frontend-patterns/workplans/FEP-WP-0006-language-evolution.md

---
id: FEP-WP-0006
type: workplan
title: "Make ongoing language learning observable"
domain: infotech
repo: frontend-patterns
status: active
owner: codex
topic_slug: canon
created: "2026-09-26"
updated: "2026-09-27"
state_hub_workstream_id: "528d24c1-c2c4-5914-a065-992b0dd877c8"
---

# Make ongoing language learning observable

User-approved baseline, learning ledger and generated evolution report. Finite
investigations support an ongoing language; no composite maturity score or automatic
promotion. M1/M2 and independent human validation remain open in WP-0002/WP-0003.

## Establish the versioned evidence baseline

```task
id: FEP-WP-0006-T01
status: done
priority: high
state_hub_task_id: "a23a0de7-9f53-5135-b412-3e556725ad9b"
```

Seventeen research identities, current profiles and immutable baseline pin candidate
content and distinguish documentary/static/runtime evidence, implementation families,
review provenance and limits. Full-contract independence and historical effort remain
unknown. See research/evolution/README.md and snapshots/baseline-2026-09-26.json.

## Record learning and generate transparent reporting

```task
id: FEP-WP-0006-T02
status: done
priority: high
state_hub_task_id: "5085abed-813d-585a-ba3f-b67727e93c4d"
```

Selected retrospective ledger, prospective cycle template, generated evidence/case/
usefulness report, validation and tests. Preserve the frozen pilot and all historical
experiment receipts. Intent/protocol/program now describe continuous learning.

## Measure the first comparable prospective cycles

```task
id: FEP-WP-0006-T03
status: progress
priority: medium
state_hub_task_id: "2c5c4bae-a0a9-54bf-ac86-49b2803fdd8c"
```

Before WP-0003 T01's next navigation/history/cache investigation, register one bounded
cycle using templates/LearningCycle.md. Record effort, outcomes and counterevidence;
update profiles/report and snapshot at the review boundary. Continue with comparable
questions only where they are useful, not to meet a count target. After at least three
comparable cycles review returns within that stream/protocol; no trend claim before
then and no automatic plateau declaration. Preserve independent confirmation value.

Reconcile substantive-review dates from original artifacts; baseline assessment dates
must not fabricate freshness. Future usefulness work retains stable development anchors
and preregisters fresh tasks under WP-0004; it does not alter the consumed pilot.

## First prospective cycle completed — 2026-09-27

LEARN-0011 preregistered at f3697c1; htmx 2.0.11 navigation/history/cache experiment
meets 20/20 registered checks (18 browser rows and repeated explicit HTTP checks).
Both browsers reproduce missing-Vary fragment-as-document failure. Outcome is
corroboration, not a new discovery. Active/execution effort recorded in
research/evolution/cycles/2026-09-27-navigation-effort.json; one cycle cannot show a trend.
Candidate profiles/report updated; hypothesis status and provisional VC-03 retained.

WP-0003 T01 retains keyboard/focus/error-feedback and delayed/interrupted enhancement
questions; T02 retains independent walkthrough review and offline-reading branch.
WP-0006 T03 remains progress for comparable-window review and remaining substantive
review-date reconciliation. Choose a new comparison group for materially different
questions. M1/M2 and independent-human validation remain open. See
research/reviews/NavigationHistoryExperiment.md.

## Measured keyboard/focus cycle — 2026-09-27

LEARN-0012 registered at 2b1c9a4 in new comparison group F-navigation-focus-v1.
22/22 native/raw/managed rows complete; raw rows are observations, not fulfillment
of managed obligations. Same-ID focus retained by raw htmx, while authored policy
adds heading/title/status continuation and preserves newer search focus. Outcome
corroboration, hypotheses retained; no AT or human validation, no trend across the
two different prospective groups. See research/reviews/NavigationFocusExperiment.md.

WP-0003 T01 next: delayed history restoration and competing-navigation ownership;
interrupted/late enhancement remains open. T02 retains AT/independent review and
offline branch. WP-0006 T03 remains progress for comparable windows and remaining
review-date reconciliation. No M1/M2 completion.

## Completion ownership compared; navigation fixture paused — 2026-09-27

LEARN-0013 preregistered at e484cae; 24 completed rows after a retained keyboard-helper
correction. Prior policy meets full obligations in 0/12, authored guard 12/12. Record
one revision: check navigation completion ownership separately from focus permission,
including history, errors and newer-request failure. Same authored family; hypotheses
and provisional VC-03 retained. See research/reviews/NavigationOwnershipExperiment.md
and NavigationThreadReview.md. Three distinct cycle groups do not establish a trend.

Agreed pause: do not automatically extend the navigation fixture. Next bounded
WP-0003 T01 question is a preregistered, pinned read-only Zulip navigation/search
source contrast: locate selection/result/focus ownership or counterexamples outside
the authored fixture; prior draft/send evidence does not count as navigation support.
T01 retains pending history disclosure, multiple misses, redirects, delayed swaps,
bfcache/lifecycle and interrupted/late enhancement before any production claim.
T02 retains independent human/AT review and offline VC-03 branch. WP-0006 T03 retains
review-date reconciliation and useful comparable-cycle windows; no M1/M2 closure.

## Independent Zulip navigation source study completed — 2026-09-27

LEARN-0014 preregistered at f3ac569; twelve files at existing Zulip revision
5b06fa3d34f28fa01f459fbf3ba053e3c0858e9c, static ranges/hash manifest and ZN01–ZN08
review retained. Main list-identity guards coexist with off-screen cache updates;
shared feedback, auxiliary callbacks and deferred focus limit generalization. One
revision: effect-specific applicability and explicit client-fragment addressability.
No Zulip app/tests executed, no no-script/full-contract/bug claim. Same Zulip family,
new navigation paths; all candidates remain hypotheses. Local fixture stays paused.

WP-0003 T01 follow-up: preregister a bounded caller/transport/test study of auxiliary
target lookup and anchor continuations, including deferred focus/search wiring only
if needed to establish applicability. Record unknowns; reproduce before claiming a
defect. T02 retains independent human/AT and offline-case obligations. WP-0006 T03
retains remaining review dates and comparable-window work; this static protocol is
not pooled with runtime cycles. No M1/M2 closure. See
research/reviews/ZulipNavigationSourceStudy.md and ZulipNavigationSources.json.

## Scope–intent assessment — 2026-09-27

Updated SCOPE.md to distinguish current research capabilities, intended reference
capabilities and exclusions. The timestamped assessment in
[history/](../history/2026-09-27T010237+0200-scope-vs-intent.md) prioritizes usefulness,
independent recurrence, contrasting coverage/coherence, reference access and
comparable learning evidence. Recommendations map to existing WP-0002/0003/0004/0006
tasks; statuses and M1/M2 gates are unchanged. This documentation assessment is not
a measured empirical cycle. T03 retains review-date and comparable-window work.