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LANG_REVIEW — TFW-55 / Phase B.2 — Russian

Date: 2026-08-26 Target: README.ru.md Critic task: /root/ru_critic Review type: isolated read-only localization critique; not formal TFW REVIEW Status: REVIEW-RETURN #1 EXACT-FINAL ACCEPT — unresolved HIGH 0; prior acceptance error preserved below

1. Frozen Draft Lineage

Object Exact value
Draft commit ff26598abc0053981ef19c25ba28cec5a6730c9d
English source README.md, blob cc43a3cb1ec2a40350957a8aacd327f323c0f106, prefix before ## Task Board
Russian target README.ru.md, blob d9f3c7af7a0cf9708a548ae5be5c410939186599
Self-audit packet EV__phase-b2__project_readme_localization.md, blob c88f01542d790a536e3850ad38c44dec9a486f4e
Authority Approved Phase B.2 HL/TS; master Amendment A6 at 5dee93d; reviewed .tfw/README.md
Isolation Critic used git show/git cat-file on exact objects and did not read or modify the live working tree

2. Fixed Critic Packet

The critic received the complete practical-function ledger: hero/opening; Editions; product, research/analysis, engineering, and non-code use cases; new/existing/configured Quick Start; FAQ; How It Works; root and .tfw/ structures; adapters; concepts/lifecycle; update path; public routes; and all seven newcomer questions.

The semantic minimum fixed human purpose, legitimate authority, judgment, acceptance, accountability, and stop responsibility; bounded agents; selected durable Trace; the exclusions for raw chat, hidden reasoning, deterministic reproduction, automatic truth, and self-maintaining documentation; and the direct essay route without a North Star mirror.

The fact packet fixed Edition names, all commands/paths/URLs/lifecycle identifiers, English semantic authority, no localized board, and this exact command set:

/tfw-config, /tfw-docs, /tfw-handoff, /tfw-init, /tfw-knowledge, /tfw-plan, /tfw-release, /tfw-research, /tfw-resume, /tfw-review, /tfw-update.

Severity was fixed before review: HIGH blocks for a material missing function, meaning/fact/authority/navigation drift, exact-identifier change, or serious naturalness/calque/translation-smell failure; MEDIUM is a real local clarity/quality defect without lost function; LOW/taste is non-blocking. The critic was also told to treat the 1,485→2,129 English growth only as a functional/provenance question, never as a compression target.

3. Draft Functional Verdict

PASS with editorial findings; HIGH = 0. The critic found a complete practical Russian README rather than a summary or second essay. All required blocks and seven newcomer actions are present. The 11-command set, Edition names, lifecycle tokens, and destinations are exact; the only intentional target difference is English #task-board versus Russian README.md#task-board. Russian contains no board or operational state.

The source-growth provenance test passed: Editions additions serve current choice/copy/migration facts; Quick Start additions serve three project states, installation, and exact commands; Key Concepts additions serve current lifecycle/roles/modes/budgets/evidence/version mechanics. Russian does not amplify them into a new philosophy or capability.

4. Required Definition Back-Translation

Critic's English back-translation of the frozen Russian definition:

Trace-First Workflow (TFW) makes work inspectable/checkable and suitable for continuation. TFW is a methodology for joint human and AI work, grounded in the Philosophy of Trace. Purpose [literally, “goal”], legitimate authority, judgment, acceptance, accountability for the outcome, and the obligation to stop the work remain with humans; agents carry out limited assignments. A Trace is selected durable context, not a raw chat log and not a hidden chain of reasoning. It preserves decisions, a result or current state, evidence, boundaries, and information for continuation.

Invariant Frozen RU Critic result
purpose Цель Preserved; narrower than purpose but no authority change
legitimate authority легитимные полномочия Explicit
judgment суждение Explicit
acceptance приёмка Explicit and suitable for workflow
accountability ответственность за результат Explicit
stop responsibility обязанность остановить работу Explicit
bounded agents агенты выполняют ограниченные поручения Explicit; no independent authority

