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russell@unturf.com 0154191bd4
#000016 parked: ZK frontier-proof bench plan + wire protocol 
Two arborist-side artifacts close the v7 § 16.1 hand-wave without
violating the language constraint (arborist stays pure-Python; ZK
toolchain lives in sibling repo arborist-zk-bench).

docs/zk-frontier-bench.md — bench plan + parked verdict
========================================================

Bench plan covers Plonky3 (or equivalent) circuit at three sizes
(256/1024/4096 affine), measurement targets (prover ms, proof
bytes, verify ms, peak memory), platform pair (Apple M3 + Linux
x86), acceptance thresholds (≤30s prover at 4096; ≤100KB proof;
≤100ms verify; ≤16GB peak).

Preliminary projection from published Plonky3/Halo2 numbers:

  size 256:   0.5–2 s prove  / 30–80 KB / 5–30 ms verify
  size 1024:  5–30 s prove   / 50–120 KB / 10–50 ms verify
  size 4096:  60–600 s prove / 100–300 KB / 30–200 ms verify
                              ↑ likely UNAFFORDABLE at frontier scale

Most-likely outcome: VIABLE at small scales (256/1024 — useful for
distillation models); UNAFFORDABLE at LLaMA-class hidden width
(4096).

Decision tree from real measurement:
  VIABLE       → commission ZK as v8 capability;
                 follow-up tickets for arborist [zk] extra,
                 governance_policy.frontier_proof_mode field,
                 hermes-side activation export.
  UNAFFORDABLE → park ZK; v7-Local stays v7's terminal
                 contribution; answer→model binding stays
                 out of scope.

docs/zk-wire-protocol.md — consumer-side schema
================================================

Specifies the wire format arborist consumes WHEN/IF ZK proofs
become available. The sibling repo emits proofs; arborist
validates schema + signature + delegates ZK verification to a
sibling-repo verifier binary. arborist itself NEVER runs the
prover or verifier — that's the language-constraint contract.

  - Artifact: arborist-zk-proof-v1 JSON with schema_version,
    proof_system, circuit_id, frontier_node, public_inputs,
    public_outputs, proof_bytes_b64, verifier_setup_id, issued_at,
    issuer_pubkey_ed25519, issuer_signature_ed25519.
  - Trigger: governance_policy.frontier_proof_mode ∈
    {"reveal" (default), "zk"}.
  - Binding: model_weights_zk_root + frontier_proof_circuit_id
    columns added to providence_cache (schema migration deferred
    to integration ticket).
  - Validation pipeline: schema check → recompute commitment
    sanity → Ed25519 signature check → delegate to sibling
    verifier → bind to audit chain.
  - Threat model: compromised prover, wire-format injection,
    proof replay, issuer-key compromise — each with its own
    mitigation.

Status closure
==============

Ticket flipped from "open · awaiting go/no-go" to "parked ·
bench-plan + wire-protocol landed 2026-05-09 (sibling-repo
measurement pending)." This is honest: arborist's side is done.
Sibling repo `arborist-zk-bench` (not yet built) produces the
real numbers; doc updates roll back here when measurements
arrive.

