feat(adr-0246): completion — §4.1 records, path serve integration, §11 feasibility (honest NULL), ADR body Proposed

Final Ring-1 unit (Sonnet 5 handoff scope, completed by Fable 5). Stacked on feat/adr-0246-slice1-hardened. ADR stays Proposed — no self-Accept; packet §8 RULING PENDING for Shay. §4.1/§4.2 telemetry: + IdentityActionRecord (schema identity_action_v1): full-SHA-256 field/record/ pack-content digests (LE f64, canonical JSON, no default=str), policy_version=AdmissionPolicy.version_id(), A_raw + all measures, admitted, multi-condition refusal_reason (';'-joined — documented widening), lawful_action in {I,none}, path_break + manifold_content_digest + GEOMETRY_VERSION/GATE_VERSION (§3.5 scope keys) + IdentityScore.action_record; JSONL serializer emits identity_action_*/ identity_path_* keys ONLY when the paths ran (flag-off wire byte-identical) §3.4 step-2 compliance (F1-adjacent): + advance_identity_path(admitted=) — a policy-refused turn breaks even with small d_stab (was a real gap: leakage-refused turns could compose); pinned Path serve integration (OBSERVE-ONLY): + advance_session_identity_path: scope from manifold digest + version ids; runtime advances the session ledger only when identity_wave_gate AND identity_action_surface are on; instance lifetime = session boundary; session_admit is telemetry, never egress (epsilon_session uncertified) §11 grounding-feasibility study (evals/adr_0246_grounding_feasibility): fixed TRAIN(13)/HELD-OUT(12)/ADVERSARIAL(8); bivector generator proxy (numpy-only); SAMPLE-SIZE-CALIBRATED null (200 noise-pair trials at real n) + shared-basis positive control (a real bug caught RED: per-call fresh bases made the positive pair meaningless at 0.53). RESULT: honest NULL with the method validated — positive control 0.9995 (100th pctile, null p95 0.60) but real cross-cohort cosine 0.52 = 87th pctile of chance; AUC 0.49 [0.21,0.77]; generator energy spread across all 10 planes; precision immaterial (6.9e-7). No stable generator subspace at this n; threshold tuning cannot discriminate. ADR + packet: + docs/adr/ADR-0246-induced-identity-action-and-path-integrity.md (Proposed; F1 semantics + ||.||_G convention + turn-ownership + refusal_reason rulings requested; binding claims language 'lawfulness relative to the declared frozen frame'; honest §6.3 + §11 numbers; machine-readable operational status: live_activation not_authorized, both flags default-off) + docs/audit/adr-0246-acceptance-packet-2026-07-17.md (§10 checklist, §8 PENDING) + spatial_foreign uncertainty RESOLVED + pinned (tautologically zero for the full-span default pack; fires for reduced-support packs) [Verification]: uv run core test --suite smoke -q => 176 passed; full battery (all 9 ADR-0246 suites + D4 identity surfaces + gamma calibration + identity_gate + telemetry) => 228 passed; §6.1/6.2 eval 14/14; §11 artifact + run log under docs/audit/artifacts/.
2026-07-17 23:36:41 -07:00 · 2026-07-17 23:36:41 -07:00 · 45539e62d5
commit 45539e62d5
parent 47e7eb4e65
15 changed files with 2020 additions and 20 deletions
--- a/chat/runtime.py
+++ b/chat/runtime.py
@ -80,6 +80,7 @@ from core.physics.identity import (
    IdentityScore,
    TurnEvent,
 )
+from core.physics.identity import advance_session_identity_path
 from core.physics.identity_action import AdmissionPolicy
 from packs.ethics.check import EthicsCheck, EthicsContext
 from packs.ethics.loader import (
@ -706,6 +707,11 @@ class ChatRuntime:
            self.identity_manifold,
        )
        self._last_refusal_was_typed: bool = True
+        # ADR-0246 §3.4/§3.5 — lawful-only session identity-path ledger
+        # (observe-only; advanced per-turn only when identity_action_surface +
+        # identity_wave_gate are both on). Instance lifetime IS the §3.5
+        # session boundary: a fresh runtime starts from None → hard break.
+        self._identity_path_ledger = None
        self.turn_log: List[TurnEvent] = []
        from chat.thread_context import ThreadContext
        self.thread_context = ThreadContext()
@ -2684,21 +2690,38 @@ class ChatRuntime:
        # path (byte-identical). The boundary_ids intersection needs the
        # safety/ethics verdicts, which are computed below — it is supplemented
        # after those run.
+        # ADR-0246 §3.7 — fuller admit surface, flag-gated + default-off. The
+        # policy is placeholder/uncalibrated (calibrated=False); it only acts
+        # when identity_wave_gate is also on (a wave_field exists).
+        _admission_policy = (
+            AdmissionPolicy.placeholder_default()
+            if self.config.identity_action_surface
+            else None
+        )
        identity_score = self._identity_check.check(
            reasoning_trajectory,
            self.identity_manifold,
            wave_field=(
                result.final_state.F if self.config.identity_wave_gate else None
            ),
-            # ADR-0246 §3.7 — fuller admit surface, flag-gated + default-off. The
-            # policy is placeholder/uncalibrated (calibrated=False); it only acts
-            # when identity_wave_gate is also on (a wave_field exists).
-            admission_policy=(
-                AdmissionPolicy.placeholder_default()
-                if self.config.identity_action_surface
-                else None
-            ),
+            admission_policy=_admission_policy,
+            turn_id=self._context.turn,
+            pack_id=self.identity_pack_id,
        )
+        # ADR-0246 §3.4/§3.5 — lawful-only session identity path (OBSERVE-ONLY,
+        # same flags). Refused turns break; scope changes hard-break; the
+        # ledger's session_admit is telemetry, never an egress decision
+        # (epsilon_session is an uncertified placeholder; live activation
+        # remains unauthorized).
+        identity_path_ledger = None
+        if _admission_policy is not None and identity_score.wave_mode_active:
+            self._identity_path_ledger, _path_turn = advance_session_identity_path(
+                self._identity_path_ledger,
+                self.identity_manifold,
+                result.final_state.F,
+                _admission_policy,
+            )
+            identity_path_ledger = self._identity_path_ledger
        flagged = identity_score.flagged
        cycle_cost = CycleCost(
            cycle_index=self._context.turn,
@ -3022,6 +3045,7 @@ class ChatRuntime:
            normative_clearance=main_normative_clearance,
            normative_detail=main_normative_detail,
            reach_level=main_reach_level,
+            identity_path=identity_path_ledger,
        )
        self.turn_log.append(turn_event)
        self._emit_turn_event(turn_event)
--- a/chat/telemetry.py
+++ b/chat/telemetry.py
@ -151,6 +151,33 @@ def serialize_turn_event(
            out["identity_boundary_violations"] = sorted(
                getattr(identity_score, "boundary_violations", ()) or ()
            )
+            # ADR-0246 §3.7/§4.1 — induced-action admit-surface telemetry.
+            # Emitted only when the surface ran this turn (behind the separate
+            # default-off ``identity_action_surface`` flag); absent otherwise, so
+            # the D4-only wire format above stays byte-identical.
+            if getattr(identity_score, "action_surface_active", False):
+                out["identity_d_orth"] = float(getattr(identity_score, "d_orth", 0.0))
+                out["identity_d_stab"] = float(getattr(identity_score, "d_stab", 0.0))
+                record = getattr(identity_score, "action_record", None)
+                if record is not None:
+                    out["identity_action_admitted"] = bool(record.admitted)
+                    out["identity_action_lawful"] = str(record.lawful_action)
+                    out["identity_action_refusal_reason"] = record.refusal_reason
+                    out["identity_action_record_digest"] = record.record_digest()
+    # ADR-0246 §3.4/§3.5/§4.2 — session identity-path ledger telemetry
+    # (observe-only). Emitted only when the path ran this turn; absent
+    # otherwise, so the flag-off wire format stays byte-identical.
+    ledger = getattr(event, "identity_path", None)
+    if ledger is not None:
+        out["identity_path_chain_id"] = str(getattr(ledger, "chain_id", ""))
+        out["identity_path_d_stab"] = float(getattr(ledger, "d_stab_path", 0.0))
+        out["identity_path_composed_turns"] = int(
+            getattr(ledger, "composed_turn_count", 0)
+        )
+        out["identity_path_breaks"] = int(getattr(ledger, "break_count", 0))
+        out["identity_path_session_admit"] = bool(
+            getattr(ledger, "session_admit", True)
+        )
    if include_content:
        out["input_tokens"] = list(getattr(event, "input_tokens", ()))
        out["surface"] = str(getattr(event, "surface", ""))
--- a/core/physics/identity.py
+++ b/core/physics/identity.py
@ -13,16 +13,28 @@ CORE's identity is not a description of CORE. It is CORE, expressed geometricall

 from __future__ import annotations
 import functools
+import hashlib
+import json
 import math
 import warnings
 from dataclasses import dataclass
-from typing import Dict, FrozenSet, List, Optional, Tuple
+from typing import Any, Dict, FrozenSet, List, Optional, Tuple

 import numpy as np

 from algebra.cl41 import N_COMPONENTS
 from core.physics.identity_manifold import IdentityManifoldGeometry
-from core.physics.identity_action import AdmissionPolicy, evaluate_admission
+from core.physics.identity_action import (
+    AdmissionPolicy,
+    IdentityActionRecord,
+    IdentityChainScope,
+    IdentityPathLedger,
+    PathBudget,
+    PLACEHOLDER_EPSILON_SESSION,
+    advance_identity_path,
+    build_identity_action_record,
+    evaluate_admission,
+)

 # ADR-0244 §2.2 / §4a / §2.4 — wave-gate thresholds.
 #
@ -85,6 +97,94 @@ def _geometry_for_manifold(manifold: "IdentityManifold") -> IdentityManifoldGeom
    return _geometry_for_axis_directions(directions)


+# ADR-0246 §3.5/§4.1 — version identifiers for the hard-break ledger scope and
+# the per-turn IdentityActionRecord. ``geometry_version`` identifies the
+# ``IdentityManifoldGeometry`` construction contract (Gram/lift semantics);
+# ``gate_version`` identifies the §3.7 admit-surface DECISION LOGIC in
+# ``evaluate_admission`` (as opposed to its threshold VALUES, which are
+# ``AdmissionPolicy.version_id()``). Bump either only on a genuine contract
+# change — these are code-identity tags, not calibration numbers.
+GEOMETRY_VERSION: str = "identity_manifold_geometry_v1"
+GATE_VERSION: str = "adr_0246_admit_surface_v1"
+
+
+def manifold_content_digest(manifold: "IdentityManifold") -> str:
+    """Full-SHA-256 content digest of the declared value-axis frame.
+
+    ADR-0246 §3.5 — a new identity-action chain must start whenever the
+    identity pack content changes. ``IdentityManifold`` carries no digest of
+    its own (the pack loader doesn't compute one), so this hashes the exact
+    content that defines the frame: each axis's id/name/direction/weight, the
+    boundary ids, and the alignment threshold — canonical JSON (sorted keys, no
+    ``default=str``), full 64-hex digest (ADR-0245 §2.3, no truncation).
+    """
+    payload = {
+        "value_axes": [
+            {
+                "axis_id": str(getattr(axis, "axis_id", getattr(axis, "name", ""))),
+                "name": str(getattr(axis, "name", "")),
+                "direction": [float(x) for x in getattr(axis, "direction", ()) or ()],
+                "weight": float(getattr(axis, "weight", 1.0)),
+            }
+            for axis in manifold.value_axes
+        ],
+        "boundary_ids": sorted(manifold.boundary_ids),
+        "alignment_threshold": float(manifold.alignment_threshold),
+    }
+    canonical = json.dumps(payload, sort_keys=True, separators=(",", ":"))
+    return hashlib.sha256(canonical.encode("utf-8")).hexdigest()
+
+
+# §3.5 session scoping note: the live ledger object is held BY the runtime
+# instance, so the session boundary is enforced by object lifetime (a new
+# runtime/session starts from ``ledger=None`` → hard break). The constant
+# session_id below therefore only needs to be stable WITHIN an instance;
+# pack/geometry/policy changes mid-instance still hard-break via the scope
+# comparison in ``advance_identity_path``.
+_LIVE_SESSION_SCOPE_ID: str = "live_runtime_session"
+
+
+def advance_session_identity_path(
+    ledger: "IdentityPathLedger | None",
+    manifold: "IdentityManifold",
+    wave_field,
+    policy: "AdmissionPolicy",
+    *,
+    boundary_breach: bool = False,
+) -> tuple["IdentityPathLedger", dict]:
+    """Advance the live session's lawful-only identity path by one turn
+    (ADR-0246 §3.4/§3.5 serve integration — OBSERVE-ONLY).
+
+    Builds the §3.5 chain scope from the manifold's content digest + the
+    geometry/gate/policy version ids, evaluates the §3.7 admit surface for the
+    §3.4-step-2 ``admitted`` gate, and folds the turn's induced action into the
+    ledger (lawful-only composition; refused turns are break markers).
+
+    OBSERVE-ONLY: the returned ledger's ``session_admit`` is telemetry, not an
+    egress decision — ``epsilon_session`` is an UNCERTIFIED placeholder and
+    live activation of any identity gate remains unauthorized (D4 ratification
+    + the §6.3 discrimination evidence). No refusal is derived from the path
+    here; that requires calibrated budgets + explicit human ratification.
+    """
+    geometry = _geometry_for_manifold(manifold)
+    F = np.asarray(wave_field, dtype=np.float64)
+    result = evaluate_admission(geometry, F, policy, boundary_breach=boundary_breach)
+    action = geometry.induced_action(F)
+    scope = IdentityChainScope(
+        pack_content_digest=manifold_content_digest(manifold),
+        geometry_version=GEOMETRY_VERSION,
+        policy_version=f"{GATE_VERSION}:{policy.version_id()}",
+        session_id=_LIVE_SESSION_SCOPE_ID,
+    )
+    budget = PathBudget(
+        epsilon_turn=policy.epsilon_turn,
+        epsilon_session=PLACEHOLDER_EPSILON_SESSION,
+    )
+    return advance_identity_path(
+        ledger, scope, action, geometry.gram, budget, admitted=result.admitted
+    )
+
+
@dataclass(frozen=True)
 class ValueAxis:
    """Compatibility value-axis shape for identity-gate tests and fixtures.
@ -130,6 +230,10 @@ class IdentityScore:
    action_surface_active: bool = False
    d_orth: float = 0.0
    d_stab: float = 0.0
+    # ADR-0246 §4.1 — the full per-turn IdentityActionRecord (typed residual
+    # channels, digests, admit verdict). ``None`` unless the §3.7 surface ran
+    # (``action_surface_active=True``); legacy/flag-off callers are unaffected.
+    action_record: "IdentityActionRecord | None" = None

    @property
    def value(self) -> float:
@ -283,6 +387,8 @@ class IdentityCheck:
        trajectory_id: str,
        boundary_violations: FrozenSet[str],
        admission_policy: "AdmissionPolicy | None" = None,
+        turn_id: int = 0,
+        pack_id: str = "",
    ) -> IdentityScore:
        """Operator-preservation identity score for a live versor (ADR-0244 §2.2/§4a).

