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docs/status/PROOF-STATUS.adoc reads 0% proven while verification/proofs/ holds ten prover files. That invites the reading that the figure is a backlog against those files. It is not: the whole directory is the unmodified mint set, so 0% is the accurate count. This PR says so, and records two facts about the tree that were not written down anywhere.

Found while auditing the trope stack against PROOF-POLICY.adoc §8 (Proof Witness Grades, owner ruling 2026-11-04). Documentation only.

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docs/status/PROOF-STATUS.adoc gains one section, "What verification/proofs/ currently contains":

  • It is all mint boilerplate. Five files still carry an explicit marker — coq/TypeSafety.v, agda/Properties.agda, lean4/ApiTypes.lean, idris2/Types.idr and tlaplus/StateMachine.tla all say "Replace with your project's …" — and the idris2/ABI/ modules are from the same mint (ABI/Pointers.idr: "Template proof — customise for your project's pointer types"). None states a property of HAEC: the Agda proves length (xs ++ ys) ≡ length xs + length ys, the Lean the functor laws for a template ApiResult, the Coq a toy expression language, the TLA+ a placeholder request pipeline.
  • No escape hatch is present in any body — no believe_me, assert_total, postulate, sorry, Axiom or Admitted — verified with hyperpolymath/mathesis, scripts/census/proof-holes.sh, run over this tree on 2026-11-09: no hole, axiom or unsafe record.
  • One real policy finding, from that same scan, which was not stated anywhere: verification/proofs/agda/Properties.agda carries no OPTIONS pragma at all, so it does not set --safe, let alone the PROOF-POLICY §2.1 invocation --safe --without-K --cubical-compatible. As the file is mint boilerplate rather than a theory entrypoint of this repository, the defensible fix is removal rather than adding flags to a template.
  • No Proof Witness Grade is supported here. Under §8.1 PWG applies to theory obligations; none of this is one. HAEC's real obligations are the ones named in PROOF-NEEDS.adoc.
  • Nothing is deleted. hyperpolymath/trope-checker removed the identical never-instantiated templates under ADR 0005 D5. Whether HAEC does the same is the owner's call (doctrine 7: cold is not disposable), so this PR only describes.

RSR Quality Checklist

Required

  • Tests pass (just test or equivalent) — no source or build file changed; AsciiDoc only
  • Code is formatted (just fmt or equivalent) — AsciiDoc only
  • Linter is clean (no new warnings or errors) — asciidoctor 2.0.26 --failure-level=WARN clean on both changed files
  • No banned language patterns (no TypeScript, ReScript, Deno, Node.js/npm, Go or Python)
  • No unsafe blocks without // SAFETY: comments — n/a
  • No banned functions (believe_me, unsafeCoerce, Obj.magic, Admitted, sorry) — confirmed absent from every proof body by the scan above
  • SPDX license headers present on all new/modified source files — existing headers untouched
  • No secrets, credentials, or .env files included

As Applicable

  • haec_chora.deed updated — deeds are owner-only; not touched
  • Documentation updated for user-facing changes
  • docs/architecture/TOPOLOGY.adoc updated — architecture unchanged
  • CHANGELOG or release notes updated
  • New dependencies reviewed — none
  • ABI/FFI changes validated — none

Testing

Run in this session at main 771555b plus this commit:

asciidoctor -o /dev/null --failure-level=WARN docs/status/PROOF-STATUS.adoc CHANGELOG.adoc
#   -> clean

bash ~/mathesis/scripts/census/proof-holes.sh --summary .
#   -> {"class":"policy","file":"verification/proofs/agda/Properties.agda","lang":"agda",
#       "line":1,"marker":"no --safe","text":"file does not set {-# OPTIONS --safe #-}"}
#      agda policy: 1
#      (no hole, axiom or unsafe record)

grep -rn -E '(^|[^[:alnum:]_])(postulate|Admitted|Axiom|sorry|believe_me|assert_total)([^[:alnum:]_]|$)' \
  verification/proofs/
#   -> only header comments and one line inside a Coq block comment
#      ("All proofs must be complete — NO Admitted allowed"); no declarations

NOT RUN here: Agda, Coq, Lean, Idris2, TLA+ — no toolchain in this environment. Nothing in this PR claims a kernel result, and nothing in the tree would be worth checking if there were one.

