From 060d3c64e2758f4d4f4fbfd1351294faa8fc3c2b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Erin Spencer Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2026 00:10:37 -0700 Subject: [PATCH 1/2] docs(language): follow current UCNS lexical recursion --- docs/GONOL_LANGUAGE_BOUNDARY.md | 116 +++++++++++++++----------------- 1 file changed, 53 insertions(+), 63 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/GONOL_LANGUAGE_BOUNDARY.md b/docs/GONOL_LANGUAGE_BOUNDARY.md index 6f02b5b..f3565f6 100644 --- a/docs/GONOL_LANGUAGE_BOUNDARY.md +++ b/docs/GONOL_LANGUAGE_BOUNDARY.md @@ -2,103 +2,93 @@ **Status:** active EDCM consumer boundary; UCNS lexical construction remains upstream. **Authority:** Erin Spencer for the stack declaration; UCNS owns lexical/gonol construction surfaces; EDCM owns measurement-side use and non-use. -**Recorded:** 2026-08-17. +**Corrected:** 2026-08-18. -## Current correction +## Current UCNS source roles -The UCNS **lexical-floor** model is DEPRECATED. NGSL 1.2 is a word list, not the dictionary semantic source required for the active lexical construction. Its fixed-list closure rule no longer has forward authority. +The active UCNS lexical construction now uses: -A Scrabble dictionary is authorized upstream as the replacement lexical source class. The exact edition/source identity and custody boundary remain to be pinned by UCNS before ingestion. +```text +xkcd constrained-English 1,000-word vocabulary + -> lexical-floor candidate + +Open English WordNet 2025 Core + -> primary contemporary lexical-semantic corpus +``` + +The earlier NGSL lexical-floor premise remains **DEPRECATED**. The later Scrabble-dictionary source selection is **SUPERSEDED** for this work. Webster 1913 is deferred and is not part of the current execution graph. -The active language-object direction is therefore: +Exact xkcd and OEWN source receipts remain UCNS-owned acquisition/custody boundaries. + +## Current language architecture + +EDCM must treat the current upstream sequence as: ```text -Unicode character gonols - ↓ -dictionary lexical entries / words - ↓ -word gonols - ↓ -source-bound dictionary definitions and senses - ↓ -ordered semantic relationships among word gonols - ↓ -definition gonols = first lexical deep-recursion layer +characters + ↓ +morphology + ↓ +definitions + ↓ +recursive gonol relations ``` -There is no requirement that semantic definitions close over NGSL or another artificially frozen subset. - -## No hidden token or vector layer +Relationships enter gonols. They are not merely external semantic edges. -The correction does not introduce conventional NLP token IDs, subword IDs, opaque external embedding vectors, or whole-string cryptographic hashes as lexical primitives. +A completed word gonol is atomic for the next scale. A completed definition gonol is atomic for the next recursion. Lower-scale provenance remains available for replay without requiring every higher-scale operation to re-expand all constituents. -Unicode-character gonols remain primitive inscription objects. Word spelling, constituent order, multiplicity, occurrence position, sense identity, source provenance, deterministic replay, and recursive semantic relations remain load-bearing. +Affixiation is scale-invariant in current UCNS doctrine: gonols couple, the relationship enters the result, closure produces a new gonol, and the result becomes atomic at its scale. Morphological affixes are one linguistic instance; EDCM must not restore the historical omega/phi/psi three-core morphology as current authority. -Source definition prose may be retained as custody evidence; the semantic representation is the source-bound gonol relationship structure constructed from it. +Direct coupling across non-adjacent recursive scales is allowed upstream. EDCM may not impose mandatory intermediate-scale reopening as a precondition for measurement merely because it simplifies a projection. -## First recursion +## No hidden token or vector layer -Dictionary definitions establish semantic relationships among word gonols. Those relationships are themselves the first lexical deep-recursion layer, not metadata waiting for a later embedding step. +EDCM must not insert conventional NLP token IDs, subword IDs, opaque embedding vectors, or whole-string hashes as substitutes for upstream gonol identity. -A dictionary-derived definition gonol is intended to occupy the semantic-representation role commonly served by vector embeddings. That role analogy establishes no semantic quality, equivalence, similarity behavior, benchmark advantage, or downstream utility. +Source definition prose may remain custody evidence; the semantic representation is the source-bound relationship structure incorporated into the gonol. ## EDCM ownership and use EDCM does **not** own: -- dictionary source selection or custody; -- Unicode-character-gonol identity or