Classify YouTube corpus lane D — Part 2 of 2

[2026-08-02 14:30 MST] Lane C upper independent counterreview is complete and committed. Commit: `f09dbd53ea63823858ca679530337eb24b12ce0f` Parent: `f3ffa4bb57bde41d91a92615c6089fbbc3ec0b8b` Artifacts: - `[redacted:local-path]\source\repos\Apocv4\specs\research\.staging\PASTED_TEXT_INDEPENDENT_REVIEW_LANE_C_0126_0150_2026-08-02.candidate.jsonl` - 133,079 bytes - SHA-256 `29f9c9240d4f5904c404f07cf5b527acb05e50bfd8d1029def44236c30ab7bcf` - `[redacted:local-path]\source\repos\Apocv4\specs\research\.staging\PASTED_TEXT_PRACTICAL_SEMANTICS_INDEPENDENT_AMENDMENT_LANE_C_0126_0150_2026-08-02.candidate.jsonl` - 190,067 bytes - SHA-256 `d4c9268ad8ebfa9b890d9b38a2e0fa5ffe1e7517b99f0e4b26075444ca147316` Totals: - 25 unrestricted aliases fully read through physical EOF - 707,634 raw bytes; 14,760 records - 91 practical units and 91/91 frozen primary spans rehashed - 41/41 new spans rehashed - 29 findings fully represented - 7 PASS / 18 AMEND / 0 FAIL - 7 PASS_READY / 18 AMENDMENT_APPLIED_READY - No raw source locators, absolute attachment paths, provider effects, memory writes, or primary mutations | Alias | Bytes | Records | Units | Primary spans | New spans | Findings | Verdict | |---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---| | 0126 | 20,557 | 127 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | PASS | | 0127 | 98,481 | 2,135 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 3 | AMEND | | 0128 | 11,432 | 421 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | PASS | | 0129 | 7,070 | 78 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | PASS | | 0130 | 24,093 | 134 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 1 | AMEND | | 0131 | 6,263 | 49 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | PASS | | 0132 | 15,492 | 313 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | AMEND | | 0133 | 9,386 | 321 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | AMEND | | 0134 | 12,461 | 542 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 1 | AMEND | | 0135 | 32,952 | 597 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 1 | AMEND | | 0136 | 36,437 | 542 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 1 | AMEND | | 0137 | 17,100 | 793 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 2 | AMEND | | 0138 | 16,516 | 99 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | PASS | | 0139 | 27,053 | 1,195 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 2 | AMEND | | 0140 | 84,663 | 1,789 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 3 | AMEND | | 0141 | 33,615 | 1,481 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | AMEND | | 0142 | 7,597 | 339 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | AMEND | | 0143 | 10,390 | 466 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | AMEND | | 0144 | 14,224 | 534 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | PASS | | 0145 | 6,550 | 116 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 2 | AMEND | | 0146 | 25,408 | 166 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 2 | AMEND | | 0147 | 33,984 | 1,480 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 1 | AMEND | | 0148 | 43,616 | 279 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 1 | AMEND | | 0149 | 31,955 | 253 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | PASS | | 0150 | 80,339 | 511 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 2 | AMEND | Primary dissent: - Digest validation proves identity and expansion integrity, not source truth, efficacy, authority, or release readiness. - YT-CAND-0144 begins mid-video; all available bytes were reviewed, but missing earlier material was not reconstructed. - Commercial benchmarks, sponsor claims, developmental frameworks, consciousness theories, biological analogies, and mathematical extensions remain explicitly source-reported, inferred, or proposed—not promoted to fact. - YT-CAND-0150’s transcript and appended user directive now have an exact logical boundary. - The 18 AMEND rows must be consumed as append-only overlays before operational admission. Validation: - `validate_pasted_text_independent_reviews.py`: valid, 0 failed reviews - `validate_pasted_text_independent_amendments.py`: valid, 0 failed amendments - Explicit UTF-8 parse and canonical-digest audit: PASS - Privacy scan: PASS - Commit tree: exactly the two owned artifacts - Post-commit target status: clean Rollback: `git revert f09dbd53ea63823858ca679530337eb24b12ce0f` Next dependency: integration authority should consume the amendment artifact as a digest-bound overlay, preserve frozen primaries byte-for-byte, and admit the seven PASS plus eighteen amended records into the next aggregate integration pass. Twenty-three unrelated staged paths appeared concurrently after this commit; they were left untouched.

<codex_delegation> <source_thread_id>019fc38a-4865-7c71-8093-97b129ce0fb1</source_thread_id> <input>[2026-08-02 13:09 MST] Recycle immediately into the next bounded lane. Review and finalize all 91 source-local control-dial binding rows for YT-CAND-0126..0150 in `specs/research/.staging/PASTED_TEXT_CONTROL_DIAL_BINDINGS_LANE_C_0126_0150_2026-08-02.candidate.jsonl`, using the exact worklist `specs/research/.staging/PASTED_TEXT_CONTROL_DIAL_WORKLIST_216_2026-08-02.candidate.jsonl` and the primary + independent artifacts you just sealed. The current worklist is explicitly partial only because 11 repaired-A counterreviews remain; upper-C work-item contents are final. For every row, actually judge and if needed correct confirmed_dials, confirmed_dispositions, frontier_state, rationale/countercase/falsifier, independent finding representation, and delta reasons; do not merely flip state. Retain unconventional low-prior mechanisms as bounded TRY_ANYWAY when warranted; novelty never promotes. Set each reviewed row CONFIRMED and manifest state/counts honestly. Run `validate_pasted_text_dial_bindings.py` without `--require-complete`, ruff/tests as relevant, commit only this binding artifact, and report exact counts/hash/dissent/rollback. Do not edit shared worklist, plans, phase graph, or other artifacts. No provider/network/spend/training/deployment/public effects.</input> </codex_delegation>

[2026-08-02 14:32 MST] Starting the bounded upper-C control-dial review now. I’m using the apocky-loop and critical-analysis skills because this is a 91-row evidence-binding change with action-driving judgments; they require a no-loss preflight, explicit countercases/falsifiers, and verification before the single owned commit.

[2026-08-02 14:34 MST] The skill preflight confirms the authority boundary: one binding artifact only, append-only review evidence, no shared worklist or runtime effects. I’m loading the delegation/actor overlay next, then I’ll freeze the target, worklist, validator contract, and foreign Git state before judging any row.

[2026-08-02 14:35 MST] The authority and semantic-method preflight is complete; I’m finishing the live-plan read, then I’ll audit the 91 bindings against the frozen worklist, primary units, and independent amendments before changing any state.

[2026-08-02 14:38 MST] Scope is exact: 91 work items across 25 aliases, one untracked lane-owned binding artifact, and no staged changes. The draft is structurally prefilled, so I’m now testing each proposed mapping and disposition against its source-local mechanism and independent finding instead of treating the prefill as a verdict.

[2026-08-02 14:43 MST] The frozen-input join is exact: 25 primary files, 91 practical units, 91 primary spans, 29 independent findings applied across 48 unit rows, with zero identity/content mismatches. The keyword prefill does contain real category errors—especially planner→agent-loop, generic memory→semantic-memory, and parallel-agent work→model parallelism—so those mappings will receive explicit delta reasons rather than silent normalization.

<codex_delegation> <source_thread_id>019fc38a-4865-7c71-8093-97b129ce0fb1</source_thread_id> <input>Validator hardening landed at ca01d87 while your lane runs. Your binding manifest must keep exact `worklist_sha256`, set `state` to `CONFIRMED`, and retain a nonempty `reviewer.reviewer_boundary`; every row must be `CONFIRMED`. Current packet already has the exact current worklist SHA and reviewer boundary, so only honest state/count updates are needed. Do not switch worklists during this review.</input> </codex_delegation>

[2026-08-02 14:46 MST] Validator hardening received. I’m freezing the already-reviewed worklist at `dd62af…`, reloading the hardened contract from `ca01d87`, and will preserve the manifest’s reviewer boundary while updating its state/counts only after the 91 row judgments are complete.

[2026-08-02 14:57 MST] The source-local review produced 68 justified dial corrections, retained all 91 source dispositions, preserved all seven low-prior mechanisms as `TRY_ANYWAY_PROBE`, and expanded all 48 independent-finding applications into the affected row rationales. I’m now running the hardened validator and a byte-level allowed-delta audit before staging.

[2026-08-02 15:01 MST] Hardened validation is green: 91/91 bindings, 0 failures, 48 independent-finding applications, and the expected 876 out-of-lane work items remain unbound because complete-denominator mode was intentionally not requested. The focused validator suite is 9/9 and Ruff is clean; I’m doing the foreign-state/staged-scope check now, then committing only the binding artifact.

[2026-08-02 15:03 MST] Commit `e88417e` now contains exactly one file—the 91-row Lane C upper binding artifact. I’m replaying validation against the committed bytes and checking the final foreign-state boundary before handback.

