core/docs/assessment
Claude edf6c2a454
fix(tests): the membership ratchet caught its author — baseline 749 -> 748
PR-6 promoted tests/test_safety_pack.py onto the gate and left it listed in
tests/full_only_baseline.txt. test_baseline_has_no_stale_entries failed the very
next smoke run, naming the file and the direction.

That is the both-directions half of the ratchet doing exactly the work it was
written for, roughly an hour after it landed, against the person who wrote it.
A baseline that silently keeps entries it no longer needs stops being a
measurement and becomes a story about one — so the failure is the feature.

Recorded in the pin's own docstring and in G-7, because a mechanism catching its
author is better evidence than a sabotage test: the sabotage was contrived, this
was not.

Baseline: 749 -> 748. The ratchet only turns down.

Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Wcw2pnMBwyvmNyQg4uPEt4
2026-07-28 04:22:28 +00:00
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10-layer-cards docs(assessment): Phase 3 — component descent; the correction chain continues into code 2026-07-27 15:57:36 -07:00
20-component-cards docs(assessment): Phase 3 — component descent; the correction chain continues into code 2026-07-27 15:57:36 -07:00
00-scope-and-method.md docs(assessment): Phase 4 — the gap register and the hindrance audit 2026-07-27 16:04:22 -07:00
01-phase0-ground-truth.md
02-layer-taxonomy.md
03-card-schema.md
04-phase2-findings.md docs(assessment): Phase 2 — nine layer cards, verified against code not documents 2026-07-27 15:45:52 -07:00
05-phase3-findings.md docs(assessment): Phase 3 — component descent; the correction chain continues into code 2026-07-27 15:57:36 -07:00
30-gap-register.md fix(tests): the membership ratchet caught its author — baseline 749 -> 748 2026-07-28 04:22:28 +00:00
31-hindrance-audit.md feat(tests): curated-suite membership ratchet — and PR-4's parity pin withdrawn (PR-4, G-7, N-9) 2026-07-28 04:03:51 +00:00
40-assessment.md feat(rnd): ADR-0252 §5 run to a verdict — NO-GO, and the two prior GOs are void 2026-07-28 02:55:31 +00:00
50-execution-plan.md feat(tests): three doctrine prohibitions enforced by test, not review (PR-6, G-9) 2026-07-28 04:13:42 +00:00
50-rulings.md feat(tests): curated-suite membership ratchet — and PR-4's parity pin withdrawn (PR-4, G-7, N-9) 2026-07-28 04:03:51 +00:00
README.md docs(assessment): fold in the external-assessment triage — H-13, H-14, H-8e; six proposals cleared 2026-07-28 03:17:54 +00:00

docs/assessment/ — The Holistic Macro→Micro Assessment (2026-07-27)

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 05 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.

Start here: 40-assessment.md — the synthesis (the verdict, the five frontiers, the recommended attack order). Then 50-execution-plan.md for what follows from it, and 50-rulings.md for what is waiting on a decision. The registers rank the work; the cards are the evidence base.

File / dir Phase What it is
00-scope-and-method.md Charter, method, rules of engagement, phase/executor table
01-phase0-ground-truth.md 0 Corpus triage, the five unreconciled articulations, system-map recovery
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
03-card-schema.md 1 The card metadata schema: liveness ⊥ fitness, design ⊥ build, sabotage-tested evidence, verified_at stamps
10-layer-cards/ 2 Nine layer cards (M0M6, MG, MV), every liveness label re-verified against code
04-phase2-findings.md 2 Stage-coverage audit; corrections to Phase 0; findings F-1…F-5
20-component-cards/ 3 Eight component cards: the four zero-subsystem zones + always-on, derivation organs, surface selection, attention
05-phase3-findings.md 3 Corrections C-1…C-5; findings F-6…F-10; the consolidated Phase-4 seed list
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
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)
40-assessment.md 5 The synthesis
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
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

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.

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.