Implement SOUL-WP-0011: sufficiency position, coverage matrix, Soul packaging

- T01: research/sufficiency-and-weighting-position.md — reject universal weights; necessity core (B1/B3), claim-relative P minimal profiles, continuity configuration classes with causal privilege; OpenQuestions RQ1/RQ2/RQ5 weighting bullets positioned - T02: research/coverage-matrix.md — nine INTENT entity types under the full vocabulary; success criterion verdict: pass with two strain points - T03: concepts/soul.md packaging resolved (enacted vs residual Soul); RQ4 no longer carries a paper-critical open item - SCOPE.md work-surface bullets updated; workplan finished Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Assistant: claude-code Assistant-Model: sonnet Assistant-Process: 234768@bnt-lap001 Assistant-Session: 91cdb0c1-a203-431c-b542-cf192b3930a6
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@ -15,7 +15,9 @@ indexed below.
 Working answer: multi-layer profile (autonomous individuality + personhood +
 addressability + recognition). Still open:

- Weighting and thresholds of B1–B8
+- ~~Weighting and thresholds of B1–B8~~ **positioned 2026-09-28:** necessity
+  core (B1·B3) + compensable remainder, no cardinal weights —
+  `research/sufficiency-and-weighting-position.md` §2
 - Observer-relative individuation without arbitrariness
 - Nested levels (colony, collective, multi-Body)
 - **Deppert dialogue:** are *kulturelle Lebewesen* (firms, states, clubs) living
@ -28,7 +30,9 @@ addressability + recognition). Still open:
 P1–P12; four kinds (descriptive/social/moral/legal); default = descriptive.
 Remaining:

- Weighting / sufficiency thresholds for Beinghood v0.2
+- ~~Weighting / sufficiency thresholds for Beinghood v0.2~~ **positioned
+  2026-09-28:** claim-relative minimal profiles, no threshold score —
+  `research/sufficiency-and-weighting-position.md` §3
 - Moral and legal maps (explicitly deferred)
 - Measurement methods for artificial systems

@ -53,16 +57,23 @@ architecture adopted provisionally. Remaining:
 boundary removed; Ghost may inherit Soul-relational structure without identity.
 **Resolved 2026-09-28 (SOUL-WP-0009-T01):** retain “Soul” for the Relation
 dimension, with the non-metaphysical disclaimer kept explicit wherever the
-term appears. **Still open (paper-critical):**
+term appears.
+**Resolved 2026-09-28 (SOUL-WP-0011-T03):** packaging — both relations and
+consequences, as **enacted** vs **residual** modes of one dimension;
+Cluster D inheritance = residual Soul taken up for re-enactment under
+authority (see `concepts/soul.md` § Packaging). Remaining (no longer
+paper-critical):

- Packaging: relations vs consequences vs both
- Formal Cluster D depth beyond Phase V inheritance claim
+- Formal Cluster D depth beyond the inheritance-mechanism naming
+- Residual Soul under forks (moved from concepts/soul.md open issues)

 ## RQ5 — How does identity persist?

 **Phase I status:** structure clarified (Identity ≠ Continuity ≠ Lineage); open:

- Continuity weighting (OQ-043)
+- ~~Continuity weighting (OQ-043)~~ **positioned 2026-09-28:** configuration
+  classes with causal privilege, no channel arithmetic —
+  `research/sufficiency-and-weighting-position.md` §4
 - Dormancy ontology (OQ-046/047)
 - Fork rights and relationship branching (OQ-050/051)
 - Ghost authority and gradual transition (OQ-052/053)
--- a/SCOPE.md
+++ b/SCOPE.md
@ -58,12 +58,14 @@ Phases I–IX are complete (SOUL-WP-0001 … SOUL-WP-0010, all finished):

