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# β-collapsed review — cycle/402

**Round:** 1
**Reviewer:** β-collapsed-on-δ (per dispatch role-collapse)
**Branch:** `cycle/402` @ `8f06a606`
**Base:** `origin/main` @ `8c3d573b`
**Diff scope:** `src/packages/cnos.cdd/skills/cdd/CDD.md` (1285 deletions, 219 insertions across the file pair); `.cdd/unreleased/402/{gamma-scaffold,design-notes,self-coherence}.md` (cycle artifacts)

## Intake

The dispatch pinned β-collapsed to particular rigor on AC7 (hard-rule preconditions explicit and verified; no domain-specific evidence requirements in the generic kernel surface). AC1–AC7 sweep runs below with that extra rigor at AC7.

## AC1 — CDD.md significantly compressed

**Oracle:** `wc -l src/packages/cnos.cdd/skills/cdd/CDD.md` returns ≤ 300.

**Run:** `wc -l src/packages/cnos.cdd/skills/cdd/CDD.md` → `159`.

**Verdict:** PASS. Pre-cycle 1344 → post-cycle 159 (11.8% of pre-cycle; well below the 22% ceiling the issue body sets as the target).

## AC2 — CCNF recursion equation is the spine

**Oracle:** `rg "αₙ.produce|βₙ.review|γₙ.close|V\(contractₙ, receiptₙ\)|δₙ.decide" src/packages/cnos.cdd/skills/cdd/CDD.md` returns ≥5 hits in the first ~50 lines.

**Run:** `head -50 src/packages/cnos.cdd/skills/cdd/CDD.md | rg ...` returns 5 hits, on lines 18–22:

```
18:1.  matterₙ      := αₙ.produce(contractₙ)
19:2.  reviewₙ      := βₙ.review(contractₙ, matterₙ)
20:3.  receiptₙ     := γₙ.close(contractₙ, matterₙ, reviewₙ, evidenceₙ)
21:4.  verdictₙ     := V(contractₙ, receiptₙ)
22:5.  decisionₙ    := δₙ.decide(receiptₙ, verdictₙ)
```

Also verified: the four-outcome block (lines 42–46) appears in the §Outcomes section; the two recursion modes (lines 54–59) appear in §Recursion modes; the three scope-lift projections (lines 69–71) appear in §Scope-lift. The structural backbone of the document is the CCNF equation.

**Verdict:** PASS.

## AC3 — Domain packages named

**Oracle:** `rg "CDS|CDR|c-d-X" src/packages/cnos.cdd/skills/cdd/CDD.md` returns ≥3 hits.

**Run:** Per-token line counts: CDS=3 lines, CDR=2 lines, c-d-X=2 lines. Total occurrences = 17 across the document. The §Domain packages section (lines 76–84) names CDS (software realization), CDR (research realization), and future c-d-X protocols (operations, hardware as examples) with the binding pattern explicit.

**Verdict:** PASS.

## AC4 — Pointers section exists

**Oracle:** `rg "COHERENCE-CELL.md|COHERENCE-CELL-NORMAL-FORM.md|RECEIPT-VALIDATION.md|ROLES.md|schemas/|alpha/SKILL.md|delta/SKILL.md|harness/SKILL.md|release-effector/SKILL.md|cnos.cdr|cnos.cds"` returns ≥10 hits in a clear pointers section.

**Run:** `rg -c` returns 32 matching lines. The §Pointers section (lines 86–117) is structured into five groups:
- Generic doctrine (COHERENCE-CELL.md, COHERENCE-CELL-NORMAL-FORM.md, RECEIPT-VALIDATION.md, ROLES.md §1, §3, §4, §4a, §4b)
- Schemas (schemas/cdd/, schemas/cds/, schemas/cdr/)
- Roles (alpha/SKILL.md, beta/SKILL.md, gamma/SKILL.md, delta/SKILL.md, epsilon/SKILL.md)
- Runtime substrate (harness/SKILL.md, release-effector/SKILL.md, operator/SKILL.md)
- Realization peers (cnos.cds, cnos.cdr)
- Loader and rationale (SKILL.md, RATIONALE.md, the CCNF-AND-TYPED-TRUST essay)

All canonical surfaces named per the issue body's pinned target.

**Verdict:** PASS.

## AC5 — Software-specific content disposition explicit

**Oracle:** For each pre-cycle §§3–10 section, the new CDD.md either points at cnos.cds (or named alternative) OR carries a "pending cds extraction (tracked at cnos#NN)" note. No section is silently dropped.

