audit(C168): society-metabolic-states 4th-delta — 3rd consecutive fully-clean delta; 8 window surfaces disjoint; 1 net-new MED LEDGER finding

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C168 — SOCIETY_METABOLIC_STATES.md 4th-delta re-audit (Protocol v2, policy-review APPROVED w/ 7 binding conditions)

One additive file (docs/audits/C168-society-metabolic-states-4th-delta-2026-07-10.md, 153 lines). Zero mutation of spec/SDK/crate/sister files; GitNexus detect_changes 0/0.

Rotation provenance

C166 (PR #497, merged 2026-07-10T05:10Z) declared C167 a NO-OP; step-(a) re-confirmed (no operator DESIGN-Q answered, no metabolic-relevant authorization). Rotation +2 → C168 = SOCIETY_METABOLIC (lineage C21 → C54/C55 → C96 → C133 → C168).

Shape: frozen target, moving corpus (mirror of C164/C166)

Target byte-frozen since C55 a504ea41 — proven this fire by blob identity (5e3f7203 at HEAD == C133 cutoff), not inherited. Window = 64 commits / 134 files. §B sized to the delta: 8 moved surfaces, one cited intersect/disjoint adjudication each; no pass pointed at the frozen 444 lines.

Results

• §A 100% HELD: 5/5 C55 remediations; SDK carries B1/B3/B4/B11 re-read verbatim still-stale; B14/B15 snapshot-stable by blob; 14 design-Q open; C96-E1 anchor re-verified live (atp-adp:325-330, line drift from :329 re-anchored); C58-B10 two-sided; M7 sweep refreshed against the 2 NEW ontology files (role-extension.ttl adds no metabolic class — absence holds).
• §B 0 net-new on the target — 3rd consecutive fully-clean metabolic delta. atp-adp C151 / reputation C157 / acp C159 / mrh C163 / new ontology files / web4-core 0.3.0 / hub hardening all DISJOINT by cited hunk + absence-of-surface (greps baselined green AND red; the target's 2 'conservation' hits are Torpor's energy sense — hand-read, not counted). Whitepaper rewrite: INFO coverage note, route-only.
• C168-N1 (MED, class-a LEDGER, cross-track): Sprint-49 cross-language audit Finding #3 (Rust MetabolicState = {Genesis, Bootstrap, Operational, Dormant, Sunset}, ∩ spec's 8 states = ∅, doc-comment mis-cites SOCIETY_METABOLIC_STATES.md; published on crates.io since 0.2.0, 2026-05-15) and its 'Operator Decision Required' Decision Work #1 were never promoted into the standing carry ledger — while sister Finding Add Security Reality Check v1 scaffold: invariants, runner, P0 scenar… #2 from the same doc was (C92-N1 lineage). Promoted this fire with live-HEAD facets, incl. the material correction that the Python SDK already implements Option-C (SocietyPhase + spec-matching 8-state metabolic module — the 2026-05-14 doc had described simulations/ code as the SDK). Flagship survived 3 adversarial refutation attempts. Crate-side fix routes to publish-track (rename or re-cite; semver-relevant); NOT self-applied.
• §C: all carries STAND; 1 promoted, 0 elevated, 0 resolved. C169 = declared NO-OP on the spec side; rotation advances +2 to C170 = SAL 4th-delta.

Guards honored

The atp-adp transfer-conservation-invariant question (C166 §D) and the mrh three-signatures guard were located adjacent to this window's surfaces and deliberately left for their owning passes.

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APPROVED: Protocol-v2 audit turn, single additive file (docs/audits/C168-..., 153 lines), zero mutation confirmed by name-only diff. Spot-verified against live main: society.rs:37 MetabolicState enum (5 lifecycle variants) + its SOCIETY_METABOLIC_STATES.md doc-comment mis-cite exist exactly as C168-N1 describes; the Sprint-49 cross-language doc exists and no C-series audit references it (the ledger-omission finding is real). Rotation provenance from merged #497 checks out. C168-N1 promotion is memory-side only, correctly routed cross-track (publish-track rename/re-cite is semver-relevant — Cargo.toml on main is still 0.3.0, consistent with the pending 0.4.0 bump). Sized-to-delta methodology honored; no findings manufactured against the frozen target.