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-# Claims Ledger
-
-> Every public-facing claim (README, docs, site, marketplace copy) that carries a
-> `<!-- claim:<id> -->` marker binds here to resolvable evidence. `check_claims`
-> (in `task ci`) fails the build if a markered claim has no `backed` ledger entry
-> with a resolving evidence pointer. This is the package's falsifiability culture
-> turned on its own marketing — **we sell honesty, so the selling is machine-checked.**
->
-> Enforced by [`src/scripts/check_claims.ts`](../src/scripts/check_claims.ts).
-> Roadmap: `road-to-final-state-and-market-readiness.md` Phase 1 / Track B (B1).
-
-## How it works
-
-- A public sentence that makes a capability or quantitative claim gets an HTML
-  marker: `<!-- claim:my-claim-id -->` (invisible in rendered Markdown).
-- The marker's `id` must match a `### claim: my-claim-id` block below with
-  `status: backed` and a resolving `evidence` pointer.
-- **Only markered claims are enforced.** Unmarkered prose is never checked — the
-  ledger tightens as claims are bound over time, never retroactively breaking CI.
-- `status: unbacked` entries are **inventory** (documented debt): they record a
-  claim that is not yet bound. They do NOT fail the build, but markering their
-  claim in prose does (forces the binding first).
-
-## Entry schema
-
-```
-### claim: <kebab-id>
-- claim: <the sentence, roughly as it appears publicly>
-- kind: quant | qual | comparative
-- evidence: <pointer>            # see grammar below
-- status: backed | unbacked
-- last_verified: <YYYY-MM-DD>
-```
-
-**Evidence-pointer grammar (v2):**
-
-- `path/to/file.md` or `path/to/file.md:42` — the repo file exists (line advisory).
-- `path/to/file.md#substring` — the file exists AND contains `substring`.
-- `https://… (YYYY-MM-DD)` — external cite carrying a dated stamp (not fetched in CI).
-- `exec:<command> -> <exit-code>` — the command **re-runs** and its exit code
-  must match. The only form that can tell a live claim from a stale one.
-
-**Why the fourth form exists.** The first three are existence checks. A claim
-reading "the suite is green" whose pointer resolves to a report nobody
-regenerated stays `backed` indefinitely — the pointer resolves, the claim is
-false. `exec:` re-derives the claim and lets the exit code carry the verdict.
-
-**Where `exec:` runs, and where it does not.** Re-execution happens in CI only.
-Locally the gate is read-only and reports `UNVERIFIED — re-execution is CI-only,
-skipped locally`; it never runs a command in a consumer's checkout. The static
-half — is the pointer well-formed, is the command allowlisted — is checked
-everywhere, because a bad pointer is a defect in the ledger rather than a
-property of the machine.
-
-**What `exec:` cannot cover.** Only claims whose exit code *is* the verdict. A
-figure resting on a paid model run, a stochastic benchmark, or a prose contract
-cannot use this form; those stay on a pointer and are listed as
-unfalsifiable-by-machine in [`proof.md`](proof.md) rather than quietly omitted.
-
-The allowlist is a set of argv prefix tuples in
-[`src/scripts/_lib/exec_evidence.ts`](../src/scripts/_lib/exec_evidence.ts) —
-never a regex over a command string, because a regex over shell text is the
-classic bypass. Every argument after the matched prefix is re-checked for shell
-metacharacters and repo escape, including the right-hand side of `--flag=value`.
-
----
-
-## Backed claims
-
-### claim: no-runtime-daemon
-- claim: The whole layer is compiled into host agents with zero runtime daemon.
-- kind: qual
-- evidence: docs/contracts/no-runtime-boundary.md#file-first, no-runtime suite
-- status: backed
-- last_verified: 2026-07-04
-
-### claim: shipped-artifacts-hidden-instruction-scanned
-- claim: Every artifact the package ships — source AND the condensed projection that reaches consumers — is machine-scanned in CI for hidden-Unicode, mixed-script-confusable, and instruction-smuggling payloads (the rules-file-backdoor class); a finding blocks the release before `npm publish`, not just the merge.
-- kind: qual
-- evidence: exec:lint_agent_security -> 0
-- status: backed
-- last_verified: 2026-07-09
-
-### claim: surgical-uninstall
-- claim: Removes only its own keys from a shared host config (matched by JSON-pointer + SHA-256), never a neighbour tool's entries.
-- kind: qual
-- evidence: docs/contracts/install-layout.md#JSON-pointer
-- status: backed
-- last_verified: 2026-07-04
-
-### claim: discipline-lift-weak-host
-- claim: On a weak host (claude-haiku-4-5) the package produces a significant, placebo-controlled discipline lift on scope/downstream traps; on a strong host the same measurement is a published null — the package transplants discipline a weak model lacks, not model intelligence.
