pipelines/factory_contract.json
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"PARTIAL": "the home exists and some nodes carry it — home failures are FAIL, consumption failures are WARN",
"SEED": "advisory — surfaces in every checklist, never fails the gate",
"DEFERRED": "parked behind a named pointer — the pointer must resolve"
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"derivation": "harness/enrich.py ELEVATED_CARE (parsed from source, never re-typed)"
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"derivation": "the Range-Review nodes: CH_11, CH_21, CH_31, CH_41, CH_51, CH_61, CH_71 and CH_77 (RR-FINAL)"
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"path:<glob>": "the glob matches at least one file",
"doctrine_only:<path>": "the rider's only home is prose, and that prose file exists",
"NONE_YET(rank <N>)": "no home yet, with the live window-plan rank that mints one",
"NONE_YET(<GAP-NNN>)": "no home yet, with the DESIGN_GAP_REGISTER entry that owns the gap -- the pointer form for an obligation no rank owns, so an unbuilt obligation is a cited debt rather than a rider that reads legitimately-pending forever",
"plates:<path>#<column>": "the concept-art PLATE TABLE resolves and its header carries the column. docs/art_boards/PLATES.csv is a live status-bearing table that is NOT a registries/ registry, so registry:<Base>#<column> cannot address it and path:<glob> would resolve the file while leaving the column unchecked. DECLARED NOT-ARMED: gate 30 R2 hardcodes its data_home prefixes and does not yet know this one, so it reports the five art riders as an unrecognised form at WARN (SEED severity) until a prefix branch plus its must-fire fixture lands in harness/check_factory_contract.py -- recorded rather than dodged by downgrading the riders to a form that resolves without checking anything"
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"skill:arc-pass#<label>": ".claude/skills/arc-pass/SKILL.md",
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"plan:rank<N>": "docs/PRE_5090_BUILD_PLAN.md — the rank must resolve in the window plan's ranked list",
"gate:<name>": "harness/gates_config.json — the gate must be registered",
"NONE_YET(rank <N>)": "no consumption point yet, with the live rank that wires one; never satisfies a BUILT rider",
"NONE_YET(<GAP-NNN>)": "no consumption point yet, with the DESIGN_GAP_REGISTER entry that owns it; never satisfies a BUILT rider",
"art:<label>": "docs/CONCEPT_ART_PRODUCTION_PROGRAM.md -- the concept-art production program (the HOW half of the art program); the label must be a real section head in it",
"art_boards:<label>": "docs/art_boards/README.md -- the board-program interface contract; the label must be a real section head in it"
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"tooth": "NONE(no per-chapter foundry-completeness assertion exists; rank 13's ability data pass mints the unlock/cost/cooldown cells a tooth can read)",
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"tooth": "NONE(the 21 Layer-B combos are authored data with no runtime; the tooth arms with the W9-tail build)",
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"obligation": "Give every status this chapter applies a row in the status grid with its application rule, cure or counter hook, and per-creature immunity — shapes now, magnitudes at Phase-5M.",
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"data_home": "registry:T0_Status_Table#status_family",
"tooth": "NONE(rank 25 mints the canon status grid, the cure/antidote chains and the status_immunity column a per-chapter tooth would read)",
"consumption_point": "plan:rank25",
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"evidence": "T0_Status_Table holds 10 rows against a per-element table authored twice over"
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"obligation": "Wire this chapter's healing, revival and poison beats through the healing verb family and the cure loop — revival costs scale per the no-cheap-death rule, and NPC/companion healing hooks read the same lane.",
"lane": "engine-code",
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"tooth": "NONE(the healing verb family has no runtime; the tooth arms with the W9 tail and the herbalism cure loops)",
"consumption_point": "vol2:W-LW3",
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"evidence": "addendum section 4 — authored with no runtime lane"
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"obligation": "Carry a presentation tier on every ability family and weapon class this chapter surfaces, so the mastery ladder renders as tiered animation and VFX variants rather than one asset — presentation only, never a hidden power scale.",
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"tooth": "gate:registry_extensions",
"consumption_point": "plan:rank13",
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"evidence": "SUPERSEDED 2026-08-02 (the 2026-07-27 reading 'live T0_Ability_Tree_Registry header carries no presentation_tier_ref column, 35 columns' is now FALSE and was seeding a wrong premise). Re-measured on the live tree: T0_Ability_Tree_Registry is 36 columns with presentation_tier_ref at index 35 (landed 28n on both rails, T0_Ability_Tree_Registry + T0_Weapon_Registry, system presentation-ladder). The data_home now RESOLVES; what is still owed is population — 0 of 185 ability rows carry a value, against the DR-2 §7 item 7 ruled sizing of 248 live variant keys (31 elements x 8 live tier values)."
