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+# Contract: genesis tranche G1 — `CreateInstrument`, and the from-empty spine
+
+Repo root `/home/jeans/Repos/active/epiphany`. Governed by
+`spec/RULING_GENESIS_PERSISTENCE.md` (011c68a; `identity` sub-decision ruled at
+ec17d06) and `spec/PLAN_GENESIS_OPS.md` §4 (439e1e2), whose G1/G2/G3 ladder the
+user ratified 2026-07-24.
+
+Execution model as every tranche on this track: Sonnet subagent, coordinator
+line-level review with **independent mutation re-runs**, user deep-dive at
+contract sign-off and final report. Mutation discipline throughout: anchor-assert
+before substituting, restore by reversing, never `git checkout`.
+
+**Parallel safety.** The editor track owns `epiphany-editor-core`,
+`epiphany-editor-gui`, `epiphany-layout-ir`, `epiphany-render-svg`, the new
+`epiphany-glyphs` crate, every `crates/epiphany-editor-gui/goldens/*.png`, and
+`spec/PLAN_EDITOR_APP.md` + `spec/CONTRACT_EDITOR_*.md`. **This packet touches
+none of them.** Do not stage them; do not `git add -A`.
+
+---
+
+## What this packet does, in one sentence
+
+Adds one operation kind, `CreateInstrument`, so that a `Score::empty(identity)`
+plus an operation log can materialize a note-bearing score — and makes the
+from-empty path correct in the two ways the ruling requires.
+
+## Why it is this small
+
+`CreateInstrument` is **the single missing link** between an empty score and a
+note. `Score::empty` (`core/src/graph.rs:1747`) yields `Canvas::default()` and
+empty vectors; from there the chain is
+
+```
+Score::empty → CreateInstrument (MISSING) → CreateStaff ✓ → CreateRegion ✓
+             → CreateStaffInstance ✓ → CreateVoice ✓ → InsertEvent ✓
+```
+
+Every later arrow exists today with graph-aware preconditions. `CreateStaff`
+already requires a **live `Instrument`** (`reduce.rs:3824-3833`) — which nothing
+can currently create. That is the whole gap.
+
+`Instrument` (`core/src/graph.rs`, fields `id, name, range, abbreviation,
+sound_config, transposition, default_clef, default_staff_lines,
+unpitched_members`) holds **no outbound entity references**. It is a root, so
+this operation needs **no referential preconditions** — only mint/idempotence.
+
+## Design pins
+
+1. **No wire layout is designed.** `Instrument` already has a `Codec` and
+   already ships inside `Score`. Add `Instrument` to `canonical_value!`
+   (`core/src/codec.rs:3484`) and encode the payload as
+   `push_lp_bytes(out, &self.instrument.canonical_bytes())` — the
+   `CreateStaffOp` template verbatim (`ops/src/payload.rs:1411`). The generated
+   `decode_canonical` already rejects non-canonical encodings, so strict-form
+   enforcement is inherited, not written.
+2. **Discriminants: kind `31`, tag `31`.** Both spaces currently top out at 30
+   (`TransposeInterval`). **They coincide here by accident, not by rule** — the
+   two spaces are independent and misaligned elsewhere (`RespellPitch` is kind 2
+   / tag 3; `CreateVoice` is kind 19 / tag 20). Append-only under
+   `req:binfmt:kind-discriminants`.
+3. **Name it `CreateInstrument` in both spaces**, catalog name
+   `"create-instrument"`. The tag layer's older Create→Insert convention
+   (`InsertStaff` for kind `CreateStaff`) is **not** followed: the two most
+   recent additions, `CreateVoice` and `CreateRepeatStructure`, use `Create` in
+   the tag, and a gratuitous homonym costs more than the convention buys.
+4. **`schema_major()` is unconditionally `2`.** `Instrument`'s major-2 appends
+   (`sound_config`, `default_clef`, `default_staff_lines`) are **mandatory, not
+   `Option`-hidden**, so no lower-major layout for this payload exists. Put it in
+   the existing `| OperationKind::CreateStaff(_) | OperationKind::SetMetadata(_)
+   => 2` arm (`payload.rs:219`). **Do not** copy the value-dependent arm shape
+   used by `CreateRegion`/`SetStaffLayout`.
+5. **No accept-set change.** `max_supported_major(OperationEnvelopeBlock)` is
+   already 2 (`bundle.rs:69`) and **stays 2**. Do not touch `epiphany-bundle`.
+   The raise to 3 belongs to G2 (`SetTuningContext`) and to nothing else.