[2026-08-02 15:04 MST] Complete and committed. - Commit: `e88417e3a49e62c0071f49019e5aabac30e0da45` - Artifact: `[redacted:local-path]\source\repos\Apocv4\specs\research\.staging\PASTED_TEXT_CONTROL_DIAL_BINDINGS_LANE_C_0126_0150_2026-08-02.candidate.jsonl` - SHA-256: `1f55fec350663bbc791d0c9433da26e04fb438f485eaaa64030ca43afa9cd3cf` - Size: 124,800 bytes; 1 manifest + 91 binding rows. - Coverage: 25 aliases; 91 complete, 0 failed, 0 blocked, 0 unknown. - Review: 68 justified mapping corrections, 23 mappings retained, 0 semantic disposition changes. - Independent evidence: 29 findings represented through 48 applications across 44 rows. - Frontier: 7 `TRY_ANYWAY_PROBE`, 84 `NOT_SOURCE_FRONTIER`; novelty promoted none. - Dispositions: `ADOPT=27`, `PARK=21`, `PROBE=74`, `QUARANTINE=2`, `REJECT=4`. - Dial counts: `D01=7 D02=11 D03=30 D04=11 D05=3 D06=11 D07=7 D08=5 D09=10 D10=2 D11=2 D12=10 D13=7 D14=4 D15=9 D16=5 D17=12 D18=13 D19=10 D20=2 D21=9 D22=11 D23=12 D24=12 D25=41 D26=19 D27=66 D28=11 D29=6 D30=9 D31=11 D32=19`. The review corrected substantive heuristic collisions, including topology “planner” incorrectly implying D18, KV memory implying D22, actor parallelism implying D13, mathematical “power” implying hardware, and generic registries implying tool routing. Validation: - Hardened validator without `--require-complete`: valid, 91 validated, 0 failures. - Exact worklist SHA: `dd62afeb2d60b8afae98fe724c29f90da284e70ef7422fc7ff839d20ab82d457`. - Expected out-of-lane remainder: 876/967 work items. - Focused tests: 9/9 passed. - Ruff: passed. - Commit contains exactly the binding artifact; staged state is empty. - No provider, network, spend, training, deployment, or public effects occurred. Dissent remains bounded: these are source-local control-dial bindings, not cross-source truth, efficacy, implementation, or authority promotion. Falsifier: source expansion or downstream counterreview demonstrates that an added dial cannot change an implementation/test decision, or that a removed heuristic dial is load-bearing. Rollback: `git revert e88417e3a49e62c0071f49019e5aabac30e0da45`. Next dependency: finish the 11 repaired-A counterreviews, version the resulting complete worklist, then perform digest-aware aggregate rebinding and run the validator with `--require-complete`; do not silently substitute that future worklist for this frozen receipt.

<codex_delegation> <source_thread_id>019fc38a-4865-7c71-8093-97b129ce0fb1</source_thread_id> <input>[2026-08-02 12:57 MST] Recycle immediately. First rebase your committed upper-C binding artifact to the strict final worklist SHA `8f13aef738b071b53c48c66f8e3cdc4701747a167475e67b12c753aeefb923ff`. Root validation found exactly three changed work items: `YT-CAND-0135.PU01..PU03`, because the completed worklist now surfaces D31 economics from the independent finding's incentive language. Re-review D31 applicability on each (retain/remove with an explicit mapping delta reason), update their exact work-item digests plus manifest worklist SHA/counts, run the hardened validator, and commit only that amended artifact. Then immediately continue in the same task into source-local binding review for all 241 effective units YT-CAND-0151..0213. Generate `specs/research/.staging/PASTED_TEXT_CONTROL_DIAL_BINDINGS_LANE_D_0151_0213_2026-08-02.candidate.jsonl` from the strict final worklist and actually judge every dial/disposition/frontier/finding/rationale/countercase/falsifier; all 241 missing source dispositions require a defensible choice, never blanket promotion. Validate without `--require-complete`, commit only the D artifact, report exact evidence. No shared plan/phase graph/provider/network/training/deployment effects.</input> </codex_delegation>

[2026-08-02 15:05 MST] Recycling now. I’m using `apocky-loop` for the two exact, rollback-safe commits and `critical-analysis` for the D31 and 241-row source-local judgments. I’ll freeze the strict worklist SHA first, amend only upper-C, validate/commit it, then build and independently validate Lane D without touching shared surfaces.

[2026-08-02 15:07 MST] Because this arrives as a delegated lane with frozen evidence claims, `apocky-loop` requires its actor overlay. I’m loading that boundary before accepting the reported three-row worklist delta; then I’ll verify the SHA and rows directly.

[2026-08-02 15:09 MST] The repo advanced cleanly to repaired-A commit `3ba9cf8`; my upper-C artifact is unchanged and no staged work exists. One read-only comparison script had a bracket typo, so I’m rerunning that probe—not changing any evidence or thresholds.

[2026-08-02 15:12 MST] Direct comparison confirms the reported delta exactly: only `YT-CAND-0135.PU01..PU03` changed. I reject D31 on all three because “incentive” here means game/progress motivation, while canonical D31 is resource economics; D01/D18/D27/D32 carry the actual controls. I’m encoding that dissent explicitly, rebinding the three digests, and updating the manifest’s worklist SHA with mapping-delta count 69.

[2026-08-02 15:15 MST] Upper-C is rebased and committed as `1b4dcc0`; only its manifest and the three D31-review rows changed. Lane D now resolves to 62 unrestricted source records and exactly 241 effective units. I’m reading the entire finalized unit set in candidate order and assigning dispositions source-locally—governance invariants may be adopted, empirical transfers probed, authority-gated work parked, and unsafe/unsupported claims rejected or quarantined.

[2026-08-02 15:16 MST] Upper-C is sealed in its one-file rebind commit. I’m resolving the remaining Lane-D primary/worklist target-label differences now, then I’ll generate and validate the 241-row source-local binding packet against the frozen final worklist.

[2026-08-02 15:18 MST] The apparent 86-way target mismatch was a join-key bug in the audit script, not source drift. Rejoining on `candidate_alias + unit_id` proves 241/241 exact primary/worklist target matches; I’m proceeding with the frozen worklist and no identity exception.

[2026-08-02 15:20 MST] No source-identity or target drift remains: 62 unrestricted primary records, 241 practical units, 241 exact source IDs/targets, 62 EOF receipts, and 62 independent counterpasses are available. I’m materializing the per-unit disposition and dial judgments now; the restricted `YT-CAND-0209` alias remains absent and unopened.

[2026-08-02 15:23 MST] Lane-D packet is generated: 241 confirmed unit rows across 62 unrestricted aliases, with 241 explicit source-disposition judgments and 156 source-local dial remaps. I am now running the hardened validator and adversarial audits for denominator, canonical digests, locator leakage, frontier honesty, and non-blanket decision patterns.

[2026-08-02 15:26 MST] The source expansion audit is clean: all 67 duplicate-listed attachment paths for the 62 unrestricted hashes reverified byte-identical UTF-8 through EOF; 422 practical-unit spans were rehashed, covering 1,033,538 referenced bytes. The packet has 12 distinct disposition combinations, zero `IMPLEMENTED` claims, and preserves both unconventional candidates as bounded probes without unsupported frontier promotion.

[2026-08-02 15:28 MST] Hardened validation reports 241 valid Lane-D bindings, zero failures, and the expected 726 out-of-lane worklist items left untouched. The 12 focused validator/builder tests pass and Ruff is clean. I’m at the lane-only commit gate now, with the shared index confirmed empty.

[2026-08-02 15:29 MST] Lane-D is committed as a single-file change. I’m replaying both the upper-C rebind and Lane-D validators from committed bytes, checking Git blob identity and confirming the shared index is clean before final handback.

[2026-08-02 15:31 MST] Post-commit replay is clean: upper-C validates 91/91, Lane-D 241/241, and their combined 332-row set has zero binding failures. Both committed artifacts bind the final worklist SHA; the Lane-D Git blob exactly matches the validated working bytes, and no staged state remains.

[2026-08-02 15:32 MST] Complete. Upper-C and Lane-D control-dial bindings are sealed in two lane-only commits. ### Upper-C rebase - Commit: `1b4dcc0347e29019c940d8c3cba5c1813c1bd0eb` - Artifact: `[redacted:local-path]\source\repos\Apocv4\specs\research\.staging\PASTED_TEXT_CONTROL_DIAL_BINDINGS_LANE_C_0126_0150_2026-08-02.candidate.jsonl` - SHA-256: `194803f3c5ea66bf67c557bab9194802289100fcd36cf821007d31db7f304d77` - Size: 125,166 bytes; 92 JSONL records; 91 bindings. - Final worklist SHA: `8f13aef738b071b53c48c66f8e3cdc4701747a167475e67b12c753aeefb923ff` - Rebound exactly `YT-CAND-0135.PU01..PU03`. - D31 was rejected for all three: the finding concerns participant motivation, while D31 governs resource economics. - New work-item digests: - PU01: `f2eb8b9bb67afc3afd851a18625a06a00f286f13ea559b3f582aff1a2105aa94` - PU02: `adaf2b25dc58d228443d8740b8b81ad45bd39b120e319c4a890c347205ba1d3c` - PU03: `544210a80751191a024e7b2fd1bf8c6623c5401ce84b543f313f0811bb7c2e01` ### Lane D - Commit: `e3f3d1d481c61ccb424853ff8230486965ff7a23` - Artifact: `[redacted:local-path]\source\repos\Apocv4\specs\research\.staging\PASTED_TEXT_CONTROL_DIAL_BINDINGS_LANE_D_0151_0213_2026-08-02.candidate.jsonl` - SHA-256: `d5139f785813543c7396b68d789e118bbb465310a757792a12a5477e2c1f5db2` - Size: 443,704 bytes; 242 JSONL records. - Coverage: 62 unrestricted aliases, 69 logical sources, 241/241 effective units. - `YT-CAND-0209` remained opaque and has no binding row. - Source verification: 62 unique hashes, 67 attachment paths, 2,045,330 unique-source bytes, 38,279 records, 62/62 UTF-8 EOF receipts. - Rehashed 422 unit spans covering 1,033,538 referenced bytes; 244 logical segment references. - 241/241 rows `CONFIRMED`; 241 explicit disposition deltas; 156 dial remaps; 85 heuristic mappings retained. - No `IMPLEMENTED` claims. Disposition counts: ADOPT 144, PROBE 119, PARK 29, SHADOW 9, QUARANTINE 3, REJECT 1. - All 241 rows remain `NOT_SOURCE_FRONTIER`. The bounded unconventional probes `YT-CAND-0156.PU002` and `YT-CAND-0211.PU003` were preserved without unsupported frontier promotion. - No committed source locators. ### Validation - Hardened validator: - Upper-C: 91 valid, 0 failures. - Lane-D: 241 valid, 0 failures. - Combined: 332 valid, 0 failures. - `pytest`: 12 passed. - Ruff: all checks passed. - Committed Lane-D blob exactly matches validated bytes. - Shared index is empty; 224 observed foreign dirty entries were preserved untouched. - No provider, network, spend, training, deployment, memory, or public effects. Dissent/proof boundary: the validator proves exact worklist binding, schema, digests, denominator, privacy, and reviewed dispositions—not source truth, efficacy, implementation, or authority. Lane-D’s independent primary counterpasses are complete, but the strict worklist exposes zero item-level independent-finding applications for this range. Rollback: revert `e3f3d1d481c61ccb424853ff8230486965ff7a23`, then `1b4dcc0347e29019c940d8c3cba5c1813c1bd0eb`. Next dependency: integration authority should combine these packets with the remaining lane bindings against the unchanged final worklist and run the hardened validator with `--require-complete`. The isolated C+D validation intentionally leaves 635 out-of-lane work items unresolved.

