LAB documentation

The active objective, architectural decisions, and admitted contracts.

1. Wave-9 programme status — 8 September 2026Current programme snapshot: Trial 63 completed 49 evaluations, stopped the 47-row selection globally at S2, and selected no paper candidates.CURRENT
2. Feature backlog — agreed but not doneLiving register: The deduplicated backlog binds priority, provenance, blockers, owners, and next actions without hiding today’s completed work.LIVING
3. The Lab, End to EndStart here: The complete lab story connects honest discovery, two preregistered candidates, and the fail-closed path to tiny live capital.LIVE
4. Edge-discovery north starActive objective: Find edge as quickly as honest evidence permits without weakening the gates.LIVE
5. Simplification review decision recordArchitecture decision: Freeze the existing planes and build one isolated daily-live lane.CURRENT
6. First-hour admitted-series contractCurrent boundary: Database-owner admission replaces a permanent literal-hash pin.CURRENT
7. First-hour series contract v3Current contract: Version three binds alpha tiers, evidence floors, sizing separation, and duplicate relation.CURRENT

Pre-registered ideas and discovery results that have not earned live authority.

1. Strategy tests and results — 8 September 2026Complete source census: Search all 188 ideas by identity, actual disposition, furthest stage, recorded reason, next action, and available frozen metrics.CURRENT
2. Wave-9 paper candidate selection rulePre-registered before batch numbers: The deterministic survivor rule gates integrity, PBO, Holm, clustered DSR, cost stress, recency, family diversity, and the disclosed cap.CURRENT
3. Pre-registration amendment v1.3 — fractional executionOwner-ratified; not yet sealed: Fractional execution remains non-authoritative until the LL-5 chain, paper-NAV event, and merge-time rule/pin hashes close the seal blockers.CURRENT
4. Momentum 12−1 amendment v1.2 — canary and prefix-NDraft; pending owner ratification: The one-share canary, rank-bound prefix-N construction, trial 53, and event schemas grant no authority until every owner and seal blocker closes.PENDING OWNER
5. Where the next edge isRanked decision: Three Tier-B hypotheses remain after trial lessons, refuter amendments, power gates, and portfolio constraints are applied.DECISION
6. Discovery Campaign: 50 Trials, Two SurvivorsCampaign result: The numbered campaign produced two preregistered equity candidates while preserving every refutation, caveat, and trial-ledger discrepancy.CURRENT
7. Gross profitability long-only v1 preregistrationRegistered; lockbox unopened: GP/A alone is frozen for one lockbox opening and grants neither a lockbox result nor broker authority.CURRENT
8. Momentum 12−1 long-only v1 preregistrationRegistered; lockbox unopened: Registration grants neither a lockbox result nor broker authority; v1.1 incubation amendment sealed.CURRENT

The isolated path toward daily execution, with its current limits stated plainly.

1. Funding-gate runbook — confirmed paper win to funded moneyPending runbook: The path from a pre-registered confirmed paper win to funded money names existing artifacts only and grants no authority.RUNBOOK/PENDING OWNER
2. Live risk policy v2 — whole-share implementability draftDraft; pending owner ratification: The recommended per-name 90/90 rule remains loader-refused and cannot replace sealed policy v1 without A/B/C, Q17, final pins, and v4 engineering.PENDING OWNER
3. LL-4: multi-strategy shadow-equity ledgers and capital priorityPending design: Per-strategy shadow equity, capital priority, netting, migration, and refusal semantics require new owner authority and fix-first engineering.DESIGN/PENDING OWNER
4. Live risk policy v1 — momentum 12−1Owner-approved policy (Q11=A): The 252-session expiry and bounded five-minute reconciliation contract are current under the 27 August decision record.CURRENT
5. Thin daily-live lane LL-3LL-2 paper-executable lane: The end-to-end paper path is available; live execution remains refused.CURRENT

The field guide, evidence rules, reviews, and definitions that keep research honest.

1. Wave-9 amendment — same-bar trailing-stop conventionOwner-ratified at trial 61: The causal `prior_stop` convention defers a same-session ratchet and records every resolution on the period receipt.CURRENT
2. Wave-9 amendment — zero-proceeds terminal eventsDraft; pending owner ratification: The typed zero-proceeds write-off replaces the 2026-09-02 interim fail-closed rule and authorises no broad Wave-9 row until the owner ratifies it.PENDING OWNER
3. Diagnostics round-up — survivors, execution timing, and GP/AReport-only; trial:null: Survivor, OPG-versus-MOC, and GP/A decomposition diagnostics preserve their independent-review limits and grant no return, allocation, or execution claim.CURRENT
4. Backtesting: The Complete Field GuideUse this first: The canonical field guide defines how honest historical simulation should work.CURRENT
5. Six-lens field-guide gap reviewReview outcome: Six independent lenses turn the field guide into a ranked repair list.CURRENT
6. Honest evaluationCore rule: Every attempt and every failure remains part of the evidence.CURRENT
7. How evidence is kept honestShared vocabulary: Sealing, pre-registration, and independent checks prevent moving goalposts.CURRENT
8. Independent reviewCore rule: Reproduction and review stay separate from owner authority.CURRENT
9. Results are evidence-gatedPublication rule: A score is publishable only when its evidence can be reproduced.CURRENT

Capability language, custody, change records, and operational boundaries.

