Patent-grade precision pass over the doc surface so every claim
about the Forward Semantic Control chain is backed by a file path,
test count, or commit hash.
Updates by file:
README.md
- Modernize Quick Start: add `core test --suite adr-0024`,
`core demo phase6 / phase5 / all / list-results`, full CLI map.
- New "Forward Semantic Control — The ADR-0024 Chain" section
with layer/ADR mapping and CI-enforced C1/C2/C3 claims table.
- Cross-links to runtime_contracts.md, phase5_stratified_findings,
phase6_comparative_demo, and the central results directory.
docs/decisions/README.md
- Index was stale at ADR-0014. Add ADR-0015 through ADR-0026
with accurate Accepted statuses.
- New "ADR-0024 chain — Forward Semantic Control closure" section
laying out the five-ADR / six-commit dependency order with test
counts per phase.
docs/runtime_contracts.md
- Add "Ranked-with-margin contract (ADR-0026 / Phase 3)" section
between the existing Phase 2 refusal and Phase 4 rotor sections.
- Documents threshold-mode vs margin-mode behaviour, δ = 0.4
default, falsifiability gate, and Cl(4,1) signature motivation.
docs/PROGRESS.md
- Add naming-note disambiguation: capability-roadmap "Phase N"
vs ADR-0024 chain "Phase N" are distinct.
- New top-of-document "ADR-0024 Chain — Forward Semantic Control
Closure" section with per-phase commit + test-count table and
a single-command verification path.
docs/Whitepaper.md
- New Section XII "Forward Semantic Control — Generation Without
Sampling" before Extensions. Five-component description of the
mechanism (region, intersection, destination check, rotor check,
margin gate) with explicit "what a sampling LLM cannot exhibit"
contrast. Existing Section XII renumbered to XIII.
docs/Yellowpaper.md
- New Section IX-B "Forward Semantic Control — Formal Admissibility
Specification" with eight subsections covering:
1. AdmissibilityRegion typed triple (I, B, Φ)
2. Destination-side admissibility (σ_dest, admit_threshold)
3. Rotor-side admissibility (σ_rotor, admit_rotor)
4. Ranked-with-margin gate (admit_margin, deterministic
tie-break by index, default δ = 0.4)
5. Honest refusal (InnerLoopExhaustion typed evidence,
RefusalReason enum, trace fold)
6. Composition order at the generation seam
(admit_step = intersection ∧ destination ∧ rotor)
7. Replay determinism contract (5 test lanes pinning byte
identity across reruns)
8. Verification invariants table (6 new structural contracts)
- Patent-grade: every predicate is named, every module is path-
referenced, every test is file-referenced, the load-bearing
architectural placement decision (rotor admissibility lives in
generate/, NOT algebra/, NOT field/) is stated by name with
its rejection reasoning.
No code changes; tests untouched (1099 passed, 2 skipped baseline
from commit 36aad75 still holds).
Audit of the one-mutation-path invariant (ADR-0021 §3) found three leaks
where pack authority or session-state writes could substitute for coherence
judgment. All three landed fixes or partial closures in this push.
Leaks closed:
- Leak A: pack vocab defaulted to COHERENT — flipped to SPECULATIVE in
language_packs/{compiler,schema}.py; docstring corrected to align with
ADR-0021 (it was rationalizing the leak).
- Leak B: vault.recall was epistemic-blind — VaultStore.store() now stamps
every entry with EpistemicStatus (default SPECULATIVE); recall(min_status=)
filters to admissible-as-evidence tier. All 4 vault-write sites updated.
- Leak C (write-side): generate/proposition.py:198 stored articulated
propositions unmarked — now stamps SPECULATIVE, breaking the
fabrication-feedback loop in principle. Read-side audit of 5 call sites
is the residual.
New architectural invariants (tests/test_architectural_invariants.py):
- INV-21: one-mutation-path allowlist (caught Leak C on first run)
- INV-22: pack lexicon default is SPECULATIVE (Leak A guard)
- INV-23: vault recall epistemic-aware (Leak B guard)
New eval lanes:
- teaching_injection_resistance — ships GREEN at 1.00/1.00/0 (the
structural anti-injection claim is real and measurable)
- refusal_calibration — honest gap: 0% refusal, 0% fabrication
- contradiction_detection — honest gap: 50% flag via versor-delta heuristic,
100% false-positive; motivates the proper coherence-checker
- articulation_of_status — honest gap: 0% speculative articulation, 60%
false certainty; output-side leak surface
New benchmarks:
- benchmarks/footprint.py — total deployed runtime is 7.06 MiB
(109,358x smaller than Llama 3.1 405B, runs offline, no GPU)
- benchmarks/learning_curve.py — monotonic + replay-deterministic curve
per lane
Documentation:
- docs/truth_seeking_schema.md — foundational architectural commitment,
five rules, mapped to human failure modes, leaks published openly
- evals/CLAIMS.md — five-tier public claims doc; Tier 4.5 publishes
known gaps with named fixes; verification contract at top
- README.md — new pillar between algebraic substrate and language pillar
Includes in-flight formation pipeline scaffolding (formation/, tests/formation/,
docs/formation_pipeline_plan.md) and minor CLI/contracts/gitignore edits
that were already in the working tree at session start.
Verification: 798 passed, 2 skipped, 1 deselected (pre-existing pack-count
test drift unrelated to schema changes).
Three items from the post-assessment stabilization slice:
1. field/state.py: restore frozen=True, slots=True
slots=True closes __dict__ on FieldState instances, preventing
incidental attribute injection that frozen=True alone does not block.
The holonomy field works cleanly with slots because ndarray | None
is a valid slotted field type in Python 3.12.
2. README.md: correct vocab/ layer description
Was: 'Word-to-versor manifold, edge rotors'
Now: 'Surface-token manifold points; indexed access for algebraic
transition construction'
Edge rotors are constructed by algebra/, not stored in vocab/.
This exact confusion caused vocab.edge_rotor() drift in earlier work.
3. AGENTS.md: add language-pack checksum rule
Manifest checksums MUST be computed by reading back the bytes
written to disk (Path(f).read_bytes()), never from in-memory strings
before serialization. Unicode-escaped JSON on disk != Python str.
