30-gap-register.md — CORE's first LIVE gap register since docs/gaps.md
closed its 26th entry (supersession proposed for ruling). 20 entries in
four tiers, each with evidence, deciding authority, and leverage rank:
- Tier A (frontier-blocking): G-1 the unrun ADR-0252 §5 experiment
(leverage 1 — authorized, scaffolded, verdict-less; the paradigm governs
ALL future comprehension); G-2 the #138 fabrications (pre-labeled
measured-and-pinned, held for ADR + ratification); G-3 reader 19 vs
writer 1739; G-4 CR-2 no-chooser (the AGI-grade conceptual absence);
G-5 L10 proof debt (no artifact, no suite, no cadence); G-6 the
half-gated lived learning loop.
- Tier B (enforcement debt): G-7 orphaned-pin meta-check (the highest-
leverage single mechanical change); G-8 flag-default register; G-9 three
doctrine laws without verified failing pins; G-10 curriculum scoping +
absent ledger; G-11 identity authorization bar unstated.
- Tier C (one-line rulings): CR-3 efferent, CR-4 temporal stance, CR-1
attention ADR, the daemon's owning ADR.
- Tier D (latent/carried): aspect-arm defect class (generate/templates.py
:79, unreachable today), sensorium entry criterion, curriculum-formation
bypass (unverified carry), Wilson evidence debt, refusal materialisation.
- Plus what is NOT in the register and why (deferred-with-ruling is the
scripture model; benchmarks excluded by the completeness criterion).
31-hindrance-audit.md — 11 entries ranked by leverage, each with fitness
verdict, evidence, proposed better home, deciding authority; decides
nothing. Headliners: H-1 Wilson/replay counting basis (wrong-solution in
the counting, not the gating — 21/25 bands short; the re-count may demote
licenses and that is the mechanism working); H-2 decoration as testimony
(DriveGradientMap, InhibitionMask — deletion per mastery step 2); H-3 the
typed refusal discarded at the public boundary; H-4 extend the resolver's
declared-precedence pattern upstream; H-8 three record/code contradictions
(each one paragraph to fix); H-9 dead instruments standing as if live.
Plus five examined-and-CLEARED candidates (the 18 organs' continued
service is governance working; pure-Python-by-default is measured-correct;
flag-gated conservatism is not hindrance — unregistered darkness is).
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