diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci.yml b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
index 92580484..f8e0e72d 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
@@ -715,7 +715,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Kernel-check every module, sorry-free
         run: |
           set -euo pipefail
-          expected=23
+          expected=24
           found=$(ls lean4/*.lean | wc -l)
           if [ "$found" -ne "$expected" ]; then
             echo "::error::lean4/ has $found modules, expected $expected."
diff --git a/lean4/DSMBindingValueContinuity.lean b/lean4/DSMBindingValueContinuity.lean
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..3eb1b8db
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lean4/DSMBindingValueContinuity.lean
@@ -0,0 +1,270 @@
+/-
+  Binding value continuity — self-contained Lean 4 (no Mathlib, no imports)
+
+  Machine-checks the TEMPORAL gap a raw binding-register probe exposed on
+  2026-09-15, and states the property a repair must discharge. It proves a
+  NEGATIVE result about the shipped rule; it does not propose the repair.
+
+    - SHIPPED RULE     byte-identical replay is idempotent; otherwise the caller
+                       must still hold exactly what it claims to have observed
+                       AND supersede it with a strictly greater round. The
+                       replacement VALUE is then unrestricted.
+    - COUNTEREXAMPLE   `A` can be chosen, and a later raw higher-round CAS can
+                       make a DIFFERENT `B` chosen at the same key
+    - SNAPSHOT         one canonical-majority read still cannot show two
+                       distinct chosen identities — the existing snapshot
+                       theorem survives, and this module must not contradict it
+    - CONTINUITY       once `A` is chosen at a key, every later chosen value
+                       there must equal `A`. A later round carrying that SAME
+                       value stays available, so recovery is not destroyed.
+
+  The model. `Store` is the ONE-resource-key projection of the member register;
+  list position is member identity, and `none` is explicit absence. `expected`
+  is a collision-free stand-in for the caller's expected record-set digest:
+  `none` means it observed absence, `some r` exactly `r`. That removes hashing
+  from the model without touching the rule under test.
+
+  What this module does NOT claim:
+
+    * QuorumBind's prepare / adopt-highest-accepted phase is not modelled. The
+      negative result is deliberately at the raw member-CAS layer, because a
+      storage safety invariant must not rest on an honest-client convention.
+    * Application validity is not modelled. `Value` is opaque register identity
+      — tx id, value digest, value address. Storage stays application-blind.
+    * Multi-key atomicity is not modelled. One overlapping key suffices to
+      falsify temporal value continuity.
+    * No repair is selected or proved. `ValueContinuity` is a DEFINITION of the
+      obligation, never a stubbed proof: no `sorry`, no `axiom`, no `opaque`.
+
+  Mutation controls, executed rather than asserted — and each produced the
+  strongest available result: the kernel proving the NEGATION of a named
+  concrete-run theorem, not merely a broken proof.
+
+    1. the higher-round branch of `applyCas` restricted so an already-ACCEPTED
+       prior may be replaced only when `prior.value = replacement.value`
+         -> `the_higher_round_raw_cas_replaces_every_member` is proved FALSE
+         -> `a_higher_round_raw_cas_can_choose_a_different_value` is proved
+            FALSE — `afterHostileCas` stays on `A`, so no second value is chosen
+
+  That is the evidence these theorems are about the SHIPPED rule and not an
+  artifact of the model: restore the unrestricted branch and they prove again.
+  The mutation was reverted from a byte copy; this file is the unmutated model.
+
+  Axioms: `#print axioms` runs per headline theorem below and the output is
+  REPORTED, never summarised. The three concrete runs depend on NO axioms; the
+  general statements depend only on core `propext` / `Quot.sound` reached
+  through `simp`/`omega`. Any `sorryAx` in that output is a failure, including
+  the one Lean inserts when it recovers from an elaboration error — which is
+  exactly what a missing `Decidable (chosen ..)` instance produced here before
+  the instance below was added.
