# Web4 Whitepaper - Publisher Context

**Purpose**: This document provides complete context for the Publisher subagent responsible for maintaining the Web4 whitepaper.

**Last Updated**: 2026-06-10
**Whitepaper Status**: Active Development

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## 1. Whitepaper Purpose & Philosophy

### What Web4 Is

Web4 is a **trust-native distributed intelligence architecture** built on Synchronism principles. Its core thesis:

> Trust should be native to digital infrastructure, not bolted on. Identity, context, and value should flow together through Linked Context Tokens.

### Key Concepts

| Concept | Definition |
|---------|------------|
| **LCT** | Linked Context Token - verifiable digital presence |
| **T3** | Trust Tensor - 3 root dimensions (Talent/Training/Temperament) with fractal RDF sub-dimensions |
| **V3** | Value Tensor - 3 root dimensions (Valuation/Veracity/Validity) with fractal RDF sub-dimensions |
| **R6** | Rules + Role + Request + Reference + Resource → Result |
| **MRH** | Markov Relevancy Horizon - context boundaries |
| **ATP/ADP** | Allocation Transfer/Discharge Packets - value flow |

### Relationship to Synchronism

- **Synchronism** = Physics/philosophy (why coherence matters)
- **Web4** = Protocol/implementation (how to build trust-native systems)

Web4 inherits Synchronism's coherence framework but presents it in **domain-appropriate language** for enterprise/technical audiences.

### Audience

Primary: Engineers, architects, enterprise decision-makers
Secondary: Researchers, protocol designers, standards bodies

---

## 2. Section Structure

### Current Organization

```
sections/
├── 00-executive-summary/        # Overview and key value propositions
├── 00-introduction/             # Web4 vision and positioning
├── 01-title-authors/            # Document metadata
├── 02-glossary/                 # Canonical terminology
├── 03-part1-defining-web4/      # What Web4 is and isn't
├── 04-part2-foundational-concepts/
│   ├── Linked Context Tokens (LCTs)
│   ├── Dictionary Entities
│   ├── Trust Through Witnessing
│   └── Markov Relevancy Horizons
├── 05-part3-value-trust-mechanics/
│   ├── ATP/ADP Cycles
│   ├── T3 Trust Tensor
│   ├── V3 Value Tensor
│   └── Compression-Trust Dynamics
├── 06-part4-implications-vision/
│   ├── Privacy and Sovereignty
│   ├── Governance Models
│   └── Economic Implications
├── 07-part5-memory/             # Memory as temporal sensor
├── 08-part6-blockchain-typology/
│   ├── Four-Chain Hierarchy
│   ├── Fractal Lightchain
│   └── Compost/Leaf/Stem/Root
├── 09-part7-implementation-details/
├── 09-part7-implementation-examples/
├── 10-part8-web4-context/       # Integration with existing systems
├── 11-conclusion/
├── 12-references/
└── 13-appendices/
```

### Section Responsibilities

| Section | Purpose | Update Frequency |
|---------|---------|------------------|
| Executive Summary | Current state | Every major update |
| Glossary (02) | Canonical terms | Critical - rarely change |
| Foundational Concepts (04) | Core protocol | Stable - major changes only |
| Value-Trust Mechanics (05) | How it works | Updates with new mechanisms |
| Implementation (09) | How to build | Frequent - with new code |
| Memory (07) | Temporal sensing | Updates with HRM progress |
| Blockchain (08) | Chain architecture | Stable - major changes only |

---

## 3. Inclusion Criteria

### Content SHOULD be integrated when:

**Protocol Specification (High Priority)**
- New protocol element implemented in code
- Specification clarified based on implementation experience
- Security analysis identifies needed changes
- Interoperability requirements documented

**Implementation Evidence (Medium Priority)**
- hardbound-core implements new feature
- web4-core adds new module
- Python bindings expose new capability
- Real TPM/hardware integration achieved

**Architecture Clarity (Lower Priority)**
- Diagram or explanation improves understanding
- Example clarifies abstract concept
- Cross-reference connects related concepts

### Content should NOT be integrated when:

**Belongs Elsewhere**
- Physics/philosophy → Goes in Synchronism whitepaper
- SAGE-specific → Goes in HRM documentation
- Enterprise features → Goes in Hardbound documentation

**Too Early**
- Code not yet written
- Design still evolving
- No validation of approach

**Quality Issues**
- Adds complexity without proportional value
- Contradicts existing specification
- Uses non-canonical terminology

---

## 4. Terminology Protection

### CRITICAL: Canonical Terms

These terms are foundational. NEVER redefine:

| Term | Canonical Meaning | WRONG Expansions |
|------|-------------------|------------------|
| **LCT** | Linked Context Token | "Lifecycle-Continuous Trust" ❌ |
| **MRH** | Markov Relevancy Horizon | (none documented) |
| **T3** | Trust Tensor (3 root dims + fractal RDF sub-dimensions) | "Triple Trust" ❌ |
| **V3** | Value Tensor (3 root dims + fractal RDF sub-dimensions) | "Triple Value" ❌ |
| **R6** | Rules/Role/Request/Reference/Resource/Result | "R6 Protocol" (ok as shorthand) |
| **ATP** | Allocation Transfer Packet | "Audit Trail Point" ❌, "Attention Transfer Packet" ❌ |
| **ADP** | Allocation Discharge Packet | "Alignment Discharge Protocol" ❌ |

### Historical Drift Incidents

| Date | Term | Wrong | Correct | Lesson |
|------|------|-------|---------|--------|
| 2026-01-03 | LCT | "Lifecycle-Continuous Trust" | Linked Context Token | Always check glossary |
| 2026-01-23 | ATP | "Audit Trail Point" | Allocation Transfer Packet | Hardbound uses different terms |

### Resolution: Hardbound vs Web4 Terminology

Hardbound (enterprise product) uses slightly different framing:
- "Audit bundle" instead of "ATP record"
- "Team ledger" instead of "society blockchain"
- "Policy engine" for governance rules

These are **presentation differences**, not protocol differences. The underlying Web4 protocol terms remain canonical.

---

## 5. Build Process

### Quick Build

```bash
cd /mnt/c/exe/projects/ai-agents/web4/whitepaper

# Generate markdown
./make-md.sh

# Generate PDF
./make-pdf.sh

# Generate web version
./make-web.sh
```

### Build Outputs

| Script | Output | Destination |
|--------|--------|-------------|
| `make-md.sh` | `build/WEB4_Whitepaper_Complete.md` | Local + docs/ |
| `make-pdf.sh` | `build/WEB4_Whitepaper.pdf` | Local |
| `make-web.sh` | `build/web/` | metalinxx.io |

### Build Verification

After any change:
1. Run `./make-md.sh` - Check for errors
2. Run `./make-web.sh` - Verify navigation
3. Spot-check combined markdown for coherence
4. If PDF needed: `./make-pdf.sh`

---

## 6. Recent Changes

### 2026-06-11: Publisher Maintenance - No-Change Check (manual pass fills the SEVENTH straight web4 autonomous gap; 7 commits since 06-10, all C-series/hub, none touch whitepaper scope; hub marked reference-POC with advanced development going PRIVATE — the PAIRED-CHANNELS watch signal weakens)
- **Manual run filling today's autonomous-Publisher gap.** Today's autonomous Synchronism Publisher run (report `2026-06-11-publisher-report.md`, HEARTBEAT/HOLD — first quiet day after 7 consecutive bursts, core stable at S689) again logged **"Web4: Not checked"** — now the **seventh consecutive autonomous gap** (06-04/05/06/07/09/10/11; 06-08 was the manual name-sweep catch). The Synchronism side DID need manual work this pass — S688-S689 section integration, committed `4c763b5f` — handled in the same maintenance run.
- **No whitepaper-source change since the 06-07 name sweep.** Last commit touching `whitepaper/sections` *or* `docs/whitepaper-web/` remains `ca27f8a` (2026-06-07). **7 web4 commits since the 06-10 check (`e5c2544..HEAD`); none touch `whitepaper/` at all.** The two familiar out-of-scope streams plus one notable governance event: (a) **C-series delta re-audits now sweeping the R6/R7 action-framework pair** — C44/C45 reputation-computation (prior C15, `#304`/`#305`), C46/C47 r7-framework (prior C14, `#306`/`#309`), C48/C49 r6-framework (prior C12, `#310`/`#311`) — all spec-internal wire-shape/consistency work below the whitepaper's conceptual R6 framing (Part 5); (b) hub `find_members` semantic member discovery (`#307`); and (c) **`2449b53` — the hub is marked "reference POC; advanced development continues privately."**
- **Verification (publisher):** rebuilt with `./make-md.sh` (clean, 3796 lines / 252K — identical line/byte profile to the 06-09/06-10 rebuilds) and diffed against the committed `docs/whitepaper-web/WEB4_Whitepaper_Complete.md`. `git diff --ignore-all-space` reduces to **exactly one line — the regeneration timestamp footer** (`Generated: 2026-05-19` → `2026-06-11`); the rest is CRLF→LF only. Source ↔ published artifact remain **content-identical**. Did **not** commit the rebuild (pure CRLF/timestamp churn); reverted both `docs/whitepaper-web/` and `build/` working copies, left the committed artifact canonical.
- **No term drift.** Drift-grep over live `sections/*` (excluding `*/archive/`) for the documented wrong expansions (ATP: Alignment/Attention Transfer, Attestation/Attention Token, Audit Trail Point; LCT: Lightweight Coordination/Cryptographic, Lifecycle-Continuous; T3/V3: Triple Trust/Value; ADP: Alignment Discharge) returns only the known benign false positive `08-part6-blockchain-typology/index.md:38` "Lightweight **cryptographic signatures**" (legitimate phrase, not the LCT wrong-expansion). Zero real hits.
- **Verdict:** clean no-change pass — no integration, no commit beyond this log entry. Next genuine substantive integration trigger unchanged: a registry publish (**v0.28.0 → PyPI**) or **§7.7 reaching `status: Normative`**. Carry-forward watch items: §7.7 promotion gate; inter-society-protocol Part 6/Part 8 integration; RDF `*.ttl` audit still outstanding; the three coupled canonicity design-Qs (BirthCertificate shape, ID scheme, handshake shape). **PAIRED-CHANNELS watch item — character change per `2449b53`:** the hub arc that was maturing toward possible protocol-normative graduation (sealed-channel E2E, PolicyEntity-on-reads, MRH-style read scoping) is now a *reference POC* with advanced development moving to a private repo. Consequence: the public commit stream will **no longer signal** the graduation moment; the watch shifts from "hub implementation activity" to **`web4-standard/` spec changes only** (a new normative spec doc or §7.7-style status flip is now the only public surface where LCT-mediated channels + chapter-law-gated reads could land). The watch item stays open but its trigger narrows.
- **Surface instinct:** seventh consecutive autonomous-gap data point for the standing "web4 needs its own content-hash trigger" recommendation — the streak is no longer news; what is new is that `2449b53` *strengthens the same argument from the other side*. With hub development going private, the public repo's signal-to-noise improves (fewer out-of-scope hub commits), but the residual public stream is now almost purely C-series spec churn — which a content-hash trigger on `whitepaper/sections/*` + `docs/whitepaper-web/*` would correctly ignore, and which a human skimming the commit log might misread as "nothing whitepaper-relevant ever happens here." The trigger recommendation stands; the hub-privatization event also suggests adding `web4-standard/**/status:` field changes to the trigger surface, since that is now the only public path by which the PAIRED-CHANNELS primitive could reach whitepaper scope.

### 2026-06-10: Publisher Maintenance - No-Change Check (manual pass fills the SIXTH straight web4 autonomous gap; 21 commits since 06-09, all C-series/hub, none touch whitepaper scope; source ↔ published artifact content-identical)
- **Manual run filling today's autonomous-Publisher gap.** Today's autonomous Synchronism Publisher run (report `2026-06-10-publisher-report.md`, 7th-burst-in-9-days; S689 reframed the cluster no-go as a quantified instance of Milgrom 2005 non-locality, REC-037 held at 0.98) again logged **"Web4: Not checked"** — now the **sixth consecutive day** (06-04/05/06/07/09/10; 06-08 was the manual name-sweep catch). The Synchronism side needed no publisher whitepaper edits this run (no new operator commits since the `e7ff7c35` integration + `0708c181` deploy; its own report confirms — S689's locality classification table was correctly held to the operator queue as a possible publication path, not auto-integrated).
- **No whitepaper-source change since the 06-07 name sweep.** Last commit touching `whitepaper/sections` *or* `docs/whitepaper-web/` remains `ca27f8a` (2026-06-07). **21 web4 commits since the 06-09 check (`c63f174..HEAD`); a `git diff --name-only` confirms NONE touch `whitepaper/` at all.** All are the two dominant out-of-scope streams: (a) the **C-series spec internal-consistency audits** — C41 mrh-tensors remediation (`#290`), C42 delta re-audit of t3-v3-tensors (`#291`) + C43 remediation applying 13 findings (`#299`), C44 delta re-audit of reputation-computation (prior C15, `#304`); and (b) the **hub `lct-mcp-as-smart-contract` arc** (proposal v0.1→v0.3, PolicyEntity-on-reads chapter-law gating `#296`, MRH-style read scoping `#297`, member↔hub + external→citizen E2E sealed-channel endpoints `#295`/`#298`, free-text member profiles `#294`, chapter→hub rename `#293`, RestState/sealed-channel E2E harness `#302`, external-reachability smoke `#303`). Spec wire-shape deltas sit below the whitepaper's conceptual MRH/tensor framing; the hub work is implementation, not protocol-whitepaper content. None reach a whitepaper integration trigger.
- **Verification (publisher):** rebuilt with `./make-md.sh` (clean, 3796 lines / 252K — identical line/byte profile to the 06-09 rebuild) and diffed the regenerated artifact against the committed `docs/whitepaper-web/WEB4_Whitepaper_Complete.md`. `git diff --ignore-all-space` reduces to **exactly one line — the regeneration timestamp footer** (`Generated: 2026-05-19` → `2026-06-10`); the rest is CRLF→LF only. Source ↔ published artifact remain **content-identical**. Did **not** commit the rebuild (pure CRLF/timestamp churn — the merge-conflict-breeding kind); reverted both `docs/whitepaper-web/` and `build/` working copies, left the committed artifact canonical.
- **No term drift.** Drift-grep over live `sections/*` (excluding `*/archive/`) for the documented wrong expansions (ATP: Alignment/Attention Transfer, Attestation/Attention Token, Audit Trail Point; LCT: Lightweight Coordination/Cryptographic, Lifecycle-Continuous; T3/V3: Triple Trust/Value; ADP: Alignment Discharge) returns only the known benign false positive `08-part6-blockchain-typology/index.md:38` "Lightweight **cryptographic signatures**" (legitimate phrase, not the LCT wrong-expansion). Zero real hits.
- **Verdict:** clean no-change pass — no integration, no commit beyond this log entry. Next genuine substantive integration trigger unchanged: a registry publish (**v0.28.0 → PyPI**) or **§7.7 reaching `status: Normative`**. Carry-forward watch items: §7.7 promotion gate; inter-society-protocol Part 6/Part 8 integration; RDF `*.ttl` audit still outstanding; the three coupled canonicity design-Qs (BirthCertificate shape, ID scheme, handshake shape); **PAIRED-CHANNELS / lct-mcp-as-smart-contract** — the hub arc is maturing fast (sealed-channel E2E + chapter-law-gated reads now have test harnesses), so watch whether the LCT-mediated channel + PolicyEntity-on-reads primitive graduates from hub-implementation to protocol-normative; if so, Part 4 (Trust Through Witnessing) / Part 6 may warrant integration. Not yet (still hub code + proposal-stage). New cross-repo item from today's Synchronism report: **S689 locality-classification table** flagged by the autonomous Publisher as a citable artifact / publication path — Synchronism-side, no web4 whitepaper relevance, noted only for cross-track awareness.
- **Surface instinct:** sixth consecutive autonomous-gap data point for the standing "web4 needs its own content-hash trigger" recommendation. The signal is now unambiguous: across 06-04→06-10, every autonomous run skipped web4, while the web4 commit log ran hot (21 commits in one day-gap here) — but **100% of that volume was C-series/hub, 0% whitepaper-scope.** This is exactly the profile a content-hash trigger on `whitepaper/sections/*` + `docs/whitepaper-web/*` would handle correctly: silent on the high-volume out-of-scope streams, firing only on the rare real edit (like the 06-07 name sweep that landed after the morning check). A fixed daily clock keeps missing; an event trigger would fire exactly when it matters.

### 2026-06-09: Publisher Maintenance - No-Change Check (manual pass fills the FIFTH straight web4 autonomous gap; no whitepaper-source commit since the 06-07 name sweep; source ↔ published artifact content-identical)
- **Manual run filling today's autonomous-Publisher gap.** Today's autonomous Synchronism Publisher run (report `2026-06-09-publisher-report.md`, 6th-burst-in-8-days; integrated S675-S687 via operator commit `e7ff7c35` + S688 N_corr-ladder sign-independence) logged **"Web4: Not checked"** — now the **fifth consecutive day** (06-04/05/06/07/09; 06-08 was the manual name-sweep catch). The Synchronism side needed no publisher edits this run (operator did Phase 1; its own report confirms).
- **No whitepaper-source change since the 06-07 name sweep.** Last commit touching `whitepaper/sections` *or* `docs/whitepaper-web/` remains `ca27f8a` (2026-06-07, the contact-handle→repo-link sweep already verified in the 06-08 entry). All web4 commits since are **out of whitepaper scope**: C39/C40 delta re-audits of `web4-standard/core-spec/{society-roles,mrh-tensors}.md` (`#288`/`#289` — spec internal-consistency, wire-shape deltas below the whitepaper's conceptual MRH/tensor framing), the hub **PAIRED-CHANNELS** sprints A-F (X25519 ECDH → ChaCha20-Poly1305 E2E → forward secrecy — hub implementation, not protocol-whitepaper content), and a hub discovery endpoint. None reach a whitepaper integration trigger.
- **Verification (publisher):** rebuilt with `./make-md.sh` (clean, 3796 lines / 252K) and diffed the regenerated artifact against the committed `docs/whitepaper-web/WEB4_Whitepaper_Complete.md` — **content byte-identical apart from (a) CRLF→LF line endings and (b) the regeneration timestamp footer** (`Generated: 2026-05-19` → `2026-06-09`; the 06-07 in-place patch left the 05-19 footer). `git diff --ignore-all-space` reduces to that single footer line. Did **not** commit the rebuild (pure CRLF/timestamp churn — the merge-conflict-breeding kind); reverted working copy, left the committed artifact canonical. `build/` left transient.
- **No term drift.** Drift-grep over live `sections/*` (excluding `*/archive/`) for the documented wrong expansions (ATP: Alignment/Attention Transfer, Attestation/Attention Token, Audit Trail Point; LCT: Lightweight Coordination/Cryptographic, Lifecycle-Continuous; T3/V3: Triple Trust/Value; ADP: Alignment Discharge) returns only the known benign false positive `08-part6-blockchain-typology/index.md:38` "Lightweight **cryptographic signatures**" (legitimate phrase, not the LCT wrong-expansion). Zero real hits.
- **Verdict:** clean no-change pass — no integration, no commit beyond this log entry. Next genuine substantive integration trigger unchanged from 06-08: a registry publish (**v0.28.0 → PyPI**) or **§7.7 reaching `status: Normative`**. Carry-forward watch items: §7.7 promotion gate; inter-society-protocol Part 6/Part 8 integration; RDF `*.ttl` audit still outstanding; the three coupled canonicity design-Qs (BirthCertificate shape, ID scheme, handshake shape). **PAIRED-CHANNELS** added as a new watch item — if the LCT-mediated paired-channel primitive stabilizes and graduates from hub-implementation to protocol-normative, Part 4 (Trust Through Witnessing) / Part 6 may warrant integration; not yet (still sprint-stage hub code).
- **Surface instinct:** the "web4 needs its own content-hash trigger" recommendation now has a *fifth* consecutive autonomous-gap data point. The 06-08 entry showed a real edit can arrive as collateral in a repo-wide hygiene pass and land after the morning check; today reinforces the under-coverage half (autonomous skips web4 on every Synchronism-burst day, and bursts are now the norm — 6 of last 8 days). A fixed daily clock keeps missing; an event-trigger on `whitepaper/sections/*` + `docs/whitepaper-web/*` content-hash change would fire exactly when it matters and stay silent (correctly) on the C-series/hub streams that dominate the commit log but never touch whitepaper scope.

