ROOT COMPARISON HELPER — CORRECTED TYPE COMPARISON The first run of tools/verify-and-package.cjs stopped at: AssertionError [ERR_ASSERTION]: Artwork recovers original packet actual: Uint8Array(12499) expected: Buffer(12499) [Uint8Array] The helper used assert.deepEqual on different typed-array classes. That checks the object types as well as the bytes. The decoder returns Uint8Array, whereas the filesystem reader returns Buffer. The helper was changed to compare byte content with Buffer.from(decoded).equals(fileBytes), for both artworks. No score, packet, image, grammar, dictionary or interpretation was modified. The subsequent report records the byte comparisons and other results. This was a development error in the added comparison helper, not an observed corruption of the recovered artifact.