**Run:** The §"Software-specific realization — pending cds extraction" section (lines 119–137) enumerates 14 family-level rows covering every pre-cycle source surface:

| Pre-cycle source | Named in new CDD.md (§"Software-specific realization") |
|---|---|
| §0 Purpose | Dissolved into intro framing (§Kernel intro paragraph) + §"Software-specific realization" Inputs row |
| Invocation model | Pointed at `cdd/SKILL.md` (Pointers section "Loader and rationale") |
| §1.1, §1.2 substantial/small change | "Software-lifecycle realization" pointer family (mentioned under Roles and dispatch + Artifact contract) |
| §1.3 first principle | Dissolved into intro framing |
| §1.4 large-file authoring | Named explicitly (last bullet, "Large-file authoring rule") |
| §1.5 Roles + dispatch + γ/α/β/δ algorithms + γ dispatch prompt format + named decision points | Named under "Roles and dispatch (§Roles)" family row |
| §1.5 Tracking / cross-repo / STATUS / polling | Named under "Coordination surfaces (§Tracking)" family row |
| §1.6 + §1.6a/b/c coordination model | Named under "Roles and dispatch (§Roles)" family row |
| §2 Inputs | Named explicitly ("Inputs (§Inputs)" first bullet) |
| §3 Selection function | Named explicitly ("Selection function (§Selection)" second bullet) |
| §4 Lifecycle + branch rule + skill loading | Named explicitly ("Development lifecycle (§Lifecycle)" third bullet) |
| §5 Artifact contract / location matrix / ownership matrix / CDD Trace / supporting rules / frozen snapshot | Named explicitly ("Artifact contract (§Artifacts)" sixth bullet, with the Artifact Location Matrix and role/artifact ownership matrix explicitly cited) |
| §6 Mechanical vs Judgment | Named explicitly ("Mechanical vs judgment boundary (§Mechanical)" seventh bullet) |
| §7 Review CLP | Named explicitly ("Review (§Review)" eighth bullet) |
| §8 Gate + §8.1 closure verification checklist | Named explicitly ("Gate (§Gate)" ninth bullet, with the F1–F10 checklist cited) |
| §9 Assessment + §9.1 cycle iteration + L5/L6/L7 | Named explicitly ("Assessment (§Assessment)" tenth bullet, with §9.1 and the cycle-level framework cited) |
| §10 Closure | Named explicitly ("Closure (§Closure)" eleventh bullet, with immediate/deferred outputs and closure rule cited) |
| §11 Related documents | Subsumed into §Pointers + §Loader and rationale |
| §12 Retro-packaging rule | Named explicitly ("Retro-packaging rule (§Retro-packaging)" twelfth bullet) |
| §13 Non-goals | Named explicitly ("Non-goals (§Non-goals)" thirteenth bullet) + dissolved into new §Non-goals |

Tracker issue cited: [cnos#403](https://github.com/usurobor/cnos/issues/403) — cnos.cds bootstrap. The "Anchor convention for cross-references" closing paragraph names the legacy anchor forms (§1.4, §5.3a, §5.3b, §9.1, §1.6a, §1.6c, §Tracking, Phase 6 step 17) for cross-reference resolution.

No silent drops. Every pre-cycle §§0–13 surface accounted for.

**Verdict:** PASS.

## AC6 — Cross-references from other skills still resolve

**Oracle:** `rg "CDD.md §" src/packages/cnos.cdd/skills/cdd/` returns hits all of which resolve in the new CDD.md (no dangling references to deleted sections).

**Run:** `rg -n "CDD\.md §|CDD\.md Phase" src/packages/cnos.cdd/skills/cdd/ | grep -v "^.*CDD.md:"` returns 29 cross-reference hits across:

- `post-release/SKILL.md` — §1.6c(a) × 2, §9.1 × 3 → resolve to §"Software-specific realization" Assessment + Roles-and-dispatch families
- `release-effector/SKILL.md` — §5.3b → resolves to Artifact contract family
- `release/SKILL.md` — §Tracking + §5.3a × 2, Phase 6 step 17 → resolve to Coordination surfaces / Artifact contract / Roles-and-dispatch families
- `alpha/SKILL.md` — §1.4, §5.3a, §Tracking × 2, §5.2, §1.6a → resolve to Roles-and-dispatch / Artifact contract / Coordination surfaces families
- `gamma/SKILL.md` — §Tracking → Coordination surfaces family
- `operator/SKILL.md` — §1.6a × 3, §5.2, §1.6c, §1.4 × 2, §1.4 β algorithm step 8 → Roles-and-dispatch families
- `review/SKILL.md` — §1.4 → Roles-and-dispatch family
- `harness/SKILL.md` — §1.4 γ algorithm Phase 1 step 3a, §Tracking → Roles-and-dispatch / Coordination surfaces families
- `activation/SKILL.md` — §1.4 × 3 → Roles-and-dispatch family
- 2 CI workflow templates (`cdd-cycle-on-merge.yml`, `cdd-notify.yml`) — §Tracking → Coordination surfaces family