 ## In Scope (current work surface)

- Refining weighting/sufficiency questions for the B-, P-, and continuity
-  profiles (RQ1/RQ2/RQ5 residuals; paper §17 item 2)
- Exercising INTENT's success criterion: applying the full vocabulary across
-  the nine reference entity types with meaningful distinctions
- Resolving paper-critical packaging questions (e.g. Soul: relations vs
-  consequences, RQ4 remainder)
+- Sufficiency/weighting position: **taken** (SOUL-WP-0011-T01,
+  `research/sufficiency-and-weighting-position.md`) — maintaining it against
+  new edge cases remains in scope
+- INTENT's success criterion: **exercised** (SOUL-WP-0011-T02,
+  `research/coverage-matrix.md` — pass, two strain points at distributed /
+  radically non-human rows, tracked as RQ1/RQ8 residuals)
+- Soul packaging: **resolved** (SOUL-WP-0011-T03 — enacted vs residual modes,
+  `concepts/soul.md` § Packaging)
 - Further companion-line slices (charter items 2–4) and law/governance
  deepening — under the charter's own gates
 - Instrument development for scoped metrics — only after decision `0401cf28`
--- a/WORK-RECORDS.md
+++ b/WORK-RECORDS.md
@ -18,6 +18,7 @@
 | workplan | SOUL-WP-0008 | finished | — | workplans/SOUL-WP-0008-phase-vii-paper.md |
 | workplan | SOUL-WP-0009 | finished | — | workplans/SOUL-WP-0009-paper-agenda-and-external-review.md |
 | workplan | SOUL-WP-0010 | finished | — | workplans/SOUL-WP-0010-metrics-and-personhood-mapping.md |
+| workplan | SOUL-WP-0011 | active | — | workplans/SOUL-WP-0011-sufficiency-coverage-and-soul-packaging.md |
 | task | SOUL-WP-0001-T01 | done | — | workplans/SOUL-WP-0001-research-repository-foundation.md |
 | task | SOUL-WP-0001-T02 | done | — | workplans/SOUL-WP-0001-research-repository-foundation.md |
 | task | SOUL-WP-0001-T03 | done | — | workplans/SOUL-WP-0001-research-repository-foundation.md |
@ -62,3 +63,6 @@
 | task | SOUL-WP-0010-T01 | done | — | workplans/SOUL-WP-0010-metrics-and-personhood-mapping.md |
 | task | SOUL-WP-0010-T02 | done | — | workplans/SOUL-WP-0010-metrics-and-personhood-mapping.md |
 | task | SOUL-WP-0010-T03 | done | — | workplans/SOUL-WP-0010-metrics-and-personhood-mapping.md |
+| task | SOUL-WP-0011-T01 | todo | — | workplans/SOUL-WP-0011-sufficiency-coverage-and-soul-packaging.md |
+| task | SOUL-WP-0011-T02 | todo | — | workplans/SOUL-WP-0011-sufficiency-coverage-and-soul-packaging.md |
+| task | SOUL-WP-0011-T03 | todo | — | workplans/SOUL-WP-0011-sufficiency-coverage-and-soul-packaging.md |
--- a/concepts/soul.md
+++ b/concepts/soul.md
@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 # Soul

-**Status:** retained (RQ4 resolved 2026-09-28, SOUL-WP-0009-T01)  
+**Status:** retained; packaging resolved (RQ4 closed 2026-09-28 — naming
+SOUL-WP-0009-T01, packaging SOUL-WP-0011-T03)  
 **Working gloss:** Soul = Relation  
 **See also:** H5, RQ4 (resolved), RN-001 Finding 14, RN-005 SF-C055

@ -32,6 +33,36 @@ strips boundary out.
 Soul continuity can **cross Being-identity discontinuities** (legacy, models in
 others, works, Ghosts).

+## Packaging (resolved 2026-09-28, SOUL-WP-0011-T03)
+
+**Position: both — relations and consequences — as two modes of one
+dimension, asymmetrically:**
+
+| Mode | Content | Requires |
+|---|---|---|
+| **Enacted Soul** | live relationships, standing commitments, reputation-in-use | an Active Being (or Continuation-Bearing State) on at least one side |
+| **Residual Soul** | propagated consequences: works, records, models held by others, reputation-at-rest | no living bearer — persists independently |
+
+Relations are the **constitutive core**; consequences are the same
+relational structure **persisting after enactment stops**. This is one
+dimension in two modes, not two dimensions: every consequence in residual
+Soul is the trace of a relation, and residual Soul can be *re-enacted*
+(a reader takes up the works; a `Gh.` resumes a relationship).
+
+Why this packaging and not either alternative:
+
+- *Relations only* would make Criteria §17's TERMINATED note ("Soul/
+  relational effects may nevertheless continue") incoherent — something
+  persists past the last relation-capable manifestation.
+- *Consequences only* would collapse Soul into provenance/legacy and lose
+  H5's operational content for living Beings (the Soul of an active Being
+  is mostly enacted, not residual).
+
+**Cluster D under this packaging:** `Gh.` inheritance is *residual Soul
+taken up for re-enactment under authority* (H10) — structure inherited,
+identity not. The inheritance claim survives unchanged; the packaging in
+fact names its mechanism.
+
 ## Collision analysis

