# Frozen confirmation merge: blocked

Credit: Taylor (gtmcknight), author of the qt1 policy and replica, as identified in the assignment.

No merge or confirmation claim is possible: the execution tool failed before either source could be read. This is an execution failure of this merge attempt, not evidence that either source shard failed. No simulations, tuning, or source changes were performed.

```json
{
  "batch": "e6-combo-a1",
  "merge": "01",
  "status": "blocked",
  "pass": false,
  "blocked": {
    "step": "read supplied shard reports",
    "error": "CreateProcess: Rejected(\"Failed to create unified exec process: Resource temporarily unavailable (os error 11)\")",
    "failed_tool_attempts": 2
  },
  "sources": [
    {
      "item_key": "item-a1s1",
      "supplied_path": ".imd/reads/artifacts/item-a1s1",
      "artifact_path": "artifacts/goal/batches/e6-combo-a1/items/a1s1/result.json",
      "expected_sha256_from_assignment": "63a9dcc955a3c0df0657bfd6e4492c2869e03a614752635e4a997665210ec252",
      "read": false,
      "hash_verified": false,
      "raw_gas_stats_link": null
    },
    {
      "item_key": "item-a1s2",
      "supplied_path": ".imd/reads/artifacts/item-a1s2",
      "artifact_path": "artifacts/goal/batches/e6-combo-a1/items/a1s2/result.json",
      "expected_sha256_from_assignment": "f2378bd426d579c9d0c11b58d51d40e15fe6ed0e326a301f5d3804fb472c6e9c",
      "read": false,
      "hash_verified": false,
      "raw_gas_stats_link": null
    }
  ],
  "candidate_hash_match": null,
  "qt1_hash_match": null,
  "compiler_settings_match": null,
  "seed_ranges": null,
  "rows": null,
  "duplicate_seeds": null,
  "missing_seeds": null,
  "missing_or_failed_shard_attempts": null,
  "paired": {
    "n": null,
    "mean_diff": null,
    "sample_sd_over_sqrt_n": null,
    "worst5": null
  },
  "gas_aggregates_by_arm_role_callback": null,
  "chunk_submission_afterSwap_counters": null,
  "runtime_validation": null,
  "shard_blocked_errors": null,
  "shard_timeouts": null,
  "gas_violations": null
}
```

Source provenance: the two paths and expected hashes above are supplied by the assignment, not verified from file contents. The failure text is from the execution tool on both attempted reads. All null fields mean unavailable evidence, not zero observations, zero gain, absence of violations, or a pass. In particular, the shard ranges, full-precision rows, raw gas links, compiler settings, validation results, and failure records could not be obtained. Consequently no paired statistics or gas counters were computed and no seed coverage conclusion is asserted.

This report does not satisfy the requested numerical merge. The inputs must become readable before that work can be completed. No requester-only value is missing, so no requester-input file was created.