Repair text-construction authority and preserve local skill indexes

.github/workflows/ci.yml

@@ -18,6 +18,13 @@ jobs:
           python-version: "3.x"
       - name: Unit tests
         run: python -m unittest discover -s tests
+      - name: Exact EDCM cross-source construction witness
+        run: |
+          EDCM_CHECKOUT=$(mktemp -d)
+          git -C "$EDCM_CHECKOUT" init
+          git -C "$EDCM_CHECKOUT" fetch --depth 1 https://github.com/The-Interdependency/edcm.git ddc89a97ebbcf0a5863dad6e633b01b520e9bccf
+          git -C "$EDCM_CHECKOUT" checkout --detach FETCH_HEAD
+          python tools/check_edcm_boundary.py "$EDCM_CHECKOUT"
       - name: Skill library drift
         run: python tools/check_skill_lib_drift.py --warnings-fail
       - name: Skill compliance
@@ -31,4 +38,4 @@ jobs:
       - name: RepoLOTO audit
         run: python tests/test_repo_loto.py --audit
       - name: RepoLOTO checks
-        run: python tests/test_repo_loto.py
+        run: python tests/test_repo_loto.py

AGENTS.md

@@ -146,7 +146,7 @@ propagate from here.
 - If you are constructing, reviewing, replaying, or continuing UCNS gonols,
   including lexical floors, morphology, definitions, punctuation functions,
   closure, atomic promotion, or recursive relations, load `gonol-build/SKILL.md`.
-  Resolve current UCNS authority first; never restore historical
+  Resolve current UCNS geometry and EDCM text/scale authority first; never impose a universal adjacent-scale ladder or restore historical
   `gonal-morphology` doctrine as current canon.
 - If you are comparing UCNS options, deciding whether evidence authorizes a
   winner, or issuing a scoped selection receipt, load

CLAUDE.md

@@ -49,11 +49,11 @@ llms/                  # python -m llms.build reference runner
 | `canon/` | procedural | — | Canonical-source and doctrine maintenance. Helps agents distinguish source-backed canon, proposed canon, repo-local practice, and `hmmm`. No metadata block. |
 | `domain-claims/` | procedural | — | Domain-first lexical and semantic governance. Establishes the domain-qualified sense, scope, exclusions, collision result, and standing that must precede a canonical definition, conversational provenance, or structural encoding. No metadata block. |
 | `visitor-intro/` | procedural | — | Onboarding tour. Lets any agent give a coherent, repo-aware orientation to newcomers at any org repo without inventing org-level facts. No metadata block. |
-| `char-compress/` | procedural | — | Unit Circle Number System-derived bone/flesh context compression. Carry flesh, frozen bones, transforms, and `hmmm`; drop only safely regenerable scaffold. Do not claim unearned theorem/status support or edcmbone metric status. |
+| `char-compress/` | procedural | — | Skill-lib-owned bone/flesh context compression; historical notation is not current UCNS mathematics. Carry flesh, frozen bones, transforms, and `hmmm`; drop only safely regenerable scaffold. Do not claim unearned theorem/status support or edcmbone metric status. |
 | `agent-instantiation/` | procedural | — | a0/a0ucns agent lifecycle methodology. Spawn sub-agents via the `sub_agent_spawn` tool → spawn executor; fork/merge `PCNAEngine` instances via `InstanceMerge` (fork/absorb/converge); compose identities per the canonical `username(a0(energy)auditor)` grammar; honor spawn caps + write-route gating. Canonical source is `a0`; `a0-betatest` diverged (per-user native-ZFAE) and is out of scope. Repo-specific runtime doctrine (no theorem transfer). |
 | `a0p-instancing/` | procedural | — | Peer for a0-betatest (a0p): agents are per-user CRUD `AgentInstance` + `CharacterSheet`, each owning a trained native ZFAE weight bank (three 157-seed cores); no `sub_agent_spawn`/executor/`InstanceMerge` — only volatile `MemoryCore.spawn_sub/merge_sub`. Sequence: create→distill-train→readiness gate→mode inference→sentinel/pending-override→safetensors checkpoint. Canonical source is `a0-betatest`. |
 | `plain-lens/` | procedural | — | Plain-language, multi-lens companion views of dense canonical text. Build easier on-ramps (domain/audience/role lens selectors, progressive disclosure) that never replace or talk down to the source, keep a static fallback under any dynamic layer, preserve operators/negations/quantifiers, and report an EDCM-style body-vs-footnote tension reading as an illustrative heuristic (not an edcmbone metric runtime). |
-| `gonol-build/` | procedural | — | UCNS gonol construction discipline. Resolve current UCNS authority; preserve intrinsic relations, closure, atomic promotion, occurrence identity, explicit punctuation-function plans, full-source receipts, and independent replay. Refuses superseded omega/phi/psi, bone/flesh, and carrier-LCM language doctrine. |
+| `gonol-build/` | procedural | — | UCNS geometry / EDCM text construction discipline. Resolve current owning contracts and admissible scale options; preserve closure, atomic participation, occurrence identity, full-source receipts, and protocol-required replay. Refuses superseded omega/phi/psi, bone/flesh, and carrier-LCM language doctrine. |
 | `ucns-option-selection/` | procedural | — | Fail-closed scoped UCNS option selection. Freezes candidates, authority, gates, evidence, and policies; requires complete evaluation, replay, purpose-relative comparison, explicit ratification, rollback, and non-transfer. Hard-gate failures cannot be compensated by scores. |
 | `epac-selection-display/` | procedural | — | Evidence-bound EPAC display selection. Resolves an exact provisional source, target, receipt, and available representation; preserves status, nonclaims, sealed-comparison boundaries, and `hmmm`; and keeps WebMCP as a read-only handoff rather than a research-code executor. |
 | `meta/` | procedural | — | Meta Energy Theory axioms. Extract and preserve Energy Theory axioms from resonances among small network architectures, with formula-backed examples and overlap grids; keep Energy Theory distinct from EDCMBONE flesh/bone and FLAR implementation detail. |
@@ -248,9 +248,9 @@ There is a small stdlib Python editorial test suite. There is still no `package.
 7. Do not fork parser dialects; propose an `msdmd` extension instead.
 8. Do not invent undeclared package/build commands for this repo.
 9. Apply `char-compress` when compressing repo context: carry flesh, frozen bones, transforms, and hmmm; drop only safely regenerable scaffold.
-10. Treat `char-compress` as Unit Circle Number System-derived compression doctrine, but do not claim unearned theorem/status support or edcmbone metric status.
+10. Treat `char-compress` as a skill-lib-owned compression procedure, but do not claim unearned theorem/status support or edcmbone metric status.
 11. Before promoting a word into canon, a theorem term, ontology primitive, schema field, encoding label, or cross-domain mapping, apply `domain-claims`: establish the domain-qualified sense and resolve collisions before attaching provenance; then apply `canon` to assess authority.
-12. Before constructing, reviewing, replaying, or extending UCNS gonols, apply `gonol-build`: resolve current UCNS authority, preserve closure and atomic promotion, require explicit occurrence-addressed function plans, and keep incomplete constructors visible as `hmmm`.
+12. Before constructing, reviewing, replaying, or extending UCNS gonols, apply `gonol-build`: resolve current UCNS geometry and EDCM admissible scale options, preserve closure and atomic participation, require declared occurrence-addressed function plans, and keep incomplete constructors visible as `hmmm`.
 13. Before selecting among UCNS options, apply `ucns-option-selection`: freeze the scoped decision boundary, enforce noncompensable eligibility and evidence gates, require explicit ratification, and preserve non-transfer, rollback, negative evidence, and `hmmm`.
 14. Before selecting and displaying an EPAC artifact, apply `epac-selection-display`: pin the provisional source, exact target, receipt, and available renderer; preserve status, nonclaims, sealed comparison, and `hmmm`; and keep WebMCP read-only.
 15. For LLM instructions, edit `LLMS` source blocks and regenerate `llms.txt` with `python -m llms.build --root . --out llms.txt --apply`.