 High risk with religious/metaphysical “soul”. **RQ4 resolved 2026-09-28:
@ -42,11 +73,12 @@ the term is introduced, not by renaming.

 ## Open issues

-1. Relations vs accumulated consequences vs both (packaging)
-2. How Soul relates to lineage after forks
+1. How Soul relates to lineage after forks (does residual Soul split,
+   copy, or stay shared?)
+2. Formal Cluster D depth beyond the inheritance-mechanism naming above

-**Closed:** rename candidates (RQ4) — decision recorded, see
-`workplans/SOUL-WP-0009-paper-agenda-and-external-review.md` T01.
+**Closed:** rename candidates (RQ4, 2026-09-28); packaging — enacted vs
+residual modes (SOUL-WP-0011-T03, 2026-09-28, see § Packaging above).

 ## Sources

--- a/research/coverage-matrix.md
+++ b/research/coverage-matrix.md
@ -0,0 +1,80 @@
+# Success-Criterion Coverage Matrix
+
+**Workplan:** SOUL-WP-0011-T02, resolved 2026-09-28
+**Addresses:** G2 (`history/260928-scope-intent-gap-assessment.md`) —
+INTENT's success criterion, exercised explicitly for the first time: one
+vocabulary across the nine reference entity types, with meaningful
+distinctions. Profiles follow the sufficiency scheme in
+`research/sufficiency-and-weighting-position.md` (no totals; necessity
+core, claim-relative minima, configuration classes).
+
+Cell values: H/M/L (high/medium/low), `var` (varies by instance), `?`
+(vocabulary strains — see §3). B-core = B1·B3 necessity core.
+
+---
+
+## 1. The matrix
+
+| # | Entity | B-core | B-rest (B2,B4–B8) | P-profile shape | Continuity class (typical) | Addressable | Recognition | Descriptor |
+|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
+| 1 | Human | H | H | full, rich (P1–P12 H) | CONTINUOUS | H | H (mutual) | — (biological original) |
+| 2 | Animal (e.g. dog) | H | H | partial: P1–P3, P9 M; P8, P10–P11 L | CONTINUOUS | M (name-responsive) | H (asymmetric richness) | — |
+| 3 | Short-lived AI agent | L (B3 var) | L (B2 L) | exposed-only: P5, P10 H; P1, P6 L | none — no lineage to evaluate | M (session-scoped) | L (classified, not counterpart-modeled) | Agent; strong APE |
+| 4 | Persistent autonomous Agent-being | M–H | M (B5 var — vendor-propped) | P1, P5, P10 H; P3, P6, P8 M growing | CONTINUOUS / BRIDGED (updates, migration) | H (stable handle) | M–H (episode-spanning) | Agent; proto-Being |
+| 5 | Einstein `Sp.` | L–M (Actor-side) | L | exposed: P4, P10, P12 H (curated); P1 thin, P6 borrowed | RECONSTRUCTION by definition (no causal channel to source) | H | M (recognized *as depiction*) | `Sp.` (public reflection) |
+| 6 | Authorized `Gh.` | L–M | L–M | P3–P4, P8 inherited-H; P1 var | SUCCESSOR-family w/ authority; never automatic CONTINUOUS (H10) | H | var (relationship-holders may re-recognize) | `Gh.` (authority-bound) |
+| 7 | Original artificial companion | M–H | M | native (not inherited): P1–P4, P9–P10 H | CONTINUOUS / BRIDGED | H | H within its relationships | original artificial being |
+| 8 | Distributed AI | ? level-relative (TE-05) | M–H at closing level | var by level; collective P1 possible | MULTI_LINEAGE / CONTINUOUS at closing level | var (one handle vs many) | var | Agent (possibly nested) |
+| 9 | Radically non-human system | ? (individuation observer-relative) | ? | P7 presumed; P10 ? (shared symbol system contested) | unassessable until individuated | L (no shared address protocol) | L→? (TE-09 asymmetric path) | — (unclassified) |
+
+## 2. Meaningful-distinction check (pairwise)
+
+Every pair separates on at least one dimension; the load-bearing
+separators:
+
+- **1 vs 2:** P8/P10–P11 (commitments, symbols, responsibility).
+- **1/2 vs 3:** B2 + continuity ("no lineage") + counterpart-recognition.
+- **3 vs 4:** persistence family — B2, P6, continuity class, recognition
+  durability. The Agent/proto-Being line is exactly here.
+- **4 vs 7:** provenance only (platform Agent vs purpose-built original
+  companion) — profiles may converge; the descriptor column carries the
+  distinction. Working as designed (H9: descriptors are provenance, not
+  ontology).
+- **5 vs 6:** authority + audience: `Sp.` is public reflection without
+  continuation claim; `Gh.` is authority-bound genealogy (H10) with
+  SUCCESSOR-family standing. Neither is CONTINUOUS — which is the