+-/
+
+namespace DSMBindingValueContinuity
+
+/-- A binding round. The shipped Rust derives its ordering from this field
+order — counter first, proposer second — and calls that ordering load-bearing. -/
+structure Round where
+  counter : Nat
+  proposer : Nat
+  deriving DecidableEq, Repr
+
+/-- Strict lexicographic order on rounds. -/
+def roundLt (a b : Round) : Bool :=
+  if a.counter < b.counter then true
+  else if b.counter < a.counter then false
+  else decide (a.proposer < b.proposer)
+
+/-- The binding VALUE. The round is deliberately NOT part of it: re-proposing
+the same safe value at a higher round is recovery, not a second binding. -/
+structure Value where
+  txId : Nat
+  valueDigest : Nat
+  valueAddr : Nat
+  deriving DecidableEq, Repr
+
+inductive Status where
+  | promised
+  | accepted
+  deriving DecidableEq, Repr
+
+/-- One member's record at one resource key. -/
+structure Record where
+  round : Round
+  value : Value
+  status : Status
+  deriving DecidableEq, Repr
+
+/-- One slot per storage member. -/
+abbrev Store := List (Option Record)
+
+/-- The SHIPPED member-side acceptance rule, projected to one key:
+
+1. byte-identical replay is idempotent;
+2. otherwise the caller must still hold exactly what it expected;
+3. a present prior must be superseded by a STRICTLY greater round;
+4. and then ANY replacement value is written — there is no comparison against
+   a value already accepted below it. That omission is the defect. -/
+def applyCas (held expected : Option Record) (replacement : Record) : Option Record :=
+  if held = some replacement then held
+  else if held ≠ expected then held
+  else
+    match held with
+    | none => some replacement
+    | some prior => if roundLt prior.round replacement.round then some replacement else held
+
+/-- Issue the same raw CAS to every member, as a hostile caller would. -/
+def applyCasAll (s : Store) (expected : Option Record) (replacement : Record) : Store :=
+  s.map (fun held => applyCas held expected replacement)
+
+/-- One exact ACCEPTED identity: the round it was accepted at, and its value. -/
+structure ChosenIdentity where
+  round : Round
+  value : Value
+  deriving DecidableEq, Repr
+
+/-- `Bool`, not `Prop`: this is consumed by `if` and by concrete `decide`
+proofs, which is the house convention for such predicates. -/
+def holds (c : ChosenIdentity) : Option Record → Bool
+  | none => false
+  | some r => r.status == Status.accepted && r.round == c.round && r.value == c.value
+
+/-- How many members hold this exact ACCEPTED identity. -/
+def holders (c : ChosenIdentity) : List (Option Record) → Nat
+  | [] => 0
+  | x :: xs => (if holds c x then 1 else 0) + holders c xs
+
+/-- `q` members hold ACCEPTED at the same round for the same value. -/
+def chosen (q : Nat) (c : ChosenIdentity) (s : Store) : Prop :=
+  q ≤ holders c s
+
+/-- Kept as a `Prop` so it reads as a statement in the theorems below, with the
+decision procedure supplied explicitly so the concrete runs can be `decide`d.
+Without this the `decide` proofs do not merely fail — Lean recovers from the
+elaboration error and stubs them, and `#print axioms` then reports `sorryAx`. -/
+instance (q : Nat) (c : ChosenIdentity) (s : Store) : Decidable (chosen q c s) :=
+  inferInstanceAs (Decidable (q ≤ holders c s))
+
+/-- The canonical strict-majority threshold the observer reads at. -/
+def canonicalQuorum (n : Nat) : Nat := n / 2 + 1
+
+-- ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+-- Snapshot safety — preserved, not contradicted
+-- ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+
+/-- A member holds at most one record, so it cannot hold two distinct chosen
+identities at once. No structure `.ext` lemma is used: the two field equalities
+are extracted and the constructors destructured. -/
+theorem one_member_cannot_hold_two_distinct_identities
+    (a b : ChosenIdentity) (hne : a ≠ b) (x : Option Record)
+    (ha : holds a x = true) (hb : holds b x = true) : False := by
+  cases x with
+  | none => simp [holds] at ha
+  | some r =>
+    simp [holds] at ha hb
+    apply hne
+    cases a with
+    | mk ar av =>
+      cases b with
+      | mk br bv =>
+        simp_all
+
+/-- Distinct chosen identities have disjoint holder sets within ONE read. -/
+theorem holders_disjoint (a b : ChosenIdentity) (hne : a ≠ b) :
