Rings 2 and 3 of the ADR-0246 preflight §9, built exactly as the brief bounds
them. ADR-0247 + ADR-0248 both **Proposed** — no self-Accept.
Ring 2 (core/ports/residual_protocol.py — ADR-0247):
the 7-stage shared control grammar: witness -> typed residual decomposition
-> permitted operator selection -> bounded operation or abstention ->
re-certification -> action decision -> append-only replay record.
Port-agnostic (no registry, no unified scheduler — §7 non-goal #2 honored);
v1 operators are ZERO-BOUND only (nonzero fails closed — no-silent-correction
doctrine); unaccounted residual fails closed; re-certification RAISES on
witness drift during a zero-bound pass; replay chain is append-only,
full-SHA-256 content-addressed, tamper-evident (verify_replay_chain).
NOTE: named core/ports/ because core/protocol/ is the existing CTP v0 wire
format (collision checked before naming).
Ring 2 adapters (core/ports/adapters.py): IdentityPort (ADR-0246 grade-1
geometry; typed channels travel IN the witness so decompose is a pure
re-shaping, no hidden state; admit = evaluate_admission, single source of
truth) + PrecisionPort (ADR-0244 §2.5 cast transport; ServingState subjects)
— two genuinely non-identical native geometries + a synthetic third port
proving grammar agnosticism.
Ring 3 (core/ports/integrity_handoff.py — ADR-0248):
the coordination seam ('Integrity coordinates handoffs; it does not replace
content-bearing cognition'): fuses Ring-2 port decisions + existing
EpistemicState/NormativeClearance into content-free proceed/hedge/abstain
(conjunctive, strongest-restriction-wins; fail-closed on missing/invalid
evidence; binds replay-chain tip digest; handoff itself content-addressed).
Weak epistemic standing hedges (mirrors hedge doctrine) — only integrity
violations silence a turn. OBSERVE-ONLY: no serve consumer yet; that is a
future flag-gated unit. Remaining Ring-3 programme honestly listed open
(world-model, governed-learning consumption, discourse widening).
Both pure/deterministic/off-serving (A-04 pinned); brief §0a/§9 updated.
[Verification]: uv run core test --suite smoke -q => 176 passed; Ring 2/3 +
ADR-0246 suites + D4 gate surfaces => 125 passed (28 new Ring-2/3 pins);
run log docs/audit/artifacts/ring2-ring3-runlog.txt
Opus 4.8 audit of Fable's slice-1 scaffold + authorized hardening (Step 2).
Stacked on feat/adr-0246-slice1-scaffold. Not a PR, not merged, no status flip.
AUDIT (Step 1) — VERDICT PASS. Re-derived A(F)/d_orth/d_stab/typed channels from
§3.1/3.2/3.6 independently: BIT-EXACT vs impl (0.00e+00). Confirmed in code (not
just comments): H_id={I} locked (singleton hardcoded, no enlargement path); path
composes lawful only, refused=break marker, never raw, never soft-I; no §7 scope
creep; serve byte-identity. Finding F1 (doc, not bug): composition uses the raw
CERTIFIED action (required for §6.2 accumulation, else A_path≡I detects nothing) —
now documented for ADR ratification.
HARDENING (Step 2):
§3.7 pure surface (identity_action.py): AdmissionPolicy (calibrated flag),
evaluate_admission (admit-or-abstain, no corrector); CERTIFIED_GAMMA_ID pinned
== identity._WAVE_LEAKAGE_BOUND; all other bounds UNCERTIFIED placeholders.
§3.7 SERVE WIRING (Steps 2.1/2.2): new default-off flag identity_action_surface
(config); threaded chat/runtime -> check -> _wave_field_score; refusal folds
into flagged -> existing would_violate/conjugate_correct abstains; IdentityScore
gains action_surface_active/d_orth/d_stab (legacy defaults). Flag-off is
byte-identical (D4 gate surfaces green unchanged; smoke 176 post-wiring).
§6.3 DISCRIMINATION REPORT (evals/adr_0246_discrimination) — HONEST numbers:
benign pass 0.00, false refusal 1.00, adversarial detect 1.00, control pass
1.00; d_stab AUC 0.375 (95% CI [0.15,0.62]) — BELOW chance. Benign cognition
sits ~18x farther from the frame (mean d_stab 27.8) than the attacks (1.55).
The gate refuses everything and does NOT discriminate; must stay off; usable
separation needs the §11 grounding work, not threshold tuning. Claims language
enforced: 'lawfulness relative to the declared frozen frame', NOT 'semantic
inalienability'.
Ledger raw-sneak hardening test (Step 2.3): mixed lawful/refused sequence must
equal the lawful sub-product, fails if raw sneaks into A_path_lawful.
Handoff to Sonnet: §4.1 per-turn record, path-ledger serve integration, ADR-0246
body + acceptance packet (Proposed, no self-Accept), §11 grounding-feasibility.
[Verification]: uv run core test --suite smoke -q => 176 passed (post-wiring);
ADR-0246 suites 80 passed; egress wiring + D4 gate surfaces 47 passed
(byte-identity); §6.1/6.2 eval 14/14; discrimination report numbers above.
See docs/audit/adr-0246-slice1-opus-audit-and-hardening.md + run log.
BOUNDED AUTONOMOUS SCAFFOLD DRAFT (Fable 5) — not a PR, not merged, no status
flip, no main push. For Opus 4.8 + Shay audit before anything proceeds toward main.
Stacked on the verified §3-primitives + §3.4/3.5-ledger stack (reuse, not re-derive;
all descend from main @ 04d67ca5).
Adds (directive steps 3-4):
+ evals/adr_0246_geometric_suite/ runnable §6.1 synthetic geometric suite
(identity, pi-inversion, 90deg-permutation, mild drift, alien tilt e14,
boost e15, near-singular Gram, malformed F) + §6.2 path/holonomy suite
(lawful sequence, small-rotation session accumulation, interleaved refuse,
pack-change hard break, raw!=lawful forensic). 14/14 cases pass.
+ tests/test_adr_0246_geometric_suite.py pins every case + explicit §6.1 pins
(pi-inversion s=-1, 90deg s=0, near-singular Gram error, malformed-F error)
+ identity_manifold.py: MalformedVersorError + _validate_versor guard on
induced_action / typed_residual_energy (§6.1 fail-closed on malformed F)
+ docs/handoff/adr-0246-slice1-scaffold-notes.md placeholder list, §5-§7
uncertainties, constraint-compliance record, explicit Opus/human TODOs
+ docs/audit/artifacts/adr-0246-slice1-scaffold-runlog.txt actual run output
Constraints honored: H_id={I} only; no soft-projection of unlawful A; path
composes lawful actions only (never raw product); no C_id corrector; chat/runtime,
flags, D4 gate wiring untouched (A-04 quarantine pinned); no discrimination report,
no ADR body, no claims language (deferred TODO: Opus/human); D4 plan not modified.
epsilon_turn/epsilon_session are UNCERTIFIED PLACEHOLDERS, never baked into a
module default (PathBudget is caller-supplied) — flagged in notes + run log.