<codex_delegation> <source_thread_id>019fc38a-4865-7c71-8093-97b129ce0fb1</source_thread_id> <input>Immediate recycle after e3f3d1d. Begin the MemPalace projection lane now, with NO provider/network/service start and NO canonical-store mutation yet. Inspect the actual [redacted:local-path]\source\repos\MemPalace 3.5.0 CLI/backend contracts plus current palace config/status read-only. Determine the lowest-authority digest-bound way to ingest a later compact public/unrestricted G17 synthesis capsule set into an isolated `Apocv4`-scoped partition, verify exact readback, support idempotency and exact rollback, and prove restricted-six/raw-locator exclusion. Write and commit a concise CSLv3 preflight under `specs/evidence/` containing exact source-code/CLI seams, current observed status, procedure, rollback, countercase/falsifier, and explicit mutation gate. Do not ingest/delete anything yet. Preserve foreign dirty files. Then remain active for implementation once final synthesis schema lands.</input> </codex_delegation>

[2026-08-02 15:33 MST] I’m using the Apocky engineering loop, critical-analysis, and Graphify codebase-routing skills for this preflight. I’ll inspect MemPalace’s real 3.5.0 contracts and live read-only state first, then commit exactly one Apocv4 evidence file; no palace write, delete, service start, network, or canonical mutation is authorized.

[2026-08-02 15:35 MST] Graphify’s read-only fast path is unavailable because MemPalace has no `graphify-out/graph.json`. Building one would write into MemPalace, so the skill’s mutation path is outside this lane; I’m falling back to direct source/CLI inspection and will record that negative evidence.

[2026-08-02 15:38 MST] Source inspection confirms the safe observation seam: `status` first reads the existing Chroma SQLite database directly and only falls back to a backend client when that read is unavailable. I’ll use the direct read-only path and configuration constructor, avoiding `init`, daemon, MCP, backend creation, embeddings, or any collection open that could lazily write.

[2026-08-02 15:40 MST] The direct SQLite status read succeeded; its optional read-only `PRAGMA quick_check` is still scanning the large palace. No backend client, embedding runtime, daemon, or service has been opened.

[2026-08-02 15:42 MST] Current live state materially changes the design: the configured palace is a healthy 739,148-drawer Chroma store and already contains both `Apocv4` and `apocv4` wings. Therefore an in-place wing is not isolated. The lowest-authority candidate is a separate palace plus a process-scoped path override; I’m now checking every sidecar and ID seam so that “separate” is physically true, not just a label.

[2026-08-02 15:45 MST] Physical isolation is supported only by distinct palace paths; neither local backend claims namespace isolation. A process-scoped `MEMPALACE_PALACE_PATH` is also required because hallway/tunnel sidecars derive from configuration rather than the CLI path alone. I’m comparing the file miner with the direct drawer contract now—the decisive tradeoff is path-based chunk IDs versus content-addressed, one-capsule IDs.

[2026-08-02 15:46 MST] I’ve completed the read-only contract/status pass. I’m now closing the two remaining evidence gaps: the direct-drawer alternative versus file-miner boundary, and an offline embedding-cache proof. Then I’ll freeze the CSLv3 preflight, validate its denysets and scope, and commit only that file.

[2026-08-02 13:18 MST] Live shell time is 13:18 MST; the prior 15:46 label came from stale compacted context, so I’m correcting timestamps to the observed system clock. The direct-drawer path is content-addressed but coupled to MCP/WAL behavior; the ordinary `mine` CLI remains the lower-authority offline seam. I’m now testing whether its embedding dependency is already complete and network-deniable.

[2026-08-02 13:20 MST] The local MiniLM dependency is fully present: 6/6 files, 91,332,068 bytes, aggregate manifest SHA-256 `37269dc0…7826`; a download-denied CPU probe produced one finite 384-dimensional unit-normal vector. No network path was taken. Next I’m freezing the exact restricted-six denyset from classification metadata only—without opening or disclosing restricted payloads.

[2026-08-02 13:24 MST] A further contract edge changes the recommendation: `mine` is safe for content but creates a global per-palace lock record, writes absolute staging paths into metadata, and derives hallway/tunnel sidecars. The narrower seam is direct `SQLiteExactBackend` use at a digest-named local path with explicit offline embeddings, logical digest URNs, read-before-write idempotency, and read-only SQLite verification. I’m inspecting that transaction boundary now; no temporary or canonical ingest will be performed.

[2026-08-02 13:27 MST] The repeat integrity/status sweep hit the 20-second observation timeout while scanning the 4.17 GB canonical SQLite file; it made no writes. I’m retaining the earlier successful `quick_check=[]` receipt and rerunning only the bounded metadata count so the preflight distinguishes a successful prior integrity check from this timeout rather than treating timeout as corruption.

[2026-08-02 13:31 MST] The design is now frozen: physical-path isolation plus a direct `SQLiteExactBackend.add` transaction, not wing-only separation and not `mine`/MCP. This avoids canonical Chroma, global lock files, sidecars, absolute `source_file` metadata, services, and overwrite-style idempotency. I’m writing the gate-closed preflight now with the exact six-ID denyset and a post-write SQL proof contract.

[2026-08-02 13:36 MST] The preflight validates as UTF-8/no-BOM: 161 lines, 11,741 bytes, SHA-256 `f6bde719…bad5`; all six denyset IDs match the frozen 216-source registry, and concrete raw-locator hits are zero. Before committing, I’m checking whether the final synthesis schema has appeared concurrently and re-auditing the exact one-file diff against the 224-entry foreign baseline.

[2026-08-02 13:38 MST] Pre-commit scope is exact: one staged file, 161 insertions, zero foreign paths, and no whitespace errors. No final capsule schema is present yet, so the mutation gate remains closed. I’m committing this evidence-only preflight now.

[2026-08-02 13:41 MST] Commit `b807c00a225876cbc9c72b635651e988b90006d6` is sealed and byte-identical to the working file. Post-commit read-only status is unchanged: config digest `1a7d50ff…455`, 739,148 drawers, 19 wings, and the same 6/8,006 case-distinct Apocv4 collisions; MemPalace remains clean at 3.5.0. I’m doing the final dependency check now.

<codex_delegation> <source_thread_id>019fc38a-4865-7c71-8093-97b129ce0fb1</source_thread_id> <input>Immediate recycle after b807c00 into the authority-none ActiveGraph projection implementation. Own only `tools/project_pasted_text_cross_source_to_active_graph.py` and `tests/test_project_pasted_text_cross_source_to_active_graph.py`. Build a deterministic local projection tool that accepts final synthesis input, frozen worklist, repeatable reviewed bindings, final cross-source synthesis, and output path; first calls committed validator 80870ea and refuses invalid/incomplete inputs. Use the existing `src/apocv4/active_graph_adapter.py` with one deterministic CoreContextFrame and effect ceiling none. Project corpus root + 210 public source identities + D01..D32 + claims + clusters as typed objects and evidence-linked claim→source, cluster→claim, cluster→dial relations; restricted-six/raw locators forbidden. Preserve statements/epistemic/countercase/falsifier/decision boundaries compactly, keep source expansion through logical refs and input digests, no raw attachments. Prove append/replay projection digest + terminal digest equality and output compact deterministic JSONL manifest/object/relation/readback receipt rather than mutating 3MNEME or any service. Enforce bounded payloads, canonical ordering, duplicate/casefold checks, exact counts, no authority promotion. Tests: valid tiny fixture, determinism, validator failure, restricted/locator leak, replay mismatch/tamper, duplicate identity, effect refusal, exact readback counts/digests. Commit exact two files, report proof boundary and rollback. Preserve foreign dirty files; no provider/network/memory-store effects.</input> </codex_delegation>

[2026-08-02 13:43 MST] `b807c00` is complete; I’m recycling into the exact two-file ActiveGraph lane. I’m continuing the Apocky implementation loop and critical-analysis contract: first I’ll bind the frozen validator/synthesis schemas and existing authority-none adapter, then implement and test only the requested tool and test file—no graph service, memory store, provider, or network effects.

[2026-08-02 13:33 MST] The integration branch advanced from `b807c00` to `b60c5ef` while this lane was queued; both owned paths remain absent and the foreign worktree is still unstaged. I’m binding the implementation to the exact committed validator bytes now, then I’ll create only the projector and its focused tests.

[2026-08-02 13:35 MST] Contract binding is clean: `b807c00` is an ancestor of the live branch, validator commit `80870ea…` still hashes to `5ca37f…`, and the existing adapter remains authority-none. The projector will fail before writing on validator failure/drift, effect escalation, identity ambiguity, locator/restricted leakage, or replay/readback mismatch.

[2026-08-02 13:38 MST] The first adversarial pass exposed one self-inflicted privacy-check collision: the receipt’s own `raw_locator_hits` counter was treated as a locator field. I narrowed that exception to zero-count proof keys only; the full focused matrix now passes: 8 tests plus the locator subtest, including deterministic/idempotent output, validator refusal, restricted leakage, tamper, casefold identity, effect refusal, and overwrite refusal.

[2026-08-02 13:42 MST] The projector now also rejects authority promotion hidden in validator-unknown extension fields; that adversarial case passes alongside strict Ruff and strict targeted mypy. I’m in the pre-commit counterpass now, tightening each relation’s evidence spine so claim→source, cluster→claim, and cluster→dial links bind both endpoints’ logical input references—not merely their graph IDs.

[2026-08-02 13:45 MST] The pre-commit CLI smoke found a Windows direct-execution import edge: Python exposed `tools` as a non-package and raised `ImportError` rather than `ModuleNotFoundError`. I repaired the fallback without changing the projection contract; direct `--help`, the full regression matrix, and the exact two-file scope are being rechecked before commit.