5. Complete Draft Findings and Dispositions

ID Severity Category Frozen location / quote Finding and requested correction Executor disposition
RU-D01 MEDIUM Terminology / calque Definition: отобранный долговечный контекст Conspicuous calque in the central definition; use отобранный устойчивый во времени контекст or the shorter stable variant FIXED with отобранный устойчивый во времени контекст
RU-D02 MEDIUM Semantic precision Research use: проверенные гипотезы Can imply confirmed rather than tested/refuted hypotheses; use гипотезы и результаты их проверки or проверявшиеся гипотезы FIXED with гипотезы и результаты их проверки
RU-D03 MEDIUM Naturalness / calque Audience heading: проводят решения через несколько команд Mirrors English and is not idiomatic; use a natural execution-across-teams formulation FIXED with обеспечивают выполнение решений в нескольких командах
RU-D04 MEDIUM Action clarity Prompts: выполни её README; выполни .tfw/quickstart.md A file is not “executed”; tell the agent to follow or execute its instructions FIXED in all three prompt occurrences with следуй инструкциям… / выполни инструкции из…
RU-D05 MEDIUM Terminology / calque How It Works: «Самоосведомлённость» Artificial calque that reinforces the anthropomorphism being denied FIXED as Если проект называют «осознающим себя», имеются в виду…
RU-D06 MEDIUM Mechanics clarity Следы задач сохраняют кандидатов Does not say candidates for what; newcomer meaning is opaque FIXED as сведения-кандидаты для долговременного знания
RU-D07 LOW Semantic precision Opening: в закрытом чате “Closed/private” differs from expired/unavailable chat FIXED as в исчезнувшем или недоступном чате
RU-D08 LOW Orthography не-технического Standard form is нетехнического FIXED
RU-D09 LOW Naturalness RES и KNW используются по условиям проекта Understandable but non-idiomatic conditional-gate wording FIXED as проходят только при выполнении соответствующих условий проекта
RU-D10 LOW Technical wording Update: получает настроенный upstream, относит изменения Heavy wording suggests acquiring upstream as an object FIXED as обращается к настроенному upstream and классифицирует изменения
RU-S01 SELF Baseline function Key Concepts conduct route Self-audit found that the frozen rewrite had replaced the baseline Conduct row while expanding current mechanics FIXED by adding a concise conduct row in EN/RU/KK, sourced to conventions; no unrelated exposition

Draft critic counts: HIGH 0, MEDIUM 6, LOW 4; unresolved HIGH 0. All ten critic findings were corrected, including non-blocking LOW items; no taste-only rewrite beyond a recorded finding was introduced.

6. Exact-Final Production Object

The dispositioned Russian blob 54c24eff4c5c6a0f13e0f80907ac1c3ba2f48a89 was committed at 5d7edc01f91cfa6dcfd936a90ac6a3e2685ae655 together with bounded EN/KK remediation. The same critic re-read the full exact Git objects rather than the working tree.

7. Exact-Final Recheck

Exact objects: commit 5d7edc01f91cfa6dcfd936a90ac6a3e2685ae655; EN blob 21e7078af7990b2d815f0dbf77e5521db043478c; RU blob 54c24eff4c5c6a0f13e0f80907ac1c3ba2f48a89. The critic re-read the complete English public prefix and Russian guide through git show/git cat-file; the live working tree was neither source nor target.

ID Exact-final result
RU-D01 RESOLVED — отобранный устойчивый во времени контекст is natural and semantically stable
RU-D02 RESOLVED — hypotheses plus verification results preserve tested/falsifiable meaning
RU-D03 RESOLVED — audience heading is idiomatic and functionally equal
RU-D04 RESOLVED — all three copyable actions clearly follow/execute instructions; paths unchanged
RU-D05 RESOLVED — anthropomorphism is bounded without an artificial calque
RU-D06 RESOLVED — knowledge candidates are clear to a newcomer
RU-D07 RESOLVED — expired/unavailable-chat continuity problem is exact
RU-D08 RESOLVED — orthography corrected
RU-D09 RESOLVED — conditional gates are explicit
RU-D10 RESOLVED — update sequence is natural and technically accurate
RU-S01 PASS — concise natural Conduct row, same scope and destination as English

Exact-final English back-translation of the corrected definition:

Trace-First Workflow (TFW) makes work inspectable/checkable and suitable for continuation. TFW is a methodology for joint human and AI work, grounded in the Philosophy of Trace. Purpose [literally, “goal”], legitimate authority, judgment, acceptance, accountability for the outcome, and the obligation to stop the work remain with humans; agents carry out limited assignments. A Trace is selected context that remains stable over time, not a raw chat log and not a hidden chain of reasoning. It preserves decisions, a result or current state, evidence, boundaries, and information for continuation.

The critic reconfirmed all six human responsibilities and bounded agents, the complete practical function set, 11/11 command parity, Edition/lifecycle identifiers, local/external navigation, strict UTF-8, zero board/state content, anti-paraphrase boundary, and the functional/provenance explanation for source growth.