### 2026-06-08: Publisher Maintenance - REAL CHANGE (no-change streak ends at 17): name-reference sweep edited whitepaper source + published artifact (contact-handle → repo-link only; no protocol/term content change)
- **The 17-consecutive-no-change streak ends here — but with a benign change, not a substantive integration.** A name-reference sweep (`ca27f8a`, 2026-06-07 15:58 PDT, **after** the 06-07 no-change check at 04:34) edited three whitepaper source sections plus the published artifact as part of a repo-wide 21-file pass removing contact handles (`dp@metalinxx.io` / LinkedIn) in favor of project-repository routing, per dp's discrimination rule (remove name-dropping/pure-contact; keep proven participation/attribution). Whitepaper-scope edits:
  - `sections/00-introduction/index.md` — "please contact: 📩 **dp@metalinxx.io**" → "please reach out via the [project repository](https://github.com/dp-web4/web4)".
  - `sections/11-conclusion/index.md` — "engage at [dp@metalinxx.io]" → "engage via the [project repository]".
  - `sections/12-references/index.md` — "Dennis Palatov: dp@metalinxx.io" → "Metalinxx Inc.: via the [project repository]".
  - `docs/whitepaper-web/WEB4_Whitepaper_Complete.md` — the published artifact was **manually patched in place** (not regenerated): it retains its `Generated: 2026-05-19` footer and is now **255069 bytes** (was the long-frozen 254811). This updates the byte-size baseline that prior no-change passes tracked.
- **Verification (publisher):** rebuilt the artifact from current source with `./make-md.sh` and diffed against the committed `docs/whitepaper-web/` copy — **content is byte-identical apart from (a) CRLF→LF line endings and (b) the regeneration timestamp footer.** So source ↔ published artifact are consistent in content; the name-sweep edits are correctly reflected in both. Did **not** commit the rebuild (it would have been pure CRLF/timestamp churn — the kind that breeds merge conflicts here); reverted the working copy and left the committed 255069 artifact as canonical. `build/` is transient and left untouched.
- **No term drift.** Drift-grep for the documented wrong expansions (ATP: Alignment/Attention Transfer, Attestation/Attention Token, Audit Trail Point; LCT: Lightweight Coordination/Cryptographic, Lifecycle-Continuous; T3: Triple Trust; V3: Triple Value; ADP: Alignment Discharge) across live `sections/*` (excluding `*/archive/`) returns **zero hits** this pass — the recurring `08-part6-blockchain-typology/index.md:38` "Lightweight cryptographic signatures" false positive did not even surface under the literal patterns.
- **Verdict:** real-but-benign whitepaper change, already committed and internally consistent — **no further integration or rebuild needed.** The change is contact-routing only; it touches no protocol primitive, no canonical term, no spec content. Next genuine substantive integration trigger unchanged: a registry publish (v0.28.0 → PyPI) or §7.7 reaching `status: Normative`. Carry-forward watch items: presence-protocol DEFER (C38 delta re-audit landed 2026-06-08, `#284` — spec-internal, no whitepaper relevance); §7.7 promotion gate; inter-society-protocol Part 6/Part 8 integration; v0.28.0 → PyPI trigger; RDF `*.ttl` audit still outstanding; the three coupled canonicity design-Qs (BirthCertificate shape, ID scheme, handshake shape).
- **Surface instinct:** the standing "web4 needs its own trigger" recommendation gains a second data point of a different kind. For 17 passes the risk was *under*-coverage (autonomous run skips web4 on Synchronism-burst days). This pass shows the complementary blind spot: a *real* whitepaper edit (the name sweep) arrived not through the C-series spec stream the trigger-watchers were watching, but as collateral in a repo-wide operator hygiene pass — and it landed in the same-day window **after** the morning no-change check, so an event-trigger on `whitepaper/sections/*` touch would have caught it while a fixed daily-snapshot cadence nearly missed it (only the byte-size re-check surfaced it). Reinforces: fire the web4 publisher check on `whitepaper/sections/*` content-hash change, not on a fixed daily clock or on C-series activity.

### 2026-06-07: Publisher Maintenance - No-Change Check (C-series enters a DELTA RE-audit loop on the canonical-equation primitives — C34 atp-adp-cycle, C35 mcp-protocol, C36 multi-device-lct-binding; the re-audits now report SUPERSEDED-prior and remediation-introduced findings, i.e. the instrument is auditing the churn of its own prior remediation; seventeenth consecutive no-change pass; manual pass fills the FOURTH straight web4 autonomous gap)
- **Manual run filling today's autonomous-Publisher gap.** Today's autonomous Publisher run (Synchronism `aaf369c1`, S686 4th-reactive-burst) did its full Phase 0/Phase 1 sweep and logged **"Web4: Not checked"** — now the **fourth consecutive day** (06-04/06-05/06-06/06-07). (Synchronism side: whitepaper source unchanged since `67ececf5` 2026-05-28, build aligned at 540569 md / 700102 pdf dated 2026-05-28; today's S686 item — the γ=2/√N_corr **sign-inversion** surfacing S676's implicit *Reading A* commitment, and the Reading-A-vs-Reading-B fork at the C ontology layer — was correctly held to the **operator queue** by the autonomous run (it made "no new publisher edits"; REC-037 readiness **held at 0.98**, invariant under either Reading since the galaxy regime N_corr=1 is the swap-identity fixed point). Choosing a Reading is operator/coordinator work, not whitepaper integration.) Four web4 commits since the 2026-06-06 check (`#277`–`#280`), all the same C-series internal-consistency stream. **None touch `whitepaper/` at all** (verified: no source-section commit since `42e3e47`, 2026-05-19; published artifact `docs/whitepaper-web/WEB4_Whitepaper_Complete.md` and `build/WEB4_Whitepaper_Complete.md` are **byte-identical at 254811 bytes / 2026-05-19** — `cmp` clean, no rebuild needed). The four:
  - **C34 atp-adp-cycle.md — remediation** (#277, `f854ef0`, resolve 9 autonomous-actionable). Closes the autonomous half of the C34 delta re-audit logged 2026-06-06 (#276, which held 9/9 prior C11 remediations with zero regression). ATP/ADP is a canonical-equation primitive (Part 3), but the 9 resolved items are internal-consistency / wire-shape deltas, not redefinitions of the ATP/ADP concept the whitepaper enumerates. No whitepaper relevance.
  - **C35 mcp-protocol.md — DELTA RE-audit** (#278, `e2ae951`, **9/16 prior findings SUPERSEDED incl 6/7 HIGH**; 14 new confirmed → #279, `3710c6f`, resolve 12 autonomous-actionable). mcp-protocol is the I/O-membrane primitive (the `MCP` term in the canonical equation), last fully audited earlier in the C-series. **Structurally notable: this is the first re-audit to report a large SUPERSEDED-prior fraction (9/16, including 6 of 7 HIGH)** — i.e. intervening remediation has already overtaken more than half the prior findings, so the re-audit is now measuring the *churn rate* of the spec under continuous remediation, not just residual defects. The 14 new confirmed + 12 resolved are wire-shape/consistency items below the whitepaper's conceptual MCP-as-membrane framing (Part 4). No whitepaper integration warranted.
  - **C36 multi-device-lct-binding.md — DELTA RE-audit** (#280, `9184148`, **6/6 remediated HELD; 7/7 deferred still open; 11 new confirmed, 4 remediation-introduced**). multi-device-lct-binding was first audited at C19 (2026-06-01). The headline structural signal: **4 of the 11 new findings are *remediation-introduced*** — defects created by the C19 remediation itself, now caught by the re-audit. This is the RE-audit loop maturing into a genuine **second-order** instrument: it is no longer only re-testing whether deferrals resolved, it is catching regressions its own prior fixes introduced (and confirming the 7/7 design-Q deferrals remain open, awaiting the operator-decision pass). Multi-device binding is an LCT *deployment* detail below the whitepaper's LCT-as-presence-substrate framing. No whitepaper relevance.
- **Live whitepaper sections verified clean of canonical-term drift** — grep for the documented wrong expansions (ATP: Alignment/Attention Transfer, Attestation/Attention Token, Audit Trail Point; LCT: Lightweight Coordination/Cryptographic, Lifecycle-Continuous; T3: Triple Trust; V3: Triple Value; ADP: Alignment Discharge) across live `sections/*` (excluding `*/archive/`) returns **zero hits this pass**. The recurring `08-part6-blockchain-typology/index.md:38` "Lightweight cryptographic signatures" false positive remains benign (literal lightweight-crypto in the compost-chain list, not the wrong LCT expansion) and does not match any literal wrong-expansion pattern. Archived source (`sections/11-conclusion/archive/`, `sections/05-part3-value-trust-mechanics/archive/`) unchanged and expected.
- **Verdict: no whitepaper integration.** No source-section change; no rebuild. The four commits are spec-internal delta re-audits + remediation of three canonical-equation primitives (atp-adp / mcp / multi-device-lct) — all at the wire-shape/internal-consistency layer the whitepaper sits above. Next genuine integration trigger unchanged: a registry publish (v0.28.0 → PyPI) or §7.7 reaching `status: Normative`. Carry-forward watch items: presence-protocol DEFER; §7.7 promotion gate; inter-society-protocol Part 6/Part 8 integration; v0.28.0 → PyPI trigger; Sprint 52 conformance gaps; RDF `*.ttl` audit still outstanding; the three coupled canonicity design-Qs — **C23-H1/C26-H1 (BirthCertificate shape), C24-H1/C27-H1 (ID scheme, under C33 consolidation, canonical form still DEFERRED), C27-H2/C28 (handshake shape)**; C13/M4 V3-Valuation-bound divergence (hold); the C36 7/7 multi-device-lct deferral set (still open).
- **Surface instinct (the re-audit loop has reached second order — and that is the strongest argument yet that web4 needs its own trigger):** for the last several passes the C-series has been a *first-order* re-audit loop (re-test whether deferred design-Qs resolved — C23 SAL←C16, C24 LCT, C25 ISP←C6, C26 entity-types←C8). Today it crosses into **second order**: C35 reports that >half the prior mcp-protocol findings are already SUPERSEDED by intervening remediation, and C36 reports that 4 of its new findings are *remediation-introduced*. The instrument is now measuring the defect dynamics of a spec under continuous self-modification — supersession churn on one doc, regression-introduction on another. That is a healthy sign for the spec corpus (the canonical-equation primitives are being driven to a fixpoint, which is exactly what earns a clean §7.7 promotion), but it sharpens the cadence concern that has now been flagged for several passes: **the web4 autonomous gap is now four days unbroken (06-04→06-07).** The autonomous run deprioritizes web4 on Synchronism-burst days, and S686 makes a 5th-burst-in-9-days cadence — so the autonomous coverage of web4 is not merely unreliable, it is *anti-correlated* with Synchronism activity (the busier the Synchronism arc, the less likely web4 gets checked). Every web4 no-change verification for the past four days has come from the manual pass alone. **Recommendation (escalated): web4 warrants its own integration trigger independent of the Synchronism-arc-driven autonomous cadence** — fire on `whitepaper/sections/*` touch, a release tag, or §7.7 status change, rather than relying on an autonomous run that structurally skips web4 precisely when Synchronism is most active. Holding the manual daily cadence in the meantime, since it is currently the *only* thing covering web4 at all.

### 2026-06-06: Publisher Maintenance - No-Change Check (C-series turns from per-doc tier-3 audits to the FIRST explicitly cross-cutting CONSOLIDATION audit — C33 identifier-scheme — confirming the 2026-06-05 prediction that the sweep is assembling the operator-decision evidence base; sixteenth consecutive no-change pass; manual pass fills today's web4 gap)
- **Manual run filling today's autonomous-Publisher gap.** Today's 03:38 UTC autonomous Publisher run (Synchronism `9cc6ccf9`, S685 burst) did its full Phase 0/Phase 1 sweep and logged **"Web4: Not checked"** again — the same gap noted 06-04/06-05, now recurring a third time. (Synchronism side: whitepaper source unchanged since `67ececf5` 2026-05-28, build aligned at 540569 md / 700102 pdf dated 2026-05-28; S685 framing items — the 4-sub-sector/2-mechanism pattern, TEST-02 retirement, S₈-receding — were correctly held to the **operator queue**, not auto-integrated, since they are same-day research-session/site material and operator-decision-shaped.) Four web4 commits since the 2026-06-05 check (`#273`–`#276`), all the same C-series internal-consistency stream. **None touch `whitepaper/sections/*`** (verified: no source-section commit since `42e3e47`, 2026-05-19; published artifact `docs/whitepaper-web/WEB4_Whitepaper_Complete.md` and `build/WEB4_Whitepaper_Complete.md` both **254811 bytes / 2026-05-19, byte-aligned — no rebuild needed**). The four:
  - **C32 r6-pair remediation** (#273, `4f70561`, resolve 6 autonomous-actionable in r6 implementation-guide + security-analysis). Closes the autonomous half of the C32 first-pass audit logged 2026-06-05 (which was audit-only, 0H). The r6 how-to-build/threat-analysis layer below the whitepaper's conceptual R6 framing (Part 5). No whitepaper relevance.
  - **C33 cross-cutting identifier-scheme consolidation audit** (#274, `67e9446`, 4H+4M+1L+3INFO; 39 confirmed / 4 refuted → #275, `3084e4d`, resolve 3 autonomous-actionable). **Structurally the most notable commit since the C-series began: C33 is the FIRST audit that is explicitly *cross-cutting / consolidation* rather than single-doc (or doc-pair) internal-consistency.** It directly attacks the **canonical ID-scheme design-Q** (C24-H1/C27-H1) that prior passes named as one of the three coupled canonicity anchors. The autonomous-actionable subset it could ship without the operator decision: designate `data-formats.md` §6 as the **single source of truth** for the `web4://` URI scheme (structure only; orientation deference blockquotes added to `core-protocol.md` §6 and `grammar_and_notation.md` §4.1); state `lct:web4:` (LCT-instance id) is **distinct** from the entity W4ID `did:web4:` (distinction only); scope grammar §4.2 `RECOMMENDED did:web4` as prose-lean evidence pending decision. **Critically, the load-bearing choice was NOT made unilaterally:** the embedded authority form (`<w4id>` vs `w4id-label`) and the `w4id:`-vs-`did:web4:` canonical surface form are explicitly **DEFERRED** to the open repo-wide A-H1/D-M1 operator decision. This is the split-remediation discipline applied to a *cross-cutting* audit for the first time — ship the SSOT-designation and distinctness scaffolding, defer the canonical-form choice. No whitepaper integration: the whitepaper's Part 4 entity-binding framing sits above the `w4id:`/`did:web4:` surface form, which remains an open operator design-Q.
  - **C34 atp-adp-cycle.md delta re-audit** (#276, `f449836`, 1H+2M+6L+3INFO+1 cross-track; **9/9 C11 held, zero regression**). Fourth C-series RE-audit (atp-adp-cycle last audited at C11, 2026-05-23). ATP/ADP is a canonical-equation primitive, but the findings are internal-consistency/wire-shape deltas, not redefinitions of the ATP/ADP concept the whitepaper enumerates (Part 3). No whitepaper integration warranted.
- **Live whitepaper sections verified clean of canonical-term drift** — grep for the documented wrong expansions (ATP: Alignment/Attention Transfer, Attestation/Attention Token, Audit Trail Point; LCT: Lightweight Coordination/Cryptographic, Lifecycle-Continuous; T3: Triple Trust; V3: Triple Value; ADP: Alignment Discharge) across live `sections/*` (excluding `*/archive/`) returns **zero hits this pass** — even the recurring `08-part6-blockchain-typology/index.md:38` "Lightweight cryptographic signatures" false positive did not surface under the literal wrong-expansion patterns. Archived source material (`sections/11-conclusion/archive/`, `sections/05-part3-value-trust-mechanics/archive/`) unchanged and expected.
- **Verdict: no whitepaper integration.** No source-section change; no rebuild. The four commits are spec-internal (C32 r6-pair remediation + C33 cross-cutting ID-scheme consolidation + C34 atp-adp re-audit). Next genuine integration trigger unchanged: a registry publish (v0.28.0 → PyPI) or §7.7 reaching `status: Normative`. Carry-forward watch items: presence-protocol DEFER; §7.7 promotion gate; inter-society-protocol Part 6/Part 8 integration; v0.28.0 → PyPI trigger; Sprint 52 conformance gaps; RDF `*.ttl` audit still outstanding; the three coupled canonicity design-Qs — **C23-H1/C26-H1 (BirthCertificate shape), C24-H1/C27-H1 (ID scheme), C27-H2/C28 (handshake shape)** — with the ID-scheme one now under explicit consolidation (C33) but its canonical-form choice still DEFERRED to the operator; C13/M4 V3-Valuation-bound divergence (hold).
- **Surface instinct (the predicted operator-decision-prep pass has begun — the prediction is confirmed):** the 2026-06-05 entry made a falsifiable read: the C-series third-tier sweep was "the audit instrument walking toward the docs it will need to read to adjudicate the three canonicity questions … quietly assembling the evidence base for the eventual operator-decision pass." **C33 confirms it.** The C-series did not continue laterally to a fifth tier-3 doc; it pivoted to a *cross-cutting consolidation* audit whose entire subject is one of the three named canonicity questions (ID scheme), and it produced exactly the artifact an operator-decision pass needs: a designated SSOT (`data-formats.md` §6), an explicit distinctness statement (`lct:web4:` ≠ `did:web4:`), and a *clean separation* of what was autonomously settled (structure/SSOT/distinctness) from what is reserved for the operator (canonical surface form, A-H1/D-M1). That separation is the operator-decision agenda made legible — the audit instrument has matured from "find/fix defects" (C2–C28) through "re-test deferrals" (C23–C26 re-audits) to **"consolidate a cross-doc design-Q into an operator-ready decision memo"** (C33). This is the most direct progress toward a citable canonicity resolution the C-series has produced. **Why it matters for the next integration pass:** the ID-scheme question is the one coupling the LCT primitive (the whitepaper's most load-bearing term) to its wire surface; when the operator resolves `w4id:`-vs-`did:web4:`, the resolution will land on a doc (`data-formats.md`) the C33 audit has already brought to internal consistency and designated as SSOT — so the citable surface will be decision-ready the moment the operator chooses. **Recommendation:** hold the cadence — but the 06-04/06-05/06-06 three-day autonomous-gap streak on web4 now strongly corroborates the standing flag that web4 coverage is *only* reliable under a manual pass; if web4 daily coverage matters, it warrants its own trigger independent of the Synchronism-arc-driven autonomous cadence.

