19 manifest entries independently verified before publication; uploaded files confirmed byte-identical. Licensing. Record license CC BY 4.0 (text/protocol/documentation/data). Software in the archive is Apache License 2.0 per LICENSES.md. External upstream source code is not bundled and retains its upstream licenses. Copyright © 2026 Sławomir Grzegorz Gątkowski.