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+# Frontier snapshot — P30 S39 close (2026-08-05, ~01:00)
+
+Derived fresh from `corpus.stubs` + the sigs (regenerate any time:
+`.run/s39/frontier_snapshot.txt` is the raw output). **Reconciled** against every other "what's
+left" view by `make audit-frontier` — see that gate's output for disagreements.
+
+## The whole open frontier
+
+**13,312 open stubs / 741,792 instructions across 140 binaries.**
+
+### The single biggest target is now `main`
+
+| binary | open ins | open stubs |
+|---|---:|---:|
+| **main** | **79,074** | **2,001** |
+| ov_SC02_005 | 18,266 | 381 |
+| ov_SC04_011 | 15,366 | 285 |
+| ov_SC06_033 | 13,302 | 147 |
+| ov_SC06_032 | 13,149 | 169 |
+| ov_SC03_028 | 13,031 | 203 |
+| ov_SC02_011 | 13,017 | 260 |
+| ov_SC06_029 | 12,942 | 178 |
+| ov_SC06_018 | 12,504 | 169 |
+| ov_SC06_024 | 12,243 | 170 |
+
+**`main` is 10.7% of all open instructions** — and it only became *visible* at this size tonight:
+its Ghidra sig was 7 weeks stale and covered 1,525 of 2,002 stubs, so 477 of them (19,309 ins) were
+invisible to every metric and every target selector. That is the R36/R34 lesson repeating: work a
+consumer cannot see does not exist to planning.
+
+`main` is also the least tractable per instruction — it is structurally barren (zero `h_exact`
+overlap with the overlays; "main is not free dedup" was checked two ways in S31/32 and both were
+negative), so it is the genuine ~490-tok/ins agent tail, not a mechanical harvest.
+
+### Overlay open stubs by size (main excluded)
+
+| band | stubs | ins |
+|---|---:|---:|
+| ≤20 | 2,003 | 31,413 |
+| 21–50 | 5,243 | 173,862 |
+| 51–150 | **3,246** | **264,784** |
+| 151–400 | 765 | 155,807 |
+| >400 | 54 | 36,852 |
+
+The mass is the **51–150 band (264,784 ins)** — too big for the free local ≤15 tier, well inside
+what the §17–§45 toolkit handles. The >400 tail is only 54 stubs / 36,852 ins.
+
+## What is measured, and what is still assumed
+
+- **Measured tonight:** the free `h_exact` pool (§142) is now 66 instances / 1,061 ins, all
+  macro-backed — the cheap mechanical vein is essentially spent at this address-identical tier.
+- **Measured tonight:** stored-draft re-gate rates by population — 4/6 fresh, 1/12 general stored,
+  3/17 reverted-overlay, 8/35 draft-exemplar heads (`docs/calibration.md`).
+- **Still assumed:** the frontier report's h_norm cluster pool (1,689 clusters / 326,261 ins at a
+  claimed 2.7× multiplier). **Its whale claim was 3/4 wrong** (§142), so this number must be
+  re-measured before a wave is scoped onto it — that is S5's first step, not its premise.
+- **Still open (denominator):** the 39 un-onboarded type-1 modules and main's missing independent
+  boundary oracle. Neither is in the 741,792 above, because nothing can see them yet.