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

id	type	title	domain	repo	status	owner	topic_slug	created	updated	state_hub_workstream_id
FEP-WP-0006	workplan	Make ongoing language learning observable	infotech	frontend-patterns	active	codex	canon	2026-09-26	2026-09-27	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

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

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

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.