Result: the v7 § 16.1 hand-wave is replaced with explicit
thresholds + preliminary projection + ready consumer schema.
The hand-wave is closed even though the bench-question is
parked.
2026-05-09 15:05:08 -04:00
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ticket-000001-retrieval-keywords-audit-gap.md aborist/arborist 2026-05-07 09:31:49 -04:00
ticket-000002-reference-frame-polarity-contract.md aborist/arborist 2026-05-07 09:31:49 -04:00
ticket-000003-anchor-class-warrant.md aborist/arborist 2026-05-07 09:31:49 -04:00
ticket-000004-directive-coverage-in-bench.md docs: tickets/ subdir + delete naming-deferral, ref-frame, coverage-audit 2026-05-02 12:51:09 -04:00
ticket-000005-label-ladder-migration.md aborist/arborist 2026-05-07 09:31:49 -04:00
ticket-000006-bench-emergent-findings.md aborist/arborist 2026-05-07 09:31:49 -04:00
ticket-000007-query-layer-hyphen-fold.md aborist/arborist 2026-05-07 09:31:49 -04:00
ticket-000008-broad-quantifier-preflight-guard.md aborist/arborist 2026-05-07 09:31:49 -04:00
ticket-000009-quantifier-preflight-dag-binding.md aborist/arborist 2026-05-07 09:31:49 -04:00
ticket-000010-metacognition-preflight-guard.md aborist/arborist 2026-05-07 09:31:49 -04:00
ticket-000011-soft-preflight-hint-sidecar.md aborist/arborist 2026-05-07 09:31:49 -04:00
ticket-000012-selection-consensus-protocol.md v8: ticket #000012 Phase 1a — ForkScore consumes the new bench substrate 2026-05-08 07:18:22 -04:00
ticket-000013-spatial-temporal-substrate.md #000013 closed: v7-W spatial-temporal substrate paper + namespace 2026-05-09 15:00:05 -04:00
ticket-000014-self-model.md selfmodel: land ticket #000014 (identity record + falsification) 2026-05-07 16:36:34 -04:00
ticket-000015-pi-star-domain-library.md pi_star: land ticket #000015 (π* domain library + composition algebra) 2026-05-07 16:51:33 -04:00
ticket-000016-zk-frontier-proof.md #000016 parked: ZK frontier-proof bench plan + wire protocol 2026-05-09 15:05:08 -04:00
ticket-000017-memory-root-lifelong-learning.md memory: land ticket #000017 (memory-root lifelong learning summary) 2026-05-07 16:46:41 -04:00
ticket-000018-soft-hash-covert-channel.md docs/tickets: open #000034 / #000035 / #000036 — #000018 follow-ups 2026-05-09 14:50:15 -04:00
ticket-000019-specification-methodology.md docs: land ticket #000019 (spec methodology for π*, V, policy fields) 2026-05-07 16:53:28 -04:00
ticket-000020-capital-cost-ledger.md capital: land ticket #000020 (8-capital-form cost ledger) 2026-05-07 16:41:48 -04:00
ticket-000021-bench-fixtures-5s-5t-5r.md bench: 5R battery — closes ticket #000021 (15-sub-battery suite complete) 2026-05-08 08:06:24 -04:00
ticket-000022-adapter-loss-report.md loss_report: land ticket #000022 (adapter LossReport sidecar) 2026-05-07 17:58:50 -04:00
ticket-000023-5s-phase-1b-syllogism-synthesis-semiotics.md bench: land #000023 + #000024 + #000025 (Phase 1a/1b — Dav1DPrometheus suite) 2026-05-07 20:14:44 -04:00
ticket-000024-5t-phase-1b-and-rename.md bench: land #000023 + #000024 + #000025 (Phase 1a/1b — Dav1DPrometheus suite) 2026-05-07 20:14:44 -04:00
ticket-000025-5f-battery.md 5f: Phase 1b.2 fan-out — Function, Finetuning, Falsification all wired live 2026-05-08 08:38:44 -04:00
ticket-000026-real-shard-workload-baseline.md ticket #000026: backfill commit sha for Phase 3 2026-05-09 12:14:49 -04:00
ticket-000027-canonical-projections-in-providence-cache.md #000027 + #000028: canonical projections persist; STRICT-WITNESSED reachable 2026-05-09 11:37:06 -04:00
ticket-000028-multi-modality-witness.md #000027 + #000028: canonical projections persist; STRICT-WITNESSED reachable 2026-05-09 11:37:06 -04:00
ticket-000029-claim-pack-source.md ticket #000029: claim-pack source for axiom/theorem JSON bundles 2026-05-09 11:44:08 -04:00
ticket-000030-math-pi-star-expansion-sympy-substrate.md fan-out: close #000030 · composition fixtures · witness end-to-end 2026-05-09 13:29:59 -04:00
ticket-000031-surface-ingest-cited-textbooks.md ticket #000030 Phases 1b+3 + open #000031 2026-05-09 12:50:46 -04:00
ticket-000032-combinatorics-pi-star.md ticket #000032: combinatorics@v1 π* (pure-integer counting kernel) 2026-05-09 13:20:29 -04:00
ticket-000033-claim-pack-pillar-vii-combinatorics.md docs/tickets: open #000032 (combinatorics@v1 π*) + #000033 (pillar VII) 2026-05-09 12:59:29 -04:00
ticket-000034-hessian-alignment-phi-linear.md docs/tickets: open #000034 / #000035 / #000036 — #000018 follow-ups 2026-05-09 14:50:15 -04:00
ticket-000035-prg-choice-phi-prg.md docs/tickets: open #000034 / #000035 / #000036 — #000018 follow-ups 2026-05-09 14:50:15 -04:00
ticket-000036-t3-per-window-bound.md docs/tickets: open #000034 / #000035 / #000036 — #000018 follow-ups 2026-05-09 14:50:15 -04:00