**Overall Verdict:** Accept — Revision 3 supplies a coherent, professionally substantive finishing task, complete reference artifacts, and an objective evaluation path with no material blocker identified.

**Completeness Check:**

- Instruction: Complete — The finishing spec defines placement, frame-rate conforming, masking, exposure, editorial timing, encoding, and all deliverables.
- Inputs: Complete — All eight original files are present; their hashes match the hidden inventory and the duplicate task-material package.
- Toolchain: Complete — Blender 5.0.1/Linux acquisition instructions and pinned scorer dependencies are supplied; execution records support single-machine feasibility.
- Reference output: Complete — The readable reference contains the project, master, three posters, QC notes, complete 160-frame truth, and 480 reference masks. All 489 reference files match the supplied inventories.
- Rubric: Complete — The scorer covers every composite frame, restored picture and stereo audio, lower-third fidelity, live-mask behavior, and complete native-project replay, with explicit gates and partial-credit rules.

**File and Task Reachability:**

Attachments: reachable. Task: reachable.

All six manifest attachments were inspected: `kerry_input_and_software.zip`, `standalone_scorer.zip`, `kerry_reference_outputs.zip`, `kerry_evaluator_reference_readable.zip`, `model_trial_evidence.zip`, and `kerry_ale_submission_20261002f.zip`, including relevant nested archives. Archive safety, byte counts, supplied hashes, structured data, image data, media headers, native-project structure, representative visuals, and evaluator source were checked.

The completion path is original inputs → native Blender edit/composite → required deliverables → protected evaluator-owned replay and scoring. Solver inputs are separated from hidden answers and construction assets. Supplied execution evidence reports a full reference score and successful 752-frame replay; this was not independently reproduced. Full audiovisual playback and native rendering were unavailable in the review environment, and no uploaded code was executed. Tested ALE integration is explicitly outside the submission’s claim.

License keys, accounts, tokens, and other credentials are not required from the contributor. Confidential, proprietary, or internal material may be evaluated as submitted evidence without requiring additional disclosure.

**Special Screening:**

None. The procedural plate is disclosed, and human reference production and checking are contributor-reported rather than independently authenticated. No affirmative evidence supports AI fabrication or a core synthetic-defect fixture. Public-benchmark status could not be independently checked because approved public search was unavailable.

**Recommended Changes:**

The complete reference package and extensive replay checks support acceptance; no material changes are required. Optionally qualify the “<1%” difficulty estimate as historical: the attached trials used an earlier evaluator, and one zero score was affected by delivery filenames.