Architecture Decision Records
This directory contains the Architecture Decision Records (ADRs) for the CORE project.
ADRs record significant architectural decisions: what was decided, why, what alternatives were considered, and what consequences follow. They are permanent records — superseded ADRs are archived, not deleted.
Index
| ADR | Title | Status |
|---|---|---|
| ADR-0001 | Vocab Layer Invariants | Accepted |
| ADR-0002 | Ingest Layer Design (original) | Archived — superseded by ADR-0012 |
| ADR-0003 | Coordinate System Dissolution | Accepted |
| ADR-0004 | Rotor as Operator, Not Property | Accepted |
| ADR-0005 | Language Pack Contract | Accepted |
| ADR-0006 | Field Energy Operator | Accepted |
| ADR-0007 | Valence Layer | Accepted |
| ADR-0008 | Allocation Physics | Accepted |
| ADR-0009 | Compositional Physics | Accepted |
| ADR-0010 | Identity Physics | Accepted |
| ADR-0011 | Renderer | Accepted |
| ADR-0012 | core_ingest Governance Layer |
Accepted |
| ADR-0013 | sensorium/ Multimodal Protocol Layer |
Accepted |
| ADR-0014 | train/ Learning Loop |
Accepted (Stub) |
| ADR-0015 | Language Packs as Compiled Linguistic Manifolds | Accepted |
| ADR-0016 | Capability Roadmap and Eval Methodology | Accepted |
| ADR-0017 | Agency Scope: Responsive-with-Axiology | Accepted |
| ADR-0018 | Tool Use Scope: Typed Deterministic Operators | Accepted |
| ADR-0019 | Exact Vault Recall Acceleration | Accepted |
| ADR-0020 | Phase 5 / Rust Parity Sequencing | Accepted (2026-05-16) |
| ADR-0021 | Epistemic Grade Policy | Accepted |
| ADR-0022 | Forward Semantic Control | Accepted (2026-05-17) |
| ADR-0023 | Forward Semantic Control: Proof Evidence | Accepted |
| ADR-0024 | Inner-Loop Per-Rotor Admissibility | Accepted |
| ADR-0025 | Rotor / Frame Admissibility | Accepted (2026-05-17) |
| ADR-0026 | Ranked Admissibility with Margin | Accepted (2026-05-17) |
| ADR-0027 | Identity Packs — swappable, ratified | Accepted (2026-05-17) |
| ADR-0028 | Identity Surface Wiring | Accepted (2026-05-17) |
| ADR-0029 | Safety Packs — never-swappable, fail-closed | Accepted (2026-05-17) |
| ADR-0030 | Depth-Language Hedge | Accepted (2026-05-17) |
| ADR-0031 | Score-Decomposition Surface | Accepted (2026-05-17) |
| ADR-0032 | SafetyCheck Predicate Surface | Accepted (2026-05-17) |
| ADR-0033 | Ethics Packs — third pack tier | Accepted (2026-05-17) |
| ADR-0034 | EthicsCheck Predicate Surface | Accepted (2026-05-17) |
| ADR-0035 | Turn-Loop Verdict Surfacing | Accepted (2026-05-17) |
| ADR-0036 | Safety-Only Typed Refusal | Accepted (2026-05-17) |
| ADR-0037 | Per-Predicate Ethics Refusal Opt-In | Accepted (2026-05-17) |
| ADR-0038 | Hedge Injection as Runtime Affordance | Accepted (2026-05-17) |
| ADR-0039 | Audit Completeness — TurnVerdicts + stub TurnEvent | Accepted (2026-05-17) |
| ADR-0040 | Structured-Logging Sink | Accepted (2026-05-17) |
| ADR-0041 | --show-verdicts + FanOutSink |
Accepted (2026-05-17) |
| ADR-0042 | Audit Tour Demo (core demo audit-tour) |
Accepted (2026-05-17) |
| ADR-0043 | Phase-2 pack measurements — claims → numbers | Accepted (2026-05-17) |
| ADR-0044 | Medical / clinical ethics pack | Accepted (2026-05-17) |
| ADR-0045 | Long-context recall: CORE vs transformer baselines | Accepted (2026-05-17) |
| ADR-0046 | PropositionGraph as forward AdmissibilityRegion + industry demos | Accepted (2026-05-18) |
| ADR-0047 | Wire forward graph constraint into the chat hot path (opt-in) | Accepted (2026-05-18) |
| ADR-0048 | Pack-grounded surface for cold-start DEFINITION / RECALL | Accepted (2026-05-18) |
| ADR-0049 | Intent classifier head-noun subject extraction | Accepted (2026-05-18) |
| ADR-0050 | Pack-grounded surface for cold-start COMPARISON | Accepted (2026-05-18) |
| ADR-0051 | Trust-boundary hardening pass | Accepted (2026-05-18) |
