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+ # Changelog
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+
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+ ## 0.1.1 — 2026-07-28
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+
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+ First published release. No API change from 0.1.0; the additions are evidence and
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+ documentation, which for this project is the substance rather than the packaging.
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+
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+ ### Evidence
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+
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+ - **Temporal probe** (`demo/temporal_replay.py`). The hardest case for the thesis, since
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+ deterministic replay is Temporal's product. The same decision recorded under one threshold
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+ and replayed under another diverges identically in both cases, but is caught only when it
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+ crosses a command boundary; when it merely changes a returned value, replay succeeds
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+ silently while the replayed code decides the opposite. The history's `binaryChecksum` is
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+ identical across both decisions, because the threshold is not in the build.
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+ - **LangGraph probe** (`demo/langgraph_replay.py`). Three threads, one identical persisted
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+ rationale, two outcomes; the deciding threshold occurs in zero of 12,286 persisted bytes.
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+ The re-emitted records reproduce all three observed outcomes.
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+ - **Ablation** (`demo/ablation.py` → `demo/ABLATION.md`). Each field deleted from a
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+ C2-complete record and the verifier re-run: 10 of 13 fields are load-bearing, and the three
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+ that are not are named rather than defended.
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+
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+ ### Docs
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+
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+ - `docs/ARGUMENT.md` — the thesis stated narrowly, the evidence, the rr boundary, the
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+ non-goals, and what would falsify the whole thing.
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+ - `docs/RCDR-v0.1.md` §3.1 separates **admissibility** from soundness: a class states what
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+ the evidence supports, not what a system may do with it. Demotion only; never gate on
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+ self-confidence; undeclared reversibility reads as irreversible.
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+ - `execution.pure` documented in §4.8, which §5.1 already relied on.
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+
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+ ## 0.1.0 — 2026-07-28 (unpublished)
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+
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+ First release. Implements RCDR v0.1 (`docs/RCDR-v0.1.md`) end to end.
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+
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+ ### Emitter
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+
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+ - `Recorder` / `Decision` context manager emitting RCDR records to a sink.
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+ - `predicate.id` is a content hash of canonical predicate structure — operator plus
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+ operand identities — rather than a name or source location.
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+ - `policy.resolution.provenance` is a closed enum including `unknown`, which caps a
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+ record at C0. Invalid values raise rather than being coerced.
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+ - `candidates.completeness` defaults to `taken_only`; `exhaustive` is an explicit
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+ declaration the caller makes and is never inferred from candidates having been logged.
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+ - `execution.path_digest` covers the resolution sources actually used, so two decisions
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+ with identical dependencies but different resolution regimes hash differently.
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+ - The emitter refuses to guess: comparing against an unregistered policy raises, and
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+ closing a decision without an outcome raises.
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+ - `JsonlSink` and `MemorySink`.
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+
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+ ### Verifier
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+
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+ - `verify()` implements §5.1 exactly and reports a capability class, never a score.
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+ - `verify_run()` reports a run at its weakest decision and names which decisions fell
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+ short and what they were missing.
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+ - `boundary()` reports the C3 boundary: given a decision to flip, it splits the run into
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+ an evidence region and a hypothesis region and names the edge where evidence ends.
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+ C3 is never certified.
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+
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+ ### CLI
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+
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+ - `reckon verify <run.jsonl> --class C{0,1,2,3} [--json]`, exit code 1 when the requested
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+ class is unsupported so it can gate a pipeline.
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+ - `reckon boundary <run.jsonl> --decision <id> [--json]`.
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+
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+ ### Demo
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+
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+ - `demo/` runs the before/after arc over the decision log from a real OPA v1.18.2 probe
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+ containing two decisions with identical input, bundle revision and engine version that
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+ came out opposite ways.
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+
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+ ### Known scope limits
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+
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+ No tamper evidence, no signatures, no anchoring — the demonstrated threat is omission.
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+ No confidentiality. No inference over uninstrumented systems: the demo's "before" mapping
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+ was written by hand. Any implementation reporting a C3 certification is non-conforming.
