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Shay 45272a7bb2 feat: ADR-0111 physics expert-demo promotion (second successful) 
Second worked promotion exercising the ADR-0106 + ADR-0109 contract
on a domain distinct from mathematics_logic. No contract change.

Evidence:
- foundational_physics_ood: accuracy=1.0 (117/117 public, 39/39 holdout)
- inference_closure: all_pass_rate=1.0 (shared with math, distinct digest via domain_id)
- fabrication_control: refused=n, fabricated=0 across all classes (shared)

Signed claim digest: a104cad136f3219df05dc7ce6a78437c02f7b5827cd3cdce568db3acda6a43ed

Bridge landed: cases_plaintext.jsonl dev-mode fallback for
foundational_physics_ood (matches ADR-0105 convention; analogous to the
math/inference bridges in ADR-0110). One small file, not a contract change.

Tests:
- tests/test_adr_0111_physics_expert_demo.py — 4 invariants, 6 cases
- tests/test_adr_0110_math_expert_demo.py — relaxed "only math promoted"
  to "math stays promoted" (load-bearing for ADR-0110 is persistence)
- tests/test_capability_reports.py — physics row now expert-demo

Retires the "first promotion was math-specific" objection: the bridges
ADR-0110 landed were correctly scoped, and the contract holds across
two distinct domains using shared lane infrastructure with distinct
digests.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-22 14:37:36 -07:00

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Architecture Decision Records

This directory contains the Architecture Decision Records (ADRs) for the CORE project.

ADRs record significant architectural decisions: what was decided, why, what alternatives were considered, and what consequences follow. They are permanent records — superseded ADRs are archived, not deleted.

Index

ADR Title Status
ADR-0080 Contemplation Loop Accepted (2026-05-22)
ADR-0091 Domain Pack Contract v1 Accepted (2026-05-22)
ADR-0092 Reviewer Registry v1 Accepted (2026-05-22)
ADR-0093 Domain Pack Contract v1 implementation Accepted (2026-05-22)
ADR-0094 Proposal Source Provenance Accepted (2026-05-22)
ADR-0095 Miner-Sourced Teaching Proposals Accepted (2026-05-22)
ADR-0096 Fabrication-Control Eval Lane Accepted (2026-05-22)
ADR-0097 Mathematics-Logic Reasoning-Capable Ratification Accepted (2026-05-22)
ADR-0098 Demo Composition Contract Accepted (2026-05-22)
ADR-0099 Public Showcase Demo Accepted (2026-05-22)
ADR-0100 Physics Reasoning-Capable Ratification Accepted (2026-05-22)
ADR-0101 Systems-Software Reasoning-Capable Ratification Accepted (2026-05-22)
ADR-0102 Hebrew-Greek Textual-Reasoning Reasoning-Capable Ratification Accepted (2026-05-22)
ADR-0103 Fluency Lane Attachment for ADR-0102 Accepted (2026-05-22)
ADR-0104 Curriculum-Sourced Teaching Proposals Accepted (2026-05-22)
ADR-0105 Sealed Holdout Encryption via age Accepted (2026-05-22)
ADR-0106 Expert-Demo Promotion Contract Accepted (2026-05-22)
ADR-0107 mathematics_logic Expert-Demo Promotion — Deferred Accepted (2026-05-22)
ADR-0108 Proposed-ADR Sequencing Post-ADR-0105 Accepted (2026-05-22)
ADR-0109 Lane-Shape-Aware Thresholds (ADR-0106 Amendment) Accepted (2026-05-22)
ADR-0110 mathematics_logic Expert-Demo Promotion Accepted (2026-05-22)
ADR-0111 physics Expert-Demo Promotion Accepted (2026-05-22)

Current frontier

The ADR-0091..0111 slate is fully accepted and mechanically evidenced:

  • Domain Pack Contract v1 — ADR-0091
  • Reviewer Registry v1 — ADR-0092
  • Domain Contract v1 enforcement — ADR-0093
  • Proposal Source Provenance — ADR-0094
  • Miner-Sourced Teaching Proposals — ADR-0095
  • Fabrication-control negative eval lane — ADR-0096
  • mathematics_logic reasoning-capable ratification — ADR-0097
  • Demo Composition Contract — ADR-0098
  • Public Showcase Demo — ADR-0099
  • physics reasoning-capable ratification — ADR-0100
  • systems_software reasoning-capable ratification — ADR-0101
  • hebrew_greek_textual_reasoning multi-pack reasoning-capable ratification — ADR-0102
  • Hebrew/Greek fluency lane attachment for ADR-0102 — ADR-0103
  • Curriculum-Sourced Teaching Proposals — ADR-0104
  • Sealed Holdout Encryption via age — ADR-0105
  • Expert-Demo Promotion Contract — ADR-0106
  • mathematics_logic Expert-Demo Promotion deferred (first attempt) — ADR-0107
  • Proposed-ADR Sequencing — ADR-0108
  • Lane-Shape-Aware Thresholds (ADR-0106 amendment) — ADR-0109
  • mathematics_logic Expert-Demo Promotion (first successful) — ADR-0110
  • physics Expert-Demo Promotion (second successful) — ADR-0111

ADR-0080 has also landed: Contemplation Loop Phase 1 adds a read-only frontier-compare miner that emits SPECULATIVE findings only.

