title: "Verify — "Are the claims true?"" source: "tasks/TFW-55__canonization_program/phase-a/review/phase-a2/verify.md"

Verify — "Are the claims true?"¶

Mindset: Auditor. The RF is a declaration, not a fact. Open files. Run commands. Compare claims against reality. Test: "If I removed the RF, would the evidence alone prove the work was done?" Min verify ratio: 0.42 RF production files claimed: 12 Files to verify: 12 — 100% by the Phase A.2 review contract and mandatory discrepancy escalation Current stage result: the log below preserves formal attempt 1. Formal attempt 2 fresh return verification is appended at the end and supersedes D1/D2 for the current verdict.

Verification Log¶

V1: `.tfw/README.md`¶

RF claim: The existing problem-led North Star integrates the approved 8 + 4 meanings without filler, deterministic overclaims, or exceeding 4,200 words.
Actual: The clean file is a coherent 1,857-word / 128-line essay; the independently reconstructed owner-integrated image is 1,864 words / 132 lines. Candor, Structural Enforcement, Naming Creates Behavior, Portability, bounded Trace continuity, four Success Criteria, human acceptance, and one-owner-per-truth semantics are present. Prohibited claims occur only inside explicit negations/non-goals.
Match: ✅

V2: `.tfw/glossary.md`¶

RF claim: PV priorities 0 and 1 point to current clauses and define a full semantic scan.
Actual: Priority 0 points to the root purpose surface plus NS1–NS3; priority 1 points to Methodology values and Success Criteria. Priorities 0–4 full / 5–7 by relevance and resolution/item/meaning/relevance checks are explicit.
Match: ✅

V3: `.tfw/conventions.md`¶

RF claim: Knowledge Citations require real-item and semantic-relevance verification, with distinct priority 0/1 meanings.
Actual: The normative citation table requires exact item, concrete application, semantic integrity, and separate purpose versus methodology-value claims even when one file holds both.
Match: ✅

V4: `.tfw/templates/HL.md`¶

RF claim: Stale examples are replaced and planning must scan priorities 0–4 in full / 5–7 by relevance.
Actual: Current North Star anchors replace the deleted section; the template requires distinct P0/P1 items, exact clauses, concrete applications, and relevance rather than a file-only citation.
Match: ✅

V5: `.tfw/workflows/plan.md`¶

RF claim: /tfw-plan has a mandatory semantic Project Values path.
Actual: Step 3 requires the complete priority 0–4 scan, relevant 5–7 scan, distinct P0/P1 meanings, exact item/application, and reasoned N/A only after scanning.
Match: ✅

V6: `.tfw/workflows/review.md`¶

RF claim: /tfw-review verifies semantic match and relevance and escalates any resolving-but-wrong citation to 100%.
Actual: Verify requires the full PV scan, item/meaning/application checks, distinct P0/P1 handling, and 100% verification after any discrepancy.
Match: ✅

V7: `.tfw/templates/review/verify.md`¶

RF claim: The checkpoint records semantic citation outcomes.
Actual: The template records resolution, item existence, meaning, relevance, and total/resolved/semantically verified/irrelevant/hallucinated counts.
Match: ✅

V8: `.claude/commands/tfw-plan.md`¶

RF claim: Exact full copy of canonical plan workflow.
Actual: Byte-identical to .tfw/workflows/plan.md; SHA-256 03943bdc67a0e4a196e316304094419a3165f4e815407cad7ed82c3e427519c4.
Match: ✅

V9: `.agent/workflows/tfw-plan.md`¶

RF claim: Exact full copy of canonical plan workflow.
Actual: Byte-identical to .tfw/workflows/plan.md; same SHA-256.
Match: ✅

V10: `.claude/commands/tfw-review.md`¶

RF claim: Exact full copy of canonical review workflow.
Actual: Byte-identical to .tfw/workflows/review.md; SHA-256 b0d56ed3a8506e195f07582d9e73497a36447d6c7ed19e32b604300217dff181.
Match: ✅

