YUCLAW 8.0.0 — source-to-export commitment workbench: typed claims, exact comparison and calculation, append-only history, adjudication, verifiable export (local, loopback only)

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YUCLAW 8.0.0 — Evidence-First Financial AI · The Science Trust Layer for Financial AI

Financial AI normally gives you an answer. YUCLAW gives you the evidence, what that evidence can support, what it cannot support, and whether that conclusion survived time.

New in 8.0.0 — the source-to-export commitment workbench (local, loopback only)

• One owner-operated, loopback-only browser workbench traces a financial commitment through seven visible steps — 1 Source → 2 Typed claim → 3 Comparison → 4 Calculation → 5 History → 6 Adjudication → 7 Reproducible export — with plain HTML forms and no scripts; a refused form returns with its reasons and the entries kept; every field is labelled and wide tables scroll inside the page; an in-app Help page lists every function and shows the packaged operator guide and data dictionary; a second, fresh workspace verifies any export.
• Bounded disclosure ingestion (command line, allow-listed hosts, https only, bounded body): original bytes and digests kept, exact passage registered with its availability time, source rights recorded; the record the tool writes is registered in the browser as pasted data and a replayed registration never duplicates a source; excerpt bytes travel only under rights that allow it. A new live request to the SEC requires the operator's own SEC_USER_AGENT setting — required, never defaulted: a missing or unusable value is refused before any request is sent; stored-source replay and every other offline function work without it.
• Typed commitments (CommitmentClaim.v1): currency, unit, scale, metric, accounting basis, fiscal period with explicit dates and resolution rule are mandatory; a missing or incompatible field blocks with every reason listed; freezing is one-way and later edits create successor versions.
• Comparison (minimal shared behaviour): original and revised ranges side by side with basis checks; an incompatible metric, basis, unit or period yields INCOMPARABLE with its reasons; explanatory notes are not causal evidence.
• Deterministic calculation: the disclosed outcome against each compatible range with visible inputs, formula and source links; a currency, scale or period mismatch never produces a pass.
• Three separate times on every record (source availability, observation, recording) and as-of replay at any cutoff; later information is never shown as known earlier; append-only, digest-chained history with operation identifiers and explicit torn-tail recovery. A wrong source-availability time is corrected by a linked, append-only event, never by editing: the original records and earlier historical views stay intact, the corrected result is shown separately beside the recorded one, and the correction chain is exported for a fresh workspace to recompute. Availability times are asserted by the operator, not authenticated.
• Research notes and unresolved evidence (minimal shared behaviour): an unresolved question or explanation, the next evidence needed, the reason and an actor label on a frozen claim, corrected only by a new linked note; no automated prioritisation.
• Dataset coverage: one row per frozen claim derived from stored records (identifiers, source versions and lineage, targets and revisions, corrections and withdrawals, outcome, computed result, reviewer labels and disagreement), a deterministic snapshot digest and a verifiable dataset export.
• Scientific report and replay through the adapted kernel: a bounded science journal (a JSON event list) scored by paired Brier improvement with a sequential evidence value; explicit eligibility refusals; report status is conditional statistical evidence only and grants no action.
• Distillation Shield (protected evidence intake): a bundle is admitted only when an administrator other than its submitter signed an approval for its exact bytes, evidence digests, one purpose and this workspace, unexpired and unrevoked at the moment of use; archive extraction and parsing run in a restricted worker whose file, network and process denials are probed on the host before it is used, and the route stays closed when none is available; results are typed fields with fixed reason codes and evidence text stays inert; byte integrity, authority approval, factual adjudication and release permission are four separate answers, so an approved statement is never thereby true. No independent security review has been performed.
• Evolution Evidence Audit: versions of an AI system's eight parts (model, agent code, tool policy, memory, data, runtime, grader, evaluation data) are recorded as measured, declared, unknown or not applicable, and a provider alias is never a measurement; review evidence is reused only while the administrator-configured dependency closure, the protocol, the authority state and the validity period still apply, with reasons; a trusted local evaluation runs a built-in job on an immutable snapshot and refuses changed files; failures stay open until an authorized evidence-backed resolution; historical views use recorded time. It audits and controls no deployment.
• Research Commons Guard: a durable review queue with one task per exact duplicate group of compatible claim contracts and known source roots, retained attribution, authenticated admission limits, transactional review budgets with a separately reserved practice allocation, leases, rollover, aged holds, recorded overrides, and authorized disputes with appeals; a shared source is not independent corroboration — two registrations of identical passage bytes, or an authorized declared alias, are one root — and a duplicate is not misconduct; the queue comparison is a labelled simulation and no human productivity result exists.
• Independent Practice: a frozen task and source scope, truthful assistance and exposure declarations, one preserved attempt committed before a server-held comparison opens, the comparison's provenance shown, reflection, reviewer feedback, local follow-up due states, and a scoped private export with separately held checkpoints; the records cannot prove authorship, comprehension or improved ability, and no study was run.
• Local persistence and integrity: one append-only journal per workspace, one re-entrant write lock, idempotent submissions, additive event kinds, bounded inputs that are never executed, opened or fetched; nothing binds outside 127.0.0.1. The four modules share one local principal layer (separate capabilities for administration, submission, review and practice; credentials shown once and kept only as hashes; once a principal exists every page needs sign-in): it shows which local credential acted, not legal identity or qualification. A claim, submission, decision, version or session chosen in one module is carried to the next with its version shown, and every carried reference is checked again on the server for the principal, the workspace and the object's present state.
• Scope and controls: the enabled 8.0.0 scope is frozen, the mission and vision wording is checked byte-for-byte, authored product content is English with YUCLAW on public surfaces.
• Reproducible artifacts: wheel and sdist built with a fixed source-date epoch from the frozen commit, verified from fresh installs; order records, scope and release-policy documents are excluded from the distribution; every workbench module compiles on Python 3.10.
• Journey evidence (automated browser journeys on the candidate, from the checkout and from the installed wheel and sdist): fixtures (candidate 35d1d9d): 7/7 + notes DEMONSTRATED, dataset DEMONSTRATED, scientific report DEMONSTRATED; mchp (candidate 35d1d9d): 7/7 + notes DEMONSTRATED, dataset DEMONSTRATED, scientific report DEMONSTRATED.

