The gate required two independent source implementations before draft
promotion, which made one sentence do two jobs: whether the contract is
specified well enough to implement against, which this repository can answer,
and whether it survives implementers who did not write it, which it cannot. The
second blocked the first, so the standard sat at draft — a word that reads as
unfinished specification — when what was missing was adoption.
Candidate now requires schema coverage of every form, one-command validation of
an arbitrary source-owned declaration, a content-addressed bundle a source can
pin to, separation of declaration from observation, and a documented external
consumption path. All are met and were re-tested rather than assumed. Stable
requires two source-owned declarations from independent owners pinned to a
digest, an observer result from a third party, and a recorded incompatibility or
a recorded absence of one — stricter than the sentence it replaces.
Emission Cadence moves to candidate at document version 0.2.0. The wire contract
is untouched at schema version 0.1, and no field, form or validation rule
changes, so a producer conformant yesterday is conformant today.
What was given up: candidate carries no interoperability evidence at all. The
standard states that in its own section 10, naming that no consumer has
implemented the contract and that its worked example is not a source-owned
declaration. The gate now lives in the standard rather than only in SCOPE.md, so
a reader meets it where the contract is.
Recorded as INFO-DEC-2026-002 with the reasoning in history/. INFO-WP-0019
closes: all six tasks done.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Assistant: claude-code
Assistant-Model: opus
Assistant-Process: 3588@bnt-lap001
Assistant-Session: 24b80f66-e5a7-4e61-99fe-2d422e6d17da
No change in the evidence: feedback/ holds only the two 2026-08-15
resource-control reports, incoming/ only its README, and no inbox message is an
emission-cadence declaration. The sole declaration in the repository is still
the worked example, which the standard states is not source-owned.
What this repository owes the gate was re-tested rather than assumed.
emission-review validates an arbitrary source-owned declaration and reports
operational_truth_assessed false, so a submission cannot be read as observed
behaviour, and export-emission-contract produces a bundle whose manifest carries
the gate in words at digest 972c0b6701d1693f, which a source owner can pin to
today.
The blocker is not readiness but that no external source owner has been asked.
The contract came from the King's Guard taxonomy with evidence classes owned by
NetKingdom, which makes netkingdom the obvious first source owner and a second
one that must be independent of it. Soliciting them is an outward action this
workplan does not authorize, so T06 stays waiting on that decision.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Assistant: claude-code
Assistant-Model: opus
Assistant-Process: 3588@bnt-lap001
Assistant-Session: 24b80f66-e5a7-4e61-99fe-2d422e6d17da
Set flavor on open workplans from origin/prose/status. Copy existing
depends_on aliases only. Do not promote residuals.
Assistant: grok
Assistant-Session: 01a09dc1-b21e-77e1-919e-fcad2f82b267
