T01: establish canonical milestone sequence, record F-0001

Three documents defined conflicting milestone sequences; an unqualified
reference to e.g. 'M2' was ambiguous across the corpus.

- docs/TestDriverInitialMilestones.md (M0-M10) is now canonical
- INTENT.md and ConceptModel section 15 carry superseded banners plus a
  mapping table rather than being deleted
- canonical order is explicitly distinguished from execution order
- research/findings/ established; F-0001 filed as CONCEPT_DRIFT, resolved
  via path 2 (concept deliberately revised), with one residual for T10

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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## Initial Milestones
### M0 — Deterministic Semantic Scenario Runner
> **Superseded.** This section previously carried its own `M0``M3` sequence,
> which conflicted with two other sequences in the repository. The canonical
> milestone sequence is now **`docs/TestDriverInitialMilestones.md` (M0M10)**.
> Recorded as framework finding `F-0001` (CONCEPT_DRIFT), 2026-08-22.
Implement the conceptual kernel without agentic involvement:
The former M0M3 map onto the canonical sequence as follows:
- UseCase,
- Actor,
- World,
- Scenario,
- SemanticAction,
- Driver,
- Observation,
- Evidence,
- Oracle,
- Verdict.
| Superseded (INTENT.md) | Canonical (`TestDriverInitialMilestones.md`) |
|---|---|
| M0 Deterministic Semantic Scenario Runner | M1 Deterministic Semantic Kernel |
| M1 Agentic Driver | M4 Agentic Realization |
| M2 Adaptation and Crystallization | M5 Mechanical Adaptation, M6 Defect vs Adaptation, M7 Crystallization |
| M3 Living Verification | M9 Verification Energy |
Run the Alice/Bob/Carol reference scenario deterministically.
The canonical sequence additionally introduces M0 (Research Control Plane),
M2 (Test-Driver Lab), M3 (Self-Verification), M8 (Improvement Loop) and
M10 (Compression Review), which had no counterpart here.
### M1 — Agentic Driver
Allow an actor agent to realize a semantic action or scenario goal through one interaction surface while maintaining strict actor isolation and evidence capture.
### M2 — Adaptation and Crystallization
Add:
- adaptation classification,
- learned successful paths,
- hardening,
- deterministic test candidate generation,
- lineage from exploratory discovery to regression test.
### M3 — Living Verification
Add:
- energy,
- temperature,
- confidence,
- retirement,
- security mutation campaigns,
- adaptive campaign selection.
---
Execution order is *not* the canonical order — see
`workplans/TD-WP-0002-vertical-spike-crystallization.md`, which drives one thin
thread through M1M7 rather than completing each milestone in turn.
## Non-Goals for the Initial Project

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# 15. Initial Development Sequence
## M0 — Deterministic semantic scenario runner
> **Superseded.** This section previously carried its own `M0``M3` sequence,
> which conflicted with the sequences in `INTENT.md` and
> `TestDriverInitialMilestones.md`. The canonical milestone sequence is
> **`TestDriverInitialMilestones.md` (M0M10)**. Recorded as framework finding
> `F-0001` (CONCEPT_DRIFT), 2026-08-22.
Implement:
The former M0M3 corresponded to canonical M1, M4, M5M7 and M9 respectively.
See the mapping table in `INTENT.md` § Initial Milestones.
- use cases,
- actors,
- worlds,
- semantic actions,
- observations,
- oracles,
- verdicts.
Execute the reference multi-user scenario without AI.
## M1 — Agentic driver
Allow an actor agent to realize a semantic action or use-case subgoal through a browser or API surface while preserving actor isolation and evidence capture.
## M2 — Adaptation and crystallization
Implement:
- adaptation classification,
- successful-path persistence,
- hardening,
- generation of deterministic test candidates.
## M3 — Living verification
Introduce:
- energy,
- temperature,
- lineage,
- retirement,
- mutation campaigns,
- adaptive test selection.
Execution order is *not* the canonical order — see
`workplans/TD-WP-0002-vertical-spike-crystallization.md`.
---
# 16. Canonical Concept Set v0.1
The initial test-driver vocabulary is:

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# TestDriver Research Prototype — Initial Milestones
**Status:** v0.1
**Status:** v0.1**canonical milestone sequence**
**Purpose:** Establish the minimum evidence-producing development loop needed to validate the core test-driver concepts.
> This document is the single canonical source for milestone identifiers `M0``M10`.
> The competing sequences formerly in `INTENT.md` and `TestDriverConceptModel.md` § 15
> are superseded — see framework finding
> `research/findings/F-0001-milestone-sequence-drift.md`.
>
> **Canonical order is not execution order.** The milestones define *what must be
> true*; `workplans/TD-WP-0002-vertical-spike-crystallization.md` defines *the order
> in which we get there*, driving one thin thread through M1M7 rather than
> completing each milestone in turn.
---
## Milestone 0 — Research Control Plane

