Geometry as Prior Condition: A Suggestive Connection to Residual Scale-Invariant Theory

Working assembly note. Not a journal paper. Not a detection. Not a joint cosmological fit. This deposit seats the conceptual statement posted on X on 6 November 2026 as an interpretive framing layer under the selective-retention operator already stated in prior deposits. Geometry is treated as the prior condition under which distinction, path, action, and retention become possible. Energy is read as geometry in motion. The same operator runs at every scale: retained outcomes are those the local conditions do not reject. The locked core remains unmoved and is not an input: w₀ = −φ/2 ≈ −0.809, wₐ = −1/φ ≈ −0.618, crossing at z = 1/√5 ≈ 0.447, residual class A ≈ 0.040 in [0.03, 0.05]. Zero extra continuous free parameters. No fourth door. Einstein keeps the geometry. The Standard Model keeps the boson table. Recorded public comparisons and black-hole protocol equations (BAO + PantheonPlus Δχ² ≈ −3.3, average ⟨w⟩ values, ngEHT shadow aims, ε(0) = 1 − √(8/9) ≈ 0.05719, cousin ratio ≈ 1.43) are included for completeness. They do not spend the lock. A landing on the residual digit would be a fit. Prior deposits are named and not replaced. Quod condiciones non repudiant, retinetur.