construction; -- UCNS word-gonol construction; +- xkcd lexical-floor source identity; +- OEWN Core source selection or custody; +- Unicode-character-gonol construction; +- the Möbius glyph-axis / history-dependent word-gonol relation law; +- UCNS morphology construction; - UCNS definition-gonol construction; +- atomic closure or direct interscale coupling semantics; or - semantic validity merely because a UCNS representation exists. EDCM may: -- consume exact source-bound UCNS word/definition-gonol identities and receipts; -- preserve order, multiplicity, sense identity, context, source, and provenance; -- construct measurement candidates over those represented trajectories when an explicit EDCM mapping is declared; -- compare a dictionary-definition-gonol representation against simpler baselines or conventional embeddings under preregistered criteria; and -- record `FALSIFIED`, `SURVIVED — not proved`, `UNRESOLVED`, or `BLOCKED` without changing the upstream construction after outcome inspection. - -UCNS representation does not activate EDCM measurement. EDCM measurement does not validate UCNS semantics or prove UCNS construction. - -## Historical surfaces - -Historical EDCM artifacts keep their exact identities and names. +- consume exact source-bound UCNS gonol identities and receipts; +- preserve order, multiplicity, occurrence, part of speech, sense/synset, source, provenance, scale, and atomic identity; +- declare a measurement projection over those gonols with explicit information loss; +- evaluate compression, reconstruction, semantic behavior, or other hypotheses only under separately frozen EDCM metrics and falsifiers; and +- record `FALSIFIED`, `SURVIVED — not proved`, `UNRESOLVED`, or `BLOCKED` without changing upstream construction after outcome inspection. -In particular: +UCNS representation does not activate EDCM measurement. EDCM outcomes do not validate UCNS semantics, proof status, or construction law. -- `docs/ENGLISH_LEXICAL_FLOOR.md` and the OEWN 2025 lexical-floor-named artifacts identify a sealed historical experiment and are not renamed; -- historical `lexical-floor` package extras remain reproducibility surfaces; -- historical experiment generations may retain `token` where it names a frozen support unit; -- the NGSL lexical-floor experiment and PR #205 closed-floor producer remain historical UCNS evidence. +## Historical OEWN evidence -None of those historical names restores the deprecated lexical-floor concept as current stack architecture. +EDCM already contains a sealed historical OEWN 2025 acquisition / replay experiment. Preserve it exactly as historical evidence and acquisition precedent. -## PR #205 boundary +Do not rewrite historical `lexical-floor`, `token`, OEWN branch, or package-extra identities. Their names do not restore superseded current architecture. -UCNS PR #205 established reusable machinery for preserving target identity, sense, order, repeated occurrences, provenance, deterministic replay, and receipts. - -Its NGSL-specific fixed-floor rules are deprecated for forward work. EDCM must not require: - -- closure over the 2,809-word NGSL list; -- complete semantic coverage of exactly those 2,809 targets; or -- NGSL source receipts as current lexical authority. - -EDCM should consume only a future generalized dictionary-derived UCNS producer contract after the exact dictionary source is pinned. +The historical EDCM OEWN semantic-relation artifacts also do not automatically become the current UCNS semantic mechanism. Current UCNS construction is definition-driven unless upstream explicitly selects another relation source. ## Usage guidance -For historical reproduction, continue using exact pinned experiment sources and artifacts. Do not rewrite sealed evidence. - For new lexical-semantic work: -1. wait for UCNS to pin the exact authorized Scrabble dictionary source and custody identity; -2. consume source-bound dictionary word/definition-gonol receipts; -3. reject hidden tokenizer, subword, opaque-vector, or whole-string-hash substitution; -4. keep the EDCM projection/measurement contract separate from the UCNS semantic representation; -5. freeze EDCM metrics, aggregation, baselines, partitions, stopping, and falsifiers before outcome inspection. +1. wait for / consume exact UCNS xkcd and OEWN Core source receipts; +2. consume atomic word / morphology / definition / recursive gonol receipts rather than rebuilding semantics inside EDCM; +3. preserve the distinction between source prose, intrinsic gonol relationships, and EDCM measurement projection; +4. do not impose pairwise materialization or intermediate-scale reopening upstream; +5. freeze EDCM projection, information loss, metrics, aggregation, baselines, partitions, stopping, and falsifiers before outcome inspection. ## hmmm -The exact Scrabble dictionary edition/source, machine-readable acquisition, license/custody/redistribution