Gnosis Cuneiform

What This Is

Gnosis negative-control control pack preserving cuneiform benchmark custody, failed-gate evidence, source/data boundaries, and a stdlib-only manifest-validation smoke.

gnosis-cuneiform is a Method Mechanics lane in the Gnosis portfolio. It keeps the cuneiform benchmark/control artefact chain inspectable without promoting the lane as a product, a decipherment result, or a repaired scientific gate.

The public posture is control-only: useful for audit and falsification, blocked for promotion, and explicit about Traditional-Knowledge, source-boundary, data-rights, and public-audit limits.

Method Mechanics

Mechanic	Current implementation	Authority
Control-pack role	Preserves the cuneiform benchmark truth surface as MODULE_ONLY_CONTROL_PACK; no sovereign product promotion.	SOVEREIGN_PRD.md
Governing falsification gate	Keeps NO_GO_GOVERNING_GATE_UNMET at governing_1nn_accuracy = 0.021916; P6/P7 diagnostics remain diagnostic-only.	docs/evidence/CUNEIFORM_PHASE2_GATE_STATUS.md
Source boundary	Admits only cuneiform-specific control/rerun material; shared geometry, transport, and generic evaluation kernels stay out of this repo.	SOURCE_BOUNDARY.md
Smoke target	Validates manifest custody and shape only: checksum, schema, five cross-field invariants, and preserved failed-gate fields.	artefacts/smoke/manifest_validation_report.json
Public audit boundary	Allows reviewers to verify the visible scaffold, pins, smoke report, and failed-gate posture; does not expose private HF bytes or rights-limited corpora.	PUBLIC_AUDIT_LIMITS.md

Key Metrics

Metric	Value	Evidence
Governing gate	NO_GO_GOVERNING_GATE_UNMET; governing_1nn_accuracy = 0.021916	docs/evidence/CUNEIFORM_PHASE2_GATE_STATUS.md
Manifest smoke	PASS; 5/5 invariants OK, 0 schema errors, observed SHA matches pin	artefacts/smoke/manifest_validation_report.json
Hermetic tests	pytest -q -> 3 self-tests; smoke runner is stdlib-only with zero runtime dependencies	tests/test_smoke_runner.py, pyproject.toml
HF custody	6/6 lane-pinned manifests verified against SHA-256 pins; AP heavy store remains private	docs/HF_CUSTODY_REGISTER.md, artefacts/smoke/hf_upload_verify.json

Repo Identity

Field	Value
Identifier	gnosis-cuneiform
Repository	https://github.com/Zer0pa/Cuneiform
Portfolio / domain	Gnosis methodology; cuneiform negative-control/control-pack lane
Visibility	PUBLIC
Default branch	main
Authority source	SOVEREIGN_PRD.md; .gpd/STATE.md; .gpd/DECISIONS.md
License	Code: Apache-2.0; documentation/reports/written materials: CC-BY-4.0; data by rights class in DATA_POLICY.md
Last verified	2026-05-02 GitHub main alignment pass

Readiness

Field	Value
Verdict	BLOCKED
Posture	HOLD_CONTROL_ONLY; negative-control preservation
Checks	Hermetic tests pass; manifest smoke passes; HF custody pins verify; governing gate remains failed
Anchors	6 display anchors
Authority	SOVEREIGN_PRD.md; PUBLIC_AUDIT_LIMITS.md; .gpd/STATE.md
Public surface	Lab window only; not a product release or scientific flagship

Honest Blocker

The inherited governing gate NO_GO_GOVERNING_GATE_UNMET remains failed at governing_1nn_accuracy = 0.021916. The smoke surface proves custody and shape only; it cannot repair the gate, clear image/corpus rights, or authorize public-release claims.

What We Prove

• The cuneiform benchmark/control artefact chain is real and pinned. Six upstream manifests are recorded by SHA-256 in docs/evidence/ARTEFACT_CHECKSUMS.md and held under private HF custody recorded in docs/HF_CUSTODY_REGISTER.md.
• The inherited governing gate failed and remains failed: P5 closed NO_GO_GOVERNING_GATE_UNMET at governing_1nn_accuracy = 0.021916; P6 (0.038176) and P7 (0.051826) diagnostics are never promoted to gate closure.
• SMOKE-01-MANIFEST-VALIDATION runs and passes against the pinned upstream manifest with all 5 cross-field invariants holding and 0 schema errors.
• The smoke surface is stdlib-only, third-party-dependency-free, and reproducible on any Python >= 3.8 host without provisioning.

