{ "_contract": "Append-only register of decision-class facts. When a ruling changes a fact, its OLD form is appended to superseded[] with the date and the ruling. scripts/check-canonical-freshness.py fails the build if any superseded form appears on a published surface. This is the operator's 2026-08-09 mandate made executable: the site can never fall behind an established fact, because the stale form of every decided fact is a build failure, not a memory.", "_scope": "Patterns are matched case-insensitively as plain substrings unless regex:true. exempt_paths are substrings; corrections pages may quote superseded forms deliberately.", "facts": [ { "id": "december-bundle-counts", "current": "five attachments · 221,236 words (five-attachment scope) · 221,644 (full seven-part bundle scope)", "ruling": "count-scope ruling, August 2026: neither count is ever printed without its scope noun", "superseded": [ { "pattern": "four attachments", "was": "stale July-era bundle description" }, { "pattern": "189,355 words", "was": "stale word count for the December bundle" }, { "pattern": "189,000-word", "was": "rounded stale word count found in figure artwork 10 Aug 2026; canonical 221,236 (five attachments)" }, { "pattern": "189,000 words", "was": "rounded stale word count; 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The gate was right to flag an unknown file and wrong about this one; exempting by filename prefix keeps the ban absolute everywhere it actually applies." }, { "id": "entanglement-test-not-proof", "current": "Entanglement test. The removal run's NaN collapse was numerical instability, load-bearing is not shown, and the test is registered for replication.", "ruling": "Paper VIII's own removal-gradient analysis, recorded at Paper IX section 7.2: scaling the adapters down restored the base model with no phase transition, so the collapse was numerical instability and not structural entanglement. The fourth Eden Protocol layer is therefore a test that has not passed, never a proof. 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, which the edition law puts beyond editing: the book is dated evidence and is not revised to suit a later register. Every region this site composes around it stays clean, and scripts/check-book-reader.py assertion 11 proves that separately, over each page minus the book's own text.", "book/read/introduction/": "2026-09-12: as above. The 17 January text carries the retired label as a subhead in the introduction. Frozen book words, exempt by path; the composed regions around them are asserted clean by scripts/check-book-reader.py assertion 11." } }