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The live-survey investigation was spread across local research notes and isolated experiments. This handoff makes the recommendations, observed outcomes and reusable work reviewable in the repository, with explicit boundaries between source inspection, synthetic tests, real-image trials and unrun proposals.

Start with the high-level report. It recommends native local capture/guidance with durable original photos and asynchronous backend refinement, and identifies physical-phone validation as the largest remaining gap.

Included:

• Options and primary resources for camera access, automatic capture, coverage/guidance, reconstruction, recognition and transport; an evidence report preserves successful, empty, blocked and unrun outcomes.
• Standalone capture-admission and equipment-association prototypes with synthetic regression tests.
• Two source-pinned native patch proposals: a reset/task-guard change with nine paired isolated harness cases, and a ground-coverage replay helper that is explicitly unrun and unintegrated.
• An index of selected locally retained report/manifest hashes. Customer material, private criteria, datasets, model weights and build artifacts are excluded.

Validation performed for this export:

python3 -B -m unittest discover -s experiments/research-handoff/capture-admission -p 'test_*.py' -v
# 26 tests passed
python3 -B experiments/research-handoff/equipment-association/test_association.py
# 11 tests passed
git diff --cached --check
# passed before commit

Python syntax, JSON, relative document links, patch hashes and identity of the exported implementations were also checked. The patch-folder attribute preserves the required single-space blank context lines in unified diffs.

No iOS/server/web integration or full application build was performed in this handoff. Desktop and synthetic successes do not establish physical dimensions, real phone performance, equipment identity or upload recovery. Research stopped at the user's request; prepared diagnostics remain unrun.

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• Documentation
  • Added a research handoff summarizing findings, architectural recommendations, prototype results, alternatives, and remaining validation needs.
  • Added an evidence report and options overview that distinguish observed results from proposals and unverified work.
  • Updated the README and experiment guides with links to the research materials and prototype limitations.
• Research Prototypes
  • Added standalone examples for capture evidence and equipment association. These are not integrated into the product; their documented results rely on synthetic data or limited testing.

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The pull request adds research handoff documents and evidence records, two standalone Python prototypes with tests, and two native patch proposals. It also links the handoff from the README and experiments index. The handoff states that app, server, and web files were not changed or built.

Changes

Research handoff and prototypes

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Research direction and options README.md, docs/06-research-handoff.md, docs/research/2026-09-26-options-and-resources.md	Documents a proposed capture-to-assessment flow and compares capture platforms, reconstruction, recognition, and upload approaches. The recommendations are distinguished from validated results.
Evidence and validation record docs/06-research-handoff.md, docs/research/2026-09-26-experiment-evidence.md, docs/research/2026-09-26-evidence-index.json, experiments/README.md	Records experiment outcomes, evidence limits, archive hashes, and remaining validation needs. It states that no physical-phone performance result or independent exterior-house accuracy result was established.
SQLite capture-admission ledger experiments/research-handoff/capture-admission/*	Adds a SQLite ledger for capture requests, returned stills, assessments, support, acknowledgements, and progress. Tests cover transactions, retries, revision and epoch rules, and concurrent access.
Equipment-association event reducer experiments/research-handoff/equipment-association/*	Adds a lock-protected reducer for observations, review tickets, attachments, contradictions, and scope resets. Tests cover event replay, stale reviews, competing claims, and historical attachments.
Native patch proposals experiments/research-handoff/README.md, experiments/research-handoff/native-proposals/*	Packages two patches against a pinned source revision. One has host-test evidence; the ground-replay helper is documented as unrun and unintegrated.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~55 minutes

Change: Other

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to bd4a7

The published ground-replay proposal can lose previously captured coverage when an end is later cleared. Correct the proposal before relying on it for implementation.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to bd4a7

The proposed design handles original photographs and evidence across device and backend boundaries, but this change does not deploy that flow. The prototypes and native patches remain separate from the application; production behavior still needs validation before adoption.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The presently evidenced reach is confined to research prototypes and unapplied proposals, not a deployed capture or backend path.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — The capture prototype validates returned-still structure and binds support to requirement revisions and spatial epochs. The future boundary between a caller, native capture, and trusted assessment is not implemented here.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• observed — The capture prototype rolls back failed writes and can mark orphaned pending requests interrupted, but requires an external determination that no native operation survives. End-to-end interruption and upload recovery remain unvalidated.

Hardening Proposals

• proposed — Before production integration, bind actor, producer, review, and media-evidence claims to authenticated identities and verified provenance at the adapter boundary; specify durable recovery and authorization for original photographs separately from the prototype reducers.

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Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 4.72% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 106 functions across 5 files. (17 skipped:…	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

✅ Passed checks (4 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly identifies the research handoff, its findings, options, and tested prototypes. It is concise and directly related to the main changes.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description explains what changed, why it changed, verification performed, and remaining risks. It does not use the template headings or include the checklist, but it provides the required informa…
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

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• README.md
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• docs/research/2026-09-26-evidence-index.json
• docs/research/2026-09-26-experiment-evidence.md
• docs/research/2026-09-26-options-and-resources.md
• experiments/README.md
• experiments/research-handoff/README.md
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• experiments/research-handoff/capture-admission/admission.py
• experiments/research-handoff/capture-admission/test_admission.py
• experiments/research-handoff/capture-admission/test_regressions.py
• experiments/research-handoff/equipment-association/.gitignore
• experiments/research-handoff/equipment-association/README.md
• experiments/research-handoff/equipment-association/association.py
• experiments/research-handoff/equipment-association/fixtures.json
• experiments/research-handoff/equipment-association/test_association.py
• experiments/research-handoff/native-proposals/.gitattributes
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Preserve evidence recorded before a marked end.

If a scan records cameras beyond a future end, marks that end, and then replays a ground change, rebuilt.observe excludes those cameras’ out-of-bounds cells. clearEnd cannot restore the discarded evidence. The baseline retains existing cells when an end is marked, so clearing the end can reveal them again. Replay with each observation’s admission-time bounds, or otherwise retain that historical evidence without admitting views that were originally excluded. (raw.githubusercontent.com)

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@huntertcarver, three things from the docs cleanup. Nothing on your files has been changed.

1. Conflicts. This PR now conflicts with main in README.md and experiments/README.md after docs: keep only the current plan and the facts that still hold #14. A few notes in docs/research still refer to the lanes or to docs/01 to 03, which docs: keep only the current plan and the facts that still hold #14 deleted.
2. Keep the docs short. Sam wants the repository's docs kept to the minimum, and experiments recorded by their code and outputs. docs: set the minimal experiment format and cut remaining overstatements #33 sets the format: a README under about 200 words per experiment, with generated results in results/. The research itself can live with your implementation. docs/00 already cites this PR for the four server-side points: originals to object storage, asynchronous analysis, recomputing after a revision, and unresolved OCR values.
3. docs/05. Could we delete your live-survey HLD? The one decision the app uses from it, the coverage colours, is now in docs/00 (docs: set the minimal experiment format and cut remaining overstatements #33). The rest predates the team split, for example the wall-ends completion gate and the foreground upload baseline. If you'd rather keep it, I'll trim it to what's still true instead. Either way I'll wait for your OK.

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Confidence Score: 5/5

[Low risk] Research documentation and isolated experiment prototypes.

The research handoff appears safe to merge; no actionable defect was established in its stated prototype and proposal scope.

Summary

The PR adds a research handoff, bounded experiment evidence, two standalone synthetic prototypes, and two explicitly unapplied native patch proposals.

• It separates observed results from unrun work and physical-phone validation gaps.
• It does not change the application, server, or web runtime.

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