docs(skills): write the code-probe floor into the planner and reviewer skills

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Summary

Makes the evidence contract in the agent instruction files executable by a harness that has never seen this project, and stops it from generating work for itself. Three strands of one thought: a code-probe floor so planners prove load-bearing assertions instead of tracing them; a git-native Receipt v2 that replaces v1's 520-line key=value document with a JSON git note recording only what git cannot know; and a durable-claim rule that stops transcribed measurements from decaying into multi-round repair loops.

Files changed

• .claude/skills/engine-planner/SKILL.md — new Step 3.5 hard gate ("MEASURE, don't trace"), placed after "read every file" so probing follows reading rather than replacing it; plus the durable-claim-form rule
• .claude/skills/review-engine-plan/SKILL.md — new "Probe policy" section and "Check 0: Probe floor" ahead of the existing Required Checks; plus reformulation-not-refresh as the repair direction
• .claude/skills/engine-implementer/SKILL.md — the Receipt v2 section (git note contract, completion tiering, build-economy rules) and the Step 6 reviewer duties
• .claude/skills/review-impl/SKILL.md — v2 receipt consumption; the pre-existing v1 validation rules are now explicitly marked v1-only rather than reading as universal
• .claude/agents/engine-implementation-executor.md — probe-record fields aligned with the floor

Track

Developer

LLM

Model: claude-opus-4.8
Tier: Frontier
Thinking: high

Implementation method (required)

Method: not-applicable — skill/process documentation only; no crates/ code, no game logic, no parser or engine behavior touched.

CR references

None.

Verification

• Required checks ran clean, or the exact CI-owned alternative is stated below.

• Gate A output below is for the current committed head.

• Final review-impl below is clean for the current committed head.

• Both anchors cite existing analogous code at the same seam.

• bash scripts/check-parser-combinators.sh $(git merge-base upstream/main HEAD) — exit 0; Gate G PASS, Gate A PASS head=485048a1113c3912e7465f4ff21c5351736070a2 base=72388d11b084042c223b357fd7ca704c57363b2b

• pre-commit hook suite (parser combinator gate, PreLowered ratchet) — all passed; Gate P PASS (PreLowered ratchet: no producer count increased)

• Markdown-only diff, 5 files changed, 169 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-); no Rust or TypeScript source in the change set, so the compile/test surface is unaffected.

The third box is deliberately unchecked — see "Final review-impl" below. Checking it would assert a gate that was not run.

Gate A

(Base is passed explicitly, as $(git merge-base upstream/main HEAD). Two independent traps sit on that argument: omit it and the script defaults to merge-base origin/main HEAD, which resolves against the fork — stale whenever the fork's main lags, silently widening the gate diff. Pass a bare ref and it is consumed verbatim by rev-parse with no merge-base applied, which is correct only at exactly 0-behind — a behind-branch gets upstream's missing commits as phantom reversions inside its own gate diff. The merge-base form defeats both.)

Gate A PASS head=485048a1113c3912e7465f4ff21c5351736070a2 base=72388d11b084042c223b357fd7ca704c57363b2b

Anchored on

• .claude/skills/engine-planner/SKILL.md § Step 2's **Hard gate** idiom — Step 3.5 is authored in the same form at the same seam
• .claude/skills/review-engine-plan/SKILL.md § the numbered Required Checks structure — Check 0 joins it ahead of 1. Class vs card

Final review-impl

Not run on this head. This is a documentation-only change with Method: not-applicable, so there is no engine diff for /review-impl to review, and no prior run covers the current content — the last recorded PASS (head=9d070e49f) predates the entire receipt-v2 body of work and is not carried forward.

What review the current content did receive, stated as fact rather than as a gate:

• A cold-harness executability review of the Receipt v2 contract — read with no project context to test whether an unfamiliar agent could produce and consume a receipt from the text alone. It returned 8 findings; all were fixed, and a second pass against the fixed tree found 10 residuals, also fixed.
• CodeRabbit rounds across the branch; all inline findings dispositioned, including one Critical (the reviewer was told to shell a command string read out of a git note) and one that this PR's own fix had introduced (a prior-candidate lookup that matched any note on a ref shared by every run).

