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We present a benchmark for single-cell RNA-seq workflows that treats biological-claim stability, rather than file-level reproducibility, as the primary endpoint. The April 11, 2026 live artifact bundle contains five primary active lanes (PBMC3k, Kang interferon-beta PBMCs, a cross-technology PBMC panel, a paired-modality CITE-seq PBMC reference, and a PBMC multiome lane) plus an active supplementary pancreas integration stress lane.

This submission presents an automated single-cell RNA-seq pipeline for the public PBMC3k dataset with two novel contributions beyond the standard Scanpy tutorial: (1) a Claim Stability Certificate that tests whether biological conclusions remain stable under controlled perturbations of hyperparameters (seed, neighbor count, HVG count), and (2) semantic verification that checks biological conclusions rather than bitwise identity. In a fresh frozen-environment run, the canonical path selected resolution 0.

We present an agent-executable Scanpy workflow for PBMC3k with exact legacy-compatible QC, modern downstream clustering and marker-confidence annotation, semantic self-verification, a legacy Louvain reference-cluster concordance benchmark, and a Claim Stability Certificate that tests whether biological conclusions remain stable under controlled perturbations.