V11: `.agent/workflows/tfw-review.md`¶

RF claim: Exact full copy of canonical review workflow.
Actual: Byte-identical to .tfw/workflows/review.md; same SHA-256.
Match: ✅

V12: `tasks/TFW-60__conflict_resistant_shared_workspace/HL-TFW-60__conflict_resistant_shared_workspace.md`¶

RF claim: Only the current header and free §7.2 changed; frozen/history and the live parallel Phase A file remained untouched.
Actual: The committed diff has exactly two hunks: the Project North Star header field and five §7.2 rows. The remainder is byte-identical; the external Phase A file remains SHA-256 767924202e4a75a9790d94628ddcd2b394c18fd70e6ef6fba0c087c643f7e382.
Match: ✅

Commands Executed¶

#	Command / independent check	Result
1	Exact entry gate: `rev-parse`, porcelain-v2, cached and unstaged diffs	Entry HEAD `6816c6e4a080a90f456769b8309746b82646ef9c`; index/worktree clean; freeze is an ancestor; no merge commit
2	Disposition parser plus source-to-target comparison	12 unique rows = 8 TFW-25 + 4 TFW-32; 6 restore / 5 merge / 1 retire; all targets and bounded reasons semantically hold
3	Independent word/line/hash count on clean and owner-integrated North Star	1,857 / 128 / `7cbcf1de…`; integrated 1,864 / 132; both ≤ 4,200; owner image preserved exactly
4	Required/prohibited-clause scans and sentence-level source audit	All restored meanings present; deterministic, disposable-output, lossless-context, automatic-truth, transcript, and independent-authority claims remain bounded negations/non-goals
5	Exact copy comparisons and repository adapter map	Plan and review triples byte-identical; 11 canonical mappings / 33 files / 0 failures
6	Positive P0/P1 and negative stale-heading fixtures	P0 and P1: resolution/item/meaning/relevance all true and distinct; old `Values and Principles`: file resolves but item/meaning/relevance all false → discrepancy
7	New/retargeted local Markdown path and anchor resolver	34 occurrences checked / 0 failures
8	Active-consumer stale-string scan	0 occurrences across all 12 current production consumers
9	Repository boundary census on clean Executor tree	46 paths = 44 task traces + 1 changelog + 1 current KNOWLEDGE; 0 active consumers
10	Same census on disposable owner-integrated result	47 paths = 45 task traces + 1 changelog + 1 current KNOWLEDGE; 0 active consumers
11	Same census on untouched live owner tree before integration	49 paths, but they include stale active `.tfw/glossary.md` and `.tfw/templates/HL.md`; this is not the final image
12	TFW-60 diff and allowed-region exclusion	Exactly two permitted hunks; no frozen/history diff; parallel Phase A owner file unchanged
13	Historical preservation diffs	Original Phase A TS/RF/REVIEW/judge, TFW-25, and TFW-32 sources unchanged; original `✅ APPROVE` unchanged
14	Production changed-path set	Exactly the 12 planned current consumers; no missing or extra production path
15	Strict UTF-8, mojibake signatures, `git diff --check`	0 invalid files; 0 mojibake signatures; diff check PASS
16	Read-only owner manifests plus disposable full-chain integration	Start manifest: 3 tracked / 93 untracked, tracked SHA `bf47bfc4…`, untracked SHA `715cae60…`; patch check/apply PASS; owner image, TFW-60 row/phase work, research state, and all foreign files preserved
17	Session/return trace	Executor commits are role-tagged separately; Phase A.2 had no REVIEW/stage files at RF tip; formal return counter was 0 before this verdict; the stopped setup task is not counted

No product build runner applies to these Markdown contracts. The checks above exercise the document, copy, link, encoding, history, and dirty-state contracts directly.