| ADR-0052 | Teaching-grounded surface for cold-start CAUSE / VERIFICATION | Accepted (2026-05-18) |
| ADR-0053 | Cognition lane closure + correction acknowledgement | Accepted (2026-05-18) |
| ADR-0054 | Vault recall indexing + batched API | Accepted (2026-05-18) |
| ADR-0055 | Inter-session memory: reviewed discovery promotion | Phase A + B Accepted; C–E Proposed (2026-05-18) |
| ADR-0056 | Contemplation loop C1 | Accepted (2026-05-18) |
| ADR-0057 | Teaching-chain proposal + review + replay-equivalence gate | Accepted (2026-05-18) |
| ADR-0058 | Forward graph constraint remains opt-in default-false | Accepted (2026-05-18) |
| ADR-0059 | Correction-pass telemetry | Accepted (2026-05-18) |
| ADR-0060 | Correction acknowledgement topic lemma | Accepted (2026-05-18) |
| ADR-0061 | Procedure intent pack-grounded surface | Accepted (2026-05-18) |
| ADR-0062 | Composed teaching-grounded surface | Accepted (2026-05-18) |
| ADR-0063 | Cross-pack surface resolver | Accepted (2026-05-18) |
| ADR-0064 | Cross-pack teaching chains | Accepted (2026-05-18) |
| ADR-0065 | OOV gradient + relations v2 | Accepted (2026-05-18) |
| ADR-0066 | Turn-level composition | Accepted (2026-05-18) |
| ADR-0067 | Cross-pack teaching chains — explicit cross-domain edges | Accepted (2026-05-18) |
| ADR-0068–ADR-0079 | Reserved / see git history until individual ADR files are added to this index | Not indexed |
| ADR-0080 | Contemplation loop | Proposed |
| ADR-0081–ADR-0082 | Reserved / see git history until individual ADR files are added to this index | Not indexed |
| ADR-0083 | Transitive chain surface | Proposed |
| ADR-0084 | Definitional layer | Proposed |
| ADR-0085–ADR-0086 | Reserved / see git history until individual ADR files are added to this index | Not indexed |
| ADR-0087 | Rhetorical style axis | Proposed |
| ADR-0088 | Realizer grounded authority | Proposed |
| ADR-0089 | Compound intent pipeline dispatch | Proposed |
| ADR-0090 | Unified ingest and batched recall | Proposed |
| ADR-0091 | Domain Pack Contract v1 | Accepted (2026-05-22) |
| ADR-0092 | Reviewer Registry v1 | Accepted (2026-05-22) |
| ADR-0093 | Domain Pack Contract v1 implementation | Accepted (2026-05-22) |
| ADR-0094 | Proposal Source Provenance | Proposed |
| ADR-0095 | Miner-Sourced Teaching Proposals | Proposed |
| ADR-0096 | Fabrication-Control Eval Lane | Accepted (2026-05-22) |
| ADR-0097 | Mathematics-Logic Reasoning-Capable Ratification | Accepted (2026-05-22) |
| ADR-0098 | Demo Composition Contract | Proposed — current implementation frontier |
| ADR-0099 | Public Showcase Demo | Proposed — depends on ADR-0098 |
| ADR-0100 | Physics Reasoning-Capable Ratification | Accepted (2026-05-22) |
| ADR-0101 | Systems-Software Reasoning-Capable Ratification | Accepted (2026-05-22) |
| ADR-0102 | Hebrew-Greek Textual-Reasoning Reasoning-Capable Ratification | Accepted (2026-05-22) |
Current frontier
The active frontier is no longer domain-ratification substrate. The following are already accepted and mechanically evidenced:
- Domain Pack Contract v1 — ADR-0091
- Reviewer Registry v1 — ADR-0092
- Domain Contract v1 enforcement — ADR-0093
- Fabrication-control negative eval lane — ADR-0096
mathematics_logicreasoning-capable ratification — ADR-0097physicsreasoning-capable ratification — ADR-0100systems_softwarereasoning-capable ratification — ADR-0101hebrew_greek_textual_reasoningmulti-pack reasoning-capable ratification — ADR-0102
The current implementation frontier is therefore:
ADR-0098 — Demo Composition Contract
↓
ADR-0099 — Public Showcase Demo
ADR-0098 is the evidence-orchestration layer. It must let existing proof artifacts compose without reimplementation, subprocess stdout parsing, hidden state mutation, or non-deterministic JSON.