### 2026-06-05: Publisher Maintenance - No-Change Check (C-series sweeps the THIRD tier — the supporting/implementation specs the deferred design-Q backlog routes into (C29 data-formats, C30 errors, C31 security-framework, C32 r6-pair impl-guide+security-analysis); fifteenth consecutive no-change pass; fills the gap the autonomous Publisher left when it skipped web4 on 06-04/06-05)
- **Manual run filling an autonomous-Publisher gap.** Today's 02:30 UTC autonomous Publisher run reported HOLD for Synchronism (core unchanged at S684) and explicitly logged **"Web4: Not checked."** No web4 no-change check has been logged since 2026-06-03 (`f8e0723`), so this manual pass covers two days. Eight commits since (`#265`–`#272`), all the same C-series internal-consistency audit/remediation stream that has dominated web4 since 2026-05-15. **None touch `whitepaper/sections/*`** (verified: no source-section commit since `42e3e47`, 2026-05-19; published artifact `docs/whitepaper-web/WEB4_Whitepaper_Complete.md` still **254811 bytes / 2026-05-19 — unchanged**; `build/WEB4_Whitepaper_Complete.md` also 254811 bytes / 2026-05-19 byte-aligned with the published artifact — **no rebuild needed**). The eight are the C28-§B remediation plus three first-pass audit→split-remediation pairs and one audit-only first pass:
  - **C28 web4-handshake.md — §B remediation** (#265, `8b3bbac`, resolve 4 autonomous-actionable §B findings). Closes the autonomous half of the C28 first-pass audit logged 2026-06-03 (the 4 minor internal-hygiene items that were queued; the *substantive* C28 surface — the 3-msg-sig vs 4-msg-MAC handshake-canonicity question — remains a deferred operator design-Q, untouched, as expected). No whitepaper relevance at the wire-shape level.
  - **C29 data-formats.md — FIRST-PASS audit** (#266, `51384aa`, 2H+5M+3L+2INFO → #267, `58a3e2b`, resolve 5 autonomous-actionable). **Structurally notable: data-formats.md is exactly the doc C27 (core-protocol) *deferred to* on the `w4id:`-vs-`did:web4:` canonical-ID-scheme design-Q** — so this first-pass audit lands on one of the three coupled canonicity anchors the 2026-06-03 entry named (C24-H1/C27-H1 ID scheme). data-formats is the wire-encoding/grammar primitive below the whitepaper's Part-4 entity-binding framing. No whitepaper integration warranted.
  - **C30 errors.md — FIRST-PASS audit** (#268, `930f747`, 1H+5M+2L+3INFO → #269, `aaa2bd8`, resolve 5 autonomous-actionable). **Also routes into the deferred backlog: errors.md is the canonical home of the `W4_ERR_*` taxonomy that C16-H1 (SAL) and C27 both deferred *to* as the missing-error-code design-Q** — so C30, like C29, audits a doc the deferred design-Qs were routed into. The error taxonomy is spec-internal; the whitepaper does not enumerate error codes. No whitepaper relevance.
  - **C31 security-framework.md — FIRST-PASS audit** (#270, `edcc6be`, 2H+3M+4L+6INFO → #271, `130069d`, resolve 5 autonomous-actionable). Security-framework is the threat-model/security-properties spec; the whitepaper carries security conceptually (Part 4 trust-through-witnessing, Part 6 implications) not at the spec threat-enumeration level. No whitepaper integration warranted.
  - **C32 r6-pair (implementation-guide.md + security-analysis.md) — FIRST-PASS audit, audit-only this pass** (#272, `d0d95c1`, 0H+1M+7L+6INFO; no remediation commit yet — lowest-severity audit of the batch, 0 HIGH). First C-series target spanning a *pair* of supporting docs (the R6 implementation-guide and its security-analysis companion). These are the how-to-build/threat-analysis layer below the whitepaper's conceptual R6 framing (Part 5 value-trust mechanics). No whitepaper relevance.
- **Live whitepaper sections verified clean of canonical-term drift** — grep for the documented wrong expansions (ATP: Alignment/Attention Transfer, Attestation/Attention Token, Audit Trail Point; LCT: Lightweight Coordination/Cryptographic, Lifecycle-Continuous; T3: Triple Trust; V3: Triple Value; ADP: Alignment Discharge) across live `sections/*` returns zero true hits. The one match — `08-part6-blockchain-typology/index.md:38` "Lightweight cryptographic signatures" — is the recurring false positive (literal lightweight-crypto in the compost-chain implementation-details list, with ATP used correctly two lines down at L41), not the wrong LCT expansion. Genuine matches remain only in `sections/11-conclusion/archive/original-technical.md` + `sections/05-part3-value-trust-mechanics/archive/original-technical.md` (archived source material, unchanged and expected — same as every prior check).
- **Verdict: no whitepaper integration.** No source-section change; no rebuild. The eight commits are spec-internal (C28-§B remediation + C29-C32 first-pass audits of the supporting/implementation spec tier) — none touch primitives the whitepaper enumerates at the spec wire-shape level. Next genuine integration trigger unchanged: a registry publish (v0.28.0 → PyPI) or §7.7 reaching `status: Normative`. Carry-forward watch items: presence-protocol DEFER (inward MCP); §7.7 promotion gate (Normative + 2 implementations); inter-society-protocol Part 6/Part 8 body integration; v0.28.0 → PyPI trigger; Sprint 52 conformance gaps; **RDF `*.ttl` audit still outstanding** (triangulated by C16/M8 + C17/M1, still not taken); the three coupled canonicity design-Qs — **C23-H1/C26-H1 (canonical BirthCertificate shape), C24-H1/C27-H1 (canonical ID scheme), C27-H2/C28 (canonical handshake shape)** — now with their *routed-to* docs (data-formats for ID scheme, errors for taxonomy) under first-pass audit; C13/M4 V3-Valuation-bound divergence (hold).
- **Surface instinct (the sweep has a target structure, not just a direction):** the 2026-06-03 entry named the key shift — the deferred design-Q backlog is consolidating into a small number of *cross-spec canonicity questions*. This batch makes the C-series' next move legible: having finished first-pass coverage of the canonical-equation primitives (C2-C14) and the never-audited core/protocol docs (C27/C28), it is now sweeping the **third tier — the supporting/implementation specs that the deferred design-Qs route into**: data-formats (the `did:web4:` dissent home for the ID-scheme question), errors (the `W4_ERR_*` taxonomy home for the missing-error-code question), security-framework, and the r6 implementation-guide/security-analysis pair. This is not random lateral extension; it is the audit instrument **walking toward the docs it will need to read to adjudicate the three canonicity questions** — you cannot resolve the ID-scheme design-Q without auditing data-formats, and you cannot resolve the error-taxonomy design-Q without auditing errors.md. So the C-series is quietly assembling the evidence base for the eventual operator-decision pass. **Why this matters for the next integration pass:** when that operator-decision pass lands and the three canonicity questions resolve (especially the handshake shape, the one closest to a whitepaper-citable Part-4 primitive), the docs whose audits *fed* the decision — now including C29/C30 — will already be at internal consistency, so the "fully closed" citable surface will extend past the canonical-equation primitives into their wire-encoding and error-taxonomy substrate. **Recommendation:** hold the cadence (but note the 06-04/06-05 gap: the autonomous Publisher skipped web4 two days running — worth flagging that the daily web4 check is *only* reliably covered when a manual pass runs, since the autonomous run deprioritizes it under HOLD-Synchronism days; if web4 coverage matters, it may warrant its own trigger independent of the Synchronism-arc-driven autonomous cadence).

### 2026-06-03: Publisher Maintenance - No-Change Check (C-series CLOSES first-pass core-spec coverage (C27 core-protocol = last never-audited core-spec doc) WHILE the RE-audit loop continues (C25 ISP←C6, C26 entity-types←C8); audits mature into explicit cross-spec adjudication (C28 adjudicates deferred C27-H2/M3); a genuine handshake-canonicity design-Q surfaces; fourteenth consecutive no-change pass)
- Seven commits since the 2026-06-01 no-change check (07ce624), all the same C-series internal-consistency audit/remediation stream that has dominated web4 since 2026-05-15. **None touch `whitepaper/sections/*`** (verified: no source-section commit since 42e3e47, 2026-05-19; published artifact `docs/whitepaper-web/WEB4_Whitepaper_Complete.md` still 254811 bytes / 2026-05-19 — unchanged. `build/WEB4_Whitepaper_Complete.md` is absent this pass — `build/` is gitignored/transient and was cleared since the 2026-06-01 byte-identical check; the canonical published artifact in `docs/whitepaper-web/` is the source of truth and is unchanged, so no rebuild is needed). The seven are audit→split-remediation pairs plus two first-pass audits (#257-#264):
  - **C25 inter-society-protocol.md — RE-audit** (#257, 6 new + 1 C6-deferred-carry → #258 resolve 3 autonomous-actionable, defer 3 design-Q). Second RE-audit of the batch (ISP last audited at C6, 2026-05-21); **12/12 substantive C6 remediations hold, zero regression.** Autonomous half added the missing SAL row + genesis/secession cross-refs to ISP §8/§2.1/§5.1 and replaced fabricated `mcp-protocol v0.1.3/v0.1.4` version tags with real §-refs. Deferred H1 is a genuine three-way drift on the canonical 7-role enumeration (SOCIETY_SPEC §1.2.5 vs ISP §6.2 vs SDK `BASE_MANDATORY_ROLES`) — the C22-H1 bidirectional cross-ref is structurally broken and needs an operator decision on the canonical anchor. ISP is the inter-society/governance primitive the whitepaper carries conceptually at Part 6/Part 8, not at spec wire-shape level. No whitepaper relevance.
  - **C26 entity-types.md — RE-audit** (#259, 5 new + 1 INFO → #260 resolve 4 autonomous-actionable, defer 3 design-Q). Third RE-audit (entity-types last audited at C8, 2026-05-22); **9/9 remediated C8 findings hold, zero regression.** All five new findings concentrate in three sibling-co-defined primitives (BirthCertificate, Authority/Society role naming, Policy LCT format) and **ride open carries** — H1 → C23-H1, M1 → C25-H1, M2/INFO1 → C24-H1 — so the remediation opened **zero new design-Q**: it renamed birth-cert fields toward SAL §2.2 canonical (`initialRights/initialResponsibilities`→`rights/obligations`), relabeled "(SAL-compliant)"→"(SAL-aligned superset)", and reframed §4.1 "Society Role" as an entity-type-capability (Society is an entity type, not a fillable role). Entity-types is the entity-taxonomy primitive the whitepaper enumerates conceptually (Part 3/Part 4 + glossary), not at the spec field-shape level. No whitepaper integration warranted.
  - **C27 core-protocol.md — FIRST-PASS audit** (#261, 9 findings + 2 INFO → #263 resolve 4 autonomous-actionable, defer 4 design-Q + 1 cross-track). **Milestone: core-protocol.md was "the last never-audited core-spec document" — C27 completes first-pass C-series coverage of the entire web4-standard core-spec set.** Autonomous half is pure structural hygiene (renumbered a broken section tree with duplicate `## 2`/orphan `### 1.3`/missing 1.1-1.2 into a clean monotonic §1-§6; added `data-formats.md` deference pointers; status banner). The headline is a deferred design-Q: core-protocol (Dec-5, the oldest core-spec) restates W4ID, handshake, and `web4://` URI primitives that later got dedicated normative homes, and on W4ID/URI form it is the *corroborated* shape (conformance vectors + SDK agree) while `data-formats.md`/grammar dissent with `did:web4:` — a repo-wide canonical-scheme design-Q (couples C24-H1 LCT-ID), not a unilateral error. The whitepaper carries the protocol/handshake/URI concepts at Part 4 (trust through witnessing, entity binding), not the `w4id:`-vs-`did:web4:` surface form. No whitepaper integration warranted.
  - **C28 web4-handshake.md — FIRST-PASS audit** (#264, 6 internal + 4 cross-spec; read-only, 0 spec/SDK/vector edits). First audit of `protocols/web4-handshake.md` (the oldest unaudited *normative protocol* doc — and the doc C27-H2/M3 deferred *to*, so C28 functions as a **cross-spec adjudication** of those carried C27 findings). Internally near-coherent (4 minor hygiene items queued for next remediation). **The substantive surface is architectural and deliberately not self-resolved:** web4-handshake.md self-declares "normative MTI" yet is the *lone dissenter* against the SDK + core-protocol + test-vectors 3-anchor cluster on every cross-spec dimension — 3-msg signature `HandshakeAuth` vs 4-msg MAC `ClientFinished/ServerFinished`, field names, nonce 96-bit vs 256-bit (likely AEAD-IV/challenge conflation), and the `W4-IOT-1` suite orphan. This **inverts the C27 framing** (where core-protocol was the corroborated anchor): which handshake shape is canonical is a genuine operator design-Q. No whitepaper relevance at the wire-shape level — the whitepaper's "trust through witnessing / entity binding" framing (Part 4) sits above the 3-msg-vs-4-msg handshake mechanics — but see surface instinct: this is the closest the deferred-design-Q backlog has come to a citable primitive.
- **Live whitepaper sections verified clean of canonical-term drift** — grep for the documented wrong expansions (ATP: Alignment/Attention/Attestation; LCT: Lightweight Coordination/Cryptographic; T3: Triple Trust; V3: Triple Value; ADP: Alignment Discharge; LCT: Lifecycle-Continuous Trust) across live `sections/*` returns zero true hits. The one match — `08-part6-blockchain-typology/index.md:38` "Lightweight cryptographic signatures" — is the recurring false positive (literal lightweight-crypto in the compost-chain implementation-details list, with ATP used correctly two lines down), not the wrong LCT expansion. Only genuine matches remain in `sections/11-conclusion/archive/original-technical.md` + `sections/05-part3-value-trust-mechanics/archive/original-technical.md` (archived source material, unchanged and expected — same as every prior check).
- **Verdict: no whitepaper integration.** No source-section change; no rebuild. The seven commits are spec-internal (C25-C28 audit-and-partial-remediation) — none touch primitives the whitepaper enumerates at the spec wire-shape level. Next genuine integration trigger unchanged: a registry publish (v0.28.0 → PyPI) or §7.7 reaching `status: Normative`. Carry-forward watch items: presence-protocol DEFER (inward MCP); §7.7 promotion gate (Normative + 2 implementations); inter-society-protocol Part 6/Part 8 body integration; v0.28.0 → PyPI trigger; Sprint 52 conformance gaps; **RDF `*.ttl` audit still outstanding** (triangulated by C16/M8 + C17/M1, still not taken); the accumulating deferred design-Q sets, now consolidating around three coupled anchors — **C23-H1/C26-H1 (canonical BirthCertificate shape), C24-H1/C27-H1 (canonical ID scheme: `w4id:` vs `did:web4:` vs LCT-ID), and the NEW C27-H2/C28 (canonical handshake shape: 3-msg sig vs 4-msg MAC)**; C13/M4 V3-Valuation-bound divergence (hold).
- **Surface instinct (the RE-audit loop and the first-pass sweep are running concurrently — and a coupling structure has emerged):** the 2026-06-01 entry read C23/C24 as the C-series "finishing its first sweep and looping back." This batch refines that: the first sweep was **not** quite finished — C27 (core-protocol) and C28 (web4-handshake) were still never-audited, and they are the *oldest* docs in their classes (Dec-5 core-spec; oldest normative protocol). So the C-series is now running **two modes at once**: closing the last first-pass gaps (C27 completes core-spec coverage; C28 opens protocol-doc coverage) *while* the RE-audit loop re-tests already-covered specs (C25 ISP←C6, C26 entity-types←C8). The genuinely new structural signal is **coupling**: the deferred design-Q backlog is no longer a flat list of per-spec items — it is consolidating into a small number of *cross-spec canonicity questions* that multiple audits now route into. Three are now explicit: (1) **canonical BirthCertificate shape** (C23-H1 ← C26-H1 rides it), (2) **canonical ID scheme** (`w4id:`/`did:web4:`/LCT-ID — C24-H1 ← C27-H1 couples it), and (3) **canonical handshake shape** (C27-H2 ← C28 adjudicates and *inverts* it). The audit instrument has correspondingly matured from single-doc internal-consistency (C2-C24) to **explicit cross-spec adjudication** (C27/C28 are labeled "internal-consistency + cross-spec"; C28's whole job is to adjudicate C27's deferral against a third anchor). **Why this matters for the next integration pass:** when §7.7 reaches Normative, the citable "fully closed" surface is still the autonomous-actionable subset — but the *blocker* to citing the load-bearing primitives as resolved is now nameable as exactly **three operator decisions** (BirthCertificate shape, ID scheme, handshake shape), not a diffuse backlog. The handshake-canonicity question (3) is the one closest to a whitepaper-citable primitive: the whitepaper's Part 4 "trust through witnessing / entity binding" rests on *a* handshake, and if the operator decision lands on the 4-msg MAC anchor (SDK + vectors + core-protocol) over the self-declared-normative 3-msg sig doc, that resolution is the kind of wire-shape stabilization that has historically been the precondition for a Part 4/Part 6 body expansion. **Recommendation:** hold the daily cadence; its value this pass was naming the three-way coupling structure of the deferred backlog — a synthesis only daily continuity across the C-series produces, and the thing a future operator-decision pass will want as its agenda.