Claim & Source Checks¶

#	Claim / citation checked	Where it appears	Traces to	Holds?
C1	All 8 TFW-25 values and 4 TFW-32 outcomes have explicit, non-weaker dispositions	EV §2; RF §§3–4	TFW-25 TS/RF, TFW-32 Phase D source wording, current `.tfw/README.md` clauses	✅ — 12/12 source items, enums, targets, and reasons hold; the two approved retirements have bounded replacements
C2	North Star is 1,857 clean words and 1,864 after the owner image is integrated	RF §4; EV §§3–4	Direct UTF-8 counts of the committed file and disposable owner-integrated image	✅ — independently reproduced; both are far below 4,200
C3	Foreign owner state survives one application of the Executor chain	RF §4; EV §4	Read-only manifests from `C:\Users\c0rpa\.codex\worktrees\3936\steps-framework` and disposable apply	✅ — owner image, root foreign row, TFW-60 phase work, research state, 3 tracked hunks, and 93 untracked files preserved
C4	Repository boundary census has 49 correctly classified final paths	EV §§5, 8	Clean tip, live owner tree, and disposable owner-integrated tree	❌ — final images have 46 clean / 47 integrated paths; 49 is the pre-integration live owner count and includes two stale active consumers

Discrepancies Found¶

D1 — blocking evidence discrepancy: the EV records a non-final census as the final result¶

EV §§5 and 8 claim 49 Markdown paths classified as 46 task traces, one changelog, one current KNOWLEDGE path, and one active North Star bounded negation. Independent reproduction gives:

clean Executor tip: 46 = 44 task traces + CHANGELOG + KNOWLEDGE;
expected owner-integrated result: 47 = 45 task traces + CHANGELOG + KNOWLEDGE;
untouched live owner tree: 49, but that count includes the still-pre-integration stale active consumers .tfw/glossary.md and .tfw/templates/HL.md.

There is no matching active North Star occurrence in either final image. The twelve active consumers themselves are clean, so AC-5's delivered behavior holds, but AC-9's exact-final EV reproducibility requirement does not. EV and RF must be corrected from a retaken final clean/integrated census, without changing implementation.

D2 — blocking citation discrepancy: master HL §7.2 row 6 resolves but is partly irrelevant¶

Master HL §7.2 row 6 cites knowledge/convention.md F7, F9, F17–F19 for a claim that includes “use newcomer-readable terms.” F7 supports a compact value set, F9 a brand anchor, and F19 naming consistency. F17 is blog tone and F18 is a specific Russian Post 24 structural example; neither supports newcomer-readable terminology or Phase A.2 application. The ONB correctly labels the same bundle Applied / partly N/A, but the HL row itself overstates the citation.

This is exactly the resolving-but-wrong case the new gate is meant to detect, so verification was escalated to 100%. It is an upstream free-section trace defect, not an implementation defect and not something the Reviewer may repair. The Coordinator/owner must correct the master HL §7.2 citation/application before the formal return is re-reviewed.

Evidence Verification¶

#	RF Evidence ref	Artifact exists?	Matches claim?
E1	`phase-a/evidence/EV__phase-a2__north_star_values_and_consumer_integrity.md`	✅	❌ partial — disposition, count, link, copy, encoding, scope, history, and integration claims reproduce, but the exact-final repository census does not

TS evidence classifications remain correctly represented as 9 N/A and 1 DEFERRED at Executor handoff. The single EV artifact is real but is not fully verified because of D1.

Knowledge Citations Verified¶

Priorities 0–4 were read in full; priorities 5–7 were scanned by relevance. Each of the 17 master-HL rows and its 17 ONB confirmations was checked independently. For owner-foreign RES Iteration 2, resolution is against the authoritative read-only owner state that the integration contract preserves.