Claimed parse impact

None.

Scope Expansion

Yes — disclosed rather than folded in silently. The PR opened as the code-probe floor in the planner and reviewer skills. It now also carries the git-native Receipt v2 contract, the executability fixes found by reading that contract cold, and the durable-claim rule.

The common thread is one subject: the evidence contract these instruction files define. The probe floor governs how evidence is produced, Receipt v2 governs how it is recorded and verified, and the durable-claim rule governs the form it is written in so it does not decay. Splitting them would put three halves of one contract in three PRs against the same five files.

Reviewers should treat this as a larger change than the title suggests, and the file list above as the authoritative scope.

Validation Failures

None.

CI Failures

None.

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Walkthrough

The changes define Receipt v2 validation through explicit git-note ancestry, completion evidence, binary checks, and note identifiers. They also require recorded, successful probes with reachability, measurements, and scoped handling of resource conflicts.

Changes

Engine Evidence Rules

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Receipt v2 and completion validation .claude/skills/engine-implementer/SKILL.md, .claude/skills/review-impl/SKILL.md, .claude/agents/engine-implementation-executor.md	Receipt v2 records prev, run, and phase relationships. Validation checks ancestry, binary states, projection authority inputs, note OIDs, full-suite status, and completion reviews. Projection builds disable Cargo incremental compilation.
Probe exit and reachability requirements .claude/skills/engine-planner/SKILL.md, .claude/skills/review-engine-plan/SKILL.md	Probe records require commands, fixtures, exit status, output, reachability evidence, and measured costs. Non-zero exits and timeouts produce UNPROVEN results. Resource-conflict exceptions require measured, exact scope details.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 2b221

The updated instructions can accept stale or failed evidence, mismatched receipt ancestry, or unproven load-bearing claims, which could lead to false passes and unreliable implementation or repair decisions; the PR is not merge-ready until these contract gaps are fixed or explicitly accepted by the owner.

Suggested reviewers: matthewevans

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Inline comments:
In @.claude/skills/engine-planner/SKILL.md:
- Around line 105-108: Update the probe procedure near the existing probe-file
cleanup guidance to require unique log and CARGO_TARGET_DIR locations outside
the shared worktree, and remove both artifacts on success or failure while
retaining only the recorded evidence.
- Around line 88-93: Define a shared auditable evidence contract: in
.claude/skills/engine-planner/SKILL.md lines 88-93, require each load-bearing
assertion to map to a probe or include an UNPROVEN reason, recording the probe
name, command, fixture, output, applicable cost measurement, and cleanup; in
.claude/skills/review-engine-plan/SKILL.md lines 10-22, require reviewer-run
probes to record the same fields.
- Around line 110-113: Update the build-withholding guidance near the “Never
write a build-withholding instruction” rule to permit such an instruction only
when the plan records a measured resource conflict and its scope, matching the
review-engine-plan policy; retain UNPROVEN status for all other execution
blockers.
- Around line 95-97: Require positive reachability evidence for probes in
.claude/skills/engine-planner/SKILL.md at lines 95-97, such as a nonzero reach
count or production-branch marker; classify pre-target or zero-measurement runs
as UNPROVEN. Apply the same guard as a blocking Check 0 requirement in
.claude/skills/review-engine-plan/SKILL.md at lines 26-35.

In @.claude/skills/review-engine-plan/SKILL.md:
- Around line 36-39: Strengthen the census-verification guidance in the
review-engine plan so an overbroad match is a blocking failure: require a
fixture containing irrelevant objects, validate the census’s applicability or
filter field against the phenomenon, and reject the premise when the census
matches nearly everything. Replace the advisory “watch for”/“ask” behavior in
the board-census rule with this mandatory verification outcome.

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Review dispositions for the five findings, pushed as aa304a4e7 (2 files changed, 31 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-); cumulative vs base 2 files changed, 84 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)). Four applied, one applied in part.

Applied

1. Auditable evidence contract (planner L88-93 / reviewer L10-22). Agreed — "record the probe name and its measured output" is not a record a reviewer can re-run, so Check 0 had nothing to audit against. Both skills now name the same fields (probe name, exact command, fixture, observed output, and the measured figure behind any load-bearing cost claim), and an assertion missing them is UNPROVEN by default on both sides. The reviewer records the same fields for probes it runs itself.