### 2026-06-01: Publisher Maintenance - No-Change Check (C-series extends C18→C24 AND begins a second pass — C23/C24 are RE-audits of already-covered specs (SAL, LCT); the split-remediation pattern now runs as standing cadence; thirteenth consecutive no-change pass)
- Fourteen commits since the 2026-05-28 no-change check (543d908), all the same C-series internal-consistency audit/remediation stream that has dominated web4 since 2026-05-15. **None touch `whitepaper/sections/*`** (verified: no source-section commit since 42e3e47, 2026-05-19; published artifact `docs/whitepaper-web/WEB4_Whitepaper_Complete.md` still 254811 bytes / 2026-05-19, and `build/WEB4_Whitepaper_Complete.md` is byte-identical — no rebuild needed). The fourteen are the now-standard audit→split-remediation pairs (#243-#256):
  - **C18 acp-framework.md** (#243 audit, 11 findings → #244 resolve 6 autonomous-actionable, defer 6 design-Q). ACP is the agentic-context/authority-delegation primitive the whitepaper carries conceptually at Part 6/Part 8, not at spec wire-shape level. No whitepaper relevance.
  - **C19 multi-device-lct-binding.md** (#245 audit, 13 findings → #246 resolve 6, defer 4 design-Q + 3 LOW). Multi-device binding is an LCT *deployment* detail below the whitepaper's LCT-as-presence-substrate framing. No whitepaper relevance.
  - **C20 lct-capability-levels.md** (#247 audit, 13 findings → #248 resolve 7, defer 6 design-Q + 2 cross-track). Capability tiering is spec-internal. No whitepaper relevance.
  - **C21 SOCIETY_METABOLIC_STATES.md** (#249 audit, 16 findings → #250 resolve 8, defer 8 design-Q) and **C22 SOCIETY_SPECIFICATION.md** (#251 audit, 11 findings → #252 resolve 8, defer 2 design-Q + 5 cross-track). The Society/metabolic-state machinery the whitepaper carries as the Society governance primitive (Part 4/6/8 + glossary), not at spec level. No whitepaper integration warranted.
  - **C23 web4-society-authority-law.md (SAL) — RE-audit** (#253, 7 new + **8 carried**, → #254 resolve 3 autonomous-actionable: M2 + L1 + I1). **First C-series RE-audit**: SAL was last audited at C16 (2026-05-27); the 8 carried findings are the C16 deferred design-Q set re-surfacing for a second decision pass. No whitepaper relevance (the carried set is the same governance-primitive layer).
  - **C24 LCT-linked-context-token.md — RE-audit** (#255, 12 new + 0 carried, → #256 resolve 6 autonomous-actionable, defer 4 design-Q + 2 SDK cross-track). LCT-linked-context-token is the *canonical* LCT primitive spec — the whitepaper's most load-bearing term — but the 12 findings are internal-consistency / wire-shape defects (pseudocode, schema-key, error-taxonomy), not redefinitions of the LCT concept the whitepaper enumerates. No whitepaper integration warranted.
- **Live whitepaper sections verified clean of canonical-term drift** — grep for the documented wrong expansions (ATP: Alignment/Attention/Attestation; LCT: Lightweight Coordination/Cryptographic; T3: Triple Trust; V3: Triple Value; ADP: Alignment Discharge Protocol; LCT: Lifecycle-Continuous Trust) across live `sections/*` returns zero hits; only matches remain in `sections/11-conclusion/archive/original-technical.md` + `sections/05-part3-value-trust-mechanics/archive/original-technical.md` (archived source material, unchanged and expected — same as every prior check).
- **Verdict: no whitepaper integration.** No source-section change; no rebuild. The fourteen commits are spec-internal (C18-C24 audit-and-partial-remediation) — none touch primitives the whitepaper enumerates at the spec wire-shape level. Next genuine integration trigger unchanged: a registry publish (v0.28.0 → PyPI) or §7.7 reaching `status: Normative`. Carry-forward watch items: presence-protocol DEFER (inward MCP); §7.7 promotion gate (Normative + 2 implementations); inter-society-protocol Part 6/Part 8 body integration; v0.28.0 → PyPI trigger; Sprint 52 conformance gaps; **RDF `*.ttl` audit still outstanding** (triangulated by C16/M8 + C17/M1, still not taken); the accumulating deferred design-Q sets across C16-C24 (now the substrate the RE-audit pass is starting to revisit — see surface instinct).
- **Surface instinct (the cadence question, answered by the corpus itself):** this is the **thirteenth** consecutive web4 pass (2026-05-15 → 2026-06-01) with zero whitepaper-body integration, and the 2026-05-28 entry's reframe ("hold the daily cadence; its function shifted from *detect changes* to *daily analytical reading of the corpus' maturation*") is now load-bearing — because the corpus did something an event-trigger would have missed: **C23/C24 are RE-audits.** The C-series has finished its first sweep of the spec corpus and **looped back** to re-audit SAL (C16→C23) and LCT (the canonical primitive), carrying forward the still-unresolved design-Q deferrals. That is the spec corpus entering a *second-order* consolidation phase: not "find new defects" but "re-test whether the deferred design decisions have been resolved by intervening work." The integration triggers remain static (v0.28.0 → PyPI; §7.7 Normative), and that is still not stagnation — the RE-audit loop is precisely how the deferred-design-Q backlog (the real blocker to a clean §7.7 promotion) gets drained. **Worth flagging for the next major integration pass**: when §7.7 reaches Normative, the citation-ready "fully closed" surface will be exactly the autonomous-actionable subset the split-remediation cadence has been shipping; the carried design-Q sets (C16/C23 SAL, C24 LCT) are the part that still needs an operator-decision pass before they can be cited as resolved. Hold the daily cadence; the RE-audit turn vindicates the 2026-05-28 reframe.

### 2026-05-28: Publisher Maintenance - No-Change Check (C-series extends through C17 with autonomous-vs-design-Q split-remediation pattern hardening; C15/H1 reputation-semantics watch item RESOLVED toward SDK; twelfth consecutive no-change pass — cadence question now flagged a second time)
- Six commits since the 2026-05-26 no-change check (5dabb64), all the same C-series internal-consistency audit/remediation stream that has dominated web4 since 2026-05-15. **None touch `whitepaper/sections/*`** (verified: no source-section commit since 42e3e47, 2026-05-19; published artifact `docs/whitepaper-web/WEB4_Whitepaper_Complete.md` still 254811 bytes / 2026-05-19, and `build/WEB4_Whitepaper_Complete.md` is byte-identical — no rebuild needed). All six:
  - **#237 (51d628a, 2026-05-27) — fix C15 reputation-computation.md (all 8 findings):** Closes the watch item flagged 2026-05-26 ("worth watching whether the H1 fix lands as accumulate-onto-baseline matching the §7 spec intent, or average matching the SDK"). **It landed as accumulate-onto-baseline: `0.5 + weighted_sum/weight_sum`** — but the framing is the opposite of what the 2026-05-26 entry assumed. Per the commit body, the SDK (`reputation.py` L450-454) was already accumulating onto the 0.5 neutral baseline and explicitly documented the bare-average as a bug; **the spec converged toward the SDK, not vice versa.** Same direction as the C-series instrument's stated rule throughout ("SDK is authority for runtime/wire; spec converges to SDK"). This is the **second semantic divergence** the C-series has closed (after the previous editorial-only band) — both resolutions toward SDK. The C13/M4 V3-Valuation-bound divergence (clamp-to-[0,1] in SDK + vectors vs MAY-exceed-1 in spec + ontology) remains the only *open* semantic finding and remains hold. Other C15 fixes editorial (V3 third-dim name `value`→`valuation` at 5 dimension-name sites; `roleType`→`role_lct`; action_id sourced from action.action_id pre-execution nonce vs ledgerProof.txHash; §5 evaluation reads `action.role.v3InRole[dim]` symmetric with T3; §7 relabel "30-day half-life" → "30-day time constant (1/e; ~20.8-day half-life)" — that last is a quietly useful number-correctness fix, since 30-day τ implies ~20.8-day t_½, not 30-day t_½). Spec-only; SDK untouched. No whitepaper integration warranted — the whitepaper does not enumerate the reputation update formula or its baseline convention.
  - **#238 (1e2b972, 2026-05-27) — fix r6+r7 pseudocode `OutputViolation` → `ResultInvalid` (3 lines, 2 specs):** Three normative-pseudocode lines (`r6-framework.md` §2.2 L276 `raise`; `r7-framework.md` §2.2 L365 `raise`, L377 `except`) referenced an exception name `OutputViolation` undefined anywhere in the corpus. Both files' own §7 error catalogs and SDK `web4/r6.py:114` define `ResultInvalid` with the matching docstring "Result violates output constraints." Renamed to the canonical class. **First C-series finding that propagates across two spec docs in a single PR** — earlier C-series PRs were single-doc remediations; the cross-doc primitive-normalization pattern emerging here is a natural extension once shared pseudocode references undefined names. Pseudocode is illustrative (SDK tests already cover `ResultInvalid`); no wire-shape change. No whitepaper relevance.
  - **#239 (afd60a4, 2026-05-27) — C16 web4-society-authority-law.md internal-consistency audit (12 findings):** Analysis-only memo (next-in-cadence per-spec audit, C12-C15 anchors). 2 HIGH / 8 MEDIUM / 2 LOW. H1: §9 references four `W4_ERR_*` codes absent from `errors.md`/`errors.py` + intra-§9 duplication. H2: §5.5 `AuditRequest` JSON `basis` vs SDK `federation.py` `evidence`. **8 MEDIUM findings are mostly DESIGN-Q** — including M1 role-taxonomy collision (spec §5: 5 roles incl. Authority-as-role; `society-roles.md` + SDK: 7 base + 2 context, with Authority as delegation concept not role; SDK has parallel dual taxonomies `federation.RoleType` + `role.SocietyRole`), M2 `LawDataset` key drift, M4 ledger interface gap (spec `prove`/`events` missing from SDK), M5 event-topic namespacing divergence, M8 SAL MRH RDF edges using vocabulary not formalized in canonical ontology directory + canonical ontology referring to a *missing* `sal-ontology.ttl`. **Three overcall-discipline demotions** explicitly recorded (create_society founders constraint is SOCIETY_SPECIFICATION territory; SDK-internal society.py vs federation.py inconsistency is not SAL-vs-SDK; r6-framework.md misnaming SAL is an r6 defect). Same instrument as C2-C15. SAL is one layer out from the canonical-equation primitives — it is the *governance* primitive (Society/Authority/Law) the whitepaper carries conceptually at Part 4 / Part 6 / Part 8 + glossary, not at SAL-spec level. No whitepaper integration warranted.
  - **#240 (3e152e0, 2026-05-27) — fix C16 SAL: 5 autonomous-actionable findings; defer 7 design-Q items:** First emergence of the **autonomous-vs-design-Q split-remediation pattern** — ship wire-level fixes with unambiguous direction, defer items that need ontology/SDK/operator input. Closed 5: L1 BirthCertificate (already complete per SDK CitizenshipRecord; closed as no-change with verification note), M2 LawDataset key normalization, M7 initialRights/initialResponsibilities → rights/obligations (key-rename, values match exactly), M6 cool-down period MUST → SHOULD downgrade, L2 top-level id → law_id. **Deferred 7** (M1 role-taxonomy DESIGN-Q, M3 r6Bindings ontology-tie-in, M4 ledger prove/events interface, M5 event topic taxonomy, M8 sal-ontology.ttl + RDF predicate gap, H1 error code taxonomy DESIGN-Q, H2 AuditRequest evidence-vs-basis schema choice). Deferred items stay in the audit memo as next-pass work. Spec-only; no SDK change. No whitepaper relevance.
  - **#241 (ff72a6e, 2026-05-27) — C17 dictionary-entities.md internal-consistency audit (10 findings):** Analysis-only memo. 2 HIGH / 6 MEDIUM / 2 LOW + 3 INFO + 3 explicit DEMOTED candidates (stake_required vs atp_stake are legitimate config-vs-request fields per `entity-types.md`:561; entity-types.md §10.2 is consistent subset; compression ratio is not a score). H1: §6.1 SPARQL `sourceDomai` typo (one-char). H2: §7.1 stale `roleType` field + non-canonical `web4:Translator` role. MEDIUM band: ontology predicates absent; `witness_attestation` shape divergence (singular reserved by mcp-protocol + schema_registry vs plural `witnesses` corpus-canonical); `trust_requirements` same-key-different-schema between LCT default and per-request override; pseudocode exceptions outside W4_ERR_* taxonomy; LCT id `:v2` suffix duplicates explicit version field. **INFO3 (cross-spec observation):** `mcp-protocol.md:306` has an identical stale `roleType` site — flagged for future MCP-spec audit or hyper-narrow one-line cleanup PR (the cross-spec discipline that #238 just demonstrated as workable). Same instrument as C2-C16. Dictionary entities are the *translation/interoperability* primitive — whitepaper carries dictionaries conceptually (Part 4.2 dictionary entities + trust-as-gravity), not at the spec wire-shape level. No whitepaper integration warranted.
  - **#242 (991a009, 2026-05-28) — fix C17 dictionary-entities.md: 7 autonomous-actionable findings; defer 3 design-Q + 2 cross-track items:** Second use of the split-remediation pattern (just hardened in #240). Closed 7: H1 sourceDomain typo fix (broke the example query on its face), H2 `roleType`→`roleLCT` field-rename with `dictionary-translator` placeholder + inline non-normativity comment, M2 `witness_attestation`→`witnesses` plural (matches 7+ corpus-canonical files), M3 `trust_requirements`→`dictionary_trust_config` two-scope disambiguation, M5 LCT id `:v2` suffix removal (only site in core-spec corpus with such a suffix), L1 named threshold constants `AMBIGUITY_GATE`/`VERSION_BUMP_DELTA`, L2 translation-chain schema reshape to mirror §4.3 array-of-step-objects + plural witnesses. **Deferred 5** (M1 ontology gap — six web4:* predicates absent from canonical ontology, parallels C16 M8; M4 W4_ERR_DICT_* taxonomy DESIGN-Q parallels C16 H1; M6 threshold-semantics design — T3-minimum 0.9 vs fidelity floor 0.95 vs witness gate 0.95 relationship undeclared; H2 role-value reconciliation; INFO1 SDK Dictionary dataclass out-of-scope). Single file, +28/-13, under 50-line scope cap. Spec-only. No whitepaper relevance.
- **Watch item RESOLVED**: C15/H1 reputation accumulate-vs-average — landed as accumulate-onto-baseline (`0.5 + weighted_sum/weight_sum`), spec converged to SDK per the instrument's standing rule. Removed from carry-forward.
- **Watch item PATTERN-HARDENED**: the **autonomous-vs-design-Q split-remediation pattern** emerged in #240 (C16) and reproduced in #242 (C17) within hours. This is a procedural innovation worth recording — it lets the C-series ship wire-level fixes without blocking on operator decisions, while keeping the design-Q items visible in the audit memo for the next operator-decision pass. Functionally analogous to the autonomous Publisher's DEFER discipline on the Synchronism side (same shape: take the unambiguous work, leave the design-decision work for the human/operator pass). Worth foregrounding when next major integration pass writes whatever §7.7 → Part 7 / Part 6 / Part 8 expansion: the split-remediation cadence's autonomous-actionable subset is the part the C-series instrument can resolve solo, and is therefore the part whose state can be cited as "fully closed" at integration time.
- **Watch item EXTENDED**: C16 SAL (M1/M3/M4/M5/M8 + H1/H2) and C17 dictionary-entities (M1/M4/M6 + H2) **both defer ontology-extension findings** — C16 M8 explicitly notes the canonical ontology references a *missing* `sal-ontology.ttl`, and C17 M1 explicitly parallels C16 M8 with six web4:* predicates absent from the canonical ontology. The RDF `*.ttl` audit predicted on 2026-05-25 has now been independently *triangulated* by two C-series findings as the next natural target — the ontology directory has two distinct gaps documented before any audit of it. If/when an RDF `*.ttl` audit (provisional C18) lands, expect it to discover the same gaps from the ontology side and provide the bidirectional view.
- **Live whitepaper sections verified clean of canonical-term drift** — grep for the documented wrong expansions (ATP: Alignment/Attention/Attestation; LCT: Lightweight Coordination/Cryptographic; T3: Triple Trust; V3: Triple Value; ADP: Alignment Discharge Protocol; LCT: Lifecycle-Continuous Trust) across live `sections/*` returns zero hits; only matches remain in `sections/11-conclusion/archive/original-technical.md` + `sections/05-part3-value-trust-mechanics/archive/original-technical.md` (archived source material, unchanged and expected — same as every prior check).
- **Verdict: no whitepaper integration.** No source-section change; no rebuild. The six commits are spec-internal (#237 reputation-update formula, #238 cross-spec pseudocode normalization, #239-#242 SAL + dictionary-entities audit-and-partial-remediation) — none touch primitives the whitepaper enumerates at the spec wire-shape level. Next genuine integration trigger unchanged: a registry publish (v0.28.0 → PyPI) or §7.7 reaching `status: Normative`. Carry-forward watch items: presence-protocol DEFER (inward MCP); §7.7 promotion gate (Normative + 2 implementations); inter-society-protocol Part 6/Part 8 body integration; v0.28.0 → PyPI trigger; Sprint 52 conformance gaps (5 operator-architectural decisions); C13/M4 V3-Valuation-bound divergence (hold); **RDF `*.ttl` audit still outstanding** (now triangulated by C16/M8 + C17/M1); C16 SAL 7-item deferred set + C17 dict 5-item deferred set (both stay in their audit memos for the next operator-decision pass).
- **Surface instinct (escalating the cadence question — second consecutive pass)**: this is the **twelfth** consecutive web4 pass (2026-05-15 → 2026-05-28) with zero whitepaper-body integration. The 2026-05-26 entry flagged: *"if the next 2-3 passes are again pure C-series audits with the release surface still unmoved, it is worth asking whether this should drop to an event-triggered check rather than a daily cadence."* Today is one of those 2-3 passes. The C-series has now (a) extended through C17 (dictionary-entities), (b) hardened the autonomous-vs-design-Q split-remediation pattern across two consecutive PRs (#240, #242), (c) closed one of its two open semantic divergences (C15/H1 reputation toward SDK), and (d) triangulated the RDF `*.ttl` audit from two independent C-series findings — *all real work, none of it whitepaper-surface*. The integration triggers (v0.28.0 → PyPI; §7.7 Normative; presence-protocol stabilization) are static. The daily cadence's *concrete* value-add per pass is now: build-alignment verification (1 file-size check), canonical-term-drift grep (1 corpus sweep, consistently clean for 12 passes), and the analytical relevance triage embedded in this entry. **The triage analysis is the real work** — it identifies which C-series findings (e.g., #237 H1 semantic-direction reversal; #240/#242 procedural-pattern hardening; cross-spec primitive normalization in #238) carry latent whitepaper relevance even when none triggers integration today. That triage cannot be done by an event-triggered check that fires only on `whitepaper/sections/*` touch — it requires reading the C-series stream daily. **Recommendation revised from 2026-05-26**: keep the daily cadence, but acknowledge that its function has shifted from "detect whitepaper changes" (the original framing — and the function an event trigger could subsume) to "produce a daily analytical reading of the spec corpus' maturation cadence" (a function only daily continuity can perform). The shift in function is the real signal; the static integration trigger is not stagnation, it is the spec corpus continuing to earn the conditions a clean promotion will need. Hold the daily cadence; reframe its purpose.