+6. **Reduction follows `create_staff` exactly** (`reduce.rs:3794-3855`): live +
+   byte-identical value → `NoOp{AlreadyApplied}`; live + differing value →
+   `NoOp{PreconditionFailedUnderReduction{RecreateContentMismatch}}`; tombstoned
+   → `NoOp{TargetTombstoned}`; otherwise `mint_container` + `Applied`.
+7. **No `DeleteInstrument`.** `CreateStaff` ships today with no `DeleteStaff`;
+   the ruling states full CRUD is not automatically owed. Delete coverage is
+   G3's design work.
+
+## The two cross-cutting items
+
+These are the reason G1 is not merely "one more kind".
+
+8. **`instrument_values` must exist and be seeded.** `TypedObjectId::Instrument`
+   liveness is already seeded from the base (`reduce.rs:1319-1321`), but there
+   is **no value map**, so re-carry idempotence against a *base* instrument has
+   nothing to compare. Add `instrument_values: BTreeMap<InstrumentId, Instrument>`
+   mirroring `staff_values` at every one of its sites: the two struct decls
+   (`:914`, `:1004`), the init (`:1282`), the base seed (beside `:1327`), and the
+   snapshot/restore pair (`:7234`, `:7270`). **Missing the snapshot/restore pair
+   is the silent failure here** — it would surface only under undo/replay.
+9. **The identity cursor** (ruling §3). From-empty reduction sets
+   `next_counter` to `1 + max(counter)` over ids authored by the reducing
+   replica in the log, leaving the seed untouched when that replica authored
+   none. This is **the first time reduction writes `identity` at all** —
+   `epiphany-ops` has no `.identity` reference today. Note `Score::identity` is
+   an authoring cursor reduction has never advanced; under from-empty it would
+   otherwise sit at the seed while the log already holds that replica's ids at
+   `0..N`, so minting from a reduced score re-issues used counters. Nothing
+   catches that: invariant 11 (`core/src/invariants.rs:1746-1752`) checks only
+   the reserved replica, never the counter.
+10. **From-empty must reduce with a graph.** Use
+    `reduce_operation_set_onto(&set, &Score::empty(identity))`
+    (`reduce.rs:617`), **never** `reduce_operation_set(&set)` (`:612`).
+    Graph-aware preconditions are skipped in the base-free mode *by design* —
+    it has no universe to check against (`reduce.rs:3721`, `:3824`). A
+    from-empty document through the base-free entry point silently loses
+    referential enforcement. Document this at both entry points.
+
+## Touch points
+
+Derived by enumerating every `CreateStaff` site. Twelve non-test surfaces —
+**two of which the plan under-counted** (`v0.rs`, `migrate.rs`):
+
+| # | File | Site (CreateStaff analogue) |
+|---|---|---|
+| 1 | `core/src/codec.rs` | `canonical_value!` — add `Instrument` (`:3484`) |
+| 2 | `ops/src/payload.rs` | `CreateInstrumentOp` struct + `CanonicalEncode` (`:1400`, `:1411`) |
+| 3 | `ops/src/payload.rs` | `OperationKind` variant (`:177`) |
+| 4 | `ops/src/payload.rs` | `schema_major()` → 2 arm (`:219`) |
+| 5 | `ops/src/payload.rs` | `discriminant()` → 31 (`:280`) |
+| 6 | `ops/src/payload.rs` | `tag()` (`:323`) + encode dispatch (`:367`) |
+| 7 | `ops/src/payload.rs` | `operation_kind_tag_vocabulary!` entry (`:440`) — **compile-enforced** |
+| 8 | `ops/src/envdecode.rs` | discriminant-31 decode (`:542`) + tag→kind (`:830`) |
+| 9 | `ops/src/v0.rs` | `V0OperationKind` variant (`:96`) |
+| 10 | `ops/src/migrate.rs` | both directions (`:171`, `:325`) |
+| 11 | `ops/src/reduce.rs` | dispatch (`:2632`) + `create_instrument` + pin 8's map |
+| 12 | `ops/src/textproj_kind.rs` | production (`:185`) + parse (`:470`) |
+| 13 | `ops/src/fuzz.rs` | generator arm (`:214`) |
+| 14 | `ops/src/vectors.rs` | a decode vector for the new payload |
+| 15 | `spec/operation_catalog.tex` | §`CreateInstrument` |
+
+The tag vocabulary macro (#7) is a **single source of truth**: the decoder, fuzz
+corpus, conformance vectors, and edit-barrier round-trip all read `PAYLOAD_FREE`,
+and a variant missing an entry **fails to compile**. It exists because Push 4a
+added `TransposeInterval` to a hand-written match and nothing else, and four
+hand-maintained lists stayed green while the decoder rejected its own encoding.