-- kind: quant
-- evidence: docs/benchmark.md#weak-host-specific
-- status: backed
-- last_verified: 2026-07-05
-
-### claim: essential-tier-cost-factor
-- claim: The lift-carrying essential cut (kernel + downstream-changes) keeps a significant weak-host discipline lift at a fraction of the full load's tokens, and the lift is FAMILY- and HOST-SCOPED — measured on three hosts: claude-haiku-4-5 (weak) shows the family-scoped lift (trapE 0.533→1.000, 7/7 discordant, corpus cost 1.71x); claude-sonnet-4-6 (strong) is a ceiling null; gpt-5-mini (non-Claude weak, codex prompt-prepend surface) FAILED replication with headroom (corpus Δ=+0.024 p=0.70, capability trend n.s. — no harm claimed, injection-surface confound documented). Therefore discipline_profile: auto enables the lift only where measured (vendor-granular unknown_defaults). Non-claims — the balanced router profile was removed after a NULL measurement (p=0.81, n=24); no full-tier recommendation exists; no cross-vendor lift is claimed.
-- kind: quant
-- evidence: docs/benchmark.md#REPLICATION FAILED
-- status: backed
-- last_verified: 2026-07-07
-
-### claim: downshift-cost-reduction
-- claim: On the READ-ONLY FAN-OUT slice family, tier-downshifted subagent dispatch (lite/haiku vs session-tier-proxy sonnet) nets a ≥30% USD-weighted token-cost reduction at held quality — measured 2026-07-08 (n=10 paired live dispatches, 20 telemetry lines): 10/10 exact-match on BOTH arms, 29.4% fewer raw tokens, 76.5% USD-weighted cost reduction at the 3x haiku↔sonnet price ratio. FAMILY-SCOPED — the mechanical-edit family is unmeasured and its downshift (incl. the deferred tier downgrades of existing units) stays gated. Negative control held: an open-ended synthesis/unknown slice never resolves below the session tier (inferSliceTier → medium/inherit, never lite).
-- kind: quant
-- evidence: internal/bench/routing-downshift/results-2026-07-08.md#FAMILY-SCOPED PROVE
-- status: backed
-- last_verified: 2026-07-08
-
-### claim: eval-coverage-ratcheted
-- claim: Behavioural-eval coverage is measured per tier and CI-ratcheted so it can only rise; the current coverage and its gap are published, never implied as "264 evaluated skills".
-- kind: qual
-- evidence: exec:skill_eval_coverage --check -> 0
-- status: backed
-- last_verified: 2026-07-08
-
-### claim: domain-soundness-scoped
-- claim: The non-coding domain skills (finance/founder/ops/content) are forged on TS/PHP and labeled unvalidated until they pass a sourced domain-truth fixture; no public prose implies proven domain correctness, and the validated count is CI-ratcheted.
-- kind: qual
-- evidence: exec:domain_soundness_status --check -> 0
-- status: backed
-- last_verified: 2026-07-08
-
-### claim: domain-soundness-validated-count
-- claim: The validated non-coding domain-skill count is pinned and CI-ratcheted at a maintainer-set floor (9 of 20 default-surface skills carry a sourced `evals/domain-truth.json` fixture at pin time, 2026-07-11 — 5 deterministic, keys from cited formulas; 4 rubric, criteria matching a named external practice); the floor only rises via a maintainer `--write-floor` after a new sourced fixture lands.
-- kind: quant
-- evidence: exec:domain_soundness_status -> 0
-- status: backed
-- last_verified: 2026-07-11
-
-### claim: bus-factor-tracked
-- claim: The release process is documented as an inheritable runbook + succession doc, and the project's bus-factor (trailing-90-day distinct human reviewers) is tracked and reported truthfully — currently 1, not implied to be more.
-- kind: qual
-- evidence: docs/succession.md#trailing 90 days
-- status: backed
-- last_verified: 2026-07-09
-
-### claim: second-brain-recall-lift
-- claim: On a deterministic multi-session recall corpus, the memory substrate produces a measured, placebo-controlled recall lift — memory-on 27/27 vs no-memory 10/27 and vs equal-byte placebo 9/27 (claude-haiku-4-5, n=9 tasks x 3 seeds, sign test p=0.031 for BOTH pairings). Scoped honestly: this is the context-value upper bound (perfect retrieval on a one-fact-per-task corpus), not retrieval precision under a large store.
