Cycle 01 — Forward/backward research graph review
Date: 2026-10-11. Explicit internal review of source 239c02db76fc6115e877d210cca8d17d77f82e1f, after four finite package dispositions and before this review's Decision D-0008. This is an inquiry-relative traceability review under PC02, not scientific truth validation, external peer review or Synthesis Review 1.
Reviewed inventory and query contract
The historical inventory has 33 typed records: six Questions, four ResearchPackages, five Tests, four Results, seven Decisions and seven Sources. There are eighteen explicitly declared semantic relations and forty-five typed storage references. No Claim or Assumption instance, support/challenge relation or supersession chain exists in this reviewed inventory. Their absence is explicit; there is no claim-status or assumption-completeness result to infer.
The machine-readable snapshot binds every record path/hash and the historical Cycle manifest to the reviewed commit. It stores declared relations separately from question_refs, target_refs, package_ref, test_ref and affected_refs. A reference chain permits navigation, not a new supports/informs edge or automatic transitive inference. The incoming index enumerates immediate semantic and typed dependents separately.
python3 scripts/check-cycle01-graph-review.py reconstructs the entire snapshot from Git, compares all stored values and preserves its first committed bytes. Current schema/integrity validation is separate from the historical reconstruction. Six software controls reject missing references, cross-package attribution and changed saved traces; check deterministic order, numeric types, unexecuted Tests and untargeted Questions; and ensure navigation does not manufacture scientific support.
Forward: Questions to work and evidence
| Question | Packages and Test targets | Results reachable through explicit test_ref | Status and interpretation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Q-0 continuation/preservation | RP-003/TST-RP003001 and RP-004/TST-RP004001 | R-RP003001, R-RP004001 | ACTIVE. Finite path/lineage evidence informs specified criteria; no general identity conclusion. |
| Q-1 revision/reflexivity | No package or Test target in this snapshot | None | OPEN; not experimentally addressed. Governance decisions are not tests of this question. |
| Q-2 reachability | RP-005A/TST-RP005A001 | R-RP005A001 | ACTIVE. Conditional horizon/selection effects and edge-removal inclusion, without general restriction benefit. |
| Q-3 representation | RP-002A; TST-RP002A001/002 | R-RP002A002 through Test 002 only | ACTIVE. Specified predictive representations and algorithms, not recurrence necessity. |
| Q-4 realized history | RP-002A and RP-004; TST-RP002A001/002 and TST-RP004001 | R-RP002A002, R-RP004001 | ACTIVE. Predictive history and lineage recoverability remain distinct inquiries. Q-4's proposed reduction to representation is not established. |
| Q-5 relational dependence | No package or Test target in this snapshot | None | OPEN; not experimentally addressed. |
R-RP002A002 declares no semantic relation. Its evidence can be located through its registered Test targets without editing the immutable Result or inventing a direct support/informs edge. TST-RP002A001 is the incomplete first confirmation registration and has no Result; its preserved failure is not missing successful evidence. The later Test/Result are separate.
Backward: Results to provenance and decisions
| Result | Registered Test / package | Evidence and disposition |
|---|---|---|
| R-RP002A002 | TST-RP002A002 / RP-002A | Fresh authorized second confirmation, 60 units, 120 fits and 484 output hashes. Seven frozen decisions retain two benefit, four equivalent and one indeterminate. D-0004 closes the finite package; first incomplete attempt is separate. |
| R-RP003001 | TST-RP003001 / RP-003 | All 11,100 finite paths independently replay, with counterexamples and positive controls. D-0005 closes the scoped commitment; Q-0 stays ACTIVE. |
| R-RP004001 | TST-RP004001 / RP-004 | All 864 decoder rows and 60 projection comparisons replay. Every UNKNOWN and collision witness remains. D-0006 closes the finite commitment; Q-0/Q-4 stay ACTIVE. |
| R-RP005A001 | TST-RP005A001 / RP-005A | All 24 planner rows, 12 pairs and 35 source records replay. Two positive, four zero and six negative differences remain. D-0007 closes the finite commitment; Q-2 stays ACTIVE. |
Each Result points to its actual Test, package, run and artifact inventory. Each Test supplies protocol and target references; source/input provenance is retained in the run manifest and implementation review. The four package resolutions bind package review, outcome report, scoped Result and active disposition Decision. No package decision promotes a Claim or resolves a foundational Question.
Required graph queries and review boundaries
| Required query | Assessment |
|---|---|
| Current claim status | Empty Claim inventory, explicitly reported. Package CLOSED and Result VALID are not Claim statuses. |
| Provenance | Four backward Result traces, source references and run hashes/inventories are accessible and validated; earlier incomplete evidence remains distinguishable. |
| Revision reason | D-0004–0007 give package-disposition rationale and affected records. D-0001–0003 index infrastructure/repository decisions, with no implied scientific approval. |
| Historical status | The reviewed commit and per-record hashes reconstruct the exact prior state. Historical preparation and audit-stage statements remain labelled snapshots, not overwritten current views. |
| Impacted dependents | Incoming indices enumerate immediate semantic and typed references. Wider impact requires explicit traversal and judgment; support is never propagated automatically. |
| Publication provenance | The deployment ledger distinguishes canonical content commit from pushed site-source commits, saved versions and deployment IDs. Generated Sites repositories are projections. This review's new deployments are recorded separately after publication. |
| Unresolved alternatives | Q-1/Q-5 remain untested OPEN, Q-0/Q-2/Q-3/Q-4 ACTIVE. Indeterminate prediction, tolerance counterexamples, representation losses and adverse restriction outcomes remain canonical. DAM X's source dependency is explicit outside this four-package graph. |
Seven Source records are a bounded RP002A bibliography, not seven supporting evidence edges. RP003/RP004/RP005A prior-art inspection is linked through package source documents; the MVP does not claim a complete formal literature graph. Protocol-local assumptions are explicit in their documents but are not individual Assumption nodes. Future promoted Claims need the appropriate scoped assumption/evidence records and review before promotion; this snapshot supplies none automatically.
Disposition
Accept this defined forward/backward traceability review as completed under D-0008. It addresses the stored MVP query contract and records its boundaries; it does not establish an exhaustive conceptual graph, claim completeness, truth, novelty, causal explanation or cross-domain equivalence. The new decision is outside the 33-record historical inventory and raises the living inventory to 34.
Together with the separately documented late Checkpoint A, this resolves only those two Cycle obligations. Progress becomes 6/13 (46.2%); seven remain unresolved and Cycle 01 remains ACTIVE. Foundational statuses, package decisions, all Results and runs are unchanged. Synthesis and Foundation Review remain separate next work; DAM X still requires supplied sources or an explicit later documented disposition.
Source record
Repository path: cycles/cycle-01/reviews/GRAPH_REVIEW_001.md
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