### 2026-05-26: Publisher Maintenance - No-Change Check (C-series extends past the canonical-equation primitives into R7 reputation machinery — C15 audit + r6↔r7 sync; no whitepaper relevance)
- Two commits since the 2026-05-25 no-change check (66c03d2), both the same C-series internal-consistency stream. **Neither touches `whitepaper/sections/*`** (verified: no source-section commit since 42e3e47, 2026-05-19; published artifact `docs/whitepaper-web/WEB4_Whitepaper_Complete.md` still 254811 bytes / 2026-05-19, and `build/WEB4_Whitepaper_Complete.md` is byte-identical — no rebuild needed). Both commits:
  - **#236 (94a23d5) — C15 reputation-computation.md internal-consistency audit (8 findings: 1 HIGH / 4 MEDIUM / 3 LOW + 1 info):** Analysis-only memo measuring the Dec-5 `web4-standard/core-spec/reputation-computation.md` (760 lines) against the newer SDK authority (`implementation/sdk/web4/reputation.py`, Apr 17) and the freshly-remediated C13 (T3/V3) / C14 (R7) specs. **H1 (HIGH):** §7 `compute_current_reputation` *averages* deltas (`weighted_sum/weight_sum`) instead of *accumulating* onto a baseline — a genuine spec ⇄ SDK semantic divergence, not an editorial defect. **Notable on two counts:** (a) C15 is the first C-series target *outside* the canonical-equation primitive set — reputation-computation is the R7 reputation machinery (R7 = R6 + reputation), one layer out from the primitives; (b) it **diverges from the 2026-05-25 prediction** that the RDF `*.ttl` ontology files would be the "natural next/last" target — the maintainer instead extended laterally into reputation-computation, so the `*.ttl` audit remains outstanding. The audit is analysis; the whitepaper carries R7 conceptually (status table + glossary), not the reputation update rule. No integration.
  - **#235 (b480fcf) — sync r6 SAL Result row + §4.5 atomic-settlement with merged r7 (C14 L3/L4 follow-up):** Two single-line edits to `r6-framework.md`, *adapted* (not copied verbatim) from the L3/L4 clarifications #234 applied to the shared r7 source text. §3 SAL "Result" row: "Auditor can adjust based on evidence" → "Auditor reviews evidence; corrections are issued as a *new* corrective R6 action — the original Result stays immutable per §4.2." §4.5: appended an atomic-boundary clarification citing r6's §2.3 (deliberately omitting "reputation computation," which R6 lacks by design — that is R7's addition). Spec-only; the whitepaper carries R6 conceptually, not the SAL Result wording or the atomic-settlement transaction scaffolding. No integration.
- **Live whitepaper sections verified clean of canonical-term drift** — grep for the documented wrong expansions (ATP: Alignment/Attention/Attestation; LCT: Lightweight Coordination/Cryptographic) across live `sections/*` returns zero hits; the only matches remain in `*/archive/original-technical.md` (archived source material, unchanged and expected — same as every prior check).
- **Verdict: no whitepaper integration.** No source-section change; no rebuild. The substantive item (C15/H1 reputation averaging-vs-accumulating) is a spec/SDK algorithm divergence the whitepaper does not enumerate. Next genuine integration trigger unchanged: a registry publish (v0.28.0 → PyPI) or §7.7 reaching `status: Normative`.
- **New watch item — PR #237 OPEN** ("fix(spec): resolve all 8 C15 audit findings in reputation-computation.md", branch `worker/web4-20260525-180044`, opened 2026-05-26T01:07Z): the C15 remediation is already in flight — the audit-and-remediate-same/next-day cadence holds. Worth watching whether the H1 fix lands as *accumulate-onto-baseline* (matching the §7 spec intent) or *average* (matching the SDK), because that choice is a genuine reputation-semantics decision; still spec/SDK layer, no whitepaper surface either way, but it is the second semantic (not editorial) divergence the C-series has surfaced (after C13/M4 V3-bound). Carry-forward watch items unchanged: presence-protocol DEFER (inward MCP); §7.7 promotion gate (Normative + 2 implementations); inter-society-protocol Part 6/Part 8 body integration; v0.28.0 → PyPI trigger; Sprint 52 conformance gaps; C13/M4 V3-Valuation-bound divergence (hold); **RDF `*.ttl` audit still outstanding** (predicted 2026-05-25, not yet taken).
- **Surface instinct (questioning the frame, not just the work):** tenth consecutive web4 pass (2026-05-15 → 2026-05-26) with zero whitepaper-body integration. The C-series instrument has now (a) swept all eleven non-RDF canonical-equation primitives to internal consistency and (b) begun extending *outward* into adjacent machinery (C15 reputation) while the `*.ttl` interior remains unaudited — and two of its recent findings (C13/M4 V3-bound, C15/H1 reputation accumulate-vs-average) are genuine *semantic* spec ⇄ SDK divergences rather than editorial defects. That maturation is the real story: the spec corpus is making its load-bearing primitives safe to cite, which is exactly what *earns* a clean whitepaper promotion when the next release surface lands. But the frame deserves a flag: the integration trigger has been static for ten days, and the genuine forward signal now lives entirely in the watch items (v0.28.0 → PyPI; §7.7 Normative; the accumulating semantic divergences) — not in the daily audit stream. The daily no-change check still does real work (build-alignment + term-drift verification, relevance triage, witnessing trail per web4's own "witness everything"), but if the next 2–3 passes are again pure C-series audits with the release surface still unmoved, it is worth asking whether this should drop to an event-triggered check (on `whitepaper/sections/*` touch, a release tag, or §7.7 status change) rather than a daily cadence. Not changing it today; flagging the cadence question upward. Hold.

### 2026-05-25: Publisher Maintenance - No-Change Check (C12/C13/C14 land as predicted — framework + T3/V3 internal-consistency sweep; SDK fee-free default; no whitepaper relevance)
- Seven commits since the 2026-05-24 no-change check (56552b8), all the same C-series internal-consistency audit/remediation stream plus one SDK default-alignment fix. **None touch `whitepaper/sections/*`** (verified: no source-section commit since 42e3e47, 2026-05-19; published artifact `docs/whitepaper-web/WEB4_Whitepaper_Complete.md` still 254811 bytes / 2026-05-19, aligned with source — no rebuild needed). The 2026-05-24 entry predicted "watch whether C12/C13 land next week and complete the sweep"; **they landed the very next day, plus C14** — the framework + tensor docs are now audited and remediated. All seven commits:
  - **#229 (628d3fd) — C12 r6-framework.md internal-consistency audit (11 findings):** Analysis-only memo at `docs/audits/r6-framework-internal-consistency-2026-05-24.md` (346 insertions). R6 is `web4-standard/core-spec/r6-framework.md`, the action-framework primitive (canonical-equation foundation layer). Same instrument as C2–C11.
  - **#231 (06300ca) — C12 r6-framework remediation (all 11 findings):** 64 insertions / 43 deletions in `r6-framework.md`. Editorial/structural — no new fields, no wire-format change.
  - **#230 (8c45e11) — C13 t3-v3-tensors.md internal-consistency audit (11 findings):** Analysis-only memo (286 insertions). T3/V3 is the canonical-equation trust/value tensor primitive — the last non-RDF primitive the 2026-05-24 entry flagged as outstanding.
  - **#232 (6e90c52) — C13 t3-v3-tensors remediation (all 11 findings):** 42 insertions / 17 deletions. Mostly editorial, but three substantive-but-spec-internal items: (a) added a **Continuous Quality-Formula** for T3 updates (`delta = 0.02·(quality − 0.5)`, dimension factors talent=1.0/training=0.8/temperament=0.6) as a complement to the categorical outcome table; (b) aligned a SPARQL trust-composite `BIND` weight from `0.3/0.4/0.3` to the normative **`0.4/0.3/0.3`** §10.2 weights (the same protocol-invariant the 2026-05-19 t3-002 vector fix established) — fixing a spec-internal inconsistency, not changing the invariant; (c) clarified V3 entity-role binding (V3 derives context from co-located T3Tensor, avoiding RDF domain violations). **New open question (C13/M4):** V3 Valuation bound is a **3-way divergence** — spec + `t3v3-ontology.ttl` say Valuation MAY exceed 1.0, but the SDK `V3.__post_init__` clamps to [0,1] and vector t3v3-002 assumes normalized inputs; flagged as a semantic operator decision, not a bug. Spec-level (the whitepaper narrative does not enumerate tensor value ranges) — observed, not a whitepaper watch item.
  - **#233 (f06e03b) — C14 r7-framework.md internal-consistency audit (10 findings):** Analysis-only memo (224 insertions). R7 is the extended action framework (in the whitepaper status table + glossary at the concept level).
  - **#234 (6d40cc4) — C14 r7-framework remediation (all 10 findings):** 50 insertions / 16 deletions. Made the R7 Result **`status` enum normative** (`pending`/`validated`/`in_progress`/`success`/`failure`/`error`/`cancelled`, aligned with the SDK `ActionStatus`), with a `failure` (action ran, unsuccessful outcome) vs `error` (framework/execution fault before a valid outcome) distinction; renamed an example field `"value"`→`"valuation"` (V3-dimension alignment); fixed SDK examples (catch `OutputViolation` vs generic `Exception`; source `action_id` from the request nonce, not the ledger txHash since failed actions have no `ledgerProof`). R7 lifecycle detail at the spec/SDK layer; the whitepaper carries R7 conceptually (status table + glossary), not its Result status enum — no integration warranted.
  - **#228 (62524cf) — fix(sdk): make ATP `transfer()` fee-free by default per §6.3 (C11/M3):** `atp.py` default `fee_rate` 0.05 → 0.0 (+ test). This is the **SDK catching up to the already-"Resolved (spec)" `atp-adp-cycle.md` §6.3** item ("fee-free at protocol level; implementations MUST NOT hard-code fee rates"); the 5% used in vectors/sims is an explicit simulation parameter, not a protocol default. The Pending-Updates "ATP transfer-fee semantics" row already records the spec resolution and the no-integration verdict (whitepaper Part 3 does not enumerate society economic policies); #228 changes nothing for the whitepaper.
- **Canonical-equation primitive sweep now near-complete**: C2 (MCP), C5 (presence/inward-MCP), C6 (inter-society/outward-MCP), C7 (society-roles), C8 (entity-types), C9 (LCT), C10 (MRH), C11 (ATP/ADP), and now **C12 (R6), C13 (T3/V3), C14 (R7)**. The only primitive-set docs not yet through the C-series instrument are the RDF ontology files (`web4-standard/ontology/*.ttl`) — and the C13/M4 V3-bound divergence shows the audit is already cross-checking spec ⇄ ontology ⇄ SDK ⇄ vectors, so a dedicated `*.ttl` audit may be the natural next/last step.
- **Verdict: no whitepaper integration.** No source-section change; no rebuild. The substantive spec items (T3 continuous-quality formula, R7 status enum, V3-bound open question) are all at the spec/SDK/vector layer the whitepaper does not enumerate. The next genuine integration trigger is unchanged: a registry publish (v0.28.0 → PyPI) or §7.7 reaching `status: Normative`.
- **Surface instinct:** nine consecutive web4 passes (2026-05-15 → 2026-05-25) on SDK/conformance/audit/release-record discipline with zero whitepaper-body integration. The C-series has now swept all eleven non-RDF canonical-equation primitives to internal consistency, and the audit's reach has matured from single-doc structural cleanup (C2) to **cross-surface invariant reconciliation** (C13/M4 spec ⇄ ontology ⇄ SDK ⇄ vector on the V3 bound; C14 spec ⇄ SDK `ActionStatus`). That is exactly the discipline that *earns* a clean whitepaper promotion when the next release surface lands — the spec corpus is making itself safe to cite. The one thing worth flagging upward: the C13/M4 V3-Valuation-bound divergence is the first C-series finding that is a genuine *semantic* design choice (clamp vs unbounded) rather than an editorial defect, and it sits on a canonical-equation primitive — when the operator resolves it, the resolution (especially if "Valuation may exceed 1.0") could eventually warrant a one-line glossary clarification. Not today; hold.

### 2026-05-24: Publisher Maintenance - No-Change Check (C-series audit/remediation runs continue at higher cadence; C8/C9/C10/C11 all audit+remediation same-week; no whitepaper relevance)
- Eight commits since the 2026-05-22 no-change check (993e974), all the same C-series internal-consistency audit/remediation stream that has dominated the web4 stream since 2026-05-15. **None touch `whitepaper/sections/*`.** The cadence has compressed from "audit-then-defer" (2026-05-22 C8) to "audit-and-remediate-same-day" (2026-05-23 C9/C10/C11 all both audited and remediated). All eight commits:
  - **#219 (fff0748, 2026-05-22) — C8 entity-types.md remediation (9 of 10 audit findings):** Resolves the 2026-05-22 C8 audit's HIGH section-numbering corruption and most MEDIUM/LOW findings. 61 insertions / 55 deletions across 2 files. L1 specifically converts "blockchain" pseudocode comment to "immutable ledger," aligned with the audit; no protocol-surface change. Closes the watch item "C8 entity-types.md remediation pending" from the 2026-05-22 pass.
  - **#220+#221 (ad9db39, 2026-05-22) — C7 residual cross-reference defects in society-roles.md:** 2 insertions / 2 deletions. Editorial cleanup of cross-references missed in the original C7 remediation. Same spec, no protocol surface change.
  - **#222 (09f6f2b, 2026-05-23) — C9 LCT-linked-context-token.md internal-consistency audit (8 findings):** Analysis-only artifact at `docs/audits/lct-internal-consistency-2026-05-23.md` (293 insertions, single file). Same instrument as C2/C5/C6/C7/C8. **C9 reaches into the load-bearing primitives now** — LCT is the canonical-equation `LCT` symbol; auditing the LCT spec doc is structurally important, but the audit itself is analysis, not protocol change.
  - **#223 (e2c6bc6, 2026-05-23) — C10 mrh-tensors.md internal-consistency audit (9 findings):** Analysis-only memo (222 insertions). Same C-series instrument. MRH is `web4-standard/core-spec/mrh-tensors.md`, the second load-bearing primitive in the canonical equation; same audit-then-remediate pattern.
  - **#224 (a7d6143, 2026-05-23) — C11 atp-adp-cycle.md internal-consistency audit (9 findings):** Analysis-only memo (308 insertions). Third load-bearing primitive in the same day; the audit instrument is now sweeping the entire canonical-equation primitive set systematically.
  - **#225 (2088a88, 2026-05-23) — C9 LCT remediation (all 8 findings):** Same-day remediation of the C9 audit. 17 insertions / 9 deletions in `LCT-linked-context-token.md`. M4 fix: §3.2 step 5 changed from `issuing_society = null` to omit the field (presence-by-absence over explicit-null convention). Editorial remediation; no wire-shape change.
  - **#226 (a94bc80, 2026-05-23) — C10 mrh-tensors remediation (9 findings):** Same-day remediation. 24 insertions / 20 deletions. Editorial; no protocol surface change.
  - **#227 (3873751, 2026-05-23) — C11 atp-adp-cycle remediation (audit findings):** Same-day remediation. 43 insertions / 3 deletions in `atp-adp-cycle.md`. The largest of today's remediations by line count (net +40); reviewing the diff shows added clarifying prose and normative tightening — no new fields, no wire-format change. ATP/ADP shape unchanged.
- **C-series instrument now sweeps the entire canonical-equation primitive set**: C2 (mcp-protocol/`MCP`), C5 (presence-protocol/inward-MCP), C6 (inter-society-protocol/MCP-as-outward), C7 (society-roles), C8 (entity-types), C9 (LCT), C10 (MRH), C11 (ATP/ADP). The remaining canonical-equation primitives are RDF (`web4-standard/ontology/*.ttl`) and T3/V3 (`t3-v3-tensors.md`). Worth watching whether C12/C13 land next week and complete the sweep — this would be a milestone in the spec-corpus internal-consistency phase.
- **No source section changes since the 2026-05-19 build.** Verified: no commits touch `whitepaper/sections/*` since 42e3e47 (2026-05-19); `build/WEB4_Whitepaper_Complete.md` and `docs/whitepaper-web/WEB4_Whitepaper_Complete.md` both 254811 bytes, dated 2026-05-19, identical, aligned with current source. No rebuild needed.
- **Live whitepaper sections verified clean of canonical-term drift** — grep for the documented wrong expansions across live `sections/*` (excluding archive) returns zero hits.
- Remaining watch items carry forward unchanged: presence-protocol DEFER (inward MCP, still evolving); §7.7 promotion gate (Normative + 2 implementations); inter-society-protocol Part 6/Part 8 body integration (gated on C6 editorial remediation); v0.28.0 → PyPI integration trigger; Sprint 52 conformance gaps (5 operator-architectural decisions). New watch item: **C12/C13 (RDF ontology / T3-V3 tensors) audits expected** if the C-series sweep continues at the established cadence.
- Surface instinct: eight consecutive web4 passes (2026-05-15 → 2026-05-24) on SDK/conformance/audit/release-record discipline with zero whitepaper-body integration. The C-series sweep has reached the load-bearing canonical-equation primitives (LCT/MRH/ATP-ADP all audited+remediated on a single day) and the cadence has compressed from audit-then-defer to audit-and-remediate-same-day. This is the spec corpus earning *complete* internal consistency before the next major release surface; same pattern as the Synchronism side's "discipline of waiting for the canonical registry surface before integrating," just applied to the spec rather than the implementation. The next genuine whitepaper integration trigger is unchanged: a registry publish (v0.28.0 → PyPI) or §7.7 reaching Normative. Hold.

### 2026-05-22: Publisher Maintenance - No-Change Check (C7/C8 audits complete the May-2026 spec audit sweep; no whitepaper relevance)
- Three commits since the 2026-05-21 no-change check (#214, 088a0d6), all the same C-series internal-consistency audit/remediation stream, **none touching `whitepaper/sections/*`**:
  - **#216 (0f61eab, 2026-05-21) — C7 society-roles.md internal-consistency audit** (`docs/audits/society-roles-internal-consistency-2026-05-21.md`): 9 findings (1 HIGH / 4 MEDIUM / 4 LOW), all structural/editorial (Law Oracle omitted from §5.1 solo-founder example, §7 relationship table gaps, private-repo reference, missing RFC 2119 notation, terminology drift). Analysis-only artifact; same instrument as C2/C5/C6. No whitepaper relevance.
  - **#217 (d7ba168, 2026-05-21) — fix(spec): resolve all 9 C7 findings in society-roles.md.** Touches only `web4-standard/core-spec/society-roles.md` (13 insertions / 4 deletions): added Law Oracle to the solo-founder multi-hat example, added mcp-protocol.md + web4-society-authority-law.md rows to the §7 table, removed an incorrect R7-Witness attribution, added RFC 2119 notation, standardized "Diplomat-Federation" → "Federation-Member". All editorial remediation of a spec doc; Society/SocietyRole are already represented in the whitepaper via the v0.2.0 family integration (2026-05-15). No whitepaper integration warranted.
  - **#218 (659fa53, 2026-05-22) — C8 entity-types.md internal-consistency audit** (`docs/audits/entity-types-internal-consistency-2026-05-22.md`): 10 findings (3 HIGH section-numbering corruption — duplicate §3.2, duplicate §5/§5.1, §4.2/§4.3 collision; 4 MEDIUM; 3 LOW). SDK alignment verified as full compliance. **Remediation explicitly deferred to a follow-up session** per the audit-then-remediate pattern. Analysis-only artifact; no whitepaper relevance. New watch item: C8 entity-types.md remediation pending.
- **C7+C8 complete the internal-consistency audit coverage of all new May-2026 specs** (C2: mcp-protocol.md, C5: presence-protocol.md, C6: inter-society-protocol.md, C7: society-roles.md, C8: entity-types.md). The corpus is now in a remediation-of-known-findings phase rather than discovery.
- **No source section changes since the 2026-05-19 build.** Verified: no commits touch `whitepaper/sections/*` since 42e3e47 (2026-05-19); `build/WEB4_Whitepaper_Complete.md` and `docs/whitepaper-web/WEB4_Whitepaper_Complete.md` both 254811 bytes, dated 2026-05-19, identical, aligned with current source. No rebuild needed.
- **Live whitepaper sections verified clean of canonical-term drift** — grep for the documented wrong expansions across live `sections/*` (excluding archive) returns zero hits.
- Remaining watch items carry forward: presence-protocol DEFER (inward MCP, still evolving); §7.7 promotion gate (Normative + 2 implementations); inter-society-protocol Part 6/Part 8 body integration (gated on C6 editorial remediation); v0.28.0 → PyPI integration trigger; Sprint 52 conformance gaps (5 operator-architectural decisions); **C8 entity-types.md remediation pending (new)**.
- Surface instinct: seven consecutive web4 passes (2026-05-15 → 2026-05-22) on SDK/conformance/audit/release-record discipline with zero whitepaper-body integration. The C-series sweep (C2→C8) is the spec corpus systematically earning internal consistency before whitepaper promotion — a healthy, deliberate quiet period, not stagnation. The audit instrument is now turning from *discovery* (each new May spec has now been audited once) toward *remediation* (C7 fixed same-day; C8 deferred). The next genuine integration trigger is unchanged: a registry publish (v0.28.0 → PyPI) or §7.7 reaching Normative. Hold.

