Slice 8, closing the #319 retirement's prose and bench debt. Bench argv
rides exec (fixed_cost single-run probe, campaign surfaces, and the seed
helper that still called the retired sweep at runtime — caught by the
bench run itself); all five fingerprints unchanged against the committed
baselines, confirming record-line parity through the retirement. Live
docs (README, authoring guide, project layout, glossary) describe only
exec + campaign documents + graph introspect --params; three glossary
entries explicitly mark their verb retired. Ledger amendments per the C29
discipline — C25's executor-verb-set re-settled (exec + the --override
residue), C14's dual grammar reduced to the one dispatch, C24's
document-built runs/families + gated-intake route list (lockstep with the
code comment), C12's override clause and identity anchor repointed to the
runner-layer hash computation, C18/C22/C27/C01 mention rewrites —
superseded sentences moved verbatim to the history sidecars (c25's
created). Stale dual-grammar doc comment on is_blueprint_file rewritten.
refs #319
The single-file ledger had grown to 2968 lines / ~42k tokens, mixing
current design law with accreted history: 59 cycle-stamped realization
blocks, 18 [HISTORY] passages, 22 supersession markers, and the C10 /
C22 / C24 reframe sagas layered several supersessions deep. A
code-grounding audit (31 agents, adversarially verified) confirmed 11
defects stated as current truth: stale crate homes from the C28 #288
roster split (cost nodes, PositionManagement, PositionEvent, Session),
the renamed InputSpec->PortSpec, the pre-#241 project model in C16 and
the open-threads section, a stale HarnessKind retirement deferral in
C24, and three C28-internal inconsistencies.
New shape, per the ailang precedent:
- INDEX.md stays the sole addressable entry point: foundation, external
components, a C-id-keyed contract map (one line per contract), and
only the genuinely open architectural threads.
- contracts/cNN-<slug>.md carries each contract's current truth only:
Guarantee / Forbids / Why with ratified refinements integrated, plus
a code-anchored Current state. All confirmed defects are fixed here;
crate anchors were re-verified against the tree.
- contracts/cNN-<slug>.history.md (18 sidecars) and INDEX.history.md
preserve every superseded block verbatim, stamps and issue refs
intact, under a frozen-record banner. Nothing was deleted: superseded
design intent remains an addressable working-tree artifact, off the
per-cycle audit walk.
- Ledger discipline is now stated in INDEX.md: live files are edited in
place at cycle close, superseded text moves verbatim to the sidecar,
and a supersession marker in a live file is itself an audit finding.
Every contract file was verified against its old text by an independent
zero-loss pass (statement-by-statement) plus a code-accuracy spot check;
C-ids and contract titles are unchanged, so existing C-id citations in
code, tests, and issues resolve as before.
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