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Shay 372bdf987d docs(assessment): Wave 0 — the execution plan and the ruling packet (R-1…R-14) 
Phase 6 of the holistic assessment: what follows from it, and what it needs
ruled before anything else can be sequenced.

`50-execution-plan.md` — five waves (scrub/rule → delete → simplify/enforce →
accelerate evidence loops → automate last) plus five frontier tracks, covering
every G-1…G-20 and H-1…H-12 entry, with four hard dependency gates and nine
risks stated before they are incurred.

`50-rulings.md` — R-1…R-14. One decision per section: the evidence verified at
ed06dd64, the options enumerated, a recommendation with its reasoning, and the
exact diff that follows from each choice, so ruling costs one word. Nothing in
it recommends reversing a ratified decision; R-12 amends two ADRs' records
without touching either decision.

§0 of the plan carries SEVEN corrections to the assessment, all found by
reading code, workflows and ADR supersession banners — none by re-reading
documents. Four change planned work:

- N-3 (new) the local smoke suite (23 files) and smoke.yml (13) have diverged
  by 10 files. Severity is LOWER than this plan's first draft stated: AGENTS.md
  makes the in-worktree run the merge gate and CI secondary observability, and
  the local gate is the superset — so nothing is unguarded. What is real is one
  in-code comment claiming an equality that does not hold, and the push that
  skipped the local gate, for which CI is the only automatic check.
- N-4 the L10 soak HAS been run — 5000 beats, reboot at 2500, all four gates
  pass (contract.md, landed aed273b1). G-5's "never produced an artifact" is
  wrong. The debt is the ceremony: no committed report, no pinned
  deterministic_digest (the contract's own unmet closing instruction), no
  cadence. Prose with no pinned digest is testimony, not evidence.
- N-5 G-10's blocker does not exist. ADR-0264 §4.1 carries a self-supersession
  banner: R5 removed the 16-premise cap on 2026-07-26, and four bands would
  earn SERVE the moment a ledger is sealed. PR-13 is WITHDRAWN and the whole
  throughput frontier reduces to one ruling (R-8).
- N-7 the flag count is 28 of 32 RuntimeConfig booleans, not seventeen.

Plus N-1 (the orphan scan artifact: TEST_SUITES["full"] is a directory),
N-2 (the L10 pins run twice a day, post-merge and nightly), and N-6 (H-8 has a
fourth instance inside the code — two flag docstrings assert a production
profile the production profile does not have, which moves R-3 decisively
toward "incomplete flag set").

Docs only. No runtime behavior, no flag, no test changed.
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10-layer-cards docs(assessment): Phase 3 — component descent; the correction chain continues into code 2026-07-27 15:57:36 -07:00
20-component-cards docs(assessment): Phase 3 — component descent; the correction chain continues into code 2026-07-27 15:57:36 -07:00
00-scope-and-method.md docs(assessment): Phase 4 — the gap register and the hindrance audit 2026-07-27 16:04:22 -07:00
01-phase0-ground-truth.md
02-layer-taxonomy.md docs(assessment): Phase 1 — layer taxonomy and card schema (the keystone) 2026-07-27 15:28:42 -07:00
03-card-schema.md docs(assessment): Phase 1 — layer taxonomy and card schema (the keystone) 2026-07-27 15:28:42 -07:00
04-phase2-findings.md docs(assessment): Phase 2 — nine layer cards, verified against code not documents 2026-07-27 15:45:52 -07:00
05-phase3-findings.md docs(assessment): Phase 3 — component descent; the correction chain continues into code 2026-07-27 15:57:36 -07:00
30-gap-register.md docs(assessment): Phase 4 — the gap register and the hindrance audit 2026-07-27 16:04:22 -07:00
31-hindrance-audit.md docs(assessment): Phase 4 — the gap register and the hindrance audit 2026-07-27 16:04:22 -07:00
40-assessment.md docs(assessment): Phase 5 — the synthesis, and the directory index 2026-07-27 16:08:21 -07:00
50-execution-plan.md docs(assessment): Wave 0 — the execution plan and the ruling packet (R-1…R-14) 2026-07-27 17:18:43 -07:00
50-rulings.md docs(assessment): Wave 0 — the execution plan and the ruling packet (R-1…R-14) 2026-07-27 17:18:43 -07:00
README.md docs(assessment): Wave 0 — the execution plan and the ruling packet (R-1…R-14) 2026-07-27 17:18:43 -07:00

README.md

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
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)
31-hindrance-audit.md 4 Eleven hindrances with fitness verdicts and better homes; five candidates examined and cleared
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.

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.