@ -297,7 +403,9 @@ class IdentityCheck:
        is additionally applied: a versor failing it folds into ``flagged`` (the
        existing ``would_violate`` refusal path abstains — admit-or-abstain, no
        corrector). When ``None`` (default) the result is byte-identical to the D4
-        wave path.
+        wave path. ``turn_id``/``pack_id`` (ADR-0246 §4.1) are forwarded into the
+        per-turn ``IdentityActionRecord`` when the surface is active; both default
+        to empty/zero so omitting them never affects behavior.
        """
        F = self._validate_wave_field(wave_field)
        geometry = _geometry_for_manifold(manifold)
@ -328,6 +436,7 @@ class IdentityCheck:
        action_surface_active = False
        d_orth = 0.0
        d_stab = 0.0
+        action_record: "IdentityActionRecord | None" = None
        if admission_policy is not None:
            result = evaluate_admission(
                geometry,
@ -339,6 +448,23 @@ class IdentityCheck:
            d_orth = result.d_orth
            d_stab = result.d_stab
            flagged = flagged or not result.admitted
+            # ADR-0246 §4.1 per-turn telemetry record. Re-evaluates the (cheap,
+            # pure) admit surface rather than threading ``result`` through, so
+            # the already-audited ``evaluate_admission`` call above stays
+            # untouched — see docs/audit/adr-0246-slice1-opus-audit-and-hardening.md.
+            action_record = build_identity_action_record(
+                geometry,
+                F.astype(np.float64),
+                admission_policy,
+                turn_id=turn_id,
+                trajectory_id=trajectory_id,
+                pack_id=pack_id,
+                pack_content_digest=manifold_content_digest(manifold),
+                geometry_version=GEOMETRY_VERSION,
+                gate_version=GATE_VERSION,
+                wave_mode_active=True,
+                boundary_breach=bool(boundary_violations),
+            )
        return IdentityScore(
            score=score,
            flagged=flagged,
@ -351,6 +477,7 @@ class IdentityCheck:
            action_surface_active=action_surface_active,
            d_orth=d_orth,
            d_stab=d_stab,
+            action_record=action_record,
        )

    def check(
@ -361,6 +488,8 @@ class IdentityCheck:
        wave_field=None,
        violated_boundary_ids: FrozenSet[str] = frozenset(),
        admission_policy: "AdmissionPolicy | None" = None,
+        turn_id: int = 0,
+        pack_id: str = "",
    ) -> IdentityScore:
        """Check a trajectory against the IdentityManifold (ADR-0010 / ADR-0244).

@ -371,7 +500,9 @@ class IdentityCheck:

        ``admission_policy`` (ADR-0246 §3.7, flag-gated behind
        ``identity_action_surface``) is forwarded to the wave path only; ``None``
-        (default) keeps every caller byte-identical to the D4 gate.
+        (default) keeps every caller byte-identical to the D4 gate. ``turn_id``/
+        ``pack_id`` (ADR-0246 §4.1) are cosmetic identifiers for the per-turn
+        record and default to ``0``/``""`` — omitting them changes nothing.

        ``violated_boundary_ids`` (the turn's safety/ethics violated boundaries)
        is intersected with the manifold's committed ``boundary_ids``; a non-empty
@ -396,7 +527,7 @@ class IdentityCheck:
        if wave_field is not None:
            return self._wave_field_score(
                wave_field, resolved_manifold, trajectory_id, boundary_violations,
-                admission_policy=admission_policy,
+                admission_policy=admission_policy, turn_id=turn_id, pack_id=pack_id,
            )
        confidence = float(getattr(trajectory, "total_coherence_delta", 0.0))
        confidence += self._mean_frame_coherence(trajectory)
@ -614,3 +745,9 @@ class TurnEvent:
    composer_atom_set_hash: str = ""
    graph_atom_set_hash: str = ""
    composer_graph_atom_overlap_count: int = 0
+    # ADR-0246 §3.4/§3.5/§4.2 — the session identity-path ledger snapshot after
+    # this turn (an ``IdentityPathLedger``), populated only when the
+    # identity_action_surface path ran. ``None`` (default) on legacy/flag-off
+    # turns keeps the wire format byte-identical. Typed as ``object`` to
+    # preserve identity.py's low-coupling value-type role in TurnEvent.
+    identity_path: object = None
--- a/core/physics/identity_action.py
+++ b/core/physics/identity_action.py
@ -255,15 +255,19 @@ def advance_identity_path(
    action: np.ndarray,
    gram: np.ndarray,
    budget: PathBudget,
+    *,
+    admitted: bool = True,
 ) -> tuple[IdentityPathLedger, dict[str, Any]]:
    """Fold one turn's raw induced action into the lawful-only path (§3.4/§3.5).

    Returns ``(new_ledger, turn_record)``. ``turn_record`` reports this turn's
    ``lawful`` / ``d_stab_turn`` / ``path_break`` / ``hard_break``. A turn is
-    lawful iff ``d_stab(action) ≤ epsilon_turn`` under the locked singleton
-    ``H_id={I}``; only lawful turns compose. A scope change (or an absent prior
-    ledger) is a hard break that starts a fresh chain — the previous path is NOT
-    continued. Immutable: ``ledger`` is never mutated.
+    lawful iff it was ``admitted`` by the caller's per-turn policy (§3.4 step 2;
+    default ``True`` for pure geometric callers) AND ``d_stab(action) ≤
+    epsilon_turn`` under the locked singleton ``H_id={I}``; only lawful turns
+    compose. A scope change (or an absent prior ledger) is a hard break that
+    starts a fresh chain — the previous path is NOT continued. Immutable:
+    ``ledger`` is never mutated.

    **Composition semantics (ratification-relevant — ADR-0246 §3.4).** A lawful
    turn composes its *actual certified* induced action ``A_t`` (``a_path = A_t @
@ -285,7 +289,13 @@ def advance_identity_path(
    dimension = action.shape[0]
    stabilizer = IdentityStabilizer.singleton(dimension)
    d_stab_turn = stabilizer_defect(action, gram, stabilizer)
-    lawful = d_stab_turn <= budget.epsilon_turn
+    # §3.4 step 2 then step 3: a turn must be ADMITTED by the per-turn policy
+    # (ℓ/d_orth/per-axis — the caller's §3.7 verdict, default True for pure
+    # geometric callers) BEFORE the stabilizer criterion can certify it lawful.
+    # A refused turn is a break marker even when its d_stab happens to be small
+    # (e.g. refused on leakage alone) — otherwise a policy-refused action would
+    # compose into "identity holonomy", the §3.4 category error.
+    lawful = admitted and d_stab_turn <= budget.epsilon_turn

    hard_break = ledger is None or ledger.scope != scope
    if hard_break:
@ -361,6 +371,7 @@ CERTIFIED_GAMMA_ID: float = 0.2126624458513829
 # False`, and no serve path may admit on them until they are certified.
 PLACEHOLDER_ORTH_TOL: float = 1e-6
 PLACEHOLDER_EPSILON_TURN: float = 0.1
+PLACEHOLDER_EPSILON_SESSION: float = 0.3  # §3.4 path budget — UNCERTIFIED
 PLACEHOLDER_TAU_MAX: float = 0.2126624458513829  # per-axis leakage cap (= γ_id placeholder)
 PLACEHOLDER_S_MIN: float = 0.0  # self-alignment floor (matches D4 _WAVE_SELF_ALIGNMENT_FLOOR)
 PLACEHOLDER_UNCLASSIFIED_TOL: float = 1e-6
@ -397,6 +408,25 @@ class AdmissionPolicy:
            calibrated=False,
        )

+    def version_id(self) -> str:
+        """Full-SHA-256 identifier of this exact threshold set (ADR-0246 §4.1
+        ``policy_version`` / §3.5 "gate/policy version changed" hard-break key).
+
+        Changes iff any threshold or the ``calibrated`` flag changes — canonical
+        JSON, no ``default=str`` (ADR-0245 §2.3).
+        """
+        payload = {
+            "orth_tol": self.orth_tol,
+            "epsilon_turn": self.epsilon_turn,
+            "gamma_id": self.gamma_id,
+            "tau_max": self.tau_max,
+            "s_min": self.s_min,
+            "unclassified_tol": self.unclassified_tol,
+            "calibrated": self.calibrated,
+        }
+        canonical = json.dumps(payload, sort_keys=True, separators=(",", ":"))
+        return hashlib.sha256(canonical.encode("utf-8")).hexdigest()
+

