nx_evindep_gate.nx

nx_evindep_gate.nx -- THE INDEPENDENCE AXIS, LIVE ON THE BOARD THAT JUDGES CLAIMS. The independence law (nx_evoracle) was live on the NAS but nothing CONSUMED it, so no claim's standing changed. A capability that beats the baseline in a gate but is not wired at the live chokepoint IS the baseline -- this ecosystem has paid for that law four times. This organ is the consumer. WHAT IT ANSWERS, per compare domain that declares executable evidence: does ANY of its declared gates rest on an authority OUTSIDE this ecosystem? It reads <domain>.gates, takes the 4th field (the declared SUBJECT SOURCE), and classifies that subject's party-ness with evo_classify. THIRD => the domain has at least one externally-anchored gate. FIRST or UNRESOLVED => every gate it declares is graded against answers we wrote ourselves. ★DELIBERATELY A SEPARATE ORGAN FROM nx_sota_status (rule 9). nx_sota_status feeds deploy check #12, and a sibling is landing a change that makes POST /api/deploy REFUSE on RED. Adding an axis there could flip a domain and stop every deploy in the ecosystem the hour it shipped. This reports; it never convicts. ★AND IT IS GENUINELY A READ-ONLY VERIFIER, which is why running it through /api/gate_run is honest -- that route executes verifiers only, and that bound is what makes it never-brick. My row-DERIVING organ (nx_evoracle_sweep) writes a file and is correctly refused by that same route; I did not rename it to slip past the bound. ★SELF-CHECK TEETH FIRST (T1/T2). A census that silently finds nothing reads exactly like a corpus that contains nothing -- the single most repeated failure in this ecosystem. So before reporting anything the organ proves its classifier still separates a known third-party header from a known first-party one, and FAILS RED if it cannot. An instrument must prove itself before it grades a corpus. ⚠A domain whose .gates file is absent is reported NO-GATES, never skipped: a domain we could not measure and a domain with no external anchor must never look the same. license_tier: ORIGINAL expect_exit: 0