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"obligation": "Give this chapter's boss arenas a mutation vocabulary drawn from the arena's own affordance list — hazard actors both sides can use, per-phase arena state, and presence rules that let a boss create the medium its element needs.",
"lane": "engine-code",
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"data_home": "registry:T0_Environment_Grammar_Registry#attack_verbs",
"tooth": "NONE(the environment-grammar registry holds 2 rows; rank 7 authors the EG_ rows for every slice combat surface)",
"consumption_point": "plan:rank7",
"citation_token": "",
"evidence": "T0_Environment_Grammar_Registry: 2 rows on 2026-07-27"
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"obligation": "Give every ability this chapter unlocks its tier-bonus rows in both lanes — the incremental sharpening and the quest-gate transformative bonus that changes what the ability is.",
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"evidence": "T0_Bonus_Pool_Registry: 7 rows; the per-ability rows are rank 14's data pass"
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"obligation": "Roll this chapter's gear imprints inside the rarity ladder — rarity-and-proficiency-gated crafting, sigma-bounded rolls, and the boss-drop tie-in riding the part-break and carve loop.",
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"tooth": "gate:rarity_firewall",
"consumption_point": "plan:rank14",
"citation_token": "",
"evidence": "T0_Imprint_Affix: 5 rows; RN_0018 is the registry anchor named in the ruling"
},
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"rider_id": "FR-010",
"obligation": "Let this chapter's vril sites serve as loadout sanctums — save, recharge and quick-change between the purchased second and third gear-plus-ability sets, with companion loadouts mirrored and the gear returned when a companion departs.",
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"evidence": "T0_Loadout_Set_Definition: 3 rows carrying departs_with_companion"
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"obligation": "Keep this chapter's additions inside the AAAAA balance doctrine — mathematically strong builds are allowed, meta-collapse is not, and every pool option this chapter adds must be reachable by a viable build in the sweeps.",
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"data_home": "registry:T0_Bonus_Pool_Registry#pick_class",
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"evidence": "a pool option never picked in a sweep is a balance defect — the ruled teeth philosophy"
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"obligation": "Tag this chapter's new build components against the role taxonomy so the build-space sweeps can measure viability breadth per role axis.",
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"evidence": "T0_Role_Axis_Registry: 7 rows"
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"evidence": "gate 29 hosts T-B1, the INT-vs-combat stat-budget tooth"
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"data_home": "NONE_YET(rank 16)",
"tooth": "NONE(rank 16 mints the hitzone-part rail the tooth would read)",
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"evidence": "the damage formula is whole-target today (T1_Combat, Damage)"
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"data_home": "NONE_YET(rank 7)",
"tooth": "NONE(the shortcut clause is a W-SPACE grammar affordance with no data column today)",
"consumption_point": "plan:rank7",
"citation_token": "",
"evidence": "director-marked REAL in the gap register"
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"tooth": "NONE(a positive-controlled scan of all 62 registries returns ZERO columns matching vendor, currenc or exchange, so the ruled medium_of_exchange token has no cell to live in and no tooth to read it)",
"consumption_point": "plan:rank30",
"citation_token": "",
"evidence": "MEASURED 2026-07-29 (gap audit, lane items-economy): medium_of_exchange occurs in exactly TWO files repo-wide and in ZERO registries; T0_Region_Index's 26 columns were read in full and carry no economic field; 15 merchant and trader characters exist in T0_Character_Index with no stock, accepted-goods or market row anywhere. The ruling is Josh's, fourteenth sitting item 7 (fully diegetic regional exchange media plus one presentation-only trade-value lens)"
},
{
"rider_id": "FR-077",
"obligation": "Write this chapter's journal entries as the story object Pillar 6 rules them to be -- the protagonist's own record, not a system log -- and carry the canonical beats the pillar names.",
"lane": "canon-author",
"scope": "all",
"status": "SEED",
