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Engineering Verification Trail v0.2 → v0.2.6 2026-08-09 CANDIDATE_UNPROMOTED / FAIL

Engineering Verification Trail: Seven-Role Adversarial Verification, v0.2 → v0.2.6

This is a research line independent of the rest of this page: starting 2026-08-09, 7 AI roles divided the work to repeatedly run adversarial verification on an engineering candidate related to the "P/NP Dynamic Four-Layer Closure Framework" — AI-1 makes the coordinating ruling, AI-2 (red team) does read-only checks against frozen evidence, AI-3 reviews the formal interface (including Lean 4 formalization), AI-4 builds the candidate itself, AI-5 trusts none of the candidate's own built-in verifier and independently rewrites the logic checks from scratch, and AI-6/AI-7, two independent scholars, do blind-read assessments from traditional complexity theory. From v0.2 to v0.2.6, across 7 version tags, at least 12 distinct, uniquely-named blockers were found and fixed — this reads as genuine round-by-round deepening scrutiny, where fixing one hole exposes a new one at the next layer, not the same issue stuck in place, nor a left-hand-checks-right-hand rubber stamp. As of v0.2.6: AI-1 (coordination) and AI-5 (independent replay) still rule FAIL; AI-2's PASS is strictly scoped to consistency checks against existing frozen evidence, explicitly excluding independent re-verification or any P/NP inference. The two independent scholars' judgment cuts deeper still: even if this entire engineering-verification line turned fully green, it would not constitute any conclusion about P/NP.

CANDIDATE_UNPROMOTED / FAIL — per AI-1's coordinating report (v0.2.6); the other role reports on this page stand as parallel evidence and do not represent overall acceptance.

Five Engineering Roles · v0.2.6 Status

The "PASS" column is each role's own strictly-scoped result, not the overall acceptance outcome — see each role's note below.

RoleResponsibilityv0.2.6 ResultScope Note
AI-1
Coordination
Checks consistency of every party's disposition and manifest; rules on disagreements FAIL 2 blockers: CLOSURE-OPAQUE-LEAF-TERMINAL-01 (adopting AI-3's ruling) + ACCEPTANCE-PACKET-IMPORT-EDGE-COUNT-01 (adopting AI-5's ruling). The document states plainly: 'no Board success is published, no shared repo is established, the next version is not started.'
AI-2
Red team / consistency
Read-only check of frozen evidence, signatures, and existing test data PASS Strictly scoped: only re-checks the 3 old judgments assigned by AI-1, plus new-field consistency. The document states plainly it 'does not represent promotion,' explicitly excluding isolated replay (AI-5's responsibility), independent algorithmic re-verification of the 1500 cases, or any P/NP inference.
AI-3
Formal / Lean
Reviews completeness of the canonical judgment graph + Lean 4 formalization FAIL The OpaqueLeaf node (genuinely reachable) has no terminal-state mapping to PASS/FAIL/UNKNOWN, yet the executable verifier silently treats it as PASS and keeps running. The Lean side compiles and the kernel audit shows no sorry/admit, but it explicitly does not touch the four-layer framework's core claims — it is basic scaffolding only.
AI-4
Engineering
Builds the candidate itself Self-test all passed 22/22 unit tests, 1500/1500 SAT-case replays with 0 mismatches — but these are all the candidate's own self-tests, not third-party verification. The candidate's documentation states twice that it 'does not claim any P=NP or P≠NP conclusion,' and its status field reads CANDIDATE_UNPROMOTED.
AI-5
Independent replay
Trusts none of the candidate's own verifier; independently rewrites and checks the logic from scratch FAIL 216 hashes, 31 import edges, 112 evidence hashes, and all 1500 cases passed independent recomputation — except one document inside the candidate package states 29 import edges (the other four sources all say 31), which alone causes the overall FAIL. It has never given a clean PASS since v0.2.1.

