AD-030: cut the propagation root — CLAUDE.md carries the canonical line - #472
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…stack The last behavioral scoring path left after the v19 demotion (AD-029), found by the post-merge verification sweep: build_negative_stack injected 0.30 Bayesian suppression priors from auto-detected anti_topics rows whose confidence is pure dismissal count (rejection_count/10) — five dismissals could auto-ban a topic to x0.30 composite authority via negative_stack_prior. Inert on the live corpus (anti_topics has 0 rows, priors byte-identical, hence NO PIPELINE_VERSION bump — precedent and probe documented in scoring/mod.rs), but structurally live. The negative stack now builds from competing-tech inference over the actual dependency graph only. Explicit topic suppression remains user-authored exclusions, which hard-filter upstream. blind_spots' duplicate anti-topic feed removed with it. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016puYGGmj3oHxmcKBbJ5vXq
The promise described a mechanism AD-029 removed, was never measurable
("all risk, no demonstrated lift" — 7 explicit feedback signals against a
200k-item corpus), and post-v19 left ~100 instances of self-contradicting
copy, several asserting dead mechanisms inside Score Autopsy — live
INV-023 violations. Pre-launch (public, unadvertised) is the only cheap
moment; after launch this is a retraction.
New canonical (propagated from CLAUDE.md through every surface):
"4DA reads the internet for developers — privately, locally. Your
codebase decides what''s relevant." "Yesterday''s noise becomes tomorrow''s
signal" SURVIVES, re-attributed to corpus re-judging (verdict epochs +
re-examination) — it is true and implemented. The 92%/98% benchmark stays
as body copy with methodology. "Compound knowledge" survives only in the
framework''s dev-process sense.
- Governance first: AD-030 (with re-claim criteria: a /calibrate-measured
lift, published) + amendments to AD-017/025/026/028 — all four decisions
survive, only rationales rewrite (AD-028''s lifetime honesty now rests on
the cost structure: zero marginal cost + offline 2099 key)
- P0: in-app strings that asserted dead mechanisms rewritten or deleted
("will be penalized in relevance scoring", "Boosted because you''ve shown
interest", "scoring corrections applied", the "Learned" badge, learned
factor rows + affinity chips — the anti factor also had inverted
magnitude/multiplier semantics and rendered a false penalty on every item)
- "Compound Intelligence" tab renamed "Personal, Not Aggregate" — its
content (per-user, inspectable, local-only) was always a privacy story
- 13 locales: 45 stale keys purged per locale, regenerated from corrected
English via i18n:fill; generator scripts purged first so nothing
re-injects (apply-translations.cjs carried 12 hardcoded copies)
- Ship-locked surfaces: installer shortDescription/longDescription,
homepage JSON-LD (incl. the Offer), npm MCP README (lands on next
publish)
- Site + docs: 22 files rewritten under the house rule (present-tense
verifiable statements; improvement attributed to engine updates and the
user''s codebase, never engagement); signal.njk''s 16 compounding claims
reframed on the analysis layer; the refund-adjacent trial claim deleted;
framework §7 kept as a dev-process thesis with scoring-accuracy claims
stripped across all three mirrored copies
- New public post: site/src/writing/retiring-a-claim-we-could-not-measure
— the incident record as an engineering story, ending on the re-claim bar
- Enforcement: scripts/check-retired-claims.cjs (+9 tests) wired into
test:scripts and validate; historical-record files allowlisted;
retired-ok escape hatch for quoting the claim as history
Verified: guard clean repo-wide; translation parity 0 errors across 13
languages; tsc clean; frontend suite green; Rust 4,419 green; fmt clean.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016puYGGmj3oHxmcKBbJ5vXq
…uilt onto current main) Merges origin/worktree-promise-retirement-ad030 (PR #419) with conflicts resolved in favour of current main's newer facts: - locale ui.json files: main's structure kept; #419's 312 reworded values and 130 deleted affinity-surface keys ported per-leaf (its 752 key additions dropped — those surfaces were deleted from en by #421) - README/index.njk/signal.njk/SETUP-GUIDE/LICENSE-ACTIVATION: main's newer copy (93% figure, Precision Ledger, BYOK rationale) kept, retired phrases replaced with the canonical line - Developer DNA kept OUT of paid-feature lists (AD-025/026 tier truth) - apply-translations.cjs / missing-keys.json / BadgeRow.tsx stay deleted (deleted on main since #419's base) - CLAUDE.md + package.json deliberately untouched: claimed by live peer lanes (#466, agent-a875) — gate wiring + tagline follow in-branch once those claims release Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01MMarGhXjbKyNJzsm3JG1jw
- 92% -> 93% / 98% -> 98.9% / 215 -> 245-item corpus (the current measured benchmark, #460) in COMPARISON.md and the retirement post - RELEASE-NOTES-v1.0.0 tier table + closing line matched to AD-025/026 tier truth (DNA, Signal Chains, Score Autopsy are free; the paid set is Blind Spots, Knowledge Gaps, Standing Queries, Semantic Shifts, cross-project intelligence) - retirement post added to /writing index (retired-ok teaser quote) and sitemap - two Rust doc comments un-mangled; engagement_telemetry header no longer claims facets influence scoring (INV-023) Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01MMarGhXjbKyNJzsm3JG1jw
The last 2 retired-claim violations in the repo. The tagline mandate now teaches the canonical description and points at the enforcement gate instead of restating the retired phrases. Deferred from #469 because this file was claimed by the #466 lane; that lane is merged and its worktree reaped. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01MMarGhXjbKyNJzsm3JG1jw
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The last 2 retired-claim violations in the repo, deferred from #469 because CLAUDE.md was claimed by the #466 lane (now merged, worktree reaped). With this,
node scripts/check-retired-claims.cjsreports zero violations repo-wide. Remaining enforcement residual: wiring the gate intovalidate/test:scriptswaits on the live lane holdingpackage.json.🤖 Generated with Claude Code
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