Problem
After the metadata-owner protocol is adopted, an adopter can no longer upgrade its selected Profile or metadata implementation once a closed batch has produced current page-property owners.
check_queue currently re-compares two immutable producer-era facts against the live Profile and metadata implementation:
- completed core events that own
last_content_modified or last_reviewed; and
- the opening/closing transition receipts of already-closed batches.
The receipt graphs remain internally valid and still bind the exact page semantic fingerprint, but a later Profile normalization or tool-byte upgrade changes the live Profile/metadata fingerprints. Runtime validation then rejects the adopter before adopt_standards can run. This creates an upgrade deadlock: adopting the new Standards requires valid current runtime, while current runtime rejects historical evidence solely because the software has advanced.
Profile Gate-owned enum state is different: it represents present authorization under the selected Profile and must remain bound to the live Profile.
Required behavior
- Validate completed
last_content_modified / last_reviewed evidence as immutable producer-era event evidence: exact target, date/value, semantic content fingerprint, receipt graph, and internally consistent Profile/metadata bindings.
- Do not require those historical event bindings to equal today's live Profile or metadata implementation fingerprint.
- Continue to require Profile Gate-owned enum fields to match the live typed Profile and metadata contract.
- For
open / merge-ready work, keep strict live Profile/metadata validation of the current opening baseline.
- For terminal closed history, validate the opening/closing receipts and close bundle internally, without reinterpreting them through today's Profile/metadata bytes.
- Add regression coverage proving a Profile/metadata upgrade remains admissible with valid completed-event owners and closed transition history, while stale Profile Gate state still fails closed.
Non-goals
- Reissuing or rewriting historical receipts.
- Weakening semantic-content fingerprint checks.
- Allowing stale Profile Gate-owned state.
- Adding an Atlas-specific compatibility path.
Problem
After the metadata-owner protocol is adopted, an adopter can no longer upgrade its selected Profile or metadata implementation once a closed batch has produced current page-property owners.
check_queuecurrently re-compares two immutable producer-era facts against the live Profile and metadata implementation:last_content_modifiedorlast_reviewed; andThe receipt graphs remain internally valid and still bind the exact page semantic fingerprint, but a later Profile normalization or tool-byte upgrade changes the live Profile/metadata fingerprints. Runtime validation then rejects the adopter before
adopt_standardscan run. This creates an upgrade deadlock: adopting the new Standards requires valid current runtime, while current runtime rejects historical evidence solely because the software has advanced.Profile Gate-owned enum state is different: it represents present authorization under the selected Profile and must remain bound to the live Profile.
Required behavior
last_content_modified/last_reviewedevidence as immutable producer-era event evidence: exact target, date/value, semantic content fingerprint, receipt graph, and internally consistent Profile/metadata bindings.open/merge-readywork, keep strict live Profile/metadata validation of the current opening baseline.Non-goals