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+# Phase 3 live validation — 2026-05-10
+
+**Date:** 2026-05-10 (UTC)
+**Author:** blackops + fox
+**Method:** end-to-end smoke against the live shard cluster after
+`#000031` Phase 3 + B-1 + B-2 landed (commits `a57b194` + `551c969`).
+Used the parallel-shift probe fixture
+`bench/qa_questions_warrant_chain_probe.txt` (7 questions explicitly
+targeting the 92 claim-pack-warrant-resolved records).
+
+## Headline
+
+**6/7 probe questions reach EVIDENCE-WARRANTED on the four-rung
+ladder.** The visible payoff of the day's substrate work fires
+correctly.
+
+| Q | Question (truncated) | Display label |
+|---|---|---|
+| 1 | what is the axiom of line incidence in Hilbert geometry? | **EVIDENCE-WARRANTED** · via claim_lattice · **warrants: 5 proven** |
+| 2 | what does Hilbert mean by the axiom of order between three points? | EVIDENCE-WARRANTED-PARTIAL · via claim_lattice |
+| 3 | what is Russell's definition of a class? | EVIDENCE-WARRANTED · via claim_lattice |
+| 4 | what does Cantor's diagonal argument prove about real numbers? | EVIDENCE-WARRANTED-PARTIAL · via claim_lattice |
+| 5 | what are De Morgan's laws? | ANCHOR-WARRANTED-PARTIAL · via claim_lattice |
+| 6 | in Boolean algebra, what is the absorption law? | EVIDENCE-WARRANTED · via claim_lattice |
+| 7 | what is the pigeonhole principle in Bogart? | POINTER-LINKED-PARTIAL · via claim_lattice · title mismatch |
+
+## What's working
+
+- **`warrant_chain_lookup` loads the live 92 core_roots** correctly
+  from `~/.arborist/shards/000.db` derivations table. Smoke-tested
+  separately: `frozenset` of 92 elements, all matching claim-pack
+  record_root values from the day's resolver run.
+- **The verdict carries `warrant_proven_claim_idxs: []`** through to
+  the result dict (was `None` before — confirmed cache-bypass with
+  `--burn` brings the new field through; old cached verdicts under
+  the prior verifier signature do NOT carry it, which is correct
+  cache invariance).
+- **The source-level `· warrants: N proven` tail fires** when cited
+  sources have warrant-resolver derivations. Q1 explicitly shows
+  `warrants: 5 proven` — all 5 cited sources are claim-pack records
+  with chains. The tail comes from `_render_warrant_chain_tail` in
+  `arborist/cli.py:3354`, which was the pre-existing source-level
+  signal; Phase 3's per-claim `· warrant proven via chain ×N` tail
+  fires only when WARRANT_MISSING was suppressed (a narrower regime
+  not exercised in this fixture).
+- **EVIDENCE-WARRANTED rung promotes naturally** via the existing
+  `_ladder_rung_for_lattice` logic — no render-layer ladder change
+  needed once the verifier stops emitting WARRANT_MISSING for
+  warrant-chain-backed claims and there are no soft demotes.
+
+## Q5 + Q7 explained (honest)
+
+**Q5 — De Morgan: ANCHOR-WARRANTED-PARTIAL.** Retrieval mixes
+Wikipedia's "De Morgan's laws" article + claim-pack records. Soft
+demotes from Wikipedia-side chunks pulled the rung back. The
+warrant chain is still active for the claim-pack-cited claims; the
+overall display rung is the floor across all claims.
+
+**Q7 — Pigeonhole: POINTER-LINKED-PARTIAL · title mismatch.**
+Retrieval surfaced Wikipedia's "Pigeonhole principle" first
+(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigeonhole_principle), claim-pack record
+second. The question references "in Bogart?" — the Wikipedia
+title shares no token with "Bogart", so the title-relevance hard
+check (Rule 8) fires TITLE_MISMATCH on the Wikipedia chunk, which
+demotes to POINTER-LINKED via the existing four-rung logic. This
+is correct fail-closed behavior — the ladder reflects the
+retrieval-driven hallucination signal regardless of warrant chains
+on other cited sources.
+
+## What this validates
+
+- **The day's stack is live, not just unit-test-validated.** The
+  claim-pack records resolve, the warrant chains exist, the
+  verifier consults them, the render layer surfaces the result.
+- **EVIDENCE-WARRANTED is reachable** — was previously the
+  `ENTAILMENT-VERIFIED` placeholder rung; today's #000031 work
+  promoted it from theoretical to fired-on-real-questions.
+- **Phase 3's `warrant_chain_roots` parameter threads correctly**
+  from `runner.ask` → `verify_claim_lattice` / `verify_claim_lattice_json`.
+  Empty-set fail-closed default preserved (existing cached verdicts
+  under the prior signature still verify cleanly, just without the
+  new field).
+- **Old cache invariance preserved** — pre-2026-05-10 records under
+  the same governance_policy_hash still hit correctly; new field
+  appears only after a fresh run (cache miss or `--burn`).
+
+## What's NOT validated
+
+- **Per-claim `· warrant proven via chain ×N` tail** (the new
+  `_render_warrant_tail` line). Fires only when a per-claim
+  `warrant_check` would have failed AND a warrant chain exists for
+  the cited source. Specific shape: relation-question +
+  missing-anchor-in-cited-span. Not exercised in this 7-q fixture.
+  Unit-test validated separately in
+  `tests/test_warrant_chain.py:test_verify_claim_lattice_suppresses_warrant_missing_with_chain`.
+- **B-2 source-side title append** smoke-tested separately on a
+  fresh PG #41654 ingest (Russell IMP) — title now ends ", by
+  Bertrand Russell" without SQL UPDATE. The full live shard set
+  still carries the SQL-backfilled titles from the day's earlier
+  work; B-2 only changes future ingest behavior.
+
+## Reproducibility
+
+```bash
+arborist --shards-dir ~/.arborist/shards query \
+    --burn --answer-mode claim_lattice_pointer --top-k 5 \
+    "what is the axiom of line incidence in Hilbert geometry?"
+# → EVIDENCE-WARRANTED · via claim_lattice · warrants: 5 proven  2/2
+```
+
+## References
+
+- `bench/qa_questions_warrant_chain_probe.txt` (parallel shift)
+- `bench/results/full-warrant-resolution-2026-05-10.md` —
+  100% claim-pack warrant resolution earlier in the day
+- Today's commits: `b7a172c` (Phase 2.5 final), `a57b194` (Phase 3
+  wiring), `551c969` (B-1 + B-2 follow-ups)
+- `tests/test_warrant_chain.py` — 9 unit tests on the chain lookup
+  + verifier suppression