core/docs/decisions/ADR-0095-miner-sourced-teaching-proposals.md
Shay 10457bec69 docs(adr): propose ADRs 0092-0099 — scale-up slate through public showcase
Eight load-bearing ADRs closing the loop from contemplation Phase 5 through
a public showcase demo. Each one is small and evidence-bearing; together
they sequence the next arc without duplicating existing substrate.

- 0092 Reviewer Registry v1 — populates docs/reviewers.yaml schema;
  unblocks all reasoning-capable claims under ADR-0091.
- 0093 Domain Pack Contract v1 Implementation — wires ADR-0091's five
  follow-up items (parser, dry-run validator, chain registry, eval lane
  refs, reviewer resolution) so manifest fields actually gate status.
- 0094 Proposal Source Provenance — sealed ProposalSource type widening
  proposal schemas ahead of 0095.
- 0095 Miner-Sourced Teaching Proposals — closes the contemplation
  loop: articulation_quality / contradiction_detection / frontier_compare
  miners emit PackMutationProposal candidates routed through the single
  reviewed teaching path; identity-pack defense at construction, not
  review; replay-equivalence pre-gate.
- 0096 Fabrication-Control Eval Lane — first negative-control measure;
  three case classes (phantom endpoint, cross-pack non-bridge, sibling
  collapse) with frozen thresholds (fabrication_rate ≤ 0.01).
- 0097 Mathematics-Logic Reasoning-Capable Ratification — first
  domain claim under ADR-0091; chain corpus + eval lanes already
  exist, this is the formal contract ratification.
- 0098 Demo Composition Contract — DemoCommand protocol so demos can
  be composed without reimplementation; deterministic JSON, no global
  state mutation, declared output paths only.
- 0099 Public Showcase Demo — composes four scenes (determinism /
  honest unknown / reviewed learning / multi-hop+trace) under 30s;
  pure composition enforced by grep gate; JSON byte-equality CI-pinned.

Landing order: 0092 → 0094 → 0095 → 0093 → 0096 → 0097 → 0098 → 0099.

Deliberately not included: curriculum compiler, formation course
runner, calculator operators, response-mode taxonomy expansion,
learning-scale 10k harness. Each is deferred with a documented reason.
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# ADR-0095 — Miner-Sourced Teaching Proposals
**Status:** Proposed
**Date:** 2026-05-21
**Author:** CORE agents + reviewers
**Depends on:** ADR-0094
---
## Context
Phase 5 of the contemplation arc landed three miners under
`core/contemplation/miners/`:
- `articulation_quality.py` (closed the articulation loop signal)
- `contradiction_detection.py`
- `frontier_compare.py`
Each miner emits observations. None of them currently produce
`PackMutationProposal` candidates. The loop is one-way: contemplation
sees the gap, but the only way to close it is for an operator to
read the miner output and manually file a proposal. That breaks the
"learn from reviewed correction" arc CLAUDE.md names as load-bearing:
> listen → comprehend → recall → think → articulate → learn from reviewed correction → replay deterministically
This ADR closes the loop without weakening the reviewed-teaching
discipline. The doctrine constraint is sharp: there must be exactly
one correction path, and miner-sourced proposals must traverse it.
---
## Decision
Introduce `teaching/proposals/from_miner.py` that translates miner
observations into `PackMutationProposal` candidates with
`source = ProposalSource(kind="miner", source_id=<miner_id>, …)` from
ADR-0094.
### Hard constraints
1. **Single review path.** Miner-sourced proposals enter
`teaching/review.py` via the same entry point as operator proposals.
No parallel reviewer, no auto-acceptance, no shortened review path.
2. **Default status `speculative`.** Miner-sourced proposals are never
coherent at emission.
3. **Identity-pack defense.** Proposals touching identity-pack axes are
rejected at proposal-construction time (before review), not at
review time. This prevents the miner from ever filing an identity
override candidate, even one that would fail review. ADR-0027's
identity-override rejection rule extends upstream.
4. **Replay-equivalence pre-gate.** Before a miner-sourced proposal is
review-eligible, replay the originating turn under the proposed
mutation. If `trace_hash` changes on any non-target turn in the
lane, the proposal is rejected at construction.
5. **Deterministic emission.** Same miner observations + same head SHA
→ byte-identical proposal stream. Proposal IDs are SHA-256 of
`(miner_id, observation_canonical, emitted_at_revision)`.
### What miners do not gain
- Direct write access to packs.
- Ability to mark proposals coherent.
- Ability to mutate identity, safety, or ethics packs at all.
### Telemetry
Miner-sourced proposals emit a `"type": "proposal_emitted"` event to
the existing telemetry sink (ADR-0040), carrying the redacted
`source.serialize()` string and proposal ID. Content is redacted by
default per ADR-0040.
---
## Invariant
`miner_proposal_replay_equivalence` — for every miner-sourced proposal
that reaches review eligibility, replaying the originating lane with
the proposed mutation applied yields identical `trace_hash` on every
non-target turn. The lane gate refuses proposals that violate this.
`miner_proposal_single_review_path` — grep gate refuses any code path
that promotes a miner-sourced proposal to coherent outside
`teaching/review.py`.
---
## Lane
`evals/miner_loop_closure/` (new):
- positive: legitimate articulation gap → proposal emitted → reviewable
- negative: identity-override attempt via miner → rejected at construction
- negative: proposal that breaks replay-equivalence → rejected at construction
- negative: malformed miner observation → typed error, no proposal
- coincidence: random/noise observation → no proposal under threshold
- determinism: same observations across two runs → identical proposal stream
---
## Trust Boundary
Miners read turn telemetry only; they do not read user-controlled text
directly. The miner-to-proposal boundary sanitizes `source_id` via
`safe_pack_id` traversal rejection. The replay-equivalence gate is a
filesystem-only operation against the existing eval runners; no network
or shell.
---
## Consequences
- Phase 5 contemplation becomes a closed loop in code, not just in
doctrine.
- The capability ledger gains a new evidence row class: "miner-sourced
proposal accepted into coherent" — measurable, replayable.
- Learning-scale claims (the deferred 10k harness) become eventually
defensible because every replayed proposal will have a real
provenance, not a synthetic one.
---
## PR Checklist
- Capability added: closed contemplation loop through reviewed teaching.
- Invariants proved: `miner_proposal_replay_equivalence`, `miner_proposal_single_review_path`.
- Lane proving it: `evals/miner_loop_closure/`.
- Hidden normalization / stochastic fallback / approximate recall / unreviewed mutation: none. Single review path enforced by grep gate.
- Trust boundary: miner reads telemetry, never user text; identity-pack rejection at construction.