This technical note package defines an adult-owner dependency and D4 detection boundary for local-first c-contours under the Self-Evo / Project Ester corpus. It covers adult-owner dependency risk, parental-bond and opacity amplification, D4 non-abandoning posture, lucid dependency covenant, D4 detection and hysteresis, witness minimization, calibration limits, FNC extraction fixtures, conformance matrices, open issues, and structural non-claims. The package includes publication-prepared Markdown sources, individual archival PDFs, a master PDF, source preservation records, SHA256 manifests, Zenodo metadata, validation reports, and CC BY 4.0 licensing metadata. Status: final assembled draft v0.1.1 - not ratified; pending a-gate review. Non-claims: this package is not clinical validation, not certified safety, not deployment authorization, not legal crisis-reporting compliance, and not a personhood or consciousness claim. Detection is an estimate over observable signals, not internal-state measurement. Calibration improves the operating point; it does not make the estimate true. A fully sovereign adult owner cannot be guaranteed protection from self-induced dependency inside a closed private box.
Ivan Kotov (Sun,) studied this question.