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The drift review found the run handle keying on the blueprint's *content* id, which hashes `doc` fields and every other C23 debug symbol. C29's Id treatment forbids a description influencing an identity, and the repository already carried the right projection unused. The digest now substitutes `blueprint_identity_json`'s debug-symbol-blind projection (#171) for `topology_hash` in the hashed value. `manifest.topology_hash` itself is untouched, so #343's reference semantics and the committed record-line fingerprint both stand. That projection blanks more than descriptions — the render name and node, role, output, tap and gang names — while param openness stays identity-bearing. This is correct rather than incidental: names are non-load-bearing debug symbols (C8/C23), so blueprints differing only in them compute bit-identically and one address is the right answer. The reach is now stated in C22 and in the digest's own doc, together with the one observable consequence: two structurally identical blueprints whose declared tap names differ share a directory while writing differently named tap files, since the write path never prunes (#352). Two code twins the cycle left stale are corrected. `name_gate`'s doc comment still carried the C23 clause this cycle superseded and moved to its sidecar, and the authoring guide claimed a same-identity re-run replaces the directory's contents — it does not, for the same non-pruning reason. Bench is report-only and all five fingerprints are unchanged. `campaign_sweep` reports a peak-RSS NOTICE (+12.8%); the campaign leg is untouched by this cycle and its fingerprint is stable, so nothing is ratified against it here. Routed rather than fixed: #353 — naming authority for one flat namespace is spelled in three crates and the single-run leg has no claim path — filed into the recorded-stream-store milestone, where the container consolidates anyway; a data-identity seam recorded on #320 (a run's identity carries the window, never the data's content, so a corrected archive is a silent overwrite until that store supplies a recording identity); and a second instance of the non-pruning class on #352. The cycle's spec and plan are removed — git-ignored working files, read by the drift review before deletion. refs #311
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# C29 — Self-description: every surface explains itself
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**Guarantee.** Every closed-vocabulary entry the binary exposes carries a
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one-line meaning, enforced at the seam where the entry enters the system;
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everything entering the content-addressed store describes itself; a refusal
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for a missing description names the entry, the field, and the rule. One
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shared deterministic gate — `doc_gate` in aura-core, importable by every
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seam per [C28](c28-stratification.md); it fails on an empty/whitespace doc
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and on a doc that normalizes to the entry's own name — the full id or its
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bare display segment after the last `::`, so a namespaced extension entry
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cannot pass its short-name alibi
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(`DocGateFault::{Empty, RestatesName}`) — guards three seams:
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1. **Compile/unit seam (engine-shipped).** `NodeSchema.doc` is a required
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field, so the compiler enumerates every construction site; metrics and
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tap slots are schema carriers (`MetricSchema` / `TapSchema`, id + doc);
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blocks (`BlockSchema.doc`, the pre-existing model) and tap folds (the
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registry roster, [C27](c27-declared-taps.md)) already carried theirs.
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The coverage walk (`aura-cli/tests/self_description.rs`) asserts the
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gate over all five vocabularies — the engine satisfies its own law.
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2. **Load seam (extension).** `load_crate` walks every charter-checked
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type id and gates the resolved schema's doc; a fault refuses the load
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naming type and rule (`ProjectError::UndescribedVocabularyEntry`).
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Field presence is compile-enforced for any crate built against the new
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core; the load gate catches the shape violations the compiler cannot
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see across the cdylib boundary — the empty-string alibi and the name
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restatement.
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3. **Register seam (data plane).** The registry's public `put_blueprint`
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parses the canonical bytes and requires a gate-passing doc on the root
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composite and on **every** nested composite (the walk recurses
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unconditionally — it does not stop at an unnamed one) — the gate guards
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the store boundary itself, so the register verb, every register-then-run
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sugar path, and any future caller are gated by construction. The
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op-script vocabulary carries the `doc` op as the builder `.doc(...)`'s
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twin ([C25](c25-role-model.md): a closed, typed metadata construct).
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Process/campaign documents take an additive-optional top-level
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`description`, gated only when present (`DocFault::BadDescription`).
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4. **Use seam (data plane, construction-time, #317).** The `use`
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construction op re-runs the SAME `gate_composite_docs` walk over a
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blueprint FETCHED from the store, before it ever splices into a new
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composition — a build-time gate on already-registered content, not a
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second write-path check. A doc-less entry (reachable only through the
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raw in-crate write survivor class, since `put_blueprint`'s own gate keeps
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the store clean going forward) cannot enter a NEW composition this way,
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but stays readable and runnable on its own — no retroactive invalidation,
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the same discipline the Forbids clause states for the register seam.
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**Scope at this record's writing (#321).** The gate walks five
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vocabularies — process/campaign blocks, metrics, tap slots, tap folds, and
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the closed node roster — plus the document `description` and the three
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seams above. Recorded residue, tracked as #321 and not silently claimed:
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`emit_vocabulary()` and `binding_column_vocabulary()` remain bare name
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arrays, and builder schemas outside the closed node roster (e.g. the
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internal tap recording sink) carry compile-required but shape-unwalked
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docs. Closing #321 widens the walk and removes this paragraph.
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**Id treatment.** Description fields that serialize participate in the
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content id and are blanked for the identity id, exactly as `Composite.doc`
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(`strip_debug_symbols`); `NodeSchema` is not serialized
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([C24](c24-blueprint-data.md)), so node docs move no id. Documents have no
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identity projection — their pair is: absent `description` is byte-identical
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to the field-less form (existing content ids stable), present participates.
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A single `aura exec` run's #311 trace-directory handle honours this same
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treatment (2026-07-27 audit fix): its digest hashes the blueprint's identity
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projection, not `manifest.topology_hash` (a content id), so a
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description-only blueprint edit mints no fresh directory for a bit-identical
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run (`aura-runner::run_identity_digest`, [C18](c18-registry.md)).
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**Forbids.** The engine evaluating description text — the gate is
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deterministic string shape, never content judgement (no freetext logic
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hole; C17 / domain invariant 10 untouched). A description influencing
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execution, identity ids, or determinism (C1). Retroactive invalidation of
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already-registered artifacts — the gate guards the write path only (the
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raw in-crate write survives as the store-mechanics and back-compat
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witness: pre-C29 doc-less entries stay readable). Machine-invented meaning
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lines — an authored text is corrected against the source, never weakened
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to an empty string or a name restatement.
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**Why.** The audience is headless LLM agents and scripts (#319 ruling),
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for whom the binary is the only always-present teacher. Field evidence
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2026-07-22 (#314): an agent holding only the release binary had to recover
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execution semantics and document schemas by CAS forensics — the removed
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failure class is exactly that forensic recovery.
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Rendering of the carried texts on the help/introspection surfaces shipped
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with #315; the agent bootstrap card was retired as superseded (#267 — the
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C29 surfaces themselves carry it); the fold introspection surface shipped
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with #310 and renders the fold-registry roster — labels exactly as the
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`--tap` selector accepts them, doc lines from the registry entries (#332).
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