+    ∀ l : List (Option Record), holders a l + holders b l ≤ l.length := by
+  intro l
+  induction l with
+  | nil => simp [holders]
+  | cons x xs ih =>
+    cases ha : holds a x with
+    | false =>
+      cases hb : holds b x with
+      | false => simp [holders, ha, hb]; omega
+      | true => simp [holders, ha, hb]; omega
+    | true =>
+      cases hb : holds b x with
+      | false => simp [holders, ha, hb]; omega
+      | true => exact (one_member_cannot_hold_two_distinct_identities a b hne x ha hb).elim
+
+/-- SNAPSHOT. At the canonical strict majority, one read cannot show two
+distinct chosen identities. The temporal counterexample below does not
+contradict this — it is a statement about a single read. -/
+theorem one_read_cannot_show_two_chosen_values
+    (s : Store) (a b : ChosenIdentity) (hne : a ≠ b)
+    (ha : chosen (canonicalQuorum s.length) a s)
+    (hb : chosen (canonicalQuorum s.length) b s) : False := by
+  have hd := holders_disjoint a b hne s
+  unfold chosen canonicalQuorum at ha hb
+  omega
+
+-- ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+-- The shipped rule's counterexample, as a concrete run
+-- ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+
+def roundA : Round := { counter := 3, proposer := 1 }
+def roundB : Round := { counter := 4, proposer := 238 }
+
+def valueA : Value := { txId := 101, valueDigest := 22163, valueAddr := 1001 }
+def valueB : Value := { txId := 202, valueDigest := 45232, valueAddr := 2002 }
+
+def recordA : Record := { round := roundA, value := valueA, status := Status.accepted }
+def recordB : Record := { round := roundB, value := valueB, status := Status.accepted }
+
+def chosenA : ChosenIdentity := { round := roundA, value := valueA }
+def chosenB : ChosenIdentity := { round := roundB, value := valueB }
+
+/-- `A` is chosen on all three members. -/
+def beforeHostileCas : Store := [some recordA, some recordA, some recordA]
+
+/-- The hostile caller read `A`, so it can name the expectation exactly, and
+submits `B` at a strictly greater round directly to every member. -/
+def afterHostileCas : Store :=
+  applyCasAll beforeHostileCas (some recordA) recordB
+
+theorem the_higher_round_raw_cas_replaces_every_member :
+    afterHostileCas = [some recordB, some recordB, some recordB] := by
+  decide
+
+/-- COUNTEREXAMPLE. `A` is chosen; one raw higher-round CAS sequence then makes
+a DIFFERENT `B` chosen. This is the negative result about the shipped rule. -/
+theorem a_higher_round_raw_cas_can_choose_a_different_value :
+    chosen 2 chosenA beforeHostileCas
+      ∧ valueA ≠ valueB
+      ∧ chosen 2 chosenB afterHostileCas := by
+  decide
+
+/-- The same run still respects snapshot uniqueness: after the overwrite the
+two values are not both chosen in that one read. The defect is temporal. -/
+theorem the_counterexample_preserves_snapshot_uniqueness :
+    ¬ (chosen 2 chosenA afterHostileCas ∧ chosen 2 chosenB afterHostileCas) := by
+  decide
+
+-- ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+-- The obligation a repair must discharge
+-- ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+
+/-- BINDING VALUE CONTINUITY.
+
+For one resource key at a fixed quorum: if `A` is chosen at `t₁` and `B` is
+chosen later at `t₂`, their VALUES are equal. Their rounds may differ, so a
+later ballot carrying the same safe value forward — legitimate recovery —
+remains possible.
+
+A DEFINITION, deliberately. Nothing here proves it of `applyCas`, because no
+mechanism currently enforces it; the counterexample above is precisely a witness
+that the shipped rule does not. -/
+def ValueContinuity (q : Nat) (trace : Nat → Store) : Prop :=
+  ∀ (A B : ChosenIdentity) (t₁ t₂ : Nat),
+    chosen q A (trace t₁) → chosen q B (trace t₂) → t₁ < t₂ → A.value = B.value
+
+-- ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+-- Axiom report (per-theorem, never a blanket claim)
+-- ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+
+#print axioms one_member_cannot_hold_two_distinct_identities
+#print axioms holders_disjoint
+#print axioms one_read_cannot_show_two_chosen_values
+#print axioms the_higher_round_raw_cas_replaces_every_member
+#print axioms a_higher_round_raw_cas_can_choose_a_different_value
+#print axioms the_counterexample_preserves_snapshot_uniqueness
+
+end DSMBindingValueContinuity