2. Positive reachability evidence (planner L95-97 / reviewer L26-35). Agreed, and it closes the same class this PR was written for: a recorded output that never came from the code under test is indistinguishable from a proven assertion. Planner now requires a reachability marker printed alongside the verdict; a run that died before the target, or a zero with no positive control showing the instrument fires, is UNPROVEN rather than a negative result. On the reviewer side, calling such a run a negative result is blocking.

3. Build-withholding exception alignment (planner L110-113). Confirmed a real contradiction — planner said "never", reviewer voided the clause "unless a measured resource conflict is named". Aligned on the narrower reading rather than the looser one: the exception requires a named process, a named worktree, and both the measurement and the withholding's scope recorded in the brief, and it never generalizes past that scope. Assertions it blocks stay UNPROVEN either way, so the exception buys a pause, never a promotion to fact.

4. Census check made blocking (reviewer L36-39). Agreed — advisory phrasing ("watch for", "ask") lets exactly the motivating defect recur. Now: run the census on a real fixture that contains irrelevant objects, confirm the predicate consults the applicability field, and reject the premise until that check is shown. A plausible positive result on friendly input does not discharge it.

Applied in part

5. Probe artifact cleanup (planner L105-108). The probe file and the scratch log are now explicitly cleaned up / kept out of the tracked tree, with the recorded output named as the artifact that survives. Declining the other half — removing the isolated CARGO_TARGET_DIR on success or failure. Deleting it between probes re-imposes the full dependency rebuild, and that cost is the specific thing that talks planners out of probing at all, which is the behavior this floor exists to prevent. One isolated target dir per worktree, persistent and reused, is also the standing convention here (a shared target dir across worktrees corrupts gate results in both directions). The skill now says so explicitly rather than leaving it implied.

Note on the SkillSpector "external transmission" warning attached to several of these: it fires on line 45 of .claude/skills/engine-planner/SKILL.md, which is pre-existing content untouched by this PR and outside the diff.

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In @.claude/skills/engine-planner/SKILL.md:
- Around line 95-100: Update the probe requirements in the skill guidance so an
assertion is marked PROVEN only when compilation and execution complete
successfully with an explicit zero-exit-status check. Classify any non-zero exit
or timeout as UNPROVEN, regardless of matching output found by tee or grep,
while retaining the existing requirement to record the command and observed
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- Around line 62-65: Update the completion_check sidecar contract and reviewer
inputs to include a stable check_id, with explicit behavior for missing or
duplicate IDs; compare reused-target binary_sha256 values by check_id rather
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In @.claude/skills/engine-implementer/SKILL.md:
- Line 233: Update the v2 reviewer spawn-input requirements in the
engine-implementer and review-impl skill instructions so artifacts.tsv and
completion_checks.tsv are always enumerated, while projection_steps.tsv is
required only when projection_forced_reason is not NONE. Preserve
CANNOT_EVALUATE behavior for any sidecar that is required but missing, and
ensure the condition matches the v2 receipt contract.
- Line 65: Clarify the completion_check contract so that any check running a
compiled binary in both rounds must have non-empty binary_path and binary_sha256
in both prior and current rows, with differing hashes when build inputs changed.
Keep both fields empty only for checks that run no compiled binary; treat
missing, partially populated, or otherwise inconsistent field shapes as
CANNOT_EVALUATE. Anchor this clarification to the completion_check family and
check_id-based cross-round comparison.

