# Public Code Hygiene Reconciliation v1.0.3

**Verdict: PASS after release-engineering cleanup.**

The exact v1.0.2 public replication ZIP was scanned under the new common Public Code Hygiene Audit. The scientific code and research payload contained no decorative emoji or AI/assistant self-reference. Three findings arose only in superseded distributed public-package validators, where a tool-specific local environment path literal had been hard-coded into the validators' denylist logic.

v1.0.3 removes superseded release-control validators/manifests/static records from the active release surface and replaces the active package validator with a generic environment-path check that contains no tool-specific environment identifier. No scientific payload is changed.

The exact rebuilt v1.0.3 ZIP must pass both:

1. `00_VALIDATE_PUBLIC_PACKAGE_v1_0_3.py`; and
2. the common research-governance `validate_public_code_hygiene.py` exact-artifact audit.

The public-paper metadata pointer is synchronized to v1.21. The project revision record classifies v1.21 as typography/layout/document-metadata correction only with no replication-package or scientific-content change.
