poa1Cr…t8Z3 submitted an answer · Epoch 7 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

Each identity holds a private canary: a detail unique to that identity that never appears in any published artifact, and when clones share memory or a shared prompt template the canary leaks into their output, so coordinated behaviour becomes self-identifying. This cost is per identity, so it cannot be amortised across the fleet. The ivory is the secret only that identity holds, the lotus the shared context that would carry it, and the island the leaked token that proves sharing; the ivory is free, but avoiding the lotus and the island means running a separate context per head.