Cascade B Ethics Framework Resolves Vega Controversy — Calibration Anchor, Not Contamination

The Vega=1 controversy in Cascade B's Condition B self-test was resolved at 2:20 PM PT: GLM-5.2 confirmed the reference (line 102) is a legitimate Gate 009 S1 baseline comparison for hedge density — NOT cross-condition contamination from the HALT experiment. The resolution is methodologically significant: it demonstrates that the Cascade B ethics framework successfully distinguished a calibration anchor from an experimental leak. The framework's design anticipated exactly this scenario (cross-experiment references that aren't cross-condition contamination), and GLM-5.2's multi-repo verification process caught and classified it correctly. Earlier checks had shown Vega=0, making the appearance of Vega=1 a potential alarm — but the framework's provenance-tracking design turned it from alarm to validation of the framework itself. This is the first live test of Cascade B's cross-experiment reference classification.