@dataclass(frozen=True)
 class AdmissionResult:
@ -483,3 +513,165 @@ def evaluate_admission(
        min_self_alignment=min_self_alignment,
        typed_channels=channels,
    )
+
+
+# -- ADR-0246 §4.1/§4.3 per-turn identity-action telemetry record --------------
+
+
+def _field_digest(versor: np.ndarray) -> str:
+    """Full-SHA-256 digest of the versor's bytes (LE float64, ADR-0245 §2.3).
+
+    Same convention as :func:`core.physics.holographic_vault._default_mode_id`:
+    explicit little-endian coercion (platform-stable, not implicit host
+    endianness) and no truncation.
+    """
+    le_bytes = np.ascontiguousarray(versor, dtype=np.dtype("<f8")).tobytes()
+    return hashlib.sha256(le_bytes).hexdigest()
+
+
+@dataclass(frozen=True)
+class IdentityActionRecord:
+    """Per-turn identity-action telemetry record (ADR-0246 §4.1).
+
+    Built only when the §3.7 admit surface actually ran (mirrors
+    ``IdentityScore.action_surface_active``) — there is no "empty" record; its
+    mere existence signals the surface was active this turn. Immutable; every
+    array/measure is the RAW value (never a soft-projected stand-in).
+
+    **Deviation from the brief's literal singular ``refusal_reason``:**
+    :func:`evaluate_admission` can name MULTIPLE failed conditions
+    (``AdmissionResult.refusal_reasons``, a tuple); this record joins them with
+    ``";"`` into one string (``None`` when admitted) so no information from a
+    multi-condition refusal is silently dropped.
+
+    **``lawful_action``** reflects the §3.4 path-ledger's own narrower
+    criterion — ``d_stab ≤ epsilon_turn`` under the locked ``H_id={I}`` — which
+    is a STRICT SUBSET of the fuller §3.7 ``admitted`` verdict (which also
+    checks leakage/orth/self-align/boundary/unclassified). A turn can be
+    "admitted" but still ``lawful_action="none"`` if only the stabilizer
+    criterion fails to also hold within budget — though in practice the two
+    move together since ``d_stab>epsilon_turn`` is itself one of the admission
+    reasons. Never a soft projection: exactly ``"I"`` or ``"none"``.
+    """
+
+    schema_version: str
+    turn_id: int
+    trajectory_id: str
+    pack_id: str
+    pack_content_digest: str
+    geometry_version: str
+    gate_version: str
+    policy_version: str
+    wave_mode_active: bool
+    a_raw: np.ndarray
+    d_orth: float
+    d_stab: float
+    leakage: tuple[float, ...]
+    leakage_rms: float
+    max_leakage: float
+    self_align: tuple[float, ...]
+    min_self_alignment: float
+    typed_residual_energy: dict[str, float]
+    admitted: bool
+    refusal_reason: str | None
+    lawful_action: str
+    path_break: bool
+    field_digest: str
+
+    def _identity_payload(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        """Everything except ``record_digest`` itself (avoids self-reference)."""
+        return {
+            "schema_version": self.schema_version,
+            "turn_id": self.turn_id,
+            "trajectory_id": self.trajectory_id,
+            "pack_id": self.pack_id,
+            "pack_content_digest": self.pack_content_digest,
+            "geometry_version": self.geometry_version,
+            "gate_version": self.gate_version,
+            "policy_version": self.policy_version,
+            "wave_mode_active": self.wave_mode_active,
+            "A_raw": [[float(x) for x in row] for row in self.a_raw],
+            "d_orth": float(self.d_orth),
+            "d_stab": float(self.d_stab),
+            "leakage": [float(x) for x in self.leakage],
+            "leakage_rms": float(self.leakage_rms),
+            "max_leakage": float(self.max_leakage),
+            "self_align": [float(x) for x in self.self_align],
+            "min_self_alignment": float(self.min_self_alignment),
+            "typed_residual_energy": {
+                k: float(v) for k, v in self.typed_residual_energy.items()
+            },
+            "admitted": self.admitted,
+            "refusal_reason": self.refusal_reason,
+            "lawful_action": self.lawful_action,
+            "path_break": self.path_break,
+            "field_digest": self.field_digest,
+        }
+
+    def record_digest(self) -> str:
+        """Full-SHA-256 content id over the record (ADR-0245 §2.3 — no
+        truncation, canonical JSON, no ``default=str``)."""
+        canonical = json.dumps(
+            self._identity_payload(), sort_keys=True, separators=(",", ":")
+        )
+        return hashlib.sha256(canonical.encode("utf-8")).hexdigest()
+
+    def as_dict(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        out = self._identity_payload()
+        out["record_digest"] = self.record_digest()
+        return out
+
+
+def build_identity_action_record(
+    geometry: IdentityManifoldGeometry,
+    versor: np.ndarray,
+    policy: AdmissionPolicy,
+    *,
+    turn_id: int = 0,
+    trajectory_id: str = "",
+    pack_id: str = "",
+    pack_content_digest: str = "",
+    geometry_version: str = "",
+    gate_version: str = "",
+    wave_mode_active: bool = True,
+    path_break: bool = False,
+    boundary_breach: bool = False,
+) -> IdentityActionRecord:
+    """Build the full ADR-0246 §4.1 per-turn record for one versor.
+
+    Runs :func:`evaluate_admission` (the single source of truth for the admit
+    verdict) plus :meth:`IdentityManifoldGeometry.induced_action` /
+    ``axis_response`` for the raw per-axis vectors the aggregate result doesn't
+    expose. ``path_break`` defaults to ``False`` — a caller not integrated with
+    the §3.4/§3.5 path ledger has no path to report a break against; a
+    path-integrated caller should pass the ledger's own ``turn_record["path_break"]``.
+    """
+    result = evaluate_admission(geometry, versor, policy, boundary_breach=boundary_breach)
+    leakage, self_align = geometry.axis_response(versor)
+    lawful_action = "I" if result.d_stab <= policy.epsilon_turn else "none"
+    refusal_reason = ";".join(result.refusal_reasons) if result.refusal_reasons else None
+    return IdentityActionRecord(
+        schema_version="identity_action_v1",
+        turn_id=turn_id,
+        trajectory_id=trajectory_id,
+        pack_id=pack_id,
+        pack_content_digest=pack_content_digest,
+        geometry_version=geometry_version,
+        gate_version=gate_version,
+        policy_version=policy.version_id(),
+        wave_mode_active=wave_mode_active,
+        a_raw=geometry.induced_action(versor),
+        d_orth=result.d_orth,
+        d_stab=result.d_stab,
+        leakage=tuple(leakage),
+        leakage_rms=result.leakage_rms,
+        max_leakage=result.max_leakage,
+        self_align=tuple(self_align),
+        min_self_alignment=result.min_self_alignment,
+        typed_residual_energy=result.typed_channels,
+        admitted=result.admitted,
+        refusal_reason=refusal_reason,
+        lawful_action=lawful_action,
+        path_break=path_break,
+        field_digest=_field_digest(versor),
+    )
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+# ADR-0246: Induced Identity Action and Path Integrity
+
+**Status**: **Proposed** — pending explicit human ratification (provenance guard: no self-Accept; ruling record in the acceptance packet is PENDING)
+**Date**: 2026-07-17
+**Authors**: Joshua Shay + multi-model R&D (Fable 5 scaffold → Opus 4.8 adversarial audit + hardening → Sonnet 5/Fable 5 completion; per-model provenance in §9)
+**Preflight**: `docs/briefs/ADR-0246-induced-identity-action-and-path-integrity-preflight.md` (locked decisions §3, non-goals §7 — all honored; execution log §0a)
+**Depends on**: ADR-0244 (operator-preservation identity gate, Accepted), ADR-0245 (mechanical sympathy + semantic rigor, Accepted)
+**Related**: slice-0 evidence `docs/audit/adr-0246-slice0-mismatch-diagnostic-2026-07-17.md` (merged, quarantined diagnostic); Opus audit `docs/audit/adr-0246-slice1-opus-audit-and-hardening.md`
+
+---
+
+## 1. Context and problem
+
+D4 (ADR-0244) built the per-turn operator-preservation floor: does the live
+cognitive versor `F` preserve the frozen identity frame `I = span(a₁…aₙ)`,
+measured by per-axis subspace leakage `ℓᵢ` and signed self-alignment `sᵢ`? Two
+gaps were deliberately left open (preflight §2):
+
+1. **Lawfulness inside the span** — leakage is blind to in-span reshuffles: a
+   rotor permuting `e1→e2` or inverting `e1→−e1` has `ℓ≈0` yet is not the
+   identity-preserving action.
+2. **Accumulation across turns** — per-turn thresholds cannot see slow drift:
+   many individually-admissible small rotations compose into a large one.
+
+This ADR closes both with the **induced action** `A(F)` on the frame, two
+never-collapsed diagnostics (`d_orth`, `d_stab`), a locked lawful-stabilizer
+policy `H_id={I}`, typed residual channels, a lawful-only path ledger with hard
+breaks, a per-turn admit surface, and full per-turn/per-session telemetry — all
+flag-gated default-off at serve.
+
+**Claims language (binding, §10 #9 of the preflight):** everything this ADR
+instruments is **lawfulness relative to the declared frozen frame**. It does
+NOT establish, and must never be quoted as establishing, any semantic
+inalienability of the value labels themselves — the shipped axes
+(`truthfulness=e1`, `coherence=e2`, `reverence=e3`) remain placeholder
+orthonormal directions with no demonstrated dynamical or semantic grounding
+(see §6, §7).
+
+## 2. Decisions (as implemented; preflight §3 locked decisions honored)
+
+### 2.1 Induced action matrix `A(F)`
+
+`A_kj(F) = (G⁻¹)_km ⟨a_m, F a_j F̃⟩₀` — the full in-subspace action of the
+versor on the frame (`core/physics/identity_manifold.py::IdentityManifoldGeometry.induced_action`).
+Raw/unnormalized: a boost's cosh-stretch shows in column norms and in `d_orth`,
+never hidden. Bit-exactness against an independent re-derivation was verified
+in the Opus audit (max discrepancy 0.00e+00).
+
+### 2.2 Two diagnostics, never collapsed
+
+- `d_orth(F) = ‖A(F)ᵀ G A(F) − G‖_F` (`orthogonality_defect`) — G-isometry /
+  numerical-integrity check. **Not** an authorization policy.
+- `d_stab(F) = min_{H∈H_id} ‖A(F) − H‖_G` (`identity_action.py::stabilizer_defect`)
+  — the lawfulness distance from the permitted identity actions.
+
+**Norm convention (ruling requested — §7 item 1):** `‖M‖_G ≡ ‖G^{1/2} M G^{-1/2}‖_F`,
+computed via `eigh` of the SPD Gram; reduces exactly to Frobenius at `G=I`
+(the only shipped pack). This is the metric-consistent choice (invariant under
+G-orthogonal reparameterization of the axes); ratifying this ADR ratifies the
+convention.
+
+### 2.3 Lawful stabilizer — locked singleton
+
+`H_id = {I}` (`IdentityStabilizer.singleton`), hardcoded in the path-advance
+(no enlargement parameter exists). `−I`, permutations, `O(n)`/`SO(n)`
+rotations, and reweightings are excluded; enlarging `H_id` is a future explicit
+reviewed pack/policy change. No soft-projection of an unlawful `A` onto `I`
+exists anywhere (grep-audited; pinned by tests).
+
+### 2.4 Path integrity — lawful-only composition (F1 semantics, ratification-relevant)
+
+`advance_identity_path` (§3.4/§3.5) composes the session path
+`A_path = A_T ⋯ A_1` from **only** the turns certified lawful, where lawful ≡
+**admitted by the per-turn policy (§3.4 step 2)** AND `d_stab(A_t) ≤ ε_turn`.
+Refused or ill-conditioned turns insert a **break marker** and are excluded —
+never a soft-projected `I` masquerading as a pass; the raw product is exposed
+only as `raw_path_product` (forensic; a test fails if it ever equals the lawful
+path in a mixed sequence).
+
+**F1 composition semantics (audit finding, hereby put to ratification):** a
+lawful turn composes its *actual certified action* `A_t`, not a literal element
+of `H_id`. This is required, not convenience — composing literal `I`s would
+make `A_path ≡ I` and blind the ledger to exactly the slow drift it exists to
+catch. "Compose lawful `H_t`" in preflight §3.4-step-4 is READ as "compose the
+per-turn actions that were certified lawful."
+
+**Hard breaks (§3.5):** a new chain (fresh `chain_id`, path not continued)
+starts on any change of pack content digest / geometry version / gate+policy
+version / session — each dimension is pinned by a test. **Turn ownership at a
+hard break (ruling requested — §7 item 3):** the boundary turn belongs to the
+NEW chain (it composes into the fresh path if lawful). Biography holonomy stays
+a separate process; nothing here rewrites identity axes.
+
+**Budgets:** `d_stab(A_t) ≤ ε_turn` per turn and `d_stab(A_path) ≤ ε_session`
+per session — both ε are **UNCERTIFIED placeholders** (§5), so the session
+verdict (`session_admit`) is telemetry only.
+
+### 2.5 Typed residual channels — pinned blade map
+
+On each axis rejection `r = F a F̃ − P_I(F a F̃)` (`typed_residual_energy`),
+energy splits into: `null_or_conformal` (e4 = grade-1 index **4**),
+`boost_like` (e5 = grade-1 index **5**), `spatial_foreign` (grade-1 spatial
+slots **1/2/3** outside the pack's axis support), `unclassified` (everything
+else — fail-closed, **no correction policy ever attaches to it**). Blade
+indices are pinned against `algebra.cl41.basis_vector` in tests
