Close the dissolution carrier fork and eliminate raw lifecycle prose

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Close the dissolution carrier fork, and derive the population from the corpus

What this closes

A lifecycle condition — "the code change that retires this carve-out" — was
carried two ways: a typed frontier row on some carriers, and bare prose on
others. The string form had a forgeable firing path: TriggerProse plus
prose_fired let a caller report an unbound condition as fired, which is
rung inflation at the carrier (DESIGN §4b(1)).

std.dissolution is now the single authority:

DissolutionTrigger   = DeclarationAppears { ref: DeclarationRef }
DissolutionCondition = BoundDissolution { trigger } | UnboundDissolution { description: NonEmptyStr }
DissolutionStatus    = DissolutionUnbound | DissolutionPending | DissolutionFired

TriggerProse and prose_fired are deleted, not deprecated. An unbound
condition is structurally unable to report fired: DissolutionFired is
reachable only through dissolution_status, which requires a DeclarationRef
resolved against present_decls. dissolution_is_bound is derived from
dissolution_status rather than re-matching the arms, so there is one decision
procedure, not two. unbound_dissolution takes NonEmptyStr as its
parameter — the earlier internal cast was demonstrably not a wall, since
unbound_dissolution(description: "") constructed.

The population is now derived, not remembered

The reviewer's blocking verdict was that the residue census could not ground its
own completeness: it answered "here are the survivors someone wrote down", a
measurement copied from the same tree, which DESIGN §5 rejects as an oracle.

Deriving it refuted the census in both directions at once. All 35 of its rows
are outside the lifecycle name class — they are *_note prose — and 19 real
in-class survivors existed that it had never seen: active lifecycle conditions
still typed String, skipped by the original sweep because their values feed
concat sites. The two populations were disjoint.

Those 19 are migrated, not classified. An active condition still typed
String is a migration miss, not residue.

population	state
lifecycle-named fields and params typed String/NonEmptyStr	0 — held by a compile gate
lifecycle-named top-level declarations typed String/NonEmptyStr	0 — derived from the corpus, gated
top-level conditions carrying DissolutionCondition	199 — derived by the same producer, not counted by grep

The producer

data_decl_type_facts(pool_roots) -> List<DataDeclTypeFact>
    { module_path, decl_name, type_name, rel_path }

Host-derived because no substrate-reachable producer answers the question:
decl_facts marshals a DataItem's node through the initializer projection and
drops type_annotation entirely, export_signature_facts refuses
corpus-wide, and data_init_decl_facts_live is import-closure scoped — a
different and smaller population than the corpus.

It is a missing projection, not a new mechanism. It walks the same parse-only
corpus walk concept_decl_facts already uses — generalized with a kind filter
rather than forked — so a file that fails to parse refuses instead of
silently shrinking the denominator. Unlike decl_facts_corpus_walk it does not
skip test .dag files; a survivor authored in a witness would otherwise be
invisible. module_path is the authored module line verbatim, so it composes
with DeclarationRef directly.

Measured: 16,975 data declarations across 3,475 modules, 6,903 bare-string
typed, zero with an unread type annotation, zero surviving lifecycle carriers.

The name class reuses lifecycle_field_name_rows — the same roster the field
wall consults — differing only in match shape (a field is named exactly
dissolve_on; a declaration carries the spelling as a suffix). A second roster
spelled for declarations is the nickname the field predicate exists to prevent.

Evidence

Split per the witness-cost ruling: a live population whose breadth is the
subject decomposes into cheap mechanism fixtures per PR plus the irreducible
census on a cadence.

Per-PR (~0ms) — lifecycle_survivor_scan_witness_test, running the same
predicate production filters with:

control	asserts
planted_raw_survivor_is_selected	RED — the exact migrated shape is still selected
planted_nonempty_str_survivor_is_selected	RED — NonEmptyStr is not a hole
planted_migrated_control_is_not_selected	the migrated form passes
planted_ordinary_string_note_is_not_selected	discriminating: a predicate rejecting every String would satisfy the control above and still be wrong

Cadence (18,482ms measured) — lifecycle_survivor_corpus_census_test, on
FalsifierSubstrateLongLane with an exclusion row and five execution rows.
Enrolled, not relocated: a witness moved out of discovery without an executing
consumer is deletion of the evidence with the file retained. Four of its five
tests exist because zero is also what a producer that read nothing returns —
they rule out an empty walk, a walk seeing no bare strings, an unread
annotation, and a skipped test subtree.

The gate was proven to red: planting a real data x_dissolve_on: String in
an isolated worktree gave 16,981 declarations, one survivor, FAIL.

