docs: mark EPAC forge workspace as extracted

Author: erinepshovel-code

research/epac/README.md

@@ -1,27 +1,29 @@
-# epac — placeholder scaffold
+# EPAC forge workspace
 
-Reserved for **energy particle affixiation coupling**.
+EPAC now exists independently at `The-Interdependency/epac`.
 
-Status: `hmmm` — no source repository exists yet. This directory carries no doctrine
-until a canonical `The-Interdependency/epac` source is created and pinned in
-`STACK_MANIFEST.md`.
+This directory is the **stack forge candidate** from which the independent repository was extracted. It remains noncanonical stack-local research until the graduation sequence is complete. Do not treat continued work here as authority over the independent repository, and do not populate `libs/epac/` merely because extraction occurred.
+
+`EPAC` is the stable project handle; historical expansions are provenance, not a fixed canonical expansion.
+
+## Transition standing
+
+- independent extracted repository: `The-Interdependency/epac@d8868858b2e455381ce670797bdbe47189bdc496`
+- extraction source: `The-Interdependency/stack@ef51f2e8f32ccfd5394525dad72475a61a505bc1:research/epac/`
+- implementation/public-contract authority transfer: incomplete
+- independent tests: passed in EPAC
+- clean build/install: unresolved/failed as a graduation gate
+- license/distribution rights: unresolved
+- immutable release: `hmmm`
+- downstream stack reconsumption: `hmmm`
+- molecular-shape prediction: **FALSIFIED** and preserved
 
 ## Current content
 
-- [`subatomic/subatomic-affixiation-baseline.md`](subatomic/subatomic-affixiation-baseline.md) —
-  provisional research candidate: hydrogen → helium baseline and the lithium/carbon
-  construction form over current METAPAT affixiation semantics and UCNS carrier identity.
-  Status: CROSS-DOMAIN-HYPOTHESIS / proposed. Not org canon.
-- [`epac_public_gonol.py`](epac_public_gonol.py) — EPAC Public Gonol constructor
-  on the UCNS carrier. Not the EDCM text-domain constructor.
-- [`docs/arity.md`](docs/arity.md) — arity is declared dimensional coupling,
-  not ambient dimension count. Charged oriented couplings plus degree are the
-  three-dimensional structure.
-- [`docs/preregistration-molecular-geometry-from-element-gonols.md`](docs/preregistration-molecular-geometry-from-element-gonols.md) —
-  provisional candidate: Z=1–18 element gonols from atomic structure only, then
-  affixiation of H₂, H₂O, NH₃, CH₄, CO₂ through unpaired valence electrons,
-  declared dimensional couplings, and UCNS Möbius observation. Known chemistry
-  is sealed until after construction.
+- [`subatomic/subatomic-affixiation-baseline.md`](subatomic/subatomic-affixiation-baseline.md) — historical/provisional subatomic research record.
+- [`epac_public_gonol.py`](epac_public_gonol.py) — EPAC Public Gonol constructor on the UCNS carrier; not the EDCM text-domain constructor.
+- [`docs/arity.md`](docs/arity.md) — provisional dimensional-arity construction.
+- [`docs/preregistration-molecular-geometry-from-element-gonols.md`](docs/preregistration-molecular-geometry-from-element-gonols.md) — frozen preregistration and falsification boundary.
 
 ## Usage
 
@@ -31,12 +33,15 @@ From this directory:
 PYTHONPATH=".:../../libs/ucns/src" python3 -m unittest discover -s tests -q
 ```
 
-Do not open `data/sealed_known_molecular_geometry.json` during construction.
-After construction:
+Do not open `data/sealed_known_molecular_geometry.json` during construction. After construction:
 
 ```bash
 PYTHONPATH=".:../../libs/ucns/src" python3 - <<'PY'
 from epac_comparison import compare_after_construction
 print(compare_after_construction()["standings"])
 PY
 ```
+
+## hmmm
+
+This forge workspace remains live only as the pre-graduation research side of the transition. The exact handoff point is the eventual verified release + downstream reconsumption + authority-transition receipt, not repository creation alone.