Evidence totals (public scoreboard at composition)

• Replication attempts: primary unavailable, successful unavailable; registration PENDING; exact-release coverage BOUND
• Witness reviews unavailable · audit-break attempts unavailable · refusals unavailable · challenges unavailable · document-use receipts 0 · pilots 0
• Board timestamp 2026-09-18T23:02:30.553272Z; these are counts of records, not a quality or independence verdict

Activation status (every proposed activation)

• real receipt program: INACTIVE — no reviewer appointed, no registration record adopted, the three-reproduction floor unadopted (D3)
• nightly status delivery: INACTIVE — adapter and preview only; delivery not activated (D4-NIGHTLY-STATUS)
• note-snapshot coordinator: INACTIVE — contract v3 stays live; coordinator not wired (D4-SNAPSHOT)
• sentinel policy: INACTIVE — unchanged; proposal only (D4-SENTINEL)
• Phase-C prospective protocol: INACTIVE — draft; unregistered; nothing runs (D4-PHASE-C)
• Phase 6 / A2 designation of S: INACTIVE — candidate record only; not registered; N_eff not computed (D4-A2-S)
• ETF class addendum: INACTIVE — proposed classification path; registered set untouched (D4-ETF-ADDENDUM)
• U-ladder promotion / window: INACTIVE — fixture validation only; no admission, promotion or registered window (D4-U-LADDER-WINDOW)
• Gate #15 human study: INACTIVE — kit ships; no study run; requirement removed by the owner for v8 releases — not a pass; human benefit PENDING
• Phase-5 contribution anatomy: a READER of registered protocol lines and registered results; it is not a registered result and registers nothing

Release policy (recorded; the publisher refuses notes that do not match the record)

• Allocation: decision D1-AMEND: hosted run 35566379239 (success) on 59d8f5f satisfies the hosted-CI precondition; the document's four pre-CI statements are superseded by that run; the hosted build's digests equal the retained pair. on allocation document V8-ALLOC-2026-09-21-P11 (sha256 ac1a97c85f4bb30c…)
• Gate #15 (user comprehension test passes): requirement REMOVED BY OWNER for v8 releases on 2026-09-16 (decision record sha256 45d23007e958ac96…); no human comprehension study was run and none is claimed — not a pass; the automated consumer-posture scaffold check is retained; human benefit PENDING

