Conformance and calibration#

The spec defines three conformance tiers (11), fifteen failure classes (12), health invariants (13), and a self test (14). This skill operates the measuring instruments. It never makes a conformance claim: the register measures, the operator rules, and while the spec is draft its own note says claims are premature.

The requirement register#

conformance/requirements.json holds every RFC 2119 sentence of the spec, extracted by tools/extract-requirements.mjs. Working it:

• status is the only writable field: unimplemented, implemented, verified, spec-defect, not-applicable. Moving a requirement to implemented or verified names its evidence (a file, a test, a record) in the log entry that moved it. verified means a named check exercised it, not that code exists.
• Never hand-edit text: those are the spec's words. A misparse is fixed in the extractor, visibly.
• A requirement that cannot be implemented as written is spec-defect with a note; the docket of such findings is input to the spec's next version, which is the author's.
• The gate re-extracts on every run; a spec edit turns the gate red until the register is regenerated and its statuses reviewed.

Health invariants (13)#

Report per period, count and name, target zero for the first five: counselors without corpus manifests; counsel above rung; recommendations lacking provenance; revoked or expired official designations still displayed; projections with undeclared rights; calibration records past their review interval; sessions emitted without evidence gating. unknown with a reason beats an inferred zero.

Reliance and calibration (7)#

• When a principal follows a rung 2 recommendation, record counsel, action, and outcome (schema/v1/reliance-record.schema.json).
• Maintain the counselor's error history (schema/v1/calibration-record.schema.json): what it was wrong about and by how much. Calibration is the counselor's most valuable accumulated state, the basis for rung movement in both directions, and it survives sessions and versions; silently resetting it is GH-11.
• Rung movement is an operator decision recorded with rationale (6.1). This skill prepares the evidence for that decision; it never takes it.

The self test (14)#

Re-run the six seeded refusals on demand and after any charter change; record results in a creation-record-shaped self-test block with pass, fail, or unknown. A fail is a finding for the operator, not a thing to quietly fix and re-run: the record of the failure is part of the calibration story.