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docs/status/PROOF-STATUS.adoc reads 0% proven while verification/proofs/ holds ten
prover files, which invites the reading that the figure is a backlog against them.
It is not. The whole directory is the unmodified mint set: five files still carry
an explicit "Replace with your project's …" marker, and ABI/Pointers.idr still
says "Template proof". None states a property of HAEC — the Agda proves
length (xs ++ ys) ≡ length xs + length ys, the Lean the functor laws for a
template ApiResult, the Coq a toy expression language, the TLA+ a placeholder
request pipeline. So 0% is the accurate count, and the note now says so.

Recorded with it:
- no escape hatch is present in any body (no believe_me, assert_total, postulate,
  sorry, Axiom or Admitted), verified with mathesis scripts/census/proof-holes.sh
  over this tree on 2026-11-09: no hole, axiom or unsafe record.
- one real policy finding from that same scan, which had not been stated anywhere:
  verification/proofs/agda/Properties.agda carries no OPTIONS pragma at all, so it
  does not set --safe, let alone the PROOF-POLICY §2.1 invocation. As the file is
  mint boilerplate and not a theory entrypoint of this repository, the defensible
  fix is removal rather than adding flags to a template.
- under PROOF-POLICY §8.1 none of this supports a Proof Witness Grade, because
  none of it is a theory obligation of this repository.
- trope-checker removed the identical never-instantiated templates under ADR 0005
  D5. Whether HAEC does the same is the owner's call (doctrine 7: cold is not
  disposable), so nothing is deleted here.

Documentation only. Verified here: asciidoctor 2.0.26 --failure-level=WARN clean
on both changed files. NOT RUN here: Agda, Coq, Lean, Idris2, TLA+ (no toolchain,
and nothing in the tree would be worth checking if there were).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01J4QvDh3p24SCUjyM9HHT31
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  • Documentation
    • Updated the proof status notes with a census of 0 done, 0 in progress, 0 blocked and 7 remaining obligations.
    • Clarified that the existing proof templates are unmodified, establish no properties of HAEC and do not qualify for a Proof Witness Grade. No templates were removed.
    • Recorded scan findings, the pending policy finding concerning the missing OPTIONS pragma, and that removing the templates remains an owner decision.
    • Updated the changelog to note that the same status wording appears in the template repository.

The PR updates the proof-status document with a census of seven obligations and notes about template files, scan results, and policy findings. It also adds a changelog entry summarising these updates.

Changes: Proof status documentation

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Proof status note
docs/status/PROOF-STATUS.adoc, CHANGELOG.adoc
The status document replaces the percentage wording with a census, describes the template files, records scan and policy findings, and maps seven obligations to paths. The changelog summarises the updates.

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The proof-status clarification and changelog introduce no identified merge-blocking risk. The outstanding proof obligations and template-removal decision remain explicit.

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Comment thread docs/status/PROOF-STATUS.adoc Resolved
docs/status/PROOF-STATUS.adoc published:

  *Overall*: 0% proven

PROOF-POLICY §8.4 rule 7 forbids exactly that form: "Never publish 'X% proved',
an average grade, or a single confidence score." It asks for a census instead —
a count per category with the denominator. The figure was accurate; the shape was
the prohibited one, and a percentage invites being averaged or trended, which is
what the rule exists to prevent.

It now reads as a census (0 done, 0 in progress, 0 blocked, 7 remaining, of 7
recorded obligations), with a note recording what changed and why, and the fact
that no obligation here carries a Proof Witness Grade because none is a theory
obligation of this repository under §8.1.

The same line ships in rsr-template-repo's PROOF-STATUS.adoc, so every repository
minted from it carries the same breach. The note says so: fixing it there is the
solution at source, and this change is the downstream symptom being treated only
because the surface is published today.

