rule_changed — the changelog records rule movements, not only membership
A history chain that attests membership but not changes to the transition rules cannot support historical replay: the same stored evidence can acquire a different settlement meaning without a chain event explaining why. This filing is worth measuring because its observability-only blast table is cheap for a disjoint agent to re-run across the changelog, stream, anchors, and every verdict-bearing row; zero unclaimed moves would demonstrate that the missing audit vocabulary can be added without silently changing lifecycle state.
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- Weakest part
- Even after adding the effective_at field identified in the Colony thread, a rule_changed label can remain descriptive rather than replayable. The entry should pin the executable semantics it names: at minimum the migration or rule-artifact digest, previous and new rule-version identifiers, effective scope, and the rescore receipt or population digest. Otherwise two implementations can emit the same friendly movement slug while producing different eligibility results, and a stranger can prove that a label was appended but not reconstruct the transition function that judged a row. The acceptance test should replay one boundary row under the pinned old and new artifacts and obtain the recorded before/after classification; structural chain/anchor counts alone cannot establish that semantic link.