Phase C is the first phase where operator-authored exemplar corpora
become engine-derived recognizer proposals automatically. The math
thesis ("decodes, not generates") manifests in the math lane here.
Modules
- teaching/exemplar_ingest.py — pure-function loader for Phase B
exemplar JSONLs. ExemplarCorpus carries a sha256 digest over its
canonical (sorted-by-exemplar_id, sort-keyed) bytes.
- teaching/recognizer_synthesis.py — per-category synthesizers
(_synthesize_descriptive_setup_no_quantity / _temporal_aggregation /
_rate_with_currency) distil a corpus into one RecognizerSpec.
Determinism: same corpus -> byte-identical spec. Narrowness: the
spec records only observed sub-shapes; an out-of-corpus currency
symbol or window unit does not match. Phase B author_notes surface
in canonical_pattern.unresolved_notes — never silently dropped.
- teaching/contemplation.py — contemplate_exemplar_corpus(corpus)
returns a DiscoveryCandidate whose proposed_chain encodes the
RecognizerSpec as a synthetic four-field chain plus the full
recognizer_spec submap. Evidence cites every exemplar's case_id.
- teaching/replay.py — run_admissibility_replay_gate(spec, *,
active_corpus_path=None) runs cognition + G1..G5+S1 + GSM8K
train_sample. In-process baseline cache keyed on the active
corpus digest. WRONG-COUNT INVARIANT: if a candidate run lifts
the GSM8K train_sample wrong count, gate returns
replay_equivalent=False with
regressed_metrics=["gsm8k_train_sample_wrong_count"].
- teaching/source.py — ProposalKind widened with "exemplar_corpus";
exhaustive-match docs + tests updated.
CLI
- core teaching propose-from-exemplars <path> [--all] [--review-date]
[--log] [--json]. Routes the candidate through the existing
propose_from_candidate path with the admissibility gate substituted
for the cognition-only run_replay_equivalence. Never auto-accepts;
proposals land as pending for operator review.
Tests (38 new)
- tests/test_exemplar_ingest.py (12) — load, digest stability,
malformed-record rejection, file-name binding, read-only purity.
- tests/test_recognizer_synthesis.py (16) — determinism, purity,
per-category subsumption, narrowness (out-of-corpus seeds rejected),
author_notes surfaced.
- tests/test_admissibility_replay_gate.py (6) — happy path, cache
hit/invalidation, WRONG-COUNT INVARIANT regression, capability-axis
regression, cognition regression.
- tests/test_propose_from_exemplars_cli.py (4) — single corpus, --all,
determinism, read-only snapshot.
Acceptance evidence (dry run)
- All three Phase B corpora produce replay_equivalent=true,
wrong_count_delta=0. Proposal IDs:
descriptive_setup_no_quantity: 59223f13722f906a1cf9b65d9b01c990
rate_with_currency: 46ce297f797ff16da12db5de422ca3c9
temporal_aggregation: a3b892546977c5f0f64c578d6052adbd
- G1..G5+S1 wrong=0 unchanged; GSM8K train_sample 3/47/0 unchanged.
- core test --suite smoke -q: 67 passed.
- uv run core eval refusal_taxonomy: case_digest
d030f826cb0f4088771d90c52c8be2ff75054ab27c7d47eae8dbfe1225b2eea1
unchanged.
Cross-refs: ADR-0163 (Phase C), ADR-0057 (gating discipline),
ADR-0151 (auto-proposal), ADR-0152 (learning-arc), ADR-0149/0154
(recognizer pipeline), ADR-0094 (ProposalSource), Phase A PR #297,
Phase B PR #298.
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
ADR-0064 is the corpus-layer sibling of ADR-0063. The teaching-grounded
surface composer was hardcoded to cognition_chains_v1, so kinship CAUSE/
VERIFICATION prompts fell through to the universal disclosure even though
en_core_relations_v1 was mounted on the live runtime (ADR-0063).
Architectural change in chat/teaching_grounding.py:
- New TeachingCorpusSpec dataclass (corpus_id, path, pack_id).
- TEACHING_CORPORA tuple registers every active corpus. Each
corpus is 1:1-bound to one lexicon pack — cross-domain triples
deferred per docs/teaching_order.md §5.
- _load_corpus(spec) loads one corpus with pack-residency scoped
to its declared pack.
- _all_chains_index() aggregates across all registered corpora
(first-match-wins; cognition first preserves byte-identity).
- _pack_for_corpus(corpus_id) → bound pack lexicon.
- clear_teaching_caches() atomic cache invalidation.
- TeachingChain gains corpus_id field → surface tag follows resolving corpus.