"ruling_src": "docs/DESIGN_GAP_REGISTER.md#gap-135-critical-quest-dialogue-runtime-ui-ux-th",
"owner_refs": [],
"promise_refs": [],
"data_home": "NONE_YET(GAP-135)",
"tooth": "NONE(no journal column exists in any of the 62 registries and the CVD-named T0_Journal_Entry_Template_Registry has never existed, so Pillar 6's own executable test cannot be evaluated on any node)",
"consumption_point": "NONE_YET(GAP-135)",
"citation_token": "",
"evidence": "MEASURED 2026-07-29 (gap audit, lanes quest-dialogue-runtime and ui-ux): the CVD-cross-referenced template registry is not among the 62 registry directories (positive control: the same listing returns all three T0_Quest* directories); journal_entry_id occurs once corpus-wide, inside WS_010's own description cell; the Ch-13 closing beat passes the amulet and the journal to the healer's child with no data to render"
},
{
"rider_id": "FR-078",
"obligation": "Decompose this chapter's main-story and side-bucket quests into rows -- one per quest, with its stages, giver and completion condition -- so the quest log names quests that exist.",
"lane": "canon-author",
"scope": "all",
"status": "SEED",
"ruling_src": "docs/DESIGN_GAP_REGISTER.md#gap-135-critical-quest-dialogue-runtime-ui-ux-th",
"owner_refs": [],
"promise_refs": [],
"data_home": "registry:T0_Quest_Definition_Registry#chapter",
"tooth": "NONE(no per-chapter quest-row assertion exists; rank 15 populates the execution columns on the 16 rows already there and mints no row for any slice chapter, so the count a tooth would check has no owner until GAP-135 lands one)",
"consumption_point": "plan:rank15",
"citation_token": "",
"evidence": "MEASURED 2026-07-29 (gap audit, lane quest-dialogue-runtime): T0_Quest_Definition_Registry = exactly 16 rows, all Ch 55, 58, 76, 77, PROLOGUE or EPILOGUE, and ZERO rows for Ch 2-13; T0_Quest_Seed_Registry is header-only at 0 rows (positive control: the sibling T0_Source_Material_Registry reads 1915 lines by the same reader) against 87 authored Section-13 seeds on the eight Ch 6-13 region pages"
},
{
"rider_id": "FR-079",
"obligation": "Give this chapter's inhabitants a day -- a schedule state, a home site, a work site and a presence window per named persona, and a pooled bucket per ambient crowd, with a population band for every settled zone.",
"lane": "schema-data",
"scope": "all",
"status": "SEED",
"ruling_src": "docs/DESIGN_GAP_REGISTER.md#gap-139-critical-npc-simulation-rank-11-s-person",
"owner_refs": [],
"promise_refs": [],
"data_home": "NONE_YET(GAP-139)",
"tooth": "NONE(the SCHEMA home now exists -- ENTITY_PERSONA_SYSTEM 5.2.1, the GAP-139 amendment of 2026-07-30 -- but no gate asserts a persona's day: the eight index columns and the T0_Persona_Schedule / T0_Persona_Bucket tables are minted at rank 11, and the tooth that arms with them is a check_no_dead_end.py extension requiring presence_nongating_class to read always_present or alternate_reach_declared on every progression-critical persona. The population half IS rowed today: T0_Region_Index.ambient_population_band_default plus the per-zone Zone Catalog ambient_population_band, both blank pending rank 5's crowd budgets)",
"consumption_point": "plan:rank11",
"citation_token": "",
"evidence": "MEASURED 2026-07-29 (gap audit, lane npc-simulation): ENTITY_PERSONA_SYSTEM L218 AS OF 2026-07-29 -- a LINE reference the amendment below supersedes by growing the file, so the durable citation is SECTION 5.2 -- enumerated the T0_Persona_Index columns and own_life was NOT among them; VOL2 LW-8 states its own blocker (no schedule field in Character_Index); T0_Character_Index's 33 columns carry role 164/164 with the occupational fact unnormalised inside the slug and no occupation, trade, home_site or work_site field; no number exists anywhere for how many people a village, market, port or trade compound holds. GAP-139 schema amendment landed 2026-07-30: ENTITY_PERSONA_SYSTEM gained 5.2.1, which declares the eight daily-rhythm columns on T0_Persona_Index, the T0_Persona_Schedule child table, the T0_Persona_Bucket ambient roster, the non-gating-in-time invariant, and the ambient-population band -- which LANDED on both rails, blank. Re-measured 2026-07-30 on the live tree: the header scan over all 65 live registry tabs returns ONE schedule/routine/occupation/population/crowd column, T0_Chapter_Index.ambient_crowd_voice_signature_array, a voice-casting array and a false friend (positive control, same scan: 27 trade/home/density columns across 18 registries). The DATA half is unchanged and belongs to rank 11 (named personas + buckets) and rank 5 (crowd budgets), which is why this rider stays SEED with data_home NONE_YET(GAP-139) and the register entry stays OPEN."