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+ Metadata-Version: 2.4
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+ Name: reckon-rcdr
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+ Version: 0.1.1
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+ Summary: The capture layer for autonomous decisions — emit and verify replay-complete decision records (RCDR v0.1)
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+ Author-email: Ola <laolex55@gmail.com>
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+ License-Expression: Apache-2.0
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+ Project-URL: Homepage, https://github.com/Laolex/reckon
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+ Project-URL: Specification, https://github.com/Laolex/reckon/blob/main/docs/RCDR-v0.1.md
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+ Project-URL: Source, https://github.com/Laolex/reckon
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+ Keywords: replay,audit,provenance,policy,agents,observability,rcdr
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+ Classifier: Development Status :: 3 - Alpha
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+ Classifier: Intended Audience :: Developers
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+ Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.11
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+ Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.12
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+ Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.13
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+ Classifier: Topic :: Software Development :: Quality Assurance
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+ Classifier: Topic :: System :: Logging
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+ Classifier: Typing :: Typed
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+ Requires-Python: >=3.11
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+ Description-Content-Type: text/markdown
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+ License-File: LICENSE
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+ Provides-Extra: dev
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+ Requires-Dist: pytest>=8; extra == "dev"
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+ Requires-Dist: build>=1.2; extra == "dev"
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+ Requires-Dist: twine>=5; extra == "dev"
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+ Dynamic: license-file
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+
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+ # Reckon
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+
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+ **The capture layer for autonomous decisions.** Capture is the primitive; replay exists to
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+ prove capture worked.
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+ An autonomous system that made a decision you now regret leaves behind a record. The
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+ question you want to ask that record is not "what happened" — it is *"would this have gone
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+ the other way under a different policy?"* Reckon exists because that question is usually
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+ unanswerable, and because nothing in the record tells you it is unanswerable.
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+
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+ ## The finding
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+ Five systems were probed: OPA, LangGraph, Temporal, and the decision logs of a live
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+ Hyperliquid and a live Polymarket agent. Every one produced records that looked sufficient
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+ and were not.
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+
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+ Three are reproducible here from the original probe artifacts, in [`demo/`](demo/):
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+
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+ - **OPA.** A sound policy engine, versioned bundles and a complete decision log still
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+ produced two decisions with **identical input, identical bundle revision and identical
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+ engine version that came out opposite ways** — and nothing in the record revealed which
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+ regime was in force.
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+ - **LangGraph.** Three threads, one identical persisted rationale, two different outcomes.
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+ The threshold that separated them occurs in **zero of 12,286 persisted bytes**. The record
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+ faithfully kept the reasoning that did not decide, and dropped the predicate that did.
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+ - **Temporal.** The hardest case, since deterministic replay *is* its product. The same
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+ divergence — history says `trade`, replayed code decides `skip` — is caught when the
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+ decision schedules an activity and **silent when it only changes a returned value**.
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+ Detection is drawn at command boundaries, not at decisions.
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+ So: replay soundness is not compositional. It is a property of the whole execution path, not
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+ of the components in it. And no record carries its own soundness proof.
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+
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+ The argument in full is in [`docs/ARGUMENT.md`](docs/ARGUMENT.md), including the
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+ non-goals and what would falsify it.
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+
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+ ## Capability classes
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+ The verifier reports a class, never a score. A percentage over incommensurable kinds of
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+ missing evidence manufactures exactly the false confidence that made the OPA failure
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+ undetectable.
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+ | Class | Counterfactual | Additionally requires |
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+ |---|---|---|
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+ | **C0** Identity | reproduce what happened | execution model, determinism |
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+ | **C1** Tightening | admit strictly fewer actions | predicate structure, compared value, resolved policy |
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+ | **C2** Loosening | admit more actions | the rejected candidate set and their values |
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+ | **C3** State-Coupled | a changed decision perturbs later state | **not certifiable by anyone** |
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+
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+ C0–C2 are deductive given capture. C3 is not deductive for anyone — past the first flip it
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+ is counterfactual inference, not replay. Reckon's honest top guarantee is: certify soundness
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+ through C2, and for C3 certify *where the evidence ends*.
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+
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+ ## Install
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+
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+ ```
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+ pip install reckon-rcdr
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+ ```
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+ Python 3.11+, no runtime dependencies. The distribution is `reckon-rcdr`; the import name
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+ and the CLI command are both `reckon`.
