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ffe15db155 correspondence: a named section is not a namespace; an extra axiom is a failure
Round-8 review (GPT-5.6, register key `section-prefix-bug`, CRITICAL).
Reproduced here exactly before fixing.

model-correspondence.py treated `namespace`, `section` and `end` as one event
class and pushed a named section onto the fully-qualified-name prefix. Lean
does not: `section Foo` opens a scope for `variable`/`open` and gives `end Foo`
a label; it does not turn `bar` into `Foo.bar`. Given a template reading

    section Foo
    axiom bar : Nat
    end Foo

the scanner reported `Foo.bar`, `--names` handed Phase 2d only `Foo.bar`, Lean
resolved an unrelated `Foo.bar` definition elsewhere in the corpus, and the
verdict came back PROVEN. The axiom the extraction ACTUALLY depends on was
never queried. This survived both the fail-closed rewrite and the new
Lean-semantic phase, in a scanner rewritten that same week specifically to
stop dropping things.

AND THE REASON IT STAYED SILENT, which is the half worth keeping. The real
external did not vanish — it landed in the table as EXTRA, the one verdict
that could not fail. A silent bucket beside a fail-closed parser is a slower
way of dropping things. An extra AXIOM is now EXTRA-AXIOM and stops the
button: the model exists to answer the template, so an assumption nothing
asks for is either a parse we got wrong or an assumption nobody governs.
Extra definitions stay tolerated; helpers in a model file are ordinary.

That gate fired on the real corpora on its first run. Each fork's
hand-maintained gen/CurveField/FunsExternal.lean carried AVX2/AVX512 backend
axioms present in no template, no proof, no cone and no allowlist — dead
assumptions in a pinned trusted-base file, reported as EXTRA and therefore
invisible. extract.sh:16 confirms these files are never overwritten by
extraction, so they were hand-written and are removed here:

    dalek 2, anza 3, risc0 4, betrusted 4

Nothing referenced them, so no certificate's cone changes; the trusted base
simply gets smaller. Table rows 64->62, 51->48, 57->53, 56->52, and Phase 2d
independently resolved 62/48/53/52 externals against the regenerated tables.

GEN-MODEL.sha256 and HARNESS.sha256 both move: the model bytes changed, and
the harness pins the table and the gen manifest themselves.

Certified: round-10 sweep, 2h53m, ten instruments in each of four forks,
40/40 GREEN, 0 failing, 0 resource-limited. A full run was required — the
--audit-only staleness gate correctly refused after a source change.

Registered in formal-verification-control/review-findings.tsv as
`section-prefix-bug` and `dead-model-axioms`.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-02 21:29:54 +02:00
21f80d29eb verification: bind the statements, the specifications, and the model (P1-a)
Phases 3/3b establish what each certificate RESTS ON. Neither says what it
SAYS, nor what it is ABOUT. A certificate gutted to a tautology of the same
axiom cone passes both; so does one whose reference definition has been
redefined to BE the extracted code, at which point the theorem reads
`loop = loop` and every cone is byte-identical.

Phase 3c closes that. Proofs/Audit.lean emits a canonical block holding the
policy constants, every certificate's fully-elaborated statement (pp.all, so
implicit arguments, instances and universe levels are visible), and the body
of every specification constant transitively reachable from those statements.
Its SHA-256 is pinned in check.sh and the block itself is committed as
AUDIT-MANIFEST.txt, so a mismatch is DIFFED, not merely reported. 31
certificates, 68 specification constants per repository.

Two tiers, not one. These forks have an arithmetic tier that must stay
oracle-free and an apex tier carrying this fork's hash and wire-format axioms,
and the apex boundary genuinely differs per fork (dalek 8 extra names, anza 4,
risc0 and betrusted 5). One shared constant would have widened the arithmetic
tier to accept hash oracles, which is the most valuable property these repos
have. Each auditor is generated from its own repository's policy.

Phase 0b pins the extracted model. This was not a precaution: risc0 and
betrusted were observed emitting BYTE-IDENTICAL audit-manifest digests
(6c821b8e…) while shipping demonstrably different extracted models, their
point-doubling routines differing in operation order. A statement names an
extracted function; it does not contain that function's body. Binding
statements is not binding the subject. Membership derives from the filesystem,
so a new model file fails closed.

selftest-statements.sh attacks both phases with ten cases, each asserting a
specific diagnostic: an edited model body, an unlisted model file, a widened
policy, a hand-edited committed block, a certificate dropped from the auditor
WITH the digest refreshed to match, and a gutted statement whose cone is
unchanged. It lifts the phases out of check.sh at run time, so it attacks the
shipping gate rather than a copy.

Two bugs found and fixed during that testing, both mine: Phase 3c read `$0`
after `cd "$AENEAS_LEAN"`, and $0 is the caller's relative path; and the
axgate self-test compared the tree against a pristine checkout rather than
against how it found it. A third expectation was wrong rather than the code —
widening the apex boundary is caught by the exact-cone requirement before the
digest ever runs, which is a stronger rejection, and the test now says so.

All sixteen runs green at these commits: four main buttons, four axgate
self-tests, four binding self-tests, four scalar buttons.

TRUSTED-BASE.md records what this binds and, at equal length, what it does
not: a digest binds identity, not meaning; an author can rotate the pins in
one commit and is caught by review, not by the script; and pinning the model
says nothing about whether Charon and Aeneas translated the Rust faithfully.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-29 00:38:19 +02:00