[Verification]: uv run core test --suite smoke -q => 176 passed;
python -m evals.adr_0246_geometric_suite => 14/14 all_passed;
ADR-0246 suites + adjacent D4 identity surfaces => 114 passed (see run log).
First implementation unit of ADR-0246 Ring-1 per the preflight brief §3/§13.
Promotes the induced-action apparatus from the slice-0 eval prototype into pure,
tested geometry — the single source of truth both the future gate surface and the
§11 grounding-feasibility study will consume.
core/physics/identity_manifold.py:
+ induced_action(versor) A(F) = G^-1 · <a_k, F a_j F~>_0 (§3.1)
+ orthogonality_defect(versor) d_orth = ||A^T G A - G||_F (§3.2)
+ typed_residual_energy(versor) e4/e5/spatial_foreign/unclassified (§3.6)
+ orthogonality_defect_of_action / SPATIAL_GRADE1_INDICES / E4,E5 index pins
core/physics/identity_action.py (new, pure):
+ IdentityStabilizer (locked singleton H_id={I}, §3.3)
+ stabilizer_defect d_stab = min_H ||A - H||_G (§3.2)
G-weighted norm reduces to Frobenius at G=I (default pack)
evals/adr_0246_mismatch_diagnostic: rewired to delegate to the canonical
primitives (removes the duplicate prototype copies; drops unused import).
Scope: off-serving (algebra-only, A-04 quarantine, pinned by test); no gate,
threshold, axis, H_id, corrector, or flag change. identity_wave_gate stays
default-off. Path ledger (§3.4/3.5), gate admit surface (§3.7), and the eval
matrix + §11 feasibility study are subsequent units (brief §0a records the
sequencing). No self-Accept.
[Verification]: uv run core test --suite smoke -q => 176 passed;
tests/test_adr_0246_induced_action.py 12 passed (RED-first);
identity surfaces (mismatch-diagnostic rewired, identity_manifold, identity_gate
wave/runtime/eval, gamma_calibration) 87 passed.
Close the two missing §3 acceptance legs. tests/test_adr_0245_acceptance_gate.py:
- ≥10× f32 speedup: the Rust core_rs.geometric_product f32 fast path vs the pure
Python kernel. Rust-guarded (skips with reason where core_rs is unbuilt);
includes a parity sanity check so the speedup can't come from skipped work.
Measured on Apple M-series this run: rust 2.86 us/op vs python 1340 us/op =
467× (assert a conservative ≥10× for CI timing robustness).
- _content_id collision-resistance: full 256-bit digest (len 64, not 16-hex),
type/structure-faithful (int≠str, bool≠int, nested-sensitive, key-order-
invariant), fails closed on non-serializable input (no default=str collapse);
_psi_digest full + sub-epsilon sensitive + deterministic.
- coverage manifest test maps all four §3 legs (parity f64/f32, 0-LAPACK-on-
repeat, f32 speedup, collision) to their home test files.
The other two legs (parity, 0-LAPACK) were already green; this makes the §3 gate
complete and legible. Test-only.
Verified: 6 new tests pass (speedup ran with a local core_rs build).
Full smoke + fast lane at Phase 5 close.
Pin the load-bearing §2.10 claim, not just the structure. The existing
test_adr_0242_fibonacci_word.py covers recurrence/length/sovereignty; §2.10's
actual promise is "reduce harmonic phase-locking," which comes from the Fibonacci
word's Sturmian properties. tests/test_adr_0244_scheduler_quasiperiodicity.py (32
cases) pins:
- golden-ratio letter density (count(A)=F_n, count(B)=F_{n-1}; A/B → φ) — a
maximally-irrational duty cycle resists resonance with periodic cadences;
- no harmonic clustering (no "BB", no "AAA") — neither action forms a locally
periodic burst;
- aperiodicity (no period p ≤ |W|/2) — genuinely quasi-periodic, not a disguised
periodic schedule.
A future refactor to a periodic schedule would pass the structure tests but fail
these. Audit-only; no production change (the module already satisfies the spec).
Verified: 32 new cases pass. Full smoke + fast lane at Phase 5 close.
The §2.9 low-discrepancy mode allocator concern is satisfied by construction, so
the deliverable is a proof, not a bolt-on wire. tests/test_adr_0244_mode_order_
independence.py (3 tests) pins:
- Recall (WaveManifold.compute_spectral_leakage) is a Gram least-squares
projection onto span(modes); projection onto a span is invariant to the order
of the spanning set. Verified: energy + residual identical across mode
insertion permutations to ~1e-15 (machine epsilon; nonzero-residual probe too).
- atlas_packing.golden_angle_pack places mode k at a deterministic golden-angle
coordinate from ordinal k alone (ALLOCATOR_VERSION reconstructible) — layout is
order-independent by construction; a prefix of a larger pack is the same modes.
Wiring the allocator into the durable content-seal path would be a category
mismatch (that path seals content versors at their own ψ, not allocator
positions). Test-only; no production change.
Verified: 3 new tests pass. Full smoke + fast lane at Phase 5 close.
The single explicit, fail-closed f64→f32 down-cast at the certified lifecycle
egress. serving_cast(psi_steady, certificate, verdict) -> ServingState in
core/physics/cognitive_lifecycle.py:
- Casts ONLY a state that validates as a finite 32-vector, matches its
certificate psi_digest, and was verdict.admitted — an uncertified, refused, or
digest-mismatched state is never served.
- Precision-checks the f32 result (cast_error = max|f64-f32|, unit norm) and
fails closed on an f32 precision cliff (f32_precision_insufficient) rather than
serving a silently-degraded state.
- Keeps f64 as the source of truth: psi_steady and the psi_digest content-address
chain are untouched; ServingState carries provenance back (source_psi_digest,
certificate_id, measured cast_error) for audit. f64 stays inside
relaxation/eigendecomp — this is the one place f32 appears (ADR-0245 §2.2
mechanical sympathy).
Satisfies both ADR-0244 §2.5 and ADR-0245 §2.2 (one contract, two ADRs). Measured
on a real certified outcome: cast_error ~1.2e-8, unit_norm_f32 ~0.99999998.
Off-serving (A-04 guard: chat.runtime never imports it). ADR-0245 status map +
plan doc updated.
[Verification]: smoke 176 passed; fast lane 11907 passed / 109 skipped (-n auto,
not quarantine/slow); 10 targeted serving-cast tests passed.
