diff --git a/docs/plans/original-completion-2026-10-02/execution/p08-03/CURRENT_ACCEPTANCE_STATUS.json b/docs/plans/original-completion-2026-10-02/execution/p08-03/CURRENT_ACCEPTANCE_STATUS.json
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+{
+  "plan_id": "P08-03",
+  "status": "in_progress",
+  "candidate": "7dde98ccb749cbd1c1b82e066b59350e73191400",
+  "executed_native_source": "31aa7706d28a92e313c432d5a62e35d19503dcc3",
+  "formal_acceptance": false,
+  "independent_review": "INDEPENDENT_OPUS_REVIEW_7DDE98CC.json",
+  "review_status": "changes_requested",
+  "missing": [
+    "prove full Git ancestry and diff applicability for R09 reuse",
+    "remove new fixture exclusion",
+    "reject invalid or fake JPEG capture evidence",
+    "synchronize candidate metadata without falsifying executed source",
+    "final175 full regression",
+    "independent semantic acceptance including stair preview/runtime difference",
+    "integration and final evidence checks"
+  ],
+  "next_unit": "P08-03",
+  "denominator_packages": 30,
+  "denominator_units": 88,
+  "completed_delta": 0
+}
diff --git a/docs/plans/original-completion-2026-10-02/execution/p08-03/INDEPENDENT_OPUS_REVIEW_7DDE98CC.json b/docs/plans/original-completion-2026-10-02/execution/p08-03/INDEPENDENT_OPUS_REVIEW_7DDE98CC.json
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+{
+  "task_id": "P08-03",
+  "commit": "7dde98ccb749cbd1c1b82e066b59350e73191400",
+  "status": "changes_requested",
+  "summary": "I reviewed every file in the diff. All changed paths are inside allowed_paths, and I found no deleted or disabled tests. P08-03 still can't be accepted. The native and OS evidence for all five conditions (support_connection, invalid_position_reason, demolish_rebuild, pan_zoom_world_identity, separate_pid_resume) was collected at the earlier commit 31aa770 and is being reused for candidate 7dde98c. The checker that allows this reuse has three problems. First, it skips the HEAD commit check and has no check that 31aa770 is an ancestor of the candidate or that only allowed files changed between them. Second, it removes a newly added fixture (tests/fixtures/p08-03/repair13_images.py) from the source/input comparison without any separate check. Third, its JPEG check is structural only, so it accepts degenerate screenshots with missing tables and an empty image stream (confirmed by the coordinator's probe). The worker's own implementation.json still records 'independent acceptance pending' and 'Root re-check pending' for every condition and lists actual_worktree_HEAD as 31aa770, not the candidate. The passing Runner check exit code alone isn't enough to accept the semantic conditions. The coordinator's runtime evidence also records acceptance=false.",
+  "acceptance_ids": [
+    "P08-03"
+  ],
+  "findings": [
+    {
+      "severity": "high",
+      "message": "Unsafe evidence reuse: tools/check_p08_normal_placement_evidence.py:466-489. When ROOT_NATIVE_R09_COLLECTION_PINS.json is present, the checker uses index['source_map'] as the source truth and skips the commit==HEAD check (line 488). It does not check that R09_COMMIT 31aa770 is an ancestor of the candidate, and it does not check that git diff R09_COMMIT..HEAD touches only the allowed files. Only the files listed by runner.source_refs are compared, so changes outside that list are never detected. As a result, native evidence from 31aa770 is accepted for 7dde98c without proven applicability, which the spec forbids: 'Reuse proof only with explicit actual source/input/settings/environment applicability'."
+    },
+    {
+      "severity": "high",
+      "message": "A new input is excluded from the stale check: tests/fixtures/p08-03/repair13_images.py is added (diff line 65730) and then removed from both the source and input comparisons (checker lines 474-484). The exclusion is applied whenever the pins doc exists and has no separate justification check. The coordinator records that the worker's stated direction was a change limited to two Python files plus docs. Removing an input from the stale-input check is not allowed under the spec item that forbids 'stale source or inputs'."
+    },
+    {
+      "severity": "high",
+      "message": "The fake-screenshot check is too weak: jpeg_dimensions (checker lines 150-191) checks only SOI/SOF/SOS/EOI structure. It accepts files with no quantization or Huffman tables and an empty image stream; the coordinator's 8x8 probe passed. Because r09_images relies on this parser alone, a stand-in image with the expected dimensions satisfies the OS screenshot check. That contradicts the spec's 'missing/fake OS provenance' rejection requirement. Pixel-level or decoder-level validation, or a hash tie to the original capture, is needed."
+    },
+    {
+      "severity": "high",
+      "message": "The worker has not claimed completion: implementation.json lists actual_worktree_HEAD 31aa7706… instead of the candidate. For every condition it records actual_Godot_handler and actual_native_OS as 'same31aa R09 preserved; … independent acceptance pending / Root re-check pending'. There is no native or OS run at 7dde98c. None of the five required_conditions can be confirmed for the reviewed commit."
+    },
+    {
+      "severity": "medium",
+      "message": "Reuse mode is switched on by the presence of a committed docs file (ROOT_NATIVE_R09_COLLECTION_PINS.json), and the checker validated against that evidence is itself one of the 'changed' files. The checker that judged the evidence differs from the one that ran when it was collected, and nothing records independent verification of the new checker logic at this candidate."
+    },
+    {
+      "severity": "low",
+      "message": "The handoff directory holds many historical, failure and repair logs and manifests (R01–R13) alongside the current ones. Final CONDITION_MATRIX.md and implementation.json should state one current executed source/input SHA for the candidate commit, clearly separated from historical evidence that does not apply to it."
+    }
+  ]
+}