Cycle 01 — Canonical knowledge snapshot

Date: 2026-10-12. Accepted with the close bundle under D-0012. The snapshot is the completed CLOSED Git commit identified by the living manifest's snapshot_ref and the immutable cycle-01-close tag. The tag and reference must resolve to the same commit; the later PUBLISHED state retains this anchor.

Evidence inventory and closed state

KNOWLEDGE_SNAPSHOT.json reconstructs the actual pre-close evidence cutoff 4b9916491491d3c94e251b64589c79a40b99ece4: every retained baseline/research/graph/legacy/decision/review file hash, 38 typed records, declared semantic relations, typed references, six forward Question traces, four backward Result traces and the then-resolved twelve obligations. It remains a dated evidence inventory; it does not falsely describe that cutoff as already closed.

The completed close commit additionally contains D-0012, the close bundle and all thirteen resolved obligations. Its living graph has 39 records: six Questions, four ResearchPackages, five Tests, four Results, twelve Decisions and eight Sources. No Claim or Assumption instance is present. The historical Checkpoint A graph remains a separate 33-record snapshot, not silently expanded to this final inventory.

The four outcome families and every negative, equivalent and indeterminate observation are indexed in the close bundle. No common success rate, novelty clearance, validated legacy theory, broad transfer or promoted scientific Claim follows from the snapshot. Internal review and source checks are not external scientific review.

Reconstruct and verify

• Immutable close source
• Resolved manifest
• Complete evidence inventory
• Close bundle and D-0012

python3 scripts/check-cycle01-close.py reconstructs historical hashes and graph structure from Git, checks the completed snapshot's manifest and close outputs, and verifies any existing close tag. The initial assembled commit points to the already existing evidence cutoff; before publication the living reference is pinned to the completed CLOSED commit. The tag is created after the checked merge, and subsequent checks reject any mismatched tag. Source-history binding is separate from scientific truth.

Publication provenance is recorded only after actual deployments succeed. Later corrections or new evidence use new records and Decisions; the close anchor and this dated evidence inventory are retained.