PASS: hand Kalman update, finite-horizon gains, Bellman identities, and three-preset costs. Preset: baseline; seed: 7; horizon: 8.0 s Controller selected cost 64-seed mean lqg 8.616564 9.110730 raw 95.790563 80.299638 oracle 8.194906 8.328192 Paired raw - LQG: 71.188909; Monte Carlo SE: 1.798356 Means use seeds 1..64 and shared noise draws. SE is a sampling estimate, not a performance guarantee.