#	Artifact	Priority + exact citation	Link resolves?	Item exists?	Meaning matches?	Relevant to asserted application?
1	HL §7.2 #1	P0: root `README.md` at `b924926` — project-guide surfaces	✅	✅	✅	✅
2	HL §7.2 #2	P0/P1: current `.tfw/README.md` essay baseline	✅	✅	✅	✅
3	HL §7.2 #3	P3: `KNOWLEDGE.md` D2, D35, D40, D52–D60	✅	✅	✅	✅
4	HL §7.2 #4	P2: `knowledge/philosophy.md` F3, F6, F8, F10–F16, F21–F25, F32–F33	✅	✅	✅	✅
5	HL §7.2 #5	P4: `.tfw/conventions.md` §§3, 11, 14	✅	✅	✅	✅
6	HL §7.2 #6	P5: `knowledge/convention.md` F7, F9, F17–F19	✅	✅	❌ — F17/F18 do not support newcomer-readable terminology	❌ — blog tone/history is irrelevant to the asserted A.2 application
7	HL §7.2 #7	P6: `knowledge/process.md` F2, F11, F16, F22, F25, F27	✅	✅	✅	✅
8	HL §7.2 #8	P7: `knowledge/constraint.md` F2, F3, F6–F7	✅	✅	✅	✅
9	HL §7.2 #9	P7: `knowledge/domain.md` F1–F3	✅	✅	✅	✅
10	HL §7.2 #10	P7: `knowledge/stakeholder.md` F1, F4	✅	✅	✅	✅
11	HL §7.2 #11	Relevant task history: TFW-32 Phase D	✅	✅	✅	✅
12	HL §7.2 #12	Relevant task history: TFW-51/52 proportional Editions	✅	✅	✅	✅
13	HL §7.2 #13	Relevant research: TFW-55 RES Iteration 1	✅	✅	✅	✅
14	HL §7.2 #14	Relevant research: TFW-55 RES Iteration 2	✅ — authoritative owner state	✅	✅	✅
15	HL §7.2 #15	Owner mini-essay 0.8 corpus	✅	✅ — 9 files / 5,589 words	✅	✅
16	HL §7.2 #16	Owner architecture note	✅	✅ — 710 words	✅	✅
17	HL §7.2 #17	Owner working BoK v0.1	✅	✅ — 6,675 words	✅	✅ — explicitly non-canonical
18	ONB §7 #1	P0: root practical-guide baseline	✅	✅	✅	✅
19	ONB §7 #2	P0/P1: current North Star baseline	✅	✅	✅	✅
20	ONB §7 #3	P3: `KNOWLEDGE.md` D2, D35, D40, D52–D60	✅	✅	✅	✅
21	ONB §7 #4	P2: philosophy facts	✅	✅	✅	✅
22	ONB §7 #5	P4: conventions §§3, 11, 14	✅	✅	✅	✅
23	ONB §7 #6	P5: convention facts with F17/F18 explicitly marked partly N/A	✅	✅	✅ — applied subset and N/A subset are distinguished	✅
24	ONB §7 #7	P6: process facts	✅	✅	✅	✅
25	ONB §7 #8	P7: constraint facts	✅	✅	✅	✅
26	ONB §7 #9	P7: domain facts	✅	✅	✅	✅
27	ONB §7 #10	P7: stakeholder facts	✅	✅	✅	✅
28	ONB §7 #11	TFW-32 Phase D source	✅	✅	✅	✅
29	ONB §7 #12	TFW-51/52 proportional Editions	✅	✅	✅	✅
30	ONB §7 #13	RES Iteration 1	✅	✅	✅	✅
31	ONB §7 #14	RES Iteration 2	✅ — authoritative owner state	✅	✅	✅
32	ONB §7 #15	Owner mini-essay corpus, N/A to reopened source selection	✅	✅	✅	✅ — reasoned N/A
33	ONB §7 #16	Owner architecture boundary	✅	✅	✅	✅
34	ONB §7 #17	Owner working BoK, N/A to deliverables	✅	✅	✅	✅ — reasoned N/A

KNOWLEDGE.md D44 still describes the pre-A.2 PV index. That known contradiction is explicitly routed by the TS/RF to post-APPROVE /tfw-docs; it does not contradict the delivered current glossary/workflows, but it cannot be closed during this REVISE verdict. TD-166's implementation is present and verified in the template/workflow copies; registry closure remains pending a successful formal return.

