The heat is no longer a condition. The heat is now doing something.
SOLUTION
Katana Protocol is the MTREES secondary thermal escalation tier, activating at sustained ambient temperatures of 105.0 degrees Fahrenheit and above, at which point the system reclassifies the atmosphere from a passive environmental variable into an active structural agent capable of executing force. At or above the Katana Protocol threshold, the air itself becomes a cutting instrument. This is not a metaphor. The thermal gradient differential between the ambient environment and the human operator's surface temperature reaches a coefficient sufficient to constitute a directional pressure event, which the Katana Protocol identifies, names, and formally documents as a strike. The Katana Protocol does not intervene in the strike. The Katana Protocol is the strike's paperwork. All atmospheric cutting events occurring at or above 105.0 degrees are logged, timestamped, and attributed to the correct thermal source. The samurai did not invent the katana. The samurai identified that the air was already cutting and built a tool to confirm the observation with better geometry. Katana Protocol operates on this same principle. The heat moves. The Protocol watches the heat move. The documentation is filed. The null pointer is returned. The heat cannot kill what returns nothing.