boundary, and treatment of definition lexical material not separately listed as dictionary headwords remain upstream UCNS source-ingestion questions. EDCM has not yet selected the projection, information-loss accounting, metric, benchmark, or falsifier for the future dictionary-derived definition-gonol representation. +EDCM has not selected the projection, information-loss accounting, metric, benchmark, or falsifier for the completed recursive lexical representation. Upstream UCNS still has unresolved source receipts, morphology law, executable Möbius glyph-axis traversal, and direct distant interscale coupling representation. From d65ec5715ba58890848550f81c8bf9e9f52ea5fc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Erin Spencer Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2026 00:11:21 -0700 Subject: [PATCH 2/2] docs(plan): follow OEWN atomic lexical recursion --- docs/work-graphs/repository-plan-report.json | 56 ++++++++++---------- 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 27 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/work-graphs/repository-plan-report.json b/docs/work-graphs/repository-plan-report.json index f5db261..427b670 100644 --- a/docs/work-graphs/repository-plan-report.json +++ b/docs/work-graphs/repository-plan-report.json @@ -10,9 +10,9 @@ }, "source": { "branch": "main", - "commit": "66db8322b1d4ad68493b2f2fc64c81a4aa987edb", - "generated_at": "2026-08-17", - "note": "This report describes the cited EDCM state plus the current repo-owned plan. Report-only and language-boundary documentation commits are coordination metadata; they do not upgrade measurement, empirical, proof, semantic, or canon status. The current UCNS lexical-floor premise is deprecated and replaced by a dictionary-corpus direction with Scrabble dictionary authorized as the source class." + "commit": "060d3c64e2758f4d4f4fbfd1351294faa8fc3c2b", + "generated_at": "2026-08-18", + "note": "This report describes the cited EDCM state plus the current repo-owned plan. Report-only and language-boundary documentation commits are coordination metadata; they do not upgrade measurement, empirical, proof, semantic, or canon status. The current upstream UCNS lexical program selects the xkcd constrained-English 1,000-word vocabulary as lexical-floor candidate and OEWN 2025 Core as the primary contemporary lexical-semantic corpus." }, "authority": { "owns": [ @@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ ], "does_not_own": [ "UCNS mathematical representation canon or UCNS proof status", - "UCNS Unicode-character-gonol identity, dictionary-source selection, word-gonol construction, or definition-gonol construction law", + "UCNS xkcd/OEWN source selection, Unicode-character-gonol identity, Mobius glyph-axis construction, morphology, word-gonol construction, definition-gonol construction, atomic closure, or direct interscale coupling law", "METAPAT semantic or ontology validity", "a0 runtime, agent identity, deployment, or orchestration authority", "skill-lib organization-wide build and cross-repository workflow doctrine" @@ -35,14 +35,15 @@ "candidate registration or development-fixture success does not select canon", "integrity of the maintained baseline does not establish empirical validation", "a UCNS gonol representation does not activate EDCM measurement or establish semantic validity", - "a dictionary-definition-gonol role analogy does not establish vector-embedding equivalence or efficacy", - "historical lexical-floor-named artifacts do not restore the deprecated lexical-floor premise as current architecture", + "a definition-gonol semantic role does not establish vector-embedding equivalence or efficacy", + "historical lexical-floor-named artifacts do not restore the deprecated NGSL floor premise as current architecture", + "EDCM may not externalize intrinsic UCNS semantic relationships merely because a graph projection is convenient", "a falsified hypothesis remains research evidence and is not repaired by relabeling status" ] }, "portfolio_role": { - "summary": "Measure and pressure responses under declared constraints, maintain falsifiable measurement candidates and evidence states, and consume exact upstream gonol representations without treating representation as measurement validity or silently inserting token, subword, opaque-vector, or whole-string-hash layers.", - "upstream_contract": "EDCM consumes exact source evidence, declared semantic constraints where used, and pinned UCNS structural candidates, profiles, or future dictionary-derived gonol receipts without inheriting their authority. The current lexical direction is Unicode character gonols -> dictionary words/entries -> word gonols -> dictionary definitions/senses -> definition gonols as first lexical recursion; UCNS owns that construction.", + "summary": "Measure and pressure responses under declared constraints, maintain