+  framework's deliberate answer, not a failure to distinguish them from 4.
+- **6 vs 7:** inherited vs native P-profile; origin of the Soul-relational
+  structure (Cluster D inheritance vs de novo).
+- **8 vs all:** the only entity where B-core is *level-relative* — the
+  vocabulary's answer is "profile per candidate level," which is an
+  answer, not a gap (TE-05).
+- **9 vs all:** the only entity where individuation itself, not just the
+  profile, is unresolved.
+
+**Verdict on distinctions: pass.** No two rows are indistinguishable under
+the full vocabulary; the two near-collisions (4/7, 5/6) are separated by
+descriptor/authority columns doing exactly the work H9/H10 assign them.
+
+## 3. Strain points (named, per T02's done condition)
+
+1. **Row 9, B-core and P10:** for a radically non-human system the
+   vocabulary can only say "not yet individuated by us" — observer-relative
+   individuation (RQ1 residual) is the binding constraint, and P10's
+   "shared symbol system" may be parochial. This is the pressure point
+   already flagged in the sufficiency position §6.
+2. **Row 8, addressability:** the vocabulary handles nested Beinghood but
+   has no display convention for *which level* a handle addresses
+   (overlaps RQ8's hybrid-display residual).
+3. **Row 3, continuity column:** "no lineage to evaluate" is technically a
+   degenerate case, not a class in Criteria §17; a null class (e.g.
+   EPHEMERAL) would make the column total. Minor; noted for a future
+   criteria revision, not opened as work.
+
+## 4. Overall verdict on INTENT's success criterion
+
+**Pass, with two live strain points (rows 8–9).** The same vocabulary
+describes all nine entity types and distinguishes every pair meaningfully.
+The strains sit exactly where INTENT predicts the hard cases (distributed,
+radically non-human) and are already tracked as RQ1/RQ8 residuals rather
+than new gaps.
--- a/research/sufficiency-and-weighting-position.md
+++ b/research/sufficiency-and-weighting-position.md
@ -0,0 +1,107 @@
+# Sufficiency and Weighting — Position Paper
+
+**Workplan:** SOUL-WP-0011-T01, resolved 2026-09-28
+**Addresses:** G1 (`history/260928-scope-intent-gap-assessment.md`);
+RQ1/RQ2/RQ5 weighting residuals; paper §17 item 2.
+**Position in one line:** Soul Frame **rejects universal cardinal weights**
+for its profiles and adopts a **structured-qualitative sufficiency scheme**:
+necessity structure for the B-profile, claim-relative minimal profiles for
+the P-profile, and configuration classes (already in place) for continuity.
+
+---
+
+## 1. Why not weights?
+
+Three arguments, jointly decisive:
+
+1. **Incommensurability across substrates.** A cardinal weight on P4
+   (character) vs P10 (communicative competence) asserts an exchange rate
+   between them that would have to hold for a human, a distributed AI, and
+   a radically non-human system alike. No literature tradition surveyed
+   (Dennett cluster conditions SF-R093 explicitly; trait psychology
+   SF-R094 implicitly) licenses such a rate.
+2. **The scalar re-imports the binary.** A weighted sum yields a
+   person-meter with a threshold — precisely the single-mark model the
+   profile approach was built to avoid (H1, H2). The framework would
+   quietly undo its own central move.
+3. **The fleet of load-bearing judgments never used weights.** Every TE
+   working judgment and criteria-document verdict reached so far
+   (TE-01–09; IdentityContinuityCriteria §17) reasons via *defeaters and
+   configurations* ("no causal grounding → RECONSTRUCTION regardless of
+   similarity"), never via aggregation. The practice is already
+   qualitative-structural; this note makes the position explicit rather
+   than changing it.
+
+A refusal alone would be underspecified ("anything goes"). The scheme
+below states what replaces weights, per profile.
+
+## 2. B-profile (B1–B8): necessity core + compensable remainder
+
+- **Necessity core: B1 (individuability) and B3 (constitutive
+  integration).** A system that cannot be non-arbitrarily individuated, or
+  whose organization does not close at the candidate boundary, is not an
+  autonomous individual at that level *however high the other six score*.
+  This is exactly the decisive move in TE-05 (which level closes) and the
