Shay 4c342cdc02 docs(assessment): Phase 4 — the gap register and the hindrance audit

30-gap-register.md — CORE's first LIVE gap register since docs/gaps.md
closed its 26th entry (supersession proposed for ruling). 20 entries in
four tiers, each with evidence, deciding authority, and leverage rank:

- Tier A (frontier-blocking): G-1 the unrun ADR-0252 §5 experiment
  (leverage 1 — authorized, scaffolded, verdict-less; the paradigm governs
  ALL future comprehension); G-2 the #138 fabrications (pre-labeled
  measured-and-pinned, held for ADR + ratification); G-3 reader 19 vs
  writer 1739; G-4 CR-2 no-chooser (the AGI-grade conceptual absence);
  G-5 L10 proof debt (no artifact, no suite, no cadence); G-6 the
  half-gated lived learning loop.
- Tier B (enforcement debt): G-7 orphaned-pin meta-check (the highest-
  leverage single mechanical change); G-8 flag-default register; G-9 three
  doctrine laws without verified failing pins; G-10 curriculum scoping +
  absent ledger; G-11 identity authorization bar unstated.
- Tier C (one-line rulings): CR-3 efferent, CR-4 temporal stance, CR-1
  attention ADR, the daemon's owning ADR.
- Tier D (latent/carried): aspect-arm defect class (generate/templates.py
  :79, unreachable today), sensorium entry criterion, curriculum-formation
  bypass (unverified carry), Wilson evidence debt, refusal materialisation.
- Plus what is NOT in the register and why (deferred-with-ruling is the
  scripture model; benchmarks excluded by the completeness criterion).

31-hindrance-audit.md — 11 entries ranked by leverage, each with fitness
verdict, evidence, proposed better home, deciding authority; decides
nothing. Headliners: H-1 Wilson/replay counting basis (wrong-solution in
the counting, not the gating — 21/25 bands short; the re-count may demote
licenses and that is the mechanism working); H-2 decoration as testimony
(DriveGradientMap, InhibitionMask — deletion per mastery step 2); H-3 the
typed refusal discarded at the public boundary; H-4 extend the resolver's
declared-precedence pattern upstream; H-8 three record/code contradictions
(each one paragraph to fix); H-9 dead instruments standing as if live.
Plus five examined-and-CLEARED candidates (the 18 organs' continued
service is governance working; pure-Python-by-default is measured-correct;
flag-gated conservatism is not hindrance — unregistered darkness is).

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The Gap Register

Assessor: Fable 5 (Phase 4) · Verified at: 8927c563 (2026-07-27) Standing: This is CORE's first live gap register since docs/gaps.md closed its 26th entry. Proposal (for ruling): this register supersedes docs/gaps.md, which is marked historical; two dead registers plus a live one is worse than one live one. Discipline: A gap is an absence the telos requires filled with no explicit deferral ruling. Deferred-with-ruling is not a gap (scripture content is the model). Every entry carries evidence, its deciding authority, and a leverage rank. The register decides nothing.

Tier A — Frontier-blocking (each blocks a ratified commitment or the telos itself)

G-1 · The ADR-0252 §5 experiment has never returned a verdict

Layer: M3 · Leverage: 1 (highest in the assessment) The ratified governing paradigm's single load-bearing empirical claim — can Cl(4,1) geometry carry relational structure the SME way — sits authorized (§8.4), scaffolded (two unmerged rnd/ worktrees, tip bed29a09 "formalize §5 experiment scaffolding"), and unrun. Until it returns GO or NO-GO, the §6 comprehension correction cannot be authorized, and the 18 condemned organs serve indefinitely with no successor path. A well-controlled NO-GO is defined by the ADR as full credit — the experiment is cheap to finish and expensive to leave open. GSM8K's demotion to diagnostic mispriced this: the paradigm governs all future comprehension, not math. Evidence: ADR-0252 §5/§8; worktree log; M3 card. · Authority: execution (already authorized) + Shay's verdict ruling.

G-2 · The #138 fabrications — measured & pinned, fix held for ADR + ratification

Layer: M3 (locus: generate/meaning_graph/reader.py) → blast radius M4 · Leverage: 2 every dog is a mammal → member(every_dog, mammal); Given: furthermore; p implies q; p. → asserted(furthermore) recited back as a served premise. The reader fabricates on 22 constructions beyond its 19-wide verified inventory. The fixes are known — two of the 13 mutations — and are deliberately held because they change what CORE comprehends from user input: serving-path truth behavior, ADR + ratification territory. Entered here pre-labeled per standing instruction; never re-discovered, never fixed by this assessment. Evidence: PR #138 @ c69f9948; realize-phase card (incl. the defensive-gate option: refuse to hold a reading outside the verified inventory). · Authority: the fabrication ADR + Shay's ratification.

