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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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docs/assessment/ — The Holistic Macro→Micro Assessment (2026-07-27)
A read-only, evidence-bearing assessment of CORE's cognitive-cycle design versus implementation fulfillment, conducted under docs/conceptualizing_engineering_mastery.md at forgejo/main @ 8927c563. Phases 0–5 change no runtime behavior, fix no defect, and decide nothing — they produce evidence and judgments for ruling. Phase 6 adds the execution plan built on them and the ruling packet they require.
Start here: 40-assessment.md — the synthesis (the verdict, the five frontiers, the recommended attack order). Then 50-execution-plan.md for what follows from it, and 50-rulings.md for what is waiting on a decision. The registers rank the work; the cards are the evidence base.
| File / dir | Phase | What it is |
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00-scope-and-method.md |
— | Charter, method, rules of engagement, phase/executor table |
01-phase0-ground-truth.md |
0 | Corpus triage, the five unreconciled articulations, system-map recovery |
02-layer-taxonomy.md |
1 | The two-axis taxonomy: 7 macro layers + 2 cross-cuts over 33 zones; the Candidate Register (CR-1…4); completeness criteria |
03-card-schema.md |
1 | The card metadata schema: liveness ⊥ fitness, design ⊥ build, sabotage-tested evidence, verified_at stamps |
10-layer-cards/ |
2 | Nine layer cards (M0–M6, MG, MV), every liveness label re-verified against code |
04-phase2-findings.md |
2 | Stage-coverage audit; corrections to Phase 0; findings F-1…F-5 |
20-component-cards/ |
3 | Eight component cards: the four zero-subsystem zones + always-on, derivation organs, surface selection, attention |
05-phase3-findings.md |
3 | Corrections C-1…C-5; findings F-6…F-10; the consolidated Phase-4 seed list |
30-gap-register.md |
4 | The live gap register — 20 entries, 4 tiers, each with evidence + deciding authority (proposes superseding docs/gaps.md); four entries amended in Phase 6 |
31-hindrance-audit.md |
4 | Fourteen hindrances with fitness verdicts and better homes; eleven candidates examined and cleared (five in Phase 4, six in the 2026-07-28 external-assessment triage) |
40-assessment.md |
5 | The synthesis |
50-execution-plan.md |
6 | The execution plan — five waves + five frontier tracks over every G/H entry, with the dependency gates and the risks. §0 carries seven corrections to the assessment found while sizing it |
50-rulings.md |
6 | The ruling packet — R-1…R-14, each with evidence, options, a recommendation, and the exact diff that follows from each choice. Wave 0's deliverable |
Maintenance contract (from §8 of the synthesis): a card whose verified_at falls behind a load-bearing arc is testimony, not evidence. Update cards when their subsystems move, or this directory becomes the next dead instrument it was built to replace.
Execution status (2026-07-28, 39331dbc). Phases 0–6 produced the evidence; the arc that followed executed everything in it that needed no ruling. Landed: Track A's §5 verdict (NO-GO, pre-registered), PR-4, PR-6, PR-7, PR-9, PR-1, and two defect fixes (H-13, H-8e). Closed: G-7, G-9, H-7, H-11, H-13. Added: N-8, N-9, G-21, H-13, H-14. Everything remaining is gated on R-1…R-14 or on an ADR. See 50-execution-plan.md §Status for the full board.
Standing note: the PR #138 fabrication findings appear throughout as measured & pinned, fix held for ADR + ratification — recorded, never re-discovered, never fixed here, per explicit instruction.