falsifiable measurement candidates and evidence states, and consume exact upstream gonol representations without treating representation as measurement validity or silently inserting token, subword, opaque-vector, whole-string-hash, pairwise-sidecar, or intermediate-scale-reopening substitutions.", + "upstream_contract": "EDCM consumes exact source evidence and pinned UCNS gonol receipts without inheriting their authority. The current upstream lexical sequence is characters -> morphology -> definitions -> recursive gonol relations, with xkcd 1,000 as floor candidate and OEWN 2025 Core as primary corpus. Relationships enter gonols and completed gonols are atomic at the next scale.", "downstream_contract": "EDCM emits measurement artifacts, experiment findings, receipts, and explicit evidence statuses that downstream systems may consume without upgrading them.", "reports_to": { "repository": "The-Interdependency/skill-lib", @@ -52,10 +53,10 @@ }, "status": { "state": "active research and measurement", - "current_claim": "EDCM supports represented, candidate-measured, and experiment-supported evidence in declared scopes; canon_selection remains null and empirical validation is not established. For language, EDCM is a downstream consumer of a gonol-native UCNS path. The NGSL lexical-floor premise and fixed-list semantic closure are DEPRECATED. A Scrabble dictionary is authorized upstream as the replacement lexical source class; dictionary definitions will establish source-bound semantic relations among word gonols as the first lexical deep-recursion layer. Historical token/profile and lexical-floor-named surfaces remain sealed evidence only.", + "current_claim": "EDCM supports represented, candidate-measured, and experiment-supported evidence in declared scopes; canon_selection remains null and empirical validation is not established. For language, EDCM is a downstream consumer of the current UCNS atomic lexical recursion: xkcd 1,000 floor candidate, OEWN 2025 Core corpus, characters -> morphology -> definitions -> recursive gonol relations, intrinsic semantic relationships, atomic closure, scale-invariant affixiation, and permitted direct interscale coupling. Historical NGSL and Scrabble planning no longer define the active source path.", "latest_main_milestone": { - "commit": "66db8322b1d4ad68493b2f2fc64c81a4aa987edb", - "description": "updated the EDCM consumer boundary to follow UCNS deprecation of the lexical floor and the dictionary-derived first-recursion replacement" + "commit": "060d3c64e2758f4d4f4fbfd1351294faa8fc3c2b", + "description": "aligned EDCM's consumer boundary with current UCNS xkcd/OEWN atomic lexical recursion" } }, "delivered": [ @@ -86,19 +87,20 @@ }, { "surface": "gonol-native language consumer boundary", - "status": "documented against current UCNS dictionary-replacement authority", - "boundary": "documentation does not implement the upstream dictionary corpus or select an EDCM semantic metric" + "status": "documented against current UCNS atomic lexical recursion", + "boundary": "documentation does not implement upstream gonols or select an EDCM semantic metric" }, { "surface": "OEWN 2025 lexical-floor-named experiment", - "status": "sealed historical evidence", - "boundary": "the historical name and artifacts remain unchanged for reproduction; they do not define current lexical-floor architecture" + "status": "sealed historical evidence and acquisition/replay precedent", + "boundary": "the historical name and artifacts remain unchanged for reproduction; they do not own current UCNS semantic construction" } ], "active_frontier": [ - "preserve the gonol-native language boundary: Unicode character gonols -> dictionary words/entries -> word gonols -> source-bound dictionary definitions/senses -> definition gonols as first lexical recursion, with no hidden tokenizer, subword, opaque-vector, or whole-string-hash substitution", - "prepare a fail-closed EDCM consumer contract for exact source-bound UCNS dictionary-definition-gonol receipts once the generalized upstream producer exists", - "define the smallest preregistered EDCM evaluation that can test whether dictionary-definition-gonol relations perform useful semantic work against simpler or conventional baselines without promoting a role analogy into an efficacy claim", + "preserve the current UCNS consumer boundary: xkcd 1,000 floor candidate; OEWN 2025 Core corpus; characters -> morphology -> definitions -> recursive gonol relations; relationships intrinsic to gonols; completed gonols atomic at the next scale", + "prepare a fail-closed EDCM consumer contract for exact source-bound UCNS atomic word, morphology, definition, and recursive-gonol receipts once the upstream producer exists", + "do not impose all-pairs materialization, external semantic-edge authority, or mandatory intermediate-scale reopening on the upstream UCNS representation", + "define