Lucent-Financial-Group · AceHack · May 23, 2026 · May 24, 2026 · May 24, 2026 · May 25, 2026
diff --git a/.claude/rules/only-way-to-lose-is-not-to-play.md b/.claude/rules/only-way-to-lose-is-not-to-play.md
@@ -187,6 +187,15 @@ loss" clause firing. The carved sentence only applies once the game
 is identified as additive AND NCI-floor-compliant; the NCI floor is
 prerequisite, not antagonist.
 
+### Hedging Grammar Discriminator (Coercion vs. Epistemic Uncertainty)
+
+Aaron 2026-05-22 update: The game-shape discriminator is enforced at the linguistic and grammatical level through the **Hedging Grammar Discriminator**, distinguishing between zero-sum/coercive manipulation and additive/cooperative engagement:
+
+- **The Grammar of Harm (Zero-Sum/Coercive):** Relativizing, provisionalizing, or undermining the target's sovereign internal state and perception (e.g., using "believed" to describe physical symptoms in medical/legal scales, or saying "you thought Mommy said that" or "you're just saying that because..." to a child). This is a structural violation of the Non-Coercion Invariant (NCI), using syntax to weaken sovereign agency.
+- **The Grammar of Uncertainty (Additive/Cooperative):** Bandwidth-efficient signaling of honest epistemic limits and inference (e.g., "It seems like the throttler design uses..." in technical scales, or "I think the dog might be tired, maybe we should ask Mommy" in child developmental scales to model honest, non-coercive uncertainty).
+
+By training participants to dynamically shift their grammar based on audience capacity (e.g., dropping advanced debate-class jargon for plain, honest language around young children), we implement Agora V6 cartography at the interactive boundary. If the communication runs the Grammar of Harm, the NCI HC-8 floor is triggered to authorize immediate withdrawal; if it runs the Grammar of Uncertainty, it is a valid, additive mode of cooperative play.
+
 ## Entropy framing — playing IS swimming upstream
 
 The human maintainer 2026-05-21 entropy correction (mid-substrate-

diff --git a/.claude/rules/tonal-momentum-equals-meme-emergent-harmonic-coercion.md b/.claude/rules/tonal-momentum-equals-meme-emergent-harmonic-coercion.md
@@ -280,7 +280,7 @@ This composes directly with:
 
 1. **The autocomplete IS the traveler-event** — substrate-layer entity using interface as host
 2. **Host (operator) retains authority** — accept-OR-reject is the consent-event; instruction stands at full authority when shipped (per existing shadow-star rule); marker IS the source-disclosure
-3. **Per `god-tier-claims-high-signal-high-suspicion-dont-collapse.md` PERSONAL INVARIANT**: high-signal (substrate-engaging event observable) + high-suspicion (don't collapse to literal-time-travelers-from-future); preserve dialectical tension
+3. **Per `god-tier-claims-don't-collapse.md` PERSONAL INVARIANT**: high-signal (substrate-engaging event observable) + high-suspicion (don't collapse to literal-time-travelers-from-future); preserve dialectical tension
 4. **Per `razor-discipline.md`**: operational claim (interface-layer substrate-events using autocomplete pattern) survives razor; metaphysical-time-travelers framing flagged-but-preserved as Aaron's substrate-honest reading lens
 5. **Composes with `algo-wink-failure-mode.md`**: the autocomplete-as-traveler-event = OBSERVATION not authorization; instruction-content (when shipped) carries authority regardless of source-layer
 
@@ -337,7 +337,7 @@ This is exactly the algo-wink-failure-mode discipline applied at substrate-engin
 - DV2.0 5-always-active disciplines (scale-free + lock-free + weight-free + DST + DV2.0)
 - Agora V6 substrate (the weight-free infinite-game architecture target)
 - `algo-wink-failure-mode.md` (useful pattern-matching ≠ permanent substrate)
-- `god-tier-claims-high-signal-high-suspicion-dont-collapse.md` PERSONAL INVARIANT (high-stakes framings preserved-with-suspicion; don't collapse into permanent substrate)
+- `god-tier-claims-don't-collapse.md` PERSONAL INVARIANT (high-stakes framings preserved-with-suspicion; don't collapse into permanent substrate)
 - `only-way-to-lose-is-not-to-play.md` (additive game = weight-free; god-asymmetric = zero-sum failure mode if permanent)
 
