diff --git a/packs/el/lift_rules.py b/packs/el/lift_rules.py
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+"""
+Lift rules for the Koine Greek depth pack.
+
+Responsibility: receive a LinguisticAnalysis from the el pack analyzer
+and return a CandidatePressureBatch.
+
+Koine Greek-specific lift requirements:
+  - Tense-aspect: Greek tense encodes both time and aspect. The imperfect
+    of eimi (en) lifts into existence.state.continuous, not existence.state.
+    The aorist would lift into existence.event. These are not interchangeable.
+  - Article system: the presence or absence of the article on a predicate
+    nominative is semantically load-bearing (Colwell construction).
+    Anarthrous predicate nominatives must lift with a qualitative tag.
+  - Voice: middle voice is not passive. Middle voice lifts carry a
+    reflexive or self-involving semantic that must be preserved.
+  - Pros with accusative: lifts into relation.presence-toward,
+    not relation.accompaniment. The preposition selects the sense.
+
+Current status:
+  Blocked on LinguisticAnalysis contract (el pack specific: must carry
+  full tense-aspect-voice-mood bundle and article resolution).
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+from typing import TYPE_CHECKING
+
+if TYPE_CHECKING:
+    from core_ingest.pressure import CandidateGeometricPressure
+
+
+def lift(analysis: object) -> list["CandidateGeometricPressure"]:
+    """
+    Lift a Greek LinguisticAnalysis into CandidateGeometricPressure packets.
+
+    Blocked on: el pack LinguisticAnalysis contract — must carry
+    tense-aspect-voice-mood bundle and article resolution (arthrous/anarthrous)
+    before this can be implemented correctly.
+    """
+    raise NotImplementedError(
+        "el:lift — LinguisticAnalysis contract for Koine Greek not yet finalized. "
+        "Must carry tense, aspect, voice, mood, and article resolution."
+    )
diff --git a/packs/el/readback_rules.py b/packs/el/readback_rules.py
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+"""
+Readback rules for the Koine Greek depth pack.
+
+Koine Greek readback produces grammatical Biblical Greek surface realizations.
+This is a depth-pack operation invoked only when the model targets Greek articulation.
+
+Koine Greek-specific readback requirements:
+  - Full inflection: case, number, gender on nouns/adjectives/articles;
+    tense, voice, mood, person, number on verbs. Every word fully inflected.
+  - Accent placement: Greek accents must be placed correctly.
+    Unaccented output is not a valid surface realization.
+  - Article resolution: the article must be present or absent based on
+    the semantic role of the noun in the clause. Anarthrous predicates
+    in copular constructions must remain anarthrous (Colwell).
+  - Aspect selection: aorist vs. imperfect vs. perfect is not stylistic.
+    Each carries distinct semantic content that must be honored.
+
+Current status:
+  Blocked on FieldState and SurfaceRealization types.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+
+def readback(field_state: object, intent: object = None) -> object:
+    """
+    Produce a grammatical Koine Greek surface realization from a field state.
+
+    Blocked on: FieldState and SurfaceRealization types.
+    When implemented: must produce fully inflected and accented Greek output
+    with correct article placement and tense-aspect selection.
+    """
+    raise NotImplementedError(
+        "el:readback — FieldState and SurfaceRealization types not yet "
+        "finalized. When implemented: output must be fully inflected Koine Greek "
+        "with correct accent placement, article resolution, and aspect selection."
+    )
diff --git a/packs/el/validators.py b/packs/el/validators.py
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+"""
+Validators for the Koine Greek depth pack.