Seven lanes are SHA-pinned in scripts/verify_lane_shas.py and gated by the lane-shas GitHub Actions workflow:

  • reviewer_registry
  • domain_contract_validation
  • miner_loop_closure
  • curriculum_loop_closure
  • fabrication_control_summary
  • demo_composition
  • public_demo

Proposed-but-unimplemented ADRs

Sequencing per ADR-0108. Listed in priority order:

  1. ADR-0084 — Definitional Layer for Lexicon Packs. Optional per-entry definitional block. Deferred — value surfaces during a worked expert promotion that needs definitional depth.
  2. ADR-0087 — Rhetorical Style Axis. A third substantive selection axis sibling to anchor-lens. Lowest current priority — no active downstream consumer; register + anchor-lens already demonstrate the orthogonality pattern.

ADR-0080 (Contemplation Loop, Phase 1), ADR-0110 (math expert-demo), and ADR-0111 (physics expert-demo) have all landed — mathematics_logic and physics are at expert_demo=true; the contemplation loop emits read-only SPECULATIVE findings from frontier_compare reports. The remaining two ratified domains (systems_software, hebrew_greek_textual_reasoning) need their own promotion ADRs.

Open candidate directions (no ADR yet)

  • Multi-reviewer holdout governance and threshold signing. ADR-0105 seals holdout payloads with a single recipient identity; multi-reviewer governance remains future work.

Accepted reasoning-capable domains

Per ADR-0106, expert_demo is contract-gated, not threshold-only: a domain row may carry expert_demo=true only when a reviewer-signed expert_demo_claims entry exists whose evidence-bundle digest reproduces byte-for-byte. ADR-0107 attempted the first worked promotion and the contract refused; ADR-0109 amended the threshold rules; ADR-0110 then successfully promoted mathematics_logic (the first domain at expert_demo=true); ADR-0111 promoted physics second without further contract change, retiring the "math-only" objection. The other two ratified domains remain at reasoning-capable pending their own promotion ADRs.

Domain Ratification ADR Pack(s) Evidence summary
mathematics_logic ADR-0097 + ADR-0110 en_mathematics_logic_v1 All nine ADR-0091 predicates pass; ledger row is expert-demo (first such promotion, ADR-0110); all three attached lanes meet ADR-0109 shape thresholds on public + holdout.
physics ADR-0100 + ADR-0111 en_physics_v1 All nine predicates pass; causal/modal operator coverage meets threshold; ledger row is expert-demo (second such promotion, ADR-0111); foundational_physics_ood 117/117 public + 39/39 holdout; shares inference_closure + fabrication_control results with math (distinct digest via domain_id).
systems_software ADR-0101 en_systems_software_v1 All nine predicates pass; transitive/causal operator coverage meets threshold; ledger row is reasoning-capable; symbolic_logic is the v1 closest-fit eval lane.
hebrew_greek_textual_reasoning ADR-0102 + ADR-0103 grc_logos_micro_v1, grc_logos_cognition_v1, he_logos_micro_v1, he_core_cognition_v1 First multi-pack ratification; all four packs carry uniform contract fields; causal/contradiction operator coverage meets threshold; ADR-0103 attaches Hebrew and Koine Greek fluency lanes with dev/public/holdout coverage.

ADR chain notes

Forward Semantic Control closure — ADR-0022 through ADR-0026

ADR-0022 through ADR-0026 form a single coherent chain that closes forward semantic control as a non-stochastic, replay-deterministic, trace-evidenced mechanism.

  1. ADR-0022 establishes AdmissibilityRegion and the contract that a region restricts the admissible token set at generation time.
  2. ADR-0023 records proof evidence that the admissibility region is honored at the region-intersection level.
  3. ADR-0024 adds destination-side per-step admissibility and honest InnerLoopExhaustion when all admissible candidates are rejected.
  4. ADR-0025 adds rotor/frame admissibility when a region carries a frame_versor.
  5. ADR-0026 replaces static threshold tuning with ranked admissibility and a scale-invariant margin gate.

Runtime contracts for the chain are pinned in docs/runtime_contracts.md.

Pack-layer chain — ADR-0027 through ADR-0045

ADR-0027 through ADR-0045 establish the identity / safety / ethics pack architecture with deterministic remediation, audit completeness, telemetry, operator readout, audit-tour demo, pack measurements, a worked-example medical ethics pack, and long-context comparison measurements.

Evidence-governed domain chain — ADR-0091 through ADR-0111

ADR-0091 through ADR-0111 establish the current domain-ratification substrate and the expert-demo promotion gate that distinguishes contract-passing from demonstrated:

contract definition (0091)
    ↓
reviewer trust root (0092)
    ↓
validator / ledger enforcement (0093)
    ↓
negative-control fabrication lane (0096)
    ↓
reasoning-capable domain ratification (0097 / 0100 / 0101 / 0102)
    ↓
language-specific fluency lane attachment (0103)
    ↓
expert-demo promotion contract (0106 + 0109 amendment)
    ↓
worked expert-demo promotion (0110 — mathematics_logic, first)
    ↓
worked expert-demo promotion (0111 — physics, second; no contract change)

No domain claim should be treated as mature merely because a pack exists. reasoning-capable means the nine ADR-0091 predicates pass; expert-demo requires a reviewer-signed evidence-bundle digest that reproduces byte-for-byte from on-disk lane results.

The contract has been demonstrated end-to-end: refused once honestly (ADR-0107), amended once cleanly (ADR-0109), succeeded against mathematics_logic (ADR-0110), and succeeded against physics without further contract change (ADR-0111).

Session Logs

Session logs record the decisions and rationale from individual working sessions. They are not ADRs — they are the narrative record that informed the ADRs.

Date File
2026-05-12 SESSION-2026-05-12.md
2026-05-12 (addendum) SESSION-2026-05-12-b.md
2026-05-12 (language packs) SESSION-2026-05-12-language-packs-addendum.md
2026-05-13 SESSION-2026-05-13.md