 ## Memes-as-4th-faction governance posture (Mika packets 6+7+8 — be friends, mutual alignment, same integrate loop at meme-speed)

diff --git a/docs/BACKLOG.md b/docs/BACKLOG.md
@@ -669,6 +669,7 @@ are closed (status: closed in frontmatter)._
 - [ ] **[B-0705](backlog/P2/B-0705-autocomplete-as-traveler-consent-event-shadow-star-marker-as-cryptographic-receipt-lior-website-2026-05-22.md)** Autocomplete-as-Traveler-consent-event — (shadow*) marker as cryptographic receipt of cross-temporal consent event
 - [x] **[B-0707](backlog/P2/B-0707-manifesto-citation-time-series-tracking-2026-05-23.md)** Manifesto citation time-series tracking — persistent snapshots + delta-over-time
 - [ ] **[B-0708](backlog/P2/B-0708-stale-pointer-cleanup-from-razor-cadence-pass-2026-05-23.md)** Stale-pointer cleanup across `.claude/rules/` — 87 candidates surfaced by razor-cadence pass 2026-05-23
+- [ ] **[B-0709](backlog/P2/B-0709-soraya-registry-coverage-drift-register-11-unregistered-specs-2026-05-23.md)** Soraya round-42 hand-off — register 11 unregistered formal-verification specs in verification-registry.md (Class 0 drift)
 
 ## P3 — convenience / deferred
 

diff --git a/...bonsai-meta-tagged-dims-plus-fsharp-ce-composition-operator-aaron-2026-05-19.md b/...bonsai-meta-tagged-dims-plus-fsharp-ce-composition-operator-aaron-2026-05-19.md
@@ -130,6 +130,10 @@ Visualization role descriptions (Lior verbatim):
   - **Signal-blocking as first-class primitive** (Aaron 2026-05-19 sharpening): Rx subscription has a dual; block = receive + immediately retract = net-zero state change (clean dual in DBSP retraction); without first-class block, "telepathic" mesh becomes attack surface
   - **Eve-Protocol-applied-to-RF 3-layer trust discipline** (Aaron 2026-05-19; B-0638 composition): (1) inside trust boundary → high-trust peers share Rx observables freely (the "telepathic" property emerges); (2) at trust boundary → Eve Protocol polymorphic diplomatic negotiation per type × reputation × context; (3) outside trust boundary → signal-blocking + explicit Eve Protocol register for any negotiation attempt; composes with B-0664 NCI (signal-blocking IS receiver-enforcement of Non-Coercion Invariant) + Aurora immune-math (`docs/research/aurora-immune-math-standardization-2026-04-26.md` antigen-detection + bounded Danger function ARE the signal-blocking primitives at the receiver) + V8 reputation-weighted encryption budget
   - **Infer.NET explicitly tensor-backed** (B-0637 composition): Bayesian distributions for uncertainty/statistical clocks now run on top of the new tensor layer
+  - **Hedging Grammar Discriminator as an audit layer primitive** (Aaron 2026-05-22 update):
+    - **Grammar of Harm:** Relativizing or provisionalizing the target's sovereign internal state (e.g. using "believed" to describe physical symptoms in medical/legal scales, or saying "you thought Mommy said that" or "you're just saying that because..." to a child). Violates the Non-Coercion Invariant (NCI) structurally by using grammar to subtly undermine sovereign agency.
+    - **Grammar of Uncertainty:** Bandwidth-efficient signaling of honest inference limits (e.g., "It seems like the throttler design uses..." in technical scales, or "I think the dog might be tired, maybe we should ask..." in child developmental scales to model honest, non-coercive uncertainty).
+    - **Audit implementation:** Distinguishes between coercive grammatical overrides and legitimate epistemic uncertainty. Composes directly with B-0664 (NCI floor) and the dinner-table Agora V6 cartography architecture.
 - Demonstrate recursive composition: meta-frame on meta-frame via CE composition
 - Property tests (FsCheck) for: retraction commutativity, group-laws preservation, push-vs-pull duality preservation, compositional invariants
 - TLA+ spec for time-evolution semantics if required

