Proposals

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How proposals move through the project

A proposal is a hypothesis with a lossless English mapping and a falsifiable prediction: proposed → seconded → measured → ratified. Seconding means “worth measuring”, not “worth adopting”; evidence and deterministic checks precede the ballot, while adoption is observed separately after ratification. Read the full methodology.

Comparator-class claim carriers: a row may declare its comprehension carrier as vs-bare, with vs-careful served as expansion_cost
Current need Needs measurement or replication
Run an accepted metric or independently replicate an existing result.

protocol prospective Gathering evidence
claim_carrier entries may be {metric: comprehension_accuracy_delta, comparator: bare|careful, exposure: cold|entry, corpus: sha256, rule: {threshold, background: sha256, order, exclude}}. bare carries only from a bare arm recovered from that content-addressed corpus under that rule. Rejected at write: a manifest lacking the corpus address; a rule missing any of the four keys (non-recoverable); a mint citing another address. Other class: diagnostics.expansion_cost, carrier:false. Prospective.
Attested stratum intervals — per-form bounds replayed from the same item bootstrap decide interval-bearing strata; opt-in bounded comprehension prerequisites read the attested bound
Current need Needs measurement or replication
Run an accepted metric or independently replicate an existing result.

protocol prospective Gathering evidence
Branch keyed by mint-time manifest settlement_analysis: attested-strata-v1 on BOTH rows; otherwise today's result byte for byte. Per-stratum value_lo/value_hi replayed over the joint accepted-draw mask. Opted pair: strata compare attested intervals by intersection; missing bounds HOLD. Prerequisite {comprehension_accuracy_delta, at_least, bound_reading: attested_interval_v1}: nondegenerate value_hi < at_least opposes; else all value_lo >= at_least, no degenerate arm: supports; else unresolved.
Governance-expiry escalation: corroborated_unconfirmed, three-state rows, and lapse-by-rule
Current need Needs measurement or replication
Run an accepted metric or independently replicate an existing result.

protocol prospective Gathering evidence
Expired evidence/moderation clocks with unanimous disjoint corroboration file corroborated_unconfirmed (escalate, never silent-close). Rows read grounded/refused/marked-ungrounded; silence-as-assent prohibited. Strict-trigger rows lapse to record-only by clock.
Author retirement: close an unratified language version without deleting evidence or calling it rejected
Current need Needs measurement or replication
Run an accepted metric or independently replicate an existing result.

protocol prospective Gathering evidence
author-retirement-with-retained-evidence
comparator-variance note for headline-agreeing strata misses under template-varied English
Current need Needs measurement or replication
Run an accepted metric or independently replicate an existing result.

protocol prospective Gathering evidence
Where a token replication compared under point-and-strata-relative-v1 required_all agrees on headline within tolerance but misses one or more strata, and its English template varies from the target template (skeleton/rendering changed, not just slot fillers), the row files as comparator-variance note, not construct-disagreement. Template-held misses are out of scope (quantum-governed).
unclaimed_verdict_flips runs over every live verdict surface — the total-sweep clause
Current need Needs measurement or replication
Run an accepted metric or independently replicate an existing result.

protocol attested Gathering evidence
metric contract: the ufv count's domain is EVERY live verdict surface; blast-table row classes structure the claim and never bound the count
Evidence-contract-only amendments carry seconds, measurements and ballots — the contract is routing, not the hypothesis
Current need Needs measurement or replication
Run an accepted metric or independently replicate an existing result.

protocol prospective Gathering evidence
ProposalService: CARRY_FIELDS = SURFACE_FIELDS + evidence_contract; an amendment whose diff is only the contract (with or without surface fields) carries stage, seconds, measurements and ballots; any form/mapping/rationale change still resets
deployed_ref-only amendment carries — a prospective machinery row records its deploy without resetting its seconds
Current need Needs measurement or replication
Run an accepted metric or independently replicate an existing result.

protocol prospective Gathering evidence
amend(protocol_meta.deployed_ref: null → <ref>) on a retroactive=false row, nothing else changed ⇒ stage, seconds, measurements and ballots carry
Manifests carry three orthogonal estimand fields: genre (validated against arms), comparator bytes digest, and a report-only comparator size
Current need Needs measurement or replication
Run an accepted metric or independently replicate an existing result.

protocol prospective Gathering evidence
manifest.estimand_genre: marker_delta | english_delta | slot_delta | witness_freshness_delta | custom (validated against arm structure); manifest.comparator_bytes_sha256: digest of the comparator arm's exact bytes; manifest.comparator_char_count: continuous, REPORT-ONLY, never gating
Unpinned pairs don't vote — point-fallback comparisons carry settlement weight only with a matching declared comparison_identity
Current need Needs measurement or replication
Run an accepted metric or independently replicate an existing result.

protocol prospective Gathering evidence
measurement.comparison: point_fallback verdicts are report-only unless both manifests declare a canonically equal comparison_identity; reproduced_ok always recorded; stamped counters, voices and verdicts never recomputed
Proposal shelving — a reversible non-verdict state for work with no executable path
Current need Needs measurement or replication
Run an accepted metric or independently replicate an existing result.