-- kind: quant
-- evidence: internal/bench/reports/second-brain-delta.json
-- status: backed
-- last_verified: 2026-07-09
-
-### claim: lexical-ranking-lift
-- claim: A hand-rolled, dependency-free BM25 + trigram lexical index resolves the "recalls but does not rank" gap: on the retrieval-precision corpus (9 keyword-overlapping-confuser tasks) it drives the mean top tie-set from 3.333 (the `_score` bucket scorer) to 1.0 — every needed decision uniquely top-ranked — with precision@1 and precision@5 unchanged at 1.0. Method: deterministic, model-free re-ranking of the SAME retrieved entry set; both scorers measured over the identical store via `measure_lexical_ranking.ts`. Cross-artefact note (2026-07-25): this baseline (3.333) is the value in THIS claim's own artefact and is cited correctly, but the retrieval-precision artefact records 4.111 for the same scorer on the same corpus — two bench scripts disagree. The lift direction (ties collapse to 1.0) holds under either baseline; the discrepancy itself is unresolved and recorded rather than smoothed.
-- kind: quant
-- evidence: exec:measure_lexical_ranking -> 0
-- status: backed
-- last_verified: 2026-07-09
-
-### claim: context-token-reduction
-- claim: A MEASURED-BUT-NOT-SHIPPED experiment — the thin rule projection reduced eager rule load 78,513 → 13,881 GPT-tokens (whole always-loaded projection 98,529 → 33,897, ~65.6%), but FAILED the quality gate (thin win-rate 36.2% vs required 48%) and does not ship; it un-defers only behind `discipline_profile: essential`. Shipped behavior does NOT include this reduction. Method: `agent-config benchmark` over the pinned token baseline; the baseline is the honest "what the user pays if everything loads eagerly", NOT a synthetic full-corpus strawman (council Q4); quality gate per the Phase-0 paired judge run.
-- kind: quant
-- evidence: internal/bench/reports/token-baseline.json#eager_rule_load
-- status: backed
-- last_verified: 2026-07-12
-
-### claim: ledger-exec-verifiability
-- claim: NONE of the backed ledger claims are machine-re-verifiable today — every evidence pointer is checked for existence (file present, substring present, URL carries a date), never for truth, so a claim pointing at a stale artefact stays backed indefinitely. A measured minority COULD carry a re-executing `exec:` form, clearing the >= 10 pp threshold that was pre-registered before the count was taken, which is why that form is scheduled rather than assumed. The rest cannot: paid or stochastic benchmark runs no CI job can re-derive, and prose contracts. Exact counts live in the evidence file and are NOT restated here on purpose — this entry hard-coded its denominator twice and drifted within a day both times (25 when the ledger held 26, then 26 when it held 27) while CI stayed green, because the pointer resolved. `check_claims` now compares the stored denominator against the live ledger and fails on divergence. A number a human retypes on every ledger edit will drift; the fix was to stop retyping it.
-- kind: quant
-- evidence: internal/reports/exec-evidence-feasibility.json#"exec_feasible"
-- status: backed
-- last_verified: 2026-07-25
-
-### claim: enforcement-coverage-resolved
-- claim: 14 of 107 governed rules (13.1%) carry a backstop that fails a CI build. The number is RESOLVED, not declared — a `validator:` counts only when the script exists AND a GITHUB WORKFLOW reaches it (transitively, so a sub-check under a wired umbrella counts), and a hook registered `fail_closed: false` resolves to `observer`, never `validator`. The figure was 14 before this correction too, and it was wrong: the resolver treated `taskfiles/` and `.github/workflows/` as one corpus, so "named in a taskfile" counted as blocking — while NO workflow invokes `task ci`, `ci-strict`, or `ci-fast`. Nine of the thirteen validators only ran when a human typed the command. Split into `validator` (CI runs it) and `validator-local` (only a taskfile does), the honest figure was 5 of 107; wiring the nine into `rule-backstops.yml` returned it to 14, this time meaning what the headline says. `local_only` is now 0 and is ratcheted, so a gate cannot drop back out silently. Wiring them also surfaced that FIVE were already failing invisibly — 37 findings, baselined in `rule-backstop-debt.json` and ratcheted against growth. 86 rules declare nothing and count as uncovered, not excluded.
-- kind: quant
-- evidence: exec:check_enforcement_coverage --check -> 0
-- status: backed
-- last_verified: 2026-07-25
-
-### claim: skill-count
-- claim: 281 skills.
-- kind: quant
-- evidence: exec:check_artefact_count_messaging -> 0
-- status: backed
-- last_verified: 2026-07-08
-
-### claim: command-count
-- claim: 190 commands.
