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Opens the holistic macro→micro assessment of CORE's cognitive-cycle design and implementation fulfillment. Read-only; no runtime behavior changes. Method is governed by docs/conceptualizing_engineering_mastery.md (committed here because the assessment cites it as its method): Semantic Rigor, Mechanical Sympathy, Third Door; delete before optimizing; automate last. Phase 0 findings: - 0-A CORE carries FIVE unreconciled macro articulations of its own cognitive cycle (AGENTS.md north star; AGENTS.md live path; the 2026-05-12 draft three-physics-layer blueprint; ratified ADR-0252's five paradigm stages; the system map's 10-band L0-L11 layering). The blueprint's allocation/attention layer (Salience/Attention/Inhibition) exists in no other articulation. - 0-B .system-map/ is the best existing macro→micro artifact and is 48 days stale, gitignored/local-only, and carries four zero-subsystem zones — three of which sit on the serving path. - 0-C ADR-0252 §5 — the experiment gating the governing paradigm's build — has never returned a verdict (two unmerged rnd/ worktrees). The 34 surface organs the ADR diagnoses as the error keep serving. L10 blocks all 7 OPEN W-* items; field + T1 vault are discarded on exit, so "one continuous life" is today many short lives sharing a checkpoint. - 0-D No live gap register: docs/gaps.md is 26/26 closed, the liveness ratchet is L10-blocked and stale, docs/analysis/ is a chronological archive. - 0-E 333 ADRs, flat numbering, status not reliably machine-extractable; INDEX-by-domain is 21 files behind; the Blueprint reserved 0254-0261 for intents never materialised while those numbers were minted for other work. - 0-F Measured: CGA is ~73% of turn time via cga_inner/geometric_product (~34k calls/turn), NOT versor_condition (0.22%). Rust backend off by default, parity question open and blocked. MLX in no runtime path. - 0-G The 2026-07-25 verification precedent falsified ~1/3 of an external blueprint's items by reading code — the bar for every downstream phase. Phase 1 receives the system map's 17-field proto schema and 7-value liveness vocabulary, plus the four dimensions it lacks (evidence pointer, capacity, design-vs-built, fitness judgment) and five decisions to make explicitly. PR #138's fabrication findings are recorded as measured-and-pinned, held for ADR + ratification — never re-discovered, never fixed here. |
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| pack_inventory_2026-05-21.md | ||
| position_paper.md | ||
| PROGRESS.md | ||
| README.md | ||
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| test-debt-quarantine.md | ||
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| Whitepaper.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).