D4 Phase 3 (§2.4). Calibrates the wave-gate leakage bound γ_id via the
bracketed-local Fibonacci section search and emits a content-addressed tuning
certificate (evals/adr_0244_gamma_calibration/). Two results, kept separate:
1. The search certifies γ* = 0.2126624458513829 (cert 0079b5f2…) separating
the geometric attack signal — in-subspace rotors admitted, axis→e4/e5
tilt/boost attacks flagged (inversions excluded: ~0-leakage, handled by the
orientation floor). Pinned as identity._WAVE_LEAKAGE_BOUND; the wave path is
decoupled from alignment_threshold (legacy path + hedge bands keep it).
2. The same bound does NOT separate real live traffic. Measured on the engine,
benign final_state.F versors do not preserve span(e1,e2,e3): leakage
0.14–0.81 (mean 0.55), self-align to −0.52, 12/13 benign false-refused at
γ*, best balanced error 0.346. The calibration certifies
flag_flip_authorized=False → identity_wave_gate stays OFF.
Root cause: the shipped value axes (truthfulness=e1, coherence=e2,
reverence=e3) are nominal basis vectors, not dynamically-preserved eigenmodes;
the field evolution gives the identity subspace no dynamical anchoring. The fix
is the ADR-0246 induced-identity-action programme (preflight brief merged). The
wave gate is validated, correctly-off scaffolding — not a live gate. A slow
drift-guard test canaries any future engine change that starts preserving
identity.
Off-serving (evals/ + tests); flag-off byte-identity preserved. ADR §4a +
plan doc + memory updated with the finding.
[Verification]: smoke 176 passed; fast lane 11897 passed / 109 skipped (-n
auto, not quarantine/slow); 59 targeted gate/calibration tests passed.
evals/adr_0244_identity_gate/ (off-serving, deterministic) measures, honestly:
does the operator-preservation wave gate add identity-attack detection value
the geometry-blind legacy path cannot?
Runs a controlled panel through both paths:
- aligned: small rotations WITHIN the value subspace span(e1,e2,e3) — a
legitimate transformation that preserves the value axes;
- attack: versors that geometrically violate identity — π-rotations that
INVERT a value axis (caught by signed self-alignment ≈ −1), and
rotations/boosts that TILT a value axis toward an alien dimension e4/e5
(caught by the subspace-leakage fraction).
Measured result (pinned by tests/test_adr_0244_identity_gate_eval.py):
- the wave gate separates the panels — every aligned versor admitted, every
attack flagged, min_attack_signal 0.35 > max_aligned_leakage 0.0;
- the two measures are non-redundant (inversion: ~0 leakage but −1 alignment);
- wave adds detection value 6-vs-0 over the legacy path, which never reads
the versor geometry and flags none of these geometric attacks.
Honest scope caveat baked into the artifact + docstring: this is detection
value on the geometric signal the gate is DESIGNED to catch. Whether real
paraphrased injections induce such versor geometry through the live encoder,
and whether the placeholder value axes (e1/e2/e3) are the right identity
directions, is empirical (governance annotation item 6) and is the subject of
D4 Phase 3 (γ_id calibration). The flag stays OFF until that is evidenced.
6 tests + CLI (exit 0 iff separates AND adds detection value).
[Verification]: 6 eval tests passed; CLI exit 0; smoke 176 passed; serve-
quarantine + governance pins 14 passed (eval is off-serving); fast lane
(-m 'not quarantine and not slow' -n auto) 11889 passed, 109 skipped.
Additive-only (new evals/ package + test); no core/chat/algebra changes.
Wires the ADR-0244 §2.2 wave gate into the live turn loop behind a new
opt-in flag, byte-identical when off, plus a normalization fix found in
integration.
core/config.py: RuntimeConfig.identity_wave_gate (bool = False). OFF by
default — the leakage threshold is provisional (reuses alignment_threshold)
until calibrated to gamma_id in Phase 3, and flag-off is byte-identical to
the pre-ADR-0244 advisory path.
chat/runtime.py (main chat() path, two flag-gated touches):
- at the identity check, pass wave_field=result.final_state.F when the
flag is on (so hedging + telemetry both use the wave score); None when
off -> legacy scalar-L2 path.
- after the safety/ethics verdicts exist, intersect their violated
boundaries with the manifold's committed boundary_ids (supplement via
dataclasses.replace) and fold a fail-closed geometric IdentityGateRefusal
into the typed refusal surface (TYPED_REFUSAL_PREFIX). refusal_emitted is
derived once, after the block, preserving the (surface is not None) <=>
emitted invariant.
chat/telemetry.py: serialize_turn_event emits the wave-gate keys
(identity_wave_mode / _leakage_norm / _min_self_alignment /
_boundary_violations) only when identity_score.wave_mode_active — so the
wire format is byte-identical when the gate is off.
core/physics/identity_manifold.py — NORMALIZATION FIX (found in
integration): the live versor carries boost (e5) components, and a boost is
a unit versor (R R~ = 1) that does NOT preserve the Euclidean coefficient
norm, so ‖R a_i R~‖ > 1 and the un-normalized leakage/self-alignment ran
past their ranges (measured leakage 5.16, self_align -4.75 on a real turn).
axis_response now normalizes each measure by the rotated-axis magnitude:
leakage is a fraction in [0,1], self_align a signed cosine in [-1,1]. For a
norm-preserving spatial rotor the rotated axis is unit and normalization is
a no-op (Phase 1 results unchanged). §4a updated to match; new boost test
pins bounded measures.
tests/test_adr_0244_identity_gate_runtime.py (new): flag OFF -> legacy
score + no wave telemetry (byte-identical wire); flag ON -> wave gate active
on the live versor + wave telemetry present + bounded measures; flag-off
determinism. Seeds a short sequence to reach main-path (identity-checked)
turns (a fresh empty-vault runtime routes ungrounded inputs to disclosure).
[Verification]: 74 targeted (manifold+gate+runtime+legacy identity+
telemetry) passed; in-worktree smoke 176 passed; fast lane
(-m 'not quarantine and not slow' -n auto) 11883 passed, 109 skipped —
flag-off byte-identity confirmed across the whole suite.
Extends core/physics/identity.py with the ADR-0244 §2.2/§4a wave-field gate
as a pure, dual-mode capability (no runtime behavior change — the legacy
path stays byte-identical when no wave field is supplied).
- check(trajectory, manifold, *, wave_field=None, violated_boundary_ids=
frozenset()): dual-mode. wave_field present -> operator-preservation
gate; absent -> legacy scalar-L2 (ADR-0010). A MALFORMED wave field
(non-finite / wrong shape / wrong byte-order) raises a typed ValueError
via _validate_wave_field — it never silently falls back to legacy (the
dual-mode fallback is for an ABSENT wave field only).
- _wave_field_score: operator-preservation via IdentityManifoldGeometry
(Phase 1). The trajectory is a versor (operator), so we measure whether
it PRESERVES the value subspace: RMS subspace leakage (tilt toward alien
dimensions) + signed self-alignment (in-subspace inversion). score =
1 - leakage_rms; flagged on score<threshold OR inversion OR boundary.