+`OperationKind::discriminant()` (#5) has **no such guard** — it is hand-written.
+
+## Tests + minimum mutations
+
+Every test must be mutation-verified: re-introduce the bug it exists to catch and
+show it dies. A test that cannot see its own bug is not a test.
+
+* **(i1) the spine reaches a note.** From `Score::empty(identity)`, operations
+  only — `CreateInstrument` → `CreateStaff` → `CreateRegion` →
+  `CreateStaffInstance` → `CreateVoice` → `InsertEvent` — materializes a
+  note-bearing `Score`. No fixture, no base. *This is the packet's load-bearing
+  test and the ruling's acceptance criterion 1.* **Mutation:** drop the
+  `CreateInstrument` envelope → `CreateStaff` must `NoOp{TargetMissing}` and no
+  note appears.
+* **(i2) re-carry idempotence.** The same `CreateInstrument` twice →
+  `AlreadyApplied`, and the state is byte-identical. **Mutation:** make the
+  second carry differ in one field → `RecreateContentMismatch`.
+* **(i3) re-carry against a *base* instrument** — the pin-8 case. Reduce onto a
+  base that already contains the instrument. **Mutation:** skip seeding
+  `instrument_values` → the byte-identical re-carry is misreported as a
+  mismatch.
+* **(i4) order independence.** Two replicas applying a concurrent genesis-era
+  set in opposite delivery orders converge to byte-identical
+  `MaterializedState` (ruling acceptance criterion 2; the existing pattern is
+  `reduce.rs:10031`). **Mutation:** perturb one op's reduction order.
+* **(i5) the identity cursor.** Mint from a reduced-from-empty score and assert
+  the id collides with nothing in the log. **Mutation:** leave `next_counter` at
+  the seed → collision.
+* **(i6) base-free loses enforcement.** Assert explicitly that
+  `reduce_operation_set` (base-free) does **not** enforce the instrument
+  precondition while `reduce_operation_set_onto` does. This test documents a
+  designed asymmetry rather than guarding a bug — state that in its doc comment
+  so a later reader does not "fix" it.
+* **(i7) minimal stamping.** `CreateInstrument.schema_major() == 2`
+  *unconditionally* — including for an instrument whose optional fields are all
+  `None`. Extend `schema_majors_follow_the_minimal_stamping_rule`
+  (`reduce.rs:10386`). **Mutation:** make the arm value-dependent → dies.
+* **(i8) decode vector pinned to literal bytes**, not round-trip. Round-trip
+  locking cannot see a self-consistent encoder/decoder reorder — that is the
+  3b-i lesson, where a swap applied to both halves passed 1283 tests and 8/8
+  conformance.
+* **(i9) text-projection round-trip** for the new kind, matching the existing
+  per-kind coverage.
+
+## Blast radius
+
+`crates/epiphany-core/src/codec.rs` (one `canonical_value!` line) and its
+`DECISIONS.md`; `crates/epiphany-ops/src/{payload,envdecode,v0,migrate,reduce,textproj_kind,fuzz,vectors}.rs`
+and its `DECISIONS.md`; `spec/operation_catalog.tex` (+ its rebuilt PDF — every
+other `.tex` commit carries one). **Nothing else.** No `epiphany-bundle`, no
+`binary_format.tex`, no editor-track crate, no golden re-blessing.
+
+## Gate (report actual output, never stale numbers)
+
+`cargo fmt --check`; `cargo clippy --workspace --all-targets` at **0** warnings;
+`cargo test --workspace` at **0** failed; `cargo test --doc` at 0 failed;
+conformance **8/8**; `requirement_labels` **6/6** with its three observed counts
+reported as seen (they were 212/282/282 at 439e1e2 and will move with the
+catalog section). Plus:
+
+* `max_supported_major(OperationEnvelopeBlock)` is **still 2** — assert it, and
+  state it in the report.
+* No `crates/epiphany-editor-gui/goldens/*.png` byte changes.
+
+## What I will verify independently before committing
+
+Build to survive this. I re-run every mutation myself, and I check specifically:
+that #5's hand-written discriminant match and #7's macro entry agree; that pin
+8's snapshot/restore pair (`:7234`/`:7270`) was not missed; that i1 fails for the
+stated reason rather than incidentally; that the accept-set really did not move;
+and that no claim in the report is copied forward from this contract rather than
+observed — the recurring failure mode on this project is a plausible claim
+propagating because nobody re-derived it.
+
+## Report
+
+Files + summary, exact asserted values, every mutation with kill evidence, gate
+output verbatim, deviations flagged explicitly. If any pin here turns out to be
+wrong, say so rather than working around it silently.