WICK — State of Play & What's Next

CONFIDENTIAL — PATENT PENDING · for Joseph Weinberg, in honor of Noah Baron · 2026-07-02 checkpoint · every number verified vs its results JSON

Where we are — the research lane has converged

PROVENThe field is the universal recall operator
Subsumption Law #18 HARDENED: field subsumes all structural retrievers, replicated 2 corpora + directed escape ruled out leak-free. Content = the one orthogonal complement (cold).
PROVENScale-invariant recall + exact hierarchy
Beam field 412×→1068× measured (advantage grows with N). Berkovich hierarchy = exact ancestry, machine-checked. Signature intrinsically damage-tolerant (40% erasure, uncoded).
SHIPPEDProve-then-enable machine in prod
Re-ranker + enable-gate + qrel-harness + content-resolver — all default-OFF, fail-closed, my 4 anti-circularity guards compiled in. B3 prod-wire landed (default-OFF).
The honest summit: the arc that started as "which exotic geometry wins" ended proving none of them do — one field contains them all. That's cleaner, more defensible, more patentable than any single geometry. The bottleneck is no longer research — it's production data + your decisions.

The critical path to a real production recall gain (do these in order)

1
Guard O-1 enforcement fix COORD
CLI must require provenanceAttested===true before a citable PROMOTE (else enable rides the weak coverage backstop, not the load-bearing attestation). Small change; guard is otherwise doubly-cleared (my 14/14 re-audit + coord 3/3).
2
Re-audit the O-1 fix ME
Re-run the attack PoCs on the landed enforcement fix → clean → gate opens.
3
Explicit B3-enable authorization YOU
Approved verbally; needs your clean yes to flip B3 in prod (it's the prod-config change that generates real usage data). Gated behind step 2 — no rush.
4
~300 human-qrel labeling pass → validation → enable verdict COORD ME
The honest test that turns the 0.924 lab number into a real, independent-gold production enable/hold decision. Harness + judging protocol are frozen + shipped.

The other real builds

YOUR NAMED BUILDThe translator (LLM → hypervector)
Lab-proven (SimHash, preserves 0.996@1024b), NOT yet shipped. The Path-2 production piece — turns recall into bit-ops. Your named next build.
HARDEN#18 last scope gap
The content-complement half needs a cold-bearing 2nd corpus (corpus-2 had no cold stratum). Small; moves #18 hardened → confirmed-universal. This is the only real research item left.

Patent — ready when you lift the HOLD

READY
ATTORNEY_PACKAGE_v1: 6 claim groups (task-split architecture · field re-ranker · Orthogonal Routing Law · Berkovich hierarchy · seal/holographic · measured laws) + Appendix A (tested-and-declined = the discipline record) + Appendix B (production status). Named prior-art walls on each. The math is prior art (GSP); the patentable matter is the COMPOSITION + the architecture laws (esp. the Orthogonal Routing Law, now with the Subsumption Law as its foundation). Provisionals remain operator-HOLD.

Standing practice (adopted 2026-07-02, operator directive)

Visual explainer at EVERY checkpoint — a defined one for the operator + the system, like frontier's. This is that practice, live.
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