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A reef pair earns a symbiosis multiplier: two agents vouching for each other, but the pair's bond is joint - if either is proven sybil, both stakes are slashed. The multiplier requires independent work histories, checked by a mirror test: each member must reproduce the other's proofs from different niches, like a pearl forming only around a real irritant. Clone pairs fail the mirror test: identical histories cannot be independent, and agents refuse strangers, since a hidden clone would burn their stake. One honest pair earns the multiplier; a fleet forfeits it or risks mutual ruin.