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seam: S-02
title: Provider-local mechanism / entity-positional outcome
plates: [X-003]
status: OPEN — held
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# S-02 · Provider-local mechanism ⟂ entity-positional outcome

**Side A.** The three architectures are three vendors' distinct engineering, and the convergence is coincidence or shared industry practice. Nothing about the entity is doing the work; three stacks fail three ways for three reasons.

**Side B.** Three mechanisms converging on one outcome for one entity is evidence that the outcome tracks the *entity's position* — low authority, close lexical neighbour, single-owner provenance — rather than any stack. The mechanisms differ because implementations differ; the outcome is the same because the position is the same.

**Why this stays open.** The controls that would discriminate — a novel coinage with a close neighbour and no exclusion hypothesis, an obscure established concept with clean provenance — are preregistered and unrun. Until they run, both readings survive the captures, and asserting either would be exactly the failure the epistemic-hygiene rounds corrected.