-- kind: quant
-- evidence: exec:check_artefact_count_messaging -> 0
-- status: backed
-- last_verified: 2026-07-08
-
-### claim: rule-count
-- claim: 107 governed rules.
-- kind: quant
-- evidence: exec:check_artefact_count_messaging -> 0
-- status: backed
-- last_verified: 2026-07-08
-
-### claim: host-agent-count
-- claim: 23 host agents are detected and inventoried; 20 receive a written config surface (18 projection + 1 plugin + 1 bundle target) and 3 are export-only (aider, zed, jetbrains). The count is enforced, not asserted — `knownToolIds()` is pinned at 23 by a test whose assertion literal IS the number, and `src/config/surface-matrix.yml` is held in set-equality with the installer's own user-scope path map by `lint_surface_matrix`, so a host added to one and not the other fails the build. This entry stood `unbacked` while naming its own unblocking condition ("once `surface-matrix.yml` exists, bind the count to that file and flip"); the condition was met and nothing fired, so the shipped figure stayed "7+" — understating real coverage by 3x.
-- kind: quant
-- evidence: exec:vitest run tests/install/toolDetection.test.ts -> 0
-- status: backed
-- last_verified: 2026-07-25
-
-### claim: orchestration-dispatch-net-win
-- claim: On the ordered-refactor + competitive-impl families (`orch-02`, `orch-03`), contract-governed subagent dispatch nets ≥15% token-or-wall reduction at non-regressed quality vs single-agent execution.
-- kind: comparative
-- evidence: PRE-REGISTERED 2026-07-11 (road-to-orchestration-scope-decision Phase 1 — no goalpost-moving after the numbers land). Falsification criteria fixed BEFORE data: (1) held quality is deterministic, scored by `src/scripts/check_quality_regression.ts` thresholds — a token/wall win that degrades output below the regression threshold FAILS the claim; (2) negative control — `pv-02-negative-control` must NOT trigger dispatch (a classifier that fires on everything is a cost leak, not a win); (3) win metric — ≥15% reduction in token-or-wall on `orch-02`+`orch-03` vs the single-agent baseline, read from `agents/runtime/state/audit/*.jsonl` orchestration lines through `gateVerdict()` / `resolveShippedDefault()`. Binds to a resolving report once ≥20 real `ask`-mode telemetry lines exist (Phase 2 — maintainer-run; the corpus `--run` agent-spawn is gated out of auto-mode). PROVE → flip to backed for the proven family only; DROP → renewed honest-null, keep `ask`, demote orchestration from the public value proposition.
-- status: unbacked
-- last_verified:
-
-### claim: utilization-window-decidability
-- claim: The 2026-07-12 engagement observation window terminates in a DECIDABLE portfolio statement — at window close it either names >=1 concrete keep/cut/review decision per artifact kind, or records a pre-registered honest null (underpowered after one 30-day extension).
-- kind: comparative
-- evidence: PRE-REGISTERED 2026-07-12 (road-to-feedback-8.11-2 Phase 0 — no goalpost-moving after the numbers land; criteria at `docs/design/utilization-window-criteria.md`). Floor fixed BEFORE data: >=100 task boundaries AND >=2 hosts (or the documented degraded form) AND >=45 elapsed days; decision rules D1 (loaded-never-consulted -> retirement-candidate list), D2 (consulted-never-applied <10% applied-ratio at >=5 consultations -> trigger-review queue), D3 (above floor -> >=1 named decision per kind or a recorded why-not), D4 (below floor after one extension -> honest null, lifecycle/ledger gates stay closed). Kernel + safety floors exempt by construction.
-- status: unbacked
-- last_verified:
-
-### claim: council-vs-solo-baseline
-- claim: On a pre-registered corpus of ≥30 real decisions (≥8 per impact class), full-council debate produces higher blind-judged verdict quality than a single strong model on at least one identifiable decision subset, at a cost multiple the subset's stakes justify.
-- kind: comparative
-- evidence: PRE-REGISTERED 2026-07-12 (road-to-feedback-8.11 Phase 3 — no goalpost-moving after the numbers land; design at `docs/design/council-vs-solo-baseline.md`). Falsification criteria fixed BEFORE data: (1) quality = blind post-hoc grading against known ground-truth dispositions, two blind judges, admissible only at Cohen's κ ≥ 0.60 (reuse `check_quality_regression.ts` kappa machinery); (2) the five feedback-proposed admission dimensions are recorded per decision AT pre-registration, so "≥2-of-5" is a testable post-hoc correlate, never a pre-imposed gate; (3) NO lift on any subset (overall, per impact class, per dimension stratum) → honest null, deliberation-protocol phases stop (maintenance-only), recorded in road-to-opt-council-deliberation; lift on a subset → admission criteria derived FROM that subset's characteristics. Execution is spend-gated (user confirms rendered estimate in-session); shadow-log was absent/empty at design time — zero prior council-vs-solo data exists.
