Successor contract and conclusion

A successor must first select one target rather than upgrading the word “clock.” For a field-theoretic target it must identify the actual classical observable, quantized fields, gauge prescription, domains, contraction matrix, insertion products, and retained orders.

It must then construct the operations in Q1–Q5 for that target, or explicitly restrict the requested conclusion so that a slot is not needed. A physical expectation needs a state; a purely algebraic identity need not claim one. A continuum register interpretation needs its refinement and complete-channel comparison, not a graviton propagator assigned by analogy.

A claim of exact counterterm cancellation must use the actual admissible image. A claim based on probes must prove coverage of the declared class. A claim of gauge closure must concern the same complete observable, differential, and retained order.

The central conclusion is therefore:

No later ultraviolet or three-point calculation is opened. No new action, state, graviton covariance, native quantum coefficient, field instrument, or compilation is supplied. The contribution is the precise inventory and the proved reasons that the proposed shortcuts do not fill it.