the smallest preregistered EDCM evaluation that can test semantic behavior, compression, reconstruction, or other declared hypotheses without promoting architecture into efficacy", "design the next genuinely new measurement candidate under the sealed holdout boundary rather than tuning the failed candidate", "preserve development, validation, sealed-test, candidate, witness, and decision authority separation", "pressure measurement candidates against real-system outcomes while retaining falsified and weak results", @@ -107,14 +109,14 @@ ], "next_actions": [ { - "action": "consume no new lexical semantic representation until UCNS pins the exact authorized Scrabble dictionary source and emits generalized replayable dictionary-definition-gonol receipts; reject historical NGSL closure, tokenizer IDs, subword units, opaque vectors, and whole-string hashes as substitutes", + "action": "consume no new lexical semantic representation until UCNS freezes exact xkcd 1,000 and OEWN 2025 Core source receipts and emits replayable atomic gonol receipts; reject tokenizer IDs, subword units, opaque vectors, whole-string hashes, pairwise-sidecar substitution, and forced intermediate reopening", "owner": "The-Interdependency/edcm", - "dependency": "upstream UCNS dictionary source/custody identity and generalized first-recursion producer must exist first" + "dependency": "upstream UCNS source identities and recursive producer must exist first" }, { - "action": "after the upstream dictionary-derived representation exists, freeze one EDCM projection, information-loss declaration, baseline set, hypotheses, metric, aggregation, partitions, stopping rules, and falsifiers before semantic outcome inspection", + "action": "after the upstream representation exists, freeze one EDCM projection, information-loss declaration, baseline set, hypotheses, metric, aggregation, partitions, stopping rules, and falsifiers before semantic/compression/reconstruction outcome inspection", "owner": "The-Interdependency/edcm", - "dependency": "exact UCNS dictionary corpus identity and source-bound definition-gonol receipts" + "dependency": "exact UCNS source identities and source-bound atomic gonol receipts" }, { "action": "freeze the next experiment packet around one genuinely new measurement candidate with preregistered hypotheses, partitions, custody, stopping rules, failure conditions, and provenance", @@ -133,12 +135,12 @@ } ], "blocked": [ - "EDCM semantic integration of dictionary-definition gonols is BLOCKED until UCNS pins the exact Scrabble dictionary source/custody identity, generalizes the PR #205 producer away from NGSL closure/2,809 coverage, and emits source-bound replayable receipts" + "EDCM semantic integration is BLOCKED until UCNS pins exact xkcd 1,000 and OEWN 2025 Core sources and emits the corrected atomic recursive gonol receipts; EDCM must not rebuild the missing upstream semantics itself" ], "cross_repository_relations": [ { "repository": "The-Interdependency/ucns", - "relation": "upstream authority for Unicode-character gonols, dictionary lexical construction, word gonols, dictionary-definition-gonol construction, plus structural candidate and exact observation/profile producers for declared joint experiments", + "relation": "upstream authority for xkcd/OEWN lexical source binding, Unicode-character gonols, Mobius glyph-axis word construction, morphology, semantic definition gonols, atomic closure, direct interscale coupling, and recursive gonol construction", "authority_transfer": false, "proof_status_transfer": false, "measurement_status_transfer": false @@ -152,7 +154,7 @@ }, { "repository": "The-Interdependency/skill-lib", - "relation": "build, evidence, and cross-repository coordination doctrine", + "relation": "build/evidence doctrine and current scale-affixiation / atomic-closure procedural boundary; no UCNS geometry authority transfer", "authority_transfer": false } ], @@ -168,8 +170,8 @@ "latest_holdout_findings": "docs/experiments/2026-08-02-multiwoz-booking-outcome-holdout-findings.md" }, "hmmm": [ - "the exact upstream Scrabble dictionary edition/source, machine-readable acquisition path, immutable source identity, license/custody/redistribution boundary, and generalized UCNS dictionary-definition-gonol producer identity", - "the EDCM projection, information-loss accounting, metric, benchmark, and falsifier for evaluating future dictionary-definition-gonol representations", + "the exact upstream xkcd 1,000 and OEWN 2025 Core source receipt identities and recursive UCNS producer identity", + "the EDCM projection, information-loss accounting, metric, benchmark, and falsifier for evaluating future atomic recursive gonol representations", "empirical validity of maintained and current candidate measurement surfaces", "selection of any final EDCM or joint UCNS-EDCM canon", "external custody arrangement for the next sealed test",