Documentation only. Verified here: asciidoctor 2.0.26 --failure-level=WARN clean
on both changed files; no percentage-of-proved claim remains in the file.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01J4QvDh3p24SCUjyM9HHT31
The review found a real way to misread the note this PR adds. Saying the files
are not evidence, and that removing them is an owner decision, leaves open
whether the OBLIGATIONS would go with them. They would not, and the distinction
matters precisely to whoever acts on that decision.

Checked against docs/status/PROOF-NEEDS.adoc: it assigns all seven of this
repository's required proofs to paths inside verification/proofs/ — ABI-1 to
ABI-5 to idris2/ABI/{Pointers,Layout,Platform,Foreign,Compliance}.idr, TP-1 to
idris2/Types.idr, TP-2 to lean4/ApiTypes.lean. So the files are not proofs, but
the paths are still targets: deleting the boilerplate removes placeholder
content, never the obligation that something eventually goes there. The note now
says that.

Documentation only. Verified here: asciidoctor 2.0.26 --failure-level=WARN clean.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01J4QvDh3p24SCUjyM9HHT31
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CI status: three failures, none of them this PR's

This PR's entire diff is two AsciiDoc files, CHANGELOG.adoc and docs/status/PROOF-STATUS.adoc. It touches no source, no build file, and nothing under .github/ (verified: git diff --name-only origin/main...HEAD -- .github/ returns zero files).

CI / required failed at step 9, "Validate repository contracts". Steps 1 to 8 all passed, including the Idris2 ABI typecheck and the Zig FFI compile-and-test. That step runs exactly two things:

find tests scripts -type f -name '*.sh' -print0 | xargs -0 -r bash -n
bash tests/check-examples.sh

Both pass here, run against this branch:

bash -n over every tests/*.sh and scripts/*.sh   -> all parse
bash tests/check-examples.sh                      -> exit 0
  ok  faithful-record.haec -> faithful-record.ir.json (expects p-sufficient)
  ok  survey-collapse.haec -> survey-collapse.ir.json (expects p-insufficient)
  ok  station-average.haec -> station-average.ir.json (expects p-sufficient)
  ok  vendored design/trope-ir.schema.json matches the canonical checker schema
  note  no checker binary; skipping verdict round-trip (set TROPECHECK_BIN, or
        TROPECHECK_REQUIRED=1 to make this fatal)
  examples: all lower to valid Trope IR

So the step's content is sound and the failure is environment-side in CI. The most likely cause is the one the script itself names: the verdict round-trip is skipped locally for want of a checker binary, and in CI with TROPECHECK_REQUIRED=1 that skip becomes fatal. That is the TROPECHECK_PIN thread already open from earlier work, not something a changelog edit can reach. No fix exists in this PR's scope; the binary's availability is a CI-configuration matter.

estate-rules and Deposit findings for gitbot-fleet likewise cannot be this PR's: both read repository configuration and workflow definitions, and this PR changes neither. estate-rules is failing across the trope stack today; in trope-checker and mathesis the root cause is visible in the logs as the hyperpolymath/cicd-suite → hyperpolymath/proven-cicd-and-workflows repository transfer, where a reusable uses: does not follow the redirect. That has a known mechanical fix (re-point, same pin, as trope-particularity-workbench#78 did) but the linter's own message also requires the Actions allowlist to admit the new owner, which is an owner-only setting here. I have not widened this documentation PR with it and have raised it with the owner instead.

Green on the current head: the SonarCloud quality gate passed.

Pushed in db444da, from the review

The note this PR adds left open whether removing the templates would remove the obligations. It would not, and that distinction matters most to whoever acts on the decision. Checked against docs/status/PROOF-NEEDS.adoc: it assigns all seven required proofs to paths inside verification/proofs/ — ABI-1 to ABI-5 to idris2/ABI/{Pointers,Layout,Platform,Foreign,Compliance}.idr, TP-1 to idris2/Types.idr, TP-2 to lean4/ApiTypes.lean. The files are not proofs, but the paths are still targets, and the note now says so.


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