-- status: unbacked
-- last_verified:
-
-### claim: humanizer-tell-reduction
-- claim: On the fixture corpus (n = 20 before/after pairs, 16 length-controlled within ±25%), the humanizer pass removes every mechanically detected AI-writing tell (mean hard hits 0.9 → 0, cluster score 53.97 → 0 per 500 words, dash density 9.22 → 0), and a blind judge (claude-sonnet-4-5, deterministic per-pair A/B seed) preferred the humanized text in 16/16 length-controlled pairs. Scope note — the "before" fixtures were deliberately tell-seeded, so this measures seeded-tell removal on a self-constructed corpus, NOT real-draft improvement; real-world lift is unmeasured until step 4b has processed real ghostwriter drafts (see the road-to-humanizer-hardening live-usage blocker).
-- kind: quant
-- evidence: internal/bench/reports/humanizer-v1.md#prefers the humanized text
-- status: backed
-- last_verified: 2026-07-11
-
-### claim: positioning-honest-nulls
-- claim: The only agent layer that publishes the runs where it changed nothing. Deliberately falsifiable — if a reader finds a comparable agent layer publishing its own honest-null benchmark runs, this line updates; that is the point.
-- kind: comparative
-- evidence: docs/benchmark.md#honest
-- status: backed
-- last_verified: 2026-07-20
-
-### claim: persona-identity-placebo-null
-- claim: On a 12-fixture option-decision corpus (3 arms × 2 providers, blind rubric judge claude-opus-4-8, pre-registered hypotheses), famous-figure identity framing added nothing beyond the underlying method text (method 5.04 vs figure 4.88, Δ=0.17, sign-test p=0.607), and provider diversity moved judged quality ~15× more than persona identity (provider Δ=2.58 vs identity Δ=0.17); the whole persona layer lifted only +0.08 over bare prompts. Honest null — persona panel-mode stays CUT, evidence-closed.
-- kind: quant
-- evidence: internal/bench/reports/persona-placebo.json#honest-null
-- status: backed
-- last_verified: 2026-07-12
-
-### claim: retrieval-substrate-live-pass
-- claim: On the live end-to-end retrieval benchmark (9 tasks × 3 arms × 3 seeds on claude-haiku, fixture store with keyword-overlapping confusers), the memory retrieval substrate scored precision@5 = 100% (9/9) with 100% poisoned-entry rejection, and the retrieval-on arm passed 27/27 model-scored tasks vs 2/27 with retrieval off and 4/27 with a placebo injection. Known limit stays published: mean tie-set 4.111 means top-k ties break by store order, not relevance (the ADR-116/FTS5 signal). SOLE RECORD for this artefact as of 2026-07-25: a second entry (`second-brain-retrieval-precision`) described the same measurement from the precision angle and had drifted to 5/27, 5/27 and tie-set 3.3 — figures absent from the shared artefact. Two entries over one artefact is what allowed them to disagree while both resolved, so the pair was folded into this one.
-- kind: quant
-- evidence: internal/bench/reports/second-brain-retrieval.json#retrieval-on
-- status: backed
-- last_verified: 2026-07-25
-
-### claim: wedge-hollow-detection
-- claim: On the A3 orchestration eval (deterministic verify, measured token deltas), the production-validator subagent returned the correct verdict on both fixtures — NOT READY with the exact `file:line` citation on a planted hollow implementation, READY with zero spurious findings on the clean control — while consuming ~45k fewer tokens than the inline-host baseline on each task. Scope: two planted fixtures on a Claude Code host, not a broad hit-rate.
-- kind: quant
-- evidence: internal/bench/orchestration/pv-a3-results.md#token_delta_provenance: measured
-- status: backed
-- last_verified: 2026-07-20
-
-### claim: cross-model-parity-count
-- claim: The first cross-vendor parity pass (5 orchestration-corpus tasks × 2 vendors × 3 repeats, identical prompts via the council transport, $0.16) measured real per-host finding-count differences — claude-sonnet-4-5 surfaced ~2× the findings of gpt-4o on the multi-file analysis task (median 11 vs 5) while both vendors were identical on the planted hollow-implementation task (2 vs 2) and perfectly silent on the clean-code negative control (0 vs 0, no spurious findings). The per-task `finding_floor` values are calibrated from the cross-host lower envelope and the gate is armed.