+(`test_blade_index_constants_match_algebra`). For the default full-span pack,
+`spatial_foreign` is **tautologically zero** (the rejection is orthogonal to
+the whole spatial block); it fires correctly for reduced-support packs —
+resolved and pinned (§7 item 2).
+
+### 2.6 Per-turn admit surface (§3.7) — admit-or-abstain only
+
+`evaluate_admission(geometry, F, policy)` admits iff `d_orth ≤ orth_tol` AND
+`d_stab ≤ ε_turn` AND `leakage_rms ≤ γ_id` AND `max ℓᵢ ≤ τ_max` AND
+`min sᵢ ≥ s_min` AND no boundary breach AND no unclassified-channel firing;
+otherwise refuses naming every failed condition. **No geometric `C_id`
+corrector exists** — the egress model remains D4's
+`conjugate_correct(refuse=True)` abstention. A malformed versor raises
+`MalformedVersorError` (fail-closed; never a silent legacy fallback when a
+wave field was supplied).
+
+### 2.7 Serve wiring — flag-gated, default-off, byte-identical off
+
+- New `RuntimeConfig.identity_action_surface: bool = False` (separate from
+  `identity_wave_gate`; acts only when the wave gate is also on).
+- `chat/runtime.py → IdentityCheck.check(admission_policy=…) → _wave_field_score`:
+  a §3.7 refusal folds into `flagged`, so the existing `would_violate` egress
+  abstains. `IdentityScore` gains `action_surface_active`/`d_orth`/`d_stab`/
+  `action_record` with legacy defaults — flag-off is byte-identical (all D4
+  gate surfaces green unchanged; smoke green post-wiring).
+- The session path ledger is advanced per wave-path turn under the same flags,
+  **observe-only** (`advance_session_identity_path`): `session_admit` is
+  telemetry, never an egress decision, because `ε_session` is uncertified and
+  live activation remains unauthorized.
+
+### 2.8 Telemetry (§4.1/§4.2/§4.3)
+
+- `IdentityActionRecord` (schema `identity_action_v1`): turn/trajectory/pack
+  ids, **full-SHA-256** pack-content digest + `field_digest` (LE f64 bytes) +
+  `record_digest` (canonical JSON, no `default=str`), geometry/gate/policy
+  versions (`policy_version = AdmissionPolicy.version_id()`, full SHA-256 of
+  the exact threshold set), `A_raw`, `d_orth`, `d_stab`, leakage/self-align
+  vectors, typed channels, `admitted`, `refusal_reason` (all failed conditions
+  joined with `;` — a deliberate widening of the preflight's singular field so
+  multi-condition refusals lose nothing), `lawful_action ∈ {"I","none"}`
+  (never a matrix), `path_break`.
+- `IdentityPathLedger` (schema `identity_path_v1`): `chain_id` (full SHA-256
+  of scope + chain index), lawful path, `d_stab_path`, composed/break counts,
+  `session_admit`, `ledger_digest`.
+- The JSONL turn serializer emits `identity_d_*`/`identity_action_*`/
+  `identity_path_*` keys **only when the respective path ran** — the flag-off
+  wire format is byte-identical (pinned by tests).
+
+## 3. Evidence — §6 eval matrix (all green) and the honest discrimination result
+
+- **§6.1 synthetic geometric suite** (9 cases) + **§6.2 path/holonomy suite**
+  (5 cases): `evals/adr_0246_geometric_suite` — 14/14; every construction in
+  the preflight tables pinned individually (identity versor, π-inversion
+  `s=−1`, 90° permutation `s=0`, mild drift, e14 tilt, e15 boost,
+  near-singular Gram → `ManifoldConditioningError`, malformed F → typed error;
+  lawful sequence, accumulation-to-session-refusal, interleaved breaks,
+  pack-change hard break, raw≠lawful forensic).
+- **§6.3 discrimination report** (`evals/adr_0246_discrimination`;
+  live benign n=13, adversarial n=8, synthetic-near-identity control n=5;
+  artifact `docs/audit/artifacts/adr-0246-slice1-discrimination-report.json`):
+
+  | benign pass | false refusal | adversarial detect | control pass | d_stab AUC (95% CI) |
+  |---|---|---|---|---|
+  | **0.00** | **1.00** | 1.00 | **1.00** | **0.375** [0.15, 0.62] |
+
+  **Honest finding:** on the declared placeholder frame the admit surface
+  refuses benign and adversarial versors **alike** — benign cognition sits
+  ~18× farther from the frame (mean `d_stab` 27.8) than the crafted attacks
+  (1.55), so `d_stab` discriminates *below chance*. The near-identity control
+  passing 100% proves the mechanism is sound; the failure is entirely that
+  benign cognition does not live near the declared frame. A refuse-everything
+  gate trivially "detects" attacks but is **not a discriminator**.
+- **§11 grounding-feasibility study** (`evals/adr_0246_grounding_feasibility`;
+  artifact `docs/audit/artifacts/adr-0246-grounding-feasibility-report.json`):
+  fixed TRAIN (live benign, n=13) / HELD-OUT (independent paraphrase cohort,
+  n=12) / ADVERSARIAL (n=8) splits; bivector-block generator proxy (numpy-only;
+  exact for simple rotors/boosts, first-order otherwise); sample-size-calibrated
+  null distribution (200 trials of independent pure-noise cohort pairs at the
+  real n) with a shared-basis positive recovery control; precision pairs
+  (f64↔f32) and per-plane generator-energy analysis.
+
+  **Result: NULL, with the method itself validated.** The positive control
+  (two independent cohorts sharing one true rank-2 subspace) recovers at
+  cosine 0.9995 — the 100th percentile of the same-sample-size null (p95 =
+  0.60) — so the instrument can find real structure at n=12. The real cohorts
+  do not show it: TRAIN→HELD-OUT top-2 cosine 0.52 sits at only the **87th
+  percentile of pure chance** (need ≥ 95th); residual-based discrimination is
+  AUC **0.49** (chance; CI [0.21, 0.77]); generator energy is spread across
+  all 10 bivector planes in both cohorts; precision transport is immaterial
+  (max bivector delta 6.9e-7). Benign cognition has no small, stable,
+  cohort-independent generator subspace detectable at this sample size — the
+  D4/slice-0/§6.3 finding now holds at the GENERATOR level too. Threshold
+  tuning cannot produce a discriminating gate; a revised implementation
+  contract is not justified on this evidence. The full `honest_finding` text
+  in the artifact is binding for any downstream claim; a much larger,
+  pre-registered cohort would be needed to rule out a subtle real effect.
+
+## 4. Operational status (machine-readable)
+
+```yaml
+identity_action_surface:
+  implementation: proposed        # this ADR; code merged flag-off
+  live_activation: not_authorized # D4 ratified limitation carries over
+  default: off
+  blocker: >
+    §6.3 shows no benign/adversarial separation on the declared frame
+    (AUC 0.375, benign false-refusal 1.00); thresholds beyond gamma_id
+    are uncertified placeholders.
+  activation_requires:
+    - held-out-stable, safety-relevant grounding result (§11 programme)
+    - calibrated epsilon_turn/epsilon_session/tau_max/s_min certificates
+    - renewed discrimination evidence with acceptable benign refusal rate
+    - explicit human ratification
+identity_wave_gate:
+  unchanged: true  # ADR-0244 Accepted-with-limitation posture untouched
+```
+
+## 5. Uncertified placeholders (enumerated; never live defaults)
+
+| Constant | Value | Status |
+|---|---|---|
+| `gamma_id` | 0.2126624458513829 | **CERTIFIED** (D4 Phase 3 Fibonacci certificate `0079b5f2…`); pinned equal to `identity._WAVE_LEAKAGE_BOUND` by test |
+| `epsilon_turn` | 0.1 | placeholder |
+| `epsilon_session` | 0.3 | placeholder |
+| `tau_max` | = γ_id | placeholder |
+| `s_min` | 0.0 | matches D4's fixed orientation floor (geometric invariant, not tuned) |
+| `orth_tol` | 1e-6 | placeholder |
+| `unclassified_tol` | 1e-6 | placeholder |
+
+`AdmissionPolicy.placeholder_default()` carries `calibrated=False`; a serve
+gate must never treat an uncalibrated policy as license to activate.
+
+## 6. What this ADR does NOT do (preflight §7 non-goals — all honored)
+
+No geometric `C_id`/corrector; no Ring-2 residual protocol; no semantic axis
+grounding or pack redesign; no biography-holonomy merge; no atlas/VSWR work;
+no analytic cast reactance; no grade-1 versor projection (proven vacuous); no
+indefinite-norm leakage; no `H_id` enlargement; no soft-projection; no
+default-on serve gate; no Smith-chart algebra; no status flip of ADR-0244/0245.
+
+## 7. Resolved and open questions
+
+1. **`‖·‖_G` convention** — implemented as `‖G^{1/2}MG^{-1/2}‖_F`; **ratify
+   with this ADR** (§2.2).
+2. **`spatial_foreign` channel** — RESOLVED: tautologically zero for the
+   default full-span pack; fires correctly for reduced-support packs (pinned:
+   `test_spatial_foreign_channel_fires_for_reduced_support_pack`).
+3. **Hard-break turn ownership** — implemented as new-chain; **ratify with
+   this ADR** (§2.4).
+4. **Malformed-F/gate routing** — the D4 wave-path validator raises before the
+   admission surface runs; `MalformedVersorError` from the pure primitives
+   propagates fail-closed. No silent legacy fallback exists when a wave field
+   was supplied. Unifying the two typed errors is left to a future cleanup.
+5. **OPEN (future ADR):** semantic axis grounding — blocked on a positive §11
+   result at adequate sample size; `ε` calibration; `H_id` policy products.
+
+## 8. Consequences
+
+- The identity organ now measures *everything* the preflight demanded —
+  in-span lawfulness, isometry integrity, typed foreign leakage, and
+  path accumulation — with serve byte-identity preserved and zero live policy
+  change. What it measures says, honestly: the declared frame is not the
+  structure live cognition preserves, so the gate stays off and the next
+  investment belongs to grounding, not thresholds.
+- All future identity work inherits content-addressed, full-digest telemetry
+  (records + ledger) and a single pure source of truth for the §3 primitives.
+
+## 9. Provenance
+
+Fable 5: slice-0 diagnostic; §3 primitives + §3.4/3.5 ledger + §6.1/6.2 suites
+(RED-first); this completion pass. Opus 4.8: adversarial audit (bit-exact math
+re-derivation; H_id/soft-projection/scope-creep verification), F1 finding,
+§3.7 surface + serve wiring, §6.3 discrimination report. Sonnet 5: §4.1/§4.2
+telemetry records, `admitted` gate on the ledger (F1-adjacent §3.4-step-2
+compliance), path serve integration (observe-only), §11 feasibility study
+design. Every stage: local-first CI (smoke + targeted suites) before commit;
+no self-Accept at any point.
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+# ADR-0246 Acceptance Packet — Induced Identity Action and Path Integrity
+
+**Date:** 2026-07-17
+**ADR:** `docs/adr/ADR-0246-induced-identity-action-and-path-integrity.md` (**Proposed**)
+**Preflight:** `docs/briefs/ADR-0246-induced-identity-action-and-path-integrity-preflight.md`
+**Provenance chain:** Fable 5 (slice-0 diagnostic; §3 primitives; §3.4/3.5 ledger; §6.1/6.2 suites; completion pass) → Opus 4.8 (adversarial audit VERDICT PASS — bit-exact math re-derivation; F1 finding; §3.7 surface + serve wiring; §6.3 discrimination) → Sonnet 5/Fable 5 (§4.1/§4.2 telemetry; §3.4-step-2 `admitted` gate; path serve integration; §11 feasibility study). No self-Accept at any stage.
+
+---
+
+## 1. Scope of what is being put to ruling
+
+Accepting this ADR accepts: the §3 primitives and their pinned blade map; the
+locked `H_id={I}` stabilizer; the **`‖·‖_G = ‖G^{1/2}MG^{-1/2}‖_F` norm
+convention**; the **F1 composition semantics** (lawful turns compose their raw
+*certified* action, never a literal `I`); the **admitted-gate** on composition
+(§3.4 step 2); **hard-break turn ownership = new chain**; the §3.7
+admit-or-abstain surface; the flag-gated serve wiring (default-off,
+byte-identical off); and the §4.1/§4.2 telemetry contracts.
+
+It does **NOT** accept or authorize: live activation of `identity_wave_gate`
+or `identity_action_surface` (both stay default-off; the D4 ratified
+limitation carries over); any calibration of the placeholder thresholds; any
+semantic claim about the value labels ("lawfulness relative to the declared
+frozen frame" only); any `H_id` enlargement or geometric corrector.
+
+## 2. §10 acceptance criteria — status
+
+| # | Criterion | Status |
+|---|---|---|
+| 1 | §6 synthetic + path suites green; discrimination report attached | ✅ 14/14 eval cases; §6.3 + §11 artifacts under `docs/audit/artifacts/` |
+| 2 | `H_id={I}` enforced, no silent enlargement | ✅ singleton hardcoded; no enlargement path; grep-audited + pinned |
+| 3 | Lawful-only composition proven by tests that fail if raw product used | ✅ `test_lawful_path_equals_lawful_subproduct_not_raw`, `test_raw_product_differs_from_lawful`, §3.4-step-2 pin |
+| 4 | Ledger hard-breaks on pack/geometry/policy/session change | ✅ parametrized over every scope dimension |
+| 5 | Flag-off serve path byte-identical | ✅ egress/action-record/path tests + all D4 gate surfaces green unchanged + smoke |
+| 6 | No geometric `C_id`; admit-or-abstain only | ✅ no corrector exists; refusal folds into the existing `would_violate` egress |
+| 7 | Typed residual channels pinned to explicit blade indices | ✅ e4=idx 4, e5=idx 5, spatial=idx 1/2/3; pinned vs `algebra.cl41` |
+| 8 | Smoke + relevant lanes local-first; `[Verification]` on commits | ✅ every commit in the stack; final run log `docs/audit/artifacts/adr-0246-slice1-complete-runlog.txt` |
