Doc-only landing. docs/spec-methodology.md codifies the discipline arborist already practices — versioning rule, round-trip discipline, soundness/completeness honesty, default-value greenfield rule, sidecar separation — so new π*, V, and policy-field authors don't re-derive it from audit-chain failures. Three author-class sections each ship with: - Five questions the author must answer before landing. - Worked example drawn from arborist's existing surface. - One-page checklist. Worked examples cited: - π* — wikitext-base@v1 - V — paraphrase strategy - policy field — quantifier_guard_apply_caps Cross-references to bench-maxing, seven-point-program, pi-star- composition, concept-relations-design, and CLAUDE.md.
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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 IDline 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.mdfor 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-shardconcept_relationssynonym/rivalry layer + the 1.6% storage-tax rationale; landed 2026-05-01)
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #000022 | Adapter LossReport (PRD I9 analogue) | open · awaiting go/no-go | 2026-05-07 | — |
| #000021 | 5S/5T/5R benchmark fixtures + harness | open · awaiting go/no-go | 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 | open · awaiting go/no-go | 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) | open · awaiting go/no-go | 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) | open · awaiting go/no-go | 2026-05-07 | — |
| #000012 | Selection & consensus protocol (Merkle-AGI v8) | open · awaiting go/no-go | 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 1–4); 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 |
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