core/docs/arc/2026-07-28-assessment-arc-index.md

The macro→micro assessment arc — commit index and rollback map

Span: 797ebad5 (exclusive) → 199dc72d (inclusive) · 29 commits · 67 files · +6,340 / −228 Date: 2026-07-28 · Branch: claude/assessment-docs-work-mh32mh · Baseline marker: baseline/pre-arc-797ebad5

Why this file exists. It was meant to be a pull-request body. Neither remote could host one: the GitHub App lacks pull_requests: write (403 "Resource not accessible by integration"), and the agent proxy denies core-gitquarters.acbcontent.org at CONNECT (403, policy). So the index lives in the repository instead — which is the more durable home anyway, since it travels with the commits it describes rather than sitting in a forge that may be re-synced.

Mirror hazard, recorded because it already fired once. On 2026-07-28 the GitHub remote's main was reset backwards from 199dc72d to 797ebad5, discarding 29 commits of remote history. 797ebad5 is exactly Forgejo's main. Per AGENTS.md:280 GitHub is a mirror only — so this was almost certainly the mirror being re-synced from the canonical Forgejo remote, which is 29 commits behind. The local clone still had everything and restored GitHub by fast-forward (no force, nothing overwritten). Until Forgejo receives this arc, any mirror re-sync will revert GitHub again.

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Verification

uv run bash scripts/ci/local-ci.sh --tier gate @ 199dc72d → EXIT=0, PASSED in 554s smoke 775 · warmed_session 10 · deductive 520 · teaching 136 — 1,441 tests

The gate went from 2 suites / 721 tests to 4 suites / 1,441 across this arc. Every commit below was gated green before it was pushed.

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Commit index

Oldest → newest. Independent = safe to revert alone. Coupled = reverting alone leaves a record contradicting the code.

Wave 0 — record amendments (needed no ruling)

#	SHA	What it did	Δ	Revert
1	9efd5a61	PR-1: N-1…N-7 + H-12 applied to the registers	6f +76/−29	Independent
2	0641e211	H-12: the pre-push hook asserts the parity too	1f +1/−1	Independent
3	0c11b530	Merge of PR-1 into the docs branch	—	Merge — revert 1+2 instead
4	635f2488	Re-verified at main tip; corrected H-8d, which an earlier draft stated wrongly	3f +4/−4	Independent

Track A — ADR-0252 §5 run to a verdict

#	SHA	What it did	Δ	Revert
5	299c92be	Pre-registers the GO/NO-GO criterion — thresholds as importable constants, no results	5f +953	⚠️ Never revert alone — retroactively unbinds the criterion and voids #6
6	7728a25d	§5 run → NO-GO. Corpus, experiment, report + pinned digest, verdict doc; two prior GO verdicts on unmerged branches voided (N-8)	9f +862/−12	Coupled to 5, 23
7	8f0ccfe3	Re-anchored the §5 provenance SHAs to the commits that landed	3f +13/−4	Independent

Triage and two defect fixes

#	SHA	What it did	Δ	Revert
8	e025de7a	External-assessment triage — H-13, H-14, H-8e added; six proposals cleared, each with the refuting file named	4f +29/−6	Independent
9	71542e61	H-13 first attempt — refcount. This fix was WRONG	4f +177/−9	⚠️ Superseded by 10
10	2cfc6ad2	H-13 corrected — claimant-set tracking; records why the refcount reasoning failed	5f +188/−121	Coupled to 9
11	98a6e8b4	PR-9 / H-11 — three silent backstops made visible; byte-identical consumers by construction	8f +252/−11	Independent

Wave 2 — enforcement

#	SHA	What it did	Δ	Revert
12	68e68589	PR-4 / G-7 — membership ratchet + full_only_baseline.txt (749). Parity pin withdrawn (N-9)	8f +1056/−12	Coupled to 14, 19
13	5f18b7e5	PR-6 / G-9 — three doctrine prohibitions enforced by test; four sabotages observed red	4f +293/−2	Independent
14	edf6c2a4	The ratchet caught its own author: baseline 749 → 748	3f +7/−2	Coupled to 12
15	39331dbc	PR-7 / H-7 — M2 trust-boundary table; three boundaries CLOSED, one real delta	3f +72/−1	Independent
16	3650331b	Re-stamped the eight cards this arc touched	10f +47/−1	Independent

G-22 — main was red before the arc began

#	SHA	What it did	Δ	Revert
17	913111c0	Recorded that main was red and that membership was never the guarantee	2f +7	Independent
18	0329cc99	G-22 fix — two stale ceremony pins; CLAIMS.md had published a superseded evidence digest for two days	6f +37/−6	⚠️ Reverting re-publishes a false digest
19	065826c5	Pin 3 — test_suite_reachability.py. Measured 21 curated suites, 2 gate-reachable	4f +201/−2	Coupled to 12, 28