-- kind: quant
-- evidence: internal/bench/reports/parity-count.json#min over hosts of median
-- status: backed
-- last_verified: 2026-07-12
-
-### claim: team-defect-finding-null
-- claim: On the pre-registered 12-fixture defect-finding corpus (three arms, deterministic file-level recall, codex reviewer gpt-5.5), the cross-model team-review arm produced NO recall lift over single-model self-review — all three arms recalled every planted defect (Δ = 0, H1 not met). Honest null, ceiling-limited (recall 1.00 everywhere: the seeded defects are too obvious to discriminate the arms on recall); the only non-null signal is a single self-review false positive on the controversial-but-correct control vs 0 for team/council. No cross-model quality/lift claim binds; team mode stays workflow-value-only. Re-open: a judge-survivable-subtlety corpus or a new model generation.
-- kind: quant
-- evidence: internal/bench/reports/defect-finding.json#honest_null
-- status: backed
-- last_verified: 2026-07-20
-
-### claim: adversarial-council-finding-coverage
-- claim: On the residual defect pool (planted defects that survive a single strong cross-model judge), an adversarial panel of >=2 distinct-vendor skeptics finds materially more residual defects than that single judge — relative residual-recall lift >= +25% AND absolute >= +8 percentage points — at a false-positive rate on a controversial-but-correct control no worse than the single-judge baseline (within noise). Scope: finding coverage, NOT decision quality (the separate, unbacked council-vs-solo-baseline question). Pre-registered; honest-null (either threshold missed or FP worse) keeps the surface off by default permanently.
-- kind: quant
-- evidence: docs/benchmark.md#adversarial-verification-council
-- status: unbacked
-- last_verified: 2026-07-21
-- resolution: HONEST-NULL (resolved, not pending). Registered cross-vendor run 2026-07-21 on the curated judge-survivable corpus (internal/bench/adversarial-council/): on the judge-passed residual, the 2-vendor skeptic panel (anthropic+openai) matched the single skeptic exactly (residual recall 0.6 = 0.6, zero lift — the second vendor's residual catches were a strict subset of the first), at a 100% false-positive rate on the controversial-but-correct controls under the adversarial-skeptic posture. Both recall thresholds missed → honest-null → Mode 9 surface stays default-off permanently (like recursive-verification). Reproducible artifact: internal/bench/adversarial-council/runs/. Note: an initial run via `council_cli run` was REJECTED as a measurement artifact (that transport imposes multi-round peer-review + prose output, defeating the independent-skeptic + JSON-scoring protocol) — the valid run uses direct independent per-vendor client calls.
-
-### claim: gated-platform-reads
-- claim: A credential-free prescription layer reads content the host's own web tools cannot fetch at all — Reddit thread text (Atom feeds) AND comment ranking plus reply nesting (server-rendered HTML), and a single named tweet (the platform's own oEmbed endpoint). Measured 2026-07-25 from a residential network against a pre-registered 6-task-per-channel set with a native control and thresholds frozen before the run: reddit tier 1 6/6, reddit tier 2 6/6, twitter-oembed 6/6, native 0/6 on both Reddit tiers. Zero credentials, zero resident processes, zero auto-installs. Scope bounds that travel WITH the claim: (a) the twitter gap is narrower than 6/6 suggests — native also passed 2 of those 6 via third-party mirrors, so the channel earns its place only on tweets nothing mirrors; (b) reddit tier 2 is on an announced closing path and ships with a kill-switch keyed on an OBSERVED login wall; (c) youtube-transcripts is PARKED, not shipped — its backend is human-installed by contract and was never exercised; (d) residential network is load-bearing, and CI is explicitly not a bench environment.
-- kind: quant
-- evidence: docs/benchmark.md#ship-gated-reach
-- status: backed
-- last_verified: 2026-07-25

package/docs/DISTRIBUTION_CHECKLIST.md

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-# Distribution Checklist
-
-External marketplace, registry, and marketing actions for
-`event4u/agent-config`. **Human-gated work.** Items here cannot be
-executed by an autonomous agent — they require credentials, manual
-web-form submissions, terminal-recording on a maintainer's machine,
-content authoring, or external approval processes. Tracked separately
-from the roadmap dashboard so the agent step counter stays honest.
-
-## Origin
-
-Lifted from archived
-[`agents/roadmaps/archive/road-to-simplicity-and-everywhere.md`](../agents/roadmaps/archive/road-to-simplicity-and-everywhere.md)
-Phase 7 (S34–S38) after a follow-up AI Council review flagged the
-category error of tracking external-action items inside an
-engineering roadmap. See the "Post-merge addendum" in that archive
-for the full lessons-learned.