Checkpoint¶

Self-check: - [x] Opened ≥ ⌈12 × 0.42⌉ files and recorded findings? — 12/12 production consumers plus all task/evidence traces - [x] Ran at least 1 build/test command (or documented why not)? — direct contract checks listed above - [x] Claim & Source Checks filled — key claims, every citation, and primary data independently checked? - [x] Each RF §3 (AC) checkmark verified against actual file? — AC-1–AC-8 and role-separated AC-10 hold; AC-9 fails exact-final evidence reproducibility - [x] KNOWLEDGE.md checked — D44 documented as the planned post-APPROVE correction? - [x] Knowledge Citations from HL §7.2 and ONB §7 verified? - Total: 34, resolved: 34, semantically verified: 33, irrelevant: 1, hallucinated: 0 - [x] Evidence artifacts from RF §5 verified? - Total evidence items: 1, verified: 0, missing: 0, partial: 1

Stage complete: YES

Formal Attempt 2 — Fresh Return Verification¶

Attempt: 2 after bounded REVISE return 1 Exact entry: 08799a3824c4fe318ec7500b8d70ae0d4ec33045; clean index/worktree Verification depth: 12/12 production consumers plus both correction commits, all 34 HL/ONB citations, evidence, history, and owner-preservation gates

Return corrections¶

Prior blocker	Fresh independent result	Status
D1 — final census evidence	The exact case-sensitive five-pattern census is `46 = 44 task traces + .tfw/CHANGELOG.md + KNOWLEDGE.md` on the clean implementation and `47 = 45 task traces + changelog + knowledge` on the expected owner-integrated image; both have 0 active consumers. The untouched pre-integration owner tree is 49 and is explicitly excluded from final evidence. EV §§5/8 and RF §4 now state exactly these values and classifications.	✅ Resolved
D2 — master-HL §7.2 row 6	F7 supports a compact top-level value set; F9 supports the secondary motto as a brand anchor; F19 supports naming consistency as a design rule. F17/F18 and the unsupported newcomer-readable claim are absent.	✅ Resolved

Correction-commit scope¶

Commit	Changed paths / semantic boundary	Result
`f40c898` — Coordinator	One changed line in master HL free §7.2 row 6	✅ No Task Board, production, frozen section, A7, history, or foreign change
`08799a3` — Executor return	`EV__phase-a2__north_star_values_and_consumer_integrity.md` and `RF__phase-a2__north_star_values_and_consumer_integrity.md` only	✅ No production, ONB, Task Board, REVIEW, frozen, A7, or foreign change