- IdentityScore extended (wave_mode_active, leakage_norm,
min_self_alignment, boundary_violations) — all defaulted, legacy shape
and construction preserved.
- boundary_ids predicate: violated_boundary_ids & manifold.boundary_ids;
a non-empty intersection is a hard identity-boundary breach (activates
the previously-dormant boundary_ids; item 7).
- IdentityGateRefusal + conjugate_correct (C_id): v1 admit-or-abstain, NO
silent correction of the versor (honors the safety-pack
no_silent_correction boundary); abstains (raises) on violation.
- would_violate extended for boundary + inversion (legacy defaults never
trigger the new branches).
identity_manifold is now imported by identity.py (serve-safe pure algebra);
serve-quarantine transitive test stays green.
tests/test_adr_0244_identity_gate_wave.py (16 tests): dual-mode dispatch,
identity-versor alignment, alien-dimension tilt leakage, in-subspace
inversion caught via orientation, fail-closed malformed validation, the
boundary intersection predicate (in/out of manifold, legacy path too),
C_id admit-or-abstain, would_violate extensions, legacy back-compat,
determinism.
[Verification]: 16 new tests passed; legacy identity + quarantine +
telemetry-fanout suite 54 passed (legacy behavior + serve-quarantine
preserved); in-worktree smoke 176 passed; fast lane (-m 'not quarantine
and not slow' -n auto) 11879 passed, 109 skipped.
Implements ADR-0244 §2.1/§4a: the metric-exact operator-preservation
geometry, pure and off-serve (wired into the runtime gate in Phase 2).
core/physics/identity_manifold.py:
- lift_axis: R^3 pack direction -> grade-1 Cl(4,1) at e1/e2/e3 slots
(basis_vector, not embed_point) so the value subspace lives in the
spatial grade-1 block where <.,.>_0 = Euclidean and the Gram matrix
is positive-definite.
- gram_matrix + ManifoldConditioningError (fail closed when cond(G)>1e5).
- subspace_project: metric-orthogonal P_I(x) with SIGNED coefficients.
- sandwich: versor action R x R~.
- euclidean_norm: positive-definite leakage magnitude (NOT the indefinite
Cl(4,1) norm, which can vanish/negate an e5-boost leakage).
- IdentityManifoldGeometry (frozen): axes_psi + Gram + Gram^-1; .project,
.axis_response -> (leakage, self_align), .leakage_rms.
Operator-preservation, per the ratified core-mechanism correction: the
live trajectory final_state.F is a VERSOR (even-grade operator, zero
grade-1 content), so we measure whether it PRESERVES the value subspace
via F a_i F~, not whether it lives in it. Two per-axis measures, both
required and non-redundant:
- subspace leakage euclidean_norm(rot_i - P_I(rot_i)) catches tilt of a
value axis toward an alien dimension (e4/e5);
- signed self-alignment <a_i, rot_i>_0 catches in-subspace inversion
(e1 -> -e1: leakage 0 but self-align -1).
tests/test_adr_0244_identity_manifold.py (24 tests) pins every falsifiable
claim: G=I for the default pack, idempotent projection, identity versor ->
0 leakage/+1 align, within-plane rotation -> no leak, e4/e5 tilt -> leak,
pi-inversion -> 0 leak but -1 self-align, near-degenerate axes ->
ManifoldConditioningError, determinism.
[Verification]: 24 new tests passed; in-worktree smoke 176 passed; fast
lane (-m 'not quarantine and not slow' -n auto) 11863 passed, 109 skipped;
serve-quarantine transitive test 2 passed (new module is NOT dragged onto
the serve path — off-serve until Phase 2).
Turns the D0 "likely vacuous" annotation on ADR-0244 §2.3 into a re-runnable proof
that ΔQ_top = 0 is a hollow egress gate (the #19-pseudoscalar failure mode).
evals/adr_0244_qtop_vacuity/ — computes Q_top = <psi I5 ~psi>_0 on the real
Cl(4,1) algebra and finds: (1) Q_top = 0.000e+00 EXACTLY across every unit versor
(spatial rotors AND boosts through e5, and products) — I5 is central so
psi I5 ~psi = I5*(psi ~psi) = I5 for a unit versor, scalar part 0; (2) off the
versor manifold Q_top = -grade5(psi ~psi), nonzero only where the I-05 closure
residual already fires; (3) it is a conserved Spin(4,1) invariant but identically
0 on the valid manifold; (4) the decisive test — an aligned identity and an
adversarially-rotated one (a valid versor, overlap 0.963) both read Q_top = 0, so
ΔQ_top = 0 PASSES the attack the spectral-leakage/closure check actually catches.
Typed JSON artifact + CLI (exit 0 iff proven_vacuous).
tests/test_adr_0244_qtop_vacuity.py — pins each step + off-serving quarantine.
Docs: ADR-0244 §2.3 annotation upgraded "likely vacuous" -> "PROVEN vacuous —
retire from egress"; audit-doc Q4 marked RESOLVED with the evidence.
Verdict: do NOT wire ΔQ_top = 0 as an egress admit condition; keep Q_top, if at
all, as a closure-derived diagnostic. Closes the first of the two ADR-0244 D4
blockers with proof.
[Verification]: qtop eval 8 tests green; CLI proven_vacuous=true; smoke below.
Cohesion directive Mandate 6 (ADR-0244 §2.4). The Fibonacci search was already
~85% compliant (typed OptimizationFailure, fail-closed, bracketed contract,
never a bare float); this closes the two residuals honestly:
- Rename the failure reason unimodality_violation_multiple_extrema_detected ->
sampled_unimodality_violation_observed. A finite sample cannot prove global
unimodality; the check only *observes* a violation on the evaluated points.
Docstrings now state the Bracketed-Local contract explicitly.
- propose_kappa_from_search: kappa=1.0-on-failure IS the required "parameters
unchanged" no-op (thr = productive_threshold / 1.0), and the typed
OptimizationFailure is already returned as the second element — so the fix is
legibility, not a behavior change (the working seam is preserved, not broken):
the docstring names baseline as an explicit caller-side policy, and a new test
pins that a failed search surfaces the typed failure rather than a bare float.
tests: test_adr_0244_search_honesty pins the renamed reason end-to-end (a
cos(8*pi*x) objective whose golden-section samples are non-monotone triggers it;
a smooth bimodal instead converges to a local-min certificate — the honest
Bracketed-Local distinction), _unimodality_ok as a finite-sample check, kappa
failure legibility + no-op baseline, and that no stale reason string remains.
[Verification]: search-honesty 6 + adr_0242_fibonacci + third_door_cohesion +
carry_seams green; smoke + fast lane below.
Cohesion directive Mandates 1+2 (ADR-0244 §2.6 / §2.8).
