epiphany/spec
Levi Neuwirth df9e528e99
P13-S27 round 4: the M5 pair was defective a third time
Independent review against 53292f6. Five findings, four blocking. Round 4
accepted pin 3's capabilities() accessor as bounded -- the first new text
any round has passed -- and rejected both halves of M5 again.

M5b cited the wrong value, and this one is mine. roundtrip.rs:367 sits in
assert_score_serialization_stable, not assert_reduction_serialization_stable,
and it versions an acceleration snapshot, not a canonical base. The latter
has no base at all, because pin 3c suspended it. So the value round 3 told
the implementer not to touch was irrelevant to the authority check, and
mutating it could not have failed anything. Round 3 grepped
ReductionAlgorithmVersion across testkit/src/, saw a roundtrip.rs hit, and
attributed it to the function it was already thinking about without
resolving the enclosing item -- the same shape as section 0.4's .commit(
miscount, which round 1 had already recorded as a lesson. Recording a
defect is not the same as not committing it. The tautology diagnosis
stands; only its evidence was wrong.

M5b left the instrument unchosen. Round 3 said "the rung picks one" and
named two routes, one of which does not exist for the nominated crate:
craft_image_with_base is a private fn inside epiphany-bundle's cfg(test)
module. Now chosen, through public API only: build with
synthetic_for_fixture(0), commit a base carrying the literal 0, take the
bytes, reopen under the real constant. The operands are provably
independent and neither can be tidied into the other.

M5b had no test that could assert the error fields.
assert_reduction_serialization_stable returns () and reopens with .expect,
so a mismatch panics instead of yielding a matchable
CanonicalBaseRequiresRebuild { base, current }. Test 10b added, named and
returning a matchable Result.

M5a violated section 7 item 4a -- the rule round 3 added in the same edit.
It named no test, and its natural assertion compares
CURRENT_REDUCTION_ALGORITHM_VERSION with itself, which holds for every
value. Test 10a added, asserting against a deliberate literal. Round 3
diagnosed M5b's tautology and wrote the identical tautology into M5a in the
same edit, then added a rule and immediately broke it.

Both literals are load-bearing as literals. Section 7 item 4b now requires
confirming neither was rewritten as the constant -- tidying either makes
its mutation vacuous while every test stays green.

Minor: status prose said the pins were open to round 3's findings after
round 3 closed.