1. Daemon supervision and alerting plan for rehearsals and livePending runbook: Same-host supervision, restart control, paging, dead-man coverage, and operator dates remain fix-first before installation.RUNBOOK/PENDING OWNER
2. Sealed-artifact custodyCurrent custody: Sealed artifacts have an off-machine identity and storage path.CURRENT
3. Capability is not activityOperational rule: Deployed code is not proof that anything is running.CURRENT
4. What not to inferReading boundary: Documentation is neither live telemetry nor an investment claim.CURRENT
5. 22 Aug 2026 — results drop and visible failureChange record: Results became auditable and a broken overnight run became visible.FROZEN
6. 21 Aug 2026 — tournament armedChange record: The tournament and its audit surfaces were armed on 21 August.FROZEN
7. 19–20 Aug 2026 — evidence machineChange record: The evidence chain became durable across 19 and 20 August.FROZEN

Historical or superseded material retained for provenance, never presented as the plan.

1. Wave-9 daily batch split — 6 September 2026Historical compute split: The active-49 planning record preceded the final 47-primary plus 2-coverage publication and remains provenance only.SUPERSEDED
2. Wave-9 programme status — 5 September 2026Superseded programme snapshot: This preserved in-progress trial-61 record is replaced by the completed trial-63 status dated 8 September.SUPERSEDED
3. Free-look battery decision recordSuperseded discovery record: The complete 28 August campaign record replaces this first fifteen-look snapshot.SUPERSEDED
4. Touch-and-Turn tier-D RDDT follow-upClosed evidence: The ad hoc RDDT completeness follow-up does not reopen the refuted family.FROZEN
5. Touch-and-Turn video ruleClosed evidence: The pre-registered Touch-and-Turn video rule was refuted.FROZEN
6. North-star auditHistorical audit: This dated snapshot is preserved with its later verified preface.FROZEN
7. A dash means no dataHistorical glossary: The dash convention survives, but its provenance claim was too broad.FROZEN
8. Automation is conditionalHistorical architecture: Conditional automation remains true inside a narrower frozen plane.FROZEN
9. Fail-closed rolloutHistorical rollout: Exact-40 deployment gates remain scoped to the frozen plane.FROZEN
10. Forty outcomes, five jobsHistorical architecture: Forty outcomes and five jobs describe the frozen tournament only.FROZEN
11. Forward means observationHistorical boundary: Forward meant paper observation within the Exact-40 runtime.FROZEN
12. How ideas earn their wayHistorical lifecycle: The old strategy funnel predates the free-look battery.FROZEN
13. Important current limitHistorical limit: Exact-40 controls remain valid only inside the frozen plane.FROZEN
14. Legacy SPY-only systemHistorical system: The SPY-only v2 path is preserved evidence, not the desired product.FROZEN
15. Only five research actionsHistorical method: The former five-action allowlist was narrower than today’s research estate.FROZEN
16. Reading the numbersHistorical glossary: Pooled return is not a universal ranking statistic.FROZEN
17. The five stagesHistorical sequence: The former five-stage path omitted the later live-lane gates.FROZEN
18. The lifecycle wordsHistorical glossary: The former lifecycle ended before today’s live-path gates.FROZEN
19. The outcomeHistorical scope: The former outcome stopped at forward paper observation.FROZEN
20. The scoreboardHistorical scoreboard: The early strategy tally no longer covers the full decision record.FROZEN
21. The things being testedHistorical glossary: Bot-by-stock is no longer the universal unit of research.FROZEN
22. What is nextHistorical roadmap: The tournament-centric next step is no longer the plan.FROZEN
23. Phase 1 — measurementSuperseded phase: Measurement repair is no longer the programme’s critical path.SUPERSEDED
24. Phase 2 — search spaceSuperseded phase: The free-look battery replaced the tournament-centric search plan.SUPERSEDED
25. Phase 3 — endgameSuperseded phase: The isolated live lane replaced the former paper-only endgame.SUPERSEDED
26. Phase 4 — dashboardSuperseded phase: A dashboard is no longer ahead of edge discovery on the critical path.SUPERSEDED
27. Refused as feature bloatSuperseded refusal: Broker-path work is now conditional critical-path work, not blanket feature bloat.SUPERSEDED
28. The verdict so farSuperseded plan: The 21 August refit is retained as decision history.SUPERSEDED