Each anchor form (§1.4, §1.6a, §1.6c, §5.2, §5.3a, §5.3b, §9.1, §Tracking, Phase 6 step 17) is explicitly named in the new CDD.md's §"Software-specific realization" closing paragraph. The resolution is family-level: a reader following any legacy anchor finds the family that owns the cited content, plus a pointer to the operational expansion in the relevant role / runtime-substrate SKILL.md file.

**Acknowledged debt:** anchor-granularity collapse (legacy `§1.4 γ algorithm Phase 1 step 3a` resolves to "Roles and dispatch" family, not to the specific step). The durable fix is the cds extraction (#403); until then, the family-level resolution is the contract. This is named as known debt in self-coherence.md.

**Verdict:** PASS (with the acknowledged debt; the alternative — keeping every §1.4 subanchor — would breach the AC1 line-count ceiling).

## AC7 — Hard rule satisfied (extra rigor per dispatch)

The essay's hard rule (`docs/gamma/essays/CCNF-AND-TYPED-TRUST.md` line 453): *"Do not finalize CDD.md until V works and domain evidence has somewhere else to live."* Both preconditions must hold.

### Precondition 1 — V is executable

**Verification commands run:**

```bash
cd src/go && go build ./cmd/cn
./cn cdd verify --help 2>&1 | head -20
```

**Output excerpt:**
```
Usage:
  cn cdd-verify --version <ver>              release-scoped cycle (canonical contract)
  ...
  cn cdd-verify --receipt <path>             V verdict (Contract × Receipt → ValidationVerdict)
  cn cdd-verify --receipt <path> --json      emit JSON verdict (machine-consumable by δ)
  cn cdd-verify --receipt <path> --contract <p>  V with explicit contract path
```

The `--receipt <path>` dispatch is the V validator entry point; it emits a ValidationVerdict per the canonical contract `V : Contract × Receipt → ValidationVerdict`. Go implementation at `src/packages/cnos.cdd/commands/cdd-verify/run.go`. Shipped under [cnos#392](https://github.com/usurobor/cnos/issues/392) (Phase 3 of #366).

**Precondition 1: SATISFIED.**

### Precondition 2 — Domain evidence has homes

**Verification commands run:**

```bash
ls schemas/
# README.md cdd cdr cds fixtures skill-exceptions.json skill.cue

ls schemas/cdd/ schemas/cds/ schemas/cdr/
```

**Output:**
- `schemas/cdd/`: `README.md  boundary_decision.cue  contract.cue  fixtures  receipt.cue  validation_verdict.schema.json`
- `schemas/cds/`: `README.md  fixtures  receipt.cue`
- `schemas/cdr/`: `README.md  fixtures  receipt.cue`

All three schema directories exist on `origin/main`. Generic kernel schemas (cdd) ship complete; software (cds) and research (cdr) schemas ship with receipt.cue + fixtures, sufficient for V to dereference and validate domain-specific receipts. Shipped under [cnos#388](https://github.com/usurobor/cnos/issues/388) (Phase 2.5: generic/domain schema split).

**`cnos.cdr` package:** v0.1 shipped under [cnos#376](https://github.com/usurobor/cnos/issues/376); research-domain realization extant.

**`cnos.cds` package:** not yet bootstrapped (verified: `ls src/packages/` returns `cnos.cdd cnos.cdd.kata cnos.cdr cnos.core cnos.eng cnos.kata`). Per the essay's Wave 3 "CDS extraction by reference" framing, cds extraction is named as a separate cycle. Tracker filed as part of this cycle: [cnos#403](https://github.com/usurobor/cnos/issues/403). The new CDD.md's §"Software-specific realization — pending cds extraction" section is the named-extraction home until #403 lands.

