Pre-Commitment No. 8 — Close-Out Record of a Pilot DISCARD (INDETERMINATE-BY-CONSTRUCTION)

Close-out record for Pre-Commitment No. 8 (Least-Count Honest APART Gauge, one-sided REF-LIVE). Sandbox pilot of 20 September 2026 morning America/New_York under frozen harness pc8_gauge_v1_0.py (SHA-256 c0ff36257d9d366409732095ef3e2e061f4cfe3a3fe0278b53770cf3e1c729f5; env of record MATCH) returned token INDETERMINATE-BY-CONSTRUCTION and was filed as pilot DISCARD (not adjudicative; zero evidential weight). Coarse-subsequence and Ed_k gates bit-identical (200/200). O_p20.87 m/s; _p0.70555 (q-dominated); S-1 PASS; S-2 FAIL by straddle against _declared≈0.70555. Section 8 owner-committed: freeze RETIRED for adjudicative or campaign use; Zenodo DEPOSIT companion (this record); successor OPEN later in its own FILTERED session; DESCRIPTOR ledger FILE AS PRINTED. No plan clause, edge, zone, least count, N_s, or S-rule is altered here. CASTING CLOSED for new predictions. IceCube and LHCb records untouched. Successor stick work requires a separate signed pre-commitment and DOI. Wet-ink signed scan of the Section8-filled SCAN-VERIFIED close-out. ORCID 0009-0006-7073-4861.