v1.108.143 — UNDER_THE_HOOD.md: the technical manual
Documentation-only release: no behavior changes.
New root doc UNDER_THE_HOOD.md — a workshop-manual counterpart to USER_GUIDE.md, for developers who want the machinery rather than the workflows. Six chapters:
- How jCodeMunch knows when it's wrong — the four-state retrieval verdict (ok / low_confidence / absent / degraded), calibrated confidence, per-symbol freshness
- What the ranking actually does — channel fusion, exact-name pinning, PageRank, learned per-repo weights, the retrieval-regret loop
- Every number states its basis — the declared/measured provenance contract, the gold corpus, and the drift guards
- The meter only errs downward — the token meter's every-error-points-down design
- The server disciplines itself — tool tiers, the CI-enforced 4,000-token schema budget, machine-checkable read-only annotations
- Evidence imports — compiler indexes and runtime traces, imported rather than executed
Plus a chapter map positioning the existing deep references (ARCHITECTURE, SPEC, CONFIGURATION, CONTEXT_PROVIDERS, TOKEN_SAVINGS, schemas/) and the forthcoming chapters. Linked from README's doc table.