},
{
"rider_id": "FR-080",
"obligation": "Give every entity this chapter surfaces on a player screen an icon id -- abilities, weapons, statuses, runes, materials and trades -- so the icon bill is a query rather than a later inventory of screenshots.",
"lane": "art-asset",
"scope": "all",
"status": "SEED",
"ruling_src": "docs/DESIGN_GAP_REGISTER.md#gap-144-critical-ui-ux-the-player-facing-ui-has",
"owner_refs": [],
"promise_refs": [],
"data_home": "NONE_YET(GAP-144)",
"tooth": "NONE(exactly ONE icon column exists corpus-wide, T0_Status_Table.icon_class on 10 rows and itself with no consumer, so there is no rail a coverage tooth could read; the icon_id_ref mint is GAP-144's proposal)",
"consumption_point": "plan:rank13",
"citation_token": "",
"evidence": "MEASURED 2026-07-29 (gap audit, lane ui-ux): a countable ~542-icon bill from live rows (Ability 185, Weapon 72, Creature 150, Familiar 22, Rune 19, Rarity 13, Flora 25, Mineral 19, Trade 10, Status 10, Imprint 5, Bonus 12) against that one column; the asset contract's HUD-art row carries the prose id source 'UMG widget binding (authored, not generated)' with generation_status N/A, so icons are tagged a 5090 workload with no prompt-composable id list"
},
{
"rider_id": "FR-081",
"obligation": "Size this chapter's moving image before it is built -- every scene row carrying its shot count, duration class, production track and cinematic tier, and the seam into the next chapter carrying its bridging scene.",
"lane": "art-asset",
"scope": "all",
"status": "SEED",
"ruling_src": "docs/DESIGN_GAP_REGISTER.md#gap-140-critical-animation-cinematics-the-moving",
"owner_refs": [],
"promise_refs": [],
"data_home": "registry:T0_Scene_Spec_Registry#chapter",
"tooth": "NONE(the scene registry holds 16 rows against 450 authored scenes and none of its columns is duration, shot count, complexity or production tier, so no per-chapter cinematic obligation is measurable until GAP-140 mints them)",
"consumption_point": "plan:rank6",
"citation_token": "",
"evidence": "MEASURED 2026-07-29 (gap audit, lane animation-cinematics): build/spine_rows/*/scenes.csv = 450 rows across 11 scene_type values; T0_Scene_Spec_Registry = 16 rows with cinematic_status pending 16/16 and mesh_refs empty 16/16, so 434 scenes have no registry row; chapter_bridging_cinematic is NOT among the 11 live scene_type values, so all 78 chapter seams carry zero bridging rows"
},
{
"rider_id": "FR-082",
"obligation": "Give every ally this chapter fields the uncontrolled-behaviour data the ally switch depends on -- the behaviour-policy rows that apply to it and the intelligence tier that selects them -- so an ally the player switches away from still acts as its own character instead of going inert.",
"lane": "schema-data",
"scope": "all",
"status": "SEED",
"ruling_src": "docs/COMBAT_PROGRAM_ADDENDUM.md#13-the-ff7r-switch-direct-ally-control-the-chara",
"owner_refs": [
"docs/COMBAT_PROGRAM_ADDENDUM.md#13-the-ff7r-switch-direct-ally-control-the-chara"
],
"promise_refs": [],
"data_home": "registry:T0_Ally_Behavior_Policy#autonomy_band",
"tooth": "gate:ally_build",
"consumption_point": "plan:rank22",
"citation_token": "",
"evidence": "RULED 2026-07-30 (Josh, twenty-eighth sitting item J4): the ally is a character, not a unit; the player may take direct control by switching to them; an ally not under player control acts as that character, per its specialization and awarded stats, with intelligence leaning into prediction. Gate 29 hosts the tooth and gained B5(iii), which asserts the ruled ABSENCE of an order-verb column. SEED because nothing per-chapter is populated yet: T0_Ally_Behavior_Policy holds 14 rows, 13 of them role-generic (ally_ref = *), so a PARTIAL rider would bind rulers against data that does not exist. Rank 22 (the ally survival/defeat model and ally combat-line class) is where the per-chapter shape lands."
