OCT Publication Progress Tracker v0.1

Tracker launch date: 2026-04-18
Last update: 2026-05-05
Objective: monitor remaining steps toward publishable formalization.

General status (historical v1.0 track)

• Total passes: 6
• Completed: 6
• In progress: 0
• Missing: 0

Master program (historical v1.0 track)

1. Cycle 3 complete (independent benchmark #2) - completed (2026-04-19)
2. Cycle 4 complete (stress/ablation/audit) - completed (2026-04-19)
3. Final decision theorems (validated/revise/reject) - completed (2026-04-19)
4. Freeze Formal Base OCT v1.0 - completed (2026-04-19, candidate)
5. Final editing of the founding work - completed (2026-04-19)
6. Publication package (GitHub + preprint) - completed (2026-04-19)

Step 1 detail (Cycle 3)

1.1 Freeze benchmark #2 independent - completed (2026-04-18)
1.2 Pre-compiled Cycle 3 results/report package - completed (2026-04-18)
1.3 Cycle 3 input/runtime contract formalized - completed (2026-04-18)
1.4 Dataset acquisition completed (download + manifest + checksum) - completed (2026-04-19)
1.5 D02 execution on benchmark #2 - completed (2026-04-19)
1.6 A01 execution on benchmark #2 - completed (2026-04-19)
1.7 D03 execution on benchmark #2 - completed (2026-04-19, revise_needed)
1.8 Cycle 3 aggregate report + gate to Cycle 4 - completed (2026-04-19)

Step 2 detail (Cycle 4)

2.1 Defined stress/ablation plan - completed (2026-04-19)
2.2 D03 revision with fixed non-adaptive scheme - completed (2026-04-19)
2.3 Stress thresholds D03 (sensitivity grid) - completed (2026-04-19)
2.4 Final reproducibility audit D02/A01/D03 - completed (2026-04-19)
2.5 Closing Cycle 4 reports - completed (2026-04-19)

Step 3 detail (Final theorem decision)

3.1 Decision matrix phase 1 (D02/A01/D03) - completed (2026-04-19)
3.2 Consolidation of decisions on remaining theorems in scope - completed (2026-04-19)
3.3 Final unified decision issue (validated/revise/reject) - completed (2026-04-19)

Step 4 detail (Freeze Formal Base OCT v1.0)

4.1 Freeze checklist definition (axioms/notation/canonical theorems) - completed (2026-04-19)
4.2 Theorem state alignment with unified decision matrix - completed (2026-04-19)
4.3 Baseline OCT v1.0 freeze candidate issue - completed (2026-04-19)

Step 5 detail (Final editing)

5.1 Editorial plan chapter-by-chapter - completed (2026-04-19)
5.2 Mathematical/notational standardization - completed (2026-04-19, pass 1 on draft v0.8)
5.3 Final revision for preprint-ready manuscript - completed (2026-04-19, draft v0.9 + preprint candidate v1.0)

Step 6 detail (Publication package)

6.1 Preprint/GitHub publication checklist issue - completed (2026-04-19)
6.2 Index/documentation alignment to final artifacts - completed (2026-04-19)
6.3 Release notes package + version policies - completed (2026-04-19)
6.4 Metadata/preprint license template - completed (2026-04-19)
6.5 Final human review + license/metadata choice - completed (2026-04-19)

v5.3 update lane (started 2026-05-01)

• New planning artifact: OCT_UPDATE_PLAN_v5_3.md
• External review corpus imported:
  • external_reviews_2026-05-01/anti_patterns_validation.md
  • external_reviews_2026-05-01/a01_gate_design.md
• Decision rationale hardening:
  • DECISION_MATRIX_FINAL_UNIFIED_v0_1.md now ties revise explicitly to Chapter 8 Definition 8.12 constraints.
• Ex-ante gate artifacts published:
  • templates/OCT_PROXY_PREVALIDATION_SHEET_v0_1.md
  • OCT_EX_ANTE_PROXY_GATE_POLICY_v0_1.md
  • OCT_CLAIM_TYPE_ANTIPATTERN_CHECKLIST_v0_1.md
• Cycle 5 refactor specs published (execution pending):
  • CYCLE_5_2026-05-01/CYCLE_5_OVERVIEW_v0_1.md
  • CYCLE_5_2026-05-01/CYCLE_5_A01_PROCESS_LEVEL_SPEC_v0_1.md
  • CYCLE_5_2026-05-01/CYCLE_5_D03_LOCKED_TAXONOMY_SPEC_v0_1.md
  • CYCLE_5_2026-05-01/CYCLE_5_D02_EVIDENCE_CLASS_SPEC_v0_1.md
  • CYCLE_5_2026-05-01/CYCLE_5_EXECUTION_AND_REJECT_RULES_v0_1.md
  • CYCLE_5_2026-05-01/CYCLE_5_PREREG_SEAL_TEMPLATE_v0_1.md
• Runtime governance package published and smoke-tested:
  • runtime/OCT_APPEND_ONLY_TRAJECTORY_SCHEMA_v0_1.json
  • runtime/OCT_PREREG_SEAL_SCHEMA_v0_1.json
  • runtime/check_gate_compliance.py
  • runtime/compliance_report_v0_1.json (must be interpreted as substantive gate check, not file-presence only)

Interpretation note (v5.3.1 hardening):

• Historical Cycle 3-4 outputs for A01/D02/D03 remain preserved as record.
• Under ex-ante policy, those outputs are not sufficient for theorem-state promotion by themselves.
• Cycle 5 artifacts supersede historical outputs as admissible evidence basis for A01/D02/D03 promotion.

v5.4 candidate lane (started 2026-05-05)

Purpose:

1. Open A01 promotion path with real implementations and independent benchmark.
2. Keep D02/D03 unchanged while A01 is methodologically upgraded.

Published planning artifacts:

1. CYCLE_6_2026-05-05/CYCLE_6_OVERVIEW_v0_1.md
2. CYCLE_6_2026-05-05/CYCLE_6_A01_REAL_PIPELINES_SPEC_v0_1.md
3. CYCLE_6_2026-05-05/CYCLE_6_EXECUTION_AND_REJECT_RULES_v0_1.md
4. CYCLE_6_2026-05-05/CYCLE_6_BENCHMARK_INDEPENDENCE_PROTOCOL_v0_1.md
5. CYCLE_6_2026-05-05/CYCLE_6_EXTERNAL_AUDIT_PLAN_v0_1.md
6. CYCLE_6_2026-05-05/CYCLE_6_PREREG_SEAL_TEMPLATE_v0_1.md
7. RUNBOOK_CYCLE6_EXECUTION_v0_1.md

Current status:

1. Specification package complete.
2. Execution pending (benchmark acquisition + dual-auditor assignment completion).

Usage note

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