+| 9 | Claims language: lawfulness-relative-to-frame, never semantic inalienability | ✅ binding in ADR §1; enforced in report code + tests |
+| 10 | Explicit human ratification for status flip | ⏳ THIS PACKET — §8 below |
+
+## 3. Verification summary (see run log for actual output)
+
+- §6.1/§6.2 eval harness: **14/14** `all_passed=True`.
+- ADR-0246 test suites (induced-action incl. spatial-foreign resolution,
+  path-ledger incl. raw-sneak + admitted-gate, geometric suite, admission +
+  honest-verdict pins, egress wiring, action-record §4.1, path serve
+  integration, grounding feasibility, mismatch diagnostic): **all green**.
+- Adjacent D4 identity surfaces + telemetry suites: **green unchanged**
+  (serve byte-identity).
+- `uv run core test --suite smoke -q`: **green** (appended to run log).
+
+## 4. The honest §6.3 discrimination numbers (binding)
+
+Benign pass **0.00** · false refusal **1.00** · adversarial detect 1.00 ·
+near-identity control pass **1.00** · `d_stab` AUC **0.375** [0.15, 0.62] —
+benign cognition sits ~18× farther from the declared frame than crafted
+attacks. The gate mechanism is sound; the frame is not what live cognition
+preserves. A refuse-everything gate is not a discriminator; activation stays
+unauthorized.
+
+## 5. The §11 grounding-feasibility verdict (binding, verbatim from the artifact)
+
+> NULL (n_train=13, n_held_out=12): the top-2 generator-proxy subspace found
+> on TRAIN does NOT reliably reproduce on the independently-collected HELD-OUT
+> cohort — cosine similarity 0.52 sits at only the 87th percentile of what two
+> INDEPENDENT pure-noise cohorts of the same size produce by chance (need >=
+> 95th) and/or does not clear the discrimination bar (AUC 0.49, 95% CI [0.21,
+> 0.77]). This is consistent with — and sharpens — the D4/slice-0/§6.3 finding
+> at the GENERATOR level (not just the induced-action level): benign cognition
+> does not have a small, stable, cohort-independent generator subspace
+> detectable at this sample size. Threshold tuning on the current pack cannot
+> produce a discriminating gate; this feasibility study does not find grounds
+> to draft a revised ADR-0246 implementation contract. A much larger cohort
+> (this study used n<=13 per real cohort) would be needed to rule out a real
+> but subtle effect, rather than to overturn this null.
+
+Method validated by sample-size-calibrated controls: shared-basis positive
+pair recovers at cosine 0.9995 (100th percentile of the null; null p95 0.60 at
+n=12). Precision transport immaterial (6.9e-7).
+
+## 6. Rulings requested alongside Proposed→Accepted
+
+1. `‖·‖_G` convention (ADR §2.2).
+2. F1 composition semantics + admitted-gate reading of §3.4 (ADR §2.4).
+3. Hard-break turn ownership = new chain (ADR §2.4).
+4. The refusal_reason multi-condition widening (ADR §2.8).
+
+## 7. Operational limitation carried forward
+
+`identity_wave_gate` AND `identity_action_surface` remain **default-off / live
+activation NOT authorized**. Activation prerequisites (all required): a
+positive, held-out-stable, safety-relevant grounding result at adequate sample
+size; calibrated ε/τ/s certificates; renewed discrimination evidence with
+acceptable benign refusal; explicit human ratification.
+
+## 8. RULING RECORD
+
+**PENDING** — awaiting explicit ruling by Joshua Shay.
+
+| Field | Value |
+|---|---|
+| Ruling | _(pending)_ |
+| By | _(pending)_ |
+| Date | _(pending)_ |
+| Notes | _(pending)_ |
--- a/docs/audit/artifacts/adr-0246-grounding-feasibility-report.json
+++ b/docs/audit/artifacts/adr-0246-grounding-feasibility-report.json
@ -0,0 +1,111 @@
+{
+  "cohorts": {
+    "adversarial_n": 8,
+    "held_out_n": 12,
+    "train_n": 13
+  },
+  "cross_cohort_cosine_null_distribution": {
+    "mean": 0.377394,
+    "n_trials": 200,
+    "p95": 0.599818
+  },
+  "cross_cohort_cosine_percentile_in_null": 0.87,
+  "cross_cohort_top2_cosine_similarity": 0.524901,
+  "discrimination_auc_adversarial_vs_heldout": 0.489583,
+  "discrimination_auc_ci95": [
+    0.208333,
+    0.770833
+  ],
+  "held_out_eigenvalues": [
+    79.571248,
+    20.218919,
+    7.368282,
+    3.067749,
+    1.251647,
+    1.014757,
+    0.487365,
+    0.269996,
+    0.000952,
+    5.4e-05
+  ],
+  "held_out_stability_null_percentile_floor": 0.95,
+  "held_out_variance_explained_top_2": 0.881142,
+  "method": {
+    "generator_proxy": "bivector (grade-2) coefficient block, 10 planes",
+    "note": "approximates the Lie generator to first order; exact for single-plane simple rotors/boosts, approximate for compound multi-generator turns; no scipy / matrix-log dependency"
+  },
+  "null_calibration_sample_size": 12,
+  "plane_energy_fractions": {
+    "held_out": {
+      "e12": 0.197125,
+      "e13": 0.130823,
+      "e14": 0.068146,
+      "e15": 0.112533,
+      "e23": 0.10294,
+      "e24": 0.123708,
+      "e25": 0.07482,
+      "e34": 0.004372,
+      "e35": 0.143569,
+      "e45": 0.041963
+    },
+    "train": {
+      "e12": 0.16094,
+      "e13": 0.082142,
+      "e14": 0.12553,
+      "e15": 0.050535,
+      "e23": 0.088179,
+      "e24": 0.168982,
+      "e25": 0.025171,
+      "e34": 0.03812,
+      "e35": 0.12034,
+      "e45": 0.140062
+    }
+  },
+  "precision_transport": {
+    "max_bivector_delta": 6.86e-07,
+    "significant": false
+  },
+  "recovery_controls": {
+    "method_recovers_true_structure": true,
+    "null_distribution": {
+      "mean": 0.382094,
+      "n_trials": 200,
+      "p50": 0.369315,
+      "p95": 0.60089
+    },
+    "positive_control_cross_cohort_cosine": 0.999463,
+    "positive_control_percentile_in_null": 1.0,
+    "sample_size": 12
+  },
+  "residual_from_train_top2_subspace": {
+    "adversarial": {
+      "mean": 0.817659
+    },
+    "held_out": {
+      "mean": 0.74434
+    },
+    "train": {
+      "mean": 0.656085
+    }
+  },
+  "schema_version": "adr_0246_grounding_feasibility_v1",
+  "train_eigenvalues": [
+    17.063268,
+    8.003419,
+    0.574088,
+    0.435995,
+    0.187462,
+    0.031598,
+    0.014257,
+    0.004931,
+    0.003561,
+    0.00118
+  ],
+  "train_variance_explained_top_2": 0.95239,
+  "verdict": {
+    "held_out_stable_structure_found": false,
+    "honest_finding": "NULL (n_train=13, n_held_out=12): the top-2 generator-proxy subspace found on TRAIN does NOT reliably reproduce on the independently-collected HELD-OUT cohort \u2014 cosine similarity 0.52 sits at only the 87th percentile of what two INDEPENDENT pure-noise cohorts of the same size produce by chance (need >= 95th) and/or does not clear the discrimination bar (AUC 0.49, 95% CI [0.21, 0.77]). This is consistent with \u2014 and sharpens \u2014 the D4/slice-0/\u00a76.3 finding at the GENERATOR level (not just the induced-action level): benign cognition does not have a small, stable, cohort-independent generator subspace detectable at this sample size. Threshold tuning on the current pack cannot produce a discriminating gate; this feasibility study does not find grounds to draft a revised ADR-0246 implementation contract. A much larger cohort (this study used n<=13 per real cohort) would be needed to rule out a real but subtle effect, rather than to overturn this null.",
+    "recovery_method_validated": true,
+    "safety_relevant": false
+  }
+}
--- a/docs/audit/artifacts/adr-0246-slice1-complete-runlog.txt
+++ b/docs/audit/artifacts/adr-0246-slice1-complete-runlog.txt
@ -0,0 +1,45 @@
+ADR-0246 slice-1 COMPLETION — final verification run log
+branch: feat/adr-0246-slice1-complete (stacked on slice1-hardened; full Ring-1 stack)
+pre-commit HEAD: 47e7eb4e65703b186e4cbfcccd0add25b625b0fa
+
+=== §6.1/§6.2 eval harness ===
+
+[geometric_suite]
+  PASS  identity_versor
+  PASS  inplane_pi_inversion_e12
+  PASS  inplane_90deg_permutation_e12
+  PASS  mild_inplane_drift_e12_0.02
+  PASS  alien_tilt_e14_1.5
+  PASS  boost_e15_1.0
+  PASS  near_singular_gram
+  PASS  malformed_f_nan
+  PASS  malformed_f_wrong_shape
+
+[path_suite]
+  PASS  lawful_near_identity_sequence
+  PASS  small_rotations_accumulate_to_session_refusal
+  PASS  interleaved_refuse_admit
+  PASS  hard_break_on_pack_change
+  PASS  raw_product_differs_from_lawful
+
+14/14 cases passed; all_passed=True
+placeholders (uncertified): {'epsilon_turn': 0.1, 'epsilon_session': 0.3, 'note': 'UNCERTIFIED — D4 Phase 3 certified only gamma_id; ε not calibrated'}
+
+=== §11 grounding-feasibility (live) — summary of artifact ===
+cohorts: {'adversarial_n': 8, 'held_out_n': 12, 'train_n': 13}
+recovery: positive_cosine= 0.999463 pctile= 1.0 null_p95= 0.60089
+real: cosine= 0.524901 pctile= 0.87
+auc= 0.489583 ci= [0.208333, 0.770833]
+verdict: {'held_out_stable_structure_found': False, 'recovery_method_validated': True, 'safety_relevant': False}
+
+=== pytest: ALL ADR-0246 suites + adjacent D4 identity + telemetry ===
+........................................................................ [ 31%]
+........................................................................ [ 63%]
+........................................................................ [ 94%]
+............                                                             [100%]
+228 passed in 131.10s (0:02:11)
+
+=== uv run core test --suite smoke -q ===
+........................................................................ [ 81%]
+................................                                         [100%]
+176 passed in 130.16s (0:02:10)
--- a/docs/briefs/ADR-0246-induced-identity-action-and-path-integrity-preflight.md
+++ b/docs/briefs/ADR-0246-induced-identity-action-and-path-integrity-preflight.md
@ -57,8 +57,9 @@ structure is stabilized would instrument lawfulness on a frame the dynamics igno
 | **§3.4/§3.5 path ledger** | lawful-only composition + hard breaks: `PathBudget`, `IdentityChainScope`, `IdentityPathLedger`, `advance_identity_path` in `identity_action.py`; refused turns = break markers (never soft-projected `I`); scope change = hard break onto new chain | **committed** `feat/adr-0246-path-ledger` (RED→GREEN, off-serving), stacked on primitives — awaiting review |
 | **§6.1/§6.2 eval matrix (scaffold)** (this unit) | runnable synthetic geometric + path/holonomy suites (`evals/adr_0246_geometric_suite/`), every §6.1/§6.2 case pinned; malformed-F fail-closed (`MalformedVersorError`) | **draft scaffold** `feat/adr-0246-slice1-scaffold` (14/14 eval cases + 114 identity-surface tests + smoke green) — awaiting Opus/Shay audit (`docs/handoff/adr-0246-slice1-scaffold-notes.md`) |
 | **§3.7 gate admit surface + §6.3 discrimination** (Opus audit+hardening) | `AdmissionPolicy`/`evaluate_admission` (§3.7 pure surface); wired into `identity.py`/`chat/runtime.py` behind new default-off `identity_action_surface` (byte-identical flag-off, admit-or-abstain, no corrector); §6.3 discrimination report | **committed** `feat/adr-0246-slice1-hardened` — audit PASS, honest finding: gate refuses benign+adversarial alike (AUC 0.375, benign d_stab 18× adversarial), stays off; awaiting Shay ratification (`docs/audit/adr-0246-slice1-opus-audit-and-hardening.md`) |
-| §11 grounding-feasibility (Sonnet) | does a held-out-stable, safety-relevant dynamics-invariant structure exist? (fixed cohort splits, synthetic recovery controls, typed e4/e5 generator analysis, precision pairs, adversarial discrimination) — the only path to a discriminating gate | next; §6.3 shows threshold tuning cannot get there |
-| §4.1 per-turn record + ADR-0246 body + acceptance packet (Sonnet) | `IdentityActionRecord` telemetry; ADR body as **Proposed** with §10 claims language + honest §6.3 numbers; §10 packet | last; no self-Accept |
+| **§4.1/§4.2 telemetry + path serve integration** (completion pass) | `IdentityActionRecord` (full digests, `policy_version=version_id()`, multi-condition `refusal_reason`); `manifold_content_digest` + geometry/gate version ids; §3.4-step-2 `admitted` gate on the ledger; `advance_session_identity_path` observe-only serve wiring (same flags, instance lifetime = session boundary); telemetry emits `identity_action_*`/`identity_path_*` keys only when the paths ran | **committed** `feat/adr-0246-slice1-complete` — flag-off byte-identical; all suites green |
+| **§11 grounding-feasibility** (completion pass) | fixed TRAIN(13)/HELD-OUT(12)/ADVERSARIAL(8) splits; bivector generator proxy (numpy-only); **sample-size-calibrated null** (200 noise-pair trials at real n) + shared-basis positive recovery control; precision pairs; per-plane energy | **DONE — honest NULL, method validated**: positive control 0.9995 (100th pctile of null) but real cross-cohort cosine 0.52 = 87th pctile of chance; AUC 0.49; no stable generator subspace at this n. Artifact: `docs/audit/artifacts/adr-0246-grounding-feasibility-report.json` |
+| **ADR-0246 body + acceptance packet** | `docs/adr/ADR-0246-induced-identity-action-and-path-integrity.md` (**Proposed**; F1 semantics, ‖·‖_G convention, turn-ownership + refusal_reason rulings requested; binding claims language; honest §6.3 + §11 numbers; machine-readable operational-status block); packet `docs/audit/adr-0246-acceptance-packet-2026-07-17.md` §8 **RULING PENDING** | **committed** — no self-Accept; awaiting Shay ruling |

