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REVIEW — TFW-55 / Phase B: Multilingual Public Entry

Date: 2026-08-26 Author: Codex Reviewer Verdict: ✅ APPROVE Review target: 9d65d4eeabd7737c25ae64587a91306d84c41821 RF: RF Phase B TS: TS Phase B Stage files: Map · Verify · Judge This file synthesizes the stage findings; raw checks remain in the stage files.

1. Map

The Executor replaced only the English onboarding before ## Task Board, added independent Russian and Kazakh root doorways, and kept English README.md plus the reviewed .tfw/README.md as the public semantic contract. The implementation preserves semantic/authority invariants rather than sentence-level symmetry, gives all three languages the same understand/use/audit routes, and keeps the Task Board solely in English.

The execution scope is exactly three public files plus ONB, RF, EV, and two isolated language-review reports. Contracts, the North Star essay, research, specification/glossary, Editions, brand assets, BoK, runtime, and unrelated Task Board rows were not modified.

2. Verify

# What was checked Result Evidence
1 Complete execution scope and frozen surfaces ✅ 8/8 RF-claimed files checked; diff contains exactly those eight; master/Phase HL, TS, .tfw/README.md, and research/** have no execution diff.
2 AC-1–AC-10 and all DoF classes ✅ Every AC independently passes against the Git objects and primary repository sources; none of the 17 master failure classes occurred.
3 Word ceilings and subtraction ✅ EN/RU/KK are 523/528/526; combined English is 2,071 < 2,600; all semantic units are present, so filling to the 550–700 orientation would add filler.
4 English board boundary and tail integrity ✅ The heading and whole board are excluded from the English count; Task Board exists only in README.md; normalized non-TFW-55 tail hash is unchanged at a8c544a50cc3d098f3890bc6b8d6e26bb9d5a05c333a9eb64672d7aa44b4ecb6.
5 Canonical essay and authority split ✅ .tfw/README.md remains exact blob 71a4d725cff7d0d7508403589195e9f87a0fc49a; English owns public meaning, while RU/KK explicitly yield on conflict and add no authority.
6 RU/KK independence, naturalness, and lineage ✅ Independent critic tasks and Git objects reproduce draft→final lineage; RU HIGH 4→0 and KK HIGH 2→0; reports retain every initial finding and exact final rechecks. Reviewer found no serious calque or translation smell.
7 Navigation, encoding, attribution, and placeholders ✅ 23/22/22 local targets checked with zero breakage; anchors and commands resolve; strict UTF-8 and mojibake scans pass; public attribution is complete; no delivery placeholder exists.
8 Evidence classification and sufficiency ✅ All ten TS Evidence fields are correctly N/A for live evidence; EV plus two language reports exist and reproducibly establish the bounded repository-local claims without implying live/human proof.

Verification covered 8/8 RF-claimed paths (100%), above the required ceil(8 × 0.42) = 4. Configured build/test/lint commands are explicit echo placeholders, so substantive Git-object, Markdown, source, encoding, and scope checks were re-run independently.

3. Judge

# Check Status Evidence
1 DoD met? (all TS acceptance criteria) ✅ AC-1–AC-10 pass; all applicable master DoD clauses pass; no DoF trigger.
2 Purpose Check + design soundness ✅ Master §1's deliberately small Project North Star entry and NS1's “purposeful, human-governed continuity” are served without multilingual drift, false authority, or adjacent canon; design follows P1–P9.
3 Tech debt documented ✅ RF records the known Iteration 2 checkout gap and evidence/language limits; no newly introduced Phase B item survives promotion.
4 Style & standards ✅ Clear bounded prose, valid Markdown, stable identifiers, UTF-8, canonical naming, no placeholders; taste-only RU/KK alternatives do not cross the materiality threshold.
5 Observations collected ✅ The pre-existing missing research target is explicitly recorded; live-URL and editorial limits are stated without being mislabeled as passed evidence.
6 RF completeness (§7–9 present) ✅ Fact Candidates, Strategic Insights, and Diagrams contain appropriate reasoned no-item statements.
7 Evidence completeness — does it exist? ✅ 10/10 TS classifications are present; 3/3 RF-referenced observational artifacts exist.
8 Evidence sufficiency — does it establish the claim? ✅ Reproduced counts, blobs, hashes, links, anchors, encoding, lineage, scope, and source facts establish the document claims and explicitly no more.
9 Backward compatibility ✅ Existing paths, anchors, commands, attribution, and board consumers remain usable; the non-TFW-55 board tail is unchanged.
10 Safety ✅ Documentation-only change; no secret, executable behavior, destructive action, irreversible migration, or authority escalation.

4. Verdict

✅ APPROVE

All ten Phase B acceptance criteria pass at exact target 9d65d4eeabd7737c25ae64587a91306d84c41821; all seventeen failure classes remain untriggered. The public meaning, authority boundaries, navigation, budgets, provenance, and scope match the frozen master and Phase B contracts.

The Russian and Kazakh surfaces are semantically equivalent without claiming separate authority. Their shared semantic-role order is the doorway contract, while their sentence construction and explanations are independently localized. The remaining wording alternatives are ordinary polish, not serious unnaturalness, calque, masking, or filler grounds for REVISE.

The short counts—523, 528, and 526—are accepted because the orientation band is not a quota and each required unit is present. Adding text solely to reach 550 would weaken the approved subtraction goal.

Non-blocking limitations

  1. research/iter2/RES.md was absent in the clean execution baseline and remains absent at the target. RF reports the shared-checkout condition; the executor did not change its Task Board link or any research artifact, and Phase B is not the repair venue.
  2. The frozen master HL also has a pre-existing unresolved pointer to the absent TFW-54 HL. It is outside the public-doorway link claim, untouched by Phase B, and does not create a contract contradiction.
  3. Live HTTP availability and human reception were not tested. Neither is claimed nor required by the TS.
  4. TS's ≤900 changed-line figure was a planning estimate; actual execution churn is 1,071 line operations and remains within the configured 3,000-LOC budget. RF does not present the estimate as an actual result.

5. Tech Debt Collected

No items. The missing Iteration 2 trace is a pre-existing shared-checkout observation already disclosed in RF, not debt introduced by Phase B; this review does not repair or promote unrelated frozen-source availability. Live URL checks and taste-only language alternatives are correctly bounded residual risks rather than task defects.

6. Traces Updated

  • [x] README Task Board — Phase B moved to 📚 KNW and REVIEW linked.
  • [x] HL status — N/A; frozen master and Phase HL were not modified under Reviewer role lock.
  • [x] project_config.yaml — N/A; no allocation or configuration change.
  • [x] Other project files — checked for stale/conflicting Phase B information; no out-of-scope edit made.
  • [x] tfw-docs: Applied — updated KNOWLEDGE.md §1 Architecture Map and §2 Key Artifacts; no new TECH_DEBT.md or conventions item.
  • [x] tfw-knowledge: N/A — RF and REVIEW contain no human-only Fact Candidates; no BoK action authorized.

7. Fact Candidates

fact-candidates: processed 2026-08-30

No fact candidates. The review received no new human-only project fact; all findings and limitations are reproducible from repository artifacts, critic task records, or Git objects.

REVIEW — TFW-55 / Phase B: Multilingual Public Entry | 2026-08-26