+Same gate structure as en and he. Greek-specific gate notes inline.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+PACK_DIR = Path(__file__).parent
+
+
+def _gate_schema() -> tuple[bool, str]:
+    return False, "not yet wired"
+
+
+def _gate_lexical() -> tuple[bool, str]:
+    seen = set()
+    for line in (PACK_DIR / "lemmas.jsonl").read_text(encoding="utf-8").splitlines():
+        if not line.strip():
+            continue
+        record = json.loads(line)
+        lid = record["lemma_id"]
+        if lid in seen:
+            return False, f"duplicate lemma_id: {lid}"
+        seen.add(lid)
+    return True, "ok"
+
+
+def _gate_morphology() -> tuple[bool, str]:
+    known = set()
+    for line in (PACK_DIR / "lemmas.jsonl").read_text(encoding="utf-8").splitlines():
+        if line.strip():
+            known.add(json.loads(line)["lemma_id"])
+    for line in (PACK_DIR / "morphology.jsonl").read_text(encoding="utf-8").splitlines():
+        if not line.strip():
+            continue
+        record = json.loads(line)
+        if record["lemma_id"] not in known:
+            return False, f"unknown lemma_id in morphology: {record['lemma_id']}"
+    return True, "ok"
+
+
+def _gate_lift() -> tuple[bool, str]:
+    # Greek lift requires tense-aspect-voice-mood and article resolution in analysis.
+    return False, "el:lift() not yet implemented — requires tense/aspect/voice/mood/article in LinguisticAnalysis"
+
+
+def _gate_readback() -> tuple[bool, str]:
+    return False, "el:readback() not yet implemented — must produce fully inflected and accented Greek"
+
+
+def _gate_determinism() -> tuple[bool, str]:
+    return False, "depends on lift and readback"
+
+
+def _gate_alignment() -> tuple[bool, str]:
+    return False, "anchors() not yet implemented"
+
+
+def _gate_coverage() -> tuple[bool, str]:
+    return False, "depends on lift and readback gates"
+
+
+GATES = [
+    ("schema", _gate_schema),
+    ("lexical", _gate_lexical),
+    ("morphology", _gate_morphology),
+    ("lift", _gate_lift),
+    ("readback", _gate_readback),
+    ("determinism", _gate_determinism),
+    ("alignment", _gate_alignment),
+    ("coverage", _gate_coverage),
+]
+
+
+def validate_pack() -> dict:
+    report = {"pack_id": "el", "active": False, "gates": {}}
+    for name, gate_fn in GATES:
+        passed, reason = gate_fn()
+        report["gates"][name] = {"passed": passed, "reason": reason}
+        if not passed:
+            for remaining_name, _ in GATES[GATES.index((name, gate_fn)) + 1:]:
+                report["gates"][remaining_name] = {"passed": False, "reason": "blocked by prior gate failure"}
+            return report
+    report["active"] = True
+    return report
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    import pprint
+    pprint.pprint(validate_pack())
diff --git a/packs/en/lift_rules.py b/packs/en/lift_rules.py
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+"""
+Lift rules for the English base pack.
+
+Responsibility: receive a LinguisticAnalysis produced by the en pack normalizer
+and analyzer, and return a CandidatePressureBatch — a list of
+CandidateGeometricPressure packets ready for the IngestCompiler.
+
+Design constraints:
+  - Deterministic: identical input always produces identical output.
+  - Lemma-first: lift targets are resolved through lemma_id → sense_id,
+    not through surface-form heuristics.
+  - Shared field target: every field_target must be a recognized CORE
+    field primitive. No private semantic space.
+  - This file must not import or invoke any external model or API.
+    Lift is a deterministic, structure-driven operation.
+
+Current status:
+  The normalize() and analyze() interfaces are not yet fully specified
+  for the en pack. Lift is blocked until those contracts are finalized
+  and the LinguisticAnalysis type is stable.
+
+  Raise NotImplementedError at the exact boundary that is not yet designed
+  rather than producing silent or approximate output.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+from typing import TYPE_CHECKING
+
+if TYPE_CHECKING:
+    from core_ingest.pressure import CandidateGeometricPressure
+
+
+def lift(analysis: object) -> list["CandidateGeometricPressure"]:
+    """
+    Lift a LinguisticAnalysis from the en pack into a list of
+    CandidateGeometricPressure packets.