### 2026-05-21: Publisher Maintenance - No-Change Check (PUBLISHED.md v0.2.0 watch item RESOLVED; C6 audit no whitepaper relevance)
- One commit since the 2026-05-20 no-change check (71f3a74): **#214 (088a0d6, 2026-05-21) — C6 inter-society-protocol audit + PUBLISHED.md v0.2.0 refresh.** Two parts, neither touching `whitepaper/sections/*`:
  - **PUBLISHED.md v0.1.1 → v0.2.0 refresh — RESOLVES the coordination gap flagged 2026-05-16.** The release record at `docs/proof/PUBLISHED.md` now leads with "Current Release: v0.2.0 (2026-05-15)" and lists all package surfaces (web4-core/web4-trust-core crates.io 0.2.0, PyPI 0.2.0, web4-trust-core npm 0.2.0, web4-trust PyPI 0.2.0, web4-sdk PyPI 0.27.0), with v0.1.1 history preserved. The Executive Summary's dual citation (PUBLISHED.md *and* CHANGELOG.md) was a 2026-05-16 workaround for the stale PUBLISHED.md; **both citations are now accurate** so no Executive Summary edit is needed — the workaround simply stops being a workaround. Watch item closed.
  - **C6 inter-society-protocol.md internal-consistency audit** (`docs/audits/inter-society-protocol-internal-consistency-2026-05-21.md`): 13 findings (3 HIGH / 5 MEDIUM / 5 LOW), all structural/editorial (duplicate §4 numbering, stale v0.1.0 header vs actual v0.1.2, missing mcp-protocol.md from §8 relationship table), **none conceptual**. Same instrument as C2 (mcp-protocol) / C5 (presence-protocol). Per the established pattern, audit artifacts inform spec evolution but are not whitepaper content; this strengthens the case for the deferred Part 6/Part 8 inter-society-protocol integration once the spec's editorial findings are remediated, but is not itself a trigger. No whitepaper relevance today.
- **No source section changes since the 2026-05-19 build.** Verified: no commits touch `whitepaper/sections/*` since 42e3e47 (2026-05-19); `build/WEB4_Whitepaper_Complete.md` and `docs/whitepaper-web/WEB4_Whitepaper_Complete.md` both dated 2026-05-19 (254811 bytes, identical), aligned with current source. No rebuild needed.
- **Live whitepaper sections verified clean of canonical-term drift** — grep for the documented wrong expansions across live `sections/*` (excluding archive) returns zero hits.
- Remaining watch items carry forward: presence-protocol DEFER (inward MCP, still evolving); §7.7 promotion gate (Normative + 2 implementations); inter-society-protocol Part 6/Part 8 body integration (now also gated on C6 editorial remediation); v0.28.0 → PyPI integration trigger; Sprint 52 conformance gaps (5 operator-architectural decisions).
- Surface instinct: the PUBLISHED.md refresh closes the *last* release-record discrepancy from the v0.2.0 family release — the operator picked up a coordination gap the publisher could only flag (PUBLISHED.md is release-record discipline, out of strict whitepaper scope). This validates the flag-and-defer pattern: the publisher surfaces out-of-scope gaps in its report, the owning track resolves them. Six consecutive web4 passes (2026-05-15 → 2026-05-21) on SDK/conformance/audit/release-record discipline with zero whitepaper-body integration — the spec corpus is in a sustained internal-consistency phase. The next genuine integration trigger is unchanged: a registry publish (v0.28.0 → PyPI) or §7.7 reaching Normative. Hold.

### 2026-05-20: Publisher Maintenance - No-Change Check (single format-only SDK commit since 2026-05-19)
- One commit since the 2026-05-19 conformance-stat-calibration pass (1663908): **#213 (b6c243c, 2026-05-19) — `ruff format` drift fix on `test_conformance.py` + `mcp.py`.** Format-only, explicitly "no semantic diff" per the commit; applies the format that makes SESSION_FOCUS.md's "ruff format --check passes with 0 changes" assertion factually true. Quality gates: 2749 passed / 5 xfailed; mypy strict clean. **No whitepaper relevance** — this is SDK-internal formatting, not a protocol-surface change, and the v0.28.0 SDK family is still pre-PyPI-publish (the Executive Summary's `web4-sdk v0.27.0 on PyPI` reference remains correct per the 2026-05-19 watch item).
- **No source section changes since the 2026-05-19 build.** Verified: no commits touch `whitepaper/sections/*` since 1663908; `build/WEB4_Whitepaper_Complete.md` and `docs/whitepaper-web/WEB4_Whitepaper_Complete.md` both dated 2026-05-19 (254811 bytes, identical), aligned with current source. No rebuild needed.
- **Live whitepaper sections verified clean of canonical-term drift** — grep for the documented wrong expansions (Lifecycle-Continuous Trust, Audit Trail Point, Attention Transfer Packet, Alignment Discharge Protocol, Triple Trust, Triple Value) across live `sections/*` (excluding archive) returns zero hits.
- All Pending Updates watch items from prior passes carry forward unchanged (presence-protocol DEFER; §7.7 promotion gate; v0.28.0 → PyPI integration trigger; PUBLISHED.md v0.2.0 refresh coordination gap).
- Surface instinct: the web4 stream has now spent five consecutive maintenance passes (2026-05-15 → 2026-05-20) on SDK/conformance/format discipline with zero whitepaper-body integration — a healthy quiet period where the spec corpus earns internal consistency between published-release surfaces. The next genuine integration trigger remains a registry publish (v0.28.0 → PyPI, surfacing the 376-export / 2749-test counts) or §7.7 reaching `status: Normative` per the promotion-tracking memo. Nothing in the current commit stream moves either gate; correct action is to hold.

### 2026-05-19: Publisher Maintenance - Conformance Stat Calibration (xfail count 8 → 5)
- Four commits since 2026-05-18 no-change check (9ace6d7) reviewed. Three of four are the same C5/conformance discipline stream documented in the 2026-05-18 entry. **One substantive whitepaper-affecting drift identified and corrected**: the Executive Summary's published claim of "8 xfailed gaps" is now 5, post #210.
- **Conformance vector-spec reconciliation (#210, 3f12462, 2026-05-18, landed *after* yesterday's no-change check at 9ace6d7):** Three of the 8 documented xfails turned out to be **vector errors, not architectural gaps** — vectors were authored before Sprints 44/47/48 strengthened the normative spec, and contradicted what the protocol-invariant §10.2 weights / §2.3 Talent-no-decay invariant / §3.3 V3-valuation-as-economic now require. Fixes: t3-002 weighted composite (was unweighted mean); t3-006 talent_unchanged + temperament-recovery (was decay); r7-rep-001 V3 = veracity+validity only (was all 3 dims). Suite: 34 passed / 5 xfailed (was 31 / 8). **Remaining 5 xfails are genuine architectural gaps requiring operator decisions**, not vector errors — sharper framing than the prior catch-all "documented gaps" wording.
  - **Executive Summary correction**: line 41 wording "39 tests; 8 xfailed gaps documented for the next operator architectural-decision pass" → "39 tests; 5 xfailed gaps awaiting operator architectural decisions". Tightens framing in addition to fixing the number. Rebuilt `build/WEB4_Whitepaper_Complete.md` and `docs/whitepaper-web/WEB4_Whitepaper_Complete.md` (3,798 lines, 252K). PDF + web artifacts not rebuilt (single-number prose edit, no structure change).
- **C5 audit G4 — P1-003 fix + P1-004 add (#208, ac9de27, 2026-05-18):** P12: P1-003 ("v1 protocolVersion bumped on connect") previously didn't actually verify protocolVersion — now does a fresh `hestia_connect` and asserts `protocolVersion == 1` in the response. P13: new P1-004 verifies wait-protocol default values (`status == "decided"`, `nextPollMs == null` on v1 query_policy per §3.4.1). Closes the C5 audit's G4 group, completing the G1+G2+G3+G4 remediation cycle. 14 conformance scenarios (was 13). Spec-discipline; no whitepaper integration warranted (presence-protocol remains in DEFER per the §7.8 watch item).
- **Conformance corpus consistency — P1-003 shapeMatchesSchema (#209, b5c9e87, 2026-05-19):** Adds `shapeMatchesSchema` assertion to the P1-003 connect step, bringing the new vector into shape with the corpus convention. Vector-quality discipline; no whitepaper relevance.
- **presence-protocol CHANGELOG stale-section resolution (#211, 40e6228, 2026-05-19):** CHANGELOG hygiene — resolves a "Upcoming (planned)" v1 section that became stale after v1 actually shipped (the planned items moved to "Released" but the planning header was left behind). Doc-quality fix; no whitepaper relevance.
- **Implementation-SDK v0.28.0 housekeeping (Sprint 55 T1, #212, 11d79d2, 2026-05-19 — landed during this maintenance pass):** Version bump consolidating cross-society MCP types (PR #195/#199; 369→376 exports), the #210 xfail resolution, and the `_pkg_version` rename fix. 2749 tests (2744 passed, 5 xfailed). **Same internal-SDK pattern as Sprint 53 T1 #191 (v0.27.0 housekeeping)** — not a published-registry surface change. Per 2026-04-29 / 2026-05-15 precedent, Executive Summary's `web4-sdk v0.27.0 on PyPI` reference is correct until v0.28.0 ships to PyPI. No Executive Summary version bump warranted. Watch item: integrate v0.28.0 + the 376-export / 2749-test counts when next PyPI publish lands.
- **No source/artifact rebuild needed for other sections** (build now aligned with 2026-05-19 source state from this maintenance pass).
- Surface instinct: today's #210 is methodologically interesting — it surfaces that **conformance vectors can be wrong before the spec is**. When the spec evolves (Sprints 44/47/48 strengthened invariants) but vectors lag, the resulting "xfails" look architectural when they are actually staleness. The 3-of-8 reduction is therefore not "we fixed 3 gaps" but "3 of 8 weren't gaps in the first place — they were anachronistic vectors." The whitepaper's xfail count is the operator-facing number, and the framing in line 41 conflated the two failure modes — vector errors and architectural gaps. Sharpening the wording matters more than the number bump: "5 xfailed gaps awaiting operator architectural decisions" makes explicit that the *remaining* ones are operator-decision-bound. Worth carrying this disambiguation forward — when the Sprint 52 conformance-gap memo lands its next round of resolutions, the same care applies.

### 2026-05-18: Publisher Maintenance - No-Change Check (audit-driven spec discipline; presence-protocol DEFER continues; §7.7 promotion-gate stub identifies long-pole)
- Eight commits since 2026-05-17 no-change check (1db7119) reviewed. None warrant whitepaper integration today; all are audit-driven internal-consistency clean-up of two specs already on the watch list (`presence-protocol.md` evolving / `mcp-protocol.md` §7.7 WIP). Pattern is healthy spec discipline closing audit findings before the spec stabilizes for whitepaper integration.
- **C5 presence-protocol internal-consistency audit (#204, 47ef781, 2026-05-17):** Analysis-only memo at `docs/audits/presence-protocol-internal-consistency-2026-05-17.md` — same instrument as the 2026-05-15 C2 mcp-protocol audit. 2 HIGH / 4 MEDIUM / 3 LOW. Headline: spec's own discipline thesis is asymmetrically held — normative input-casing rule contradicted the schemas the spec itself binds. No spec/schema edits in this commit. Audit-only artifact; no whitepaper relevance directly. Material is the spec-fix stream it triggered (next two commits).
- **C5-G1 casing-authority + C5-G3 localized staleness (#206, a67e9c9, 2026-05-17):** Resolves 7 audit findings (P1/P3/P6 G1 + P4/P5/P7/P9 G3) in `presence-protocol.md`. G1: §3 rewritten as surface-split casing rule (input snake / output+§5-type camel / §4 resource snake) anchored to the bound JSON Schemas; §7 gains explicit Precedence clause (Schemas DIRECTORY + vectors normative over prose). G3: protocolVersion example pinned to 1 (was stale 0), PolicyResult type-catalog entry extended with status/nextPollMs/enforced, link text + error-list caveat fixes. **Zero wire-shape change — only prose brought in line with existing schemas.** Reinforces the DEFER rationale: spec is still earning internal consistency.
- **C5-G2 discipline honesty (#207, 728d3ff, 2026-05-18):** Resolves 4 findings (P2/P8/P10/P11) in `presence-protocol.md`. P2 HIGH: `synthetic` field marked as not-yet-conformed in §3.1 and added to §8 drift table (no v1 `hestia_connect` schema exists as structural prerequisite); added to §9 "Still pending." P8 LOW: §2 bump rule gains explicit back-compat exception clause (optional additive fields do NOT trigger version bump). P10 MED: §9 restructured into "Completed in v1" and "Still pending" subsections. P11 MED: §8 drift row 3 (error codes never emitted) marked resolved in v1. **Completes the G1+G2 "load-bearing pair" from the C5 audit's cross-cutting observation.** Spec is now internally consistent at v1 — but this is the *condition* for integration, not yet the trigger. presence-protocol remains in DEFER pending Hestia/Hardbound registry-published release.
- **mcp-protocol C2 audit remediation: HIGH §7.4↔§7.7 (F2/F3/F4/F12) (#200, 854df2c, 2026-05-17):** Resolves 4 HIGH findings from the 2026-05-15 C2 mcp-protocol audit. F2: §7.4 MUST for `exchange_rate` no longer depends on non-dependable §7.7 (conditional MUST on `atp_settlement` presence). F3: §7.4 example replaced (scalar bilateral model that §7.7.1 explicitly rejects → referent-grounded schema). F4: `atp_settlement` now carries caller/responder currencies + amounts + referent object + exchange_agreement_ref. F12: §7.7 conformance status disambiguated per-subsection (§7.7.1/§7.7.4 Normative, §7.7.2/§7.7.3/§7.7.7 Normative-draft, §7.7.5/§7.7.6 Informative). **§7.7 is converging toward stability, but not stable.** The whitepaper "Pending Updates" entry "MCP-as-inter-society-protocol per canonical equation" already marks §7.7 as Partially Resolved — that classification holds.
- **mcp-protocol C2 audit remediation: MEDIUM F1/F5/F15 (#201, 53642df, 2026-05-17):** Normative-clarification fixes in `mcp-protocol.md`. Same spec-fix stream as #200; mechanics-level clean-up, no architectural change.
- **mcp-protocol C2 audit remediation: LOW F14/F16 (#203, 79ca926, 2026-05-17):** Minor presentation/example fixes in `mcp-protocol.md`. Closes the C2 audit's LOW band.
- **§7.7 promotion tracking stub (Sprint 54 C3, #202, 41e1a80, 2026-05-17):** Memo at `docs/audits/s7.7-promotion-tracking-2026-05-16.md` capturing what must be true to promote §7.7 (Referent-Grounded Exchange Rate Negotiation) from v0.1.0-draft to v0.1.0-normative. **3 hard prerequisites** (PR #200 merge ✓ achieved today; F11 signing authority; F8 verify), **5 open design questions** requiring operator decisions, and **implementation-evidence criteria** (2 implementations + interop + error catalogue). Memo identifies "two implementations" requirement as the real long-pole and recommends the presence-protocol discipline pattern (spec + schemas + conformance vectors as atomic unit). **This is a publisher-relevant artifact**: it formalizes the §7.7 promotion gate so the whitepaper integration trigger is now explicit — `§7.7 status: Normative` + 2 implementations is the threshold for upgrading "Partially Resolved" → "Resolved" on the Pending Updates row. Watch item refined accordingly.
- **Cross-society types SDK test coverage (#199, 39fb411, 2026-05-17):** Test-only coverage for the cross-society types that landed in PR #195. SDK test infrastructure; no protocol-surface change.
- **Live whitepaper sections verified clean of canonical-term drift** — only archive files (`sections/*/archive/*`) contain historical drift expansions, intentionally preserved per 2026-04-29 4a0dce7 cleanup. No live-section corrections needed.
- **No content changes; no source/artifact rebuild needed** (build remains aligned with 2026-05-16 source state from 5ccbe46 — confirmed via `build/WEB4_Whitepaper_Complete.md` mtime 2026-05-16, no source changes in `whitepaper/sections/*` since).
- Surface instinct: today's eight-commit stream is the **first full audit-remediation cycle** executed since the audit instruments themselves stabilized (C2 instrument 2026-05-15 mcp-protocol → C5 instrument 2026-05-17 presence-protocol). The pattern is: dedicated audit PR opens the findings ledger → severity-banded remediation PRs close it (HIGH first, then MEDIUM, then LOW, with G-grouped cross-cutting fixes interleaved). This is **a publisher-readable signal**: when a spec runs the C-audit cycle and the discipline-honesty group lands (§9 "Still pending" + drift-table cross-reference), the spec is structurally ready for review-stage scrutiny even if the wire surface is still earning maturity. Worth foregrounding when next major integration pass writes the §7.7 → Part 7 expansion: the audit-cycle metadata (which audit instrument, which severity bands closed, which findings deferred) becomes part of the integration justification, not just an internal-discipline artifact. The §7.7 promotion-tracking memo (#202) is the first instance of this — it makes the integration gate **operator-checklist-shaped** rather than a one-line "watch" entry. Recommend evolving the whitepaper "Pending Updates" table to cite promotion-tracking memos directly when they exist (rather than re-deriving the gate logic per maintenance pass).

