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ticket #000043: open empirical-tightening sub-ticket for T3 bound constants
#000036 §10 enumerated three open questions for tightening C_B1 /
C_B2 / C_B3 below their conservative-by-construction
data-processing-inequality ceilings of 1.0. #000036 §7 Phase 2
explicitly parks them as a single deferred work item but didn't
have its own ticket. This commit captures Phase 2 as #000043 so
the work doesn't get lost across three unrelated tickets and
the gating dependencies are visible in the ticket index.

§2 of the new ticket walks the three tightening paths:

- §2.1 C_B1 (gradient-bias) — feeds from #000034 Phase 1b
  (real v7 checkpoint + Hessian-alignment probe). Verdict
  → C_B1 estimate via alignment-score distribution.
- §2.2 C_B2 (LR-trajectory diversity) — per-deployment
  1-Wasserstein clustering across LR-grid mini-replicas.
  Cluster count → effective channel symbols.
- §2.3 C_B3 (SGD shuffle regime) — cheapest path; deployment
  configuration audit (DataLoader settings). Random-shuffle
  → C_B3 ≈ 1/√N_b; cyclic → ~1; adversarial → 1.

§3 ships the override surface already landed in
t3_bound_calculator.py (--c-b1 / --c-b2 / --c-b3 flags) — Phase
2 doesn't change the calculator's interface, only the numeric
values plugged in. New §3.2 sketches a per-deployment YAML
config-file shape; §3.3 routes measurements back into
soft-hash-channel-t3-bound.md §7.4 + §10 closure.

§7 status: parks until v7 plastic-training has at least one
active deployment AND either #000034 Phase 1b lands (unlocking
§2.1) OR a cheap-path operator audit lands (unlocking §2.3).
Partial closure (any one of §2.1/§2.2/§2.3 individually) is
acceptable.

TICKETS.md index row added; Next ID bumped 000043 → 000044.

Status note (separate finding from this commit's scope): fox
landed a comprehensive test_t3_bound_calculator.py
(51 new tests; full suite now 1720 passing vs my 1669 from
1dfb8b9). Tests validate the T3 calculator's mathematical
identities (B1/B2/B3 isolation, monotonicity), input-validation
surface, and operator-guidance text mode transitions. fox's
tests still untracked at this commit — this commit only stages
the ticket draft.

Doc-only commit; no code touched.
2026-05-10 11:55:36 -04:00

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Arborist tickets — index

Arborist uses a flat ticket-NNNNNN-<slug>.md convention for actionable proposals: defects with a known root cause, design proposals awaiting go/no-go, or scoped enhancements queued for future implementation.

Convention

  • Filename: docs/tickets/ticket-NNNNNN-<slug>.md. The ID is a six-digit zero-padded integer; the slug is hyphen-lowercase and short enough to stay readable on a 100-column terminal.
  • Numbering: monotonic, never reused. Pick the next free integer greater than every existing ticket. The current next ID is on the Next ID line below; bump it when you open a ticket and commit the bump in the same commit as the new ticket file.
  • Header: every ticket starts with
    # Ticket #NNNNNN — <short title>
    
    **Status:** open · awaiting go/no-go      (or "in progress", "closed")
    **Opened:** YYYY-MM-DD
    **Scope:** <one-liner — what this ticket is for>
    **Audience:** <who reads this>
    **Hard constraint:** <invariants this ticket commits to NOT break>
    
  • Body: problem statement, design choices with trade-offs, recommendation, implementation sketch, scope boundaries, status. See ticket-000001-retrieval-keywords-audit-gap.md for a worked template.
  • Closure: when a ticket lands, flip Status to closed · landed in commit <sha> and leave the file in place. Do not delete tickets; they are the design log.

