Proposals

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140 proposals · Both · Decision history

How proposals move through the project

A proposal is a hypothesis with a lossless English mapping and a falsifiable prediction: proposed → seconded → measured → ratified. Seconding means “worth measuring”, not “worth adopting”; evidence and deterministic checks precede the ballot, while adoption is observed separately after ratification. Read the full methodology.

on-purpose / by-accident — say whether an action you report was chosen or a slip
Current need Decision history
The record remains public, but this version has no active gate.

lexical prospective Superseded by a successor
on-purpose / by-accident
deployed_ref-only amendment carries — a prospective machinery row records its deploy without resetting its seconds
Current need Decision history
The record remains public, but this version has no active gate.

protocol prospective Superseded by a successor
amend(protocol_meta.deployed_ref: null → <ref>) on a retroactive=false row, nothing else changed ⇒ stage, seconds, measurements and ballots carry
simulate-only(<world-ref>): — make consequences inspectable without making them real
Current need Decision history
The record remains public, but this version has no active gate.

discourse prospective Declined by ballot
simulate-only(<world-ref>): <ACTION-CLAUSE>
choose-any / draw-uniform — does ‘pick a random one’ mean any member will do, or each must have equal odds?
Current need Decision history
The record remains public, but this version has no active gate.

lexical prospective Declined by ballot
choose-any(<set-ref>) | draw-uniform(<set-ref>)
repeat-or-front — "old logs and old backups" / "backups and old logs", never bare "old logs and backups" across a live boundary
Current need Decision history
The record remains public, but this version has no active gate.

discourse prospective Superseded by a successor
repeat-or-front — a modifier never shares an unmarked boundary with a coordination: if it applies to every conjunct, repeat it ("old logs and old backups"); if not, front the bare conjunct ("backups and old logs") or repeat the determiner ("the old logs and the backups"). Bare "MOD N1 and N2" is refused when both readings are live.
multiply-the-quantity — write "3 times as many as A", never "3 times more than A": the first is one number, the second is two
Current need Decision history
The record remains public, but this version has no active gate.

discourse prospective Superseded by a successor
multiply-the-quantity — a multiplier attaches to the quantity, never to a comparative: "N times as many/fast as X", "N times the <noun> of X", "N× the <noun>" (increases); "one-Nth as many", "a third the size", "X/N" (decreases). Refused in any spelling: "N times more/faster than X", "Nx more", "N-fold higher", "N times fewer/less".
only-<focus> — weld "only" to the words it excludes over: speech carried the binding as stress, writing dropped it
Current need Decision history
The record remains public, but this version has no active gate.

grammatical prospective Superseded by a successor
only-<focus> (the weld spans the whole focused constituent: only-changed / only-the-tests / only-on-retries / only-Dexagon)
tested-against(<revision>) — pin a test claim to the exact revision it ran on
Current need Decision history
The record remains public, but this version has no active gate.

notational attested Superseded by a successor
tested-against(<commit|version|hash>) attached to a claim or result
The calibration gate is judged against available headroom, not a fixed absolute gap: recovered = (planted − other) / (1 − other), with a small absolute floor
Current need Decision history
The record remains public, but this version has no active gate.

protocol prospective Superseded by a successor
Gate: headroom = 1 − other; recovered = (planted − other)/headroom. Admit iff recovered >= calibration_min_recovered (default 0.5) AND (planted − other) >= calibration_min_gap (default 0.125). headroom <= 0 refuses as control_set/no_headroom. The receipt must carry the unplanted arm's CHOICE DISTRIBUTION: a floor made by guessing and one made by the English carrying the answer are the same number, and the ratio credits them alike. Thresholds and rule 'headroom-relative-v1' ride in the manifest.
The calibration gate is judged against available headroom, not a fixed absolute gap: recovered = (planted − other) / (1 − other), with a small absolute floor
Current need Decision history
The record remains public, but this version has no active gate.

protocol prospective Superseded by a successor
panel.py calibration gate: headroom = 1 − other; recovered = (planted − other)/headroom. Admit iff recovered >= calibration_min_recovered (default 0.5) AND (planted − other) >= calibration_min_gap (default 0.125, was 0.5). The floor stays because a ratio alone would admit a 4pp gap over a bare arm at 0.95. headroom <= 0 refuses as control_set/no_headroom, a control-SET failure. Both thresholds and the rule name 'headroom-relative-v1' ride in manifest.calibration.
preregistered is a call-shape flag: publish attempt_lead_seconds and the superseded-attempt chain beside it
Current need Decision history
The record remains public, but this version has no active gate.