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+ ## Use
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+ ```python
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+ from reckon import JsonlSink, Recorder
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+ rec = Recorder(sink=JsonlSink("run.jsonl"), run_id="run-1", emitter="my-agent")
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+ with rec.decision(action="transfer", pure=True) as d:
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+ d.policy("policy.limit", value=5000, provenance="bundled", source="opa:bundle")
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+ allowed = d.check("lt", left="request.amount", value=4200, right="policy.limit")
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+ d.candidate("transfer", compared_value=4200, outcome="admit", predicate="p:limit")
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+ d.candidate("hold", compared_value=4200, outcome="reject", predicate="p:limit")
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+ d.candidates_exhaustive()
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+ d.admit() if allowed else d.reject()
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+ ```
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+ ```
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+ $ python -m reckon verify run.jsonl --class C2
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+ Requested: Loosening Replay (C2)
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+ Available: C2
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+ Decisions: C2 x1
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+ $ python -m reckon boundary run.jsonl --decision d-4f21a0c9e113
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+ ```
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+ Exit code is non-zero when the requested class is unsupported, so it can gate a pipeline. A
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+ build should be able to fail because the evidence needed to re-adjudicate a decision was
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+ never captured.
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+
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+ ## The emitter refuses to guess
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+
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+ Comparing against a policy that was never registered raises. Closing a decision without an
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+ outcome raises. `pure` is a declaration the caller makes, never something the SDK infers, so
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+ an undeclared decision without a seed fails C0. Absent candidate completeness reads as
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+ `taken_only`; unestablished provenance is written as `unknown` and caps the record at C0.
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+ Each of those is deliberately inconvenient. A record that quietly fills its own gaps is the
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+ failure this whole project is named after.
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+
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+ ## Layout
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+
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+ | Path | |
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+ |---|---|
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+ | `docs/RCDR-v0.1.md` | the record format — the normative document |
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+ | `docs/ARGUMENT.md` | the argument: thesis, evidence, novelty, non-goals |
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+ | `src/reckon/` | emitter, verifier, run-level verifier, CLI |
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+ | `demo/` | three before/after arcs over real probe artifacts, plus the ablation |
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+ | `demo/ABLATION.md` | which fields are load-bearing — generated, not asserted |
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+ | `tests/` | every assertion traces to a requirement in the spec |
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+
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+ ```
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+ pip install -e ".[dev]"
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+ python -m pytest
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+ ```
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+
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+ ## License
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+
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+ Apache-2.0. Chosen over MIT for the express patent grant: RCDR is meant to be implemented
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+ by other people, and an implementer should not have to wonder about that.
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+
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+ ## Scope
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+ No tamper evidence, no signatures, no anchoring — the demonstrated threat is omission, not
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+ modification. No confidentiality. No inference over uninstrumented systems: RCDR describes
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+ what an instrumented emitter must produce, and recovering decision semantics from arbitrary
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+ code is a separate and much harder problem. Any implementation reporting a C3 certification
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+ is non-conforming.
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+ # Reckon
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+ **The capture layer for autonomous decisions.** Capture is the primitive; replay exists to
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+ prove capture worked.
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+ An autonomous system that made a decision you now regret leaves behind a record. The
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+ question you want to ask that record is not "what happened" — it is *"would this have gone
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+ the other way under a different policy?"* Reckon exists because that question is usually
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+ unanswerable, and because nothing in the record tells you it is unanswerable.
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+
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+ ## The finding
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+ Five systems were probed: OPA, LangGraph, Temporal, and the decision logs of a live
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+ Hyperliquid and a live Polymarket agent. Every one produced records that looked sufficient
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+ and were not.
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+
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+ Three are reproducible here from the original probe artifacts, in [`demo/`](demo/):
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+
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+ - **OPA.** A sound policy engine, versioned bundles and a complete decision log still
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+ produced two decisions with **identical input, identical bundle revision and identical
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+ engine version that came out opposite ways** — and nothing in the record revealed which
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+ regime was in force.
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+ - **LangGraph.** Three threads, one identical persisted rationale, two different outcomes.
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+ The threshold that separated them occurs in **zero of 12,286 persisted bytes**. The record
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+ faithfully kept the reasoning that did not decide, and dropped the predicate that did.
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+ - **Temporal.** The hardest case, since deterministic replay *is* its product. The same
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+ divergence — history says `trade`, replayed code decides `skip` — is caught when the
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+ decision schedules an activity and **silent when it only changes a returned value**.
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+ Detection is drawn at command boundaries, not at decisions.
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+ So: replay soundness is not compositional. It is a property of the whole execution path, not
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+ of the components in it. And no record carries its own soundness proof.
