CORE Demo Capture Shot-List & Script (2026-06-14)

A ready-to-shoot plan for the first public-facing demo assets (flagship video, short clips, screenshots). Every route, on-screen line, and honesty card below is sourced from the live workbench — nothing here overclaims past what the engine actually proves.

Cardinal rule: never open on the Chat box. The moat is refuse / replay / show-its-work, not "type → get text." The target reaction is the workbench's own guiding question (docs/workbench/README.md):

"Wait… I can actually inspect and replay the cognition." — not "Cool chatbot."

0. Setup

core workbench api          # read-only backend on http://127.0.0.1:8765
# in a second terminal, from workbench-ui/:
pnpm dev                    # React UI

Capture settings:

1920×1080, or 2× retina downscaled for crisper text.
Dark theme. Hide OS chrome / notifications. Full-screen the browser.
Slow the cursor. Pause 1–2s on every honesty card and every hash — they are the payload; let viewers read them.
Keep the Evidence Chain Rail visible where possible (reinforces "URL = subject; everything is addressable evidence").

The verbatim thesis (from workbench/tour.py) — use as tagline / cold-open VO, do not re-author:

"CORE is the deterministic engine the opaque transformer defines itself against. Bring a claim — from any model, including your own — and watch the engine decide it, refuse it, or replay it to the same hash. The proposing model's authority is ignored; only verified evidence promotes."

1. Flagship video — film the Tour (target 60–90s)

/tour is purpose-built for this: a 5-step narrative bound to the live demos, where honesty cards are pulled from each demo spec and cannot claim more than the demo proves. Film it in order.

#	Route	Hold the camera on (real on-screen text)	Voiceover	Dur
1	`/tour` (intro)	"These are not screenshots or animations. Each step runs a real demo over pinned fixtures, end to end."	Read the thesis line above.	~12s
2	`/demos/deductive_entailment_authority`	"served … only when the pinned ROBDD engine and an independent oracle agree"	"Two independent engines. They must agree, or it refuses."	~12s
3	`/demos/epistemic_truth_state`	"You are watching a wrong answer get refused rather than served"	"This is what wrong=0 looks like — a wrong proposer gets rejected."	~12s
4	`/demos/proof_carrying_promotion`	"authority lives in the evidence, not the model"	"Nothing enters memory without a verified certificate."	~12s
5	`/replay`	"Replay to the same hash… Determinism isn't a claim here; it's a deliverable."	Re-run the turn; let both hashes sit side by side.	~15s

Money shot: step 5 — two identical trace hashes after a re-run. Freeze-frame

highlight box in post. This is the thumbnail and the pinned-tweet image; no transformer demo can show it.

2. Short clips (15–40s each) — one capability per clip, numbered series

Post as a thread/reel series. Each is a self-contained "they can't do this."

#	Route	What to show	Caption
1	`/demos/epistemic_truth_state`	Proposer smuggles an unsupported truth-state; engine rejects.	"We measure intelligence by what it refuses to say."
2	`/replay`	Run, re-run, hashes match.	"Same input, same cognition, same hash. Every time."
3	`/demos/{any}`	Slow zoom on the paired `what_this_proves` / `what_this_does_not_prove` cards.	"Every claim ships with what it does NOT prove."
4	`/evals`	The wrong=0 ledger; the wrong column at 0.	"0 wrong answers. Not 'low' — zero, by construction."
5	`/calibration`	Gold-tether arena: Wilson floor vs θ ceiling.	"It has to earn the right to guess — with a one-sided confidence floor."
6	`/trace` → Field tab	`versor_condition < 1e-6`, `field_valid`, field digest.	"Cognition runs on a geometric field — proven coherent to 1e-6."
7	`/lived-life`	Always-on heartbeat holding identity across reboot.	"Not a stateless chatbot. One continuous life."
8	`/trace`	Scrub Pipeline / Grounding / Verdicts / Surfaces tabs.	"Every turn, fully inspectable: intent → graph → realizer → verdict."

High-res, dark theme, Evidence Chain Rail visible.

Hero: the two matching trace hashes (/replay).
Honesty-card pair (/demos/{any}).
/evals wrong=0 ledger (the 0 column).
/calibration Wilson-floor-vs-θ arena.
/trace Field tab with versor_condition.
LeftNav fully expanded — all 7 sections (Converse / Cognition / Determinism / Evidence / Discipline / Substrate / Settings) — "instrument, not chat box" at a glance.
Command palette open (⌘K) over a route — operator-grade tooling signal.

4. Caption / VO bank (all from real on-screen text — nothing overclaims)

"Bring a claim — from any model, including your own. The engine decides it, refuses it, or replays it to the same hash."
"The proposing model's authority is ignored. Only verified evidence promotes."
"These aren't screenshots or animations — each step runs a real demo over pinned fixtures, end to end."
"Two independent engines have to agree, or it refuses to answer."
"Determinism isn't a claim here. It's a deliverable."
"Every claim ships with what it does not prove."

5. Docs walkthrough order (for the written launch post / deep dive)

docs/Whitepaper.md / docs/position_paper.md — the "why" (decoding, not generating). Lead here.
docs/workbench/README.md — the "cognition observatory, NOT a chatbot shell" framing; the guiding-question quote is a strong pull-quote.
docs/workbench/UI-UX-GUIDE.md — operator/evaluator route map + evidence grammar; the proof the UX is designed. Cite for the UI/UX-value argument.
docs/runtime_contracts.md — surface/walk/articulation contract (determinism is contractual, not aspirational).
CLAIMS.md + docs/claims_ledger.md — the receipts. Linking these publicly is itself a credibility move.

Technical-reader combo: Whitepaper (idea) → Tour video (demo) → CLAIMS.md (receipts).

6. Honesty guardrails — stay inside these (the whole pitch is honesty)

Do not headline Chat answering a hard open-domain question. Verified capability is formal/propositional decision, not broad NL reasoning — the demos' own what_this_does_not_prove cards say so; let them. If Chat appears, it's "the conversational surface," not "look how smart it is."
GSM8K is a diagnostic, not a flagship. Never headline a math score. If math appears, it's "watch it refuse what it can't ground."
Lived Life is real; the frontier is honest. Resume-as-same-life and idle-tick learning are built; the indefinite always-on process is the active edge. "One continuous life" (true), not "alive for months" (not yet).
Lean on the honesty cards harder than on any capability. A system that volunteers its own limits on screen is what makes serious people trust the rest.

7. Post-production cues

Freeze-frame + highlight box on the matching hashes (flagship step 5, clip 2).
1–2s holds on every honesty card and every hash.
Lower-thirds from the caption bank only — no invented claims.
Brand voice: humble + confident, geometric. Donations/credit: ACB Content; site core.acbcontent.org.

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