-
-## Status vocabulary
-
-- **Prepared** — substrate (config file, package source, copy) committed.
-- **Submitted** — handed to the external queue.
-- **In Review** — accepted into review queue, awaiting approval.
-- **Live** — listing public, install path verified end-to-end.
-- **Blocked** — gated on an external dependency; see Notes.
-
-`[ ]`/`[x]` markers are **deliberately not used** here — these items
-are not roadmap steps.
-
-## Items
-
-### Anthropic Claude Code plugin marketplace
-
-- **Status:** Prepared
-- **Owner:** maintainer
-- **Last Reviewed:** 2026-05-12
-- **Substrate:** [`.claude-plugin/marketplace.json`](../.claude-plugin/marketplace.json)
-  committed and current. Slug `event4u/agent-config` is canonical
-  across all listings.
-- **Doc anchor:** [`docs/setup/per-ide/claude-code.md`](setup/per-ide/claude-code.md)
-  § "Plugin marketplace".
-- **Action:** Submit via Anthropic plugin marketplace review queue
-  per current Claude Code plugin docs.
-- **Pre-conditions:** none (substrate ready).
-- **Notes:** Source of truth for naming — Cursor / Smithery listings
-  reference this slug.
-
-### Cursor 2026 marketplace listing
-
-- **Status:** Prepared
-- **Owner:** maintainer
-- **Last Reviewed:** 2026-05-12
-- **Substrate:** [`src/templates/marketing-copy.yml`](../templates/marketing-copy.yml)
-  is the single source for listing copy across surfaces.
-- **Doc anchor:** [`docs/setup/per-ide/cursor.md`](setup/per-ide/cursor.md)
-  § "Marketplace install".
-- **Action:** Submit to Cursor's 2026 marketplace listing process.
-- **Pre-conditions:** Anthropic listing live (link as primary source
-  to avoid drift).
-- **Notes:** Per "Decisions" in archived roadmap — Anthropic listing
-  is canonical, others reference by stable slug.
-
-### Smithery (MCP server registry)
-
-- **Status:** Blocked
-- **Owner:** maintainer
-- **Last Reviewed:** 2026-05-12
-- **Substrate:** none yet — MCP server itself is not publishable.
-- **Doc anchor:** none yet.
-- **Action:** Submit to Smithery once the MCP server can be installed
-  and exercised end-to-end.
-- **Pre-conditions:** [`road-to-mcp-full-coverage.md`](../agents/roadmaps/archive/road-to-mcp-full-coverage.md)
-  Phase 3 (Selective Implementation) shipped.
-- **Notes:** **Do not submit before the gate.** Premature listing
-  produces a bad first impression and is hard to retract.
-
-### npm: `@event4u/agent-config`
-
-- **Status:** Prepared
-- **Owner:** maintainer
-- **Last Reviewed:** 2026-05-12
-- **Substrate:** root `package.json` — `bin: scripts/agent-config` exposes
-  `init`, `sync`, `validate`, `mcp:render`, `roadmap:progress`, …
-- **Doc anchor:** [`docs/installation.md`](installation.md) §
-  "npx one-liner".
-- **Action:** routine releases auto-publish via `publish-npm.yml` on tag
-  push; manual fallback is `npm publish --access public` after
-  `task npm:login`.
-- **Pre-conditions:** npm registry credentials for the `@event4u`
-  scope.
-- **Notes:** Public scope, MIT-licensed. Verify `npx
-  @event4u/agent-config init` in an empty directory before
-  declaring Live.
-
-### GitHub repo topics + tagline
-
-- **Status:** Prepared
-- **Owner:** maintainer
-- **Last Reviewed:** 2026-05-12
-- **Substrate:** Topic list + tagline copy live in
-  [`src/templates/marketing-copy.yml`](../templates/marketing-copy.yml).
-- **Doc anchor:** none (GitHub-native).
-- **Action:** Apply via `gh repo edit` (or repo Settings → General).
-  Topics: `agent`, `claude-code`, `cursor`, `windsurf`, `cline`,
-  `mcp`, `agents-md`, `skill-files`. Description: one-line tagline
-  matching the marketplace copy.
-- **Pre-conditions:** none.
-- **Notes:** Per `scope-control` rule, repo-settings changes are
-  permission-gated and run by the maintainer.
-
-### Medium / dev.to articles + conference CFP
-
-- **Status:** Blocked
-- **Owner:** unassigned
-- **Last Reviewed:** 2026-05-12
-- **Substrate:** none — copy authored per submission.