G-3 · Reader inventory: 19 constructions against a 1739-construction writer, overlap 6

Layer: M3 · Leverage: 3 The comprehension frontier itself, measured. Standing ruling: close fabrications (G-2) before widening. The widening program after that is the largest single capability gap between CORE and its telos — and its shape depends on G-1's verdict (structure-mapping vs more constructions). Evidence: #138 inventory measurement; M3 card capacity block. · Authority: sequenced rulings (G-2 → G-1 → widening plan).

G-4 · CR-2 — the continuous life has no chooser

Layer: M6 / Candidate Register · Leverage: 4 Confirmed at component depth: drive objects exist (DriveGradientMap — constructed, never read; ExertionMeter — telemetry only); idle mechanisms exist (consolidation, proposal review, contemplation — each flag-gated, each doing one thing); nothing ranks what matters next. The daemon heartbeat advances idle_tick and nothing more ambitious. This is the AGI-grade conceptual absence: everything CORE does is chosen by the operator. Design work, not a flag flip. Evidence: attention-allocation + always-on-process cards; 02-layer-taxonomy.md CR-2. · Authority: design + ruling (does the L10 process own an agenda, governed by what).

G-5 · L10 proof debt — the soak has never produced an artifact, and nothing runs its pins

Layer: M6 / MV · Leverage: 5 The always-on process is built; the falsifiable harness (H1–H4, holds/bites pairs, vacuity-guarded) is built; no recorded long-horizon artifact exists, no suite contains any l10/always_on test, no nightly cadence exists — and the local-first/Mac-runner doctrine makes "nightly" itself need a ruling rather than a cron line. The still-owed ADR-0146 Phase-4 spike, in its modern form: run the soak, record the artifact, schedule the pins. Evidence: M6 + always-on-process cards; suite-membership scan. · Authority: execution + MV suite ruling + cadence ruling.

G-6 · F-6 — the lived learning loop is half-gated

Layer: M6/M5 · Leverage: 6 The daemon forces consolidate_determinations but not accrue_realized_knowledge; the only turn-path writer of realized facts sits behind the unforced flag. As coded, the continuous life may consolidate an empty set. Incomplete flag set, or intended dormancy — neither is documented, and a prior verification doc asserts the opposite of the code (C-5). Evidence: CONTINUOUS_LIFE_CONFIG_FLAGS (chat/always_on_daemon.py:45-49); determine-phase card gating table. · Authority: ruling (one flag + one sentence, or a documented dormancy rationale).

Tier B — Enforcement & instrument debt (capability exists; the guarantee doesn't)

G-7 · No orphaned-pin meta-check

Layer: MV · Leverage: 7 Suite tuples are hand-curated; a test file in zero suites is indistinguishable from one that runs everywhere. This is the mechanism by which G-5 happened. A meta-pin — every tests/**/*.py belongs to ≥1 suite or an explicit exclusion list — converts the doctrine "a pin in no suite never runs" into a failing test. Likely the highest-leverage single mechanical change in the repository. Evidence: MV card; the M6 case as the demonstration. · Authority: mechanical (small PR); no ruling needed.

G-8 · No flag-default register

Layer: cross-cut · Leverage: 8 Seventeen capability flags default False; one is ratified ON (deduction_serving_enabled); three are daemon-forced (persist_session_state, consolidate_determinations, strict_identity_continuity). No document states the set, which defaults are deliberate posture vs accumulated hesitancy, or what evidence would flip each. The largest lever in the system, unregistered. The register format already exists in-repo: the ratified-ledger pattern (declare absence policy in the table, not the call site — ADR-0263 Rule 5). Evidence: core/config.py scan (Phase 2); daemon trio (Phase 3). · Authority: documentation PR + per-flag evidence bars set by ruling.

G-9 · Enforcement pins unverified for three doctrine-level prohibitions

Layer: M1 / MG · Leverage: 9 (a) No verified failing pin for the no-approximate-recall law (would a cosine ranker actually fail a test?); (b) no pin that fails when a layer bypasses governance entirely (as distinct from governance working when called); (c) safety-pack non-swappability not verified as mechanically enforced. All three are law in AGENTS.md; law-enforced-by-review is weaker than law-enforced-by-test. Evidence: M1/MG cards (flagged, not resolved, in Phase 2–3). · Authority: verification pass, then mechanical PRs.