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---
id: F-0001
type: framework-finding
class: CONCEPT_DRIFT
status: resolved
discovered: "2026-08-22"
resolved: "2026-08-22"
discovered_by: concept-assessment
source: history/2026-08-22-concept-assessment-swot.md
workplan: TD-WP-0002
task: TD-WP-0002-T01
---
# F-0001 — Three conflicting milestone sequences
## Class
`CONCEPT_DRIFT` — the repository carried three mutually inconsistent statements
of the same concept, with no explicit decision revising any of them.
Note the unusual shape: §5 of the Improvement Loop defines concept drift as
*implementation* diverging from concept. Here there was no implementation at all.
The drift was **document-to-document**, which the taxonomy does not currently
name. See "Residual" below.
## Observation
Three documents each defined a milestone sequence for the same project:
| Document | Sequence |
|---|---|
| `INTENT.md` § Initial Milestones | M0M3 |
| `docs/TestDriverConceptModel.md` § 15 | M0M3 (different content) |
| `docs/TestDriverInitialMilestones.md` | M0M10 |
The two M0M3 sequences disagreed with each other and both disagreed with the
M0M10 sequence. `M2`, for instance, denoted "Adaptation and Crystallization" in
one document and "Test-Driver Lab" in another — so an unqualified reference to
"M2" was ambiguous across the corpus.
## Why it matters
The project's own thesis is that implementations must not silently redefine
intended behaviour, and that concept drift is a first-class finding. The corpus
exhibited the failure it was written to prevent, before a single line of code
existed. Left unresolved, every subsequent milestone reference in commits,
workplans and evidence would have been ambiguous.
## Resolution
Path 2 of §5 — *the concept is deliberately revised*.
`docs/TestDriverInitialMilestones.md` (M0M10) is now **canonical**. It is the
most complete of the three, is the only one carrying exit criteria and success
metrics, and is the only one that names the lab, self-verification, the
improvement loop and the compression review.
The other two sections were replaced in place with a superseded banner and a
mapping table rather than deleted, so that references from earlier commits and
from `history/` remain interpretable.
Execution order is deliberately *not* the canonical order:
`workplans/TD-WP-0002-vertical-spike-crystallization.md` drives one thin thread
through canonical M1M7 rather than completing each milestone in turn. Canonical
sequence and execution sequence are now distinct and separately stated.
## Residual
The finding taxonomy (§9) has no class for divergence **between concept
documents** — `CONCEPT_DRIFT` is defined as implementation-vs-concept. This
finding was classified `CONCEPT_DRIFT` as the nearest fit.
Carry into `TD-WP-0002-T10` (compression review): either widen `CONCEPT_DRIFT`
to cover intra-conceptual inconsistency, or accept that pre-implementation
document drift is not a framework finding at all and should be handled as
ordinary editorial hygiene. Do not add a new finding class before that question
is answered — the taxonomy is already larger than the evidence supporting it.

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# Framework Findings
Findings about **test-driver itself**, kept strictly separate from findings about
any system under test. Classes are defined in
`docs/TestDriverImprovementLoop.md` § 9:
`PRODUCT_DEFECT` · `TEST_DEFECT` · `MECHANICAL_ADAPTATION` · `SEMANTIC_CHANGE` ·
`CONCEPT_DRIFT` · `FRAMEWORK_LIMITATION` · `EVIDENCE_FAILURE` ·
`UNNECESSARY_COMPLEXITY`
File naming: `F-NNNN-<slug>.md`. Identifiers are stable and never reused.
Each finding carries frontmatter (`id`, `class`, `status`, dates, originating
workplan/task) and, when resolved, states which of the three §5 resolution paths
was taken. A finding that leaves an open question records it under "Residual" and
names the task that will answer it — residuals are not parked in prose.
The wider research control plane (`hypotheses/`, `experiments/`, `concepts/`,
`decisions/`) is built in `TD-WP-0002-T03`.

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title: "Vertical spike: falsify the crystallization thesis"
domain: infotech
repo: test-driver
status: proposed
status: active
owner: codex
topic_slug: custodian
created: "2026-08-22"
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```task
id: TD-WP-0002-T01
status: todo
status: done
priority: high
state_hub_task_id: "b1755e17-279a-56cf-86eb-359e9739070a"
```
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first entry in the framework findings log — the project should catch this on
itself before it catches anything else.
**Done 2026-08-22.** `docs/TestDriverInitialMilestones.md` (M0M10) is canonical;
the `INTENT.md` and Concept Model § 15 sequences carry superseded banners with a
mapping table. Recorded as `research/findings/F-0001-milestone-sequence-drift.md`.
`INTENT.md` and `docs/` are now tracked. One residual carried to T10: the finding
taxonomy has no class for document-to-document drift.
## Decide intent provenance and the classification mechanism on paper
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