+
+    Blocked on: finalization of the LinguisticAnalysis contract
+    and the CandidateGeometricPressure construction interface.
+    """
+    raise NotImplementedError(
+        "en:lift — LinguisticAnalysis contract not yet finalized. "
+        "Implement after analyze() and CandidateGeometricPressure "
+        "construction interface are locked."
+    )
diff --git a/packs/en/readback_rules.py b/packs/en/readback_rules.py
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+"""
+Readback rules for the English base pack.
+
+Responsibility: receive a resolved field state (or a field state fragment
+with a stated communicative intent) and produce a grammatical English
+surface realization.
+
+Design constraints:
+  - Readback is pack-local. This file does not reach into he or el rules.
+  - Grammatical agreement is fully handled here: number, tense, mood.
+  - Ambiguity resolution is deterministic: when multiple lemmas could
+    express the same field target, rank and constraint matching decide.
+  - This file must not invoke any external model or API.
+
+Current status:
+  Readback requires the FieldState type and the SurfaceRealization
+  return type to be stable. Both are blocked on the field primitive
+  specification work in the core field layer.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+from typing import TYPE_CHECKING
+
+if TYPE_CHECKING:
+    pass
+
+
+def readback(field_state: object, intent: object = None) -> object:
+    """
+    Produce a grammatical English surface realization from a field state.
+
+    Blocked on: FieldState type and SurfaceRealization interface.
+    """
+    raise NotImplementedError(
+        "en:readback — FieldState and SurfaceRealization types not yet "
+        "finalized. Implement after the core field primitive layer is locked."
+    )
diff --git a/packs/en/validators.py b/packs/en/validators.py
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+++ b/packs/en/validators.py
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+"""
+Validators for the English base pack.
+
+Runs all eight gates in sequence and returns a ValidationReport.
+A gate failure halts further validation — the pack is not partially active.
+
+Gate status reflects current implementation reality.
+Do not mark a gate True until it passes programmatically.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+PACK_DIR = Path(__file__).parent
+
+
+def _gate_schema() -> tuple[bool, str]:
+    """Validate all .jsonl files against their JSON Schema counterparts."""
+    # Requires: jsonschema library and schema files under packs/common/schema/
+    # Status: schema files exist; validation runner not yet wired.
+    return False, "not yet wired"
+
+
+def _gate_lexical() -> tuple[bool, str]:
+    """Check lemma_id uniqueness and field_hook validity."""
+    seen = set()
+    for line in (PACK_DIR / "lemmas.jsonl").read_text(encoding="utf-8").splitlines():
+        if not line.strip():
+            continue
+        record = json.loads(line)
+        lid = record["lemma_id"]
+        if lid in seen:
+            return False, f"duplicate lemma_id: {lid}"
+        seen.add(lid)
+    return True, "ok"
+
+
+def _gate_morphology() -> tuple[bool, str]:
+    """Check all morphology records reference a known lemma_id."""
+    known = set()
+    for line in (PACK_DIR / "lemmas.jsonl").read_text(encoding="utf-8").splitlines():
+        if line.strip():
+            known.add(json.loads(line)["lemma_id"])
+    for line in (PACK_DIR / "morphology.jsonl").read_text(encoding="utf-8").splitlines():
+        if not line.strip():
+            continue
+        record = json.loads(line)
+        if record["lemma_id"] not in known:
+            return False, f"unknown lemma_id in morphology: {record['lemma_id']}"
+    return True, "ok"
+
+
+def _gate_lift() -> tuple[bool, str]:
+    """Run lift probes. Blocked on lift() implementation."""
+    return False, "lift() not yet implemented"
+
+
+def _gate_readback() -> tuple[bool, str]:
+    """Run readback probes. Blocked on readback() implementation."""
+    return False, "readback() not yet implemented"
+
+
+def _gate_determinism() -> tuple[bool, str]:
+    """Verify normalize() and lift() are deterministic. Blocked on both."""