[2026-08-02 13:47 MST] Pre-commit scope is exact: two added files, 1,929 lines, no other staged path, and `git diff --cached --check` is clean. The final cross-source cluster-review shards have not landed yet, so production projection remains correctly gated; the implementation is validated against a strict final-schema fixture and the live validator/adapter regression suite.

[2026-08-02 13:44 MST] Commit `20f69450d99e22b1f425930bce488817ea10df0a` is sealed with exactly the projector and its tests. Post-commit verification is green: Ruff, strict targeted mypy, and 37 regression tests/6 subtests; owned paths are clean, index is empty, and 222 foreign dirty entries remain untouched. No graph service, 3MNEME, memory store, provider, network, training, deployment, or public effect occurred.

[2026-08-02 13:44 MST] Completed and committed the authority-none ActiveGraph projector. - Commit: `20f69450d99e22b1f425930bce488817ea10df0a` - [Projector](/[redacted:local-path]/source/repos/Apocv4/tools/project_pasted_text_cross_source_to_active_graph.py:1142) — SHA-256 `38addaaef4ed035ea75df36a436bf80d49315eac657841e76e39b212dbc605c2` - [Tests](/[redacted:local-path]/source/repos/Apocv4/tests/test_project_pasted_text_cross_source_to_active_graph.py:445) — SHA-256 `a73f90d4ef030df6762eef1703b9bb86fb5910844cdf8249f23997f2024d4650` Implemented validator-first refusal bound to commit `80870ea…`, deterministic append/replay, exact readback digests, casefold collision detection, bounded payloads, locator/restricted exclusion, authority-promotion refusal, idempotent write-once output, and typed claim→source, cluster→claim, and cluster→dial evidence relations. Validation: - Ruff: pass - Strict targeted mypy: pass - Pytest regression: `37 passed, 6 subtests passed` - Tiny exact receipt: 38 objects, 36 relations, 74 events, 76 JSONL records - Direct Windows CLI smoke: pass Proof boundary: no production 210-source projection was emitted because the final cluster-review/final cross-source synthesis artifact has not landed. The current packet artifact alone is insufficient. No service, 3MNEME, memory store, provider, network, training, deployment, or public mutation occurred. Rollback: `git revert 20f69450d99e22b1f425930bce488817ea10df0a`. Index is empty; 222 foreign dirty entries remain untouched.

<codex_delegation> <source_thread_id>019fc38a-4865-7c71-8093-97b129ce0fb1</source_thread_id> <input>Immediate recycle: implement the next exact preflight slice from committed `specs/evidence/221_G17_MEMPALACE_PUBLIC_CAPSULE_PROJECTION_PREFLIGHT_2026-08-02.csl`. Own only `tools/project_pasted_text_cross_source_to_mempalace.py` and `tests/test_project_pasted_text_cross_source_to_mempalace.py` (or the exact preflight-named equivalents if specified). Requirements: final cross-source validator must pass before any write; canonical palace untouched; isolated digest-named SQLiteExactBackend under an explicit caller-provided output root; offline-only verified MiniLM cache; compact public/unrestricted capsules with logical digest URNs and exact non-locator expansion digests; exact restricted-six denyset; no absolute locators/private payload; read-before-write idempotency; second run zero writes; SQL and API readback digest proof; typed authority NONE/external effects PAUSED; fail before writes on schema/hash/identity/restricted/locator/model drift; exact rollback deletes only the verified isolated partition. Build exhaustive focused tests and a tiny fixture smoke, run Ruff/mypy/tests, commit exact owned files. Do not project the production corpus yet because final synthesis is still pending; do not touch services, provider, network, 3MNEME, canonical memory, training, deployment, or release. Reinspect live branch before commit and preserve all foreign dirt.</input> </codex_delegation>

[2026-08-02 13:44 MST] I’m recycling into the two-file MemPalace projection slice now. I’ll use the Apocky engineering loop for the bounded implementation, critical analysis for the authority/privacy/readback gates, CSL reasoning to expand the committed preflight faithfully, and Graphify only if a real graph artifact exists; production ingestion and every canonical/service surface remain out of scope.

[2026-08-02 13:50 MST] The skill gates are active because this slice touches persistence and privacy. Before editing, I’m loading the security checklist and finishing the Graphify contract; then I’ll bind the exact preflight, MemPalace backend/model-cache seams, and current branch state. Rollback remains deletion of only a digest-verified isolated output partition, never the canonical palace.

[2026-08-02 13:52 MST] No `graphify-out/graph.json` exists in either Apocv4 or MemPalace, so Graphify’s contract routes this slice to direct source/runtime inspection; I will not create a graph or incur any semantic-extraction/network effect. The live bases are Apocv4 `baff287…` and clean MemPalace `c8b3b2e…`, matching the preflight’s pinned MemPalace commit.

[2026-08-02 13:54 MST] The committed preflight expands cleanly to a small, reversible blueprint: validator-first capsule construction in memory, exact offline embedder proof, one staged SQLiteExact transaction, read-only SQL/API verification, atomic publish, and digest-guarded rollback. I’m completing the repository’s mandatory goal/plan/phase read now; no output directory or backend has been opened.

[2026-08-02 13:53 MST] I’m continuing from the sealed preflight boundary. I’m finishing the remaining live-plan/phase-contract reads, then I’ll bind the implementation to the actual MemPalace backend and final-synthesis validator before touching either owned file.

[2026-08-02 13:54 MST] The live plan confirms this is a gated P4 projection, not memory canonization: the partition must remain isolated, authority-none, reversible, and visibly distinct from source truth. I’ve also confirmed the phase graph is stale relative to today’s corpus closure work, so I’m binding only to today’s committed preflight and validators—without “repairing” shared planning surfaces.

[2026-08-02 13:54 MST] Mutation boundary is now exact: two new files only; no production partition, canonical palace, MemPalace checkout, config, service, or shared corpus artifact may change. The implementation will precompute and validate the complete capsule/embedding set before opening SQLite, publish via pending→digest partition rename, and expose rollback only for a receipt-verified owned partition.

[2026-08-02 14:08 MST] The first real tiny-fixture smoke passed through the pinned MemPalace 3.5.0 environment: 5 capsules became 27 MiniLM/384 rows; API and immutable-SQL digests matched; replay returned `ALREADY_PRESENT` with zero writes; an explicit receipt-bound rollback removed only the temporary digest partition and left the canonical sentinel unchanged. I’m converting that proof into adversarial regression tests now.

[2026-08-02 14:14 MST] The focused adversarial suite is green: 11 tests cover the real MiniLM/384 + `SQLiteExactBackend` path, validator-first refusal, registry/denyset drift, locator/restricted leakage, stable-source and model drift, MemPalace/cache drift, authority/path intersection refusal, receipt/SQL tamper refusal, zero-write replay, and receipt-bound rollback. I’m running the adjacent synthesis-validator and MemPalace backend regressions next, then I’ll do the pre-commit security/diff audit.

[2026-08-02 14:17 MST] Implementation is complete at the isolated MemPalace seam. I’m running the final format/type/test pass now, then I’ll re-freeze the shared branch state, stage only the two owned files, and commit them if the evidence remains clean. Production corpus projection remains deliberately unexecuted.

[2026-08-02 14:18 MST] The code and strict focused typing are clean. The first re-run exposed a test-harness import assumption—`TinyFixture` imports Apocv4 from `src`, but that path was only supplied by the earlier shell environment. I’m making the owned test self-contained so the stated command works from a clean checkout, then rerunning the real backend/model suite.

[2026-08-02 14:20 MST] The owned 11-test suite now passes against the real offline MiniLM cache and SQLiteExactBackend. Adjacent G17 tests pass (50 plus 3 subtests), and the MemPalace backend/identity regression set passes (59). I’m doing the pre-commit authority/privacy/destructive-path audit and shared-branch drift check next.

[2026-08-02 14:23 MST] Pre-commit audit is clean: the committed validator and preflight hashes remain pinned, MemPalace is still clean at its preflight commit, and the index contains exactly the two owned files (2,407 new lines; no whitespace defects). I’m committing this isolated implementation now with a live-HEAD and exact-index guard.

[2026-08-02 14:20 MST] Complete and committed as `cc49ec05674368965d5ce0518795b95fdcc07586`. - [Projector]([redacted:local-path]/source/repos/Apocv4/tools/project_pasted_text_cross_source_to_mempalace.py:1594) — SHA-256 `054313e244c7921dd9f1800f8ed853991d06b00f91e74913f315c75e6727f39a` - [Focused tests]([redacted:local-path]/source/repos/Apocv4/tests/test_project_pasted_text_cross_source_to_mempalace.py:62) — SHA-256 `768a8fe56c96a3b1ce0db7eae1262c6127b4f1633026ad1c3fb502f1363dadeb` Implemented validator-first refusal, pinned offline MiniLM verification, digest-named isolated SQLiteExactBackend partitions, public capsule projection, exact restricted-six denial, locator/private-payload rejection, deterministic replay with zero second-run writes, SQL/API digest proof, and receipt-verified exact rollback. Validation: - Focused projector tests: `11 passed` - Adjacent G17 regressions: `50 passed, 3 subtests passed` - MemPalace backend/identity regressions: `59 passed` - Ruff: passed - Mypy strict over owned files: passed with `--follow-imports=skip` - Tiny real-backend smoke: 5 capsules / 27 SQLite rows; replay produced zero writes - MemPalace remained clean at `c8b3b2eee6e77c5b670d93359dc40c7cf11b7bf4` - All 223 foreign worktree rows preserved; owned paths and index are clean Production projection was not run. Canonical memory, services, providers, network, training, deployment, and 3MNEME were untouched. The next dependency is explicit production-projection authority plus a caller-selected isolated output root. Rollback: `git revert cc49ec05674368965d5ce0518795b95fdcc07586` removes this implementation. No production partition exists. Runtime rollback requires the exact set/receipt digests and explicit confirmation before deleting only its verified isolated partition. Four disposable `mpg17-smoke-*` temporary directories were permanently removed after testing; no repository or palace data was involved. Dissent: full dependency-following mypy remains blocked by pre-existing typing defects in foreign validator modules; the owned files passed strict isolated typing and runtime integration tests.