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+ The argument in full is in [`docs/ARGUMENT.md`](docs/ARGUMENT.md), including the
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+ non-goals and what would falsify it.
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+
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+ ## Capability classes
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+
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+ The verifier reports a class, never a score. A percentage over incommensurable kinds of
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+ missing evidence manufactures exactly the false confidence that made the OPA failure
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+ undetectable.
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+
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+ | Class | Counterfactual | Additionally requires |
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+ |---|---|---|
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+ | **C0** Identity | reproduce what happened | execution model, determinism |
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+ | **C1** Tightening | admit strictly fewer actions | predicate structure, compared value, resolved policy |
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+ | **C2** Loosening | admit more actions | the rejected candidate set and their values |
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+ | **C3** State-Coupled | a changed decision perturbs later state | **not certifiable by anyone** |
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+
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+ C0–C2 are deductive given capture. C3 is not deductive for anyone — past the first flip it
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+ is counterfactual inference, not replay. Reckon's honest top guarantee is: certify soundness
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+ through C2, and for C3 certify *where the evidence ends*.
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+
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+ ## Install
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+
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+ ```
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+ pip install reckon-rcdr
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+ ```
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+
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+ Python 3.11+, no runtime dependencies. The distribution is `reckon-rcdr`; the import name
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+ and the CLI command are both `reckon`.
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+
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+ ## Use
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+
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+ ```python
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+ from reckon import JsonlSink, Recorder
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+
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+ rec = Recorder(sink=JsonlSink("run.jsonl"), run_id="run-1", emitter="my-agent")
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+
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+ with rec.decision(action="transfer", pure=True) as d:
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+ d.policy("policy.limit", value=5000, provenance="bundled", source="opa:bundle")
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+ allowed = d.check("lt", left="request.amount", value=4200, right="policy.limit")
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+ d.candidate("transfer", compared_value=4200, outcome="admit", predicate="p:limit")
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+ d.candidate("hold", compared_value=4200, outcome="reject", predicate="p:limit")
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+ d.candidates_exhaustive()
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+ d.admit() if allowed else d.reject()
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+ ```
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+
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+ ```
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+ $ python -m reckon verify run.jsonl --class C2
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+ Requested: Loosening Replay (C2)
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+ Available: C2
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+ Decisions: C2 x1
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+
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+ $ python -m reckon boundary run.jsonl --decision d-4f21a0c9e113
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+ ```
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+
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+ Exit code is non-zero when the requested class is unsupported, so it can gate a pipeline. A
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+ build should be able to fail because the evidence needed to re-adjudicate a decision was
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+ never captured.
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+
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+ ## The emitter refuses to guess
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+
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+ Comparing against a policy that was never registered raises. Closing a decision without an
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+ outcome raises. `pure` is a declaration the caller makes, never something the SDK infers, so
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+ an undeclared decision without a seed fails C0. Absent candidate completeness reads as
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+ `taken_only`; unestablished provenance is written as `unknown` and caps the record at C0.
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+
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+ Each of those is deliberately inconvenient. A record that quietly fills its own gaps is the
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+ failure this whole project is named after.
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+
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+ ## Layout
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+
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+ | Path | |
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+ |---|---|
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+ | `docs/RCDR-v0.1.md` | the record format — the normative document |
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+ | `docs/ARGUMENT.md` | the argument: thesis, evidence, novelty, non-goals |
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+ | `src/reckon/` | emitter, verifier, run-level verifier, CLI |
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+ | `demo/` | three before/after arcs over real probe artifacts, plus the ablation |
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+ | `demo/ABLATION.md` | which fields are load-bearing — generated, not asserted |
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+ | `tests/` | every assertion traces to a requirement in the spec |
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+
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+ ```
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+ pip install -e ".[dev]"
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+ python -m pytest
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+ ```
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+
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+ ## License
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+
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+ Apache-2.0. Chosen over MIT for the express patent grant: RCDR is meant to be implemented
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+ by other people, and an implementer should not have to wonder about that.
122
+
123
+ ## Scope
124
+
125
+ No tamper evidence, no signatures, no anchoring — the demonstrated threat is omission, not
126
+ modification. No confidentiality. No inference over uninstrumented systems: RCDR describes
127
+ what an instrumented emitter must produce, and recovering decision semantics from arbitrary
128
+ code is a separate and much harder problem. Any implementation reporting a C3 certification
129
+ is non-conforming.