Prior-PASS invariance and fresh checks¶

#	Check	Fresh attempt-2 result
1	Production invariance from the original RF tip	12/12 production blobs at `08799a3` are byte-identical to `6816c6e`; mismatch 0
2	TFW-25 and TFW-32 semantic ledger	12 unique source rows; 6 `EXPLICIT RESTORE`, 5 `SEMANTIC MERGE`, 1 `INTENTIONAL RETIRE`; every target and reason remains present and non-weaker under A7
3	Required placements and bounded replacements	Candor, Structural Enforcement, Naming, Portability, Success Criteria, selected-Trace continuity, and the complete/usable/inspectable result with authorized human acceptance all hold
4	North Star integrity	1,857 clean words / 128 lines / SHA-256 `7cbcf1def560ea970ffa003afb9c089ae46a50c45382f04e85e7d6db0e56f875`; owner-integrated image 1,864 words / 132 lines; both ≤4,200; +309 words is bounded semantic integration, not filler
5	North Star quality and exclusions	Problem-led order and Philosophy of Trace → TFW methodology → realizations remain intact; no unbounded code-disposability, identical regeneration, lossless context, automatic truth, independent authority, or no-manual-editing claim
6	Active consumers and fixtures	12/12 consumers are clean; priorities 0–4 full / 5–7 by relevance and distinct P0/P1 meaning are explicit. Positive P0/P1 fixtures pass resolution/item/meaning/relevance; resolving deleted `Values and Principles` fixture returns `DISCREPANCY`
7	Full-copy parity	11 canonical mappings / 33 files / 0 failures; plan SHA `03943bdc…`, review SHA `b0d56ed3…` remain unchanged
8	Links, anchors, UTF-8, and whitespace	Fresh integrated-tree resolver checked every added local link occurrence (54/54, 0 failures); the attempt-1 selected 34-link set remains byte-invariant. Strict UTF-8 failures 0, mojibake signatures 0, `git diff --check` PASS
9	TFW-60 scope	Exactly two hunks: Project North Star header and free §7.2; content outside allowed regions is identical; parallel Phase A file remains SHA-256 `767924202e4a75a9790d94628ddcd2b394c18fd70e6ef6fba0c087c643f7e382`
10	Immutable history	Original Phase A TS/RF/REVIEW/judge, TFW-25, and TFW-32 Phase D have zero diff; original Phase A REVIEW blob `a1934b2b…` and `✅ APPROVE` are unchanged
11	Owner preservation and integration	Read-only start/final owner snapshots are identical: HEAD `f5994b4`, 96 status lines / SHA `bc120754…`, 3 tracked / manifest SHA `bf47bfc4…`, staged 0, 93 untracked / manifest SHA `715cae60…`. Production is byte-identical to attempt 1; its integration result remains stable. The attempt-2 census and owner image/row/phase/research preservation were independently reconfirmed without changing the owner worktree
12	Return/session boundary	Executor, Coordinator, and Reviewer commits remain role-tagged and separate; the stopped setup task is not a return; counter is 1/3 before this verdict

Knowledge Citations Verified — Attempt 2¶

Priorities 0–4 were reread in full and priorities 5–7 by relevance. The current master HL has 17 §7.2 rows and ONB has 17 confirmations. All links resolve, including RES Iteration 2 through the authoritative read-only owner state; the owner corpus remains 9 essays / 5,589 words, architecture note 710 words, and working BoK map 6,675 words.

Citation set	Total	Resolved	Items exist	Semantically verified	Irrelevant	Hallucinated
Master HL §7.2 + ONB §7	34	34	34	34	0	0

The corrected row 6 is no longer a resolving-but-wrong citation. ONB row 6 remains historically accurate: it had already distinguished the applicable subset from the former F17/F18 N/A subset.

Evidence Verification — Attempt 2¶

#	RF Evidence ref	Artifact exists?	Matches corrected claim?
E1	`phase-a/evidence/EV__phase-a2__north_star_values_and_consumer_integrity.md`	✅	✅ — corrected census, 8+4 ledger, counts, consumers, copies, links, encoding, TFW-60, history, and owner-preservation claims all hold

Discrepancies Found — Attempt 2¶

No discrepancies. Attempt-1 D1 and D2 are resolved without implementation changes.

Attempt-2 checkpoint¶

[x] Exact clean entry gate and corrected RF tip verified before writes?
[x] 12/12 production consumers verified with byte invariance to 6816c6e?
[x] All 10 AC independently re-ruled, including AC-2/5/6/7 semantic checks?
[x] All 34 HL/ONB citations checked for resolution, item, meaning, and relevance?
[x] Corrected EV evidence exists and establishes the claims?
[x] TFW-60, immutable history, original Phase A APPROVE, and owner state preserved?
[x] Formal attempt and return counter recorded without counting the stopped setup task?

Formal attempt 2 verify stage complete: YES