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Goalpost 0: ground Xyph Gate Alpha evidence vocabulary #77

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Xyph Gate Alpha

Goalpost 0

Ground the campaign before any repo expands scope. This issue is the coordination anchor for the first cross-repo vertical slice.

Fixed campaign facts

  • Protected workflow fixture: payment_receipt_required@0
  • Aperture id: payment_reliability@0
  • Target Echo trace shape: TraceRunReceiptV0 containing ordered TraceRowV0 entries with tick, operation, capabilityFootprint, reads, writes, obstruction, stateRootAfter, and retained evidence refs.
  • First policy question: can a payment path reach capture:success without a durable receipt obligation being satisfied?
  • Commercial surface target: Xyph Gate shadow verdict, not an enforcing blocker yet.

Continuum-owned slice

Define the minimum fixture vocabulary for the evidence envelope that the other repos can point at without freezing a broad protocol family.

Expected local artifacts:

  • WitnessCapsuleV0 fixture vocabulary
  • ApertureV0 fixture vocabulary
  • HorizonDiffV0 fixture vocabulary
  • ObligationV0 fixture vocabulary
  • Digest domain names for the fixture artifacts

Acceptance criteria

  • The vocabulary can wrap one base/head Gate run for payment_receipt_required@0.
  • The envelope can name Edict proof-plan digest, Echo trace receipt digest, and Xyph policy verdict refs.
  • Missing evidence and open obligations are first-class fields, not prose.
  • The fixture explicitly says it is not a final Continuum protocol freeze.
  • Sibling repo Goalpost 0 issues are linked from this issue.

Non-goals

  • No shared protocol freeze beyond fixture vocabulary.
  • No ZK proof vocabulary.
  • No global admission service.
  • No product UI.
  • No GitHub merge blocking.

Sibling issues

Activity

  1. coderabbitai commented on Jul 8, 2026

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    🔗 Related PRs

    #18 - Align Continuum sibling runtime doctrine [closed]
    #20 - Rewrite README around witnessed causal history [closed]


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  2. flyingrobots commented on Jul 8, 2026

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    Goalpost 0 dependency posture — 2026-07-07

    Goalpost 0 is a coordination anchor, not a code landing requirement. Current dependency decisions:

    • Echo PR #644 is parked as non-blocking for Goalpost 0. TraceRunReceiptV0 may start as a fixture-backed receipt shape. WAL durability becomes a hard dependency later, when Goalpost 2 claims a real Core Trace and Goalpost 6 claims retained evidence verification.
    • Edict PR #134 is parked as non-blocking for Goalpost 0. Its obstruction/counterfactual taxonomy is relevant to EchoProofPlanV0, but the first proof-plan fixture can carry a provisional obstructionTaxonomyVersion and align once #134 lands.
    • Continuum PR Feat: add qw runtime projection commands #28 is parked as non-blocking for Goalpost 0. Runtime projection commands are useful later, but the first vocabulary work should remain a fixture envelope and should not freeze a broad protocol family.
    • Xyph has no open PR. The first Xyph task is fixture/product anchoring, not enforcement or UI.

    This preserves the first campaign invariant: one protected workflow, one aperture, one target trace shape, one issue per repo, and no repo claiming more than the artifact proves.

  3. flyingrobots commented on Jul 8, 2026

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    GP0 is complete.

    Final campaign decisions:

    • Campaign: Xyph Gate Alpha
    • Protected workflow: payment_receipt_required@0
    • Aperture: payment_reliability@0
    • Proof-plan shape: EchoProofPlanV0
    • Trace shape: TraceRunReceiptV0
    • Evidence envelope: WitnessCapsuleV0
    • Diff shape: HorizonDiffV0
    • Obligation shape: ObligationV0
    • First policy question: can capture:success happen without durable receipt obligation satisfaction?
    • Product mode: shadow verdict before enforcement

    Successor GP1 issue: #78

    GP1 freezes the fixture evidence vocabulary. GP0 remains the historical campaign grounding record.

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