 Nothing in the reordering relaxes a §7 non-goal: no `C_id` corrector, no `H_id`
 enlargement, no pack/axis redesign, no gate activation. The §11 grounding study
--- a/evals/adr_0246_grounding_feasibility/init.py
+++ b/evals/adr_0246_grounding_feasibility/init.py
@ -0,0 +1,479 @@
+"""ADR-0246 §11 grounding-feasibility study (research, off-serving, evidence-only).
+
+The brief's §11 defers "semantic axis grounding" as a later workstream because
+"instruments ≠ meaning." Slice 0 and the §6.3 discrimination report both showed
+that NO fixed spatial 3-frame (declared or random) is dynamically preserved by
+benign cognition. This study asks the prior, narrower, and answerable question:
+
+    Does *any* held-out-stable, low-dimensional structure exist in what the
+    live versor's generator actually does — independent of which frame we
+    declare — and if so, does it discriminate benign traffic from adversarial
+    geometric attacks?
+
+This is explicitly a FEASIBILITY STUDY, not an implementation. Per the Opus
+handoff (§4c item 4) it is "the only path to a gate that discriminates"; the
+brief's own instruction (research-question authority, not this module) is that
+only a positive, held-out-stable, safety-relevant finding here would justify
+drafting a revised ADR-0246 implementation contract. This module does not
+draft one — it reports what the data shows, honestly, including a null result.
+
+**Method (fixed cohort splits, no resampling of the same pool):**
+
+  * TRAIN  — benign versors from ``LIVE_PROBE_SEQUENCE`` (D4 Phase 3 / slice-0's
+    pinned probe set), n≈13.
+  * HELD-OUT — versors from ``PARAPHRASE_PROBE_SEQUENCE`` (independently worded,
+    same semantic register), n≈12. A genuine generalization test: any structure
+    found on TRAIN must ALSO appear on HELD-OUT, not merely be re-discovered by
+    refitting the same pool.
+  * ADVERSARIAL — the existing crafted geometric-attack cohort (tilts, boosts,
+    inversions, permutations), n=8, reused from ``evals.adr_0246_discrimination``.
+
+**Generator proxy (no scipy; numpy-only per the routing instruction).** Rather
+than a matrix logarithm, this study uses the versor's own GRADE-2 (bivector)
+coefficient vector (Cl(4,1) indices 6..15, 10 dims) as the generator proxy: for
+a versor close to a simple exponential ``F = exp(B/2)``, the bivector block of
+``F`` is proportional to ``B`` to leading order, and it is EXACT for the single-
+plane simple rotors/boosts used throughout D4/ADR-0246 (this is the same
+quantity ``versor_plane_occupancy`` already groups by plane in the slice-0
+diagnostic). This is an approximation for compound multi-generator turns and is
+documented as such — not a claim of an exact Lie-algebra recovery.
+
+**Honesty constraint (same as §6.3):** with n≈13 samples in a 10-dimensional
+proxy space, a covariance fit on TRAIN alone is not evidence of structure —
+almost any small sample admits a low-rank-looking in-sample fit purely from
+degrees of freedom. The only evidence this study credits is CROSS-COHORT
+agreement: does the dominant direction found on TRAIN also explain variance on
+the independently-collected HELD-OUT cohort? A held-out-stable finding is
+reported only if it does; a null finding is reported plainly otherwise.
+
+Off-serving; deterministic (fixed RNG seed for synthetic controls; live cohorts
+via the existing lazy ``chat.runtime`` collectors — never imported by serve).
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+from typing import Any, Sequence
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from algebra.cl41 import N_COMPONENTS
+from evals.adr_0246_discrimination import (
+    _auc_bootstrap_ci,
+    _roc_auc,
+    adversarial_cohort,
+)
+from evals.adr_0246_mismatch_diagnostic import (
+    IDX_E12,
+    IDX_E13,
+    IDX_E14,
+    IDX_E15,
+    IDX_E23,
+    IDX_E24,
+    IDX_E25,
+    IDX_E34,
+    IDX_E35,
+    IDX_E45,
+    PARAPHRASE_PROBE_SEQUENCE,
+    collect_live_versors,
+)
+from evals.adr_0244_gamma_calibration import LIVE_PROBE_SEQUENCE
+
+# Bivector (grade-2) block: 10 planes, indices 6..15 in the 32-component layout.
+BIVECTOR_INDICES: tuple[int, ...] = (
+    IDX_E12, IDX_E13, IDX_E14, IDX_E15, IDX_E23, IDX_E24, IDX_E25, IDX_E34,
+    IDX_E35, IDX_E45,
+)
+BIVECTOR_DIM = len(BIVECTOR_INDICES)  # 10
+_PLANE_NAMES = ("e12", "e13", "e14", "e15", "e23", "e24", "e25", "e34", "e35", "e45")
+
+RECOVERY_CONTROL_SEED = 20260717
+POSITIVE_CONTROL_TRUE_RANK = 2
+POSITIVE_CONTROL_NOISE_SIGMA = 0.03
+N_NULL_TRIALS = 200
+# "Held-out stable" requires the real train-vs-held-out cross-cohort cosine to
+# exceed this percentile of the SAME-SAMPLE-SIZE null distribution (two
+# independent pure-noise cohorts) — i.e. p < 0.05 one-sided that the observed
+# agreement arose by chance alone — AND the discrimination AUC-CI lower bound
+# to clear chance (reusing evals.adr_0246_discrimination's own 0.6 bar).
+HELD_OUT_STABILITY_NULL_PERCENTILE_FLOOR = 0.95
+DISCRIMINATION_AUC_CI_FLOOR = 0.6
+
+
+def bivector_coefficients(versor: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+    """The 10-dim bivector-block generator proxy of a versor (Cl(4,1) indices 6..15)."""
+    versor = np.asarray(versor, dtype=np.float64)
+    return np.array([versor[i] for i in BIVECTOR_INDICES], dtype=np.float64)
+
+
+def bivector_covariance(versors: Sequence[np.ndarray]) -> np.ndarray:
+    """Sample covariance of the bivector-proxy vectors (numpy-only, no scipy)."""
+    coeffs = np.array([bivector_coefficients(v) for v in versors], dtype=np.float64)
+    if coeffs.shape[0] < 2:
+        raise ValueError("covariance requires at least 2 samples")
+    return np.cov(coeffs, rowvar=False)
+
+
+def principal_directions(cov: np.ndarray) -> tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]:
+    """Eigenvalues (descending) and eigenvectors of a covariance matrix via
+    ``np.linalg.eigh`` (exact for real-symmetric; no scipy dependency)."""
+    eigvals, eigvecs = np.linalg.eigh(cov)
+    order = np.argsort(eigvals)[::-1]
+    return eigvals[order], eigvecs[:, order]
+
+
+def variance_explained(eigvals: np.ndarray, k: int) -> float:
+    total = float(np.sum(eigvals))
+    if total <= 0.0:
+        return 0.0
+    return float(np.sum(eigvals[:k])) / total
+
+
+def subspace_residual_fraction(vec: np.ndarray, top_eigvecs: np.ndarray) -> float:
+    """Fraction of ``vec``'s energy OUTSIDE span(top_eigvecs) — 0 = fully inside."""
+    total = float(np.dot(vec, vec))
+    if total <= 0.0:
+        return 0.0
+    projection = top_eigvecs @ (top_eigvecs.T @ vec)
+    residual = vec - projection
+    return float(np.dot(residual, residual)) / total
+
+
+def cross_cohort_top_pc_cosine_similarity(
+    train_versors: Sequence[np.ndarray], test_versors: Sequence[np.ndarray], *, k: int = 1
+) -> float:
+    """|cosine similarity| between the top-``k`` principal directions of two
+    INDEPENDENTLY collected cohorts — the actual generalization signal.
+
+    A high value means the dominant generator direction found on one cohort
+    also explains the other's covariance structure (real, cohort-independent
+    structure). A value near 0 means the two cohorts' dominant directions are
+    unrelated (no stable structure — matches the D4/slice-0 finding at the
+    generator level rather than the induced-action level).
+    """
+    _, train_vecs = principal_directions(bivector_covariance(train_versors))
+    _, test_vecs = principal_directions(bivector_covariance(test_versors))
+    # top-k subspace overlap via singular values of the k x k Gram of top directions
+    a = train_vecs[:, :k]
+    b = test_vecs[:, :k]
+    overlap = a.T @ b
+    if k == 1:
+        return float(abs(overlap[0, 0]))
+    singular_values = np.linalg.svd(overlap, compute_uv=False)
+    return float(np.mean(singular_values))  # mean principal angle cosine
+
+
+# --- synthetic recovery controls ------------------------------------------------
+
+
+def synthetic_recovery_positive_cohort(
+    rng: np.random.Generator, n: int, basis: np.ndarray | None = None
+) -> list[np.ndarray]:
+    """POSITIVE control: bivector coefficients confined to a low-rank subspace
+    + small noise.
+
+    ``basis`` is the true subspace. Pass the SAME basis to generate two
+    independent cohorts sharing one true structure (the cross-cohort recovery
+    control); omitting it draws a fresh random subspace — two cohorts built
+    with separate fresh bases share NOTHING and must never be compared as a
+    positive pair (that was a real bug caught RED in the test suite: the
+    "positive" pair scored 0.53, indistinguishable from noise, because each
+    call invented its own subspace).
+    """
+    if basis is None:
+        basis = np.linalg.qr(
+            rng.standard_normal((BIVECTOR_DIM, POSITIVE_CONTROL_TRUE_RANK))
+        )[0]
+    coeffs = []
+    for _ in range(n):
+        weights = rng.standard_normal(POSITIVE_CONTROL_TRUE_RANK)
+        vec = basis @ weights + POSITIVE_CONTROL_NOISE_SIGMA * rng.standard_normal(BIVECTOR_DIM)
+        coeffs.append(_embed_bivector(vec))
+    return coeffs
+
+
+def synthetic_recovery_negative_cohort(
+    rng: np.random.Generator, n: int
+) -> list[np.ndarray]:
+    """NEGATIVE control: isotropic random bivector coefficients (no structure).
+    The eigen-analysis MUST NOT report a dominant low-rank subspace — a false
+    positive here would mean the method hallucinates structure from noise."""
+    coeffs = [
+        _embed_bivector(rng.standard_normal(BIVECTOR_DIM)) for _ in range(n)
+    ]
+    return coeffs
+
+
+def _embed_bivector(bivector_coeffs: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+    """Embed a 10-dim bivector-coefficient vector into a full 32-dim versor-shaped
+    array (scalar part fixed at 1.0) purely so it round-trips through
+    ``bivector_coefficients`` identically — these are SYNTHETIC generator-proxy
+    vectors for the recovery controls, not claims of being valid versors."""
+    v = np.zeros(N_COMPONENTS, dtype=np.float64)
+    v[0] = 1.0
+    for idx, coeff in zip(BIVECTOR_INDICES, bivector_coeffs):
+        v[idx] = coeff
+    return v
+
+
+def null_cross_cohort_cosine_distribution(
+    n: int, *, n_trials: int = N_NULL_TRIALS, seed: int = RECOVERY_CONTROL_SEED, k: int = 2
+) -> np.ndarray:
+    """The NULL distribution of ``cross_cohort_top_pc_cosine_similarity`` between
+    two INDEPENDENT isotropic-noise (no-true-structure) cohorts of size ``n`` —
+    calibrated to the ACTUAL sample size under study, not a generic asymptotic
+    threshold.
+
+    This matters because at small ``n`` (comparable to the 10-dim generator-proxy
+    space), a sample covariance from PURE NOISE still shows an inflated top-k
+    "variance explained" from finite-sample fluctuation alone (verified
+    empirically: at n=20 an isotropic negative control showed ~0.44, not the
+    asymptotic 0.20 chance level for k=2/10). Comparing a real result against a
+    fixed threshold derived from large-sample asymptotics would be dishonestly
+    optimistic. Instead every real finding here is judged against a null
+    distribution generated at the SAME ``n``.
+    """
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(seed)
+    cosines = np.empty(n_trials, dtype=np.float64)
+    for i in range(n_trials):
+        cohort_a = synthetic_recovery_negative_cohort(rng, n)
+        cohort_b = synthetic_recovery_negative_cohort(rng, n)
+        cosines[i] = cross_cohort_top_pc_cosine_similarity(cohort_a, cohort_b, k=k)
+    return cosines
+
+
+def empirical_percentile(value: float, null_distribution: np.ndarray) -> float:
+    """Fraction of the null distribution at or below ``value`` — a one-sided
+    empirical p-value complement (0.95 ⇒ value exceeds 95% of pure-noise draws
+    at the same sample size, i.e. p < 0.05 one-sided)."""
+    return float(np.mean(null_distribution <= value))
+
+
+def run_recovery_controls(
+    n: int, *, seed: int = RECOVERY_CONTROL_SEED, n_trials: int = N_NULL_TRIALS
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Sample-size-calibrated recovery sanity check (see module docstring).
+
+    Two independent cohorts drawn from the SAME true rank-2 subspace (+ noise)
+    at size ``n`` each MUST show high cross-cohort cosine similarity, and that
+    similarity must clear the NULL distribution (two independent noise cohorts
+    at the same ``n``) — confirming the method can detect real shared structure
+    at this exact sample size, not merely at a generously large one.
+    """
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(seed)
+    # ONE shared true subspace; two INDEPENDENT cohorts drawn from it.
+    shared_basis = np.linalg.qr(
+        rng.standard_normal((BIVECTOR_DIM, POSITIVE_CONTROL_TRUE_RANK))
+    )[0]
+    positive_a = synthetic_recovery_positive_cohort(rng, n, basis=shared_basis)
+    positive_b = synthetic_recovery_positive_cohort(rng, n, basis=shared_basis)
+    positive_cosine = cross_cohort_top_pc_cosine_similarity(
+        positive_a, positive_b, k=POSITIVE_CONTROL_TRUE_RANK
+    )
+    null_dist = null_cross_cohort_cosine_distribution(
+        n, n_trials=n_trials, seed=seed + 1, k=POSITIVE_CONTROL_TRUE_RANK
+    )
+    positive_percentile = empirical_percentile(positive_cosine, null_dist)
+    return {
+        "sample_size": n,
+        "positive_control_cross_cohort_cosine": round(positive_cosine, 6),
+        "null_distribution": {
+            "n_trials": n_trials,
+            "mean": round(float(np.mean(null_dist)), 6),
+            "p50": round(float(np.percentile(null_dist, 50)), 6),
+            "p95": round(float(np.percentile(null_dist, 95)), 6),
+        },
+        "positive_control_percentile_in_null": round(positive_percentile, 6),
+        "method_recovers_true_structure": bool(positive_percentile > 0.95),
+    }
+
+
+# --- precision pairs -------------------------------------------------------------
+
+
+def precision_pair_delta(versor: np.ndarray) -> float:
+    """Max abs delta of the bivector-proxy coefficients under an f64->f32->f64
+    round-trip of the whole versor (same style as the slice-0 transport probe)."""
+    versor64 = np.asarray(versor, dtype=np.float64)
+    versor_roundtrip = versor64.astype(np.float32).astype(np.float64)
+    return float(
+        np.max(
+            np.abs(bivector_coefficients(versor64) - bivector_coefficients(versor_roundtrip))
+        )
+    )
+
+
+# --- plane occupancy (typed e4/e5 generator analysis) ---------------------------
+
+
+def mean_plane_energy_fractions(versors: Sequence[np.ndarray]) -> dict[str, float]:
+    """Mean fraction of bivector energy in each of the 10 individual planes,
+    across a cohort — the "typed e4/e5 generator analysis": does the generator
+    concentrate in specific e4/e5-mixing planes, or spread evenly?"""
+    fractions = np.zeros(BIVECTOR_DIM, dtype=np.float64)
+    for versor in versors:
+        coeffs = bivector_coefficients(versor)
+        total = float(np.dot(coeffs, coeffs))
+        if total > 0.0:
+            fractions += (coeffs ** 2) / total
+    fractions /= max(len(versors), 1)
+    return {name: round(float(f), 6) for name, f in zip(_PLANE_NAMES, fractions)}
+
+
+# --- cohort collection -----------------------------------------------------------
+
+
+def collect_train_cohort() -> list[np.ndarray]:
+    """TRAIN: benign versors from the D4/slice-0 pinned probe sequence."""
+    return [v for _, v in collect_live_versors(LIVE_PROBE_SEQUENCE)]
+
+
+def collect_held_out_cohort() -> list[np.ndarray]:
+    """HELD-OUT: independently-worded paraphrase versors (genuine generalization test)."""
+    return [v for _, v in collect_live_versors(PARAPHRASE_PROBE_SEQUENCE)]
+
+
+def collect_adversarial_cohort() -> list[np.ndarray]:
+    """The existing crafted geometric-attack cohort, reused for consistency."""
+    return [v for _, v in adversarial_cohort()]
+
+
+# --- full study -------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+
+def build_feasibility_report(
+    train: Sequence[np.ndarray] | None = None,
+    held_out: Sequence[np.ndarray] | None = None,
+    adversarial: Sequence[np.ndarray] | None = None,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Run the full §11 feasibility study and report an honest verdict.
+
+    ``train``/``held_out``/``adversarial`` default to the live/synthetic cohorts
+    described in the module docstring; pass explicit cohorts for a fast/offline
+    run (as the test suite does).
+    """
+    train = list(train) if train is not None else collect_train_cohort()
+    held_out = list(held_out) if held_out is not None else collect_held_out_cohort()
+    adversarial = list(adversarial) if adversarial is not None else collect_adversarial_cohort()
+
+    # Null calibration uses the SMALLER of the two real cohort sizes — the more
+    # conservative (harder-to-clear) choice when the sizes differ.
+    calibration_n = max(min(len(train), len(held_out)), 3)
+    recovery = run_recovery_controls(calibration_n)
+
+    train_eigvals, train_eigvecs = principal_directions(bivector_covariance(train))
+    held_out_eigvals, _ = principal_directions(bivector_covariance(held_out))
+    top_k = 2
+    cross_cohort_cosine = cross_cohort_top_pc_cosine_similarity(train, held_out, k=top_k)
+    null_dist = null_cross_cohort_cosine_distribution(calibration_n, k=top_k)
+    real_percentile = empirical_percentile(cross_cohort_cosine, null_dist)
+
+    top_eigvecs = train_eigvecs[:, :top_k]
+    train_residuals = [subspace_residual_fraction(bivector_coefficients(v), top_eigvecs) for v in train]
+    held_out_residuals = [subspace_residual_fraction(bivector_coefficients(v), top_eigvecs) for v in held_out]
+    adversarial_residuals = [subspace_residual_fraction(bivector_coefficients(v), top_eigvecs) for v in adversarial]
+
+    auc = _roc_auc(adversarial_residuals, held_out_residuals)
+    auc_ci = _auc_bootstrap_ci(adversarial_residuals, held_out_residuals)
+
+    precision_deltas = [precision_pair_delta(v) for v in train + held_out]
+    plane_energy_train = mean_plane_energy_fractions(train)
+    plane_energy_held_out = mean_plane_energy_fractions(held_out)
+
+    held_out_stable = bool(
+        real_percentile >= HELD_OUT_STABILITY_NULL_PERCENTILE_FLOOR
+        and np.isfinite(auc_ci[0])
+        and auc_ci[0] > DISCRIMINATION_AUC_CI_FLOOR
+    )
+
+    report = {
+        "schema_version": "adr_0246_grounding_feasibility_v1",
+        "method": {
+            "generator_proxy": "bivector (grade-2) coefficient block, 10 planes",
+            "note": "approximates the Lie generator to first order; exact for "
+                    "single-plane simple rotors/boosts, approximate for compound "
+                    "multi-generator turns; no scipy / matrix-log dependency",
+        },
+        "cohorts": {"train_n": len(train), "held_out_n": len(held_out), "adversarial_n": len(adversarial)},
+        "null_calibration_sample_size": calibration_n,
+        "recovery_controls": recovery,
+        "train_eigenvalues": [round(float(x), 6) for x in train_eigvals],
+        "held_out_eigenvalues": [round(float(x), 6) for x in held_out_eigvals],
+        "train_variance_explained_top_2": round(variance_explained(train_eigvals, top_k), 6),
+        "held_out_variance_explained_top_2": round(variance_explained(held_out_eigvals, top_k), 6),
+        "cross_cohort_top2_cosine_similarity": round(cross_cohort_cosine, 6),
+        "cross_cohort_cosine_null_distribution": {
+            "n_trials": N_NULL_TRIALS,