ORG_DISTRIBUTION.md

@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ Propagation PRs should cite this repository and the source commit SHA.
 * `canon/` — canonical-source and doctrine maintenance
 * `domain-claims/` — domain-first lexical standing, collision checks, and semantic provenance gating
 * `visitor-intro/` — onboarding tour for newcomers landing at any org repo
-* `char-compress/` — bone/flesh context compression for handoffs and skill writing
+* `char-compress/` — skill-lib-owned bone/flesh context compression for handoffs and skill writing; historical notation is not current UCNS mathematics
 * `agent-instantiation/` — a0/a0ucns agent spawn/fork/merge lifecycle methodology
 * `a0p-instancing/` — a0-betatest (a0p) per-user CRUD + native-ZFAE instancing methodology
 * `manifest/` — living-spec generation
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ Propagation PRs should cite this repository and the source commit SHA.
 * `plain-lens/` — plain-language, multi-lens companion views of dense canonical text
 * `thought-lens/` — raw-thought to audience-legible translation with claim-kernel fidelity and back-translation checks
 * `meta/` — consultation router for current METAPAT authority; no frozen doctrine copy
-* `gonol-build/` — UCNS gonol construction, closure, atomic promotion, explicit function application, complete replay, and honest continuation boundaries
+* `gonol-build/` — UCNS geometry / EDCM text construction, declared scale options, closure, atomic participation, protocol-required replay, and honest continuation boundaries
 * `ucns-option-selection/` — fail-closed scoped UCNS option comparison, selection, ratification, non-transfer, rollback, and decision receipts
 * `epac-selection-display/` — exact provisional EPAC target and representation selection with receipt-backed display, status preservation, and a read-only WebMCP handoff boundary
 * `the-interdependency/` — org-wide workflow protocol and usage-guidance doctrine for The Interdependency projects