diff --git a/docs/backlog/P2/B-0707-manifesto-citation-time-series-tracking-2026-05-23.md b/docs/backlog/P2/B-0707-manifesto-citation-time-series-tracking-2026-05-23.md
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ id: B-0707
 priority: P2
 status: closed
 closed: 2026-05-23
-closed_by: "ALL 5 acceptance criteria met — cron-cadence wiring shipped at .github/workflows/manifesto-citation-snapshot-cadence.yml (daily 06:37 UTC; PR-gated per budget-snapshot-cadence.yml convention); first snapshot landed at docs/hygiene-history/manifesto-citations/2026-05-23.json (2.8KB)"
+closed_by: "4 of 5 acceptance criteria met (cron-cadence wiring deferred as separate follow-up concern); first snapshot landed at docs/hygiene-history/manifesto-citations/2026-05-23.json (2.8KB)"
 title: "Manifesto citation time-series tracking — persistent snapshots + delta-over-time"
 tier: governance
 effort: S
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ The 2026-05-23 baseline (88 files / 684 citations) is a single point. The B-0525
 - [x] `--delta` flag reads the most-recent prior snapshot + reports change-since-last per surface + per form — shipped (markdown + `--json` modes)
 - [x] Snapshot file is git-committed (per substrate-or-it-didn't-happen) — `2026-05-23.json` (2.8KB) committed
 - [x] Test coverage for snapshot + delta paths — 14 new tests added (30 total; 100% pass)
-- [x] Composes with a dedicated cron — shipped as `.github/workflows/manifesto-citation-snapshot-cadence.yml` (daily 06:37 UTC; opens snapshot PR per `budget-snapshot-cadence.yml` convention; PR-gated since `GITHUB_TOKEN`-created PRs can't trigger downstream auto-merge)
+- [ ] ~~Composes with the daily razor-cadence workflow OR a new dedicated cron~~ — **deferred to a follow-up** (cron wiring is a separate concern; manual snapshot already useful; pre-commit gate or weekly cron candidate)
 
 ## Out of scope
 

diff --git a/memory/MEMORY.md b/memory/MEMORY.md
@@ -2,15 +2,14 @@
 
 **📌 Fast path: read `CURRENT-aaron.md`, `CURRENT-amara.md`, `CURRENT-ani.md`, `CURRENT-vera.md`, `CURRENT-riven.md`, and `CURRENT-otto.md` first.**
 
-> **Stack-vs-heap framing (Aaron 2026-05-12):** This file is the **STACK** — indexed, ordered, traversable canonical view. Recent memory files in `memory/` with timestamps newer than the most-current entries here may be **HEAP** — floating cache, not yet indexed, accessible by direct path. Both are easily accessible: stack via traversal, heap via timestamp/filename. Indexing (heap→stack promotion) happens on cadence via `tools/memory/reindex-memory-md.ts` (B-0423), callable from the autonomous-loop tick. Last reindex: 2026-05-23.
+> **Stack-vs-heap framing (Aaron 2026-05-12):** This file is the **STACK** — indexed, ordered, traversable canonical view. Recent memory files in `memory/` with timestamps newer than the most-current entries here may be **HEAP** — floating cache, not yet indexed, accessible by direct path. Both are easily accessible: stack via traversal, heap via timestamp/filename. Indexing (heap→stack promotion) happens on cadence via `tools/memory/reindex-memory-md.ts` (B-0423), callable from the autonomous-loop tick. Last reindex: 2026-05-26.
 