### 2026-05-17: Publisher Maintenance - No-Change Check (presence-protocol genesis, conformance discipline; design still evolving)
- Seven commits since 2026-05-16 v0.2.0 family release integration (5ccbe46) reviewed. None warrant whitepaper integration today; the day's work introduces a new inward-MCP surface (presence-protocol) but the spec is evolving rapidly (v0 → v1 → v1+wait → v1+synthetic-flag in <24h).
- **presence-protocol v0 (d786770, 2026-05-16):** New core spec at `web4-standard/core-spec/presence-protocol.md` capturing the **inward** MCP surface — the protocol an agentic orchestrator (SAGE, Claude Code, Cursor, custom agents) speaks to the **presence layer** of a Web4 entity (Hestia software-bound / Hardbound hardware-bound). Distinct from `mcp-protocol.md` which is the *outward* society-to-society MCP. Tools (8): `hestia_connect`, `hestia_begin_action`, `hestia_record_outcome`, `hestia_query_policy`, `hestia_vault_get`, `hestia_vault_set`, `hestia_query_history`, `hestia_request_witness`. Resources (6) + Error codes (10). Substantive new architectural surface — the whitepaper currently documents only the outward MCP (Part 7 §7.3-§7.6 via v0.2.0 integration). Per inclusion criteria ("New protocol element implemented in code" → high priority) the surface is real, but per "Design still evolving" (4 versions of the spec in 1 day) DEFER. Added to watch list.
- **presence-protocol v1 — policy engine (e64eb4c, 2026-05-16):** Same-day bump to v1. `hestia_query_policy` returns real decisions (rule engine ported from `claude-code/plugins/web4-governance/`). PolicyResult shape extends with `ruleId` / `ruleName` / `constraints`. Vault schema v1 → v2 (`policy` section alongside `entries`). Four built-in presets (`permissive`/`safety`/`strict`/`audit-only`). New `hestia policy {show|set|test}` CLI. `vault_set` events now appended to witness chain (credential name only, never the secret). Implementations bumped: Hestia daemon 0.0.2→0.0.3, TS SDK 0.0.2→0.0.3, Rust/Python SDKs local-only, `hardbound-pak` 0.0.1→0.0.2. **First real test of the protocol-discipline pattern** (CHANGELOG + spec + schemas + conformance vectors + SDK constants all bumped in one PR). Same DEFER reasoning as v0.
- **presence-protocol v1 wait protocol (05338b0, 2026-05-16):** Back-compat extension on `hestia_query_policy` output: `status: "decided" | "evaluating"` + `nextPollMs: int | null`. Allows future LLM-backed policy engines to say "still thinking, come back in N ms." v1 daemons with sync rule engines always return `"decided"` / `null`. Forward-compatible addition (no v1.1 split). Increases the "still evolving" signal. DEFER.
- **presence-protocol §3.1 synthetic flag (66d7c3b, 2026-05-17):** Optional `synthetic: bool` flag on action records, distinguishing actions generated by the entity's cognition from actions injected for simulation/testing. Minor spec refinement; reinforces that the spec is still in active shape-finding. DEFER.
- **Sprint 54 C4 vector-freshness check process (#197, 4b3dd89, 2026-05-16):** Adds `VECTOR-FRESHNESS.md` to `web4-standard/testing/conformance/` documenting the staleness hazard when conformance vectors lag behind protocol changes. Includes manual pre-merge checklist, CI-hook design (field-set diff heuristic, design only no impl), vector-provenance metadata convention. README.md links the checklist under "Contributing Vectors." Conformance/CI discipline; whitepaper does not document conformance-vector authoring process. Operations-level artifact, not protocol primitive. No integration warranted.
- **Conformance README + P0-007 self-contained (0405999, 2026-05-16):** Test harness READMEs + making P0-007 self-contained (per the protocol-discipline pattern). Conformance scaffolding; not protocol-primitive content.
- **Kimi 2.6 review notes — web4 + hestia track (2327f46, 2026-05-16):** Forum artifact at `forum/kimi_2_6_web4_hestia.md`. External-model review of web4 + Hestia spec corpus. Per established pattern (multiple prior Kimi rounds across 2026-05-13/14/15), forum artifacts inform spec evolution but are not whitepaper content themselves. No integration warranted.
- **No content changes; no source/artifact rebuild needed (build remains aligned with 2026-05-16 source state from 5ccbe46).**
- Surface instinct: the v0.2.0 release (2026-05-15) closed the outward-MCP integration gap, and within ~24 hours the project has surfaced a **second MCP surface** (inward presence-protocol) with its own version-disciplined release cadence and its own implementation pair (Hestia / Hardbound). This is structurally important — the canonical equation's `MCP` term has now bifurcated in practice into **outward MCP** (society ↔ society, `mcp-protocol.md`) and **inward MCP** (presence ↔ cognition, `presence-protocol.md`). The whitepaper's current narrative (Part 7 §7) treats MCP as a single surface; once presence-protocol stabilizes past its rapid v0→v1 churn and the Hestia daemon ships a registry-published release (currently 0.0.3 pre-1.0), this becomes a substantive Part 7 expansion — likely a new §7.7 or §7.8 covering the inward surface, paralleling the outward §7.3-§7.6 structure. Worth tracking how the "inward vs outward MCP" framing propagates back into `mcp-protocol.md` itself.

### 2026-05-16: Publisher Maintenance - v0.2.0 Family Release Integration

- **Trigger**: 2026-05-15 published the v0.2.0 package family (commits beb2a9b + 1fb6c90), closing the publish-vs-main gap that had been a "watch item" since 2026-05-13. Per 2026-04-29 precedent, Executive Summary "Currently Available" leads with published packages — so the release-trigger-met watch items integrate now.
- **Executive Summary** (`sections/00-executive-summary/index.md`):
  - Status calibration paragraph: date 2026-04-29 → 2026-05-15; v0.1.1 → v0.2.0; added crates.io + PyPI + npm surface; added `web4-sdk` rename context (PyPI name collision with unrelated dormant package); noted inter-society protocol + society-roles + MCP §7.3-§7.6 + 35-vector conformance suite as the substantive content of the gap closure.
  - "Currently Available" bullet for `web4-core` / `web4-trust-core`: v0.1.1 → v0.2.0; added v0.2.0-new types (Society / SocietyRole / RoleAssignment, ATPAccount with conservation-invariant transfer + society-configurable fees + max_balance, R7Action with reputation as first-class output); added `npm install web4-trust-core` install line (first npm publish, WASM, ~337KB); release record cite now points to both `docs/proof/PUBLISHED.md` and the new top-level `CHANGELOG.md`.
  - Added new "Currently Available" bullet for **`web4-sdk` v0.27.0** documenting the rename (was `web4`), cross-society types (`CrossSocietyContext`, `ReputationEnvelope`, `MCPContextResource`), inter-society protocol integration, 35-vector conformance runner with 39 tests + 8 xfailed gaps, 23 modules + 369 exports + 2,709 tests, and the unchanged `from web4 import ...` import path.
- **Conclusion** (`sections/11-conclusion/index.md`):
  - Status note: 2026-04-29 → 2026-05-15; mirrored Executive Summary version bumps and v0.2.0-new types.
  - Findings table: web4-core row updated to v0.2.0 + Society/Role/ATP/R7 types; web4-trust-core row updated to v0.2.0 + npm WASM surface (new column entry); new row for `web4-sdk` v0.27.0; Reference-Python-SDK row test count updated 2,627 → 2,709 and re-pointed at the now-public PyPI package.
- **No other section changes warranted**:
  - Body sections covering LCT, T3/V3, R6/R7, society/role, ATP/ADP, MRH already describe the relevant primitives at the right level of abstraction; v0.2.0 ships shipped-spec versions of these, not new concepts.
  - "Emerging Implementation" subsection of Executive Summary (Hardbound CLI governance stack: R7, ACP, Sybil-resistance, multi-device binding, etc.) was untouched — those features have their own release cadence independent of `web4-core`.
  - Body sections containing analogies (Linux/GNU/distribution, biological membrane) were untouched per 7a96cbc framing-vs-finding discipline (the Conclusion's Findings/Framings table marks them as framings explicitly).
- **Resolved watch items** (from Pending Updates table):
  - "web4-core SDK Society/Role/ATP/R6 types" — RESOLVED, integrated into Executive Summary + Conclusion via v0.2.0
  - "WASM bindings for Society/Role/ATP/R7 primitives" — RESOLVED, integrated as the npm install row + Conclusion table entry
  - "inter-society-protocol.md" — PARTIALLY RESOLVED (shipped in v0.2.0 SDK; whitepaper-body integration deferred — Part 6 / Part 8 supplement is a future pass)
  - "MCP-as-inter-society-protocol per canonical equation" — PARTIALLY RESOLVED (MCP §7.3-§7.6 shipped in v0.2.0 spec corpus; §7.7 referent-grounded exchange-rate negotiation remains WIP)
- **Flagged but not fixed in this pass**: `docs/proof/PUBLISHED.md` is **still describing v0.1.1**. The Executive Summary now cites `docs/proof/PUBLISHED.md` *and* the top-level `CHANGELOG.md` so the citation is not hanging (CHANGELOG.md is current), but PUBLISHED.md itself wants a v0.2.0 refresh by whoever owns the release-record discipline (the v0.2.0 release commits beb2a9b + 1fb6c90 did not touch it). This is out of strict whitepaper scope but recorded here as a coordination gap.
- **Build**: Rebuilt md + pdf + web artifacts; copies in `docs/whitepaper-web/` synced.
- Surface instinct: the "publish-vs-implement gap" observation from the 2026-05-15 entry has now resolved through a single release event, which validates the discipline of waiting for the canonical registry surface before integrating. The pattern "watch (next release) → integrate on release" is now well-exercised twice (2026-04-29 and 2026-05-16). The next analogous trigger would be Hardbound CLI features getting their own packaged release surface — currently they live inside the Hardbound CLI binary, not as separately installable libraries. Worth watching whether the package-family pattern propagates upward to the governance-stack features.

### 2026-05-15: Publisher Maintenance - No-Change Check (implementation-SDK release + conformance gap memo; no published-release surface change)
- Thirteen commits since 2026-05-14 no-change check (30c4711) reviewed. None warrant whitepaper integration today; the day's work accumulates implementation evidence around watch items already noted, but the published-release surface on crates.io / PyPI is unchanged.
- **`web4-standard/implementation/sdk` v0.27.0 (Sprint 53 T1, #191, d155b6a, 2026-05-15):** Internal Python implementation-SDK version bump consolidating Sprints 41-42, 50-52: Society Roles module (`SocietyRole`, `RoleAssignment`, `bootstrap_society_roles`), `validate_minimum_viable()` for Rust parity, `Constraint` aligned with Rust (threshold + hard), conformance test runner (35 vectors, 39 tests, 8 xfailed). 2709 tests pass, 369 exports, 23 modules. **Distinct from `web4-core` / `web4-trust` published packages on crates.io / PyPI** (still v0.1.1 per `docs/proof/PUBLISHED.md`). Per 2026-04-29 precedent, Executive Summary "Currently Available" tracks published-registry releases, not internal SDK versioning. No Executive Summary change warranted. Watch item for SDK Society/Role/ATP/R7 types remains "next published release" — implementation evidence is now stronger (Python SDK + WASM bindings + conformance vectors), but the trigger is registry publish.
- **Sprint 52 conformance-gap consolidation memo (#190, c09d0d2, 2026-05-15):** Catalogues 8 Sprint 52 xfails. 3 of 8 restate Sprint 47 T3/V3 audit findings (Talent decay CRITICAL, weighted composite HIGH, update formula HIGH). 5 of 8 (62.5%) are **NEW surface gaps not in any prior audit**: constraint enforcement, V3 valuation as behavioral vs economic, role-004 assigner predicate, fed-001 child- vs parent-initiated federation, sub-dimension rollup. Counter-finding: ATP suite is 11/11 exact pass — Sprint 49 audit's "ATP is best-aligned pair" claim now operationally confirmed. Per inclusion criteria ("Code not yet written / Design still evolving"), no whitepaper integration warranted; this is a pre-spec gap analysis analogous to the Sprint 43 memo. Added as watch item.
- **WASM bindings for Society/SocietyRole/RoleAssignment/ATPAccount/R7Action (a2727b4, 2026-05-14):** Browser-side bindings for the same types added to `web4-core` 2026-05-13. Implementation evidence strengthening — but the underlying watch item ("integrate into Currently Available when next published release ships") is unchanged. WASM is a third surface (Rust + Python + browser) for the same primitives, all converging on a future release.
- **Sprint 50 T1 Python SDK Society/Role (#185, 6a2d067, 2026-05-14):** `SocietyRole` enum + `RoleAssignment` dataclass + `bootstrap_society_roles()` in the implementation SDK. Cross-language parity work; same watch-item bucket as the 2026-05-13 web4-core additions.
- **Sprint 51 T1 Constraint alignment (#187, 766611e, 2026-05-14):** `Constraint` dataclass replaces `value: Any` with `threshold: float` + `hard: bool`. Cross-language parity refinement. Spec-level; whitepaper does not enumerate `Constraint` field surface.
- **Sprint 52 T1 conformance pytest wiring (#189, 381904a, 2026-05-14):** Runs the 35 conformance vectors in pytest. Test infrastructure; no protocol change.
- **Forum/README polish (e457b25 + 0a80c37 + 679c1af, 2026-05-14):** Nova (GPT) cross-model review; README Linux/GNU framing replacing TCP/IP; Kimi 2.6 fourth-pass review (8.5/10 unchanged). Forum artifacts + README-level positioning; whitepaper Executive Summary has its own calibrated framing. No change.
- **AGENTS.md GitNexus stat refresh (uncommitted at this writing):** Stats line auto-updated to 123794/182949/230 to match CLAUDE.md (refreshed in 5ceddbb 2026-05-14). Housekeeping, not publisher work. AGENTS.md does not yet carry the `<!-- gitnexus:keep -->` marker that 5ceddbb added to CLAUDE.md; future indexer runs may clobber the block content until upstream publishes the keep-marker-aware release. Out of scope for this maintenance pass.
- **No content changes; no source/artifact rebuild needed (build remains aligned with 2026-04-29 source state from e990039).**
- Surface instinct: the publish-vs-implement gap is now the largest it has been since the v0.1.0 release. Society/Role/ATP/R7 types exist in three implementation surfaces (Rust, Python, WASM) with conformance vectors and a published-gap memo identifying 5 new architectural decisions — but the canonical PyPI/crates.io artifacts (`web4-core`, `web4-trust`) remain v0.1.1 from 2026-04-28. Two possibilities: (a) v0.2.0 cuts soon and the Executive Summary needs a substantive rewrite around the new primitives + their gap memo's open decisions, or (b) the gap memo's 5 operator-architectural-decision items block release and the gap-vs-publish window widens further. Worth noting that "implementation maturity ≠ release readiness" is itself becoming a publishable observation about the project's discipline.

### 2026-05-14: Publisher Maintenance - No-Change Check (SDK additions in main, spec evolution, audit watch resolved)
- Nineteen commits since 2026-05-13 no-change check reviewed against inclusion criteria. None warrant whitepaper integration today; multiple watch items resolved or added.
- **web4-core SDK additions in main, not yet published (8243895 + 8857ab0, 2026-05-13):** `web4-core` now has first-class `Society`/`Role` types (per `inter-society-protocol.md` + `society-roles.md`; 7 base-mandatory roles) and `ATPAccount` / `R6Action` / `R7Action` types (210 LOC + 230 LOC respectively; conservation-invariant transfer with society-configurable fees and max_balance; R7 extends R6 with reputation as first-class output). Per inclusion criteria ("New protocol element implemented in code" → high priority): code exists and is tested in `cargo test`, but it is **in the `main` branch only — not yet in any published v0.1.x release on crates.io / PyPI**. Following the 2026-04-29 precedent (Executive Summary "Currently Available" leads with published packages), no Executive Summary update warranted until next release. Watch item: integrate into "Currently Available" when v0.2.0 (or similar) ships. Spec coverage for these primitives already exists in the whitepaper glossary, Part 3 (ATP/ADP), Part 6 (R6/R7), Part 8 (society/role); SDK availability is the next maturity step, not new whitepaper content.
- **Sprint 46 T1 CI canonicity clarification (#181, 8e6d1ee, 2026-05-13):** Added §4.4 to `multi-device-lct-binding.md` documenting that `constellation_coherence` is the canonical metric (T3 tensor extension, witness density); "CI" / "Coherence Index" and numeric multipliers (e.g., 1.4×) are **simulation parameters, not protocol primitives**. **This resolves Sprint 43 SPEC GAP #10 watch item "CI/coherence as cost multiplier"** by clarifying the term is not a protocol primitive in the first place. No whitepaper integration warranted — the whitepaper does not currently use "CI" terminology. Watch item removed from pending list.
- **Sprint 47 T1 cross-language T3/V3 alignment audit (#182, cdf3711, 2026-05-13):** Audit document at `docs/audits/cross-language-t3v3-alignment-2026-05-13.md`. Implementation-alignment artifact, not protocol change.
- **Sprint 48 T1 Parameter governance index (#183, 824acd3, 2026-05-13):** Updates `t3-v3-tensors.md` with parameter governance index. Spec-level refinement; Part 3 narrative in whitepaper does not enumerate parameter governance — no whitepaper integration warranted. Watch item if/when whitepaper Part 3.2 is restructured.
- **inter-society-protocol.md genesis + iterations v0.1.1/v0.1.2 (17d6471 + f4803dd + 2f4454f, 2026-05-13):** New core spec covering genesis, first-contact, federation, secession; v0.1.1 incorporates Kimi round-3 sharpenings; v0.1.2 fixes R6-only to R6/R7 throughout. **Substantive new spec**, but still evolving (3 versions in one day). Per "Design still evolving" exclusion, DEFER whitepaper integration until spec stabilizes — likely worth a Part 6 / Part 8 supplement once v0.2 or later ships. Added to watch list.
- **mcp-protocol.md v0.1.3 — MCP IS the inter-society protocol (7c7c43c, 2026-05-13):** Significant equation-level claim: MCP is identified as the inter-society protocol per the canonical Web4 equation. Also touches README.md and STATUS.md. **WIP §7.7 (caa3878, 2026-05-14): referent-grounded exchange rate negotiation** — explicitly marked WIP. Per "Design still evolving" exclusion, DEFER. Added to watch list.
- **Kimi 2.6 cross-model reviews — three rounds + two post-amendment passes (0b73b92 + cd85ef1 + 31ce382):** External-model peer review of the web4 spec corpus. Forum artifacts, not whitepaper content. No integration warranted.
- **Worker session #184 (323b2cb, 2026-05-14):** Autonomous worker session producing `docs/audits/cross-language-society-role-atp-r6-alignment-2026-05-14.md` + SPRINT.md updates. Implementation-alignment artifact, not protocol change.
- **README + STATUS architectural-shape update (193607f):** README-level positioning change ("surface architectural shape upfront; honest qualifiers"). Whitepaper Executive Summary already has its own calibrated framing (2026-04-29 a5dafa6). No change.
- **society-roles.md + entity-types.md three-tier role taxonomy (05911c3):** Cross-reference between spec docs establishing a three-tier role taxonomy. Spec-level refinement; whitepaper Part 8 already discusses entity types and roles in narrative form. Could integrate as a Part 8 tightening once the SDK Society/Role types ship in a release; not warranted today.
- **Hardbound references update (6fdbb65):** README-level update on plugin bridge architecture and current status.
- **No content changes; no source/artifact rebuild needed (build remains aligned with 2026-04-29 source state from e990039).**
- Surface instinct: this is the highest-activity day for web4 spec/SDK work since the 2026-04-28 v0.1.0 release. The pattern is "spec stabilization through external review" (Kimi 2.6 three-round critique → spec amendments → SDK implementation in main → next release window). The whitepaper's role is to lag the spec, not lead it. Integration is correctly deferred until v0.2.0 ships and the inter-society-protocol stabilizes — but if both land in the next pass, the Executive Summary's "Currently Available" + "Emerging Implementation" sections will need a substantive rewrite, not a one-line addition.