ADR-0099 should not begin until ADR-0098 is accepted. The showcase must compose already-proven scenes; it must not become a marketing rewrite of the proof substrate.
Learning-loop expansion remains deliberately later:
ADR-0094 — Proposal Source Provenance
↓
ADR-0095 — Miner-Sourced Teaching Proposals
Do not begin ADR-0095 until ADR-0094 is accepted.
Accepted reasoning-capable domains
| Domain | Ratification ADR | Pack(s) | Evidence summary |
|---|---|---|---|
mathematics_logic |
ADR-0097 | en_mathematics_logic_v1 |
All nine ADR-0091 predicates pass; ledger row is reasoning-capable; expert_demo remains false; lanes include positive coverage, inference closure, and fabrication control. |
physics |
ADR-0100 | en_physics_v1 |
All nine predicates pass; causal/modal operator coverage meets threshold; ledger row is reasoning-capable; expert_demo remains false. |
systems_software |
ADR-0101 | en_systems_software_v1 |
All nine predicates pass; transitive/causal operator coverage meets threshold; ledger row is reasoning-capable; symbolic_logic is the v1 closest-fit eval lane. |
hebrew_greek_textual_reasoning |
ADR-0102 | grc_logos_micro_v1, grc_logos_cognition_v1, he_logos_micro_v1, he_core_cognition_v1 |
First multi-pack ratification; all four packs carry uniform contract fields; causal/contradiction operator coverage meets threshold; universal lanes are declared until language-specific holdouts land. |
ADR chain notes
Forward Semantic Control closure — ADR-0022 through ADR-0026
ADR-0022 through ADR-0026 form a single coherent chain that closes forward semantic control as a non-stochastic, replay-deterministic, trace-evidenced mechanism.
- ADR-0022 establishes
AdmissibilityRegionand the contract that a region restricts the admissible token set at generation time. - ADR-0023 records proof evidence that the admissibility region is honored at the region-intersection level.
- ADR-0024 adds destination-side per-step admissibility and honest
InnerLoopExhaustionwhen all admissible candidates are rejected. - ADR-0025 adds rotor/frame admissibility when a region carries a
frame_versor. - ADR-0026 replaces static threshold tuning with ranked admissibility and a scale-invariant margin gate.
Runtime contracts for the chain are pinned in docs/runtime_contracts.md.
Pack-layer chain — ADR-0027 through ADR-0045
ADR-0027 through ADR-0045 establish the identity / safety / ethics pack architecture with deterministic remediation, audit completeness, telemetry, operator readout, audit-tour demo, pack measurements, a worked-example medical ethics pack, and long-context comparison measurements.
Evidence-governed domain chain — ADR-0091 through ADR-0102
ADR-0091 through ADR-0102 establish the current domain-ratification substrate:
contract definition
↓
reviewer trust root
↓
validator / ledger enforcement
↓
negative-control fabrication lane
↓
reasoning-capable domain ratification
No domain claim should be treated as mature merely because a pack exists. Capability status belongs to the generated ledger and its evidence predicates.
Session Logs
Session logs record the decisions and rationale from individual working sessions. They are not ADRs — they are the narrative record that informed the ADRs.
| Date | File |
|---|---|
| 2026-05-12 | SESSION-2026-05-12.md |
| 2026-05-12 (addendum) | SESSION-2026-05-12-b.md |
| 2026-05-12 (language packs) | SESSION-2026-05-12-language-packs-addendum.md |
| 2026-05-13 | SESSION-2026-05-13.md |