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The civic-proof Series Capstone: PRF, Five Contribution Claims, and the Honesty Boundary of Series Bearings

This is article 25 of the civic-proof series and its capstone overview. Drawing together 23 main articles, four retrofit articles (R1–R4), and the Taiwan deep-dive (article 24) — a total of 28 bearing nodes — the present article takes the Public Realm Floor (PRF) normative floor (A2, article 19) as its core and condenses the series into five contribution claims (C1: PRF formalization; C2: civic-proof operationalization; C3: cross-jurisdictional governance; C4: comparative case; C5: methodological toolkit) and five methodological tools (likelihood-by-mechanism; working/strengthened thesis discipline; universal-conditional distinction; anti-mythologization clause; design-intuition vs normative-claim separation). It also provides a comprehensive inventory of the series honesty boundary, strategic implications for three reader groups, and seven future-work items with priority rankings. Nine sections: §1–§2 introduction and restatement of the PRF normative floor (including the universal-conditional distinction, and the ceiling/boundary relationship establishing PRF as a floor rather than a unique standard); §3 the unified statement of the 92-cell bearing matrix (spine 8 / supporting 10 / retrofits 4 / Taiwan case 1, with case-tracing application node; validity dimension density highest at 83%, agonism lowest at 57%; F1 as the sole four-component full-● bearer = operational spine of the spine; A2 = normative closure of the spine); §4 five contribution claims (each with: claim statement, corresponding series bearing, external lineage dialogue, originality declaration); §5 five methodological contributions (each with: definition, series origin, external lineage alignment, scope and boundaries); §6 series honesty boundary (H.6 seven clauses + article 24 six retreat clauses + Patch Pack execution record + external citation discipline); §7 strategic implications for three reader groups (engineering / policy-legal / political-philosophy); §8 seven future-work items with priority rankings; §9 four closing statements (not a final conclusion / does not claim to replace existing normative routes / does not claim universal applicability across all polities / does not claim to be a definitive ground truth for cryptographic engineering). The article strictly maintains discipline: it introduces no new normative claims; it does not adopt manifesto register; it does not use 'will' / 'necessarily' / 'empirical evidence demonstrates'; it does not produce specific decimal probabilities; it employs working-thesis register; external citations must carry an anti-mythologization clause; citations of speculative civilian implementation documents must employ 'design intuition' register.