sots-re/campaign/rollout/publishing-worker-state.md

Publishing worker checkpoint

2026-09-09 — implementation complete, handoff; model openai/gpt-6-astra; session publishing architecture worker. No delegates, staging, commits, pushes, or lab actions. RE baseline HEAD 3bfde5a70d874a723e797a695bbd847fd82c0aa7; exclusive-file bootstrap in /home/alex/sots-re (concurrent uncommitted workers); engine baseline from controls checkpoint 7741d42fc5e4e761e6449bdaf0e4a61d00036a23; no engine edits or lab resources used.

Inspected architecture, controls assignment, dashboard, displacement and Forgejo tools and their dependents. Controls README/schema/checkpoint not yet present. Gate schema is in flight. Implemented explicit current.json validation/projections and replaced owned strategy/plan/policy. Read controls checkpoint/schema and engine checkpoint; contract schema now validated directly. Next exact action: lead reviews publishing diff and current.json interface alongside completed controls/gate interfaces before selecting any durable current evidence. No accepted evidence selected; no campaign acceptance claimed.

Verification and coordination

• python3 -m unittest discover -s verify/publishing -v: 8 tests pass, including missing baseline, malformed current data, unsupported schema, missing file/bad hash, stale source, zero/missing/ duplicate execution, failed gate/pair, empty replay, accepted mismatch, stale provenance/binary, dirty identity display, visible skips, and overwriting an earlier success with invalid output.
• python3 tools/dashboard.py: exit 0; generated board/dashboard show baseline and replay not established, controls-bootstrap and research-replacement proposed, explicit dependencies.
• git diff --check: pass. No live experiments or engine builds executed by this worker.
• Read controls schema/checkpoint and gate/engine checkpoints. Gate expected list includes host skips: adapted publisher to require exact expected union, positive skipClassification/corpus/ inventory/source checks, and no full-profile skips plus shimBuild. No inferred acceptance.
• Gate worker reports failed/mutating integration source and ephemeral failed evidence. Those artifacts were not selected. Lead must resolve its recorded surprise before a new baseline run.
• Controls campaign/README.md was still absent at final read; links intentionally target that assigned forthcoming interface. Publisher validates current controls contract.schema.json.

Delivered

Owned README, strategy, method rules, backlog and questions replaced with concise current entry points/policy; scientific domain findings unchanged. Board/dashboard now generated from contracts, explicit current pointers and runtime surprises. Removed obsolete displacement and Forgejo publisher after dependent inspection. Publishing docs and focused tests are under tools/ and verify/publishing/. The script performs read-only evidence validation; only generated Markdown is written on invocation. Potential follow-up: if controls extends its JSON Schema beyond the currently used subset, extend the local schema adapter deliberately; if gate/replay schema changes, update adapters and tests.

Implemented interface: current.json uses schema sots-current/1, source identities selected explicitly, nullable gate/replay path+sha256 pointers, and a next_action. Missing pointers mean not established; invalid selected evidence produces visibly invalid output and nonzero exit, never old green output. source is null initially or the exact gate.source object (engine/re manifests including files). Controls source baseline is a different object (path/commit), intentionally not substituted for actual gate manifests. Gate/replay adapters use currently implemented sots-gate/1 and sots-standalone/2.

Cross-ownership references for lead: findings/subsystems/research-replace.md lines 6 and 496 and findings/subsystems/nav-classifier-live.md line 11 refer to obsolete tools/displacement.py. These are historical scientific findings; annotate references as historical rather than deleting evidence. No executable dependents of displacement/Forgejo publishing found in initial search.