What We Don't Claim

• We do not claim the failed governing gate is repaired. The smoke is custody-only by construction; it cannot move the gate.
• We do not claim cuneiform decipherment, substrate identification, or any positive scientific recovery on this corpus.
• We do not claim public-release readiness, flagship status, commercial readiness, or cross-domain superiority.
• We do not claim cleared image rights, rights-cleared corpus redistribution, or permission to expose private HF artefact bytes.
• We do not claim proprietary rights over cuneiform, its scripts, or the archaeological record.
• We do not claim that shared geometry, transport, or generic evaluation kernels belong in this repo.

Verification Status

Code	Check	Verdict
V-01	Hermetic self-test: pytest -q returns 3 passing tests against bundled fixtures.	PASS
V-02	Real-manifest smoke: checksum, schema, and 5/5 cross-field invariants pass.	PASS
V-03	HF post-upload SHA verify: 6/6 admitted manifest pins match observed hashes.	PASS
V-04	HF custody register: AP heavy store and Zer0pa lightweight surface remain private and token-verified.	PASS
V-05	Operational-leak scan in CI blocks concrete IPs, raw SSH endpoints, local home paths, retired monorepo paths, and pod IDs.	PASS
V-06	Governing science gate remains failed and cannot be repaired by this smoke.	BLOCKED
V-07	Public redistribution of image-bearing corpora and some derived data remains rights-constrained.	BLOCKED

Proof Anchors

Path	State
SOVEREIGN_PRD.md	VERIFIED
SOURCE_BOUNDARY.md	VERIFIED
DATA_POLICY.md	VERIFIED
PUBLIC_AUDIT_LIMITS.md	VERIFIED
.gpd/DECISIONS.md	VERIFIED
artefacts/smoke/manifest_validation_report.json	VERIFIED

Repo Shape

Path	What Lives Here
README.md, SOVEREIGN_PRD.md, AUDITOR_PLAYBOOK.md, AGENTS.md	Front door, sovereign brief, reviewer entry, agent brief.
SOURCE_BOUNDARY.md, DATA_POLICY.md, GOVERNANCE.md, RELEASING.md, PUBLIC_AUDIT_LIMITS.md	Source, data, governance, release, and public-audit boundaries.
code/cuneiform_control/	Stdlib-only smoke runner and JSON Schema.
tests/	Hermetic pytest-discovered self-tests for pass, invariant-fail, and checksum-fail paths.
pyproject.toml	Package manifest (Private :: Do Not Upload; zero runtime deps).
artefacts/smoke/	Deterministic smoke report and HF-upload-verify report.
docs/evidence/	Failed-gate evidence, control results, and SHA-256 pin register.
docs/	Architecture, ledgers, smoke target, HF custody, rerun guide, executor status, and support docs.
docs/migration/	Original migration-package brief, authority, source inventory, and handover history.
.gpd/	GPD state, decisions, roadmap, requirements, conventions, and four closed phases.
.github/workflows/ci.yml	Minimal CI: install, pytest, smoke help, operational-leak scan, clean-tree check.
_internal/	Agent-orchestration scaffolding; not reader-facing.

Traditional-Knowledge Acknowledgment

This repository works with material in cuneiform-bearing writing systems (Sumerian, Akkadian, Babylonian, and related). Zer0pa claims no proprietary right over cuneiform, its scripts, or the archaeological record.

This repository preserves a negative-control result as a first-class output; it does not claim a definitive decipherment of cuneiform or related scripts.

Good-faith inquiries from identified communities, governmental antiquity authorities, or institutional bodies may be sent to architects@zer0pa.ai.

Data And Public Audit Boundaries

The data boundary is evidence, not boilerplate:

• Staged docs, PRD, handover surfaces, and derived benchmark summaries can be published as repo-local written material.
• Benchmark manifests and derived JSON outputs are PUBLISH_WITH_REVIEW; each file still needs provenance review before any remote promotion.
• Image previews and raw image-bearing corpora are FETCH_EXTERNALLY_OR_INTERNAL_ONLY until rights posture is cleared.
• Model weights and intermediate experimental checkpoints are INTERNAL_ONLY and are not needed for the current control-pack truth surface.
• A public audit can verify the source tree, path-rewrite ledger, checksum pins, smoke runner, smoke report, failed-gate posture, and docs coherence; it cannot verify private HF artefact bytes without access or infer private results from public prose.