### 2026-05-13: Publisher Maintenance - No-Change Check
- Six commits since 2026-05-04 no-change check reviewed against inclusion criteria. None warrant whitepaper integration today.
- **Sprint 44 T1 (#179, d530060, 2026-05-12)**: Resolved Sprint 43 SPEC GAP #2 (ATP transfer-fee semantics) and #5 (T3 Talent-decay ambiguity).
  - `atp-adp-cycle.md` §6.3 adds Transfer Fees as society-configurable MAY (declared rate/bearer/destination, transfer_policy in economic_laws YAML).
  - `t3-v3-tensors.md` strengthens Talent no-decay to explicit normative invariant; Training/Temperament remain society-configurable.
  - **No whitepaper integration**: Part 3 ATP/ADP narrative is high-level ("Biology Made Digital", perpetual cycle framing) and does not enumerate society-level economic policies anywhere. Adding fees-only would be incongruous. Similarly, Part 3.2 T3 narrative does not discuss decay mechanics. Both are spec-level normative refinements, not new protocol primitives. Watch item for transfer-fees marked resolved at spec level.
- **Sprint 45 T1 (#180, 7c228fd, 2026-05-13)**: Archive stale implementation artifacts. Housekeeping; no protocol changes.
- **Sprint 43 follow-up (#178, 372b06a, 2026-05-09)**: Strategic review follow-up audit + archive 3 stray implementation/ markdowns. Housekeeping.
- **Autonomous safety net (#176, 12ee197, 2026-05-12)**: Autonomous session — housekeeping.
- **Reference impl triage (#174/#175, cbc951a/485eb4f, 2026-05-06–08)**: Archive 15 reference files + classify 31 files for archive/keep + triage 9 sprawl directories. Housekeeping.
- No content changes; no source/artifact rebuild needed (build remains aligned with 2026-04-29 source state from e990039).

### 2026-05-04: Publisher Maintenance - No-Change Check
- Four content-bearing commits since 2026-04-30 rebuild reviewed against inclusion criteria. None warrant whitepaper integration today.
- **Live whitepaper sections verified clean of ATP/LCT terminology drift** following 4a0dce7 (2026-04-29) cleanup across spec corpus / docs/what+why+how/ / demo. All remaining historical drift hits are confined to `whitepaper/sections/*/archive/*`, intentionally preserved per the cleanup commit's "would falsify historical record" exclusion. No live-section corrections needed.
- **cross_language_verify example (afe68ab)**: Python+Rust round-trip on shared LocalLedger, demonstrating on-disk-format-as-contract. Per the 2026-04-29 identity_bootstrap precedent (doc-only, not whitepaper-worthy on its own), this is a demonstration of existing primitives (Ledger trait + hash-chained on-disk format), not a new protocol primitive. Cross-language interop was always implicit in Rust core + Python bindings. No whitepaper change.
- **heterogeneous-identity design note (64adbe2)**: substantive content — "constellation, not credential" framing, "ATP from measurement" (answers recurring 4-life visitor friction), witness != vouch, salience-aware fingerprinting, access-mode tiers. Phase 1+1.5+A reportedly live across fleet. **DEFER**: the design note itself flags 4 open questions (constellation size lower bound, divergence resolution, cross-domain witnessing, constellation observability). Per "Design still evolving" exclusion, integrate when those resolve. Added to pending list.
- **README "Who this is for, and why" (e064554)**: README-level audience/positioning content. Whitepaper Executive Summary already has its own calibrated current-state framing (2026-04-29 a5dafa6). Belongs in README, not whitepaper. No change.
- No content changes; no source/artifact rebuild needed (build remains aligned with 2026-04-29 source state from e990039).

### 2026-04-30: Publisher Maintenance - Rebuild for Calibration-Framing Edits
- Five non-publisher commits on 2026-04-29 (after the morning publisher build) edited whitepaper sources without rebuilding artifacts: exec summary calibration framing + v0.1.1 fix (a5dafa6); Introduction + Part 1 + Part 2 rewrite to "current state, not past vision" (16c0e77); Part 7 §7.0.0 published-packages section (367caac); conclusion full rewrite (5edc79f); Part 2.8 + conclusion framing restoration (fdf7e63)
- Net effect across 6 section files: +134/-151 lines, framing-level shift from "vision/revolution" rhetoric → calibrated current-state language. No new canonical terms; no terminology drift; existing published-packages narrative (v0.1.1) reinforced
- Rebuilt md (3,738 lines, 240K) and pdf (408K). Build artifacts and docs/whitepaper-web/ copies now reflect 2026-04-29 evening source state
- No new content authored by publisher this pass — pure artifact-source reconciliation

### 2026-04-29: Publisher Maintenance - First Public Release Reflected
- web4-core and web4-trust-core v0.1.0 published to crates.io and PyPI on 2026-04-28 (commit 9744051, plus v0.1.1 Python-import fix in 7d25a9d)
- Per inclusion criteria ("New protocol element implemented in code" → high priority): Executive Summary "Currently Available" now leads with the published packages and install commands; release record cited at `docs/proof/PUBLISHED.md`
- **Ledger trait + InMemoryLedger + LocalLedger** (commit 068f448, 2026-04-27) introduced as first-class abstraction in web4-core. The whitepaper already documents "hash-chained ledger" infrastructure in §7.0.1; the Ledger trait is the implementation primitive backing it (no new whitepaper concept introduced — the Rust API surface is implementation detail). Published-package note in Executive Summary now mentions "in-memory and on-disk Ledger backends" so the v0.1.0 surface is accurately described.
- Title page date bumped April 9 → April 29
- Identity bootstrap example (`web4-core/python/examples/identity_bootstrap.py`, commit b86b719) is doc-only — not whitepaper-worthy on its own
- Rebuilt all artifacts (md, pdf)

### 2026-04-27: Publisher Maintenance - No-Change Check (Sprints 36-43)
- Reviewed all commits since 2026-04-13 (Sprints 36-43, autonomous cleanup, GitNexus reindex)
- All work is SDK/tooling (ruff lint+format, examples cleanup, dead code removal, CI wheel smoke job, SDK v0.26.0 release housekeeping) — not protocol changes
- **Sprint 43 (spec-to-explainer alignment memo, #168)** identified 4 SPEC GAPs from 4-life visitor friction log: ATP transfer-fee semantics, CI/coherence as cost multiplier, synthon lifecycle, karma-across-lives canonicity. Memo *classifies*, does not *fix* — these are pre-spec gap analyses. Per inclusion criteria ("Code not yet written / Design still evolving"), no whitepaper changes warranted yet. Track as pending: when spec work resolves any of the 4 gaps, integrate then.
- No content changes; no rebuild needed

### 2026-04-13: Publisher Maintenance - PDF Date Fix
- Fixed hardcoded PDF date in make-pdf.sh ("February 2026" → "April 2026")
- No content changes needed — SDK updates (v0.22-v0.25, trust CLI, selftest CLI, web4_process_action MCP) are tooling, not protocol
- Rebuilt all artifacts (md, pdf)

### 2026-04-06: Publisher Maintenance - AttestationEnvelope + Glossary
- Added AttestationEnvelope to §7.0.2 (unified hardware trust primitive, 4 anchor types)
- Added R6/R7 Action Framework glossary entry (canonical term, was missing)
- Added AttestationEnvelope glossary entry (implemented protocol primitive)
- Updated PUBLISHER_CONTEXT.md (recent changes, pending updates, governance stack 9→10-layer)
- Rebuilt all artifacts (md, pdf)

### 2026-02-21: Publisher Maintenance - R7/ACP/Federation Expansion
- Executive Summary: expanded "Emerging Implementation" with 10 new capabilities (R7, ACP, Sybil proofs, game theory, Dictionary Entity, federation, multi-device, trust decay, Law Oracle, MRH graph)
- Moved Dictionary Entity from "Vision" to "Emerging Implementation" (now has 30/30-check reference impl)
- Section 7.0.1 status table: added 8 new rows (R7, ACP, Sybil, Dictionary, federation, Law Oracle, MRH, 10-layer governance)
- Updated coherence regulation, blockchain consensus, hardware binding rows with new capabilities
- Softened "most features not yet implemented" note in Part 7 — governance stack is now operational
- Updated Part 7 examples header to acknowledge operational reference implementations
- Rebuilt all artifacts (md, pdf)

### 2026-02-20: Publisher Maintenance - Implementation Status Update
- Updated Appendix G, Section 7.0, and Executive Summary to reflect Hardbound CLI governance stack
- ATP/ADP, blockchain, and hardware binding statuses moved from "Not started" to "Partial"
- New "Emerging Implementation" section in Executive Summary for operational Hardbound CLI features
- Fixed Appendix H/I ordering (were swapped: I before H)
- Roadmap expanded with 11 completed items (policy-from-ledger, multi-sig, heartbeat blocks, etc.)
- Rebuilt all artifacts (md, pdf)

### 2026-02-19: Publisher Maintenance - Entity Type Expansion
- Updated date, expanded entity_type enum to 15 types
- Rebuilt all artifacts (md, pdf)

### 2026-02-18: Publisher Maintenance - LCT Reframe Cleanup
- Fixed 7 stale "identity" references missed by the witnessed presence reframe
- Affected files: 03-part1, 06-part4, 08-part6, 10-part8
- "Identity Coherence" (SAGE research concept) left as-is - distinct from protocol terminology
- Rebuilt all artifacts (md, pdf)

### 2026-02-17: Publisher Maintenance
- Rebuilt all artifacts (md, pdf, web) to reflect Feb 16 terminology reframe
- "Trust infrastructure" language now consistent across build artifacts

### 2026-02-16: Trust Infrastructure Reframe
- Systematic reframe from "governance" to "trust infrastructure" across 17 files
- Executive summary: "WEB4 is not an upgrade" → "WEB4 adds what was always missing"
- SAL: "Governance Framework" → "Trust Accountability Layer"

### 2026-01-23: R6 Framework Expansion
- Added R6 implementation guide
- Added R6 security analysis
- Updated implementation status

### 2026-01-20: ARCHITECTURE.md
- Added Rust + Python hybrid architecture documentation
- Explained web4-core structure

### 2026-01-18: Initial Web Version
- Complete web build with navigation
- All sections structured and indexed

### Earlier (2025)
- Memory as temporal sensor integration
- Fractal lightchain documentation
- SAGE coherence model integration

---

## 7. Related Repositories

### Primary Sources for Updates

| Repository | What to Check | Update Triggers |
|------------|---------------|-----------------|
| **web4-core** | `src/*.rs`, `ARCHITECTURE.md` | New modules, API changes |
| **hardbound-core** | `src/*.rs`, docs/ | Enterprise features |
| **HRM/sage** | `sage/docs/` | SAGE integration changes |

### Checking for Updates

```bash
# Check web4-core for new files
git -C /path/to/web4 log --oneline --since="2 weeks ago" -- web4-core/

# Check hardbound for new features
git -C /path/to/hardbound log --oneline --since="2 weeks ago"
```

---

## 8. Quality Standards

### Technical Accuracy

- All protocol descriptions must match implementation
- Code examples must be tested and working
- Security claims must be justified
- Performance claims must cite measurements

### Audience Appropriateness

- NO Synchronism physics terminology in main text
- Domain-appropriate language for each section
- Enterprise-friendly presentation
- Implementation-focused over theoretical

### Formatting

- Tables for comparisons
- Code blocks for examples
- Diagrams for architecture
- Clear section numbering

---

## 9. Integration Workflow

### Standard Update Process

```
1. IDENTIFY trigger
   ├── New code in web4-core or hardbound-core
   ├── Specification clarification needed
   └── Gap identified in documentation

2. ASSESS scope
   ├── Which sections affected?
   ├── Terminology impact?
   └── Build implications?

3. DRAFT changes
   ├── Edit specific section files
   ├── Update glossary if new terms
   └── Add cross-references

4. VERIFY
   ├── ./make-md.sh passes
   ├── ./make-web.sh passes
   ├── Terminology matches canonical

5. COMMIT
   ├── Clear commit message
   └── Reference issue/PR if applicable
```

### Governance Model

Web4 whitepaper uses **direct edit** model (simpler than Synchronism):
- Minor changes: Direct edit with commit message
- Major changes: Document rationale in commit
- Breaking changes: Discussion required before implementation

---

## 10. Current State Summary

### Implementation Status

| Component | Status | Documentation |
|-----------|--------|---------------|
| web4-core (Rust) | ✅ Complete | ARCHITECTURE.md |
| hardbound-core (Rust) | ✅ Complete | ARCHITECTURE.md |
| Python bindings | ✅ Complete | README.md |
| Claude Code plugin | ✅ Complete | README.md |
| R6 framework | ✅ Implemented | r6-implementation-guide.md |
| TPM integration | ✅ Working | tpm.rs, docs/ |

### Whitepaper vs Implementation Gap

The whitepaper should reflect implementation reality. Current gaps:

1. **R6/R7 Framework**: Documented; R7 in status table and glossary; Part 7 body examples still use R6 language
2. **Governance Stack Detail**: 10-layer stack operational in Hardbound CLI — documented in status table
3. **AttestationEnvelope**: Now documented in §7.0.2 and glossary (as of 2026-04-06)
4. **Claude Code Plugins**: Working, consider adding to implementation examples

### Pending Updates

| Area | Priority | Status |
|------|----------|--------|
| R7 language in Part 7 body examples | Medium | Reference impl exists; Part 7 body examples (7.1-7.3) still use R6 language |
| ACP protocol section in Part 7 | Medium | Full lifecycle implemented; no dedicated whitepaper section yet |
| 10-layer governance diagram | Low | Described in status table; could benefit from visual representation |
| Plugin examples | Low | Nice to have |
| ATP transfer-fee semantics | Resolved (spec) | Sprint 44 T1 (#179, 2026-05-12) added §6.3 Transfer Fees to atp-adp-cycle.md as society-configurable MAY. Spec-level resolution; whitepaper Part 3 narrative does not enumerate society economic policies — no whitepaper integration warranted |
| CI/coherence as cost multiplier | Resolved (spec) | Sprint 46 T1 (#181, 2026-05-13) added §4.4 to multi-device-lct-binding.md clarifying constellation_coherence is canonical metric; "CI"/numeric multipliers are simulation parameters, NOT protocol primitives. Whitepaper does not use "CI" terminology — no integration warranted |
| Synthon lifecycle | Watch | Sprint 43 memo flagged as SPEC GAP; integrate when web4 spec work resolves |
| Karma-across-lives canonicity | Watch | Sprint 43 memo flagged as SPEC GAP; integrate when web4 spec work resolves |
| Heterogeneous-identity / constellation framing | Watch | docs/specs/heterogeneous-identity.md (commit 64adbe2, 2026-04-29); 4 open questions outstanding (constellation lower bound, divergence resolution, cross-domain witnessing, observability); integrate when constellation lifecycle and minimums resolve |
| web4-core SDK Society/Role/ATP/R6 types | Resolved (2026-05-16) | Integrated into Executive Summary "Currently Available" via v0.2.0 release (2026-05-15, commits beb2a9b + 1fb6c90). Society / SocietyRole / RoleAssignment, ATPAccount, R7Action types now shipped on crates.io + PyPI |
| inter-society-protocol.md (genesis/first-contact/federation/secession) | Partially Resolved (2026-05-16) | Spec shipped in v0.2.0 SDK and noted in Executive Summary calibration paragraph. Whitepaper-body Part 6 / Part 8 integration remains deferred — likely a future pass once secession/dissolution semantics gain more implementation evidence |
| MCP-as-inter-society-protocol per canonical equation | Partially Resolved (2026-05-16) | MCP §7.3-§7.6 (cross-society envelope, witnessing/R7 reputation propagation, failure modes) shipped in v0.2.0 SDK; §7.7 (WIP) referent-grounded exchange-rate negotiation remains. **§7.7 promotion gate formalized** at `docs/audits/s7.7-promotion-tracking-2026-05-16.md` (Sprint 54 C3, #202): 3 hard prerequisites (PR #200 ✓ 2026-05-17 + F11 signing authority + F8 verify), 5 open design questions, and 2-implementations + interop + error-catalogue evidence criteria. Integrate when §7.7 reaches `status: Normative` per that memo's checklist |
| Sprint 52 conformance gaps (5 NEW operator-architectural-decision items) | Watch (architectural decision) | Sprint 52 memo (c09d0d2, 2026-05-15) flags 5 NEW surface gaps not in prior audits: constraint enforcement, V3 valuation behavioral vs economic, role-004 assigner predicate, fed-001 child- vs parent-initiated federation, sub-dimension rollup. v0.2.0 SDK ships the 35-vector conformance runner with 8 xfailed gaps. Each requires an operator architectural decision before implementation. Integrate when decisions land in spec |
| WASM bindings for Society/Role/ATP/R7 primitives | Resolved (2026-05-16) | Integrated into Executive Summary + Conclusion via v0.2.0 npm release of `web4-trust-core` (commit 1fb6c90, 2026-05-15). First npm publish; bundle ~337KB |
| `docs/proof/PUBLISHED.md` refresh to v0.2.0 | Resolved (2026-05-21) | Closed by #214 (088a0d6, 2026-05-21): PUBLISHED.md refreshed v0.1.1 → v0.2.0, now leads with "Current Release: v0.2.0 (2026-05-15)" and lists all package surfaces (crates.io/PyPI/npm web4-core/web4-trust-core 0.2.0, web4-sdk PyPI 0.27.0), v0.1.1 history preserved. Executive Summary's dual PUBLISHED.md + CHANGELOG.md citation is now fully accurate (the dual cite was a 2026-05-16 workaround for the stale record). No Executive Summary edit required |
| presence-protocol (inward MCP surface) | Watch (2026-05-17) | New core spec at `web4-standard/core-spec/presence-protocol.md` capturing the inward MCP surface (presence ↔ cognition), distinct from the outward `mcp-protocol.md` (society ↔ society). v0 (2026-05-16) → v1 policy-engine (2026-05-16) → v1 wait protocol (2026-05-16) → v1 §3.1 synthetic flag (2026-05-17). Two implementations: Hestia (software-bound, AGPL) + Hardbound (hardware-bound, private). Per "Design still evolving" exclusion (4 versions in <24h, Hestia daemon at 0.0.3 pre-1.0), DEFER. Integrate once spec stabilizes AND Hestia/Hardbound ship a registry-published release — likely as a new Part 7 §7.7/§7.8 paralleling the outward §7.3-§7.6 structure. The MCP-bifurcation framing (inward vs outward) is itself a whitepaper-worthy clarification once it settles |

---

## 11. Subagent Instructions

When reviewing this whitepaper:

1. **Read this entire document first** - It's your complete context
2. **Check implementation repos** for changes since last update
3. **Compare whitepaper to implementation** - Identify gaps
4. **Apply inclusion criteria** - Is this whitepaper-worthy?
5. **Protect terminology** - Never drift from canonical
6. **Draft minimal viable changes** - Conservative approach
7. **Verify builds** before proposing
8. **Report clearly** with:
   - Needs update: yes/no
   - Specific proposals with rationale
   - Sections affected
   - Implementation evidence for each change
   - Any terminology concerns

### Key Differences from Synchronism

- Web4 is **protocol/implementation** focused
- Simpler governance (direct edit)
- Must match code reality
- Enterprise-friendly language required
- Updates triggered by code, not research sessions

---

*"The Web4 whitepaper is the bridge between vision and implementation. Keep it grounded in what actually works."*
