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PR-4's membership ratchet closed "no new orphans". Within the hour this arc's first full-tree run found tests/test_ratification_ceremony.py RED, in the curated suite `teaching`, invoked by NO gate tier. Membership was satisfied and bought nothing — which is exactly the objection PR-4 itself raised against G-7's original formulation: a curated suite nobody runs is the same non-guarantee as `full` wearing a different name. The fix had the same blind spot as the thing it fixed. Measured: 21 curated suites, 2 gate-reachable (smoke, deductive). The gap is NINETEEN, not the handful first estimated. Shipped as baseline + ratchet, sized to the measurement rather than the rule: 19 `post-merge-only` justifications written in one sitting is the ceremony failure already rejected for the 749-file membership baseline. The pin freezes the gap, fails on growth, enforces both directions (a promoted suite must leave the baseline), pins the count, and — critically — VERIFIES ITS DECLARED GATE SET AGAINST THE SHELL (pre-push / local-ci.sh), so it cannot go vacuous the way a scan that silently matches nothing does (N-1's class, three false conclusions in this repo so far). Two sabotages observed red: a new curated suite with no gate caller, and a GATE_SUITES value drifted from the scripts it claims to describe. The second correctly cascaded into two failures, which is the anti-vacuity guard working. What pin 3 deliberately does NOT do: decide which of the 19 belong on the gate. That costs gate time and is a decision, not an engineering task. Recorded as the open half of G-7. `teaching` is the concrete first candidate — it just shipped a red ratification pin that no gate ran. Process note: a gate run was invalidated by editing the tree mid-run for the third time today. Stopped with TaskStop rather than pkill this time, which reaped cleanly instead of leaving the orphaned wait-loop that ran for 2h16m earlier. All edits now land before any run starts. Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Wcw2pnMBwyvmNyQg4uPEt4 |
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| core-rd-base-prompts.md | ||
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| EVAL_AUDIT_2026-05-20.md | ||
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| gaps.md | ||
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| pack_inventory_2026-05-21.md | ||
| position_paper.md | ||
| PROGRESS.md | ||
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CORE Documentation Index
This is the central index for all documentation in the CORE project.
Canonical Root Documents
- Whitepaper.md - The CORE architectural and philosophical whitepaper.
- Yellowpaper.md - Technical specifications and mathematical formulation of the CORE engine.
- PROGRESS.md - High-level project progress tracking.
- specs/runtime_contracts.md - Critical invariants and bounds for the runtime execution flow.
Directories
Architecture & Design
- adr/ - Architecture Decision Records (ADRs). The canonical history of all ratified engineering choices.
- architecture/ - High-level architectural documents (e.g., pipelines, schemas).
- analysis/ - Deep dives and master plans for structural changes.
- specs/ - Detailed technical specifications and invariants.
Planning & Progress
- plans/ - Capability roadmaps and implementation plans.
- briefs/ - Project briefs and scoping documents for upcoming work.
- issues/ - Detailed issue analyses and technical reproductions (not standard trackers).
- audit/ - Audit reports and claims ledgers.
Operations & Usage
- examples/ - Usage examples and reference integrations.
- workbench/ - Documentation for the CORE workbench UI and related tooling.
- agents/ - Agent-specific operational guides.
Note regarding
agents/grok/: Operational guide for using Grok 4.3 + Grok Build with CORE. This is not architecture documentation.
Learning & Evaluation
- curriculum/ - Documentation on the teaching/learning order and knowledge progression.
- evals/ - Evaluation methodology and performance criteria documentation.
- benchmarks/ - Benchmark evidence and performance tracking logs.
Historical & Experimental
- sessions/ - Chronological session logs documenting the "decision trail" and intellectual history of major choices.
- handoffs/ - Legacy brief, audit, and investigation notes (historical; the formal HANDOFF mechanism is retired — see AGENTS.md for the current lightweight
session-break-summary-<DATETIME>.mdconvention). - research/ - Raw research notes and preliminary findings.
- lab/ - Experimental content (Warning: Not ratified; must not be referenced as authoritative in production PRs).