Licensing

This repository is part of the Zer0pa Gnosis Portfolio.

Code in this repository is licensed under the Apache License 2.0. See LICENSE for the full text. SPDX identifier: Apache-2.0.

Documentation, reports, and written materials are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International. SPDX identifier: CC-BY-4.0. Canonical terms: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.

Data and fixtures are handled per dataset and artifact family. See DATA_POLICY.md for this repository's data boundary. The code license does not license raw corpora, image-bearing cultural-heritage assets, private HF artifacts, model weights, endpoint logs, or operational transcripts.

Trademarks - "Gnosis", "Zer0pa Gnosis", and distinctive sub-marks are trademarks of Zer0pa. Apache-2.0 and CC-BY-4.0 do not grant trademark rights. See TRADEMARKS.md.

Public visibility is a separate repository-setting action. The license files in this repo define the intended open-source/open-documentation terms for released Gnosis code and written materials; they do not publish rights-gated data.

Quick Start

Verified end-to-end on 2026-04-25. Commands run from a fresh clone.

# 1. Install the smoke surface (zero third-party runtime deps; pytest pulled in for tests)
python3 -m venv /tmp/cuneiform-control
source /tmp/cuneiform-control/bin/activate
python -m pip install --upgrade pip
python -m pip install -e . pytest

# 2. Hermetic self-test against bundled fixtures (3 cases, < 1 second)
pytest -q

# 3. Confirm the console entry point works
cuneiform-smoke --help

# 4. Operational-leak scan: runs in CI; reproduce locally by re-running the
#    `Operational-leak scan` step from `.github/workflows/ci.yml`.

# 5. Real-manifest replay (only with a locally-held pinned manifest copy):
cuneiform-smoke \
  --manifest /path/to/annotated_sign_benchmark_manifest.json \
  --schema   code/cuneiform_control/schemas/benchmark_manifest.schema.json \
  --checksum e4d85abf3bfa6901a6b20f7c612f1113e77ef9173ca42e00c9867b88b23daa24 \
  --manifest-label "<MONOREPO>/workspace/artifacts/cuneiform/annotated_sign_benchmark_manifest.json" \
  --report /tmp/replay_report.json

A PASS verdict from step 5 proves manifest custody and shape against the pinned SHA-256. It does not repair NO_GO_GOVERNING_GATE_UNMET.

Current Gaps

• Full upstream extraction of cuneiform helper modules (benchmark_common.py, bench_tokenizer.py, probe_1nn.py, P6/P7 diagnostics) remains deferred per docs/PATH_REWRITE_LEDGER.md. The smoke is custody-only, not a full rerun.
• revert_phase2_common.py is UPSTREAM_NOT_PRESENT (S-06); it is flagged in the checksum register, not hidden or silently resolved.
• Image-bearing sources and some upstream datasets remain rights-constrained or fetch-only; pixel-bearing data is never vendored.
• NO_GO_GOVERNING_GATE_UNMET remains the sovereign scientific truth. Repairing it is out of scope for this lane and is external work for a separate workstream, likely gnosis-glyph-engine or gnosis-falsification-harness.

Upcoming Workstreams

Active Engineering

• Smoke surface tightening if new schema variants are contributed. Preserve the stdlib-only constraint.

Research-Deferred - Investigation Underway

• None currently. If upstream changes substrate-discrimination methodology, revisit whether P6/P7 diagnostics graduate from diagnostic-only to gate candidates.

Operations / External Dependency

• P5 governing-gate repair is owned by a separate workstream. This lane preserves the negative result; it does not initiate gate repair.
• Rights clearance for image-bearing corpus redistribution remains unresolved; no action here until upstream rights review completes.

Zero-Base Scientific Thinking - GPD Research and Planning Pending

• None currently scheduled. A new milestone in this lane opens only if a separate workstream produces gate-repair evidence that warrants revisiting the governing verdict.