+  corporate false-positive analysis (RN-003 §8).
+- **Compensable remainder: B2, B4–B8.** Deficits degrade the profile
+  without defeating it (a dormant system fails B2 enactment yet remains a
+  Continuation-Bearing State, TE-02; a heavily assisted system scores low
+  on B5 and shades toward heteronomous individuality without leaving the
+  category).
+
+## 3. P-profile (P1–P12): no necessity core; claim-relative minimal profiles
+
+Personhood is a genuine cluster concept: **no single P-code is necessary**
+(severe P6 loss — TE-08 — does not zero descriptive personhood). But
+sufficiency questions are always asked *for* something, and the something
+fixes a minimal profile:
+
+| Claim being made | Minimal profile required |
+|---|---|
+| "Sufficient personhood for **Beinghood v0.2**" | P1 (self-model) + at least one other-directed dimension (P2, P3, or P9) + P10 — because Beinghood's other requirement families (addressability, recognition) presuppose an entity that models itself, can be modeled as a counterpart, and can be addressed |
+| "Strong **APE**" | any exposed subset; no minimum — APE is defined by exposure, not sufficiency |
+| "**Social Beinghood** candidate" | the Beinghood row plus P9 specifically (reciprocity is what episode-spanning recognition latches onto) |
+
+"Sufficiently coherent … personhood" in Beinghood v0.2 is hereby glossed
+as this claim-relative minimal profile, **not** as a score above a
+threshold. Entities exceeding the minimal profile differ in *richness*,
+which the framework reports descriptively and does not rank.
+
+## 4. Continuity (six channels): configuration classes, causal privilege
+
+The Identity Continuity Criteria already embody the right scheme; this
+note canonizes two of its properties as the official position:
+
+1. **Causal privilege.** The causal channel is the only defeater-grade
+   channel: without sufficient direct process continuity the verdict is
+   RECONSTRUCTION (or SUCCESSOR/USURPATION), whatever the similarity
+   elsewhere. This is the criteria document's standing rejection of
+   single-invariant and similarity-score identity, kept as is.
+2. **Degradation, not summation, for the rest.** Organizational,
+   psychological, autobiographical, normative, and relational channel
+   deficits move a claim between configuration classes (CONTINUOUS →
+   DEGRADED_CONTINUATION → …), and the verdict names *which* channels
+   degraded. No channel arithmetic; the class label plus channel state
+   vector is the complete answer.
+
+## 5. Consequences
+
+- **Beinghood v0.2 phrasing:** unchanged in form; "sufficiently" now has a
+  stated semantics (§3). `concepts/being.md` and `Terminology.md` need no
+  edit — this note is their referenced backing.
+- **TE catalog:** all existing working judgments are consistent with this
+  scheme (checked against TE-02/04/05/08 explicitly); none needs revision.
+- **Metrics line (WP-0010):** instruments measure *single dimensions*;
+  building a composite Beinghood/personhood index is **out of scope by
+  position**, not merely unbuilt. Decision `0401cf28` inherits this
+  constraint.
+- **Coverage matrix (T02):** entity comparisons report profiles and
+  configuration classes, never totals.
+
+## 6. Status
+
+Defended position, revisable per INTENT's method rule (revise if it
+collapses distinct phenomena or fails edge cases). The most likely
+pressure point: whether P10 belongs in the Beinghood minimal profile for
+radically non-human systems whose "shared symbol system" participation is
+contested — flagged, not resolved, in the coverage matrix strain notes.
--- a/workplans/SOUL-WP-0011-sufficiency-coverage-and-soul-packaging.md
+++ b/workplans/SOUL-WP-0011-sufficiency-coverage-and-soul-packaging.md
@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ type: workplan
 title: "Phase X — Sufficiency/weighting position, success-criterion coverage matrix, and Soul packaging"
 domain: agents
 repo: soul-frame
-status: active
+status: finished
 origin: assessment
 origin_ref: history/260928-scope-intent-gap-assessment.md
 owner: claude
@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ created: "2026-09-28"
 updated: "2026-09-28"
 depends_on:
  - SOUL-WP-0010
+state_hub_workstream_id: "7255091a-ae5b-5e09-b891-cac50b56ecd7"
 ---