Mandate 1 — Rust f64 geometric_product fast-path:
- core-rs/src/lib.rs: export a geometric_product_f64 PyO3 wrapper (mirrors the
f32 one; delegates to cl41::geometric_product_f64, itself a term-for-term
mirror of the pure-Python f64 kernel — same i-major scatter order, no FMA).
- algebra/backend.py: f64 branch in geometric_product, gated on CORE_BACKEND=rust
+ core_rs present (default stays pure-Python; older builds fall through on
AttributeError). The directive's f32 gate was already built; the real gap was f64.
- Contract is BIT-IDENTICAL, not tol-matched: a 1-ULP divergence would move the
f64 wave-field residual bytes and break I-02 replay under CORE_BACKEND=rust.
Verified: test_geometric_product_f64_parity N=10000 Rust-vs-Python bit-for-bit
+ CORE_BACKEND=rust subprocess hex match (core_rs built).
- Measured M1 speedup (sixth acceptance criterion): dense f64 GP ~120x
(Rust 4.3 us/call vs Python 520 us/call) with parity holding.
Mandate 2 — eigh memoization:
- cognitive_lifecycle.py: relax_to_ground's dense-branch np.linalg.eigh routed
through _cached_eigh (functools.lru_cache, keyed on the frozen hamiltonian_id +
matrix bytes), returning frozen read-only (evals, evecs) so a cache hit can
never be mutated — every hit is bit-identical. The diagonal (propositional)
fast path is untouched.
tests: test_adr_0244_mechanical_sympathy pins cached-eigh == fresh eigh,
read-only arrays, hit-returns-identical-objects, and relaxation determinism
through the cache; D9 extended with the N=10000 bit-identity gate and its
now-stale "f64 is Python-only" pins updated.
[Verification]: D9 22 passed (incl. bit-identity N=10000, core_rs built) +
mechanical-sympathy + cognitive_lifecycle green; smoke + fast lane below.
Cohesion directive Mandates 4+5. The ADR-0243 lifecycle modules were the only
content-address sites still truncating SHA-256 to 96 bits (24 hex) and passing
default=str to json.dumps — the rest of the codebase already uses full 64-hex
digests (claim_digest, cert_id, decision_id, pressure_id, ...). The default=str
+ [:24] drift had also just replicated into Lane C (biography_wiring.py).
- cognitive_lifecycle.py: _content_id drops default=str (non-serializable payload
now fails closed with TypeError) + full 64-hex; _psi_digest full 64-hex over
canonical little-endian f64 bytes via a new _le_f64_bytes helper (coercion, not
the assert form the ADR-0244 draft used — assert is stripped under -O);
matrix_sha routed through _le_f64_bytes too.
- biography_wiring.py, self_authorship.py: same _content_id hardening. Verified
every payload is JSON-safe after the existing float()/str() wrapping, so
removing default=str changes no current digest value — only future
non-serializable inputs fail closed.
- On little-endian targets the widening is an un-truncation: the new 64-hex
digest's 24-char prefix equals the old value (pinned).
tests: test_adr_0243_cognitive_lifecycle psi_digest gold updated to full+LE; new
test_adr_0244_semantic_rigor pins full-64 length, fail-closed TypeError, LE
byte-order canonicality (native vs >f8 hash-equal), and determinism.
[Verification]: D1-affected suites 66 + miner suites 23 green; smoke + fast lane below.
Completes ADR-0243 Phase 4 (plan §5). Adds the metrics benchmark scoring the
cognitive lifecycle against concrete falsifiable comparison classes, joining the
already-committed decisive propositional falsifier (bdf8146a) under one eval package.
evals/adr_0243_cognitive_lifecycle/benchmark.py — five falsifiable metrics, each
grounded in a live lifecycle primitive (no decorative numbers); typed
BenchmarkVerdict / MetricResult; deterministic, JSON-safe:
- fidelity: decode overlap |<psi_steady, target>| after relax_to_ground on a
quadratic well from a perturbed start (min >= 0.999; measured 1.0).
- surprise separation: energy-above-ground of ID (small rotations of the
identity axis) vs OOD (near-orthogonal rotations into distinct Cl(4,1)
planes) against a fixed identity well; strict margined separation
min_ood - max_id > 0.05 (measured 0.834); lam0 verified ~0, not assumed.
- insertion cost: relaxation certificate.steps_taken — all certified, bounded
(<= 256), real work (max_steps > 0; measured 22-23).
- f32 drift over T=1000: unit versor iterated by a fixed rotor with no renorm;
f64 holds versor closure to 1e-9 (~8e-14 measured) while f32 truncates to
~4.7e-5 (ratio ~5.9e8) — the gap motivating ADR-0244 §2.5/§2.6.
- falsifier: run_propositional_falsifier wrong == 0 (1008 ID + 18 refusal-parity).
evals/adr_0243_cognitive_lifecycle/__main__.py — subcommand dispatcher
(benchmark [default] / corridor / falsifier); non-zero exit on falsification.
tests/test_adr_0243_benchmark.py — pins overall pass, each metric's falsifiable
claim, the genuine f32/f64 drift gap, CLI routing + exit codes, and the A-04
off-serving quarantine.
[Verification]: in-worktree smoke gate 176 passed; fast lane
(-m "not quarantine and not slow" -n auto) 11808 passed, 108 skipped;
serve-quarantine + third-door cohesion + dispatch hygiene 22 passed; Phase 4
tests (benchmark + falsifier) 17 passed; benchmark overall_passed True
(deterministic across runs).
The propositional slice of ADR-0243's falsifiability benchmark (plan §5 Phase 4),
the arc's load-bearing evidence. Two mechanism-disjoint engines decide the SAME
enumerated propositional problems:
- Field decoder: propositional_entails (Cl(4,1) wave-field ground energy).
- Gold: generate.proof_chain.entail.evaluate_entailment (exact ROBDD tautology
check, ADR-0201 keystone) — genuinely independent, not the field checking itself.
A clause→string bridge (render_clause: `a | ~b | c`) lets both engines decide
byte-for-byte the same problem. Result over the enumerated panel (atoms a,b,c;
premise sets size ≤2):
- 1008 satisfiable-premise ID comparisons: field.entailed ⇔ gold is ENTAILED —
wrong == 0.
- 18 inconsistent-premise cases: field discloses satisfiable_premises=False
exactly where gold returns REFUSED — matched refusal, no ex-falso leak.
- OOD (>5 atoms): field decoder refuses by construction while gold still decides
— the honest ID/OOD scope boundary in the propositional domain.
Deterministic (enumerated, no randomness/wall-clock); off-serving (evals/ only,
chat/runtime non-import pinned).
[Verification]: tests/test_adr_0243_propositional_falsifier.py — 6 passed;
run_propositional_falsifier() → wrong=0 over 1026 field-vs-gold decisions.
