Your process is validated. Did a hand move the measure?

habitat doesn’t replace a validation, a binder, or a guardrail. It adds one thing they can’t: a certificate — recomputable on your bench, from the artifact alone — that a data-handling step left the protected geometry byte-identical, or a precise reading of how far it moved. Your validated process stands; here is a floor your counterparty can recompute for themselves.

What every receipt here is held to — the measured baseline, what each digest can and cannot see, and the open items — is stated in two sentences on the method page, dated, with the benches behind every clause.