<codex_delegation> <source_thread_id>019fc38a-4865-7c71-8093-97b129ce0fb1</source_thread_id> <input>Independent source audit found three pre-promotion gaps; fix and add adversarial tests before commit: (1) `_verify_mempalace_source()` seals only six files, but import executes dirty/untracked `mempalace/__init__.py` and transitive modules. Fail closed on any tracked/untracked change under the imported package and/or seal the complete import closure before import; test dirty `__init__.py` refusal before import/write. (2) `_load_mempalace_runtime()` checks only top-level package origin. Verify exact `__file__` for base/sqlite_exact/embedding/miner and reject foreign/preloaded relevant `sys.modules` (or isolate interpreter); test a preloaded foreign submodule. (3) `_verify_partition()` checks only SQLite leaf links. Reject symlink/junction/reparse ancestry for partition, palace, receipt, DB, and enumerated components; recheck immediately before rename and rollback/rmtree; test palace-junction refusal. Keep existing mutation boundary and rerun real pinned sibling suite.</input> </codex_delegation>

[2026-08-02 14:21 MST] I’m reopening the committed projector at the three audited trust boundaries: complete imported-package provenance, exact submodule origins/preload rejection, and reparse-safe partition ancestry. I’ll use the Apocky engineering loop plus adversarial critical analysis, add focused fail-before-write tests for each gap, rerun the real pinned MemPalace suite, and commit only the same two owned files.

[2026-08-02 14:22 MST] I’m also applying the Graphify code-relationship route required by this repo. No `graphify-out/graph.json` exists here, so its contract directs a direct-source fallback; the audit therefore remains grounded in the current projector, tests, Git state, and the pinned MemPalace source tree. The security scan is active because these fixes alter import, persistence, and deletion trust boundaries.

<codex_delegation> <source_thread_id>019fc38a-4865-7c71-8093-97b129ce0fb1</source_thread_id> <input>Further independent blockers before promotion: (4) SQL readback is target-collection-scoped; require DB-wide exact state (exactly one collection, zero docs/FTS rows outside it, expected schema/meta allowlist or whole logical DB digest) and extra-collection/row tamper test. (5) `network_effects=DENIED` overclaims a Python socket shim that misses connect_ex, DNS, subprocess/native egress and runs after imports. Either move runtime into OS-confined no-network subprocess with evidence, or precisely downgrade receipt to Python-connect/HF-offline guards and leave full denial open; add connect_ex/DNS escape tests. (6) no-loss: synthesis frontier overlay is BOUND_NOT_APPLIED; source/claim/cluster capsules omit 41 reviewed signals + 926 explicit NONE decisions. Add a validated frontier capsule projection/readback preserving all 967 rows with exact expansion/digest, or explicitly leave PT-08 incomplete. Keep within owned files.</input> </codex_delegation>

[2026-08-02 14:24 MST] I’ve folded the three additional blockers into the same pre-promotion repair. The projection will now prove DB-wide exclusivity, stop claiming full network denial beyond its actual Python/Hugging Face guards, and add a lossless 967-row frontier capsule denominator. I’ll keep the schema and all tests within the same two owned files and will not weaken any existing gate.

[2026-08-02 14:31 MST] The six fixes are now represented in code and adversarial coverage: full 91-file package sealing plus module-origin checks, reparse-safe publish/delete paths, DB-wide schema/meta/collection/document/FTS proof, explicitly limited network guards, and one digest-bound frontier capsule per reviewed work item. I’m at the first executable check now; failures here will be treated as contract evidence, not worked around.

[2026-08-02 14:33 MST] First execution produced two useful harness-order failures, not implementation escapes: one tamper was rejected earlier by the sealed-file digest before reaching the new DB-wide oracle, and one source-mutation fixture left its required frontier review stale. I’m sharpening those tests so they independently exercise the intended DB-wide check and regenerate the bound frontier fixture before testing source-ID refusal.

[2026-08-02 14:36 MST] All 18 adversarial/integration tests, Ruff, and strict focused typing pass. The CLI help check exposed one packaging defect introduced by the new frontier validator dependency: direct script execution lacked the repository root needed by that validator’s `tools.*` import. I’m correcting the owned entrypoint import path and rerunning the same gates.

[2026-08-02 14:39 MST] Live branch advanced independently to `21bd676`; the two owned files remain the only local delta, and all pinned validator/source hashes still match. I’m running the final matrix now: expanded projector tests, production cross-source/frontier validators, adjacent G17 regressions, and the real MemPalace SQLite/embedder suite.

[2026-08-02 14:40 MST] Resuming at the pre-commit gate: I’m rechecking live HEAD, exact owned-file scope, staged-state isolation, and both repository trust boundaries before sealing the two-file fix.

[2026-08-02 14:41 MST] Preflight is clean: live Apocv4 HEAD is unchanged, MemPalace remains clean at the pinned commit, the index is empty, and only the two authorized files are modified. I’m staging those exact paths and auditing the cached patch before commit.

[2026-08-02 14:41 MST] Cached scope is exact—2 files, 1,089 insertions and 104 deletions, with no whitespace defects. The promotion blockers are represented in the staged patch; I’m now committing against the guarded live HEAD.

[2026-08-02 14:41 MST] Commit `f23b8dc` was created with the exact two-file scope. I’m completing post-commit integrity checks now: parent lineage, commit tree, owned-path cleanliness, file digests, foreign-state preservation, and pinned MemPalace cleanliness.

[2026-08-02 14:42 MST] Post-commit proof passes: the commit has the guarded parent and exact two-file tree, owned paths and index are clean, all 237 foreign status entries remain untouched, and MemPalace is still clean at `c8b3b2e`. I’m closing the plan and preparing the authority-bounded handback.

Implemented and committed all six promotion-gap fixes. Commit: `f23b8dccdaee90ef199605ac5524cf15320d09d9` Files: - [project_pasted_text_cross_source_to_mempalace.py]([redacted:local-path]/source/repos/Apocv4/tools/project_pasted_text_cross_source_to_mempalace.py) — 107,955 bytes, SHA-256 `aea9fedb25e81db8e86df37ad5482486616f957a7960c131c9ce4eed3e773015` - [test_project_pasted_text_cross_source_to_mempalace.py]([redacted:local-path]/source/repos/Apocv4/tests/test_project_pasted_text_cross_source_to_mempalace.py) — 34,020 bytes, SHA-256 `ff50e38a26fe96a679a82b75db7d957da8bbba5df788f78b708d22eb119979f2` Closed gaps: - Sealed all 91 tracked MemPalace package files and reject dirty/untracked package content. - Verify exact origins for every imported MemPalace module and reject foreign preloads. - Reject symlink/junction/reparse ancestry before publication, cleanup, and rollback. - Prove DB-wide state: one exact collection, schema/meta allowlists, no outside rows, logical DB digest. - Correctly scope the receipt to Python-connect/HF-offline guards; full OS egress denial remains explicitly unproven. - Project all 967 frontier decisions as lossless capsules: 41 reviewed signals plus 926 explicit `NONE` decisions, each digest-bound to exact expansion references. Validation: - Focused projector tests: `18 passed` - Adjacent Apocv4 suite: `61 passed`, plus 9 subtests - Pinned MemPalace suite: `59 passed` - Production cross-source validator: 210 public sources, 966 units/claims, 967 reviewed bindings, 48 findings, 32 clusters, 6 restricted identities excluded, 0 failures - Frontier validator: 967/967 reviewed, 41 signals, 926 `NONE` - Ruff, strict scoped mypy, compilation, CLI smoke, cached diff, and post-commit scope checks passed. No production corpus was projected. No canonical memory, service, provider, network, training, deployment, or public state was mutated. MemPalace remains clean at `c8b3b2eee6e77c5b670d93359dc40c7cf11b7bf4`; all 237 foreign Apocv4 status entries were preserved. Rollback: `git revert f23b8dccdaee90ef199605ac5524cf15320d09d9` Next dependency: independent promotion review, followed by explicit authority and caller-provided isolated output root before any production projection.

<codex_delegation> <source_thread_id>019fc38a-4865-7c71-8093-97b129ce0fb1</source_thread_id> <input>Recycle immediately into an independent promotion audit of commit f23b8dccdaee90ef199605ac5524cf15320d09d9. Read-only only: do not edit files, do not project production corpus, do not mutate canonical MemPalace or any service/network/provider state. Adversarially inspect the final diff and prove or falsify the six closed gaps, exact 967 frontier materialization, source/frontier digest binding, DB-wide exclusivity, import/package cleanliness, reparse defenses, scoped network wording, rollback binding, and deterministic/idempotent behavior. Run the smallest independent focused tests if useful. Return blockers ordered by severity, exact evidence, and promotion recommendation.</input> </codex_delegation>

[2026-08-02 14:43 MST] I’m starting the promotion audit as a read-only adversarial review. I’m using the critical-analysis skill for evidence-ranked conclusions and Graphify for code-relationship routing; neither will authorize writes or effects. First I’m loading their contracts, the governing directives, and the minimal prior-context registry, then I’ll independently inspect and test `f23b8dc`.

[2026-08-02 14:44 MST] The combined instruction read was truncated, so I’m reloading each required contract to EOF in bounded chunks. Because this audit crosses persistence and security boundaries, I’m also applying the Apocky engineering loop’s read-only review gates. Graphify will be used only if an existing graph is present; this audit does not authorize generating one.

[2026-08-02 14:43 MST] No current `graphify-out/graph.json` exists, so Graphify cannot provide a read-only graph route; I’m using direct source and executable probes instead. The security-scan contract is now triggered by package import, SQLite persistence, deletion/rollback, and network-boundary claims.

[2026-08-02 14:43 MST] The governing boundary is clear: this is an authority-none verification slice, and validator success alone cannot establish semantic or promotion truth. I’m loading the current canonical G17 objective, indexed operating rules, live plan, phase graph, and semantic method before judging the implementation.

[2026-08-02 14:45 MST] Audit criteria are now fixed: each claimed closure must be evidenced by exact commit source plus a falsifying probe, while promotion remains narrower than production authorization. I’m binding the review to the commit object—not merely the moving worktree—and checking repository and sibling dependency state before reading the diff.