Continuing objects (unchanged from 7.0.1) — name · receipt · status

• Layered Evidence Dependency v1, first read · chain lines 81–82, sha256 0b2ac8a5967b13aa… · STRUCTURE_PRINTED — structural_completeness = PARTIAL; N_eff PENDING; READ_SCOPE = STRUCTURAL_ONLY (chain 81–82)
• Science Trust surfaces — per-name research-state cards + machine JSON, 132 names · anchor ac51ddfe97eb… · gate GREEN (machine JSON equals the human card, byte-reproducible); staged preview, not linked from the live navigation
• Research states · sha256 0163fe63f72bb13f… · 132 names: INSUFFICIENT_EVIDENCE 132 — derived, never hand-maintained
• Discovery Ledger · sha256 4951bd6ade88722a… · 37 hypotheses in bijection with 37 registered protocol lines; status counts ACCRUING 18, INCONCLUSIVE 1, OPEN 7, REGISTERED 7, SUPERSEDED 4 — negative and inconclusive findings preserved
• Anytime Evidence Record · sha256 ac37757aa2fb8f62… · 3 prospective enrollments — ACCRUING, not adjudicated
• Evidence Completeness Profiles · sha256 e63d01c27b8276ba… · 132 names; ETF class membership BLOCKED_BY_REGISTRATION
• Protocol registry · 82 chained lines, tip ac51ddfe…, chain-verified
• Public daily evidence ledger · 88 daily blocks, latest 2026-09-18 root 41fc78923dde… · append-only, replayable
• C6 risk channel: rare-by-construction confirmed OOS (22% fire rate, n=9 held-out); sign positive at n=2 elevated — accruing · fourth read chain line 77 (98dcf74a827a…): DESCRIPTIVE
• Cross-lens reversal coherence · chain line 79 (be05bf7a9dc8…) · INSUFFICIENT — accruing, no coherence claim (chain 79)
• Consumer-posture gate · five deterministic stranger personas · GREEN (scaffold); user-comprehension study: not run — requirement removed by the owner for v8 releases (not a pass)
• Replication · public log 1 entry, bundle sha256 f431f9c629ac38b5… · REPRODUCED — External-machine reproduction completed by an affiliated operator; unaffiliated replications: 0
• yuclaw 8.0.0 package · wheel + sdist sha256 attached to this release · CLI · REST · MCP · SDK

Not in this release

• Backup creation and restoration are not provided in 8.0.0. Restore not demonstrated. Research exports and release artifacts do not establish disaster recovery.
• Human benefit: PENDING — no pilot, no user study; the journeys demonstrate behaviour, not benefit.
• Real data: one issuer's quarterly guidance (Microchip Technology, Q1 FY2026 net-sales guidance) was replayed RETROSPECTIVELY through the workbench as a behaviour demonstration on real sources; the issuer is NOT ELIGIBLE under the recorded selection criteria (unchanged from the first order) and no dataset product is claimed.
• Review: every adjudication and note in the release evidence was recorded by the automated journey runner as a simulated test action; there was no human review and no user study.
• Fixtures are clearly fictional demonstration data; the packaged scientific examples are fictional too.
• Modules SHD / EVO / COM / PRC are INCLUDED in the distribution (owner scope decision 2026-09-20). Including them activates nothing: no principal, trust root, approval, budget, reviewer, study or deployment control exists until the local operator sets one up, and the protected intake stays closed on a host without a working restricted worker. External evidence that does not exist: an actual human effort comparison, a qualified independent task reviewer or learning result, an independent security review, an authorized external deployment integration.
• Deferred beyond 8.0.0: CTL, RES, RND, full RIV, full ACT, VAL real user pilot, multi tenant platform, managed customer accounts, billing. No runtime endpoint, tab or promised benefit for any of them.
• N_eff PENDING
• Phase-5 contribution anatomy NOT YET
• user-comprehension study: not run; requirement removed by the owner for v8 releases (not a pass; human benefit PENDING)
• unaffiliated replications 0

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