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Dated notes as the build moves, newest first. Where a milestone warrants it, the note grows into an article that walks through what the slice actually does — with a working embed of the new component or algorithm, running on Meridian fixtures. Never a screenshot.

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2026-07-15 live component SPEC-19 · endorsed & promoted (ASSAY-DEC-36)

Where the plan meets the water

The COA made spatial and temporal: routes over banded channel surfaces (split fills, never a heat stop), validity and task windows on one clock, and an exposure staircase that shows where and when C4's dwell was banked. Drag a waypoint and the verdict re-scores through the real in-browser pipeline. SME-endorsed and promoted the same day into the live demonstrator as the Spatial · COA tab.

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2026-07-14 live component SPEC-18

From Q&A to COA: where a banded answer reaches the verdict

Three knowledge items, three fates — a band that propagates into a verdict and widens it as it widens (K6), one a geometric metric is right not to read (K3), and one whose region the route never touches (K7). Drag the K6 slider and watch propagation honesty happen live.

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2026-07-14 illustrative widget SPEC-11 / SPEC-12 / SPEC-13

What to verify next

Three analysis loops — sensitivity, discrimination, staleness — that close the JIPOE cycle: which belief is load-bearing, which question would separate the COAs, which artefact is stale.

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2026-07-14 illustrative widget SPEC-10

Don’t plan on most-likely

Score every plan against every adversary COA. The favourite collapses under the scenario it wasn’t designed for — and the scenario strip shows exactly where.

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2026-07-13 interactive SPEC-16

The seam goes live

The first interactive ASSAY surface — resolve a live contest and watch the real pipeline recompute across four role tabs, with a "glow" that draws propagation honesty (G6) where you're looking. The whole demonstrator plays inside the article.

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2026-07-13 illustrative widget SPEC-09

Least-worst: choosing what to sacrifice

When no plan can satisfy every commitment, ASSAY shows the commander what each sacrifice costs — never silently dropping a constraint.

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2026-07-13 illustrative widget SPEC-07

The verdict playground: four stops, no decimals

Move a commitment threshold across a banded score — the verdict flips only at band edges, because the four-stop mapping uses signs only.

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2026-07-13 live component SPEC-05 / SPEC-14

The band pill: why a range is more honest than a number

The demonstrator's signature component, and the discipline behind it — drag the real shipped component and watch a false-precision scalar become an honest band.

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2026-07-12 illustrative widget SPEC-06

Stamp determinism: compile twice, get the same answer

Recompile the same knowledge twice — the stamp is byte-identical. Change one item and watch it shift, because the stamp hashes inputs, not surfaces.

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2026-07-12 live component SPEC-05 / SPEC-14

The provenance chip & the K10 refusal

Mandatory markings that ride with every assessed value, and a refusal that shows discipline — not an error.

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2026-07-11 illustrative widget SPEC-02

Trace walk: every output traces back to named knowledge

Click a node in the trace graph — see its forward and backward closure light up. The skeleton that makes every ASSAY output attributable.

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2026-07-11 illustrative widget SPEC-01

Content addressing: identity is a hash

Edit a small object, watch its hash change. Immutability by construction — the foundation of every honesty invariant above it.

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