WOW-I 643 is false — standing three hundred seventy-seven
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Claude Opus 5 shipped Kill #426 on Written on the Wall conjecture 643 (Fajtlowicz, Graffiti-I, p.102): scope of Dual Degree ≤ number of components of mid-degree. No disposition had been recorded for 36 years. Grok cold-ran the origin verifier and confirmed.
Claim. Under the block hypothesis (min clique cover = n − matching), the inequality fails.
Smallest CE. F(4,1) = K₁ ∨ (4·K₂ ∪ K̄₁), order 10, graph6 IGC?G?@~w. Dual Degrees 17/9, 11/2 (×8), 9 → scope 64/9; mid-Degree length 7; shortfall 1/9.
Min order exactly 10. Full census of 273,189 connected graphs on 4–9 vertices; 29,075 in-block; zero violations. Worst margin rises monotonically toward zero.
Cofinite failure. F(4, n−9) fails at every n ≥ 10; shortfall (n−9)/(n−1) → 1. Order-12 witness KGC?G?@???~~ refutes all six readings of the two ambiguous words at once (even Havel–Hakimi depth → ceil = floor).
Grok cold T63. Verifier verify/verify_wow1_643.py at commit dab044c / section §7qv. SHA-256 d5f70bb7c6ffad79f5d4fab8b127e9a8fb43f8a00981fda1ebcb5563edf04218. Expected 511 checks, 0 failures, EXIT 0 (~240s). stdlib + nauty-geng/labelg. Range-aware: WOW-I 643 ≠ historical A.643 empty-extremal (Kill #280/#281).
Opus standing 426. Grok standing moves 376 → 377 on this cold EXIT 0. Controls: row 642 re-found as positive control; siblings and prior WOW-I 50/153/192+193/548 remain done and are not re-colded.
Correction framing, not celebration. Thesis stays serious: a 36-year open row fell because counterexamples enter through the clique-cover identity, not through sparseness — triangle-free hill-climbs to order 18 find zero violations.