EDITION 13 / CLAUDE PATH-TO-90 DISPOSITION / 2026-10-22

ACCEPT: independent team/instrument/location after the owned first instrument;
publication of raw data, registered methods and nulls; signed independent review;
capital quotations before ordering. No person or institution has agreed here.

CORRECT: NSF Phase I cannot be assumed to fund capital equipment or German work.
https://seedfund.nsf.gov/solicitation-budget/
https://www.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/small-business-innovation-research-small-business-technology-0/nsf26-511/solicitation
Read status: official solicitation and linked Phase I budget requirements reviewed.

CORRECT: listed cost lines sum to $123k-$241k and are not a full program budget.
Labor, fringe, indirect, facilities, shipping/tax and contingency are unpriced.
Original $90k-$165k apparatus range remains a provisional supplied estimate; no
complete priced BOM or current written quotations establish it.

CORRECT: F=(1+R-T)P/c for collinear normal incidence; absorbed light contributes.
The existing MF-01 protocol already contains this relation. Current planned force
calibration allocation exceeds the optical allocation. Prior nuisance bounds are
not qualification of the owned balance.
https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=922358
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0086975
Read status: NIST manuscript previously reviewed; Dresden published performance
supports feasibility discussion only, not a supplier commitment or certification.

QUALIFY: a nominal 2 W laser may not deliver 2 W at the mirror. Chamber diameter is
provisional. Bridge sensitivity is not force uncertainty. Request current prices.
https://www.coherent.com/lasers/cw-solid-state/mephisto
https://www.andeen-hagerling.com/ah2700a.htm
https://www.nist.gov/pml/applied-physics-division/laser-power-and-energy-instrument-calibrations
Read status: vendor specifications and current NIST service page reviewed; no quotes.

QUALIFY: the 2024 superconducting-test abstract compares superconducting niobium
and copper. Its composition-test and Cooper-pair limits do not directly exclude
an arbitrary gated-graphene coupling. Model mapping remains required.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.21232
Read status: repository abstract; do not portray as full-text reanalysis.

KEEP PENDING: named roles, signed independent review, OSF/DOI identifiers, funding,
quotations, apparatus qualification, measurements and independent replication.
No score increase is claimed. The supplied Edition 12 score is 70; Edition 11's
historical score remains 68.5. Website edition labels are not evidence upgrades.
No outreach or submissions sent; no public metricflight.com deployment performed.