Still NOT RATIFIED, NOT DISPATCHABLE. Defect rate 9, 6, 6, 5 -- not
converging, and every blocking finding in rounds 3 and 4 was in text
written to fix the previous round.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Ps1szk2mSfgp4Cz21eVH9x
2026-08-07 23:41:15 +02:00
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vectors Container major 1: the format epoch carries base provenance 2026-08-07 12:51:14 -04:00
ANALYSIS_GENESIS_PERSISTENCE.md The operation set absorbs genesis 2026-07-24 15:11:36 -04:00
ANALYSIS_TEXT_RUN_PRIMITIVES.md Editor T4-pre W3: the text run carries both its string and its ink 2026-07-28 14:38:06 -04:00
AUDIT_GMINOR_VOCABULARIES.md Audit the G-minor reachable vocabularies: a ledger, a matrix, one stale sentence 2026-07-28 18:27:35 -04:00
CONTRACT_CORE_DECODE_VECTORS.md The decode vector corpus reaches the core score wire 2026-07-24 11:38:15 -04:00
CONTRACT_EDITOR_T1A_GOLDENS.md Editor track: the plan, and the T1a golden-harness contract 2026-07-23 14:57:43 -04:00
CONTRACT_EDITOR_T2_SELECTION.md Editor T2: contract for selection v2, the golden gate, and copy/paste 2026-07-23 17:07:18 -04:00
CONTRACT_EDITOR_T3_CARET.md Editor T3: contract for the note-entry caret 2026-07-24 12:55:05 -04:00
CONTRACT_EDITOR_T4PRE_IR.md Editor T4-pre: the IR readiness contract, and the genesis-persistence table 2026-07-24 14:47:08 -04:00
CONTRACT_EDITOR_T4PRE_W2_GLYPHS.md Editor T4-pre W2: the glyph-asset contract, and three parallelism claims get finer 2026-07-24 17:50:02 -04:00
CONTRACT_EDITOR_T4_SPIKE.md Contract revision 6: round 1 was testing the wrong property on the wrong glyphs 2026-07-28 21:24:47 -04:00
CONTRACT_FORMAT_EPOCH_MAJOR1.md Format epoch amended: pin 3c bounds the interval's conformance cost 2026-08-07 11:41:51 -04:00
CONTRACT_GENESIS_G1_INSTRUMENT.md Contract G1: one operation, and the two things that make from-empty correct 2026-07-24 18:04:30 -04:00
CONTRACT_GENESIS_G2A_SETTINGS.md Contract G2a round five: the sixth hand-maintained site, and locking Registered 2026-07-28 15:47:17 -04:00
CONTRACT_GENESIS_G2B_TUNING.md Sign t9 with a mutation that actually kills it 2026-07-29 10:18:57 -04:00
CONTRACT_GENESIS_G3A_ENTITIES.md G3a contract: ten source locators, corrected forward 2026-07-31 19:47:43 -04:00
CONTRACT_GENESIS_G3A_UNDO_REPAIR.md G3a undo repair: the tombstone branch was reachable all along 2026-07-29 18:21:45 -04:00
CONTRACT_GENESIS_G3B_MEASURE.md P13-S18: the invariant-20 outcome matrix, and what the residue actually is 2026-07-31 17:05:49 -04:00
CONTRACT_GMINOR_IMPLEMENTATION.md Amend the G-minor contract: the [7f] oracle, and the PDFs the touch table missed 2026-07-28 18:59:00 -04:00
CONTRACT_GMINOR_VOCABULARY_AUDIT.md Audit contract amendments: a possible gate, and four scoping repairs 2026-07-28 18:08:55 -04:00
CONTRACT_P13S1_LABELS.md P13-S1: every requirement is named, and now it is also numbered 2026-07-21 18:27:52 -04:00
CONTRACT_P13S6_PROMOTION.md P13-S6 ratified: the lattice block, and an argument that did not survive arithmetic 2026-07-22 14:26:08 -04:00
CONTRACT_P13S6_TEMPERAMENTS.md P13-S6: the tuning constructions, drafted -- and why sourcing was not enough 2026-07-22 11:50:06 -04:00
CONTRACT_P13S16_PROJECTION.md P13-S16 scoped and blocked; P13-S27 filed 2026-07-31 20:27:43 -04:00
CONTRACT_P13S18_MATRIX.md P13-S18: the invariant-20 outcome matrix, and what the residue actually is 2026-07-31 17:05:49 -04:00
CONTRACT_P13S19_PARTIAL.md P13-S19: what a partial measure actually costs 2026-07-31 18:13:44 -04:00
CONTRACT_P13S22_TAGLOCK.md P13-S22 contract: M2's whole-test alternative was false 2026-07-31 19:30:21 -04:00
CONTRACT_P13S27_REDUCTION_AUTHORITY.md P13-S27 round 4: the M5 pair was defective a third time 2026-08-07 23:41:15 +02:00
CONTRACT_PUSH4B_3BII_IDENTITY.md Push 4b tranche 3b-ii: one SmuflVersion, and a live ordering bug dies with the homonym 2026-07-23 19:30:52 -04:00
CONTRACT_PUSH4B_3BI_WIRE.md Push 4b tranche 3b-i: the score wire opens schema major 3 2026-07-23 17:35:55 -04:00
CONTRACT_PUSH4B_ACCIDENTALS.md Push 4b tranche 3a: contract for the accidental vocabulary, and S10-S12 filed 2026-07-23 13:55:19 -04:00
CONTRACT_PUSH4B_ADAPTIVE.md Push 4b: ji-adaptive-5limit resolves, and the blocker was never HarmonicContext 2026-07-24 10:17:46 -04:00