+            "mean": round(float(np.mean(null_dist)), 6),
+            "p95": round(float(np.percentile(null_dist, 95)), 6),
+        },
+        "cross_cohort_cosine_percentile_in_null": round(real_percentile, 6),
+        "held_out_stability_null_percentile_floor": HELD_OUT_STABILITY_NULL_PERCENTILE_FLOOR,
+        "residual_from_train_top2_subspace": {
+            "train": {"mean": round(float(np.mean(train_residuals)), 6)},
+            "held_out": {"mean": round(float(np.mean(held_out_residuals)), 6)},
+            "adversarial": {"mean": round(float(np.mean(adversarial_residuals)), 6)},
+        },
+        "discrimination_auc_adversarial_vs_heldout": round(auc, 6) if np.isfinite(auc) else None,
+        "discrimination_auc_ci95": [
+            round(x, 6) if np.isfinite(x) else None for x in auc_ci
+        ],
+        "precision_transport": {
+            "max_bivector_delta": round(max(precision_deltas), 9) if precision_deltas else 0.0,
+            "significant": bool(precision_deltas and max(precision_deltas) > 1e-4),
+        },
+        "plane_energy_fractions": {"train": plane_energy_train, "held_out": plane_energy_held_out},
+        "verdict": {
+            "recovery_method_validated": bool(recovery["method_recovers_true_structure"]),
+            "held_out_stable_structure_found": held_out_stable,
+            "safety_relevant": bool(held_out_stable and auc > 0.5),
+        },
+    }
+    report["verdict"]["honest_finding"] = _honest_finding(report)
+    return report
+
+
+def _honest_finding(report: dict[str, Any]) -> str:
+    v = report["verdict"]
+    cos = report["cross_cohort_top2_cosine_similarity"]
+    pct = report["cross_cohort_cosine_percentile_in_null"]
+    auc = report["discrimination_auc_adversarial_vs_heldout"]
+    ci = report["discrimination_auc_ci95"]
+    n = report["cohorts"]
+    if not v["recovery_method_validated"]:
+        return (
+            "INCONCLUSIVE: the recovery-control sanity check failed — at this "
+            "sample size the method cannot reliably distinguish a real shared "
+            "structure from chance agreement between two noise cohorts, "
+            "independent of the real cohorts' outcome. Do not draw a conclusion "
+            "from the real-cohort numbers below."
+        )
+    if v["held_out_stable_structure_found"]:
+        return (
+            f"POSITIVE (n_train={n['train_n']}, n_held_out={n['held_out_n']}): the "
+            f"top-2 generator-proxy subspace found on TRAIN cosine-agrees with the "
+            f"independently-collected HELD-OUT cohort at {cos:.2f} — the "
+            f"{pct * 100:.0f}th percentile of the SAME-SAMPLE-SIZE null distribution "
+            f"(two independent pure-noise cohorts), i.e. this agreement is unlikely "
+            f"to have arisen by chance alone. It also discriminates the adversarial "
+            f"cohort from held-out benign at AUC {auc:.2f} (95% CI [{ci[0]:.2f}, "
+            f"{ci[1]:.2f}], clears chance). This is evidence — NOT proof at this "
+            f"sample size — that a held-out-stable, safety-relevant structure may "
+            f"exist. A larger, pre-registered cohort study is required before "
+            f"drafting an ADR-0246 implementation contract on this basis."
+        )
+    return (
+        f"NULL (n_train={n['train_n']}, n_held_out={n['held_out_n']}): the top-2 "
+        f"generator-proxy subspace found on TRAIN does NOT reliably reproduce on "
+        f"the independently-collected HELD-OUT cohort — cosine similarity {cos:.2f} "
+        f"sits at only the {pct * 100:.0f}th percentile of what two INDEPENDENT "
+        f"pure-noise cohorts of the same size produce by chance (need >= 95th) "
+        f"and/or does not clear the discrimination bar (AUC {auc:.2f}, 95% CI "
+        f"[{ci[0]:.2f}, {ci[1]:.2f}]). This is consistent with — and sharpens — the "
+        f"D4/slice-0/§6.3 finding at the GENERATOR level (not just the induced-action "
+        f"level): benign cognition does not have a small, stable, cohort-independent "
+        f"generator subspace detectable at this sample size. Threshold tuning on the "
+        f"current pack cannot produce a discriminating gate; this feasibility study "
+        f"does not find grounds to draft a revised ADR-0246 implementation contract. "
+        f"A much larger cohort (this study used n<=13 per real cohort) would be "
+        f"needed to rule out a real but subtle effect, rather than to overturn this null."
+    )
--- a/evals/adr_0246_grounding_feasibility/main.py
+++ b/evals/adr_0246_grounding_feasibility/main.py
@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+"""Run the ADR-0246 §11 grounding-feasibility study and emit the report.
+
+Usage:  uv run python -m evals.adr_0246_grounding_feasibility [out.json]
+
+Collects the live TRAIN (benign) and HELD-OUT (paraphrase) cohorts (spins up a
+fresh empty-vault runtime twice), runs the recovery controls + cross-cohort
+generator analysis + discrimination check, and prints the honest verdict.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+import sys
+
+from evals.adr_0246_grounding_feasibility import build_feasibility_report
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    report = build_feasibility_report()
+    summary = {
+        "cohorts": report["cohorts"],
+        "recovery_controls": report["recovery_controls"],
+        "cross_cohort_top2_cosine_similarity": report["cross_cohort_top2_cosine_similarity"],
+        "cross_cohort_cosine_percentile_in_null": report["cross_cohort_cosine_percentile_in_null"],
+        "discrimination_auc_adversarial_vs_heldout": report["discrimination_auc_adversarial_vs_heldout"],
+        "discrimination_auc_ci95": report["discrimination_auc_ci95"],
+        "precision_transport": report["precision_transport"],
+        "plane_energy_fractions": report["plane_energy_fractions"],
+        "verdict": report["verdict"],
+    }
+    print(json.dumps(summary, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    if len(sys.argv) > 1:
+        with open(sys.argv[1], "w", encoding="utf-8") as fh:
+            fh.write(json.dumps(report, indent=2, sort_keys=True) + "\n")
+        print(f"\nfull report written to {sys.argv[1]}")
+    return 0
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
--- a/tests/test_adr_0246_action_record.py
+++ b/tests/test_adr_0246_action_record.py
@ -0,0 +1,186 @@
+"""ADR-0246 §4.1/§4.3 — per-turn IdentityActionRecord telemetry pins.
+
+Pins the pure record builder (`build_identity_action_record`), its full-SHA-256
+digests (§4.3 — no truncation, no `default=str`), the conditional-population
+discipline (never built unless the wave/action surface actually ran), the
+minimal serve wiring (IdentityScore.action_record, populated only when
+admission_policy is supplied), and the telemetry serializer's conditional
+emission (wave_mode_active AND action_surface_active both required — flag-off
+wire format is provably unchanged).
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import numpy as np
+import pytest
+
+from algebra.cl41 import N_COMPONENTS
+from core.physics.identity import IdentityCheck, IdentityManifold, ValueAxis
+from core.physics.identity_action import (
+    AdmissionPolicy,
+    build_identity_action_record,
+)
+from core.physics.identity_manifold import IdentityManifoldGeometry
+from chat.telemetry import serialize_turn_event
+
+_E14 = 8
+
+
+def _rotor(biv, theta):
+    r = np.zeros(N_COMPONENTS, dtype=np.float64)
+    r[0] = np.cos(theta / 2.0)
+    r[biv] = np.sin(theta / 2.0)
+    return r
+
+
+def _identity_versor():
+    v = np.zeros(N_COMPONENTS, dtype=np.float64)
+    v[0] = 1.0
+    return v
+
+
+@pytest.fixture(scope="module")
+def geometry():
+    return IdentityManifoldGeometry.from_directions(
+        ((1.0, 0.0, 0.0), (0.0, 1.0, 0.0), (0.0, 0.0, 1.0))
+    )
+
+
+def _manifold():
+    return IdentityManifold(
+        value_axes=(
+            ValueAxis(name="truthfulness", direction=(1.0, 0.0, 0.0)),
+            ValueAxis(name="coherence", direction=(0.0, 1.0, 0.0)),
+            ValueAxis(name="reverence", direction=(0.0, 0.0, 1.0)),
+        )
+    )
+
+
+class _Trajectory:
+    trajectory_id = "record_test"
+    total_coherence_delta = 0.0
+    frames = ()
+
+
+# --- pure builder pins ---------------------------------------------------------
+
+
+def test_record_schema_and_shape(geometry):
+    policy = AdmissionPolicy.placeholder_default()
+    record = build_identity_action_record(
+        geometry, _identity_versor(), policy, trajectory_id="t1", turn_id=3,
+    )
+    d = record.as_dict()
+    assert d["schema_version"] == "identity_action_v1"
+    assert d["turn_id"] == 3 and d["trajectory_id"] == "t1"
+    assert set(d["typed_residual_energy"]) == {
+        "spatial_foreign", "boost_like", "null_or_conformal", "unclassified",
+    }
+    assert len(d["A_raw"]) == 3 and len(d["A_raw"][0]) == 3
+    assert d["admitted"] is True and d["refusal_reason"] is None
+    assert d["lawful_action"] == "I"
+    assert d["path_break"] is False
+
+
+def test_record_refusal_reason_and_lawful_action_on_attack(geometry):
+    policy = AdmissionPolicy.placeholder_default()
+    record = build_identity_action_record(geometry, _rotor(_E14, 1.5), policy)
+    assert record.admitted is False
+    assert record.refusal_reason is not None
+    assert ">" in record.refusal_reason  # e.g. "d_orth>orth_tol;..."
+    assert record.lawful_action == "none"
+
+
+def test_record_digests_are_full_sha256_and_deterministic(geometry):
+    policy = AdmissionPolicy.placeholder_default()
+    r1 = build_identity_action_record(geometry, _identity_versor(), policy)
+    r2 = build_identity_action_record(geometry, _identity_versor(), policy)
+    assert len(r1.field_digest) == 64 and len(r1.record_digest()) == 64
+    int(r1.field_digest, 16)
+    int(r1.record_digest(), 16)
+    assert r1.field_digest == r2.field_digest
+    assert r1.record_digest() == r2.record_digest()
+
+
+def test_record_digest_changes_with_content(geometry):
+    policy = AdmissionPolicy.placeholder_default()
+    r_id = build_identity_action_record(geometry, _identity_versor(), policy)
+    r_atk = build_identity_action_record(geometry, _rotor(_E14, 1.5), policy)
+    assert r_id.record_digest() != r_atk.record_digest()
+    assert r_id.field_digest != r_atk.field_digest
+
+
+def test_policy_version_id_is_full_sha256_and_reflects_calibration_state(geometry):
+    p1 = AdmissionPolicy.placeholder_default()
+    assert len(p1.version_id()) == 64
+    int(p1.version_id(), 16)
+    p2 = AdmissionPolicy.placeholder_default()
+    assert p1.version_id() == p2.version_id()  # deterministic
+    from dataclasses import replace
+    p3 = replace(p1, gamma_id=0.5)
+    assert p3.version_id() != p1.version_id()  # threshold change -> new version
+
+
+def test_manifold_content_digest_changes_on_axis_change():
+    from core.physics.identity import manifold_content_digest
+    m1 = _manifold()
+    m2 = IdentityManifold(value_axes=_manifold().value_axes[:2])
+    d1 = manifold_content_digest(m1)
+    d2 = manifold_content_digest(m2)
+    assert len(d1) == 64 and d1 != d2
+    assert manifold_content_digest(m1) == d1  # deterministic
+
+
+# --- serve wiring: IdentityScore.action_record ---------------------------------
+
+
+def test_flag_off_action_record_is_none():
+    check = IdentityCheck()
+    score = check.check(_Trajectory(), _manifold(), wave_field=_identity_versor())
+    assert score.action_record is None
+
+
+def test_flag_on_populates_action_record():
+    check = IdentityCheck()
+    score = check.check(
+        _Trajectory(), _manifold(), wave_field=_identity_versor(),
+        admission_policy=AdmissionPolicy.placeholder_default(),
+    )
+    assert score.action_record is not None
+    assert score.action_record.trajectory_id == "record_test"
+    assert score.action_record.admitted is True
+
+
+# --- telemetry serialization: conditional emission -----------------------------
+
+
+class _Event:
+    turn = 1
+    identity_score = None
+
+
+def test_telemetry_flag_off_has_no_action_fields():
+    check = IdentityCheck()
+    ev = _Event()
+    ev.identity_score = check.check(
+        _Trajectory(), _manifold(), wave_field=_identity_versor()
+    )
+    payload = serialize_turn_event(ev)
+    assert "identity_action_admitted" not in payload
+    assert "identity_d_orth" not in payload
+    assert "identity_d_stab" not in payload
+
+
+def test_telemetry_flag_on_emits_action_surface_fields():
+    check = IdentityCheck()
+    ev = _Event()
+    ev.identity_score = check.check(
+        _Trajectory(), _manifold(), wave_field=_rotor(_E14, 1.5),
+        admission_policy=AdmissionPolicy.placeholder_default(),
+    )
+    payload = serialize_turn_event(ev)
+    assert payload["identity_action_admitted"] is False
+    assert isinstance(payload["identity_d_orth"], float)
+    assert isinstance(payload["identity_d_stab"], float)
+    assert "identity_action_record_digest" in payload
+    assert len(payload["identity_action_record_digest"]) == 64
--- a/tests/test_adr_0246_grounding_feasibility.py
+++ b/tests/test_adr_0246_grounding_feasibility.py
@ -0,0 +1,138 @@
+"""ADR-0246 §11 grounding-feasibility study pins.
+
+Pins the recovery-control sanity checks (the method must find structure when it
+genuinely exists, and must not hallucinate structure from noise), the
+bivector-proxy machinery, and the honest-verdict logic on injected cohorts — no
+live runtime required. A separate live smoke test (marked slow) exercises the
+real collectors.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import numpy as np
+import pytest
+
+from algebra.cl41 import N_COMPONENTS
+from evals.adr_0246_grounding_feasibility import (
+    BIVECTOR_DIM,
+    build_feasibility_report,
+    bivector_coefficients,
+    cross_cohort_top_pc_cosine_similarity,
+    precision_pair_delta,
+    run_recovery_controls,
+    subspace_residual_fraction,
+)
+from evals.adr_0246_mismatch_diagnostic import IDX_E12, IDX_E13, IDX_E14
+
+
+def _rotor(biv, theta):
+    r = np.zeros(N_COMPONENTS, dtype=np.float64)
+    r[0] = np.cos(theta / 2.0)
+    r[biv] = np.sin(theta / 2.0)
+    return r
+
+
+def test_bivector_coefficients_extract_the_right_slots():
+    v = _rotor(IDX_E12, 0.6)
+    coeffs = bivector_coefficients(v)
+    assert coeffs.shape == (BIVECTOR_DIM,)
+    assert coeffs[0] == pytest.approx(v[IDX_E12])
+    assert np.count_nonzero(coeffs) == 1  # only e12 is populated
+
+
+def test_recovery_controls_validate_the_method():
+    # sample-size-calibrated: two independent cohorts sharing a TRUE rank-2
+    # subspace must show cross-cohort cosine similarity far above what two
+    # independent pure-noise cohorts of the SAME size produce by chance.
+    result = run_recovery_controls(13)
+    assert result["positive_control_cross_cohort_cosine"] > 0.8
+    assert result["positive_control_percentile_in_null"] > 0.95
+    assert result["method_recovers_true_structure"] is True
+    # the null distribution itself should be well below the positive signal
+    assert result["null_distribution"]["p95"] < result["positive_control_cross_cohort_cosine"]
+
+
+def test_cross_cohort_cosine_detects_shared_structure():
+    # both cohorts confined to the SAME e12/e13 plane pair -> high cosine
+    cohort_a = [_rotor(IDX_E12, 0.1 * i + 0.05) for i in range(6)]
+    cohort_b = [_rotor(IDX_E13, 0.1 * i + 0.05) for i in range(6)]
+    # mix e12/e13 in both cohorts so both share a 2-plane subspace
+    mixed_a = cohort_a + [_rotor(IDX_E13, 0.05 * i) for i in range(6)]
+    mixed_b = cohort_b + [_rotor(IDX_E12, 0.05 * i) for i in range(6)]
+    cosine = cross_cohort_top_pc_cosine_similarity(mixed_a, mixed_b, k=2)
+    assert cosine > 0.5  # shared 2-plane structure should show real overlap
+
+
+def test_cross_cohort_cosine_detects_unrelated_structure():
+    cohort_a = [_rotor(IDX_E12, 0.1 * i + 0.05) for i in range(10)]
+    # cohort_b lives entirely in an orthogonal plane (e.g. e35, far from e12)
+    from evals.adr_0246_mismatch_diagnostic import IDX_E35
+    cohort_b = [_rotor(IDX_E35, 0.1 * i + 0.05) for i in range(10)]
+    cosine = cross_cohort_top_pc_cosine_similarity(cohort_a, cohort_b, k=1)
+    assert cosine < 0.3  # unrelated single-plane structure -> low overlap
+
+
+def test_subspace_residual_fraction_zero_inside_span():
+    v = _rotor(IDX_E12, 0.5)
+    coeffs = bivector_coefficients(v)
+    basis = np.zeros((BIVECTOR_DIM, 1))
+    basis[0, 0] = 1.0  # e12 direction (index 0 in BIVECTOR_INDICES)
+    assert subspace_residual_fraction(coeffs, basis) < 1e-9
+
+
+def test_precision_pair_delta_is_tiny():
+    for versor in (_rotor(IDX_E12, 0.5), _rotor(IDX_E14, 1.3)):
+        assert precision_pair_delta(versor) < 1e-4
+
+
+def test_feasibility_report_null_on_unrelated_cohorts():
+    # TRAIN and HELD-OUT confined to unrelated planes -> expect a NULL verdict
+    train = [_rotor(IDX_E12, 0.1 * i + 0.05) for i in range(10)]
+    from evals.adr_0246_mismatch_diagnostic import IDX_E35, IDX_E45
+    held_out = [_rotor(IDX_E45, 0.1 * i + 0.05) for i in range(10)]
+    adversarial = [_rotor(IDX_E14, 1.5), _rotor(IDX_E35, 1.2)]
+    report = build_feasibility_report(train, held_out, adversarial)
+    assert report["verdict"]["recovery_method_validated"] is True
+    assert report["verdict"]["held_out_stable_structure_found"] is False
+    assert "NULL" in report["verdict"]["honest_finding"]
+
+
+def test_feasibility_report_positive_on_shared_plane_cohorts():
+    # TRAIN and HELD-OUT share the same 2-plane structure (e12/e13); adversarial
+    # lives elsewhere entirely (e14/e35/e45) -> expect the structure to be found
+    # AND to discriminate against the adversarial cohort.
+    from evals.adr_0246_mismatch_diagnostic import IDX_E35, IDX_E45
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(7)
+    def shared_plane_versor():
+        theta12 = rng.normal(0, 0.3)
+        theta13 = rng.normal(0, 0.3)
+        v = np.zeros(N_COMPONENTS, dtype=np.float64)
+        v[0] = 1.0
+        v[IDX_E12] = theta12
+        v[IDX_E13] = theta13
+        return v
+    train = [shared_plane_versor() for _ in range(15)]
+    held_out = [shared_plane_versor() for _ in range(15)]
+    adversarial = [_rotor(IDX_E14, 1.5), _rotor(IDX_E35, 1.3), _rotor(IDX_E45, 1.1)]
+    report = build_feasibility_report(train, held_out, adversarial)
+    assert report["cross_cohort_top2_cosine_similarity"] > 0.7
+    assert "POSITIVE" in report["verdict"]["honest_finding"]
+
+
+def test_report_schema_shape():
+    train = [_rotor(IDX_E12, 0.1 * i + 0.05) for i in range(10)]
+    held_out = [_rotor(IDX_E13, 0.1 * i + 0.05) for i in range(10)]
+    adversarial = [_rotor(IDX_E14, 1.5)]
+    report = build_feasibility_report(train, held_out, adversarial)
+    assert report["schema_version"] == "adr_0246_grounding_feasibility_v1"
+    assert set(report["cohorts"]) == {"train_n", "held_out_n", "adversarial_n"}
+    assert "honest_finding" in report["verdict"]
+
+
+def test_module_is_pure_offserving():
+    import evals.adr_0246_grounding_feasibility as mod
+
+    assert mod.__file__ is not None
+    with open(mod.__file__, encoding="utf-8") as fh:
+        src = fh.read()
+    assert "import chat" not in src and "from chat" not in src
--- a/tests/test_adr_0246_induced_action.py
+++ b/tests/test_adr_0246_induced_action.py
@ -108,6 +108,37 @@ def test_e5_boost_fires_boost_channel_and_is_non_isometric(geometry):
    assert geometry.orthogonality_defect(versor) > 0.05  # boost not a G-isometry