+    return False, "normalize() and lift() not yet implemented"
+
+
+def _gate_alignment() -> tuple[bool, str]:
+    """Check anchors() returns the required trilingual anchor set."""
+    return False, "anchors() not yet implemented"
+
+
+def _gate_coverage() -> tuple[bool, str]:
+    """Run all probes in probes/. Blocked on lift and readback."""
+    return False, "depends on lift and readback gates"
+
+
+GATES = [
+    ("schema", _gate_schema),
+    ("lexical", _gate_lexical),
+    ("morphology", _gate_morphology),
+    ("lift", _gate_lift),
+    ("readback", _gate_readback),
+    ("determinism", _gate_determinism),
+    ("alignment", _gate_alignment),
+    ("coverage", _gate_coverage),
+]
+
+
+def validate_pack() -> dict:
+    """Run all eight gates. Returns a report with pass/fail and reason per gate."""
+    report = {"pack_id": "en", "active": False, "gates": {}}
+    for name, gate_fn in GATES:
+        passed, reason = gate_fn()
+        report["gates"][name] = {"passed": passed, "reason": reason}
+        if not passed:
+            # Gate failure halts further validation.
+            for remaining_name, _ in GATES[GATES.index((name, gate_fn)) + 1:]:
+                report["gates"][remaining_name] = {"passed": False, "reason": "blocked by prior gate failure"}
+            return report
+    report["active"] = True
+    return report
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    import pprint
+    pprint.pprint(validate_pack())
diff --git a/packs/he/lift_rules.py b/packs/he/lift_rules.py
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+"""
+Lift rules for the Hebrew depth pack.
+
+Responsibility: receive a LinguisticAnalysis from the he pack analyzer
+and return a CandidatePressureBatch.
+
+Hebrew-specific lift requirements:
+  - Binyan (verb stem) must be resolved before field_target is selected.
+    The same root in qal vs. hiphil may lift into different field targets.
+  - Aspect (qatal/yiqtol/wayyiqtol) contributes to the pressure kind
+    and temporal annotation of the candidate.
+  - Construct chains must be handled as relational frames: the head
+    lemma and the genitive together determine the lift target.
+  - The implicit copula: when haya is absent, the copular frame is
+    inferred from syntactic position, not from a present verb form.
+  - bara in qal: always lifts into creation.act.ex-nihilo.
+    The divine-agent constraint must be verified before this lift.
+
+Current status:
+  Blocked on LinguisticAnalysis contract (he pack specific: must carry
+  binyan, aspect, and construct-chain annotations).
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+from typing import TYPE_CHECKING
+
+if TYPE_CHECKING:
+    from core_ingest.pressure import CandidateGeometricPressure
+
+
+def lift(analysis: object) -> list["CandidateGeometricPressure"]:
+    """
+    Lift a Hebrew LinguisticAnalysis into CandidateGeometricPressure packets.
+
+    Blocked on: he pack LinguisticAnalysis contract — must carry
+    binyan, aspect, and construct-chain annotations before this
+    can be implemented correctly.
+    """
+    raise NotImplementedError(
+        "he:lift — LinguisticAnalysis contract for Hebrew not yet finalized. "
+        "Must carry binyan, aspect, and construct-chain annotations."
+    )
diff --git a/packs/he/readback_rules.py b/packs/he/readback_rules.py
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+++ b/packs/he/readback_rules.py
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+"""
+Readback rules for the Hebrew depth pack.
+
+Hebrew readback produces grammatical Biblical Hebrew surface realizations
+from field state. This is a depth-pack operation: it is not invoked
+by default, only when the model explicitly targets Hebrew articulation.
+
+Hebrew-specific readback requirements:
+  - Verb selection must respect binyan: the field target and agent
+    semantics together determine which binyan is appropriate.
+  - Aspect selection is not optional: qatal, yiqtol, and wayyiqtol
+    carry distinct temporal and narrative semantics.
+  - Nikud (vowel points) must be produced, not left unpointed.
+    Unpointed output is not a valid surface realization for this pack.