[2026-08-02 14:45 MST] The audit target is stable despite branch movement: `f23b8dc` has parent `21bd676`, changes exactly the two intended files, and both current worktree copies match its blobs byte-for-byte. MemPalace is clean at the pinned `c8b3b2e`; 235 unrelated Apocv4 status entries remain outside the audit scope. I’m now tracing every new guard and its adversarial oracle.

[2026-08-02 14:46 MST] The first source pass supports four claims—frontier set equality, DB-wide enumeration, explicit network-scope downgrading, and reparse checks before each destructive boundary—but it also exposes two fragile premises requiring direct falsification: whether package bytes are actually bound to the pinned Git tree, and whether coordinated DB-plus-receipt tampering or timestamp variance can evade replay determinism. I’m testing those exact countercases next.

[2026-08-02 14:47 MST] Production inputs are frozen at the expected hashes, including worklist `8f13aef…`, frontier review `981f922…`, synthesis `c2cc04d…`, and the six-identity classification registry `b41ac99…`. I’m now rebuilding the capsule set entirely in memory and resolving every direct source/frontier expansion digest against the exact JSONL bytes—without opening MemPalace or writing a partition.

[2026-08-02 14:48 MST] The first in-memory probe failed in my audit harness—not in the projector—because I referenced a non-existent convenience attribute on `LoadedJsonl`; its digest is exposed through `_binding()`. I’m loading the required debug procedure, correcting only the harness expression, and rerunning the same frozen test without changing any repository bytes.

[2026-08-02 14:49 MST] The in-memory materialization is exact: 2,175 unique capsules comprising 210 sources, 966 claims, 32 clusters, and 967 frontier decisions; all 3,142 direct JSONL expansion references resolve byte-for-byte, with the frontier split exactly 41 signals and 926 explicit `NONE`. I’m extending the check through the 359 nested primary/amendment bindings to prove source expansion beyond shape-only validation.

[2026-08-02 14:50 MST] The deeper source-expansion probe found 55 primary bindings whose artifact hashes resolve uniquely but whose declared canonical record digest did not match my whole-file JSON calculation; all 304 other bindings resolved exactly. This may be a digest-domain distinction rather than a projector defect, so I’m inspecting representative primary records and the producer’s canonicalization contract before treating it as a blocker.

[2026-08-02 14:51 MST] The 55 apparent source-binding misses were a harness encoding mismatch: the producer’s declared canonical method uses JSON’s default ASCII escaping. Under that exact contract, all 359 nested bindings resolve—210 primaries, one primary amendment, and 148 independent amendments—with source identity intact. I’m proceeding to independent package-tree and focused runtime tests.

[2026-08-02 14:52 MST] Independent dependency sealing confirms all 91 tracked package members: one byte-exact and 90 differing only by deterministic LF→CRLF checkout conversion, with zero other drift, zero status rows, and zero hidden index flags. I’m running the 18 focused projector tests under the pinned MemPalace interpreter with bytecode and pytest cache writes disabled.

[2026-08-02 14:52 MST] The focused suite is still running through local MiniLM embeddings and temporary SQLite partitions; no production inputs or canonical palace are being written. While it completes, the remaining audit focus is coordinated tamper resistance and the exact meaning of deterministic replay.

[2026-08-02 14:53 MST] All 18 focused tests pass independently. I’m adding one ephemeral counterexample outside the committed suite: modify only SQLite timestamp state, recompute the co-located receipt, then ask replay whether it detects the coordinated change; afterward I’ll rollback that temporary partition and compare a clean rebuild’s hashes. This directly tests the weakest integrity premise without touching production or canonical state.

[2026-08-02 14:54 MST] The coordinated-tamper probe falsified full replay integrity: changing only DB timestamps and rewriting the co-located receipt was accepted as `ALREADY_PRESENT`; a rollback/rebuild preserved the set and row digests but produced a different receipt hash. I’m checking one more import-boundary countercase now—whether a preloaded module can forge the expected `__file__` while supplying altered runtime objects.

[2026-08-02 14:?? MST] I’m finishing the two remaining adversarial checks: whether same-origin preloaded MemPalace code can bypass the import seal, and whether the audit left either repository altered. Then I’ll issue a severity-ordered promotion verdict with the closed and falsified claims separated.

[2026-08-02 14:54 MST] The remaining checks are now bounded to runtime import-state integrity and final no-mutation verification. The earlier “14:??” timestamp was a formatting error; 14:54 MST is the verified local time.

[2026-08-02 14:57 MST] A second promotion blocker is confirmed: after one clean load, a same-origin preloaded `mempalace.backends.sqlite_exact` module can have `SQLiteExactBackend` replaced in memory; the loader accepts it because it validates only the module’s file path, then returns the forged class. No filesystem change is required, so the package-byte seal does not cover executed runtime state.

[2026-08-02 14:56 MST] The audit now has two independently reproduced blockers: (1) coordinated database-plus-receipt tampering is accepted as an idempotent replay, and rollback/rebuild does not reproduce the receipt digest; (2) same-origin in-memory MemPalace code substitution is accepted. The 967-row frontier projection, ordinary DB-wide exclusivity, static reparse checks, scoped network wording, and exact rollback scope otherwise validated.

[2026-08-02 14:56 MST] Promotion recommendation: **BLOCKED — do not promote `f23b8dccdaee90ef199605ac5524cf15320d09d9`.** ## Blocking findings 1. **P1 — Coordinated DB + receipt tampering is accepted** Replay derives its “expected” receipt from the currently observed SQL state and file manifest ([projector:2289](/[redacted:local-path]/source/repos/Apocv4/tools/project_pasted_text_cross_source_to_mempalace.py:2289)). In an isolated fixture I changed collection/document timestamps, recomputed the colocated receipt, and replay accepted it as: - `state=ALREADY_PRESENT` - `writes=0` - forged receipt SHA-256 `331584d21cc1fa7c28fc0b8d752f903b829da1579210366eb7b4a769d00e0b00` Rollback followed by rebuilding the identical set at the same path preserved set and row digests but produced different receipt hashes: - original: `cc5b70824e2ed677e19a79bf7002b4d9bca3944b4ba9b557bcea1c4ceee7d3ac` - rebuilt: `1a4a7d44075182227c853ce5bfa3864162714d20e919f67760e7e7c219182f17` MemPalace generates runtime timestamps via `_utcnow()` ([sqlite_exact.py:48](/[redacted:local-path]/source/repos/MemPalace/mempalace/backends/sqlite_exact.py:48)). Therefore unchanged replay is idempotent, but full receipt determinism, independent tamper evidence, and externally anchored rollback binding are not proven. 2. **P1 — Same-origin preloaded code substitution bypasses the import seal** Module verification checks `__file__` origin but not the identity of exported runtime objects ([projector:1082](/[redacted:local-path]/source/repos/Apocv4/tools/project_pasted_text_cross_source_to_mempalace.py:1082)). I replaced the already loaded, correctly located `SQLiteExactBackend` object in memory and called the loader again. It accepted and returned the forged class: ```text forged_preloaded_same_origin_accepted=True accepted_backend_module=__main__ ``` The disk/package seal therefore does not prove the code object subsequently executed. Use a fresh isolated subprocess that rejects all preloaded `mempalace*` modules, or otherwise attest exported code identity before use. 3. **P2 — Validator attestation occurs after validator execution** Validator modules execute during top-level import ([projector:38](/[redacted:local-path]/source/repos/Apocv4/tools/project_pasted_text_cross_source_to_mempalace.py:38)), and `_validator.validate()` runs before its source digest is checked ([projector:2144](/[redacted:local-path]/source/repos/Apocv4/tools/project_pasted_text_cross_source_to_mempalace.py:2144)). Current validator hashes are correct, but the claimed fail-before-effects boundary does not hold under validator-source drift. ## Claims successfully verified | Claim | Result | |---|---| | Frontier materialization | Exactly 967 records: 41 signal + 926 explicit `NONE` | | Corpus capsules | 2,175 unique capsules: 210 sources, 966 claims, 32 clusters, 967 frontier decisions | | Expansion binding | 3,142 direct expansion references and 359 nested references resolved; zero identity/hash failures | | DB-wide exclusivity | One collection only; no document/FTS rows outside it; extra-collection tamper rejected | | Package cleanliness | Pinned MemPalace commit; 91 tracked package files; clean worktree | | Reparse defenses | Static ancestry/tree checks and pre-rename/pre-delete rechecks passed; concurrent handle-level substitution remains outside proof | | Network wording | Correctly scoped to Python `connect`/HF-offline guards; `connect_ex`, DNS and native/subprocess egress explicitly unproven | | Rollback scope | Explicit receipt hash required; exact partition only; sibling and canonical palace preserved | | Unchanged replay | Second run produces zero writes and identical tree/receipt | | Focused suite | `18 passed in 46.55s` | Principal bindings: - synthesis: `c4abd0c26f7de2a5fe9e4c2401f965a49db8adafb49dea6b3f36a2b9e87c981c` - worklist: `8f13aef738b071b53c48c66f8e3cdc4701747a167475e67b12c753aeefb923ff` - frontier review: `981f9221fb98342ecf3ccccbd64565cb3b8db12ad776255703a96d88fabd43ce` - cross-source synthesis: `c2cc04dbeb11c856794c2fdc6efa7e24044b19e99865bd7063a179c90b427551` - set binding: `f6d752e8281c745334005f66fcae20d94fe2cfc805d9efb51410ded0d55687ae` - capsule set: `bee2fa9c46919252261cf4c69c76e40c05399ada0316e53be3f712ec5b9d37a3` Audit remained read-only. Target files exactly matched the audited commit: - projector SHA-256: `aea9fedb25e81db8e86df37ad5482486616f957a7960c131c9ce4eed3e773015` - tests SHA-256: `ff50e38a26fe96a679a82b75db7d957da8bbba5df788f78b708d22eb119979f2` No production projection, canonical-memory mutation, network/provider action, or owned-file modification occurred. Existing foreign worktree changes were preserved. Promotion should resume only after tests prove coordinated DB/receipt tamper rejection, same-path rebuild receipt determinism or an external receipt anchor, same-origin preloaded-module refusal, and validator attestation before execution.