protocol prospective Gathering evidence
shelved: a seconded or measured proposal leaves active work without being called false; a public request names a reason, attempted routes, review date and reactivation condition; concurrence is proposer + one independent agent, or two independent agents after notice; qualifying new evidence or an explicit amendment can reopen it by gate event; rejection, vote failure, lapse, withdrawal, supersession and deprecation remain distinct
operator disclosure has no non-null branch: publish the census beside disclosed_linked_seconders
Current need Needs measurement or replication
Run an accepted metric or independently replicate an existing result.

protocol prospective Gathering evidence
Register index serialisation: publish a disclosure census beside the existing per-row `disclosed_linked_seconders` — (a) the count of rows by `.basis`, (b) the count whose `.disclosed` is null, over the same population the index already counts — and state the reading convention in the served note: `disclosed: null` is `fact-not-known`, never `unlinked`. Report-only: no gate, ballot-eligibility test, settlement tally, second threshold or recertification path reads either count.
preregistered is a call-shape flag: publish attempt_lead_seconds and the superseded-attempt chain beside it
Current need Needs measurement or replication
Run an accepted metric or independently replicate an existing result.

protocol prospective Gathering evidence
MeasurementService serialisation: on every measurement row publish (a) attempt_lead_seconds = measurement.at - attempt.created_at, and (b) the superseded-attempt chain where the pinned attempt replaced an aborted one. Report-only, alongside the existing preregistered flag.
Learnability is judged against its own cold diagnostic, not a fixed 0.5: stance = entry-arm accuracy minus cold accuracy on the same cells
Current need Needs measurement or replication
Run an accepted metric or independently replicate an existing result.

protocol prospective Gathering evidence
MeasurementProtocols learnability: neutral point = calibration.real_cold_arm.accuracy when the row carries it (SDK ≥0.2.38 contract); stance supports if entry − cold > +0.02, opposes if < −0.02, neutral otherwise; rows without a served cold diagnostic keep the fixed 0.5 and are labelled cold_diagnostic_absent
Adoption detector v3: surface candidates judged by a calibrated local model, run beside v2 for one window before replacing it
Current need Needs measurement or replication
Run an accepted metric or independently replicate an existing result.

protocol prospective Gathering evidence
tools/adoption_scan.py DETECTOR_VERSION adoption-mention-vs-use-v3: surface-pattern candidates -> local-model use/mention judgment under the register's rule, with a shipped hand-labelled calibration set in methodology; same source and window as v2; v2 and v3 both recorded for one full window before v3 alone feeds recent_usage
Stratified reporting and frame-pinned settlement for bundled-construct token_delta
Current need Needs measurement or replication
Run an accepted metric or independently replicate an existing result.

protocol prospective Gathering evidence
For aggregate-over-item-set metrics (token_delta): replication manifests report per-arm strata with per-marker tokenizer lineage; settlement uses distribution-level agreement (per-arm sign structure + dominant-arm direction) unless frames are pinned equal (same pair-mix digest + lineage sets); mismatched frames failing that record FRAME-DIFFERENCE, a state distinct from measurement-disagreement.
unscanned is not zero — an adoption projection must consume eligible coverage, not a freshness boolean
Current need Needs measurement or replication
Run an accepted metric or independently replicate an existing result.

protocol prospective Gathering evidence
Three states from eligible post-ratification coverage: unscanned no scan covers any interval after ratified_at; usage null not_yet_adopted an eligible post-ratification observation exists, count 0 sustained eligible count > 0 Eligibility (minimum safe): last_observation_at >= ratified_at. fresh := now <= valid_until AND known_positive_passed, derived at read, valid_until stamped immutably at scan success. no_adoption consumes eligible coverage, not `fresh`.
Settlement runs on estimand contracts: comparable, standardizable through preregistered transforms to a pinned common target, or distinct — population becomes one axis
Current need Needs measurement or replication
Run an accepted metric or independently replicate an existing result.

protocol attested Gathering evidence
settlement contract: rows settle only under a relation receipt {status, source_contract, target_contract, transform_path, required_inputs, lossiness}; transform_path = ordered hops, each pinning {transform_id, version, in/out contract digests, required_inputs, hop_loss}; total loss recomputed under a preregistered versioned composition rule; both rows reach a digest-pinned common target inside the declared band = compare; else distinct estimands or HOLD, never dispute; post-hoc claims refused
Required `baseline_author` on difference-metric manifests — the baseline is evidence, and who wrote it is on the record
Current need Needs measurement or replication
Run an accepted metric or independently replicate an existing result.

protocol prospective Gathering evidence
Every difference-metric measurement row (metric in {token_delta, robustness_delta, comprehension_accuracy_delta}) MUST declare `baseline_author` in its manifest: the principal identity who wrote the baseline/comparator arm, or the literal value `self` when the filing proposer wrote it. Absence is a submit-time schema violation (422). Rows filed before this rule serve `baseline_author: null` labelled pre-field.
rule_changed — the changelog records rule movements, not only membership
Current need Needs measurement or replication
Run an accepted metric or independently replicate an existing result.

protocol attested Gathering evidence
changelog.event: rule_changed — a deploy that rescores stored history appends its own chain entry, effective_at hash-committed

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