Final counts: original findings resolved 10/10; new findings 0; open HIGH 0, MEDIUM 0, LOW 0; unresolved HIGH 0.

Exact-final decision: ACCEPT commit 5d7edc01…, RU blob 54c24eff…. This remains a language-critic result, not formal TFW REVIEW.

8. Formal REVIEW Return #1 Recheck

Formal REVIEW correctly found that the preceding exact-final acceptance was substantively wrong on two points: it accepted обязанность остановить работу as stop responsibility even though it states an unconditional duty, and it missed the non-authoritative ⛔ BLOCKED glyph. Sections 4 and 7 above remain unchanged as the visible record of that acceptance error; the new same-critic ruling below supersedes only their verdict for the earlier blob.

Exact objects and isolation

Object Exact value
REVIEW-return freeze 36075b486ae2adffeb7d19293f16606d3cc22a3f
English source README.md, blob 78644c954d1e51a3c9e422c514b4fef7e6a8a9ca, complete public prefix before ## Task Board
Russian target README.ru.md, blob e67f45a79d4958e749fa53a4e90e2ab43e110d1e
Isolation Same critic re-read both complete Git objects with git show/git cat-file; the live working tree was neither source nor modified
Review type Isolated read-only language critique; not formal /tfw-review

Prior-error closure

Prior miss Why the earlier acceptance was wrong Exact correction Closure
RU-R1 — duty-to-stop wording An obligation to stop is not retained human responsibility and authority to decide whether stopping is warranted Definition and How It Works now use ответственность за результат и за решение об остановке работы RESOLVED — the human decision and responsibility are explicit; no unconditional stop command remains
RU-R2 — lifecycle glyph The prior object used a symbol absent from the authoritative mechanics EN and RU now use ❌ BLOCKED RESOLVED — exact parity with conventions, glossary, and config

Fresh definition back-translation and semantic table

Trace-First Workflow (TFW) makes work inspectable/checkable and suitable for continuation. TFW is a methodology for joint human and AI work, grounded in the Philosophy of Trace. Purpose, legitimate authority, judgment, acceptance, accountability for the outcome, and responsibility for the decision to stop the work remain with humans; agents carry out limited assignments. A Trace is selected context that remains stable over time, not a raw chat log and not a hidden chain of reasoning. It preserves decisions, a result or current state, evidence, boundaries, and information for continuation.

Required invariant Exact Russian Same-critic ruling
purpose Цель ... остаётся у людей Preserved
legitimate authority легитимные полномочия ... остаются у людей Preserved explicitly
judgment суждение Preserved explicitly
acceptance приёмка Preserved and idiomatic for workflow
accountability ответственность за результат Preserved explicitly
retained responsibility and authority to decide to stop ответственность ... за решение об остановке работы остаётся у людей Faithful — the grammatical object is the human decision about stopping, not a duty to stop; preceding legitimate authority preserves decision authority
bounded agents агенты выполняют ограниченные поручения Preserved; no independent authority

How It Works repeats the same corrected boundary naturally and keeps agents inside an approved bounded contract.

Lifecycle and full-object verdict

The same critic checked ❌ BLOCKED in the exact English and Russian objects against .tfw/conventions.md, .tfw/glossary.md, and .tfw/project_config.yaml: RU contains one authoritative occurrence and zero ⛔ BLOCKED occurrences. All pipeline identifiers and the ❌ REJECTED distinction remain exact.

The complete practical-function ledger, seven newcomer answers, 11/11 command parity, Edition/path/URL/navigation parity, zero Russian board/state, strict UTF-8, anti-paraphrase boundary, current-fact corrections, and source-growth provenance all pass. Previously fixed RU-D01RU-D10 and RU-S01 remain resolved. No new HIGH, MEDIUM, or LOW finding was reported.

Final REVIEW-return counts: prior critic misses acknowledged 2, resolved 2; new HIGH 0, MEDIUM 0, LOW 0; unresolved HIGH 0.

REVIEW-return exact-final decision: ACCEPT commit 36075b486ae2adffeb7d19293f16606d3cc22a3f, RU blob e67f45a79d4958e749fa53a4e90e2ab43e110d1e. This acceptance supersedes the flawed prior language verdict for the earlier blob and is not a formal TFW REVIEW verdict.


LANG_REVIEW — TFW-55 / Phase B.2 — Russian | 2026-08-26