The nucleation of insight: companion archive (manuscript sources, pilot deposits, instruments, and validation records, v1.5.1)

Companion archive for the manuscript "The nucleation of insight: a phase-transition account of creative problem solving, with registered predictions and a masked n-of-1 pilot" (Q. Zhao, 2026, submitted to New Ideas in Psychology; double-anonymized review). The manuscript's main document is anonymized; the non-anonymous title page is included here and is not part of the anonymized submission. CONTENTS1. Manuscript source (LaTeX, v1.5.1) and title page.2. Instrument specification and validation record (SM-B annex): the structural-coherence defect pipeline (reference [24] of the manuscript), archived separately with its own DOI 10.5281/zenodo.23231339 (coherence_pipeline_v1.1_release.zip, identical copy included here).3. Pilot deposits and reproduction kit: blind analysis pipeline and locked metric table; event freeze, window mapping, and masked window list; the eight masked corpus windows (pilot_windows_W001-W008.zip); D0 calibration residuals.4. Feasibility records of the substrate-native channels (script v1.0 deposit and corrected v1.1 implementation).5. Figure files (Fig. 1-4, vector PDF).6. Companion archive README (file map, reproduction order, version chain v1.0 to v1.5.1, integrity records). INTEGRITYSHA-256 interlocks reproduced 2026-10-08: locked metric table 14d79c4ccb4038501d35a5e10582f99ec61e8da2d9dcfd6b101e22301df91f94; masked-window hash anchor 6CDD4D85...B352E71; feasibility record e972c89e...96ca4. The event freeze and mapping were reconstructed on 2026-10-08 and verified against the registered structure (E01-W004/W003, E02-W002/W001, E03-W008/W007, E04-W006/W005) with 8/8 window date ranges matching; the freeze carries a new frozen timestamp by construction, and originals take precedence if they surface. Evidence screenshots (author-side): evidence_E01_0506_a/b.png, evidence_E02_0524.png, evidence_E03_0618_a/b.png, evidence_E04_0630.png. REPRODUCTIONSee NIP_companion_archive_README.md for the four-step reproduction order (blind pipeline hash check; exponent chain; 22-assertion instrument battery; corrected feasibility script). LICENSEText and data: CC BY 4.0. Code: MIT (see README).