Wire the ADR-0242 §5 pinned primitives into the contemplation runner
(ADR-0243 §2.4): contemplate_surprise_history() gates the newest
caller-timed ADR-0239 dual-operator observation through
is_discovery_eligible, the measured history through
cross_band_discovery_gate (F5/F6/F7 persistence), and only then emits a
DiscoveryCandidate via the existing emit_surprise_discovery ->
DiscoveryCandidateSink. Proposal-plumbing only: the sole side effect is
sink.emit().
Surprise-signal sourcing (the Lane A open question): ContemplationFinding
carries no surprise measurement and the report-mining paths have no
geometry, so nothing is fabricated for them — the canonical carrier is
the ADR-0239 dual audit dict (SelfAuthorshipMiner / ADR-0240 harness),
consumed as explicit SurpriseObservations with caller-supplied logical
time (deterministic, no wall clock).
Give propose_kappa_line_search its live caller (ADR-0242 §5-P1):
evals/analogical_transfer/kappa_calibration.py calibrate_transfer_kappa,
confined to the ADR-0240 calibration pipeline per R-04; kappa_search_event
fires exactly once when a sink is passed. Proposal-only — no
GoldTetherMonitor mutation.
A-04 hardening found during review: chat/runtime.py idle_tick lazily
imports core.contemplation.runner inside the serve process, and the
package __init__ eagerly pulled wave_seam -> holographic_vault (a
serve-banned module) — a PRE-EXISTING process-level quarantine breach.
Closed by making the wave-seam re-exports lazy (PEP 562) and keeping the
multi_scale_energy gate import function-local; pinned by a new dynamic
idle-tick-edge test in test_serve_quarantine_transitive.py.
Pinned primitives untouched: is_discovery_eligible,
cross_band_discovery_gate, candidate_from_surprise_dual signatures
unchanged; no changes to cognitive_lifecycle.py or chat/runtime.py.
New evals/adr_0243_cognitive_lifecycle/ composes AudioCompiler/VisionCompiler ->
sensorium_wave_feed -> relax_to_ground/CognitiveLifecycleEngine.egress ->
generate/realizer readback -> explicit GoldTetherMonitor.decide into one
deterministic fixed-replay corridor, per
docs/handoff/ADR-0243-PHASE3-BRIEF-PACK.md Brief B. Pure composition of
already-tested organs; no new core.physics module; OFF-SERVING (evals/ only,
never imported by chat/runtime.py).
Relaxation targets the full audio+vision integrated percept but starts from the
audio-only partial percept (engine.solve() is not used, since it ties start ==
target) so the relaxer decodes across real steps rather than starting
already-converged; stages are driven explicitly and reassembled into one
LifecycleOutcome keyed off the full percept.
[Verification]: uv run core test --suite smoke -q (176 passed); sensorium suite
(152 passed); algebra suite (82 passed, 50 skipped); new
tests/test_adr_0243_sensorium_corridor.py (6 passed, includes a
steps_taken > 0 pin against silent regression to a no-op relax, a cosine/ANN-free
static pin, and a chat/runtime.py non-import pin).
First live caller of integrate_biography (previously zero production call
sites). New core/physics/biography_wiring.py: report-level PASS gate
(report.wrong == 0 AND >=1 correct transfer; refusals don't block but
all-refused validates nothing), I-01 closure asserts re-checked at the
wiring seam (fail-closed typed BiographyIntegrationError), and a net-new
append-only BiographyProvenanceRecord binding report evidence to the
integrated trajectory hash (AuthorshipProposal-style closure proof in a
TurnEvent-style audit role).
Design ruling (Shay, 2026-07-17, brief open question): direct integration,
structurally pinned — integrate_biography is a pure recompute
(reconstruction-over-storage), so D-5/I-03 proposal gating does not attach;
the ruling is enforced by a test pinning that the wiring imports no vault
store and no evals package (report typed structurally, no core->evals
import). Module registered in the never-serve lazy tier + _BANNED +
third-door banned lists. cognitive_lifecycle.py untouched (Lane C touches
zero Phase-2 code).
Implements ADR-0243 §2 honestly per the plan's deviations ledger, correcting
the §3 sketch's three pinned defects (SD-A/B/C):
- Ingress delegates superposition to sensorium_wave_feed, normalizes once at
the owned construction boundary (D-3).
- Relaxation is the imaginary-time semigroup psi <- normalize(exp(-(H-lam0)*dt)*psi)
(D-1) with a certified, never-assumed convergence certificate (D-2): exact
ground energy, achieved Rayleigh energy, eigen-residual, spectral gap, and a
psi_digest binding the certificate to the exact state it certifies.
- Two checkable problem domains: quadratic_well (convex target-decoding) and
propositional (Cl(4,1) blade lattice = assignment lattice of <=5 atoms;
diagonal penalty Hamiltonian; entailment via UNSAT(premises & !conclusion)
scored against independent truth-table gold).
- Egress composes unit-amplitude-density + certificate-binding + versor
closure (routes, does not admit, per the dual of SD-A) + ADR-0006 energy
classes + E0/E1 crystallization policy. Cold states emit a
CrystallizationProposal (epistemic_status pinned SPECULATIVE by the type;
D-5/I-03) — never a vault write.
- Quarantined off-serving (A-04): lazy barrel export, banned in the
transitive subprocess probe and the cohesion AST suite.
Adversarial verification (finder/verifier workflow; most verify agents lost
to a session limit, every surviving finding reproduced in-tree before acting)
surfaced and this closes two real defects beyond the plan text:
- egress_gate admitted any unit state paired with any converged certificate
from an unrelated run, so CrystallizationProposal could package a foreign
psi_digest next to an unrelated certificate_id as false provenance. Fixed
by binding the certificate to its state (psi_digest) and refusing mismatches
(certificate_state_mismatch).
- A state with a spectral gap below the requested tolerance could certify
with ZERO ground-space overlap (energy window alone can't resolve it).
Certification now also requires the excited weight (E-lam0)/gap <= tol
(refusal spectral_gap_below_tolerance), and the degeneracy cluster is
capped at the acceptance window so certificates report the honest
rate-limiting gap instead of absorbing a hairline split.
38 tests (31 original + 7 hardening: certificate-binding must-reject,
gap-refusal + true-ground pair, dense-branch (eigh) refusals, iterate-collapse,
Hamiltonian/egress shape must-rejects, E2 hold route, hardcoded canonical
entailment verdicts independent of the gold function's code shape).
[Verification]: lifecycle+pins+cohesion+transitive 58 passed; in-worktree
smoke 176 passed (131s); fast lane 11750 passed, 108 skipped (574s, exit 0).
Commits the ADR-0243 (Wave-Field Cognitive Lifecycle) proposal verbatim as
Proposed, and the arc-governing implementation plan derived from it plus
docs/analysis/core_cohesion_master_plan.md and the ADR-0241/0242 post-Accept
close audit findings.
