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`docs/_source/merkle-agi-v8-consensus.rst` (834 lines, RST sister to the v7-W substrate paper at the same path). Closes Phase 1b of ticket #000012 — the loop-closing consensus protocol that turns single-validator Proof-of-Upgrade into Darwinian selection across an open validator set. 11 parts: Part 1 Introduction & motivation — gap table from v7 § 13.4, concrete backdoor-attack scenario, paper IS/IS-NOT scope. Part 2 Substrate definition — SQD A1/A2/A3 inheritance, consensus_events row schema, consensus_policy_hash sibling (never enters cache_key). Part 3 Validator state machine — bonding/active/challenged/ slashed/unbonding with full transition graph + invariants. Part 4 Acceptance protocol — proposer submission, layered fitness floor (canonical + lab-declared ceiling), audit-replay procedure, 2/3-stake quorum + GRANDPA- style finalization, liveness floor. Part 5 Challenge protocol — counter-evidence shape, adjudication, challenger reward, frivolous-challenge bond. Part 6 Stake mechanics — bond/unbond/challenge window recommendations, offense-class slashing schedule, reward distribution, optional stake cap + sqrt-weighting. Part 7 Fork choice rule — GRANDPA-style finality, pre-finality constraints, liveness recovery. Part 8 Mesh wire format extension — three new message kinds, BLS-or-concat aggregate signatures, bandwidth profile. Part 9 BFT analysis — safety, liveness, Sybil resistance, bootstrap honesty, re-staking attacks. Part 10 Worked example — 7-validator deployment, one upgrade cycle with successful challenge against one fraudulent validator. Part 11 Out of scope — implementation, calibration, cross-chain anchoring, fixture selection, bootstrap-set membership, cross-instance slashing accumulator, branch-set persistence. Closure §: open questions tracked separately (initial validator set composition, threshold-key ceremony, ZK-replay, policy-hash transition mechanics). Ticket #000012 status updated; Phase 1c (branch-set persistence) remains proposed-not-opened. Implementation follow-up tickets that cite this paper land later — one per validator-state-machine, mesh-wire-format extension, audit-replay harness, slashing accountant.
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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)tool-action-dag-design.md(research path for an action- provenance layer downstream offinal_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.)calculator-test-patterns.md(architecture reference for testing calculator / probe-style code: KAT regression, hand-computed formula assertions, monotonicity, closure / sum-of-parts invariants, parametrized invalid-input cones, CLI subprocess, doc parity, module-export shape. Codified 2026-05-10 from the three-module pattern bench acrosst3_bound_calculator/phi_alignment_probe/anchor_prg. Explicit "doesn't apply to verifier-style code" caveat.)
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 | closed · Phase 1 + 2 + 3 landed 2026-05-09 (Phase 3 in 60b5748) |
2026-05-08 | — |
| #000025 | 5F battery (Function · Finetuning · Falsification · Formulate · Feedback Loop) | in progress · Phase 1a + 1b.2 + 1c + 1d landed 2026-05-09; Phase 1e (motif coverage, §10.12 closed) landed 2026-05-10 | 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 (ForkScore) landed 2026-05-08; Phase 1b (consensus paper, docs/_source/merkle-agi-v8-consensus.rst 834 lines) landed 2026-05-10; Phase 1c (branch-set persistence) remains proposed-not-opened |
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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