One-page Track A release note

boundary (unchanged; reproduced verbatim). The target remains the independently frozen original-rod lapse variant on the explicit on-shell power-law Einstein–scalar background with external cosmic time. XX-B closed Q1 only for the compact-test gauge-fixed free multiplet. XX-C supplies local subtraction, compact-source dipole tails, a conditional one-sided covariance-tail theorem, a same-class non-positive representative, the native two-rod inverse-distance obstruction, and the subsidiary-defect actual-image criterion; it does not select a positive physical state or unconditional native tails. XX-D constructs the complete classical second jet (with $Y_2$ absent because ${\partial }_i{N}_0=0$), the native unsmoothed classical insertion on the spatial Schwartz domain, compact-source-cutoff microcausal Wick symbols, and a conditional native one-contraction Wick symbol whose infrared hypotheses remain unverified for any selected XX-B/XX-C representative. XX-E proves the coupled classical Ward identity (including the rod term), the exact compact-source-cutoff residual, the triviality of compact gauge-fixed residual parameters, the failure of ordinary compact gauge translations on the free-equation quotient, the limitation of centrally parametrized second jets, the spatial Newton images of a contact family, the classical Ward images of a comparison counterterm family, a conditional simultaneous actual-image criterion, and an escaping-source example showing that local convergence does not control Newton composition. Native Q3 therefore remains open; native Q4 and Q5 are unentered and unclosed. Every link to prior manuscripts is a separation or checklist (declared path null). Source records are never premises. No quantum evolution without external time, no inherited characteristic quantum coefficient, no compilation, no discharge of XVI-N/Route B, no opening of XV-B, and O.1 remains NOT_CLOSED outside the narrow XVI-Q scope.

decision. This release note exists, but the required Q2–Q5 constructions do not. Track A's native quantum relational observable therefore remains unresolved. The note does not convert missing application data into an anomaly, cancellation, or universal nonexistence theorem.