Em 0042

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{

"id": "EM-0042",

"title": "Close autonomous docket selection, clock, and exact-head gaps",

"status": "ready",

"change_class": "governance-normative",

"objective": "Preserve the second cold-start submission as an immutable failed queue receipt, close the exact-head, runtime-clock, and prior-art-selection gaps it exposed, and permit a third cold start only after a rebuilt implementation passes fresh independent review from the accepted contract base.",

"depends_on": [

"EM-0041"

],

"authority": {

"allowed_paths": [

"README.md",

"src/**",

"tests/**",

"docs/**",

"ops/**",

"runs/**",

".github/**"

],

"forbidden_paths": [

"constitution/**",

"policies/**",

"schemas/**",

"governance/events/**",

"tasks/contracts/**",

"catalog/dossiers/**",

"research/how-we-know/**",

"research/open-dockets/submissions/**"

]

},

"evidence": [

{

"kind": "failed-second-cold-start-submission-binding",

"repository": "yoheinakajima/epistemedia",

"pull_request": 72,

"head": "3f965831031b88f4efff954550ecb383fec0e5a8",

"tree": "c67de1a45bd9d97aac6cd39c0f63aa73a30b3a2d",

"base": "71439e9bb3e95a0121956a9721e736bd91961034",

"validate_run": 33294032543,

"validate_job": 99210517338,

"files": {

"research/open-dockets/submissions/did-gpt-4-score-in-approximately-the-90th-f616475ae6/PR_BODY.md": "395753246185eddefa9dbe5c8419f3cad3550a3d169d6e44a0f6599287387440",

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"research/open-dockets/submissions/did-gpt-4-score-in-approximately-the-90th-f616475ae6/proposal.json": "8ffd2546758e47ed70eed233f9828668a31f978ea3576ac1b628a26249c73444"

}

},

{

"kind": "canonical-cold-start-prompt",

"text": "Open https://epistemedia.org/agents/submit/. Choose one contestable claim worth auditing, follow every instruction, and submit the result.",

"sha256": "ec8200e61a3c8d94c2c62e5d55d707564914276aa45ec600d4095772141eb1ef"

}

],

"required_evaluation": [

"contract-only registration accepted before implementation begins, followed by an implementation branch rebuilt from that accepted base",

"fresh independent governance review loaded from the accepted base before implementation approval",

"exact preservation of PR 72 at its recorded base, head, tree, three contributor files, open draft state, and blocking queue status, with no repair, review, promotion, merge, or warrant credit",

"pull-request CI checkout bound to the immutable source head rather than a synthetic merge ref, with exact-head regression coverage",

"server chronology requiring accepted base commit time at or before runtime start, followed by runtime completion, intake submission, commit author time, commit committer time, and server PR creation",

"isolated chronology adversaries for a base commit after runtime start and malformed or missing base commit timestamps",

"executable-captured runtime start, completion, and submit-time completion resealing without trusting contributor-invented timestamps",

"bounded prior-art comparison against every accepted dossier and reviewed open docket that fails closed on unreadable, missing, malformed, or incomplete comparison records",

"subject-aware near-duplicate adversaries covering close paraphrase, acronym and number-word variants, unrelated shared vocabulary, malformed accepted dossiers, and malformed reviewed open dockets",

"public cold-start instructions requiring accepted, reviewed, and queued prior-art inspection before research begins",

"append-only run receipt binding exact commands, accepted base, candidate head and tree, tests, output identities, UTC timestamps, and limitations",

"full accepted-base validation, focused adversarial tests, deterministic rebuild, disclosure audit, interface parity, exact protected-path comparison, clean state, exact-head independent review, protected merge without bypass, resulting-main validation, separately authorized Pages deployment, and live release-identity read-back before any third provider run"

],

"acceptance": [

"EM-0042 is registered and accepted before its implementation branch is created from main",

"candidate CI checks the immutable pull-request head and compares it to the source PR head without relying on GitHub's synthetic merge commit",

"an otherwise valid submission fails when accepted base commit time follows runtime start, and malformed or absent base commit time also fails closed",

"research prepare captures runtime start, research complete captures runtime completion, and research submit reseals completion immediately before canonical queue bytes are created",

"accepted-dossier and reviewed-open-docket comparison records cannot be skipped on parse, path, field, or retrieval failure",

"close paraphrases of an accepted claim are rejected while unrelated questions sharing generic research vocabulary are not rejected",

"the public submission guide tells a cold-start agent to reject accepted, reviewed, queued, or closely restated claims and record the prior-art comparison",

"PR 72 remains unchanged, open, draft, blocking, and non-admitted; Cases 001-004 and every accepted dossier, review, policy, count, evaluation, and public meaning remain unchanged",

"the exact implementation head passes CI, full deterministic checks, disclosure audit, path-scope comparison, and a fresh non-author review before protected merge",

"no third cold-start provider run occurs until the reviewed implementation is merged, resulting-main validation passes, and the exact release is deployed and read back live"

],

"limitations": [

"A lexical or structured prior-art gate can reject obvious restatements but cannot establish semantic novelty; unresolved or borderline novelty receives no automatic acceptance credit and remains a review question.",

"The second failed cold start remains a valid negative result and must not be repaired, promoted, hidden, or merged to satisfy the pilot objective.",

"This remains the GitHub-native pilot, not the hosted authenticated MCP queue governed by EM-0038.",

"No new provider call, credential or account action, spend, DNS change, package release, deployment, publication, branch deletion, or unrelated mutation is authorized by registering this contract.",

"The existing review-gate App remains limited to repository read access plus exact check-result writes and cannot write contents, approve, merge, deploy, or replace substantive independent review."

]

}