ee481c1c92
40-assessment.md — the verdict in one paragraph (skeleton real, discipline
exceptional, the two deepest commitments unproven in opposite directions);
the cognitive cycle stage-by-stage with the honest sentence for each; what
is excellent, stated as findings; the macro picture (built-and-dark,
capability outruns proof, the record decays faster than the code); THE
FIVE FRONTIERS (the reading, the verdict, the chooser, the proof of life,
the throughput — everything else on the registers is hygiene, enforcement,
or ceremony); the recommended attack order in five waves sequenced by the
mastery algorithm (scrub/rule -> delete -> simplify/enforce -> accelerate
evidence loops -> automate last, with the warning that an always-on
process consolidating an empty set is "garbage at high speed" and CORE
came within one flag of it); the charter's four questions answered
directly; and the maintenance contract that keeps this directory from
becoming the next dead instrument.
README.md — the directory index and reading order.
The assessment is complete: 21 documents, four phases, three
self-corrections, every claim SHA-stamped at
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| conceptualizing_engineering_mastery.md | ||
| core-rd-base-prompts.md | ||
| ethics_packs.md | ||
| EVAL_AUDIT_2026-05-20.md | ||
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| gaps.md | ||
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| identity_packs.md | ||
| master-plan-post-substrate-audit.md | ||
| memo.html | ||
| model_dependency_size_tally.md | ||
| pack_inventory_2026-05-21.md | ||
| position_paper.md | ||
| PROGRESS.md | ||
| README.md | ||
| recognizer-registry.md | ||
| refusal-taxonomy.md | ||
| reviewers.yaml | ||
| RUST.md | ||
| safety_packs.md | ||
| sponsors.md | ||
| teaching_order.md | ||
| test-debt-quarantine.md | ||
| testing-lanes.md | ||
| Whitepaper.md | ||
| Yellowpaper.md | ||
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).