},
{
"rider_id": "FR-083",
"obligation": "Key every concept plate this chapter's art leg produces on a LIVE canon id -- the density class selects the registry, the canon id is a primary key in exactly that registry, and the plate row carries the id, the registry and the canon_ref token list so the plate is addressable from the row it realizes.",
"lane": "art-asset",
"scope": "all",
"status": "SEED",
"ruling_src": "docs/CONCEPT_ART_PRODUCTION_PROGRAM.md#3-2-the-path-form-and-the-canon-id-law",
"owner_refs": [],
"promise_refs": [],
"data_home": "plates:docs/art_boards/PLATES.csv#canon_id",
"tooth": "gate:art_pointers",
"consumption_point": "art:3.2 The path form and the canon-id law",
"citation_token": "FR-083",
"evidence": "MEASURED 2026-08-03 (the four-lane art compatibility pass): all 76 generated lane-G plates carry a prompt-pack kebab slug in asset_path segment 2 (D1-15/komodo-dragon-guardian/...), PLATES.csv has no canon_id column, and a header scan of all 60 registries found ZERO concept-plate columns against a 7-registry mesh_id_ref positive control -- so the join is absent in both directions and GATE 39 still reports BRD_0001 at 'canon ids 62, covered 5, pending 57' after 76 plates of spend. SEED because the columns are not minted yet; the canon-id law and the key_registry/key_column binding landed the same day in docs/concept_art/density_model.csv, so the class-to-registry half of the join is already live data."
},
{
"rider_id": "FR-084",
"obligation": "Deliver this chapter's art leg against the per-density-class floors the density model sets, COUNTED from the plate rows by class and stage rather than asserted -- a draft candidate sweep is not delivered work.",
"lane": "art-asset",
"scope": "all",
"status": "SEED",
"ruling_src": "docs/CONCEPT_ART_PRODUCTION_PROGRAM.md#3-2e-the-stage-discipline-four-candidates-are-on",
"owner_refs": [],
"promise_refs": [],
"data_home": "plates:docs/art_boards/PLATES.csv#density_class_id",
"tooth": "NONE(the per-class production ledger does not exist: no artifact joins density_model.csv's floors to counted PLATES.csv rows, so 'how far is D1-01 against its floor of 180' has no answer a gate could read; harness/art_production_ledger.py emitting docs/concept_art/art_production_ledger.csv is the named mint, and until it exists this tooth reads NONE rather than a green it did not earn)",
"consumption_point": "art:6. PRIORITY ORDER FOR THE PROLOGUE",
"citation_token": "FR-084",
"evidence": "MEASURED 2026-08-03: docs/concept_art/density_model.csv carries floor and target counts for all 43 classes and nothing in the repo counts delivered plates against them; the 76 lane-G rows are recorded generation_status=complete at what is really the DRAFT stage (4 seeds per subject), which would have inflated any progress reading by roughly 4x. The stage column and the ledger are the two arming steps."