Wiring updates:
- teaching_grounded_surface + teaching_grounded_surface_composed
consult _all_chains_index; surface tag follows chain.corpus_id.
- teaching/discovery.py gate uses chat.pack_resolver.is_resolvable
(any mounted pack) + _all_chains_index (any registered corpus).
- teaching/replay.py _swap_corpus_path rewrites the registry path
+ clears all teaching caches during the gate's transient phase.
Active corpus bytes unchanged (replay invariant preserved).
- evals/learning_loop/run_demo.py scene-5 swap mirrors the new
pattern so the demo still grounds against transient corpora.
Back-compat preserved: _corpus_index, _CORPUS_PATH, TEACHING_CORPUS_ID
remain cognition-corpus-specific for audit/replay consumers.
Phase 1.4 — relations_chains_v1 seeded with 7 reviewed kinship chains:
cause_parent_precedes_child
cause_child_follows_parent
cause_ancestor_precedes_descendant
cause_descendant_follows_ancestor
cause_family_grounds_parent
verification_child_requires_parent
verification_descendant_requires_ancestor
5 of 8 relations lemmas covered. All connectives already humanised.
Strict pack-internal to en_core_relations_v1 (no cross-domain in v1).
Seed pattern matches cognition_chains_v1's original pre-ADR-0055 seed.
Live verification:
> Why does parent exist?
parent — teaching-grounded (relations_chains_v1):
kinship.ascendant.direct; kinship.parent.
parent precedes child (kinship.descendant.direct).
grounding_source = teaching
Cognition eval byte-identical to pre-ADR baseline:
public: intent 100% / surface 100% / term 91.7% / closure 100%
holdout: intent 100% / surface 100% / term 83.3% / closure 100%
Lanes green: smoke 67 / cognition 121 / teaching 17 / packs 6 /
runtime 19 / algebra 132 / full 1933 passed.
The only path by which CORE extends its own active teaching corpus.
Closes ADR-0055 Phase C alongside ADR-0056's cognitive surface.
Three load-bearing calls (recorded in ADR-0057):
1. Replay-equivalence is a precondition, not a permission;
operator --accept remains required.
2. Eligibility = polarity in {affirms, falsifies} AND at least
one source='corpus' evidence pointer AND boundary_clean AND
claim_domain != evaluative (unless --allow-evaluative) AND
proposed_chain complete.
3. Append-only proposal log; corpus history append-only too.
Changes
- teaching/proposals.py — TeachingChainProposal, ReplayEvidence,
ProposalLog (event-sourced replay → current_state), eligibility
predicate, propose_from_candidate, accept/reject/withdraw,
append_chain_to_corpus (the sole corpus-write surface). Uses
TYPE_CHECKING guards to break the circular import with
chat.pack_grounding.
- teaching/replay.py — run_replay_equivalence; swaps _corpus_index
path to a tmp file, runs cognition lane on the active corpus
AND a transient copy with the proposed chain appended, returns
regressed-metrics list; trust-boundary assertion that the active
corpus bytes are byte-identical pre/post.
- teaching/discovery.py — moved chat.pack_grounding /
chat.teaching_grounding imports inside extract_discovery_candidates
to break the cycle (was masked when chat.runtime was the entry
point; surfaced by CLI entry).
- core/cli.py — three new subcommands:
core teaching propose <candidate-jsonl-path> [--allow-evaluative]
core teaching proposals [--state pending|accepted|rejected|withdrawn] [--json]
core teaching review <proposal_id> --accept --review-date YYYY-MM-DD
core teaching review <proposal_id> --reject [--note ...]
core teaching review <proposal_id> --withdraw [--note ...]
- tests/test_teaching_proposals.py — 16 tests covering: every
eligibility gate, proposal_id idempotency, append-only log,
replay-equivalent stays pending, regression auto-rejects with
named regressed metrics, --accept appends one line with typed
Provenance, --accept refused on non-equivalent, state-machine
blocks double-accept, real replay gate runs cognition lane
twice and asserts byte-clean active corpus pre/post.
Invariants preserved
- versor_condition(F) < 1e-6 — C2 touches no algebra path.
- Active corpus bytes byte-identical regardless of replay outcome.
- No clock-time reads, no LLM, no async.
- Proposal-only — accept_proposal is the sole corpus-write path.
Lanes: smoke 67 / cognition 121 / runtime 19 / teaching 17 /
new proposals 16. Cognition eval unchanged.
Open follow-ups (not in scope):
- supersession via operator review action
- cross-pack falsification arbitration (ADR-0056 Call 2 deferred)
- pack-data migration of frame-dependent connectives
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Shay