In @.claude/skills/review-impl/SKILL.md:
- Line 32: Update the v2 receipt discriminator requirement to match the
conditions in engine-implementer: apply the check only when
completion_target_reused=true, a prior receipt exists, the frozen-scope delta
touches a build-input path, and shared compiled checks exist; exempt first
rounds, docs-only deltas, and binary-free checks, while preserving the existing
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Inline comments:
In @.claude/skills/engine-implementer/SKILL.md:
- Around line 76-83: Update the v2 check comparison logic to use a stable
check_id as the cross-round matching key instead of relying only on name.
Validate that every expected check has exactly one match; return CANNOT_EVALUATE
when a check_id is missing, duplicated, or renamed, preventing mismatched or
omitted binary comparisons.
- Around line 83-84: Update the run-record schema describing projection checks
to replace the single output_sha256 field with an indexed output list containing
each generated output path, size, and SHA256, including both parse-diff.md and
parse-diff.json. Apply this schema consistently in the executor and reviewer
rules while preserving the existing command, exit, full_suite, and binary_sha256
fields.
- Around line 74-75: Update the v2 reviewer validation around the scope and
projection fields so the note’s scope is authorized by the orchestrator’s
frozen, duplicate-free scope: require and validate a canonical v2 scope digest,
or compare the note’s scope byte-for-byte against the supplied frozen scope and
reject mismatches. Do not rely on the JSON array alone or apply only the v1
scope/hash validation rules.
- Line 85: Define a shared build-input predicate matching all paths covered by
scripts/engine-source-hash.sh, including crates/engine/data/**, build.rs,
Cargo.toml, and Cargo.lock, then use that predicate for stale-binary comparisons
in Step 6 and the corresponding logic in review-impl. Ensure any matching change
triggers comparison against the previous candidate’s binary_sha256.
- Line 85: Update the prior-candidate lookup in the engine-implementer workflow
and the corresponding review-impl workflow to restrict matches to the current
run and phase, using an explicit prior-candidate link or a validated parent
chain. Do not select the first noted ancestor from the shared notes ref without
validating that relationship, and treat the round as first-round when no
same-run, same-phase prior candidate exists.

In @.claude/skills/review-impl/SKILL.md:
- Line 32: Update the receipt verification guidance so recorded command strings
from candidate-associated notes are never executed verbatim. Reconstruct
commands only from fixed allowlisted templates using trusted SHAs and paths, or
execute them in a hermetic credential-free sandbox without passing the recorded
string to a shell; preserve the existing integrity and verification
requirements.
- Line 38: Update the v2 receipt identity documentation and its implementer and
acceptance contracts to label the value as “Receipt OID,” reflecting the single
note object ID returned by the git-notes lookup and its repository-selected hash
algorithm. Keep “Receipt SHA256” reserved for v1 receipt-byte digests.

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38-38: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Use a hash-neutral v2 receipt label.

git notes --ref=refs/notes/engine-implementer list "$CANDIDATE_SHA" returns the note object ID. That ID uses the repository's object format and is not necessarily a SHA-256 digest. Labeling it Receipt SHA256 conflates the v1 byte digest with the v2 note identity.

Use Receipt OID for v2 and retain Receipt SHA256 for v1 in the review and acceptance contracts.

#!/usr/bin/env bash
set -euo pipefail
oid="$(git notes --ref=refs/notes/engine-implementer list "$CANDIDATE_SHA")"
test -n "$oid"
test "$(git cat-file -t "$oid")" = blob
printf 'object_format=%s oid=%s\n' \
  "$(git rev-parse --show-object-format)" "$oid"

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only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes
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In @.claude/skills/review-impl/SKILL.md at line 38, Update the v2 receipt label
in the review and acceptance contracts from “Receipt SHA256” to “Receipt OID,”
while retaining “Receipt SHA256” for v1 validated receipt bytes. Ensure v2
references the git notes object identity returned by the engine-implementer
notes lookup without implying a SHA-256 digest.

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- Line 81: The v2 receipt schema described around checks and projection.steps is
missing the identities required by review-impl Step 6 validation. Extend the
shared v2 completion/projection record contract, or define an explicit v2
verifier contract, to capture environment, worktree, target, expected SHA,
detached identity, clean state, ordered detached proofs, and the pinned
AtomicCards.json input identity, while preserving existing command, exit, suite,
binary, and output records.
- Around line 145-147: The phase acceptance logic must support receipt format
v2, whose schema lacks base_sha and start_sha. Update the phase and round
chaining checks to derive those relationships from Git and existing acceptance
inputs, or introduce equivalent v2 fields and validate them consistently, while
preserving the existing v1 behavior and receipt-format constraints.
- Line 83: Validate the prior-candidate relationship before using it as the
binary-comparison baseline: in .claude/skills/engine-implementer/SKILL.md lines
83-83, require a validated note-bearing parent chain or explicit prior-candidate
link instead of selecting any first ancestor sharing run and phase; apply the
same validation in .claude/skills/review-impl/SKILL.md lines 32-32 before Step 6
compares receipts.
- Around line 81-83: Update the Step 6 binary_sha256 comparison rules so null is
exempt only when both corresponding checks explicitly establish that no binary
was built; treat missing, ambiguous, or one-sided binary identity as unknown and
return CANNOT_ANSWER. Do not allow an omitted hash to bypass stale-build
detection, and apply the same rule to the corresponding round-comparison logic.