CONTRACT_PUSH4B_PITCHSPACES.md Push 4b tranche 1: contract for the pitch-space slice 2026-07-22 17:08:00 -04:00
CONTRACT_PUSH4B_RESOLVER.md Push 4b tranche 2: contract for the in-memory tuning resolver 2026-07-23 10:06:25 -04:00
CONTRACT_PUSH4B_SPEC1.md Push 4b Wave 1a: three ratified corrections, and a citation that pointed the wrong way 2026-07-22 11:49:40 -04:00
CONTRACT_PUSH4B_TEMPERAMENTS.md Push 4b tranche 2b: contract for the ten historical temperaments 2026-07-23 11:38:14 -04:00
CONTRACT_TEXTPROJ_DOCUMENT.md Text Projection: the document layer, and the equation closes 2026-07-21 15:05:28 -04:00
CONTRACT_TEXTPROJ_OPS.md Text Projection: the operation layer, and the tests that can see it fail 2026-07-21 13:43:09 -04:00
DRAFT_P13S6_TEMPERAMENTS.md P13-S6 ratified: the lattice block, and an argument that did not survive arithmetic 2026-07-22 14:26:08 -04:00
HANDOFF_2026-08-07.md CLAUDE.md: the entry point an agent actually reads 2026-08-07 13:40:48 -04:00
PASS11_RATIFICATION_LOG.md P12-I2: wire the ratified MUSCLOID layout-object id derivation 2026-06-27 12:46:19 -04:00
PASS11_WORKLIST.md Pass 11: ratify provisional byte choices into normative spec text 2026-06-21 22:30:06 -04:00
PASS12_BATCH.md Pass 12 G-pass: ratify the full batch (28 rows) — spec tranche 2026-07-07 10:23:30 -04:00
PASS12_RATIFICATION_LOG.md P13-S1: every requirement is named, and now it is also numbered 2026-07-21 18:27:52 -04:00
PASS12_WORKLIST.md Pass 12 G-pass: ratify the full batch (28 rows) — spec tranche 2026-07-07 10:23:30 -04:00
PASS13_CANDIDATES.md P13-S27 round 4: the M5 pair was defective a third time 2026-08-07 23:41:15 +02:00
PHASE2_F_WEEK0_WORKLIST.md Phase 2: spelling + decomposition pre-passes (Agent H) with F merge gate 2026-06-23 16:33:39 -04:00
PHASE2_QUICKSTART.md Phase 2: spelling + decomposition pre-passes (Agent H) with F merge gate 2026-06-23 16:33:39 -04:00
PLAN_EDITOR_APP.md Contract revision 6: round 1 was testing the wrong property on the wrong glyphs 2026-07-28 21:24:47 -04:00
PLAN_GENESIS_OPS.md G3b packet 3b: the documentation half, and the ladder closes 2026-07-30 20:45:27 -04:00
PLAN_GMINOR_SCHEMA_MINOR.md P13-S21: the two precondition reasons the wire spec never named 2026-07-30 20:57:59 -04:00
PLAN_P13S1_LABELS.md P13-S1: every requirement is named, and now it is also numbered 2026-07-21 18:27:52 -04:00
PLAN_P13S2_CMN24.md P13-S2: the alteration is space-relative, and the core fails closed 2026-07-22 09:00:09 -04:00
PLAN_PUSH4B_TUNING.md Push 4b Wave 1a: three ratified corrections, and a citation that pointed the wrong way 2026-07-22 11:49:40 -04:00
PLAN_TEXTPROJ_DOCUMENT.md Text Projection: the document layer, and the equation closes 2026-07-21 15:05:28 -04:00
PLAN_TEXTPROJ_OPS.md Text Projection: the operation layer, and the tests that can see it fail 2026-07-21 13:43:09 -04:00
QUICKSTART.md G3b packet 3b: the documentation half, and the ladder closes 2026-07-30 20:45:27 -04:00
RULING_GENESIS_PERSISTENCE.md Editor T4-pre W2: the glyph-asset contract, and three parallelism claims get finer 2026-07-24 17:50:02 -04:00
binary_format.pdf Container major 1: the format epoch carries base provenance 2026-08-07 12:51:14 -04:00
binary_format.tex Container major 1: the format epoch carries base provenance 2026-08-07 12:51:14 -04:00
core_spec.pdf Container major 1: the format epoch carries base provenance 2026-08-07 12:51:14 -04:00
core_spec.tex Container major 1: the format epoch carries base provenance 2026-08-07 12:51:14 -04:00
operation_catalog.pdf P13-S19: what a partial measure actually costs 2026-07-31 18:13:44 -04:00
operation_catalog.tex P13-S19: what a partial measure actually costs 2026-07-31 18:13:44 -04:00
quality_metric_catalog.pdf P13-S1: every requirement is named, and now it is also numbered 2026-07-21 18:27:52 -04:00
quality_metric_catalog.tex P13-S1: every requirement is named, and now it is also numbered 2026-07-21 18:27:52 -04:00
reference_suite.pdf P13-S1: every requirement is named, and now it is also numbered 2026-07-21 18:27:52 -04:00
reference_suite.tex P13-S1: every requirement is named, and now it is also numbered 2026-07-21 18:27:52 -04:00
text_projection.pdf Container major 1: the format epoch carries base provenance 2026-08-07 12:51:14 -04:00
text_projection.tex Container major 1: the format epoch carries base provenance 2026-08-07 12:51:14 -04:00