{
  "benchmark": "AE_OUTER_KERNEL_EDGE_V111",
  "status": "0e / KERNEL TERMINAL BOUNDARY CLOSED",
  "checks": {
    "terminal_literal_exact": true,
    "triple_bar_internal_occupied": true,
    "quad_bar_outer_edge": true,
    "kernel_ends_at_quad_bar": true,
    "after_quad_bar_is_decoherence": true,
    "no_release": true,
    "no_reset": true,
    "no_reentry": true,
    "transition_internal_to_edge": true,
    "transition_edge_to_decoherence": true,
    "decoherence_has_no_kernel_successor": true,
    "parent_immutable": true
  },
  "terminal_path": [
    "|||",
    "||||",
    "DECOHERENCE_OUTSIDE_KERNEL"
  ],
  "next_boundary": {
    "scope": "outside frozen kernel",
    "state": "decoherence",
    "note": "No internal xe remains at the |||| edge; any further test belongs to a separate post-kernel/decoherence model."
  }
}