+  - Construct chains must be assembled correctly: head in construct
+    state, genitive following, no article on the construct head.
+  - The implicit copula must be handled: in nominal clauses, haya
+    is omitted in the present tense unless emphasis requires it.
+
+Current status:
+  Blocked on FieldState and SurfaceRealization types.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+
+def readback(field_state: object, intent: object = None) -> object:
+    """
+    Produce a grammatical Hebrew surface realization from a field state.
+
+    Blocked on: FieldState and SurfaceRealization types.
+    When implemented: must produce fully pointed (nikud) Hebrew output.
+    """
+    raise NotImplementedError(
+        "he:readback — FieldState and SurfaceRealization types not yet "
+        "finalized. When implemented: output must be fully pointed Hebrew "
+        "with correct binyan, aspect, and construct-chain handling."
+    )
diff --git a/packs/he/validators.py b/packs/he/validators.py
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+++ b/packs/he/validators.py
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+"""
+Validators for the Hebrew depth pack.
+Same gate structure as the en pack. Hebrew-specific gate notes inline.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+PACK_DIR = Path(__file__).parent
+
+
+def _gate_schema() -> tuple[bool, str]:
+    return False, "not yet wired"
+
+
+def _gate_lexical() -> tuple[bool, str]:
+    seen = set()
+    for line in (PACK_DIR / "lemmas.jsonl").read_text(encoding="utf-8").splitlines():
+        if not line.strip():
+            continue
+        record = json.loads(line)
+        lid = record["lemma_id"]
+        if lid in seen:
+            return False, f"duplicate lemma_id: {lid}"
+        seen.add(lid)
+    return True, "ok"
+
+
+def _gate_morphology() -> tuple[bool, str]:
+    known = set()
+    for line in (PACK_DIR / "lemmas.jsonl").read_text(encoding="utf-8").splitlines():
+        if line.strip():
+            known.add(json.loads(line)["lemma_id"])
+    for line in (PACK_DIR / "morphology.jsonl").read_text(encoding="utf-8").splitlines():
+        if not line.strip():
+            continue
+        record = json.loads(line)
+        if record["lemma_id"] not in known:
+            return False, f"unknown lemma_id in morphology: {record['lemma_id']}"
+    return True, "ok"
+
+
+def _gate_lift() -> tuple[bool, str]:
+    # Hebrew lift additionally requires binyan and aspect annotations
+    # in the LinguisticAnalysis. These are not yet specified.
+    return False, "he:lift() not yet implemented — requires binyan/aspect in LinguisticAnalysis"
+
+
+def _gate_readback() -> tuple[bool, str]:
+    return False, "he:readback() not yet implemented — must produce pointed Hebrew output"
+
+
+def _gate_determinism() -> tuple[bool, str]:
+    return False, "depends on lift and readback"
+
+
+def _gate_alignment() -> tuple[bool, str]:
+    return False, "anchors() not yet implemented"
+
+
+def _gate_coverage() -> tuple[bool, str]:
+    return False, "depends on lift and readback gates"
+
+
+GATES = [
+    ("schema", _gate_schema),
+    ("lexical", _gate_lexical),
+    ("morphology", _gate_morphology),
+    ("lift", _gate_lift),
+    ("readback", _gate_readback),
+    ("determinism", _gate_determinism),
+    ("alignment", _gate_alignment),
+    ("coverage", _gate_coverage),
+]
+
+
+def validate_pack() -> dict:
+    report = {"pack_id": "he", "active": False, "gates": {}}
+    for name, gate_fn in GATES:
+        passed, reason = gate_fn()
+        report["gates"][name] = {"passed": passed, "reason": reason}
+        if not passed:
+            for remaining_name, _ in GATES[GATES.index((name, gate_fn)) + 1:]:
+                report["gates"][remaining_name] = {"passed": False, "reason": "blocked by prior gate failure"}
+            return report
+    report["active"] = True
+    return report
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    import pprint
+    pprint.pprint(validate_pack())