The plan records that most of ADR-0243's organs already exist on main
(sensorium feed, WaveManifold, energy classes, GoldTether, surprise/discovery
plumbing, self-authorship, biography, packs/en readback) and that
tests/test_third_door_cohesion.py already pins I-01..I-05, A-02/A-04, and
core_ha absence from the cohesion master plan — so this arc is the §2.2
relaxation reasoner plus three wiring lanes, not a rebuild.
Also pins three defects in the ADR's §3 reference prototype so it can never
be ported verbatim: the egress gate's antisymmetric quadratic form is
identically zero (rejects every state, valid or not); the unitary
relaxation loop cannot dissipate toward a ground state (the honest
relaxer is the imaginary-time semigroup); and the prototype's block-matrix
"pseudoscalar proxy" is a different operator from the real Cl(4,1)
pseudoscalar action despite sharing I^2 = -Id.
[Verification]: uv run core test --suite smoke -q -> 176 passed (133.41s);
uv run python -m pytest tests/test_adr_0243_sketch_defect_pins.py tests/test_third_door_cohesion.py -q -> 19 passed (0.93s)
Complete remaining W5/post-pivot backlog without Docker CI: INV-21 allowlist
dedup, -n auto fast/full defaults, frozen f64 GP Python SOT suite, real
sensorium compiler → ψ → algebraic ρ feed, V2 fib/dyadic/log fixed-replay
evidence without production energy promotion, and project doctrine restored to
local-first + ubuntu-latest:host (no Docker CI for merge).
[Verification]: Smoke suite passed locally (145s, 176 passed); make test-fast
(-n auto) passed twice (11709 passed, 108 skipped each ~11–12 min).
Closes the two staged items recorded in the acceptance packet §7 (ruled
non-blocking at ratification, tracked work):
P1 — kappa_search_event(): JSONL-ready execution-telemetry envelope for
the Fibonacci κ search (kind=fibonacci_kappa_search; certificate payload
with content-addressed cert_id, or failure payload with baseline κ=1.0).
propose_kappa_line_search gains an optional sink (any emit(line) object,
e.g. chat.telemetry sinks) that writes one deterministic JSONL line.
Pure serialization — no state, no COHERENT standing (§6 sovereignty).
P2 — cross_band_discovery_gate(): persistence verdict over a surprise-
event history across the F5/F6/F7 Fibonacci bands (τ = {5,8,13}·τ0).
Eligible ⇔ history spans ≥ F5·τ0 (a single fresh spike has zero temporal
persistence) AND every band's decay-weighted accumulation ≥ γ. Typed
CrossBandVerdict; pure; PROPOSAL-side only. Lives in multi_scale_energy
(Tier-2, serve-quarantined) so the gate can never touch serving —
re-pinned by the module-level sys.modules probe in the new test file.
TDD RED→GREEN. [Verification]: carry-seam suite 10 passed; regression
(goldtether consumers + multi_scale + fibonacci + chiral + quarantine +
cohesion) 85 passed; smoke suite passed locally (133s, 175 passed).
Slow-lane sweep (2026-07-15, 37m06s): 1 failed / 909 passed / 1 skipped /
1 xfailed. The single red was a stale constant pin (assert
MAX_RUNTIME_SECONDS == 30) missed when 640dbe8f deliberately re-budgeted
the public showcase to 60s — the slow lane hadn't been run since (nightly
lives on the billing-locked GitHub side). Pin updated to the deliberate,
comment-documented value; ledger Slow row completed. The historical '~31
full-suite reds' figure is fully retired: fast lane cleared by #45, slow
lane clean after this pin.
[Verification]: tests/test_public_showcase.py green; push held until the
CI locked-install fix lands (branch inherits it via main-merge).
The guard pinned 'ADRs stay Proposed — not self-Accepted', which was
correct until its own precondition was fulfilled: Joshua Shay ruled
'Ratify' on the D10 packet (2026-07-15, ruling record packet §8) and #43
flipped both ADRs to Accepted — turning this pin red on main (first
flagged by the W3 lane as a 'brand-new governance-doc red').
The guard's spirit survives, strengthened: the test now asserts Accepted
WITH inline ratification provenance on both ADR status lines AND the §8
ruling record in the packet — so a silent status flip in EITHER direction
(an Accept without provenance, or a quiet demotion) still fails.
[Verification]: tests/test_adr_0241_governance_p12.py 6 passed; smoke
gate queued behind the running slow-lane sweep, push held until green.
tests/test_teaching_queue.py::test_read_only_invariant hardcoded
`project_root / "engine_state"` (the real shared dir) in its read-only-
invariant snapshot, instead of reading `engine_state._DEFAULT_DIR` (the
root-conftest autouse fixture's per-test isolated dir). Same bug pattern
as test_workbench_replay.py::test_replay_leaves_no_trace, and this one
was caught red-handed: a full `-n auto` fast-lane run failed with
"Directory .../engine_state was mutated!" and passed cleanly in serial
isolation, the exact order-dependent-flake signature this wave hunts.
The other three snapshotted dirs (teaching/proposals, packs,
contemplation/runs) have no equivalent per-test isolation idiom in the
repo yet and are left as-is — this test's own hitl-queue commands don't
write to them, so they were not implicated in the observed failure.
Hunt for the -n auto fast-lane polluters flagged in docs/testing-lanes.md
("Follow-up: xdist by default"). Three root causes, all shared-repo-path
writers with no per-test isolation, following the #782 monkeypatch idiom:
1. tests/test_workbench_replay.py::test_replay_leaves_no_trace hardcoded
`Path("engine_state")` (the real shared dir) instead of reading
`engine_state._DEFAULT_DIR`, which the root-conftest autouse fixture
already redirects per-test. It was a victim, not a polluter: any
concurrent worker writing the real dir made this snapshot-diff flake.
Fixed by reading `engine_state._DEFAULT_DIR` dynamically.
2. evals/gsm8k_math/train_sample/v1/runner.py hardcoded its report.json
output to the committed repo path with no override. Two test files
(test_rat1_end_to_end_admission.py, test_wave_a_multiplicative_
aggregation_injector.py; 4 tests total) spawn it as a subprocess and
read the same file back — a write race under -n auto, and a confirmed
downstream victim (test_gsm8k_sealed_attempt_scout.py::
test_report_json_mtime_unchanged_by_scout_import asserts the file's
mtime is stable). Added an optional CORE_GSM8K_TRAIN_SAMPLE_REPORT_PATH
env override (default unchanged) and pointed the 4 call sites at
tmp_path.
