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Two external first-principles assessments of CORE were verified against code
line-by-line at 8f0ccfe3. What survived is entered; what failed is recorded in
the audit's negative space with the refuting file named, per the register's own
discipline.
Entered:
H-13 — the speculative-marker cache over-evicts shared tokens: promoting one
proposal to COHERENT pops tokens regardless of owner (pipeline.py:736-739,
:1045-1055), so a sibling proposal's still-SPECULATIVE material is served
without its marker. Honesty regression, served direction. Remedy: refcounted
cache, failing test first. (The source assessment described this seam with
the direction inverted — under-eviction; the code over-evicts. The check
that caught the inversion is what confirmed the bug.)
H-14 — _run_turn is 759 lines (pipeline.py:189-947) under a thin-wrapper
docstring, with finalize_turn_trace_hash x2 / finalize_turn_surface x1
back-stamps as the measured symptom. H-4's sibling: refactor ADR, PR-10's
byte-identical-trace bar, and the learn stage named stateful.
H-8e — inductive_closure.py's docstring claims a path-based cycle skip the
code does not perform (:106 vs :189-193) — and the code is the right side:
the monotone fixed point needs no path check, and adding one would refuse
sound derivations. path records only (a,b,c) for longer chains (:198), so
trace provenance is incomplete. Docstring fix is mechanical; extending path
changes operator_invocation bytes -> trace_hash, held to the trace-change bar.
PR-9 widened — the logos-authority bare except (pipeline.py:555) and the
three OOV-probe swallows (:605-657) join the count-the-swallow scope; same
remedy shape (record repr(e), keep the backstop), explicitly not the
narrow-catch alternative.
R-4 packet addition — first collapse candidate: composed_surface +
transitive_surface + transitive_max_depth -> chain_depth:int, justified by
ADR-0083's own docstring ladder; ruled in-lineage, not ad-hoc.
R-12a note — lived_life.json staleness recorded as a question; the proposed
PID-attestation fix rejected (refuses every reboot resume; PID reuse).
Cleared, with the refuting file named: EpistemicState compression
(vault/store.py, policy.py's ADR-0206 partition), the EpistemicState x
NormativeClearance product type (erases refusal evidence — H-3 rebuilt as a
type), PID attestation, path-based cycle skipping, the depth-enrichment cache
(pack_resolver.py:19 already lru_caches the cost), and the unified reasoning
engine as-refactor (trace_hash change + capability widening + discards the
ROBDD engine one merge after ADR-0265 ratified denial).
Register ranges updated to G-1..G-21 / H-1..H-14. Docs only; no runtime
behavior, no flag, no test changed.
[Verification]: uv run pytest tests/test_adr_index.py
tests/test_adr_status_governance.py tests/test_adr_0252_s5_blindness.py -q —
327 passed at this tree.
Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Wcw2pnMBwyvmNyQg4uPEt4
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# docs/assessment/ — The Holistic Macro→Micro Assessment (2026-07-27)
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A read-only, evidence-bearing assessment of CORE's cognitive-cycle design versus implementation fulfillment, conducted under `docs/conceptualizing_engineering_mastery.md` at `forgejo/main` @ `8927c563`. Phases 0–5 change no runtime behavior, fix no defect, and decide nothing — they produce evidence and judgments for ruling. Phase 6 adds the execution plan built on them and the ruling packet they require.
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**Start here:** [`40-assessment.md`](40-assessment.md) — the synthesis (the verdict, the five frontiers, the recommended attack order). Then [`50-execution-plan.md`](50-execution-plan.md) for what follows from it, and [`50-rulings.md`](50-rulings.md) for what is waiting on a decision. The registers rank the work; the cards are the evidence base.
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| File / dir | Phase | What it is |
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| [`00-scope-and-method.md`](00-scope-and-method.md) | — | Charter, method, rules of engagement, phase/executor table |
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| [`01-phase0-ground-truth.md`](01-phase0-ground-truth.md) | 0 | Corpus triage, the five unreconciled articulations, system-map recovery |
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| [`02-layer-taxonomy.md`](02-layer-taxonomy.md) | 1 | The two-axis taxonomy: 7 macro layers + 2 cross-cuts over 33 zones; the Candidate Register (CR-1…4); completeness criteria |
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| [`03-card-schema.md`](03-card-schema.md) | 1 | The card metadata schema: liveness ⊥ fitness, design ⊥ build, sabotage-tested evidence, `verified_at` stamps |
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| [`10-layer-cards/`](10-layer-cards/) | 2 | Nine layer cards (M0–M6, MG, MV), every liveness label re-verified against code |
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| [`04-phase2-findings.md`](04-phase2-findings.md) | 2 | Stage-coverage audit; corrections to Phase 0; findings F-1…F-5 |
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| [`20-component-cards/`](20-component-cards/) | 3 | Eight component cards: the four zero-subsystem zones + always-on, derivation organs, surface selection, attention |
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| [`05-phase3-findings.md`](05-phase3-findings.md) | 3 | Corrections C-1…C-5; findings F-6…F-10; the consolidated Phase-4 seed list |
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| [`30-gap-register.md`](30-gap-register.md) | 4 | **The live gap register** — 20 entries, 4 tiers, each with evidence + deciding authority (proposes superseding `docs/gaps.md`); four entries amended in Phase 6 |
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| [`31-hindrance-audit.md`](31-hindrance-audit.md) | 4 | Fourteen hindrances with fitness verdicts and better homes; eleven candidates examined and cleared (five in Phase 4, six in the 2026-07-28 external-assessment triage) |
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| [`40-assessment.md`](40-assessment.md) | 5 | The synthesis |
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| [`50-execution-plan.md`](50-execution-plan.md) | 6 | **The execution plan** — five waves + five frontier tracks over every G/H entry, with the dependency gates and the risks. §0 carries seven corrections to the assessment found while sizing it |
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| [`50-rulings.md`](50-rulings.md) | 6 | **The ruling packet** — R-1…R-14, each with evidence, options, a recommendation, and the exact diff that follows from each choice. Wave 0's deliverable |
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**Maintenance contract** (from §8 of the synthesis): a card whose `verified_at` falls behind a load-bearing arc is testimony, not evidence. Update cards when their subsystems move, or this directory becomes the next dead instrument it was built to replace.
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**Standing note:** the PR #138 fabrication findings appear throughout as *measured & pinned, fix held for ADR + ratification* — recorded, never re-discovered, never fixed here, per explicit instruction.
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