From e18f6fae7204cb94a7dfa3dd06da93b6b01f6e5a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: klappy <118073+klappy@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2026 22:12:56 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] =?UTF-8?q?canon:=20ratify=20Discernment=20Transfer=20Ladd?= =?UTF-8?q?er=20=E2=80=94=20captain-attested=20proven=202026-07-07;=20crit?= =?UTF-8?q?erion-6=20genericization?= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit - frontmatter: stability provisional -> evolving (sibling active-method vocabulary; no 'active' stability value exists in this repo), status proposed -> active - Provenance and Ratification section: captain-ratified 2026-07-07 ET (proven across many experiments/repos; observed gaps attributable to unrelated causes, not this method) + fragility caveat (proven != robust; careful planning/execution/fresh-context validation every run) - criterion-6 pass, gvva precedent: Covenynt -> [ORG], 0 Context/about.md -> [ORG-APPROVAL-POLICY-DOC], Brief 07/08 refs -> [ORG-PILOT-BRIEF]; evidence numbers and dated probes kept per criterion 5 --- canon/methods/discernment-transfer-ladder.md | 13 +++++++++---- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/canon/methods/discernment-transfer-ladder.md b/canon/methods/discernment-transfer-ladder.md index 8610982..f81f85b 100644 --- a/canon/methods/discernment-transfer-ladder.md +++ b/canon/methods/discernment-transfer-ladder.md @@ -5,11 +5,11 @@ audience: canon exposure: nav tier: 2 voice: neutral -stability: provisional +stability: evolving target_repo: "outcomes-driven-development" date: 2026-06-30 derives_from: "canon/principles/rulebook-transfer, canon/principles/discernment-layer, canon/values/axioms, canon/constraints/measure-before-you-object, canon/methods/revision-lens-sequence, canon/principles/verification-requires-fresh-context" -status: proposed +status: active --- # Method: The Discernment Transfer Ladder @@ -66,14 +66,19 @@ Three guardrails travel with the delegation, each already in canon: There is therefore **no conflict** with "models do not mutate canon." That decision forbids governing *above* one's scope and *over* oneself; it explicitly permits delegated, bounded, in-domain stewardship. The human keeps two things no rung below inherits: ratification of the top tier (universal canon), and the authority to grant and revoke every steward's scope. -This is not abstract for Covenynt. The COO's own design is this principle instantiated at the business layer: act-with-approval, solo-approve for low-stakes, 2-of-3 partners for high-stakes (`0 Context/about.md`). The agent is a bounded, revocable steward of the COO domain — ratifying the reversible in-domain work itself, escalating the rest. The ladder and the COO approval model are the same structure at two altitudes. +This is not abstract for [ORG]. The COO's own design is this principle instantiated at the business layer: act-with-approval, solo-approve for low-stakes, 2-of-3 partners for high-stakes (`[ORG-APPROVAL-POLICY-DOC]`). The agent is a bounded, revocable steward of the COO domain — ratifying the reversible in-domain work itself, escalating the rest. The ladder and the COO approval model are the same structure at two altitudes. ## Worked example (the session that produced this method) Task: fold one chapter of a COO book into a Kirigami foldout. Reference: Opus, 41 rows / 11 tier-1. Students under rulebook v1: Sonnet 37/9 (converged — adjacent tier), Haiku 88/4 (collapsed — two tiers down, judgment did not transfer; *format* — JSON, edge syntax — did transfer). Compensation v2: budgets, tier-1 test, anti-fragmentation rule, worked example, self-count gate. Students under v2: Haiku 45/10, back in the reference band. Not yet done: the semantic-fidelity gate (Step 2 axis two) and the unseen-case test (Step 5). Predicted non-transferable rung: cross-book reconciliation (L6) stays on the top model tier. +## Provenance and Ratification + +- **Captain-ratified 2026-07-07 (America/New_York):** proven in practice — many experiments across many repos over the week since authoring, not only the session recorded above. Observed gaps in that proving period were attributable to unrelated causes, not this method. +- **Captain's caveat, same ruling:** ratified as proven is not ratified as robust — the process remains fragile, and every run wants careful planning, careful execution, and a real validation pass (fresh-context, per `verification-requires-fresh-context`). + ## Open - **Semantic fidelity unproven.** Convergence so far is structural only. The fidelity grader against a held-out answer key has not run. - **N is uncalibrated.** How many compensation rounds before declaring a capability non-transferable is not yet known. -- **Reality-grounding for this domain.** For the COO, the ultimate answer key is whether the agent's actions are right in the field — which only the pilot (Brief 07 Step 5 / Brief 08 Phase 2) supplies. +- **Reality-grounding for this domain.** For the COO, the ultimate answer key is whether the agent's actions are right in the field — which only the pilot ([ORG-PILOT-BRIEF] field phases) supplies.