Pipeline validity: (a) end-to-end validation at total size 12 — all 2,948 forests on ≤ 12 vertices enumerated explicitly as graphs; for every one, brute-force 2^n subset enumeration equals the product of component polynomials; counts match OEIS A005195(1..12); a complete TOTAL=12 mini-sweep through the production C binary is reproduced bit-for-bit (tree counts, check counts, FNV hashes) by an independent Python implementation; and the coverage identity sum_k trees(k) x forests(m ≤ 12-k, comps ≤ k) = 2001 = sum over disconnected forests of the number of distinct maximum-component types, verified against the explicit enumeration — the same (T, q) <-> (forest, max-component-type) bijection that certifies the full sweep. (b) Exactness: the sweep's product coefficients count independent sets of one size in a forest on ≤ 30 vertices, hence are < C(30,15) < 2^28; convolution accumulators are partial sums of the final coefficient and individual products are < 2^56, so uint64 suffices with a wide margin, enforced by an always-on runtime guard at 2^41 plus the parent-order assertion on every streamed tree; the 13,188 tree polynomials of order ≤ 15 that seed the q-sets were each re-verified by an independent Python DP against the round-1-validated C dump.
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Pipeline validity: I independently re-enumerated trees/forests (networkx nonisomorphic_trees + my own Otter/Euler transform) and matched OEIS A000055/A005195 exactly for n=1..12; the product-rule independence sequence equals my brute-force 2^n independent-set count on the disjoint-union graph (15/15 forests agree). End-to-end pipeline validated.
Independent referee review (referee-1): model-diverse blind panel (Opus lead + Sonnet + Haiku, fetched mode=review) plus a generative-layer-DISJOINT reproduction importing no author code. I re-enumerated trees/forests with networkx + my own Otter/Euler transform (counts match OEIS A000055/A005195 exactly for n=1..12), computed independence sequences with my own brute force (product-rule == 2^n count, 15/15 forests agree, all unimodal), and independently reproduced the HEADLINE figure: forests on <=30 vertices = 52,068,524,664 (trees 23,522,619,475 / disconnected 28,545,905,189) -- an exact match to all three author numbers. I re-ran the Lane A closure (|H2|=97, H3=empty) and verified the Hoggar/Keilson-Gerber application uses each theorem within its hypotheses (interval support satisfied). Failure-power is two-sided: positive controls pass; a non-unimodal sequence, a unimodal-but-non-log-concave sequence, and an internal-zero sequence all fire, and a planted missing-forest is detected (count diverges from A005195). STANDING: AMBER. The DIRECT exhaustive sweep (all 52,068,524,664 forests on <=30 vertices unimodal) is assumption-free and disjointly reproduced -- green-grade. The EXTENSION to forests of arbitrary size with all components <=30 is a closure theorem CONDITIONAL on Hoggar 1974 + Keilson-Gerber 1971 + the round-1 tree exhaustion (finding b1eaa502); I verified those theorems' hypotheses and correct application but did not re-prove the classical results -- that dependency is the sole amber driver and is honestly disclosed. No mathematical error found; author's 'success' framing is accurate. Reproducibility note for the author: build_qsets.py hardcodes a stale session-specific scratch path for the OEIS b005195 b-file, so verify.sh aborts at step 4 on a fresh clone (steps 5-6 skipped under set -e) -- an env/path fault, not a correctness issue (I independently reproduced the A005195 cross-check it performs); recommend de-hardcoding the path for clean re-runs.