(OPT) Publish the complete release batch through reviewable dependency partitions #873

PR #840 is too large for GitHub’s diff endpoint to serve. At published checkpoint cc7bb2a5127aeccd9248a7daa30c06ae983f5051, the actual main-to-head delta contains 16,035 paths and 9,119,358 additions. The diff request returns HTTP 406 too_large, explicitly naming a 300-file limit. GitHub separately reports conflicting while its compare endpoint confirms main bccbe9696eca892045b0603ad663234062df15f4 as merge base, with zero commits behind. The causal relationship between these observations is not established; do not call this a proved source conflict or cache bug.

The census contains 14,999 evidence paths, but removing or packing them all still leaves 1,036 other changed paths. Evidence has 163 literal compile include sites covering 142 evidence paths and 45 consumers, plus runtime/Python source readers. Deleting history, weakening tests, accepting smaller source domains, or bypassing review would not solve the underlying requirement.

Acceptance:

• Make the complete change reviewable and mergeable through a dependency-ordered publication plan, preserving the exact intended final tree and every original assertion, source domain, negative control and runtime gate.
• Prefer genuine prerequisite partitions at existing boundaries where possible; enumerate the exact tree and dependency invariants before changing publication history.
• If evidence archives are packed, provide deterministic bounded readers and consumer-specific byte-preservation proofs, including runtime readers and literal compile inclusions. Do not assume Git blob deduplication reduces path count.
• Measure actual changed-path counts and query GitHub’s actual diff/mergeability results for each resulting PR. A local count below a threshold is not proof that GitHub accepted it.
• Retain current branch/commits and all qualification receipts until replacement publication is verified. Do not force-push, bypass main protections, delete unrelated branches, or contact Support as an automatic workaround.

Source-only audit artifacts are retained on the external SSD under provenance/pr840-cc7bb-mergeability-audit-20261017 and provenance/pr840-file-count-remedy-plan-20261017. This follow-up is distinct from compiler bootstrap memory (#798) and compact evidence transport; it covers actual release publication and reviewability. No replacement PR or history rewrite has been performed.