The notebooks now carry the same didactic contract as the companion book
(the "ratchet rule", stated in the course map): every load-bearing idea
runs twice - napkin scale, then real scale - and every pair is EXECUTABLE
in the notebook, not narrated.
- Lecture 1: the truth boundary updated to the proven four-tier apex,
with the what-is-still-NOT-proven list (SHA-512, parsers, signing,
wallets) given equal weight.
- Lecture 2: napkin/real scoring pair - a two-certificate toy card
scored in your head, then the shipped sixteen-certificate R4 fixture
through the same function, residual blockers and per-tier boundary
axioms printed.
- Lecture 6: new split-view section. A runnable equivocation drill:
pin a two-leaf view, grow it honestly with a consistency proof, then
present a forged same-size root and watch the pin store name the
attack. Real-scale pointers to --sth-store, log-consistency,
log-audit, and the freshness policy; a new exercise asks students to
construct the lie a size-only anchor check would miss.
- Lecture 7: the wallet gate now swings BOTH ways on real evidence -
a partial card denied at R3, the shipped R4 card allowed - both
runnable.
- Lecture 8 capstone: "design R4" became "audit R4": read the shipped
card like an auditor, then design the R5 discharge plan (parser
specs, verified SHA-512, signing-side, per-fork production-path
mapping).
- NEW Lecture 9, "Eat Your Own Dogfood": the honest coverage ledger of
the proven-path verifier; a napkin PEM decode (the fixed 12-byte
Ed25519 SPKI prefix, read with your eyes) paired with the mechanical
extraction; live backend dispatch; the fail-closed
--require-verified-verifier policy; and the hybrid-PQC section -
proven-classical Ed25519 plus a required-but-honest ML-DSA slot
("blockers get fixed; placeholders get trusted").
Every code cell of the changed notebooks was executed end-to-end before
committing (outputs stripped per house rules). 49/49 tests green with
the notebook inventory updated.
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The verified corpus completed its phase 2 on 2026-07-06: every ed25519
fork now carries FOUR button-enforced apex tiers up to the full lift
(accept <=> decompress(R) = [k](-A)+[s]B as points), the complete scalar
layer, and the constructive encoding/decoding chain. pacta was calibrated
to the pre-apex corpus and - worse - had no vocabulary for
boundary-audited certificates: its axiom audit knew only "clean = exactly
the three standard axioms", so the apex tiers would have scored dirty.
New vocabulary:
- Profile.certificate_axioms: per-certificate ALLOWED axiom sets;
expected_axioms_for(cert) resolves each certificate's own boundary.
- RepoConfig.apex_boundary: a simple per-fork key (dalek-wrappers /
hash3 / anza) expanded by the ed25519 profile into the exact
per-tier allowed sets. AUTHORITY NOTE in profiles/ed25519.py: each
repo's check.sh Phase 3b is the enforcement point; if the button and
this table disagree, the button wins.
- run_axiom_audit compares each certificate against ITS allowed set;
deviation in EITHER direction (extra axiom or missing boundary
axiom) is dirty.
New risk reality:
- R4 is now reachable: full four-tier apex + constructive chain +
scalar arithmetic, all proven with cones pinned to their documented
boundaries. R4 always carries explicit residual blockers (SHA-512
oracle, hypothesis-parametric wire parses, translation faithfulness,
no side-channel/build assurance - those gate R5).
- R3 unchanged (arithmetic pair) and now explains exactly which apex
certificates are missing for R4.
Attestation trust model hardened:
- The provider is trusted for its OBSERVATION, never its VERDICT:
axiom_status is re-derived locally from observed_axioms against the
agent's own boundary policy. A provider that labels a dirty cone
"clean" gains nothing; "proven" with no observed axioms is
"unverifiable".
- Partial attestations degrade instead of being rejected: uncovered
certificates stay unproven and the score caps accordingly (an
arithmetic-only attestation still authorizes an R3 library capsule,
never a wallet).
Also: scripts/mini_pytest.py - a dependency-free test runner (tmp_path,
raises, monkeypatch, capsys) for hosts without pytest; examples
regenerated FROM the tool (dalek/anza fixtures now R4, 16 certs; new
full four-tier attestation example); tests updated + new
tests/test_boundaries.py (lying-provider, missing-boundary-axiom,
partial-coverage cases). 40/40 tests green.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
