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Two things this commit does, in the order they were discovered.
1. PHASE 1 CORRECTED. The perception arc's operator experiment is
substantially already run, with three negative results found only by
import-graph census (373 of 666 modules unreachable from serving — grep
of the serving path was the wrong instrument, and this is the second time
this session that a method hole, not a fact hole, hid the evidence):
- 2026-06-04 field-reasoner wedge: translator versors on e1 -> C3,
decoration (wrong=0 held; caught zero symbolic errors; diversity 0)
- 2026-07-19 relational operator ablation: CGA dilation VersorBinding ->
identical to rational baseline 2/8; depth inert; enrich=decoration
- 2026-07-28 ADR-0252 §5: point configurations under Procrustes -> NO-GO
Convergent mechanism: geometry isomorphic to the arithmetic reproduces it
exactly and adds nothing. Binding constraint in all three: the reader.
Reopening criterion recorded so this is never re-proposed blind.
2. THE FOUNDATIONS AUDIT (docs/plans/2026-07-28-foundations-audit.md) now
precedes the perception arc. Method: bottom-up, and no component counts as
understood until four articulations carry evidence — intrinsic correctness,
role in its subsystem, the subsystem's role in the system, and every seam
with its live/dark status. A defect at layer N silently invalidates the
mastery of everything above it, and this repo has proven the invalidations
are real (the empty-set daemon; the dark faithful reader).
FA-1 / G-25 — CORE-LOGOS, tested before the charter was written. The user's
suspicion is CORRECT and now exact: ADR-0005/0015 make cross-language holonomy
resonance THE validation gate of meaning ("This is the CORE-Logos proof"), and
what exists is 11 alignment edges + 9 HE morphology rows (the ADR's own
John1:1/Gen1:1 first cases, never grown), an HE veto that no-ops on English,
a recall bridge running on mystery ON-flag #1 (allow_cross_language_recall —
the pillar's own switch, undocumented), a registered hebrew_greek domain with
zero curriculum bands, and no path anywhere consulting holonomy as a gate.
Root folding into vectors and live holonomy machinery are real. Verdict:
architected, seeded exactly as designed, wired at three mutually-unaware
points, load-bearing nowhere. Everything above L2 currently operates over an
ungrounded semantic space.
The next experiment is therefore NOT a fourth operator-arithmetic ablation:
it is FA-1's pre-registered holonomy-gate question — does cross-language
holonomy closure discriminate meaning-preserving from meaning-breaking
articulation — which tests the geometry on the job the design actually
assigned it (resonance across representations), the one domain that is not
isomorphic to trivial symbolic computation.
Layer stack L0-L5 chartered with initial verdicts; census becomes a pinned
ratchet lane; Perception Arc Phase 0 and Phase 4 stand.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Wcw2pnMBwyvmNyQg4uPEt4
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| ci-optimization.md | ||
| conceptualizing_engineering_mastery.md | ||
| core-rd-base-prompts.md | ||
| ethics_packs.md | ||
| EVAL_AUDIT_2026-05-20.md | ||
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| frontier_baselines.md | ||
| 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).