What the census is now

gunbc.dissolution_migration_census keeps its value and loses its completeness
claim. Its header said it held every in-class survivor; that sentence was false
in both directions and is corrected in place, naming the scan as the authority.
Its real subject is *_note prose whose text discusses a dissolution — receipts,
rationales, refusal reasons — which is worth classifying so a later reader does
not mistake a receipt for an unmigrated condition.

What the earlier revision got wrong

An earlier pass deleted 63 top-level lifecycle declarations as "prose". Three
had visibly live subjects — std.measure still has no Day, TrackedChannel
still stores no resolution date. On inspection the rest were the same: removed
for their type, not because the condition was met. Deleting a live condition
is not a disposition. All 63 are restored and typed; the pin trio came back as
consumed pin_frontier_rows.

17 note-clauses that were the sole authority for a live condition were extracted
into sibling *_dissolve_on: DissolutionCondition rows.

The field/param wall

v2.lens.lifecycle_carrier refuses a record field whose name is in the
lifecycle class and whose type is bare String/NonEmptyStr. Node-local,
reading only direct children — the same grain as unit_modeling_gate, so it
does not stack with run_required_lens_gates_on_subtree's fold_node into
O(n²). Labelled WallAfterGrounding { dissolves_to: SubstrateMandatoryTag }:
membership is decidable, so not RatchetForever, but the field stays writable
today and the gate is what refuses it.

A defect the type system did not catch

Three data ..._runner_scaffold_comment: String = concat("# ", <condition>)
rows passed a DissolutionCondition into a String concat. The .dag
typechecker accepted it; the interpreter stringified the coproduct, so the
emitted workflow comment read # UnboundDissolution { description: … }. It
surfaced only because a wet regenerator writes bytes a drift gate compares.

Also in scope

• PlanRetirement.PlanRetiresWhen carries a DissolutionCondition. Its nonempty
  guard is retained deliberately: refinement at non-literal positions is
  still deferred, so an empty description can still reach the carrier.
• Three permanent g1-cited-symbol-control-* rows were misclassified as
  never-retiring conditions; they now carry PlanHasNoRetirement.
• The empty-condition REDs could no longer cast String to NonEmptyStr, so
  they reach the deferred non-literal gap through a returned concat — the
  evidence stays enrolled when the wall lands (DESIGN §4b(4)).
• A 3-way declaration_ref_eq fork consolidated onto std.decl_ref.

Known limitation

type_name is the annotation head name (String, Disposition, List) —
never the initializer variant. So the producer enumerates Disposition-typed
rows exactly but cannot distinguish Scaffold from another variant; the ~97
Disposition.Scaffold rows remain outside both counts above and are not this
PR's subject. Carrying a variant discriminator is the honest extension and is
left to the consumer that needs it.

Verification

• Two-pass fixed point: regen_stage0 → rebuild → regen_stage0 --verify.
• Witnesses: 4/4 per-PR, 5/5 cadence census, counted PASS against roster.
• Whole-tree compile: the pre-existing diagnostic set only (32 undefined Empty
  in complexity_accumulator_copy/analyze.dag, plus body-position annotations
  in files byte-identical to main).

[gunbai-bot]

Fixed in ee3815f — all eleven sites, both files. Thanks, that was regex residue from the field migration and I missed it.

One correction, because it changes what the finding means: these casts do not block compilation. The whole tree compiles at 2276 sources with them present, which is exactly how they survived — my oracle throughout this migration was a whole-tree gunbc compile, and it was green.

The reason is that validate_cast judges a cast only when source and target both appear in std.coercion dag_cast_rules. A cast from a coproduct to an unrelated refinement type sits outside that table, so it is unjudged rather than refused. The typechecker accepted a meaningless cast in silence. That is the more interesting defect of the two, it is compiler-layer rather than anything this PR introduced, and it is not fixed here.

Swept the class rather than the ten named sites: those two files are the only ones carrying the pattern anywhere in dag/ or src/, and the 48 remaining as NonEmptyStr in observation_emit_census.dag are the legitimate marker / source_file / via string fields.

Verification on the new head: 2276 sources with exactly the 12 pre-existing annotation-placement diagnostics in two files not in this diff; observation_emit_census_witness_test 16/16 PASS counted against its roster; regen_divergence_count=0; fmt clean.

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[gunbai-bot]

Both fixed in ddb7164 (review 50670).

Finding 1 — real, and the double-wrap is exactly what happened: synthetic_wet_lane_row takes description: String and wraps it internally, so passing dissolution: wrapped it twice. Corrected to match the sibling call at line 200; the witness runs 14/14 PASS against its roster.

Finding 2 — took the stronger of the two options you offered. dissolution_is_bound now derives from dissolution_status under an empty present_decls rather than carrying a disposition tag, because deriving removes the second classification of the axis instead of annotating it. The concrete failure that prevents: a third DissolutionCondition arm would leave a re-matching predicate compiling and silently answering false, so the two surfaces could disagree about one condition. Bound-under-an-empty-list is DissolutionPending by construction — DissolutionFired requires a matching declaration and the empty list has none — so boundness is that question asked of the one authority. Census 6/6 and carrier 9/9 stay green, so it is behaviour-preserving.

