ADR-0184 S4b — the replay/provenance equivalence boundary, the
precondition for any semantic-primary path. After #685 the in-repo
legacy path delegates to the semantic boundary, so old-vs-new is
vacuous; the durable reference is a pinned canonical trace artifact
(evals/gsm8k_math/equivalence/v1/, 937 problems) whose authority is
the #684/#685 cross-tree differentials (documented provenance chain).
- state/provenance.py: replay_is_faithful — the replay bridge's law as
a checkable structural property (no verify/pool import; covered by
the #685 authority scan).
- equivalence/trace.py: canonical traces (worlds, candidates, order,
multiplicity, classifications, resolutions) + authority_violations
re-deriving the pool commit law from trace content.
- scripts/verify_semantic_equivalence.py: check / --update gate
mirroring verify_lane_shas.py.
- tests/test_adr_0184_s4b_replay_equivalence.py: full-corpus live-vs-
pinned equality, corpus-wide authority + faithfulness, and 17
single-mutation non-vacuity proofs.
Pure additions; verify.py/pool.py untouched; no serving, CLAIMS,
metrics, or lane pins moved.
ADR-0184 §7 S4: add generate/derivation/state/source.py — the single
boundary through which semantic-ledger worlds become pool candidates —
and swap pool.py's accumulation source to semantic_state_candidates().
accumulate.py keeps its public surfaces as thin compatibility wrappers
(ADR-0184 §10). Byte-identical over the 937-problem differential;
verify.py / pool.py remain the sole commit authority (structural
no-authority-import scan over state/, non-vacuous).
Also: docs/analysis design note for the S3–S5 boundary stack, and a
drive-by ruff F541 fix in r1_reconstruction.py (rf->r, zero behavior).
ADR-0184 S1 (state/bind.py, state/change.py) landed the reusable referent and
change-cue helpers. S2 adds the first explicit state-transition substrate and
routes both accumulation readings through it:
- state/model.py frozen SET/GAIN/LOSS transition model over one entity/unit
StateKey, with structural validation (closed op set; unit is a
str with "" = unitless, mirroring the extractor's Quantity.unit
contract; entity optional, mirroring leading_subject_token).
- state/ledger.py build_accumulation_ledger() — the proven single-referent
gain/loss reading, expressed as a SemanticLedger.
- state/replay.py replay_accumulation_ledger() — the only bridge to
GroundedDerivation; refuses any non-accumulation ledger shape
(non-SET start, cross-key mutation).
accumulate.py's _build_accumulation / _build_accumulation_anchor_skip now build a
ledger and replay it instead of constructing the arithmetic chain inline; the
public compose_accumulation()/accumulation_candidates() surfaces are unchanged.
Behavior-equivalent: a byte-for-byte differential over 937 real GSM8K problems
(accumulation_candidates, compose_accumulation, pooled_candidates, resolve_pooled)
shows 0 differences vs main. Semantic worlds never commit directly — replay emits
GroundedDerivation and verify.py / pool.py remain the sole authority. Sealed: no
serving/runtime/chat import; no CLAIMS or eval-lane-SHA movement.
Refs ADR-0184 section 7 (S2).
