\chapter{A Guided Tour of the Real Repositories} \label{app:tour} The companion projects are working code, laid out for auditors rather than tourists. This appendix is the tourist map, and it ends with three things done, not read: you will run the full verification yourself, \emph{sabotage a proof on purpose} and watch the machinery catch you, and finish at a stop that is not on your disk at all. Everything below names \code{dalek-ed25519-verified}; the other three ed25519 forks are structured identically, and \code{pasta-pallas-verified} differs only where Montgomery form demands it. \section{The floor plan} \begin{center} \small \begin{tabular}{@{}lp{0.62\linewidth}@{}} \toprule \textbf{Path} & \textbf{What it is, and the rule that governs it} \\ \midrule \code{README.md} & the claims: what is proven, what is frontier --- the honest-boundary statements of Chapter~\ref{ch:honesty} \\ \code{TRUSTED-BASE.md} & the ledger: every assumption, each with its reason --- read this \emph{before} being impressed by anything \\ \code{verification/extract.sh} & the extraction recipe (Charon $\to$ LLBC $\to$ Aeneas): ONE merged universe per repo --- field, curve, scalar, and the verify path --- plus the signature glue \\ \code{verification/gen/} & the extracted model. \textbf{Never hand-edited} (Chapter~\ref{ch:rust}); regenerated or left alone \\ \code{verification/Proofs/} & the human-written theorems --- denotations, bounds lemmas, layer certificates. \textbf{No \lean{axiom} may appear here} (the check script enforces it) \\ \code{verification/check.sh} & THE button: recompiles every shipped file in dependency order and axiom-audits every certificate; if a file is in the repo, this script checks it \\ \code{verification/lean-guard} & the resource-capped \lean{lean} wrapper every compile routes through --- the postmortem-hardened tooling mentioned in Chapters~\ref{ch:automation} and~\ref{ch:field} \\ \bottomrule \end{tabular} \end{center} \section{A reading order that works} \begin{enumerate}[leftmargin=1.6em] \item \textbf{\code{TRUSTED-BASE.md}} (five minutes). Count the entries; for each, ask the Chapter~\ref{ch:honesty} question --- ``declared debt or smuggled axiom?'' --- and notice each has its justification attached. \item \textbf{The denotation} (in \code{Proofs/}, near the top of the field spec file). One definition; confirm it is Chapter~\ref{ch:denotation}'s radix-51 sum, mapping the \emph{extracted} type. \item \textbf{One two-clause spec end to end} --- \code{sub} is the best first read: bounds hypotheses, \lean{.ok} clause, bounds propagation, value equation, and inside the proof, the $16p$ constant you audited in Chapter~\ref{ch:field}'s worked example. \item \textbf{The certificate} --- the conjunction theorem (\code{fieldImplementation}) and its \lean{\#print axioms} line. This is the artifact all the marketing language ultimately refers to; note how unglamorous it looks. \item \textbf{The apex} --- \code{verify\_accepts\_iff\_decompress} in \code{Proofs/DecompressMain.lean}, the top of the four-tier stack, and the check script's boundary phase that guards its axiom cone. Note how short the capstone proof is: every hard fact was certified below it. This is where Chapter~\ref{ch:pyramid}'s invitation points. \end{enumerate} \section{Running the machinery} With the toolchain installed (the repos pin exact versions --- Chapter~\ref{ch:rust}'s reproducibility discipline): \begin{lstlisting} $ ./verification/check.sh === Phase 1: stub audit === clean: no trivial stubs, no True targets, no axioms outside gen/ === Phase 2: compile === [gen] CurveField/Funs ... ok [proofs] FieldSpec ... ok (no 'sorry' warnings -- enforced) === Phase 3: axiom audit === fieldImplementation: [propext, Classical.choice, Quot.sound] OK ALL CHECKS PASSED \end{lstlisting} Three details make this script worth imitating in your own projects. \emph{Phase 1 runs before compilation}: trivial-stub patterns (\lean{by trivial} specs, \lean{True} targets) and \lean{axiom} declarations under \code{Proofs/} are cheap textual gates --- the mechanical half of the Chapter~\ref{ch:honesty} field guide, automated. \emph{Phase 2 treats warnings as failures}: the string \lean{uses 'sorry'} in compiler output fails the build --- warnings, unlike source text, cannot be hidden in comments. \emph{Phase 3 is the one-command audit}, run on every certificate, every time, so the axiom-clean property is continuously enforced rather than occasionally asserted. A fourth phase arrived with the signature layer: \emph{3b pins the apex tiers' cones to the documented hash/wire-format boundary EXACTLY} --- an unexpected addition \emph{or removal} fails the build. \begin{tryit} Now sabotage it. A green button proves nothing until you have seen it red for the right reason. In your local clone (nothing here leaves your machine, and \code{git} undoes it all): pick one digit of one constant in a \code{Proofs/} statement --- say, turn a $19$ into an $18$ in a bounds lemma --- and run \code{./verification/check.sh}. Watch which phase catches it and what the failure actually says. Then try to be sneakier: weaken a theorem's \emph{statement} instead of its proof, or plant an \lean{axiom} in a \code{Proofs/} file, and see the stub-audit phase refuse before the compiler even starts. Restore with \code{git checkout -- .} when done. Ten minutes of vandalism buys you something reading cannot: the difference between believing the button because it is green and believing it because you have personally failed to fool it. \end{tryit} \section{The control repository} \code{formal-verification-control} is the method distilled --- written for the next person (or the next automated agent) to extend the pyramid without relearning its lessons: \begin{itemize}[leftmargin=1.4em] \item \code{INVARIANTS.md} --- the non-negotiables (honesty, safety, rigor); the source of house rules this book has been quoting. \item \code{TERRAIN.md} --- the map: pipeline, toolchain, layer status, representation costs. \item \code{METHOD.md} --- ways of thinking that worked, stated as practices rather than commandments. \item \code{FAILURES.md} --- mapped dead ends \emph{with their tells}: the memory-exhausting tactic patterns, the extraction scopes that drag in the world, the kernel-capacity wall. Chapter~\ref{ch:field} told two of these stories; the file has the rest, and reading failure maps before starting work is the cheapest experience money can't buy. \end{itemize} \section{The last stop is not on your disk} The repository you just toured does not only sit on your machine or on a code-hosting site; it is \emph{attested}. The public transparency log at \code{ltl.zkdefi.org} carries a leaf binding this repo's pinned commit to the certificate names, their statement fingerprints, and their observed axiom cones --- the very things your sabotage exercise just tried to fake locally, notarized globally. Find the leaf for \code{dalek-ed25519-verified}, and check that the commit it names is the one you have been reading. Chapter~\ref{ch:attestation} is the full protocol --- including the fifteen-minute exercise where a stranger (you) re-derives the log's Merkle root from nothing but published bytes. The tour ends here on purpose: floor plan, button, sabotage, control room, and finally the public record that makes the whole thing checkable by someone who has never met you. A closing observation to carry out of the tour: nothing in these repositories asks to be trusted. The claims are in the READMEs, the assumptions in the ledgers, the checks in a script anyone can run, the axioms in a one-command audit, the whole ensemble in a public log. That shape --- \emph{auditability as the default posture} --- is the real deliverable of the whole verification enterprise, and the standard this book hopes you now hold everything else to.