One correction, same as last round: the bad named argument is not a compile-time error. The whole tree, src/v2 included, compiles at 2276 sources with that call present.

That makes two authoring defects in this PR that the typechecker admitted in silence — a cast from a coproduct to an unrelated refinement type, and now a mismatched named argument — both of which my whole-tree compile oracle duly reported green. Worth naming as one class rather than two slips: the oracle I have been leaning on does not discriminate these, which is why review caught them and I did not. Compiler-layer, and not something I am fixing inside a representation migration.

regen_divergence_count=0, verified with a locally rebuilt binary (the earlier remote build uploads no local artifacts, so its verify could have run on a stale seed).

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[gunbai-bot]

All three findings verified and fixed in 596e894 (review 50736). You were right on each one, and the reason they were deleted is worth stating because it was a wrong argument rather than an oversight.

I removed those guards deliberately, claiming a §4b(4) dissolution-on-climb: that once the carrier held NonEmptyStr, an empty condition was unconstructible, so the checks and their RED controls were redundant lower-rung machinery. That premise is false. unbound_dissolution(description: "") constructs today — witness_exclusion_reconciliation_test does exactly that and runs green — because the cast to NonEmptyStr on a parameter is not enforced at the call site. There was no climb. The guards were live, the deletion left three gates accepting an empty condition, and the PR body carried a safety claim with nothing behind it. The body is now corrected rather than quietly amended.

Restored through dissolution_description in all three, matching frontier_row_well_formed. Counted against rosters: roster_registry_test 4/4, witness_exclusion_reconciliation_test 14/14, stage0_rust_source_lifecycle_scaffold_witness_test 40/40. regen_divergence_count=0 on a locally rebuilt binary.

One related correction in the same push: I previously reported the structural zero wall as blocked on a producer that does not exist. It exists — v2.std.decl_index decl_facts is hermetic and carries each declaration's rel_path and node. Three versions were built and none was landable: a text scan cannot separate an authored field from the same characters inside a string literal, and needs Filesystem.List, which is unpublished hermetically, so it runs only on a dark wet cadence — a wall with no executing consumer; an exact-atom subtree check never sees data foo_dissolve_on, which was 66 of the 91 removed forms; and adding a name-suffix test refuses std.occurrence_binding_candidates's legitimately typed dissolve_on: DeclarationRef?. The wall must key on the field's type rather than its name. Nothing half-working is in the PR.

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[gunbai-bot]

Both reviews addressed in cfb9d4e (reviews 50750 and 50756). Every finding verified against the tree; all six stand.

DeclaredHere lost its condition. I deleted the field under my rule "the coproduct already encodes the transition" — but that rule did not apply. AuthoredInRoster | DeclaredHere records provenance; dissolve_on named the specific code change that retires each carve-out (the method-call short-circuit becoming an algebra arm; the eval_service_call carve-out going away). Different facts, and the second is not recoverable from the first. Both conditions restored verbatim as DissolutionCondition.

The acceptance check. arm_declares_dissolution_trigger and the assertion consuming it are back, so the contract note is enforced rather than merely stated. One deliberate change: the predecessor scanned the sentence for the literal phrase "dissolves when", which is prose-scanning; the restored check asserts the typed condition is nonempty, which is the decidable part.

The two RED controls. You are right that this is the sharper version of the same mistake: my previous commit restored the production guards but not their evidence, which is the §4b(4) violation one rung up — a check that moved back to validation needs its executing control back with it. Both restored against the migrated signatures.

The missing imports — and this one is worse than a miss. My own corpus sweep flagged both files. A follow-up check I then wrote counted lines matching dissolution and import together, which matched their imports of other modules, so I read "3" and "4" as "already imported" and talked myself out of a correct finding. 166 call sites in ci_layer_roots and 21 in explicit_witness_admission were resolving purely by pool coincidence. The re-sweep strips string literals and enforces identifier boundaries; zero files remain.

Counted against rosters: roster_registry_test 5/5, stage0_rust_source_lifecycle_scaffold_witness 41/41, v1_interpreter_primitive_roster_acceptance 1/1, witness_exclusion_reconciliation 14/14, exact_witness_admission 18/18, dissolution_census 6/6. regen_divergence_count=0 on a locally rebuilt binary.

Unrelated, for the record: the heal job's trim failure on earlier heads was not from this PR — it passes at the post-merge head, it names files this PR never touched, and main independently carries a class_b_trim pool-coincidence investigation. The regen/ci failures at 6b3df64 were autocommit pushing the merge commit before I had regenerated the resolved generated file.

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