In @.claude/skills/review-engine-plan/SKILL.md:
- Around line 17-22: Update the build-withholding exception in the
review-engine-plan instructions to require all four auditable fields: the named
process, worktree, measured contention, and exact scope. Only honor the
exception within that exact scope; mark affected assertions UNPROVEN outside it,
matching the contract in engine-planner.

In @.claude/skills/review-impl/SKILL.md:
- Around line 46-48: Update the v2 Semantic-Impact Gate to recompute the exact
NUL-safe four-path projection-authority diff using trusted paths, in addition to
rebuilding the source-hash comparison. Require this authority diff to be empty
before accepting projection: null; if it is non-empty, require and validate the
corresponding projection evidence. Anchor the change to the v2 receipt
validation and Semantic-Impact Gate rules in this skill.

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- Line 38: Update the v2 receipt label in the review and acceptance contracts
from “Receipt SHA256” to “Receipt OID,” while retaining “Receipt SHA256” for v1
validated receipt bytes. Ensure v2 references the git notes object identity
returned by the engine-implementer notes lookup without implying a SHA-256
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Review 4984997021 — all 6 actionable findings plus the re-raised duplicate are addressed in 2b221fd5e. Each was reproduced against the tree before fixing; none were taken on the report's word.

Finding	Disposition
v2 schema insufficient for Step 6 validation	Fixed. The forced-reason evidence paragraph was still unscoped and demanded the pinned AtomicCards.json artifact, environment/worktree/target/expected-SHA records and ordered detached proofs from every receipt. Scoped to v1. v2 projection.steps now record inputs as well as outputs, so the pinned data root has an identity in the format that replaced the v1 artifact record.
Do not exempt an unknown binary hash	Fixed. null now means builds-no-executable-by-construction; a command that builds one whose path cannot be identified is CANNOT_ANSWER, never null. One-sided null is a state change between rounds, not an exemption.
Bind v2 comparisons to a validated prior-candidate chain	Fixed. Added an explicit prev link to the schema, validated against git rather than trusted: it must be an ancestor whose note carries the same run and phase. Walking for the first same-run note found a commit but proved no round relationship — correct.
Make phase acceptance format-aware	Fixed. Attribution and round chaining were defined only over v1's base_sha/start_sha. Both now have a v2 arm reading run/phase/prev from the note; the downstream checks apply unchanged.
Require all fields for a build-withholding exception	Fixed. The reviewer accepted "a measured resource conflict" where the planner requires the holding process, the worktree, the measurement, and the exact scope. Aligned to all four, with out-of-scope assertions UNPROVEN.
Recompute the projection-authority diff for v2	Fixed. The v2 gate arm re-derived the source-hash comparison but not the four-path authority diff, so a Cargo.toml, .cargo/config.toml, rust-toolchain.toml or scripts/engine-source-hash.sh change could leave projection: null accepted while source hashes stayed equal. Both legs now, empty authority-diff required.
(duplicate) Hash-neutral v2 receipt label	Fixed — previously declined, and the object-format argument changes that. Receipt OID for v2; Receipt SHA256 stays reserved for v1 receipt bytes.

Three of these sat at sites an earlier sweep of the same defect missed — v1 machinery reading as universal, now on its third recurrence. Rather than patch the third instance, the file was swept by predicate: every paragraph demanding a v1-only field (source_hash_record, scoped_diff_command, projection_authority_diff_command, projection_forced_reason, start_sha, scope_paths_*, stdout_path, artifact_size) now carries a v1 marker. Four such paragraphs, four markers.

