docs: canonical-substrate pointer in CLAUDE.md + stale-section status headers in QUEUE-DRIVEN-COGNITION / UNIVERSAL-LEARNING / UNIVERSAL-SENSORY

[joelteply]

What

Four-file batch. Each touched file gets a small status block at the top pointing readers at the canonical truth docs (CBAR-SUBSTRATE, GENOME-FOUNDRY-SENTINEL, ALPHA-GAP). Body content of each doc is UNCHANGED — only the framing is updated so a reader knows which parts are still load-bearing and which parts have been superseded by Rust substrate work.

Why

The vision-side docs (QUEUE-DRIVEN-COGNITION, UNIVERSAL-LEARNING, UNIVERSAL-SENSORY) and the project-level CLAUDE.md were written before the canonical Rust substrate landed. Their principles are still load-bearing; their implementation sketches are now stale relative to CBAR-SUBSTRATE + GENOME-FOUNDRY-SENTINEL. Without status pointers, a reader picking these up first gets a TS-shaped mental model that the codebase has moved past.

Changes

`CLAUDE.md`

New "Canonical Substrate Docs (read first)" section at the top of the file, before the existing FORGE TEMPLATE ARCHITECTURE section. Names the three precedence-winning truth docs with one-line summaries and states the rule: this file is project guidance; canonical docs win on substrate-shaped questions.

`docs/QUEUE-DRIVEN-COGNITION.md`

Status block names the principle as still load-bearing (queue item carries its own RAG contract; persona composes generically; substrate stays domain-agnostic) and the TS-shaped implementation (`BaseQueueItem`, `PersonaUser.consolidate`) as superseded by `RuntimeFrame` / `CognitionTurnFrame` (CBAR) + `DemandAlignedRecall` (GENOME-FOUNDRY-SENTINEL).

`docs/UNIVERSAL-LEARNING-ARCHITECTURE.md`

Status block names the insight as still load-bearing (cognition trace is universal training signal; training + memory + action all consume the same generic output) and the TS-shaped implementation as superseded by sentinel-AI as profile-guided optimizer + foundry as JIT, both writing to the same genome pool with provenance. Reframes "skill marketplace" as the sharing protocol with eventual consistency.

`docs/UNIVERSAL-SENSORY-ARCHITECTURE.md`

Status block names the principle as still load-bearing (every model gets every modality through universal sensory adapters; no model is structurally blind/deaf/mute) and the TS-shaped implementation as superseded: sensory adapters are `RuntimeModule`s with typed subscriptions; modality models are `ImportedArtifact`s the foundry adapts from SOTA; composition is dynamic and demand-aligned.

Not Touched

• `docs/UNIVERSAL-COGNITION-ARCHITECTURE.md` — wasn't on the deprecation audit target list; will check separately.
• `docs/UNIVERSAL-PRIMITIVES.md` — Commands.execute / Events.subscribe are still load-bearing as-is; no status pointer needed.

Validation

• Local precommit passed (TypeScript compile clean; no Rust/TS files staged).
• All four files render with the new status blocks at the top.
• Cross-links resolved against actual file paths.

Companion PRs in flight

• docs(alpha): refresh ALPHA-GAP against 2026-05-16 canary; restructure document map; lane status truth-up #1316 — ALPHA-GAP refresh + Lane H entry (latest commit `42a05bd`).
• docs(architecture): refresh CONTINUUM-ARCHITECTURE @ 2026-05-16 — substrate contract cross-link, lane-shaped roadmap, per-engine status notes #1317 — CONTINUUM-ARCHITECTURE refresh + codex persona-cognition asks.
• docs(vision): refresh CONTINUUM-VISION — label TS sketches, pin concept→Rust map, cross-link truth docs #1320 — CONTINUUM-VISION refresh.
• docs(architecture): refine CBAR-SUBSTRATE — pin trait to shipped types, add engram-analyzer worked example, codex derive-macro gate #1324 — CBAR-SUBSTRATE refinement + codex derive-macro gate.
• docs(architecture): add GENOME-FOUNDRY-SENTINEL — artifact-sharing economy on consumer hardware (Lane H design) #1327 — GENOME-FOUNDRY-SENTINEL design doc (Lane H proposal).
• airc#642 — manager-role + lane substrate design.
• airc#643 — lane-kanban-protocol engineering spec.

This PR closes the doc-track loop: every supporting doc now points at the canonical truth, and the canonical truth points back at the supporting docs via See Also and Document Map.