Fixes the decomposition Phases 2-3 fill and Phase 4 audits against, per
Pillar I: criteria before judgment. Five decisions recorded explicitly:
- D1 The five unreconciled articulations answer five DIFFERENT questions
(what for / what happens today / by what mechanism / judged how / built
where) and become axes of one taxonomy rather than competitors. Functional
axis = the AGENTS.md north star; structural axis = 7 macro layers (M0
Substrate, M1 Knowledge & Memory, M2 Afferent, M3 Comprehension &
Reasoning, M4 Expression & Serving, M5 Learning & Growth, M6 Continuity &
Process) + 2 cross-cuts (MG Governance, MV Verification), grouping all 33
system-map zones with straddles recorded honestly. Mind-physics blueprint
dispositioned element-by-element (identity/compositional/renderer =
superseded by stronger implementations; Allocation Physics and
DriveGradientMap = orphans -> Candidate Register).
- D2 System-map schema EXTENDED, not replaced: 7-value liveness kept;
four missing dimensions added as orthogonal fields — evidence (with
would-fail-if-absent sabotage bit), capacity (designed/measured/ceilings),
design-vs-build split, fitness (6-value: fit/strained/misplaced/
wrong-solution/superseded-in-place/undetermined). Liveness ⊥ fitness:
the 34 organs are live-serving + superseded-in-place, a state no merged
enum could express.
- D3 Completeness criteria fixed: coverage = evidence-bearing ownership of
a functional stage; deferred-with-ruling ≠ missing; pins must run.
- D4 Candidate Register: CR-1 attention/allocation (the ~73%-of-turn-time
hot path has no owner), CR-2 agenda/drive (mechanisms without a chooser;
L10 risks landing as a heartbeat with nothing to want), CR-3 efferent
action (needs an explicit deferred-vs-out-of-telos ruling), CR-4 temporal
self-location (determinism vs lived time, undesigned). Considered-and-not-
registered recorded (sociality, affect, embodiment, self-governance-as-
layer) so the boundary is visibly examined.
- D5 Assessment output is COMMITTED (reviewable, versioned, visible);
system map stays local as a regeneratable navigation index. Staleness
handled by verified_at SHA stamps on every card.
Phase 2 work order: nine layer cards, priority M6 > M3 > M4 > M5; re-verify
every map liveness label; run the stage-coverage audit with evidence; the
four zero-subsystem zones scoped honestly and queued first for Phase 3.
Opens the holistic macro→micro assessment of CORE's cognitive-cycle design
and implementation fulfillment. Read-only; no runtime behavior changes.
Method is governed by docs/conceptualizing_engineering_mastery.md (committed
here because the assessment cites it as its method): Semantic Rigor,
Mechanical Sympathy, Third Door; delete before optimizing; automate last.
Phase 0 findings:
- 0-A CORE carries FIVE unreconciled macro articulations of its own cognitive
cycle (AGENTS.md north star; AGENTS.md live path; the 2026-05-12 draft
three-physics-layer blueprint; ratified ADR-0252's five paradigm stages; the
system map's 10-band L0-L11 layering). The blueprint's allocation/attention
layer (Salience/Attention/Inhibition) exists in no other articulation.
- 0-B .system-map/ is the best existing macro→micro artifact and is 48 days
stale, gitignored/local-only, and carries four zero-subsystem zones — three
of which sit on the serving path.
- 0-C ADR-0252 §5 — the experiment gating the governing paradigm's build — has
never returned a verdict (two unmerged rnd/ worktrees). The 34 surface organs
the ADR diagnoses as the error keep serving. L10 blocks all 7 OPEN W-* items;
field + T1 vault are discarded on exit, so "one continuous life" is today
many short lives sharing a checkpoint.
- 0-D No live gap register: docs/gaps.md is 26/26 closed, the liveness ratchet
is L10-blocked and stale, docs/analysis/ is a chronological archive.
- 0-E 333 ADRs, flat numbering, status not reliably machine-extractable;
INDEX-by-domain is 21 files behind; the Blueprint reserved 0254-0261 for
intents never materialised while those numbers were minted for other work.
- 0-F Measured: CGA is ~73% of turn time via cga_inner/geometric_product
(~34k calls/turn), NOT versor_condition (0.22%). Rust backend off by default,
parity question open and blocked. MLX in no runtime path.
- 0-G The 2026-07-25 verification precedent falsified ~1/3 of an external
blueprint's items by reading code — the bar for every downstream phase.
Phase 1 receives the system map's 17-field proto schema and 7-value liveness
vocabulary, plus the four dimensions it lacks (evidence pointer, capacity,
design-vs-built, fitness judgment) and five decisions to make explicitly.
PR #138's fabrication findings are recorded as measured-and-pinned, held for
ADR + ratification — never re-discovered, never fixed here.
Shay