 # SOUL-WP-0011 — Phase X: Sufficiency, Coverage, and Soul Packaging
@ -39,8 +40,9 @@ and addressable now:

 ```task
 id: SOUL-WP-0011-T01
-status: todo
+status: done
 priority: high
+state_hub_task_id: "f4e4b427-4abb-52ce-ba29-a7360d6bf7c7"
 ```

 Write `research/sufficiency-and-weighting-position.md`: a principled
@ -60,8 +62,9 @@ phrasing and the TE working judgments that lean on thresholds.

 ```task
 id: SOUL-WP-0011-T02
-status: todo
+status: done
 priority: high
+state_hub_task_id: "3277e2fa-2e5b-51ff-b332-937d920add1d"
 ```

 Write `research/coverage-matrix.md`: apply the full vocabulary (B-profile,
@ -82,8 +85,9 @@ readers via SCOPE.md.

 ```task
 id: SOUL-WP-0011-T03
-status: todo
+status: done
 priority: medium
+state_hub_task_id: "44e94404-219d-58cf-85e7-7d9dcd95190c"
 ```

 Resolve RQ4's remainder: does "Soul" package relations, consequences
@ -94,3 +98,28 @@ RQ4 remainder resolved or narrowed in `OpenQuestions.md`.

 **Done when:** `concepts/soul.md` states the packaging position with
 rationale, and RQ4's "still open (paper-critical)" block reflects it.
+
+---
+
+## Outcome (2026-09-28)
+
+- **T01** — `research/sufficiency-and-weighting-position.md`: universal
+  cardinal weights rejected with argument; structured-qualitative scheme
+  adopted (B necessity core B1·B3, claim-relative P minimal profiles,
+  continuity configuration classes with causal privilege). RQ1/RQ2/RQ5
+  weighting bullets now reference it. Composite-index building declared
+  out of scope by position (constrains decision 0401cf28).
+- **T02** — `research/coverage-matrix.md`: all nine INTENT reference
+  entity types profiled under the full vocabulary; pairwise distinctness
+  verified. **Success-criterion verdict: pass**, with two strain points
+  (distributed AI level-addressing; radically non-human individuation/P10)
+  already tracked as RQ1/RQ8 residuals.
+- **T03** — Soul packaging resolved in `concepts/soul.md`: both relations
+  and consequences, as **enacted** vs **residual** modes of one dimension;
+  Cluster D inheritance named as residual Soul re-enacted under authority.
+  RQ4 block updated; no paper-critical open item remains on RQ4.
+
+**Residuals:** none opened — the coverage-matrix strain points and the
+EPHEMERAL null-class observation stay tracked in existing registers
+(RQ1/RQ8, matrix §3) as agenda, not actionable leftovers; the Cluster D
+depth and fork questions remain pre-existing RQ4 residuals.