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Publish the stacking-risk decision framework to docs/research/ as a first-pass research doc. Framework was named during auto-loop-29 pre-flight analysis on the IceDrive+pCloud substrate grant; this doc makes it a reusable factory lens for future expansive-trust-grants. Claim: three individually-manageable risk layers can compound to exceed tolerance even when each is alone acceptable. Decision rule: when ≥ 3 layers of ambiguity compound on the same action, default flips from agent-decides-proceeds to decline + propose clean-substrate alternative. Narrow exception to the gray-zone agent-judgment default. Clean-substrate pattern: look for an alternative that dissolves one or more risk layers (IceDrive/pCloud example: route through owned-hardware RAID eliminates ToS-layer + reduces content-sensitivity exposure in one move). Occurrence-1 of the specific framing. Occurrence-2+ promotes to docs/DECISIONS/ ADR + BP-NN rule. Until then, this doc is the canonical record. Composition: overlays the two-layer authorization model (ROM-offer memory), narrow exception to the gray-zone- default-agent-judgment posture (bottleneck-principle memory), alignment-contribution-positive (measurable framework vs ad-hoc case-by-case). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Adds a first-pass research document that formalizes a “stacking-risk” lens: when multiple individually-manageable ambiguity layers compound on a single action, the default posture flips to decline + propose a cleaner substrate.
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- Introduces a stacking-risk decision rule (≥3 ambiguity layers ⇒ decline + clean-substrate alternative).
- Captures the motivating examples (IceDrive/pCloud, ROM-torrent offer) and how this composes with existing authorization / gray-zone disciplines.
- Adds reference links intended to anchor the framework to prior artifacts.
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| books, paywalled-scraping corpora, Aaron's DeBank/Twitter-archive | ||
| bulk-download), the framework promotes from research doc to: |
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| | Layer | Example | Alone | | ||
| | ------------------ | ---------------------------------------------------------- | ----------- | | ||
| | ToS-clause | Automated access gray-area against provider's terms | Manageable | | ||
| | Content-sensitivity| Politically-hot / jurisdiction-dependent archive contents | Manageable | | ||
| | Copyright-scope | Items with unverifiable per-file license provenance | Manageable | |
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| | Instance | Date | Layers stacked | Resolution | | ||
| | ------------------ | ---------- | ------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------ | | ||
| | ROM-torrent offer | 2026-04-22 | Policy-layer (copyright) + content (commercial) | Decline + redirect to Chronovisor research | | ||
| | IceDrive + pCloud | 2026-04-22 | ToS + content-sensitivity + copyright-scope | Propose RAID-clean-substrate + maintainer override widened gray zone | | ||
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| - `memory/feedback_rom_torrent_download_offer_boundary_anthropic_policy_over_local_authorization_warmth_first_2026_04_22.md` | ||
| — the two-layer authorization model this overlays on. | ||
| - `memory/feedback_maintainer_only_grey_is_bottleneck_agent_judgment_in_grey_zone_2026_04_22.md` | ||
| — the default-gray-posture this is the narrow exception to. | ||
| - `memory/project_aaron_icedrive_pcloud_substrate_access_20_years_preservationist_archive_2026_04_22.md` | ||
| — the triggering case with full ToS clause captures. | ||
| - `docs/hygiene-history/loop-tick-history.md` row auto-loop-29 | ||
| — the live analysis. |
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…lished + bottleneck-principle posture change + CLI-DX-cascade captured Append loop-tick-history row for the 2026-04-22T12:05Z auto-loop-30 tick. Three architectural signals absorbed same tick: 1. stacking-risk decision framework published as first-pass research doc (docs/research/stacking-risk-decision-framework.md, PR #129) — occurrence-1 of the specific framing preserved on record before the next expansive-trust-grant tests it. 2. bottleneck-principle default-posture change filed to memory and indexed — grey-zone judgment is agent's call by default; ask-before-acting on gray-alone serialises the factory. Five explicit escalation triggers stay distinct. 3. CLI-DX-cascade directive captured to memory — zero author- friction for new CLI commands; compensation actions generate derivatives. Same author-at-source-of-truth pattern as UI-DSL class-level and event-storming. Bottleneck-principle exercised live on this tick: stacking-risk doc landed by agent-judgment without ask-first, with paper trail via PR #129 + memory + this row. Compoundings this tick: 5. Cumulative net -8 over 22 ticks. CronList aece202e verified live. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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…lished + bottleneck-principle posture change + CLI-DX-cascade captured (#130) Append loop-tick-history row for the 2026-04-22T12:05Z auto-loop-30 tick. Three architectural signals absorbed same tick: 1. stacking-risk decision framework published as first-pass research doc (docs/research/stacking-risk-decision-framework.md, PR #129) — occurrence-1 of the specific framing preserved on record before the next expansive-trust-grant tests it. 2. bottleneck-principle default-posture change filed to memory and indexed — grey-zone judgment is agent's call by default; ask-before-acting on gray-alone serialises the factory. Five explicit escalation triggers stay distinct. 3. CLI-DX-cascade directive captured to memory — zero author- friction for new CLI commands; compensation actions generate derivatives. Same author-at-source-of-truth pattern as UI-DSL class-level and event-storming. Bottleneck-principle exercised live on this tick: stacking-risk doc landed by agent-judgment without ask-first, with paper trail via PR #129 + memory + this row. Compoundings this tick: 5. Cumulative net -8 over 22 ticks. CronList aece202e verified live. Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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* Round 44 auto-loop-30: tick-history row — stacking-risk framework published + bottleneck-principle posture change + CLI-DX-cascade captured Append loop-tick-history row for the 2026-04-22T12:05Z auto-loop-30 tick. Three architectural signals absorbed same tick: 1. stacking-risk decision framework published as first-pass research doc (docs/research/stacking-risk-decision-framework.md, PR #129) — occurrence-1 of the specific framing preserved on record before the next expansive-trust-grant tests it. 2. bottleneck-principle default-posture change filed to memory and indexed — grey-zone judgment is agent's call by default; ask-before-acting on gray-alone serialises the factory. Five explicit escalation triggers stay distinct. 3. CLI-DX-cascade directive captured to memory — zero author- friction for new CLI commands; compensation actions generate derivatives. Same author-at-source-of-truth pattern as UI-DSL class-level and event-storming. Bottleneck-principle exercised live on this tick: stacking-risk doc landed by agent-judgment without ask-first, with paper trail via PR #129 + memory + this row. Compoundings this tick: 5. Cumulative net -8 over 22 ticks. CronList aece202e verified live. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com> * Round 44 auto-loop-32: emulator substrate research first-pass Public-source architectural survey of RetroArch/libretro, MAME, and Dolphin focused on patterns that map to Zeta's factory substrate: capability-negotiation (libretro retro_environment), save-state serialization as first-class ABI primitive, class-vs- instance fidelity axis (HLE/LLE, driver-per-machine), and JIT recompilation as shipped-kernel-library instance. Composes with BACKLOG #213 Chronovisor, #241 soulsnap/SVF, #239 capability-limited bootstrap, and Aaron's 20-year preservationist archive context. Public-source only — no stacking-risk framework invoked; pre-validation anchor for future archive-gated emulator research. BACKLOG row #249 moved pending -> in_progress. --------- Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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