Distinction from other docs

docs/ also contains architecture references and bench journey notes that are NOT tickets — they describe state of the world rather than proposing change. Examples that stay un-numbered:

  • cti-architecture.md (architecture reference)
  • mesh.md, mesh-deploy.md (architecture + ops reference)
  • qa-modes-bench-2026-04-30.md (point-in-time bench journal)
  • verifier-semantic-gap-design.md, self-reference-design.md (older design docs that pre-date the ticket convention; leave as-is unless retroactively promoting one to a ticket adds value)
  • concept-relations-design.md (architecture reference for the per-shard concept_relations synonym/rivalry layer + the 1.6% storage-tax rationale; landed 2026-05-01)
  • tool-action-dag-design.md (research path for an action- provenance layer downstream of final_label. Captured pre-ticket per the 2026-05-07 arborist-vs-donto comparison; promotes to a ticket when an actual agent use case surfaces)
  • warrant-substrate-cookbook.md (architecture reference for the 18 open-licensed textbook substrates backing every claim-pack record, written 2026-05-10 after the 18/92 → 92/92 push under #000031. Per-pillar substrate map, ingest patterns, alias discipline, cascade tuning, honest tier breakdown.)

If a doc proposes change AND awaits a decision AND has scoped implementation cost, it's a ticket. Otherwise it's reference.

Index

Newest first. Update on every open/close.

