test-driver/research/concepts/fitness-map.md
tegwick 4ddb2f896c T05: the lab and its labelled mutation catalogue
lab/app.py (users, tenants, auth, resources, sharing, read/write, revoke,
audit), lab/http_api.py (JSON API + browser UI, stdlib only), 20 labelled
composable version-stamped mutations, ground-truth matrix. 48 tests pass.

Detection against the reference scenario: MECHANICAL 0/10 flagged (correct),
DEFECT 6/6, SEMANTIC 2/4 with both inert cases declared.

- F-0002: M16 and M18 initially escaped detection entirely. A use case
  protects exactly what it asserts. Resolved by adding two claims already
  stated as intent in INTENT.md; the six-mutation catalogue would never have
  surfaced this.
- test-id axis added: stable selectors survive most UI mutations, which would
  make H-001 trivially false. Mutations now vary on preserves_test_ids so the
  hypothesis is analysed split by that axis rather than rigged.
- M12 (semantic deferred revoke) and M19 (defect race) are behaviourally
  identical and asserted as such - the discrimination problem as a test.

lab/minimal.py removed; superseded by lab/app.py.

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# Concept ↔ Implementation Fitness Map
**Updated:** 2026-08-22 (TD-WP-0002-T05)
Traces each important concept to the implementation, experiment and evidence that
support it. **Unsupported entries are the point of this map** — a concept with no
implementation and no evidence is not a gap to be embarrassed about, it is the
current honest state, and hiding it defeats the map's purpose.
Support levels follow `TestDriverImprovementLoop.md` §13:
`C0 Idea` · `C1 Hypothesis` · `C2 Experimentally Supported` ·
`C3 Practically Validated` · `C4 Architectural Invariant`
## Current state
The deterministic kernel exists (T04) and its guarantees are covered by unit
tests. **Levels have not moved.** A passing unit test is not an experiment: it
shows the code does what its author intended, not that the concept holds under
the mutations it claims to survive. Levels rise when E-001/E-002/E-003 produce
evidence, not before. The implementation column below moves; the level column
does not. The initial classifications in §13 of the Improvement Loop
(`Actor Isolation C2`, `Independent Oracles C2`) are corrected downward here: they
were aspirational, not evidenced.
| Concept | Level | Implementation | Experiment | Evidence | Open question |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| `C-use-case` | C1 | `intent.py` | — | — | Is a use case expressible without leaking mechanics? |
| `C-actor-isolation` | C1 | `world.py` | E-001 | — | Isolation is asserted by construction; unverified. |
| `C-semantic-action` | C1 | `actions.py` | E-001 | — | Does identity survive restructuring better than a recorded sequence? (H-001) |
| `C-oracle-independence` | C1 | `runner.py`, `oracles.py` | E-001, E-003 | — | Independence of components ≠ independence of belief. (H-004) |
| `C-evidence-pack` | C1 | `evidence.py` | — | — | What is the minimum sufficient for replay? |
| `C-observation-channel` | C1 | `lab/app.py` | — | — | **D-07** — required of every system under test. Adoption cost unknown. |
| `C-adaptation` | C1 | — (T08) | E-001 | — | (H-002) |
| `C-classification` | C1 | — (T08) | E-001, E-003 | — | Decision table is total on paper; unexercised. |
| `C-crystallization` | C1 | — (T09) | E-002 | — | (H-003) |
| `C-intent-provenance` | C1 | `provenance.py` | E-003 | — | Constrains provenance, not quality. Accepted residual. |
| `C-lineage` | C0 | — | — | — | Parent pointer only in the spike. |
| `C-energy` | C0 | `energy.py`, capture only | — | — | Dormant by decision. (H-005) |
| `C-temperature` | C0 | — | — | — | Deferred. No implementation planned in TD-WP-0002. |
| `C-confidence` | C0 | — | — | — | Deferred. |
| `C-campaign` | C0 | — | — | — | Deferred. |
| `C-metabolism` | C0 | — | — | — | Deferred. Depends on C-energy. |
| `C-retirement` | C0 | — | — | — | Deferred. Depends on C-energy. |
| `C-security-mutation` | C1 | `lab/mutations.py` | E-003 | `lab/GROUND-TRUTH.md` | Catalogue is hand-written; no derivation mechanism from use cases yet. |
## Orphan check
**Conceptual orphans** — concepts with no planned implementation in `TD-WP-0002`:
`C-temperature`, `C-confidence`, `C-campaign`, `C-metabolism`, `C-retirement`.
All five are deferred *by explicit decision*, not oversight. They are the group
most at risk of being built because they are easy and satisfying, and never
validated. They are revisited at T10, where the question is not "when do we build
these" but "does the evidence justify keeping them in the model at all".
**Implementation orphans** — none. Every module in `src/testdriver/` traces to a
concept above. `energy.py` is the one to watch: it exists solely to capture
events for a dormant hypothesis, and if T10 finds no use for the history it
should be removed rather than kept out of sentiment.