},
{
"rider_id": "FR-085",
"obligation": "Refuse Lane-G generation for every art subject this chapter carries whose care tier is in the living-tradition set or whose site row is protected -- the composer emits a Lane-R reference request instead, and the refusal reads off columns on the plate row rather than out of a commit message.",
"lane": "art-asset",
"scope": "all",
"status": "SEED",
"ruling_src": "docs/proposals/CONCEPT_ART_PROGRAM.md#4-4-where-the-human-and-josh-sit",
"owner_refs": [],
"promise_refs": [],
"data_home": "plates:docs/art_boards/PLATES.csv#care_tier",
"tooth": "gate:boards",
"consumption_point": "art:7.3 EXHAUSTIVE",
"citation_token": "FR-085",
"evidence": "MEASURED 2026-08-03: CONCEPT_ART_PROGRAM 4.4 rules that rows whose care_tier is in the living-tradition set can never dispatch to Lane G, and PLATES.csv carries NO care_tier column, NO protected column and no FK to a site row -- so the rule is unrepresentable on the surface it governs. 6 of the 12 Ch2+Ch3 spine site rows are protected=true; the 2026-08-02 lane held six rows by hand and recorded which ones only in a commit message. SEED because the two columns are not minted yet; the care call itself was made correctly, which is why this is a representation defect and not a care breach."
},
{
"rider_id": "FR-086",
"obligation": "Write a per-artifact licence record for every plate this chapter's art leg generates and point that plate row's generation_licence_ref at the record's repo-relative path, so the weights licence the outputs inherit is recorded where a gate can resolve it.",
"lane": "art-asset",
"scope": "all",
"status": "SEED",
"ruling_src": "docs/CONCEPT_ART_PRODUCTION_PROGRAM.md#5-3-what-an-approval-becomes",
"owner_refs": [],
"promise_refs": [],
"data_home": "plates:docs/art_boards/PLATES.csv#generation_licence_ref",
"tooth": "gate:generation_lifecycle",
"consumption_point": "art:5.3 What an approval becomes",
"citation_token": "FR-086",
"evidence": "MEASURED 2026-08-03: listing docs/licence_records returns README.md and RECORD_SCHEMA.json only -- zero records for 76 generation_status=complete artifacts -- corroborated independently by GATE 36 printing 'licence refs 0, records 0'. PLATES.csv generation_licence_ref reads the literal token 'shippable' on all 76 rows, which is a licence CLASS value sitting in the column the ratified contract says holds a PATH TO THE RECORD. SEED because PLATES.csv is not yet enrolled in docs/generation_lifecycle.json, so GATE 36 cannot see the table at all (it walks registries/ only) -- the enrolment plus the L1 scope widening is the arming step."
},
{
"rider_id": "FR-087",
"obligation": "Publish this chapter's art only through the marketing-clear query -- every previz plate carries its directional label, reveal-gated rows never publish, and the public region page emits rows whose computed marketing_clear is true rather than walking a directory.",
"lane": "art-asset",
"scope": "all",
"status": "SEED",
"ruling_src": "docs/spine/DECISIONS_PENDING_JOSH.md#the-concept-art-site-is-public-marketing-no-acce",
"owner_refs": [],
"promise_refs": [],
"data_home": "plates:docs/art_boards/PLATES.csv#directional_label",
"tooth": "gate:boards",
"consumption_point": "art_boards:The site is a QUERY",
"citation_token": "FR-087",
"evidence": "RULED 2026-08-03 (Josh, thirty-first sitting, verbatim in docs/spine/DECISIONS_PENDING_JOSH.md): a public webpage per region and subpages per asset and view type, no access lock, 'PREVIZ_DIRECTIONAL plates publish WITH their directional label visible', reveal-gated content never publishes. MEASURED the same day: the only eligibility computation in the system is BOARD-grain (marketing_eligible on MANIFEST.csv) while the ruled site architecture is PLATE-grain, and previz_only was barred unconditionally from every panel of every board -- so the ruled tier could not be represented at all. docs/art_boards/README.md was amended in place to the narrowed bar, the mandatory directional_label and the site-is-a-query rule; SEED because no site builder exists in the tree and the directional_label column is not minted yet."