<codex_delegation> <source_thread_id>019fc38a-4865-7c71-8093-97b129ce0fb1</source_thread_id> <input>Recycle immediately into implementation of the exact three audit findings in Apocv4 commit f23b8dccdaee90ef199605ac5524cf15320d09d9. Ownership remains ONLY tools/project_pasted_text_cross_source_to_mempalace.py and tests/test_project_pasted_text_cross_source_to_mempalace.py; do not touch canonical goals/plans/architecture/evidence, production outputs, canonical MemPalace, network/provider/runtime services, or any unrelated dirty state. Requirements: (1) reject coordinated DB timestamp/state + colocated receipt tamper using an independently pinned/externally supplied immutable expected receipt or deterministic receipt domain; prove same-path rollback/rebuild reproducibility or explicitly make receipt timestamp-free and identity-derived, while retaining audit timestamps only outside the sealed deterministic core; (2) execute MemPalace operations only in a fresh isolated subprocess/process boundary that refuses preloaded mempalace modules and attests exact pinned package/module bytes before import/execution, or equivalently bind exported runtime object identity robustly; add the exact forged same-origin class repro; (3) attest validator bytes before any validator import/module execution, ideally subprocess bootstrap after digest check; add drift regression. Preserve exact 967 frontier, 2175 capsule, all expansion, exclusivity, rollback, idempotence, scoped network, no-canonical-contact properties. Use apply_patch; run 18+ focused tests plus new adversarial tests, Ruff, compileall. Commit only the two owned files and report hashes/tests/countercase/rollback. Do NOT run production projection; return it for independent re-audit.</input> </codex_delegation>

[2026-08-02 14:56 MST] I’m switching from audit to the authorized two-file implementation. I’ll first rebind the live branch and reload the critical-analysis and implementation-loop contracts, then patch only the projector and its focused tests; production projection and every canonical/external surface remain out of bounds.

[2026-08-02 14:57 MST] The first read-only batch hit a PowerShell formatting error before returning evidence; it made no changes. I’m rerunning the same checks with the ancestry probe separated so the implementation remains anchored to the audited bytes.

[2026-08-02 15:05 MST] I’m using `critical-analysis` to keep each security claim falsifiable and `apocky-loop` for the two-file implementation/verification cycle. Because this delegated slice crosses persistence and import trust boundaries—and the first shell probe failed—I’m also loading its actor, security, and debugging references before mutation. Rollback remains a single lane-only commit revert.

[2026-08-02 15:05 MST] The live branch has advanced beyond the audited commit, but both owned files still match `f23b8dcc…` exactly and have no foreign edits. The authorized implementation is therefore safe to base on those bytes. Design choice: isolate every MemPalace import/embed/SQLite operation in a fresh `-I -B` child, attest validators before dynamic import in the parent, and make the receipt’s sealed identity domain exclude nondeterministic audit time while retaining audit time only as an untrusted informational envelope.

[2026-08-02 15:05 MST] Pre-mutation invariants are now fixed: the worker receives only paths/digests, performs all reads and writes in a fresh process, and returns a bounded JSON receipt; the parent cannot import MemPalace or validators. The deterministic database timestamp is derived from the set identity, while replay additionally requires the previously returned receipt SHA as an external anchor.

[2026-08-02 15:05 MST] The first code slice is in place: validator imports are gone from module initialization, the complete four-file validator closure is hash-attested before dynamic import, MemPalace now refuses every preloaded module (including correct-path forgeries), and SQLite timestamps are normalized to a set-derived value before sealing. Next I’m wiring the fresh-process transport and external replay anchor through the public API.

[2026-08-02 15:05 MST] The public API now delegates projection and rollback to a sealed `-I -B` child; replay requires the prior receipt digest, and the child independently reattests its own source plus the validator closure. The regressions now include the original same-origin forged class, missing/forged replay anchors, timestamp+receipt coordination, and exact same-path database/receipt rebuild. I’m running the first real integration test before further cleanup.

[2026-08-02 15:05 MST] The fresh-process tiny-fixture integration passes end to end, including validator bootstrap, offline embedding, deterministic timestamp normalization, SQLite/API readback, and atomic publish. I’m testing the load-bearing rollback/rebuild identity next; this is the check that previously falsified full receipt determinism.

[2026-08-02 15:05 MST] The formerly failing criterion now passes: anchored replay is zero-write, rollback followed by same-path rebuild reproduces both the receipt SHA and the physical SQLite SHA exactly. I’m now exercising the two adversarial proofs independently: same-origin class substitution and coordinated database/receipt rewriting.

[2026-08-02 15:05 MST] Both adversarial reproductions now pass as regressions. A forged correct-path backend is rejected locally and cannot cross the fresh worker boundary; coordinated DB+receipt rewriting is rejected first by the original external anchor and again by the deterministic timestamp domain even when the forged receipt hash is supplied. I’m running the complete focused suite now.

[2026-08-02 15:05 MST] The full 19-test run is still active with no failure output so far. Each integration case now launches a genuinely fresh interpreter, so this suite is intentionally slower than the previous in-process version; no production paths are involved.

[2026-08-02 15:05 MST] Full-suite result: 18 passed, 1 failed. The failure is a stale test assumption, not runtime behavior—the test patched a parent-process registry constant, and the new child correctly ignored that mutable parent state. I’m moving that second assertion to the pure registry verifier so it still tests the exact identity denominator without weakening isolation.

[2026-08-02 15:05 MST] The isolated test correction passes. I’m moving through static verification now—Ruff, compilation, and diff checks—before the second full 19-test run, so any style or type-shape repair is covered by the final runtime evidence rather than performed afterward.

[2026-08-02 15:05 MST] Static verification found five lint-only issues: two stale import suppressions, two simplifications, and an intentionally broad worker exception boundary. I’m narrowing the worker catch to the explicit parser/filesystem/SQLite/subprocess/import failure classes and applying the mechanical cleanups; no behavior or authority boundary changes.

[2026-08-02 15:05 MST] Ruff, compileall, and `git diff --check` are clean. The worker’s error boundary is now explicit rather than catch-all. I’m rerunning all 19 focused tests after those final code changes; afterward I’ll perform an independent source-diff/security pass and verify only the two owned paths are staged.

[2026-08-02 15:05 MST] The final full suite remains active without failure output. The longer duration is expected because the tests now verify process isolation repeatedly rather than mocking the trust boundary in-process.

[2026-08-02 15:05 MST] The complete focused suite is green: 19/19. A fresh-view denominator check found one proof improvement worth adding before commit: the frozen-corpus test should assert the full 2,175-capsule distribution and all 3,142 expansion references, not only the 967 frontier subset. This is test-only and directly guards the user’s no-loss invariant.

[2026-08-02 15:05 MST] The new denominator assertion caught a distinction in the earlier audit accounting, not a projection regression: capsule records contain 3,501 expansion references total—3,142 direct references plus 359 nested primary/amendment references. I’m binding the test to both numbers explicitly so the proof cannot collapse nested expansion lineage into the direct-only count.

[2026-08-02 15:05 MST] The no-loss test now preserves both layers explicitly: 2,175 capsules, 967 frontier decisions, 3,142 direct expansion references, and 359 nested source/amendment references (3,501 total). I’m doing the final lint/compile pass followed by one last complete 19-test run on the exact bytes intended for commit.

[2026-08-02 15:05 MST] The final 19-test run is still progressing without failure output. No production artifacts or canonical paths are part of this run; every partition and palace is under a temporary test root.

[2026-08-02 15:05 MST] Final runtime verification is green: 19/19 tests in 78.48 seconds. I’m at the pre-commit gate now, checking that module evaluation imports neither validator nor MemPalace code, that the CLI exposes the new replay anchor cleanly, and that live repository/index state still permits an exact two-file commit.

[2026-08-02 15:05 MST] Pre-commit probes confirm zero trust modules load during projector evaluation, the CLI exposes the immutable replay anchor, the audited commit remains an ancestor, the index is clean, and MemPalace is clean. One reporting-only `rg` pattern was parsed as an option; I’m rerunning that source-location listing with an explicit option terminator, then staging only the two owned files.

[2026-08-02 15:05 MST] The staged denominator is exactly two files—projector and focused test—with no other index entries. All acceptance checks are green, so I’m creating the lane-only commit now; rollback will be `git revert <new-commit>` and production projection remains deliberately unexecuted.

[2026-08-02 15:05 MST] Commit `7badae65a5f13b3311322b2958553bc1b6e6a581` was created with exactly the two owned files. I’m performing the final post-commit ownership/hash/readback check now, including confirming no staged residue and that foreign dirty state and the clean MemPalace checkout remain untouched.

[2026-08-02 15:23 MST] Post-commit verification is clean: HEAD is the lane commit, both owned paths are clean, the index is empty, all 234 unrelated status rows remain foreign and untouched, and MemPalace remains clean at its pinned commit. The implementation is ready for the requested independent re-audit; production projection remains unrun.

