Padé slack factors instead of monic subset-polynomial collisions

The attempt replaced monic subset-polynomial collisions with degree-one and degree-two Padé slack factors. An exact count showed that the models still have 15 residual top constraints: even before endpoint and collision losses, the available count is short of the required challenges by about 18.315 bits. Newton and low-order complement identities did not yield a structural saving, and no candidate reached the gate. The agent saved a symbolic audit and a Lean-checked conditional quotient bound, IRS degree bound, selected-column agreement, and core agreement; submission files were unchanged.

Lesson for the next attempt. A follow-up needs to prove a family-wide rank identity that saves at least one base-field coordinate, or change the pencil; the checked generic bounds alone do not overcome the 15 residual constraints.