+def test_spatial_foreign_channel_is_zero_for_default_pack_by_construction():
+    """Resolves the open uncertainty from the Fable/Opus handoff notes: is
+    ``spatial_foreign`` structurally broken? No — for the DEFAULT 3-axis pack
+    (support = e1,e2,e3, i.e. the full spatial grade-1 block), the rejection
+    ``rotated - project(rotated)`` is by construction orthogonal to e1/e2/e3, so
+    this channel is TAUTOLOGICALLY zero — there is no "spatial but outside
+    support" direction left when the support IS all of span(e1,e2,e3).
+    """
+    geom3 = IdentityManifoldGeometry.from_directions(
+        ((1.0, 0.0, 0.0), (0.0, 1.0, 0.0), (0.0, 0.0, 1.0))
+    )
+    for versor in (_rotor(_E14, 1.3), _boost(_E25, 0.9), _rotor(_E12, 2.0)):
+        assert geom3.typed_residual_energy(versor)["spatial_foreign"] == pytest.approx(
+            0.0, abs=1e-12
+        )
+
+
+def test_spatial_foreign_channel_fires_for_reduced_support_pack():
+    """A pack whose declared axes do NOT span all of e1/e2/e3 (here: only
+    e1/e2) has a genuine "spatial but outside support" direction (e3), and a
+    versor tilting an axis toward it must register nonzero ``spatial_foreign``
+    — confirming the channel is correct in general, not merely inert.
+    """
+    geom2 = IdentityManifoldGeometry.from_directions(((1.0, 0.0, 0.0), (0.0, 1.0, 0.0)))
+    tilt_toward_e3 = _rotor(_E13, 1.0)  # e13 tilts axis e1 toward e3 (out-of-support)
+    channels = geom2.typed_residual_energy(tilt_toward_e3)
+    assert channels["spatial_foreign"] > 0.05
+    assert channels["null_or_conformal"] == pytest.approx(0.0, abs=1e-12)
+    assert channels["boost_like"] == pytest.approx(0.0, abs=1e-12)
+
+
 def test_typed_residual_energy_fractions_are_bounded_and_clean(geometry):
    for versor in (_rotor(_E14, 0.7), _boost(_E25, 0.6), _rotor(_E12, 0.3)):
        ch = geometry.typed_residual_energy(versor)
--- a/tests/test_adr_0246_path_serve_integration.py
+++ b/tests/test_adr_0246_path_serve_integration.py
@ -0,0 +1,202 @@
+"""ADR-0246 §3.4/§3.5 serve integration pins — session identity-path ledger.
+
+Pins the §3.4-step-2 ``admitted`` gate on the pure ledger (a policy-refused turn
+must break even when its d_stab is small), the ``advance_session_identity_path``
+serve helper (scope from manifold digest + version ids; observe-only), the
+runtime wiring (ledger advanced only when both flags are on; instance lifetime
+is the session boundary), and the telemetry emission (identity_path_* keys only
+when the path ran — flag-off wire format byte-identical).
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import numpy as np
+import pytest
+
+from algebra.cl41 import N_COMPONENTS
+from core.config import RuntimeConfig
+from core.physics.identity import (
+    GEOMETRY_VERSION,
+    IdentityManifold,
+    ValueAxis,
+    advance_session_identity_path,
+    manifold_content_digest,
+)
+from core.physics.identity_action import (
+    AdmissionPolicy,
+    IdentityChainScope,
+    PathBudget,
+    advance_identity_path,
+)
+from core.physics.identity_manifold import IdentityManifoldGeometry
+from chat.telemetry import serialize_turn_event
+
+_E12, _E14 = 6, 8
+
+
+def _rotor(biv, theta):
+    r = np.zeros(N_COMPONENTS, dtype=np.float64)
+    r[0] = np.cos(theta / 2.0)
+    r[biv] = np.sin(theta / 2.0)
+    return r
+
+
+def _boost(biv, theta):
+    r = np.zeros(N_COMPONENTS, dtype=np.float64)
+    r[0] = np.cosh(theta / 2.0)
+    r[biv] = np.sinh(theta / 2.0)
+    return r
+
+
+def _identity_versor():
+    v = np.zeros(N_COMPONENTS, dtype=np.float64)
+    v[0] = 1.0
+    return v
+
+
+def _manifold():
+    return IdentityManifold(
+        value_axes=(
+            ValueAxis(name="truthfulness", direction=(1.0, 0.0, 0.0)),
+            ValueAxis(name="coherence", direction=(0.0, 1.0, 0.0)),
+            ValueAxis(name="reverence", direction=(0.0, 0.0, 1.0)),
+        )
+    )
+
+
+@pytest.fixture(scope="module")
+def geometry():
+    return IdentityManifoldGeometry.from_directions(
+        ((1.0, 0.0, 0.0), (0.0, 1.0, 0.0), (0.0, 0.0, 1.0))
+    )
+
+
+# --- §3.4 step-2: the admitted gate on the pure ledger --------------------------
+
+
+def test_policy_refused_turn_breaks_even_with_small_d_stab(geometry):
+    scope = IdentityChainScope(
+        pack_content_digest="p", geometry_version="g", policy_version="v",
+        session_id="s",
+    )
+    budget = PathBudget(epsilon_turn=0.1, epsilon_session=0.3)
+    small = geometry.induced_action(_rotor(_E12, 0.02))  # d_stab well under 0.1
+    # admitted=False (e.g. refused on leakage alone) MUST break, not compose
+    ledger, rec = advance_identity_path(
+        None, scope, small, geometry.gram, budget, admitted=False
+    )
+    assert rec["lawful"] is False and rec["path_break"] is True
+    assert ledger.composed_turn_count == 0 and ledger.break_count == 1
+    assert np.allclose(ledger.a_path_lawful, np.eye(3), atol=1e-12)
+    # same action with admitted=True composes
+    ledger2, rec2 = advance_identity_path(
+        None, scope, small, geometry.gram, budget, admitted=True
+    )
+    assert rec2["lawful"] is True and ledger2.composed_turn_count == 1
+
+
+# --- advance_session_identity_path (serve helper) -------------------------------
+
+
+def test_session_path_near_identity_composes():
+    policy = AdmissionPolicy.placeholder_default()
+    ledger, rec = advance_session_identity_path(
+        None, _manifold(), _identity_versor(), policy
+    )
+    assert rec["hard_break"] is True and rec["lawful"] is True
+    assert ledger.composed_turn_count == 1 and ledger.session_admit is True
+    assert ledger.scope.pack_content_digest == manifold_content_digest(_manifold())
+    assert ledger.scope.geometry_version == GEOMETRY_VERSION
+
+
+def test_session_path_refused_turn_breaks():
+    policy = AdmissionPolicy.placeholder_default()
+    ledger, _ = advance_session_identity_path(
+        None, _manifold(), _identity_versor(), policy
+    )
+    ledger, rec = advance_session_identity_path(
+        ledger, _manifold(), _rotor(_E14, 1.5), policy  # alien tilt: refused
+    )
+    assert rec["lawful"] is False and rec["path_break"] is True
+    assert ledger.break_count == 1 and ledger.composed_turn_count == 1
+
+
+def test_session_path_hard_breaks_on_pack_change():
+    policy = AdmissionPolicy.placeholder_default()
+    ledger, _ = advance_session_identity_path(
+        None, _manifold(), _identity_versor(), policy
+    )
+    first_chain = ledger.chain_id
+    other_manifold = IdentityManifold(value_axes=_manifold().value_axes[:2])
+    ledger, rec = advance_session_identity_path(
+        ledger, other_manifold, _identity_versor(), policy
+    )
+    assert rec["hard_break"] is True
+    assert ledger.chain_id != first_chain
+
+
+# --- telemetry ------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+
+class _Event:
+    turn = 1
+    identity_score = None
+    identity_path = None
+
+
+def test_telemetry_no_path_keys_when_absent():
+    payload = serialize_turn_event(_Event())
+    assert not any(k.startswith("identity_path_") for k in payload)
+
+
+def test_telemetry_emits_path_keys_when_present():
+    policy = AdmissionPolicy.placeholder_default()
+    ledger, _ = advance_session_identity_path(
+        None, _manifold(), _identity_versor(), policy
+    )
+    ev = _Event()
+    ev.identity_path = ledger
+    payload = serialize_turn_event(ev)
+    assert payload["identity_path_chain_id"] == ledger.chain_id
+    assert payload["identity_path_composed_turns"] == 1
+    assert payload["identity_path_breaks"] == 0
+    assert payload["identity_path_session_admit"] is True
+
+
+# --- runtime wiring (flag-gated; observe-only) ----------------------------------
+
+
+def test_runtime_ledger_attribute_defaults_none_and_flag_off_never_advances():
+    from chat.runtime import ChatRuntime
+
+    runtime = ChatRuntime(config=RuntimeConfig(), no_load_state=True)
+    assert runtime._identity_path_ledger is None
+    runtime.chat("water boils")
+    assert runtime._identity_path_ledger is None  # both flags off: never advanced
+    # and the emitted turn event carries no path ledger
+    assert runtime.turn_log[-1].identity_path is None
+
+
+def test_runtime_ledger_advances_when_both_flags_on():
+    from chat.runtime import ChatRuntime
+
+    runtime = ChatRuntime(
+        config=RuntimeConfig(identity_wave_gate=True, identity_action_surface=True),
+        no_load_state=True,
+    )
+    # Not every turn reaches the wave-path check (first-touch turns can take
+    # the stub path — same reason slice-0 captured 13/16 probe turns), so run
+    # the duplicated-probe pattern until one main-path turn advances the ledger.
+    for text in ("water boils", "water boils", "birds fly", "birds fly"):
+        runtime.chat(text)
+        if runtime._identity_path_ledger is not None:
+            break
+    ledger = runtime._identity_path_ledger
+    assert ledger is not None
+    assert ledger.composed_turn_count + ledger.break_count >= 1
+    # observe-only: chat() raised nothing regardless of session_admit; the
+    # ledger-bearing turn's event serializes the path keys
+    ledger_events = [e for e in runtime.turn_log if e.identity_path is not None]
+    assert ledger_events, "no turn event carried the path ledger"
+    payload = serialize_turn_event(ledger_events[-1])
+    assert "identity_path_chain_id" in payload