G-10 · Curriculum SERVE is fully blocked by one engineering item, and its ledger doesn't exist

Layer: M5 · Leverage: 10 ADR-0264 §4.1: the 16-premise compilation cap holds every band to ≤16 entailed cases, so no curriculum band can earn SERVE until query-scoping lands — an engineering blocker gating a content problem that is itself quantified at 24×–73× under-fed. Downstream, chat/data/curriculum_serve_ledger.json is absent (the one honest missing_ok=True in production), and a committed ledger is necessarily an earning one — the outcome-mix ruling remains the binding constraint. Evidence: M5 card; ADR-0264 §4.1; chat/curriculum_serve_license.py:46. · Authority: engineering (scoping) + outcome-mix ruling.

G-11 · Identity enforcement has no stated authorization bar

Layer: MG · Leverage: 11 identity_wave_gate is off and "not authorized" — a deliberate posture. What's missing is the criterion: no document states what evidence would authorize live refusal. Scoring-without-blocking is an honest state only while the path to blocking is defined. Evidence: MG card; runtime_contracts.md identity contract. · Authority: ruling (set the bar).

Tier C — One-line rulings (cheap to close; expensive only if left silent)

G-12 · CR-3 efferent action — deferred, or out of telos?

No system-level statement exists either way; the only adjacent text is one bench's v1 prohibition. The alignment posture is arguably stronger with action explicitly deferred — the ruling costs one line. Authority: ruling.

G-13 · CR-4 temporal self-location — a stance before the L10 spike

Determinism bans clocks; continuity implies lived time; the 24h+ no-drift requirement cannot be stated precisely without a stance on "now." The spike (G-5) should not be designed with an accidental answer. Authority: ruling (can be a paragraph in the soak's contract).

G-14 · CR-1 attention governance — the one-page ADR

Own use_salience, the two underived constants, the self-narrowing budget feedback, and the InhibitionMask disposition. Mechanism verified live and sound; only the governance is absent. Authority: ADR (one page — the card is its draft evidence base).

G-15 · The daemon's ratifying ADR

chat/always_on_daemon.py is unowned while ADR-0146 explicitly rejected the daemon shape it implements. Whatever the right answer, the record currently contradicts the code (see H-8). Authority: ADR amendment or a new short ADR.

Tier D — Latent & carried-forward (recorded so nothing silently drops)

G-16 · ADR-0265's defect class survives in _inflect_predicate's aspect arms (generate/templates.py:79) — 10,530/16,146 template points, not reachable today. Latent, recorded from the prior arc; becomes live if aspect arms become reachable. Authority: the widening program (G-3) must clear it first.
G-17 · Non-text ingest — 59 sensorium modules, no serving path, no entry criterion; projection heads do not exist. Position paper is honest about this. Needs either an entry criterion or an explicit deferral ruling (the falsification bench is the standard the track should be held to when it moves). Authority: ruling.
G-18 · Identity-divergence curriculum may still bypass formation's gates — known gap since 2026-05-17 (teaching_order.md); unverified at this SHA. Authority: Phase-3-style verification pass, then a routing PR.
G-19 · Wilson/replay evidence shortfall — 21/25 ratified bands short if replays were counted as independent trials (see H-1 for the mechanism). Recorded here as evidence debt on existing licenses; the counting fix is the hindrance entry. Authority: ADR amendment + re-count.
G-20 · The refusal_reason materialisation — typed refusal evidence exists and is discarded at the public str boundary; the plumbing for materialisation already landed. Cross-listed as H-3. Authority: small ADR (anticipated by the ADR-0024 chain).

What is not in this register, and why

Scripture/theology content — deferred by explicit ruling (2026-07-26); the model case for deferred-is-not-missing.
Benchmark wins — excluded by the completeness criterion itself (taxonomy §6): architectural distinctiveness is the target; benchmarks are downstream validation.
Sociality, affect, full embodiment — considered and not registered, with reasons, in the taxonomy's Candidate Register; importing them would violate Pillar II.
Rust-backend default — an open question with a stated blocker (crates.io unreachable under sandbox), not a gap; the measured case for urgency dissolved (0.22%).

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