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Visual Operations Phase Closeout

Identification

Field Value
Title AletheIA Visual Operations docs-first phase closeout
Date 2026-06-15
Repository nevitonsantana/AletheIA
Delivery PRs #193, #194, #195, #196, #197
Final merge commit 01f67e8
Executor Codex
Human operator Neviton Santana

Intent

Close the first Visual Operations phase after proving that AletheIA can project governed work into source-backed JSON and Markdown without creating another authority, lifecycle, collector, backend, or dashboard runtime.

This closeout records what is complete, what remains intentionally unavailable, and which evidence must exist before a future phase can expand the surface.

Scope completed

The phase delivered five bounded slices:

Slice Durable result Merge commit
Docs-first projection Concepts, event envelope, derived Work Slice state, privacy boundaries, templates, and synthetic example 88fc7b2
First real retrospective PR #193 reconstructed from durable GitHub evidence; regulated sensitivity drift corrected f7d9b5b
Deterministic projector Pure TypeScript GitHub PR input → normalized events, Work Slice snapshot, follow-ups, and Markdown c6c2610
Local CLI File-only generation, --check, transactional output replacement, and PR #195 pilot c65b658
CI snapshot gate Explicit allowlist check required by the aggregate Quality Gate 01f67e8

Current operating path

The implemented path is:

authorized local evidence JSON
  -> deterministic read-only projector
  -> normalized events + derived Work Slice state
  -> JSON and/or Markdown snapshot
  -> local --check
  -> selected snapshot sets verified by CI

The source evidence remains authoritative at every step. Generated snapshots are navigation and review aids only.

Primary operational surfaces:

Validation evidence

Across PRs #193–#197:

  • every merge was protected by the verified head SHA;
  • governance, TypeScript, lockfile, Vitest, and aggregate Quality Gate checks passed;
  • the final CI slice added and passed Visual Operations Snapshots as a sixth check;
  • the test suite reached 193 passing tests in 19 files at the end of the CLI slice;
  • the checked-in PR #195 JSON and Markdown outputs passed the local and CI --check path;
  • a controlled stale-output probe exited with code 2 and did not rewrite the file;
  • package.json and pnpm-lock.yaml remained unchanged by the CLI and CI slices;
  • the unrelated local plans/ directory remained outside every commit.

These claims are bounded to the repository and linked GitHub records. They are not provider-runtime telemetry.

Reconcile

Work Slice

  • Final presentation lane: closed.
  • Lane confidence: confirmed by merged PRs and synchronized main.
  • Source refs: PRs #193–#197 and their merge commits listed above.

Outcome

  • What changed: A docs-first vocabulary became a deterministic, locally operable, CI-verified projection path.
  • Validation outcome: passed for the implemented repository surfaces.
  • Evidence status: sufficient for closing this phase.
  • Human review status: user authorization was required and obtained before each merge; no separate durable GitHub review requirement was recorded, so the canonical review requirement remains unknown.

Resource signals

  • Tokens: unavailable — no governed provider telemetry was attached to these slices.
  • Cost: unavailable — no governed cost record was attached.
  • Runtime: local execution occurred, but no authoritative runtime-session record was exported for this phase.
  • Retry posture: bounded corrections were made for sensitivity vocabulary, pnpm argument forwarding, and package/lockfile CI behavior.

Missing telemetry is preserved as unavailable rather than reconstructed from conversation history.

Boundary decisions preserved

The phase does not introduce:

  • a new Work Slice lifecycle or state machine;
  • a readiness, policy, gate, or decision authority;
  • GitHub API collection, polling, webhooks, or remote importers;
  • a database, event bus, backend, dashboard runtime, or static UI;
  • automatic regeneration in CI;
  • prompt, secret, restricted-content, or personal-data storage;
  • token or cost estimates without a governed source;
  • Adaptive Skills authority over gates or decisions;
  • mandatory integration for consumer projects.

Presentation lanes remain derived. Events remain normalized references to existing records. Skills, if integrated later, remain traceable activations rather than governance authorities.

Accepted learnings

  1. Projection is useful before collection. Real PR evidence was enough to validate the model and reveal contract drift without a remote importer.
  2. Missing data is an operational result. Planning depth, human-authorization rationale, skills, runtime, tokens, and cost cannot be inferred from merge success.
  3. Evidence provenance matters. CI-observed evidence must remain distinct from author-reported local validation.
  4. Historical closure is stable. Post-close findings create linked follow-up slices; they do not reopen the original historical lane.
  5. Operational adapters should stay narrow. A local file CLI made the projection usable without coupling it to GitHub or changing package dependencies.
  6. CI should verify, not mutate. The snapshot gate detects drift through an explicit allowlist and never rewrites governed outputs.

Deferred surfaces and activation evidence

Deferred surface Evidence required before activation
GitHub collector or importer At least two repeated manual evidence-assembly cases where collection effort or errors materially limit the projector, plus explicit authentication, rate-limit, privacy, and failure-mode boundaries
Dashboard or UI At least three real snapshots used in an actual review cadence, with documented decisions that Markdown/JSON could not support clearly
Persistent event store or backend A demonstrated need for cross-slice querying or retention that checked-in artifacts cannot satisfy, including ownership and deletion requirements
Adaptive Skills integration A durable, non-sensitive skill-activation record from a real slice and a reviewed mapping that preserves AletheIA gate authority
Runtime, token, or cost telemetry An authoritative provider or harness record with consent, provenance, sensitivity classification, and unavailable fallback
Additional CI snapshot A reviewed real fixture that adds a distinct scenario; explicit addition to snapshot_sets is required

These are activation gates, not roadmap commitments.

Stop conditions

Do not open the next phase merely to add surface area. Stop or reframe if a proposal:

  • makes the projection authoritative;
  • invents values to complete cards;
  • duplicates AHGE, readiness, decision, execution, handoff, restart, or learning records;
  • requires sensitive source bodies instead of metadata-first references;
  • couples Adaptive Skills to macro governance;
  • adds remote collection before its operational need and threat boundary are evidenced.

Keep the phase closed until real usage supplies one of the activation signals above.

The smallest acceptable follow-up is evidence collection about usage of the existing outputs: record whether a maintainer used a generated snapshot during review, what decision it supported, and which field was missing or misleading. That learning can be a short pilot report; it does not require new runtime or product code.

Closeout verdict

Closed as complete for the docs-first, local projection, and CI-verification boundary.

The implemented system observes and explains governed work without governing, authorizing, or executing it. Future expansion requires empirical activation evidence and a new bounded Work Slice.

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