Development

Consensus, authority, and what is still experimental

The frontier — everything here is explicitly tagged, and unfinished consensus is never shown as operational.

Consensus and authority roadmap

C7.2.2 Durable vote-guard + QC bundles — IMPLEMENTED
Caveat: the multi-node harness stalls (height-retry deadlock).

C7.2.3 Durable height/view consensus — SPECIFIED
Protocol-core types landed; liveness closure is design-only.

C7.3 authority Authority certificates — verification IMPLEMENTED, issuance SPECIFIED
Enforcement is test-gated; no issuance path exists yet.

WIP branches 99b9bbc (height-retry gate) and 85ddbfb (issuance / authority-gossip) — isolated, never presented as landed.

Consensus development map — a status record, not an animation of working consensus.

Consensus is one continuous C7.x story: deterministic sortition selects witness panels, panels ratify blocks, and (in design) height/view consensus and authority certificates carry it forward. The live multi-node harness does not yet pass — the height-retry deadlock stalls a run at height 9. Unit tests are green; end-to-end liveness is not.

C7.2.2-design.md, C7.2.3-design.md, C7.3-authority-spec.md

WIP branches WIP

Two isolated branches hold work that must never be presented as landed:

wip/c7.2.2-step6-live-gate (99b9bbc) — preserves the live harness exposing the height-retry deadlock.
wip/c7.3-issuance-authority-gossip (85ddbfb) — issuance primitives and authority gossip, unratified.

Cells CONCEPTUAL

src/cell/mod.rs holds the Prototype Cell data model — Cell, CellMember, CellRelationship, Experiment, ExperimentReplication, EvidenceRecord, Reflection, and KnowledgeArtifact. These are serializable data structures only: no logic, no consensus or economics wiring. Cells are a design object, not an operational subsystem.

src/cell/mod.rs

Specifications

C7.2.3-design.md — durable height/view consensus SPECIFIED
C7.3-authority-spec.md — authority certificates and issuance SPECIFIED
docs/derivation-model-spec.md — deterministic panel derivation
docs/bootstrap-confession-spec.md — bootstrap membership / era transition
docs/era-two-design.md — ratification-block epoch design
docs/taxonomy-v2.md — STATE/JUDGMENT claim taxonomy

~/work-mesh-scaling (engine repo)

Conceptual work CONCEPTUAL

These are Institute-layer concepts with no engine correspondence at the current checkpoint. They are not hidden, but they are not operational:

Shared Mycelium mechanisms — Thermal Handshake, Soil Consensus, Spores, Resonance Channels, CRDT forking. Institute /emergence/mycelium (now labeled “Proposed”).
Standing / Attention — as distinct governance/economics primitives. Institute protocol chapters 7 and 11.
Adversarial consensus (Proposer / Opposer / Synthesizer loop). Institute /emergence/architecture — the engine uses sortition + ratification, not that loop.