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Keep claims affected by withheld probes UNPROVEN.

A valid resource-conflict exception permits pausing the probe. It does not provide evidence for the affected assertions. The current text marks only assertions outside the named scope as UNPROVEN, which can allow in-scope load-bearing claims to pass without a successful probe. Mark every assertion whose probe is withheld as UNPROVEN; evaluate unaffected assertions normally.

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In @.claude/skills/review-engine-plan/SKILL.md around lines 17 - 26, Update the
probe-withholding guidance in the isolated build and resource-conflict section
so every assertion affected by a withheld probe is marked UNPROVEN, including
assertions within the specifically named conflict scope; evaluate only
unaffected assertions normally.

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Inline comments:
In @.claude/skills/engine-implementer/SKILL.md:
- Line 84: Update the receipt ancestry validation in
.claude/skills/engine-implementer/SKILL.md:84 and
.claude/skills/review-impl/SKILL.md:32 to require the current note’s run and
phase to match trusted round inputs, and require prev to equal START_SHA for fix
rounds, with explicit first-round handling. Apply this validation before
accepting lineage or performing binary comparisons; reject mismatches as
CANNOT_ANSWER rather than accepting an arbitrary matching ancestor.
- Line 155: Update the chain-integrity and accepted-candidate rules to select
receipt identity based on the declared format: use Receipt SHA256 for v1 and
Receipt OID for v2. For v2, identify interior phase acceptance using the
phase-base acceptance input rather than an unqualified v1 base_sha field, while
preserving the existing v1 behavior and validation checks.
- Around line 82-84: Update the Receipt v2 projection-evidence validation
described around the projection step records so projection, generator, report,
and comparator steps require exit == 0 and all expected output files to be
present before acceptance. Preserve the existing per-step inputs and outputs
hashing, and reject incomplete or failed projection evidence rather than
accepting hashes from stale outputs.

Apply the same fix in @.claude/skills/engine-implementer/SKILL.md around lines
82 - 84: The reviewer-side acceptance rule must reject non-zero required steps
and missing expected outputs.

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In @.claude/skills/review-engine-plan/SKILL.md:
- Around line 17-26: Update the probe-withholding guidance in the isolated build
and resource-conflict section so every assertion affected by a withheld probe is
marked UNPROVEN, including assertions within the specifically named conflict
scope; evaluate only unaffected assertions normally.

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Review 4985232827 — all 4 findings (3 inline + 1 outside-diff) addressed in 485048a11, each reproduced against the tree first.

Finding	Disposition
Require successful projection evidence	Fixed. The contract recorded exits and hashes but never required success, so a step could exit non-zero, leave a stale file whose hash validates perfectly, and pass. Every step must now exit 0 and carry every expected output, or the projection is CANNOT_ANSWER rather than partial. Mirrored into the v2 semantic-impact arm.
Bind v2 ancestry to trusted round inputs	Fixed, and the reasoning was right. "An ancestor whose note has the same run/phase" is satisfied twice by a three-round phase, and only one of those is the prior round. The note's run/phase must now equal the reviewer's own spawn inputs — self-consistency proves nothing — and prev must equal START_SHA on a fix round or be null on a first round.
Make phase acceptance format-aware	Fixed. Four acceptance sites demanded a reviewer-emitted receipt SHA256 unconditionally, which a v2 review cannot satisfy after the OID rename. Named once as the external receipt identity (Receipt SHA256 for v1, Receipt OID for v2) and referred to by that name at the other three, so a future format adds a definition instead of requiring another sweep. Interior-phase base made format-aware for the same reason.
Keep claims affected by withheld probes UNPROVEN	Fixed — this was a logic inversion on my side. The previous wording marked only out-of-scope assertions UNPROVEN, which let the in-scope load-bearing claim — precisely the one the withholding blocked — pass unproven. The exception excuses running the probe, never the claim.

One process note, since it nearly went the other way: I first grepped Receipt SHA256 case-sensitively, got zero hits, and was about to record the third finding as unverified. The four real sites are lowercase receipt SHA256. A predicate that cannot see the thing it is looking for reports absence, not absence — the finding was correct and my instrument was not.

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