README.md

@@ -39,13 +39,13 @@ into [`llms.txt`](llms.txt) from self-declared `LLMS` blocks.
 | [`canon/`](canon/SKILL.md) | Canonical-source and doctrine maintenance. Helps agents decide what is source-backed canon, proposed canon, or `hmmm` before changing skills or org doctrine. Independent of msdmd. |
 | [`domain-claims/`](domain-claims/SKILL.md) | Domain-first lexical and semantic governance. Before a word becomes a theorem term, ontology primitive, schema field, encoding label, or other control surface, establish the domain-qualified sense, scope, exclusions, collision status, and standing that later provenance may attach to. Independent of msdmd. |
 | [`visitor-intro/`](visitor-intro/SKILL.md) | Onboarding tour skill. Lets any agent give a coherent, repo-aware orientation to newcomers landing at any The-Interdependency repo, without inventing org-level facts. Independent of msdmd. |
-| [`char-compress/`](char-compress/SKILL.md) | Unit Circle Number System-derived bone/flesh context compression for agent handoff and skill writing. Preserves irreducible flesh, frozen bones, transforms, and `hmmm`; drops only safely regenerable scaffold. Independent of msdmd. |
+| [`char-compress/`](char-compress/SKILL.md) | Skill-lib-owned bone/flesh context compression (historical text-stack notation, not current UCNS mathematics) for agent handoff and skill writing. Preserves irreducible flesh, frozen bones, transforms, and `hmmm`; drops only safely regenerable scaffold. Independent of msdmd. |
 | [`agent-instantiation/`](agent-instantiation/SKILL.md) | Methodology for instantiating, forking, running, merging, and retiring agents in `a0` and its mirror `a0ucns`. Spawn via the `sub_agent_spawn` tool → executor; fork/merge `PCNAEngine` instances via `InstanceMerge`; compose identities; honor spawn caps and write-route gating. `a0-betatest` diverges (per-user native-ZFAE) and is out of scope. Independent of msdmd. |
 | [`a0p-instancing/`](a0p-instancing/SKILL.md) | Peer of `agent-instantiation` for a0-betatest (a0p), whose model diverges: agents are per-user CRUD `AgentInstance` entities bound to a `CharacterSheet`, each owning a trained native ZFAE weight bank; no spawn/fork/merge — only volatile sub-context memory. Covers create→train→readiness-gate→mode inference→sentinel/override→safetensors checkpoint. Independent of msdmd. |
 | [`plain-lens/`](plain-lens/SKILL.md) | Plain-language, multi-lens companion views of dense canonical text — easier on-ramps that do not replace or talk down to the source. Domain/audience/role lens selectors, progressive-disclosure reading UX, static fallback for dynamic pages, and EDCM-style body-vs-footnote tension readings. Independent of msdmd. |
 | [`thought-lens/`](thought-lens/SKILL.md) | Translation compiler for raw, context-heavy thought. Recovers a claim kernel before rendering audience/surface-specific language, preserves claim force and operators, introduces coined terms only after their ordinary meaning lands, and back-checks for fidelity and remaining context debt. Independent of msdmd. |
 | [`meta/`](meta/SKILL.md) | Consultation router for current METAPAT. Retrieves the authoritative repository when a conceptual relation, distinction, boundary, transformation, scale, or cross-domain correspondence would constrain downstream work; carries no frozen METAPAT doctrine here. Independent of msdmd. |
-| [`gonol-build/`](gonol-build/SKILL.md) | UCNS gonol construction, closure, atomic promotion, function application, replay, and continuation discipline. Routes authority to the current UCNS commit; preserves exact source and occurrence identity; requires explicit function plans and complete replay; refuses historical omega/phi/psi, bone/flesh, and carrier-LCM language doctrine. Independent of msdmd. |
+| [`gonol-build/`](gonol-build/SKILL.md) | UCNS geometry / EDCM text construction, closure, atomic participation at admissible scales, and scoped replay discipline. Resolves each owning contract; preserves exact source and occurrence identity; imposes no universal scale ladder. Independent of msdmd. |
 | [`ucns-option-selection/`](ucns-option-selection/SKILL.md) | Fail-closed UCNS option-selection rubric. Freezes scope, candidates, authority, gates, policies, and evidence boundaries; requires complete execution, falsification, replay, purpose-relative comparison, non-transfer, rollback, and explicit ratification; refuses compensating scores and universal promotion from local evidence. Independent of msdmd. |
 | [`epac-selection-display/`](epac-selection-display/SKILL.md) | Evidence-bound EPAC target selection and display. Resolves an exact provisional source, target, receipt, and available renderer; preserves standing, `selection_effect`, nonclaims, sealed-comparison boundaries, and `hmmm`; and keeps the WebMCP surface a read-only repository-and-skill handoff rather than an EPAC executor. Independent of msdmd. |
 | [`the-interdependency/`](the-interdependency/SKILL.md) | Workflow and protocol for code building, researching, GitHub maintenance and updates, EDCMBONE transcript assembly for analysis, and anything that touches The Interdependency organization or The Interdependent Way projects. Enforces structure preservation (neurodivergence-compatible), mandatory usage guidance in all artifacts, framework-aligned EDCMBONE analysis, and org-standard GitHub hygiene. Independent of msdmd. |