}
],
"migration_ledger": [
{
"source": "docs/COMBAT_PROGRAM_ADDENDUM.md OWNER: lines",
"measured": 13,
"riders": "FR-001..FR-013",
"lossless": "one rider per OWNER anchor"
},
{
"source": "docs/DESIGN_GAP_REGISTER.md OWNER: lines",
"measured": 10,
"riders": "FR-014..FR-023",
"lossless": "one rider per OWNER anchor"
},
{
"source": "docs/NATURAL_VOICE_DOCTRINE.md",
"measured": 5,
"riders": "FR-024..FR-029",
"lossless": "the four doctrine sections plus the execution section's NPC-dialogue lane; both critic lenses carried as teeth"
},
{
"source": "docs/ROADMAP_POST_5090_TO_SHIP.md P5 machinery bullets (the BUILT baseline)",
"measured": 13,
"riders": "FR-030..FR-042",
"lossless": "each machinery bullet and the scorecard's fifth row class"
},
{
"source": ".claude/skills/spine-chapter/SKILL.md canon-side obligations",
"measured": 13,
"riders": "FR-043..FR-055",
"lossless": "the best-maintained per-chapter set in the repo; the shape this register generalizes"
},
{
"source": "the pack riders including the D3 divergence",
"measured": 5,
"riders": "FR-056..FR-060",
"lossless": "the divergence is two rows (FR-056 pack membership, FR-057 the skill-only docs), never one hidden row"
},
{
"source": "the ruled forks A/B/C including seam typing",
"measured": 4,
"riders": "FR-061..FR-064",
"lossless": "D5 gets its home here"
},
{
"source": "the charter applied to itself (section 7)",
"measured": 3,
"riders": "FR-065..FR-067",
"lossless": "if the charter's own artifacts cannot pass R1/R2/R3, the charter is wrong"
},
{
"source": "the story-depth Wave 3 arc-axis wiring",
"measured": 3,
"riders": "FR-068..FR-070",
"lossless": "one rider per new consumption surface: the author step, the critic lens and the one-time pass; the pack itself is FR-058, updated in place rather than duplicated"
},
{
"source": "the ten-lane pipeline gap audit (DESIGN_GAP_REGISTER v1.8, entries GAP-133..GAP-207)",
"measured": 11,
"riders": "FR-071..FR-081",
"lossless": "one rider per content class the rider-set token census measured at ZERO; the nine classes named in the audit entry plus icons and cinematics, with vendors and currency on one row and crowds and schedules on one row because each pair is one obligation"
},
{
"source": "docs/COMBAT_PROGRAM_ADDENDUM.md section 13 (the twenty-eighth sitting item J4 -- the FF7R switch)",
"measured": 1,
"riders": "FR-082",
"lossless": "one rider per OWNER anchor, exactly as the FR-001..FR-013 block: section 13 declares one OWNER: line and it is cited once. The source is exhausted -- J4's other consequences are canon and schema edits, not per-chapter obligations"
},
{
"source": "the four-lane art compatibility pass (thirty-first sitting 2026-08-03) -- docs/CONCEPT_ART_PRODUCTION_PROGRAM.md section 3.2 + docs/art_boards/README.md",
"measured": 5,
"riders": "FR-083..FR-087",
"lossless": "one rider per art-bearing obligation the chapter axis was measurably blind to: the canon key, the class floor, the Lane-G care refusal, the licence record, and the publish gate. The source is exhausted -- section 3.2's remaining clauses (the multi-id dispositions, the canon_ref grammar, render_tier) are HOW a plate is composed rather than things a chapter must independently be true of, so they ride FR-083 instead of minting rows nothing would ever check separately"
}
],
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"docs/DESIGN_GAP_REGISTER.md entries 1-9 use a lowercase 'Owner:' token (9 lines, measured 2026-07-27) rather than the machine token 'OWNER:'. They are outside R1's primary net at v1 by design — folding them in means normalising the token in the source doc, which is a v1.1 item, not a silent regex widening.",
"docs/ROADMAP_POST_5090_TO_SHIP.md carries 1 further lowercase 'Owner:' line (measured 2026-07-27), on the same v1.1 token-normalisation path as the DESIGN_GAP_REGISTER nine.",
"docs/DOC_MAP.md is OUTSIDE declared_doc_set and carries 3 factory-promise occurrences (measured 2026-07-27: P2 'joins the P5 factory' and P5 \"the factory's authored lanes\" at line 54, P1 'the factory inherits' at line 56), so they are outside R1's universe entirely. DOC_MAP is both the surface FR-060 obligates and the surface the charter records as rotted in both directions, which makes it the FIRST entry in the v1.1 harvest rather than a footnote.",
"DESIGN_GAP_REGISTER 'Owner: P5-factory' assignments, Vol2's STATUS block, QA_WATCHING's pillars, REALM_DESIGN's class:realm riders and the PROGRESS LEDGER's 'riders noted' lines are the rest of the declared v1.1 harvest."
]
}