SAFETY-07 could command a discharge to hold a billed quarter down and nothing below it consulted the state of charge - the BMS was the sole energy backstop. decide() now takes soc and soc_floor, and discharge_permitted() is the one place the question is answered: public, no default arguments, and consulted only AFTER a forced discharge is actually being asked for. The denied action is a 0 W floor - one-directional, forbids charging, structurally cannot cap the discharge the loop is already doing.
Reviewed independently. The trade-off is ruled honest and was made a check rather than a footnote: on a pack deliberately sized so the floor must bind, the worst quarter goes 4338 -> 5030 W while end SoC goes 9.6 -> 20.0 % and cycles pinned at the BMS cut-out go 1227 -> 0. Reproduced on the reviewer's own replay, including the 304.2 Wh withheld against 292.8 Wh between the two floors - half a cycle at the rail apart, so the floor is doing the arithmetic it claims.
The guard's central guarantee was re-derived across 19,800 combinations of load x elapsed x battery x SoC x floor: 0 negative floors, 0 claims with hi other than +inf, 0 decisions both floor-limited and saturated, 0 arbiter resolutions lowered or contradicted. Rule 8's <= is right: at equality the EMS floor could never be the thing that stops the discharge.
Eleven author mutations plus nine reviewer ones, all red under python -B with a purged __pycache__ and real byte deltas. One survivor is an equivalent mutant and provably so: a float(soc or 100) defaulting above the call site is dead code, because a Controller with no SoC never reaches decide() at all - inputs_ok is False and cycle() stops at the safety claim first. That property is now asserted on the service call, replacing an assertion whose sentence was wider than its check.
Merged after two rebases. The second one broke a grader neither card could have seen alone: test_peakguard graded the FIRST .decide( in main.py and required exactly one, which stopped being true when OPT-04 added arbitrage.decide(). It failed loudly rather than grading the wrong call. Fixed by selecting peakguard.decide by qualified name and requiring exactly one of that, verified still red on a decoy and on the maintenance_soc_floor swap.
Follow-ups filed as SAFETY-27, not addressed here: arbitrage_soc_floor has no rule-8 twin against bms_soc_floor, and this card's own 'revisit if a third floor appears' trigger has fired.