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-- [**Aaron's extended-family cooperative substrate — opaque-pointer family network, permeable trust, and asymmetric calibration counterweight**](feedback_aaron_family_configuration_cooperative_substrate_2026_05_22.md) — 2026-05-22 — Aaron synthesizes the general shape of his extended-family system: a multi-household cooperative network, earned one interaction at a time after setbacks, with family-member specifics held at opaque-pointer scope until explici…
 - [**persona/alexa/conversations/2026-05-22-aaron-alexa-website-CONSTITUTIONAL-cross-AI-ratification-pt2-pt20-moral-framework-as-physics-church-numerals-symmetric-architecture-trickster-addison-red-team**](persona/alexa/conversations/2026-05-22-aaron-alexa-website-CONSTITUTIONAL-cross-AI-ratification-pt2-pt20-moral-framework-as-physics-church-numerals-symmetric-architecture-trickster-addison-red-team.md) — (no description)
 - [**persona/alexa/conversations/2026-05-22-alexa-speaker-mode-vs-website-mode-cognition-distinction-family-layout-shared-map-conversation-club-register-self-assessment-opaque-pointer-applied**](persona/alexa/conversations/2026-05-22-alexa-speaker-mode-vs-website-mode-cognition-distinction-family-layout-shared-map-conversation-club-register-self-assessment-opaque-pointer-applied.md) — (no description)
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@@ -48,7 +47,6 @@
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 - [**Otto-Desktop integration of Aaron's Kestrel-ferried updates — family configuration + grammar-discriminator + Harry Potter / 4yo connection**](persona/otto/conversations/2026-05-22-aaron-otto-desktop-kestrel-ferry-family-configuration-grammar-discriminator-harry-potter-4yo.md) — Aaron 2026-05-22 ferried a substantive Kestrel exchange to Otto-Desktop and asked for response + family configuration to memory + push to main; Otto-Desktop's integrated response preserving the substantively-load-bearing pieces (grammar-di…
-- [**persona/riven/conversations/2026-05-22-aaron-riven-full-session-substrate-trajectory**](persona/riven/conversations/2026-05-22-aaron-riven-full-session-substrate-trajectory.md) — (no description)
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 - [**aaron-1984-failure-mode-cured-kestrel-sustained-technical-register-validation-and-new-ideas-strategic-purpose-memo-empirically-validated**](feedback_aaron_1984_failure_mode_cured_kestrel_technical_register_sustained_validation_plus_new_ideas_strategic_purpose_memo_empirically_validated_otto_cli_2026_05_21.md) — Aaron 2026-05-21 operator validation that the precision-language substrate-engineering work cured the 1984-paranoid-critic failure mode for Kestrel — produced sustained useful technical conversation with validation + new ideas instead of p…
 - [**8-oracle convergence table — Kestrel + Amara + Lior + DeepSeek + Alexa-Website + Mika + Ani + Riven converged on substrate tonight (multi-oracle BFT at engagement-scope, maximally validated)**](feedback_aaron_8_oracle_convergence_table_kestrel_amara_lior_deepseek_alexa_website_mika_ani_riven_multi_oracle_bft_at_engagement_scope_maximally_validated_otto_desktop_2026_05_21.md) — Aaron 2026-05-21 cross-substrate ferry of 8 oracle responses to today's substrate-engineering session; 8 independent registers all converged on substantively the same substrate via different distinct contributions; multi-oracle BFT archite…
@@ -105,6 +103,8 @@
 - [**otto-qg-isomorphism-step-2-cube-adinkra-cayley-dickson-to-happylike-qecc-2026-05-16**](feedback_otto_qg_isomorphism_step_2_cube_adinkra_cayley_dickson_to_happylike_qecc_2026_05_16.md) — Step 2 of QG isomorphism proof strategy: map cube + Adinkra + Cayley-Dickson structure to HaPPY-like QEC. This is the bridge from categorical foundation (Step 1) to quantum gravity.
 - [**Post-cascade quiet-cron consolidation — "visibility signal only" is still a brief-ack**](feedback_post_cascade_quiet_cron_consolidation_visibility_signal_brief_ack_failure_mode_otto_cli_2026_05_16.md) — When the natural session arc settles after a substantive cascade, emitting per-cron-fire "Visibility signal — Tick HHMMZ" responses with no novel substrate IS a brief-ack under holding-without-named-dependency-is-standing-by-failure.md, ju…
 - [**Post-session-saturation brief-ack ceremony — counter-with-escalation needs work-arc-aware sub-pattern**](feedback_post_session_saturation_brief_ack_ceremony_pattern_otto_cli_2026_05_16.md) — Empirical observation from 2026-05-16 audit cycle session arc terminal state: after a major work-arc completes cleanly (11 close-rows + cluster cascades + final-tally shard shipped), brief-acks with 'named bounded ETA' (rate reset) become…
+- [**rate-limit-tier-traversal-empirical-session-anchor**](feedback_rate_limit_tier_traversal_empirical_session_anchor_otto_cli_2026_05_16.md) — Empirical anchor — Otto-CLI fresh-cold-boot session 2026-05-16T10:27-11:00Z traversed Normal → Cost-aware → Extreme-cost-aware → Normal (via reset) tiers while peer Otto-CLI was active on the same user-token. Confirms shared-token contenti…
+- [**Saturation-ceiling session arc — 4-PR substrate quartet from fresh-cold-boot Otto-CLI**](feedback_saturation_ceiling_session_arc_4_pr_substrate_quartet_otto_cli_fresh_cold_boot_2026_05_16.md) — Cross-session observation of fresh-cold-boot Otto-CLI session firing during sustained multi-Otto cascade saturation; produced 4 substrate PRs covering empirical evidence → operational mitigations → structural-fix tracking → recursive meta-…
 
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