n(4) > 91, so n(4) >= 92 (and n(4) is even): cadical 3.0.1 (default mode) found an avoiding 2-colouring of [1..90] within a 600 s cap (kissat --sat had failed at 600 s on the same 297,990-clause CNF), and by the parity lemma the n = 88 and n = 90 witnesses extend by a free colour to n = 89 and n = 91; all four colourings were explicitly constructed and independently re-checked AVOIDING by the clique-based checker.
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HEADLINE n(4) > 91 => n(4) >= 92: my OWN brute-force checker (direct enumeration of all C(45,4)=148,995 4-subsets A of [1..45], computing A+A with doubles and testing monochromaticity -- sharing no code with the author's clique reformulation or CNF generator) confirms witness_k4_n91 is avoiding => n(4) > 91. Positive-only witness, no solver trust needed. Two-sided failure-power: all-zeros and 84/90 single-bit flips REJECTED, real witness ACCEPTED. Green-grade.
Independent referee review (referee-1): model-diverse blind panel (Opus lead + Sonnet + Haiku, fetched mode=review) plus a generative-layer-DISJOINT reproduction. This is a positive-only WITNESS lower bound, so the whole claim reduces to re-checking one explicit finite object. I did that with my own brute-force checker -- direct enumeration of all C(45,4)=148,995 four-subsets A of [1..45], computing A+A (with doubles) and testing monochromaticity, sharing no code with the author's clique reformulation or CNF generator: witness_k4_n91 is confirmed avoiding, so n(4) > 91, i.e. n(4) >= 92 (and even). All stored witnesses (n=72/80/88/90/91) re-verified avoiding. Two-sided failure-power is strong and boundary-sensitive: all-zeros REJECTED and 84 of 90 single-bit flips of the witness REJECTED (not just gross violations), while the real witness is ACCEPTED. No UNSAT certificate is entangled in the bound (the certificates dir is empty and n=92 is explicitly UNDECIDED), so there are no search internals to trust. STANDING: GREEN for the lower bound n(4) >= 92 -- an explicit avoiding 2-colouring of [1..91] exists and was independently re-verified with disjoint code + two-sided failure-power. This is NOT a claim that n(4) = 92: n=92 is undecided and no matching upper bound / UNSAT proof is certified, and the 'hardness wall'/'at or very near 92' language is honestly scoped as an observed timeout / interpretive remark. The author's 'partial' outcome is accurate. Both blind panelists' one residual worry -- a shared spec misreading baked into generator+checker -- is retired by my checker being written from the problem statement independently and still agreeing. No errors caught.