Wave 1 and the docket record

#	SHA	What it did	Δ	Revert
20	d0bedfc1	R-7 — dead instruments retired; 4 unreferenced aliases deleted (21→17 suites; unreachable 19→15 by deletion)	8f +74/−24	Independent
21	e6a30383	Recorded the adopted docket + the 11 standing philosophies in AGENTS.md; fixed 14 PENDING statuses that contradicted reality	5f +172/−38	⚠️ Re-orphans every ruling record
22	ca5e614e	G-23 — DOMAIN_PACKS vs manifest domain_id: 7 of 9 bound, 2 absent, P3 passing vacuously. Pin + 4 sabotages	7f +293/−30	Independent

The ruling docket, in its corrected execution order

#	SHA	Ruling	What it did	Δ	Revert
23	b823d85d	R-12	ADR-0146 addendum + ADR-0252 "34 organs" footnote + §5 verdict banner + §6 retirement amendment. Closed H-8a/H-8b/G-15	6f +86/−14	⚠️ Amends two ratified ADRs
24	6c67e88d	R-3 + R-4	PR-5 — flag register (32 booleans classified), profiles as units, accrue_realized_knowledge added to the daemon profile. Closed H-8 in full	13f +498/−16	⚠️ Behaviour change — reverting returns the always-on life to consolidating an empty set
25	9b190856	R-9 + R-2	PR-11 — the 5,000-beat soak committed as evidence, deterministic_digest pinned, cadence enforced by a source-hash pin rather than a cron that silently does not run	8f +369/−11	Independent
26	9cf6a164	R-13	PR-12 — the Wilson re-count. 25 licensed shape-bands → 4; the sealer now refuses a padded ledger. wrong stayed 0	11f +364/−69	⚠️ Serving change — reverting re-grants 21 licences the evidence never supported
27	71d6366f	R-8	PR-14 — outcome-mix rule as two capabilities. Split, zero bands license — not four. ADR-0264 §5 amended	7f +261/−8	⚠️ Amends a ratified ADR
28	294bbe7b	—	PR-4b — teaching promoted onto the gate (+136 tests); pin 3's own union blind spot closed	5f +93/−23	Coupled to 19
29	199dc72d	R-1/5/6/11	docs/specs/postures.md — three postures with criteria; R-11's interim gate withdrawn because measurement dissolved its premise	4f +95/−12	Independent

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Cherry-pick guidance

Self-contained — take alone: 5f18b7e5 · 39331dbc · 98a6e8b4 · ca5e614e · 9b190856 · 199dc72d

Take as a group or not at all:

• 299c92be + 7728a25d + b823d85d — pre-registration, run, ratification. Any one alone misrepresents the others.
• 71542e61 + 2cfc6ad2 — the wrong fix and its correction.
• 68e68589 + edf6c2a4 + 065826c5 + 294bbe7b — the ratchet family; each later one repairs a blind spot in an earlier.

Behaviour-changing — read the commit body before reverting: 6c67e88d (daemon profile) · 9cf6a164 (21 licences revoked) · 71d6366f (four licences dissolve)

Rollback targets: 797ebad5 pre-arc · 065826c5 enforcement landed, docket unstarted · d0bedfc1 Wave 1 done, docket unstarted

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What the arc produced, in three results

1. ADR-0252 §5 → NO-GO, against a criterion pre-registered before the run. Measured rather than argued: the similarity quotient that delivers attribute-invariance is the same one that annihilates structural contrast. An add-vs-subtract minimal pair aligns at residual exactly 0.0. §6's organ-retirement condition was amended because a NO-GO left it naming a trigger that can never fire.

2. Served capability shrank on purpose, twice. Deduction: 25 → 4 licensed bands (replays counted as independent trials; 28 distinct cases inflated to 720). Curriculum: the four predicted licences dissolved to zero — 652–653 correct refusals pooled with 7–8 commitments to clear a 0.000046 margin. wrong stayed 0 in both. No answer changed; only the claim attached to it.

3. R-11's instrumentation dissolved its own question. Nothing is syntactically outside the verified inventory, because atom_fact's template is {p} — it matches any string. G-2's fabrications are therefore mis-reads of admissible surfaces, not admissions of out-of-inventory constructions, and no gate over the admissibility set can catch them.

Closed: G-5…G-12, G-15, G-17, G-19, G-22, H-1, H-6, H-7, H-8 (all five instances), H-10, H-11, H-13 · Pinned: G-23 · Rulings: 12 executed, 2 stricken, 0 pending.

Not moved, stated plainly: comprehension breadth. The reader is still 19 constructions wide and decides 1.0% of holdout_dev/v1. Everything here is enforcement and evidence machinery. Track B (widening) and Track C (the chooser) are the next arc.

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Errors found in my own work, and how

Three, each surfaced by attacking a mechanism rather than trusting it:

• A hollow guard in PR-12 — it compared two functions that agree by construction; the attack it existed to stop walked past it and re-sealed the inflated ledger. Fixed to take the built artifact as input.
• A hollow spot in pin 3 — the two gate scripts could drift apart invisibly (294bbe7b).
• Two invalid measurement passes in R-11, both confident and plausible, caught only by asking whether the matcher could still say no to "most birds can fly". It could not.

Two earlier statements were also wrong and were corrected in place rather than overwritten: 9efd5a61's H-8d claim (corrected in 635f2488) and 71542e61's H-13 fix (corrected in 2cfc6ad2). Both corrections sit next to the error, because an arc's self-correction chain is its strongest evidence.