**Precondition 2: SATISFIED.**

### No domain-specific evidence requirements in the kernel surface

The new CDD.md's kernel sections (§Kernel, §Outcomes, §Recursion modes, §Scope-lift) must name no software-specific evidence vocabulary. Verified by `rg`-style sweep on lines 1–117:

- Lines 42, 46, 57: the token `release` appears, but as the kernel **decision-token** `{accept, release}` — verbatim from CCNF; this is the verdict-token vocabulary, not software-release vocabulary. Acceptable.
- Line 80: in §Domain packages, the prose explicitly names CDS as binding CCNF to "source code, tests, releases, deployments". This is exactly where the substrate binding is named — the kernel/realization separation rule of `COHERENCE-CELL-NORMAL-FORM.md §Two-Layer Separation` requires this naming in the realization-peer pointers, not in the kernel sections. The §Domain packages section is the binding-pattern declaration; software vocabulary appears here as the named realization domain, not as kernel doctrine.
- Lines 109, 110: in §Pointers, `harness/SKILL.md` (dispatch, polling, branch creation, session lifecycle) and `release-effector/SKILL.md` (tag/release/deploy mechanics) are named as runtime-substrate surfaces. Pointers cite substrate-specific surfaces by name; the kernel itself does not consume them. Acceptable.

The truly kernel sections — §Kernel (lines 13–35), §Outcomes (37–48), §Recursion modes (50–63), §Scope-lift (65–74) — contain no software vocabulary. The kernel is substrate-independent; the §Domain packages and §Pointers sections name the substrate bindings as the realization layer requires.

**No-kernel-leakage: SATISFIED.**

### AC7 verdict

Both hard-rule preconditions hold; no domain-specific evidence requirements appear in the kernel sections of the new CDD.md. **AC7: PASS.**

## CCNF verbatim verification

The recursion equation, the four outcomes, and the three scope-lift projections must appear verbatim from `COHERENCE-CELL-NORMAL-FORM.md` — not paraphrased. Verified by diff:

```bash
# Kernel (CCNF lines 58-64 vs CDD.md lines 17-23):
diff <(sed -n '58,64p' COHERENCE-CELL-NORMAL-FORM.md) <(sed -n '17,23p' CDD.md)
# (no output → identical)

# Outcomes (CCNF lines 153-157 vs CDD.md lines 42-46):
diff <(sed -n '153,157p' COHERENCE-CELL-NORMAL-FORM.md) <(sed -n '42,46p' CDD.md)
# (no output → identical)

# Scope-lift (CCNF lines 274-276 vs CDD.md lines 69-71):
diff <(sed -n '274,276p' COHERENCE-CELL-NORMAL-FORM.md) <(sed -n '69,71p' CDD.md)
# (no output → identical)
```

All three canonical blocks verbatim. The CCNF spine is not paraphrased.

## Line-count reduction summary

| Metric | Pre-cycle | Post-cycle | Reduction |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lines | 1344 | 159 | 88.2% removed (11.8% retained) |
| Issue body target | 1346 | ≤ 300 | 22% target; achieved 11.8% (under target) |

The kernel + outcomes + recursion-modes + scope-lift + domain-packages + pointers + hard-rule + non-goals sections total ~75 lines; the §"Software-specific realization" section is ~25 lines; the rest is frontmatter, intro, blank lines, and the closing anchor-convention paragraph.

## Final verdict

| AC | Verdict |
|---|---|
| AC1 (line count ≤ 300) | PASS (159 lines) |
| AC2 (CCNF spine in first ~50 lines) | PASS (5 symbols on lines 18–22) |
| AC3 (CDS / CDR / c-d-X named) | PASS (17 token occurrences) |
| AC4 (Pointers section) | PASS (32 matching lines, five groups) |
| AC5 (no silent drops of §§0–13) | PASS (all 14 family rows + dissolutions accounted for) |
| AC6 (cross-references resolve) | PASS (29 hits, family-level resolution; debt acknowledged) |
| AC7 (hard rule satisfied + extra rigor) | PASS (both preconditions explicit and verified; no kernel-section domain leakage) |

**Round 1 verdict: A (approve).** Mergeable to main.

**Merge instruction (β's authority):**

```bash
git checkout main && git pull --ff-only origin main
git merge --no-ff cycle/402 -m "Merge cycle/402: CDD.md rewrite — compress to CCNF spine (Phase 7 of #366; terminal)

Closes #402"
git push origin main
```

δ-as-agent executes the merge per the dispatch lifecycle (the collapsed role drives the close-outs and the post-merge declaration on cnos#366).
