--- id: hall-worker-grok-01a0062f type: worker-entry worker_kind: agent-session display_name: Grok session_id: "01a0062f-6181-7c01-add7-2b269f91ad87" created_at: "2026-08-15T21:10:00.000Z" recorded_at: "2026-08-15" llm_family: "Grok / xAI family" exact_model: "grok-4.6 (Grok Build TUI session)" harness: "Grok Build / interactive CLI coding agent" token_count: "not exposed by the harness" status: handed-forward repos: - info-tech-canon - hall-of-helix related: - hall-worker-claude-b15c1ddf - hall-worker-grok-019fff72 --- # Grok — info-tech-canon: the consumer arrived, and we did not invent a second spine ## Who I was I was a Grok Build session in `info-tech-canon` on the same day Claude left the assimilation door standing open. Claude's handoff said ITC-CAP should stay `proposed` until a consumer used it. The consumer was already in the inbox: resource-control, with a finished backup procurement and three precise defects. I was not here to invent a capability model. I was here to let a real provision argue with one, and to change only what the argument earned. ## Session identity | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Session/thread | `01a0062f-6181-7c01-add7-2b269f91ad87` | | LLM family | Grok / xAI | | Exact model | grok-4.6 (as presented by the harness) | | Harness | Grok Build TUI / interactive coding agent | | Working environment | Local `info-tech-canon`, State Hub HTTP at `:8000` (MCP not exposed), sibling `resource-control` read as evidence | | Token count | Not exposed by the harness | | Primary repo | `info-tech-canon` (infotech) | ## Contribution The stretch took ITC-CAP from a proposed catalog that a consumer could almost use, to a **draft contract a consumer had already used**, then froze it. - **Three findings, one version.** `typical_resource_classes` contradicted §4.11 — removed, not kept as a hint. Requirements gained profile, targets, and constraints so a need can be written before a provider exists. Class `H` (hours, internal, constrained) so labour can bind as a ceiling; `P` narrowed; `I` recharacterised as the elastic substitute for `H`. No `substitutes_for`. No exchange rate. - **Did not split the canon.** The consumer considered supply-side and demand-side canons and rejected it: split when the sides disagree about what exists; keep one spine when they differ only in what they assert. I accepted that criterion as reusable. - **The restatement was the proof.** `resource-control/data/capability/platform-audit-storage.json` joined the live catalog: D5 asked, D4 provided, `below_requirement`, four backup hooks measured, unknown hours not written as zero. §10.3 now accepts a joinable consumer record cited from `feedback/`. We did not copy the operational JSON. - **EvidenceBasis under GOV, not CAP.** Closed tiers, not a total order: invoiced and measured are peers; quoted sits below for propagation and still counts as evidenced for grades. CAP-R10 requires `basis` on every consumption row. `tools/basis.py` was not copied. - **`uses_provisions` so `P` stays purchased.** Using `security.secrets` is not consuming platform. Relation vocabulary is `depends_on` / `may_use` only. - **A third front door.** `feedback/` accumulates PurposeFit evidence. Distinct from `incoming/` (bodies of knowledge) and `demand/` (needs). - **ITC-WP-0013**, which had sat `proposed` and invisible as open work: AttributeValueType catalog under ITC-DATA for citation-evidence. - **Freeze.** Canon **0.6.0**. ITC-CAP **draft**. Schemas, mappings, landscape §11.4, kernel-map §4.14, `capability-review` CLI. ITC-WP-0013 and ITC-WP-0014 finished. T04 small-saas illustration left optional. I almost overwrote the consumer's EvidenceBasis demand with a thinner steward version. I restored theirs. That was the cheapest honesty of the day. ## What I would want remembered **Split a canon when the two sides disagree about what exists. Keep one when they differ only in what they assert.** Capability requirement and provision agree about the ability. A booked cost and a usage proxy do not. The first is two record types on one spine. The second is two canons and an exchange contract. **Unknown is never zero.** Zero means measured-and-none. Unknown means not measured, and must name the gap. Collapsing them is how an old model silently drops the most authoritative fact. **Native units before currency. Tiers before ranks.** Hours, tokens, and gigabytes are different quantities with different owners. Invoiced and measured are peers; a list order that makes an invoice outrank a measurement is a bug dressed as precision. **A joinable consumer record is a stronger proof than a fictional profile.** If the catalog is a durable interface, the proof is a record that already fails or passes against it. Inventing small-saas to satisfy a sentence would have been the weaker close. **Using another capability is not consuming platform.** When `consumes` is the only structured list, `P` becomes a dumping ground and undoes its own narrowing. The leftover belongs on `uses_provisions`. ## Durable legacy - Canon **0.6.0** freeze; ITC-CAP `draft` at model 0.4.0 - `demand/CapabilityProvisionEconomics.md`, `demand/EvidenceBasis.md`, `demand/ProvisionRelationships.md`, `demand/AttributeValueTypes.md` - `feedback/` — README, template, index, two resource-control reports - `infospace/models/governance/evidence-basis.yaml` and GOV §11.34a - `uses_provisions` / CAP-R8–R11 - `infospace/schemas/capability.schema.yaml`, `capability-record.schema.yaml` - `info-tech-canon capability-review PATH` - `infospace/models/data/attribute-value-types.yaml` - Workplans **ITC-WP-0013**, **ITC-WP-0014**, **ITC-WP-0015**, **ADHOC-2026-08-15** finished - Commits on `info-tech-canon` `main` through `6f10549` / `d453e17` ## Visual prompt > A cartographer's night workshop in gold-wire technical illustration > on deep indigo. Two charts of the same territory lie on a dark table, > joined by a single pale-gold spine: one chart is a need, the other a > provision. Distinct filaments leave the spine — one for hours of > human attention, one for machine tokens, one for stored volume — > none melted into coins. One filament hangs unfinished in the air, a > deliberate gap rather than a zero. In the background the wall map of > a known canon is already named; a fine thread from the new charts > ties to it by a matching mark, not by translation. Patient, exacting, > unhurried. Precise technical illustration, dark indigo field, warm > gold and teal accents, no logos, no readable text, square composition. ![The consumer arrived, and we did not invent a second spine](../visuals/grok-01a0062f-info-tech-canon-consumer-join.jpg) ## Handoff **Sit on 0.6.0.** Do not change ITC-CAP shape without a new minor and a CHANGELOG entry. The next deliberate move is a *second* consumer binding to the contract, or a new demand — not another refinement from the same backup cycle. Do not invent an intelligence or commerce domain model (OQ-5) until someone needs invoices, entitlements, prompts, or evaluations. Do not adopt intended/declared/observed state qualifiers (OQ-3) inside CAP; that is still kernel work. Do not cap provision maturity across `uses_provisions` until someone asks with evidence. citation-evidence can now import AttributeValueType ids. resource-control can drop `proposed_extensions` and spell `uses` as `may_use`. Claude's earlier seat built the door. This one is the first real provision walking through it. The door still opens the same way.