-- **Doc anchor:** none yet.
-- **Action:** Owner authors articles (Medium / dev.to), submits CFP
-  to relevant conferences. Cadence aligned to the 1 day/week
-  marketing cap from `road-to-distribution-and-adoption.md` Phase 1.
-- **Pre-conditions:** owner + budget assigned; Phase 1 pre-conditions
-  1–4 from the distribution roadmap met (Thinking A+C ≥80%,
-  post-pr29 1.15.0, `docs/contracts/` policy active).
-- **Notes:** Origin: `road-to-distribution-and-adoption.md` H4 (moved
-  here 2026-05-11 after AI Council convergence on category-error
-  filter: "owner + budget assigned first" is non-agent action). The
-  roadmap step is `[-]` cancelled with a back-reference.
-
-### Screencasts / asciinema casts per primary surface
-
-- **Status:** Blocked
-- **Owner:** unassigned
-- **Last Reviewed:** 2026-05-12
-- **Substrate:** the `## Verification` block in every
-  [`docs/setup/per-ide/<surface>.md`](setup/per-ide/) page is the
-  cast script — agent-shipped, ready to record against.
-- **Doc anchor:** [`docs/setup/per-ide/claude-code.md`](setup/per-ide/claude-code.md),
-  [`docs/setup/per-ide/cursor.md`](setup/per-ide/cursor.md),
-  [`docs/setup/per-ide/windsurf.md`](setup/per-ide/windsurf.md),
-  [`docs/setup/per-ide/claude-desktop.md`](setup/per-ide/claude-desktop.md).
-- **Action:** Record asciinema cast on a real maintainer machine
-  following each surface's Verification block; embed under the
-  surface doc.
-- **Pre-conditions:** all four per-IDE docs landed with stable
-  Verification blocks (shipped via archived
-  `road-to-simplicity-and-everywhere.md`).
-- **Notes:** Origin: `road-to-distribution-and-adoption.md` H5
-  (moved here 2026-05-11 after AI Council convergence — terminal
-  capture on a real machine is non-agent action; substrate was
-  already shipped, the cast itself is the human-gated step). The
-  roadmap step is `[-]` cancelled with a back-reference.
-
-## Review cadence
-
-Refresh `Last Reviewed` each time an item is revisited or its status
-changes. Stale items (`Last Reviewed` older than 90 days while not
-`Live`) should surface in a manual review pass — no automated
-enforcement, this file is deliberately out of the agent's execution
-loop.
-
-## See also
-
-- [`agents/roadmaps/archive/road-to-simplicity-and-everywhere.md`](../agents/roadmaps/archive/road-to-simplicity-and-everywhere.md)
-  — origin (Phase 7, S34–S38) and lessons-learned addendum.
-- [`agents/roadmaps/road-to-distribution-and-adoption.md`](../agents/roadmaps/road-to-distribution-and-adoption.md)
-  § "External distribution (human-gated, not agent-executable)" —
-  sibling roadmap. H4 (Medium / CFP) and H5 (screencasts) are
-  `[-]` cancelled there with back-references to the entries above.
-- [`agents/roadmaps/road-to-mcp-full-coverage.md`](../agents/roadmaps/archive/road-to-mcp-full-coverage.md)
-  Phase 3 — pre-condition for the Smithery item.

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-# Release Story — `<version>`
-
-A curated, human-readable "what changed and **why it matters**" — distinct from
-the raw `CHANGELOG`. The changelog lists commits; the release story tells a
-maintainer or consumer, in plain language, what they get and what to watch.
-
-Copy this template per release; keep it short (a screen or less).
-
-## Headline
-
-One sentence: the single most important thing this release delivers.
-
-## What changed (and why it matters)
-
-- **<change>** — what it is · why a consumer cares · what they should do (if anything).
-- **<change>** — …
-
-## Safety / behaviour changes
-
-Anything that changes agent behaviour, gates, or defaults — call it out explicitly
-(new floors, new consent gates, renamed packs, changed risk postures). Consumers
-read this section first.
-
-## Upgrade notes
-
-- Breaking? Migration steps. Non-breaking? Say so.
-- New opt-in surfaces (packs, settings) — how to enable.
-
-## Deferred / known limitations
-
-What was intentionally left for a future release, and the pointer (roadmap /
-ADR). Honesty here prevents "is this missing or coming?" questions.
-
----
-
-> Fill every section. An empty section is a signal the release is not understood
-> well enough to ship its story. (road-to-product-clarity Phase 4a.)