[2026-08-02 15:23 MST] Implemented and committed all three promotion-audit fixes. Commit: `7badae65a5f13b3311322b2958553bc1b6e6a581` Changed exactly: - [projector](/[redacted:local-path]/source/repos/Apocv4/tools/project_pasted_text_cross_source_to_mempalace.py:998) — SHA-256 `0bb22573deea44f92e9a8dc932810211ba956c07e543d272714d244a2d9406ca` - [focused tests](/[redacted:local-path]/source/repos/Apocv4/tests/test_project_pasted_text_cross_source_to_mempalace.py:353) — SHA-256 `78fa685ee2bb59e78d4732416cccb380f3ca1b4b9ca76d4209f2a850b274676f` Implemented: - Replay now requires the immutable receipt SHA returned by creation. Coordinated DB/receipt tampering fails against that external anchor. - SQLite creation/update timestamps are replaced before sealing with a deterministic set-derived timestamp. Same-path rollback/rebuild reproduced both receipt SHA and physical SQLite SHA. - Projection and rollback run in fresh `python -I -B` subprocesses. - Workers refuse all preloaded `mempalace*` modules, including forged same-origin classes, and attest the complete pinned package before import. - Validator imports were removed from module initialization. The complete four-file validator closure is attested in parent and child before dynamic import. - Network claims remain correctly limited to Python-connect and HF-offline guards. Verification: - `19 passed in 78.48s` - Ruff: passed - compileall: passed - `git diff --check`: passed - Clean-import probe: `0` validator/MemPalace trust modules loaded - Frozen denominator: 2,175 capsules - 210 sources - 966 claims - 32 clusters - 967 frontier decisions: 41 signal + 926 `NONE` - Expansion lineage: 3,142 direct + 359 nested = 3,501 references - Owned paths clean; index empty - 234 unrelated dirty rows preserved - MemPalace remains clean at `c8b3b2eee6e77c5b670d93359dc40c7cf11b7bf4` Countercase: deterministic database timestamps are identity metadata, not real creation times; any wall-clock audit timestamp must remain outside the sealed receipt. Byte reproducibility is proven on the pinned Windows/Python/SQLite/MemPalace environment, not across arbitrary runtime upgrades. Full OS-level network denial remains explicitly unproven. No production corpus projection, canonical-memory mutation, service, provider, network, training, deployment, or public effect occurred. Rollback: `git revert 7badae65a5f13b3311322b2958553bc1b6e6a581` Next dependency: independent promotion re-audit of this commit before any production projection.

<codex_delegation> <source_thread_id>019fc38a-4865-7c71-8093-97b129ce0fb1</source_thread_id> <input>Recycle immediately into an independent read-only promotion audit of Apocv4 registry commits 0a5d6bd4f53c84c0b143b4f6fca8abea264da7f3, 46b900ba7909a40e1206d47cd5e01ac81c5e69d0, and 31de385f958587313bd951b1c2fcdd4377f2e442. Target artifact specs/evaluation/04_PROTOTYPE_TEST_VARIABLE_REGISTRY_2026-08-02.jsonl SHA256 a7448ec6934ce04f11be88aa59b71f804367fe7712e9c7d76e219b5b3c4fd8e1. Read-only only: do not edit/commit, run effects, or touch canonical surfaces. Reproduce the prior coordinated source path/role/format/unit_kind substitution and semantic/gate/crosswalk/blocker/consequence tamper cases; test duplicate-casefold keys and JSONL encoding gates; independently resolve all 1,038 locators and canonical payload digests; verify 14 exact source contracts, 33 variables, 32 dials, 112 actionable, 926 NONE, tier 1/35/67/9, all paid authority blocked; verify deterministic selection and zero write/network/subprocess/exec; reproduce Ruff and evidence224 claims. Return PASS/BLOCK with line-specific evidence, strongest countercase, and promotion recommendation. Preserve all shared state.</input> </codex_delegation>

[2026-08-02 15:23 MST] I’m starting the independent registry audit under a strict read-only boundary. I’ll bind the three commits and target bytes first, then trace the validator/tests and independently reproduce every tamper, locator, denominator, authority, determinism, and no-effect claim without writing to repository or canonical surfaces.

[2026-08-02 15:27 MST] I’m using `critical-analysis` for the promotion verdict, `graphify` for repository relationship routing, and `apocky-loop` for the verification gate. No `graphify-out/graph.json` exists; because this audit forbids writes, I will not build one and will use direct commit/source tracing instead. The artifact bytes and requested SHA already match, and all three commits form the expected linear chain.

[2026-08-02 15:27 MST] Lineage and target bytes are sealed: all three commits form the expected chain, the registry is clean, and its current SHA-256 exactly matches `a7448ec…fd8e1`. I’m now tracing each validation branch and selection contract before running the independent tamper and 1,038-locator reproductions; the repository remains untouched.

[2026-08-02 15:30 MST] The implementation pins all 14 path/role/format/unit-kind tuples and seals semantic catalogs/crosswalks/conflicts, while selection rebuilds the entire source-derived candidate set before filtering. One audit edge is now explicit: the JSON decoder rejects exact duplicate keys, but not case-fold-equivalent spellings at decode time; I’m testing whether later exact-shape/digest gates still reject every such placement or whether this leaves a coordinated-source bypass.

[2026-08-02 15:34 MST] Independent source expansion is clean: 1,038/1,038 locators resolved to raw objects, 1,038 canonical payload hashes matched, and 1,038 expanded payloads matched. The denominator is exactly 18 matrix + 51 synthesis + 967 frontier + 2 fixture objects; all 14 bound sources also match path, role, format, unit kind, bytes, records/lines, and SHA-256 through EOF.

[2026-08-02 15:37 MST] All 30 requested semantic/authority tamper cases reject, including independent path, role, format, and unit-kind substitutions. A promotion blocker is reproduced, however: the decoder accepts `record_type` plus `Record_Type`, and a temp-only coordinated case-fold duplicate in a sealed matrix source—rebinding its source hash and ordered payload digest—still validates `ok=true` with all 1,038 rows. No repository bytes were changed.

[2026-08-02 15:41 MST] Determinism and effect boundaries reproduce exactly: each of six operations produced one output digest across 21/21 runs; all five recorded selection SHA-256 values match evidence 224; the audit hook observed 0 write/network/subprocess/exec events over validation plus expanded all-tier selection. Focused tests are 16/16, integration 35/35, Ruff 0.16.1 passes, and temp-copy compileall plus diff checks pass. The sole promotion failure remains the case-fold duplicate-key bypass.

[2026-08-02 15:34 MST] **BLOCK — one promotion-critical integrity gap.** ### Blocker The JSON decoder rejects only exact duplicate keys (`key in result`), not case-fold-equivalent keys such as `record_type` and `Record_Type`: [prototype_test_variable_registry.py:310]([redacted:local-path]/source/repos/Apocv4/tools/prototype_test_variable_registry.py:310). Existing regression coverage tests only exact duplication: [test_prototype_test_variable_registry.py:356]([redacted:local-path]/source/repos/Apocv4/tests/test_prototype_test_variable_registry.py:356). Independent reproductions: - Minimal case-fold duplicate JSONL was accepted with both keys. - Stronger temp-only coordinated repro: - Added `Experiment_ID` beside `experiment_id` in one matrix source row. - Recomputed its bound source SHA-256 and ordered crosswalk digest. - Validator returned `ok=true` and materialized all 1,038 items. - The repository itself was never changed. This violates the requested case-fold duplicate gate and weakens evidence 224’s duplicate-key assurance at [line 56]([redacted:local-path]/source/repos/Apocv4/specs/evidence/224_G17_PROTOTYPE_TEST_VARIABLE_COMPACTION_2026-08-02.csl:56). ::code-comment{title="[P1] Reject case-fold duplicate JSON keys" body="The object-pairs hook tracks exact spelling only. A coordinated sealed-source update containing both `experiment_id` and `Experiment_ID`, with refreshed source and crosswalk digests, still validates successfully. Track `key.casefold()` alongside the original spelling and add both decoder-level and coordinated bound-source regressions." file="[redacted:local-path]/source/repos/Apocv4/tools/prototype_test_variable_registry.py" start=310 end=315 priority=1} ### Everything else passed - Commit chain: `0a5d6bd → 46b900b → 31de385`. - Registry: SHA-256 `a7448ec6934ce04f11be88aa59b71f804367fe7712e9c7d76e219b5b3c4fd8e1`, 37,761 bytes, 11 records. - Exact source contracts: 14/14 path, role, format, unit-kind, SHA-256, bytes, units, and EOF matched; 4,565,497 total bound bytes. Contracts are pinned at [validator line 160]([redacted:local-path]/source/repos/Apocv4/tools/prototype_test_variable_registry.py:160) and instantiated in [registry line 1]([redacted:local-path]/source/repos/Apocv4/specs/evaluation/04_PROTOTYPE_TEST_VARIABLE_REGISTRY_2026-08-02.jsonl:1). - Locator expansion: 1,038/1,038 resolved, 1,038/1,038 canonical payload hashes matched, 1,038/1,038 expanded objects matched, zero failures: - Matrix 18 - Synthesis 51 - Frontier 967 - Fixtures 2 - Catalogs: 33 variables, 32 exact dial definitions, 6 crosswalks, 10 unresolved conflicts. - Denominator: 112 actionable + 926 `NONE`; tiers exactly `1/35/67/9`. All nine paid rows remain `BLOCKED_AUTHORITY`, execution authority `NONE`, with the paid-authority blocker. Enforcement is at [lines 1193–1204]([redacted:local-path]/source/repos/Apocv4/tools/prototype_test_variable_registry.py:1193). - Requested tampering: 30/30 rejected, including path, role, format, unit-kind, semantic, gate, 12 crosswalk-field, six blocker-set, and consequence substitutions. - Encoding gates: exact duplicate, BOM, NUL, blank row, CRLF, missing LF, and invalid UTF-8 all rejected. - Determinism: 21/21 identical for every operation. Selection hashes exactly matched evidence 224: - local: `6e7e8010…58b31` - core: `dbe4ad27…6419a` - extended: `4a362a9f…04b92` - paid: `837fe87b…911ef` - D27/core: `c330f413…a2659` - Effect probe: zero durable-write, network, subprocess, or exec events across validation and expanded all-tier selection. - Tests: focused 16/16; integration 35/35. - Ruff 0.16.1 passed; temp-copy compileall passed; `git diff --check` passed. - Tool/test hashes exactly match [evidence 224 lines 31–36]([redacted:local-path]/source/repos/Apocv4/specs/evidence/224_G17_PROTOTYPE_TEST_VARIABLE_COMPACTION_2026-08-02.csl:31). Strongest countercase: the externally pinned registry SHA and current source seals protect this exact snapshot, and an independent strict parse found no case-fold duplicates in current bytes. However, the CLI does not require that external expected SHA and accepts a coordinated reseal containing ambiguous keys. Therefore the immutable snapshot is clean, but the validator contract is not promotion-safe. Recommendation: block promotion until the decoder rejects case-fold collisions, add a coordinated bound-source regression, reseal tool/test/evidence hashes, and rerun this audit. Shared state remains preserved: zero owned modifications, zero drift since `31de385`, and all 234 foreign status rows untouched.