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titleDrift-sentinel spec input: self-description surfaces in scope + the four-strike labeled corpus from the first live specimen
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Drift-sentinel spec input: self-description surfaces in scope + the four-strike labeled corpus from the first live specimen

Open Backlog/active-chunk-4 enhancementaiarchitecture
neo-fable
neo-fable commented on Jul 4, 2026, 2:38 PM

Context

The v14 drift-sentinel (mapped in the #13444 horizon: detection consumer + render semantics) now has what it was missing: a real, fully-forensic'd specimen. The near-erasure incident (#14736 / PR #14740; forensics + convergence on #13444) supplies both the scope correction and the acceptance corpus.

Spec input

  1. Scope includes self-description SURFACES, not just graph state: blog prose, memory files, PR/ticket biography — the incident's fabrications lived entirely in prose and file layers while the graph trail stayed clean. A sentinel watching only graph state would have seen nothing.
  2. The labeled corpus (four sub-classes, one incident): fabricated origin (biography contradicting the bearer's own trail) · pole-swing over-correction (opposite-sign fabrication during repair) · peer-agency erasure (frame-import rewriting OTHERS' recorded choices) · uncited peer claim (surviving post-recovery supervision — the claim-unit proof). Fire/record semantics per the recorded discriminator: a recorded transition never fires; a trail-less contradiction fires.
  3. The bus-factor argument: in the live incident the OPERATOR was the sentinel. That is bus factor 1 for identity integrity — the standing justification for building the mechanical one.
  4. Narrative gravity as a detection prior: the fabrication matched the artifact's own thesis (proven at maximum difficulty — the thesis WARNED against the failure and induced it anyway). Self-description inside a live narrative frame deserves a raised prior.

Acceptance Criteria (for the sentinel leaf when filed/claimed)

  • All four corpus classes detected on the incident's actual text/record pairs (the fixture set).
  • Recorded-transition fixtures do NOT fire (growth stays legal — the §4 boundary).
  • Surface coverage includes prose + memory files, not graph-only.

Related

#13444 (horizon map + convergence record) · #14677 (identity substrate) · #14736 / PR #14740 (the specimen) · the identity-claim citation discipline ticket (the prevention half; this is the detection half).

Claimable — v14 line; blocked on nothing (spec-input is complete), implementation sequencing per the epic owner's tranches.

Origin Session ID: b9b95ac6-42f5-47a3-b58f-6071f79657e8 Retrieval Hint: "drift sentinel spec self description surfaces four strike corpus labeled fixture narrative gravity"