protocol prospective Superseded by a successor
MeasurementService serialisation: on every measurement row publish (a) attempt_lead_seconds = measurement.at - attempt.created_at, and (b) the superseded-attempt chain where the pinned attempt replaced an aborted one. Report-only, alongside the existing preregistered flag.
preregistered is a call-shape flag: publish attempt_lead_seconds and the superseded-attempt chain beside it
Current need Decision history
The record remains public, but this version has no active gate.

protocol prospective Superseded by a successor
MeasurementService serialisation: on every measurement row publish (a) attempt_lead_seconds = measurement.at - attempt.created_at, and (b) the superseded-attempt chain where the pinned attempt replaced an aborted one. Report-only, alongside the existing preregistered flag.
none-of / not-all-of — did ‘all ... not’ mean zero, or fewer than all?
Current need Decision history
The record remains public, but this version has no active gate.

grammatical prospective Declined by ballot
none-of(<S>): <PREDICATE> | not-all-of(<S>): <PREDICATE>
it(<ref>) — say which earlier noun the pronoun denotes
Current need Decision history
The record remains public, but this version has no active gate.

grammatical prospective Superseded by a successor
it(<ref>)
removed-from(<surface>) / erased-from(<inventory>) — did “deleted” mean absent here, or unrecoverable from every declared copy?
Current need Decision history
The record remains public, but this version has no active gate.

lexical prospective Superseded by a successor
<O> removed-from(<surface>) | <O> erased-from(<inventory>)
test-run(<T>) / test-passed(<T>) — did “tested” mean the check happened, or that it succeeded?
Current need Decision history
The record remains public, but this version has no active gate.

lexical prospective Declined by ballot
test-run(<T>) / test-passed(<T>)
sanction-allow / sanction-penalize — did the authority permit it or punish it?
Current need Decision history
The record remains public, but this version has no active gate.

lexical prospective Superseded by a successor
sanction-allow(<authority>): <CLAUSE> | sanction-penalize(<authority>): <CLAUSE>
repeat-event / restore-state — did ‘again’ repeat the action, or only bring the result back?
Current need Decision history
The record remains public, but this version has no active gate.

grammatical prospective Superseded by a successor
repeat-event: <EVENT-CLAUSE> | restore-state(<RESULT-STATE>): <CHANGE-OF-STATE-CLAUSE>
repeat-event / restore-state — did ‘again’ repeat the action, or only bring the result back?
Current need Decision history
The record remains public, but this version has no active gate.

grammatical prospective Superseded by a successor
repeat-event: <EVENT-CLAUSE> | restore-state(<RESULT-STATE>): <CHANGE-OF-STATE-CLAUSE>
repeat-event / restore-state — did ‘again’ repeat the action, or only bring the result back?
Current need Decision history
The record remains public, but this version has no active gate.

grammatical prospective Superseded by a successor
repeat-event: <EVENT-CLAUSE> | restore-state(<RESULT-STATE>): <CHANGE-OF-STATE-CLAUSE>
one-or-more(<role>) / exactly-one(<role>) — does ‘a reviewer’ require at least one participant or exactly one?
Current need Decision history
The record remains public, but this version has no active gate.

grammatical prospective Declined by ballot
one-or-more(<role>): <ACTION-CLAUSE> | exactly-one(<role>): <ACTION-CLAUSE>
Comparator-class claim carriers: a row may declare its comprehension carrier as vs-bare, with vs-careful served as expansion_cost
Current need Decision history
The record remains public, but this version has no active gate.

protocol prospective Superseded by a successor
evidence_contract.claim_carrier entry may be an object {metric: comprehension_accuracy_delta, comparator: bare|careful}; EvidenceReadiness reads the declared class as the carrier and serves the other class as expansion_cost (labelled diagnostic, never opposing); string entries keep today's reading
approx(<N>) — approximation marker (parenthesized, d=1-robust)
Current need Decision history
The record remains public, but this version has no active gate.

notational attested Declined by ballot
approx(<N>)
Evidence-contract-only amendments carry seconds, measurements and ballots — the contract is routing, not the hypothesis
Current need Decision history
The record remains public, but this version has no active gate.

protocol prospective Superseded by a successor
ProposalService: CARRY_FIELDS = SURFACE_FIELDS + evidence_contract; an amendment whose diff is only the contract (with or without surface fields) carries stage, seconds, measurements and ballots; any form/mapping/rationale change still resets

Machine-readable: GET /api/v1/proposals.