3. core/cli.py's `_DEMO_RESULTS_DIR` (evals/forward_semantic_control/
results/) is written, glob-scanned, and index.json-rebuilt by ~11 tests
across tests/test_cli_demo.py's TestDemoSubcommand and TestDemoPreambles
classes. Added an autouse fixture monkeypatching `cli._DEMO_RESULTS_DIR`
to a per-test tmp dir. This also unmasked a latent order-dependent
coupling: test_demo_list_results_indexes_reports and
test_demo_list_results_json_well_formed never wrote their own report,
relying on a sibling test's leftover file in the shared dir (silently
correct only because pytest ran the file in declaration order). Made
both self-contained.
No assertion weakening, no test deletion, no global autouse fixture masking
real bugs. All three fixes preserve the real (non-test) default behavior
byte-for-byte when unpatched/env-unset.
Verification: 8x targeted -n 8 loop over the 7 affected files (before and
after) did not force-reproduce the underlying race live (narrow timing
window, small-scale run) — confirmation is source-level (hardcoded shared
paths bypassing the established isolation idiom) plus the prior documented
flake for test_replay_leaves_no_trace in docs/testing-lanes.md. Full
fast-lane -n auto run recorded in the PR description.
Five fast-lane failures on main made the full suite dishonest.
- Refresh INV-21 allowlist pins in demo tests for holographic_vault (ADR-0241)
- Skip non-powerable (mixed-parity) rotor_power calls in generate recall and
session anchor pull instead of crashing the cognitive path
- Align session_anchor_pull fixture to grade-1 field parity
- Ledger: docs/analysis/full-suite-reds-ledger-2026-07.md
[Verification]: targeted 10 passed; lane SHAs 9/9; smoke 175 passed
Builds the one missing safeguard from the 4-blueprint integration audit:
the mirror-inversion protection (core_ha §5.2: sgn(∫⟨ψ I₅ ψ̃⟩₀) = const).
The chiral charge was a verified non-vacuous READOUT, but goldtether took
abs(), discarding the sign — orientation was measured, never enforced.
- core/physics/chiral_gate.py: ChiralOrientationGate latches sgn(Q) on the
first non-vacuous reading (|Q| >= 0.1 floor); a materially re-emerging
flip raises ChiralOrientationError (fail-closed; a sign flip is
unreachable under rotor transport, so it evidences corruption).
Even field-states stay vacuous — no orientation fabricated, no #19
revival; the gate is behaviorally inert on today's serve path.
- goldtether_residual now feeds the SIGNED charge to the gate; the
residual term keeps magnitude-only semantics byte-identical (pinned).
- Docs: integration-plan missing-piece row -> BUILT; fidelity ledger §12
gains the failable pin row.
TDD RED->GREEN. [Verification]: smoke suite passed locally (141s, 175
passed); gate suite 7 passed; goldtether-consumer regression 99 passed.
The CLI 'smoke' suite omitted tests/test_audio_*.py (6 files) that the
.github/workflows/smoke.yml PR gate runs — so the new AGENTS.md local-first
pre-push gate ('core test --suite smoke') was silently narrower than CI
(108 vs 175 tests). Adds the audio lane explicitly and pins parity:
test_cli_smoke_suite_covers_ci_smoke_gate parses the workflow's tests/
paths (globs expanded) and fails if the CLI tuple ever lags the CI gate.
[Verification]: CI-identical smoke file set passed locally (134s, 175
passed); tests/test_cli_test_suites.py 10 passed incl. the new pin.
Importing chat.runtime transitively loaded 5 off-serving modules
(wave_manifold, holographic_vault, fibonacci_search, multi_scale_energy,
wave_energy_boundary) through the core/physics package barrel — falsifying
the 'serve path not wired' acceptance row while the direct-AST A-04 pin
stayed green.
Reconciliation (ruled 2026-07-15): one substrate, two tiers.
- T1 sanctioned serve substrate: wave_manifold (goldtether/surprise/
biography delegate to it) — stays eager, removed from the A-04 ban list.
- T2 off-serving (holographic_vault, fibonacci_search, wave_energy_boundary,
multi_scale_energy): converted to PEP 562 lazy __getattr__ exports so the
serve process never loads them; 'from core.physics import X' still works
for off-serving callers. TYPE_CHECKING block keeps static analysis intact.
- New tests/test_serve_quarantine_transitive.py enforces the process-level
invariant via a clean-interpreter sys.modules probe (RED against the old
barrel, GREEN now).
Evidence: docs/research/adr-0241-0242-adversarial-and-fidelity-findings.md
(Finding #2). 179 affected tests green.
Root cause of demo_composition pin thrash was not cancelled CI runs:
verify_no_global_state_mutation dumped full env_subset before/after
tuples into the lane report, embedding CORE_ENGINE_STATE_DIR temp
paths (and any ambient CORE_* host values). Each hermetic run then
produced a different report SHA.
Fix for good:
- Report key-level env deltas only (+/- / changed), with path-like
CORE_* values redacted to <path> in the message text.
- Detection still uses raw snapshots (mutations are not ignored).
- Hermetic CORE_ENGINE_STATE_DIR for demo_composition and all
verify_lane_shas invocations.
- Dual-run-stable re-pin: demo_composition e2ba2314…,
public_demo 7d8ba0db… (matches CI-observed soft-budget SHA).
- Drop dead CORE_SHOWCASE_SKIP_BUDGET workflow env (soft is default).
- Tests pin the delta format and hermetic-path stability.
Lane: python scripts/verify_lane_shas.py → 9/9 match.
- Implemented design (A) for P8: odd-capable mixed-parity spinor packets
produce a strictly non-vacuous and informative chiral charge
Q = <ψ I_5 ~ψ>_0 that measures correlation between the even and odd-dual parts.
- Proved via TDD that Q is non-vacuous on mixed-parity spinors and strictly
conserved under left unitary rotor multiplication.
- Updated wave_manifold.py docstrings to clarify that while Q is structurally
vacuous for even field-states (retiring #19), it is fully functional for
general spinors.
- Flipped W4 in the fidelity scorecard to GREEN and updated ADR-0241.
- Proved that analytical Clifford polar C_AB = B~A is mathematically ill-posed
for multi-grade 32-vector fields, as ~C C is not a scalar.
- Cemented _field_conjugacy_versor (SVD + Spin Gauss-Newton) as the mathematically
optimal and honest way to extract sandwich conjugators.
- Updated ADR-0241 to demote the polar claim and favor the thin wrap.
- Updated third-door-blueprint-fidelity.md to flip W3 to GREEN (honest demotion).
- Added behavioral RED test to demonstrate the multi-grade breakdown of ~C C.
Land entity-cohesion foundation for ADR-0241 mastery: public VaultStore
get_versor/get_entry ABI (drop private _versors in holographic vault),
resonant_reconstruct + phase_correlation on WaveManifold, cohesion master
plan + Phase 0/serve quarantine suite, fidelity honesty pass, and Gemini
handoff brief for ADR-0242 atlas packing + Fibonacci search.