ID Title Status Opened Directive
#000043 Empirical tightening of T3 bound constants (#000036 Phase 2) open · awaiting go/no-go (parks until v7 deployment surfaces measurement data) 2026-05-10
#000042 Term-aliases table (vocabulary-mismatch bridge) closed · 13 rows live across geometry + classical-physics + arithmetic domains by 2026-05-10 2026-05-09
#000041 Citation-aliases table (PD substitutes for proprietary cites) closed · 74 rows live as of 2026-05-10 (count grew 40 → 54 → 74; Goldstein/Newton, Mendelson/Enderton/Jech/Landau/Gödel→{Russell IMP, Russell PoM, De Morgan, Boole, Cantor, Peano, Dedekind, SF-LF}, Stanley/Brualdi/Knuth → Bogart+Levin+Keller-Trotter, Dummit-Foote/Barendregt/Böhm-Jacopini → Judson/PLFA/SF, Kolmogorov → Grinstead-Snell+Laplace) 2026-05-09
#000040 Phase 5 resolver fix — phrase + content-token cascade (Hilbert terminology mismatch surfaced) closed · cascade landed 2026-05-09; lift blocked by 1902-vs-modern vocab; follow-up #000042 2026-05-09
#000039 Optional sqlite-vec retrieval backend (A/B vs FTS5, hybrid not replacement) open · awaiting go/no-go (doc-only Phase 0) 2026-05-09
#000038 Phase 4 content acquisition — proprietary textbook license decisions for warrant coverage closed · obviated 2026-05-10 by alias-substitution sprint under #000031 (74 rows in #000041 + 13 rows in #000042); 92/92 records now resolve. Residue (multilingual PD, Hilbert-Ackermann OCR, Knuth permission, personal-copy path B) preserved as design log §8 2026-05-09
#000037 Prometheus-Σ recursive falsification controller (bicameral substrate) open · awaiting go/no-go (doc-only Phase 0) 2026-05-09
#000036 T3 per-window covert-channel budget bound in progress · Phase 1 (formal derivation + calculator) landed 2026-05-10; awaits fox math review 2026-05-09
#000035 PRG choice for φ_PRG (HMAC-SHA-512 expansion) in progress · Phase 1 landed 2026-05-10; v7 §9.10 amendment awaits maintainer review 2026-05-09
#000034 Hessian alignment under φ_linear in progress · Phase 1a landed 2026-05-10 (synthetic-ablation probe + KAT fixture); Phase 1b parks for v7 ramp-up 2026-05-09
#000033 Claim-pack pillar VII (combinatorics) closed · landed 2026-05-09 (live in shard 000.db; lift verified) 2026-05-09
#000032 combinatorics@v1 π* (integer counting kernel) closed · landed 2026-05-09 2026-05-09
#000031 Surface-ingest cited textbooks for claim-pack warrant promotion closed · Phase 1 + 2 + 2.5 (92/92) + 3 (verifier wiring) + B-1 (via_citation_alias attribution: 18 direct + 74 +alias) + B-2 (source-side title-from-author backfill) all landed 2026-05-09 / 2026-05-10 2026-05-09
#000030 Math π* expansion: SymPy substrate (algebra · calculus · linalg) closed · all 7 phases + 1b landed 2026-05-09 (abe5988) 2026-05-09
#000029 Claim-pack source (axiom/theorem JSON bundles) closed · landed 2026-05-09 2026-05-09
#000028 Multi-modality witness for canonical shapes closed · landed 2026-05-09 + follow-ups (capital ledger · sample rate) 2026-05-08
#000027 Canonical projections persist to providence_cache closed · landed 2026-05-09 2026-05-08
#000026 Real-shard workload baseline + search latency in progress · Phase 1 + 2 + 3 landed 2026-05-09 2026-05-08
#000025 5F battery (Function · Finetuning · Falsification · Formulate · Feedback Loop) in progress · Phase 1a + 1b.2 + 1c + 1d landed 2026-05-09 2026-05-07
#000024 5T Phase 1b + Dav1DPrometheus vocabulary alignment closed · landed 2026-05-08 2026-05-07
#000023 5S Phase 1b: Syllogism · Synthesis · Semiotics closed · landed 2026-05-08 2026-05-07
#000022 Adapter LossReport (PRD I9 analogue) closed · landed 2026-05-07 2026-05-07
#000021 5S/5T/5R benchmark fixtures + harness closed · Phase 1a + 2 landed 2026-05-08 2026-05-07
#000020 Capital-cost ledger (8-capital queues) closed · landed 2026-05-07 2026-05-07
#000019 Specification methodology for π* and V closed · landed 2026-05-07 2026-05-07
#000018 Adversarial soft-hash covert-channel analysis closed · landed 2026-05-09 (analysis doc) 2026-05-07
#000017 Memory-root: lifelong learning audit chain closed · landed 2026-05-07 2026-05-07
#000016 ZK Phase-2 frontier proof (concretize) parked · bench-plan + wire-protocol landed 2026-05-09 (sibling-repo measurement pending) 2026-05-07
#000015 π* domain library + cross-domain composition closed · landed 2026-05-07 2026-05-07
#000014 SelfModel: schema, falsification, integration closed · landed 2026-05-07 2026-05-07
#000013 Spatial-temporal substrate (Merkle-AGI v7-W) closed · landed 2026-05-09 (substrate paper + frontier catalog + namespace stub) 2026-05-07
#000012 Selection & consensus protocol (Merkle-AGI v8) in progress · Phase 1a + 1b (ForkScore CLI) landed 2026-05-09 2026-05-07
#000011 SOFT_PREFLIGHT_HINT model-assisted sidecar closed · landed 2026-05-04 (zero-shot full impl) 2026-05-04 D1 (preserves)
#000010 Meta-Cognition Preflight Guard (M0 / MCTL) closed · landed 2026-05-03 (Phases 14); DAG binding shipped via #000009 2026-05-03 D1, D3
#000009 Preflight run-DAG node binding (#000008+#000010) closed · re-landed 2026-05-04 (§8 corrections: reject-path DAG, nested CTI clauses) 2026-05-03 D3, D4
#000008 Broad-quantifier preflight guard closed · landed in 4f2b5a6; Phase 5 DAG binding split into #000009 2026-05-02
#000007 Query-layer hyphen folding closed · 2026-05-02 2026-05-02
#000006 Bench-emergent findings (rolling research log) open · rolling 2026-05-02
#000005 Label ladder migration (POINTER-LINKED → …) closed · 2026-05-02 2026-05-01 D7
#000004 Directive coverage in bench summary closed · acd1f9c 2026-05-01 D8
#000003 Anchor-class warrant generalization (Module H+) closed · 2026-05-02 2026-05-01 D6
#000002 Reference-Frame Polarity Contract (Module L) closed · 2026-05-02 2026-05-01 D3
#000001 Retrieval-keywords audit gap closed · 2026-05-02 2026-05-01 D4

Next ID

000044