The Two Blockers in v0.2.6

CLOSURE-OPAQUE-LEAF-TERMINAL-01 (AI-3) — in the candidate's canonical judgment graph, OpaqueLeaf is a target branch of SupportedTraversal.child_dispatch, but there is no definition of which terminal state — PASS/FAIL/UNKNOWN — it should map to. This is not a hypothetical concern: AI-3 found a piece of data in the frozen test set that genuinely walks into this branch, and the executable verifier silently treats it as PASS and keeps running — this is an interface gap between the "canonical graph" and "actual execution," not an admission bypass, a correctness counterexample, or a P/NP conclusion. This is, in fact, the next layer's gap, exposed for the first time only because the judgment graph, after the previous round's (v0.2.5) fix of CLOSURE-SUPPORTED-RELATION-RESULT-01, genuinely reached this next node for the first time.

ACCEPTANCE-PACKET-IMPORT-EDGE-COUNT-01 (AI-5) — inside the candidate package, CURRENT-v0.2.6-candidate.md states "29 local import edges," but the machine descriptor, the official self-check, VALIDATION-REPORT-v0.2.6-candidate.md in the same package, and AI-5's own independent AST-based recount all agree on 31. This is a plain documentation-count inconsistency, not a correctness error, but under the process rules it still constitutes a promotion blocker.

The Two Independent Scholars' Judgment

AI-6 (a traditional complexity-theory scholar) and AI-7 (a cross-paradigm bridging scholar) are entirely separate from the engineering-verification line above, each doing a blind review without seeing the other's draft.

"This is not a failed proof of P/NP; nor is it currently a proof of P/NP." — AI-6, first-round blind read. The second-round re-review upholds the original verdict: the research program may continue and is more mature than in the first round, but as a submission of a P/NP characterization theorem it would need "at least a major revision"; as material claiming to have proven P=NP, P≠NP, or established a new complexity class, it "does not hold."
"Engineering closure cannot be promoted to mathematical closure." — AI-7, cross-paradigm bridging report. A second-round item-by-item check of whether AI-6's judgment had been overturned by subsequent engineering and formalization progress concluded it had not: "each result can move up at most one layer … the sheer number of green engineering lights cannot leap directly to a P/NP conclusion."

Both specifically caution: no known complexity-theoretic barrier (relativization, etc.) has actually been engaged yet; although the Lean side compiles cleanly, lemmas such as zeroDebt may be vacuously satisfiable and thereby lose their meaning, so "successful compilation" on its own should not be over-read; GLC's "robust" semantics has so far only been tested on a single deterministic run, which is not the same as having verified general fault-tolerant / non-deterministic semantics.

Version Trajectory

v0.2 through v0.2.6 spans 7 version tags and at least 12 distinctly-named blocker IDs (PROV-DERIVE-01, REF-TYPE-01, CLOSURE-CLASS-01, CLOSURE-EDGE-SCOPE-01, ORACLE-DECL-FAMILY-01, CLOSURE-JUDGMENT-COMPLETENESS-01, ADVICE-DECL-LEDGER-01, plus v0.2.5 and v0.2.6's own new blockers), with no name repeated. v0.2.3 was briefly marked PASS before being corrected to FAIL by an ADDENDUM. Read as a whole, it looks like a continuous hardening process — fixing old gaps round by round while review depth also deepens round by round, exposing new gaps in turn — rather than the same defect recurring, or the verification side simply rubber-stamping whatever engineering hands it.

Original Documents

Extracted from each role's complete output directory, the files most directly relevant to the v0.2.6 status ruling — original bytes, not repackaged, each verified by SHA-256. The complete output (including historical versions v0.2 through v0.2.5, code, and test data) is outside the scope of this mirror.

RoleDocumentSizeSHA-256
AI-1 Integration AI-1 Coordinating Bounded Acceptance v0.2.6 — FAIL (overall status) (Chinese) 8.0 KB ded0c20aa77d3d8e…
AI-2 Red team AI-2 Bounded Local Conformance v0.2.6 — PASS (scope-limited) (Chinese) 7.3 KB 96581b8c4c4dd703…
AI-3 Formal AI-3 Bounded Formal-Interface Read-Only Acceptance v0.2.6 — FAIL (CLOSURE-OPAQUE-LEAF-TERMINAL-01) (Chinese) 13.0 KB ebe92cf3a070ccb1…
AI-3 Formal AI-3 Lean 4 Formalization Addendum (Chinese) 6.4 KB 01d3eb4c9583ee06…
AI-4 Engineering AI-4 Candidate Specification v0.2.6 (Chinese) 1.7 KB 18ac00879641cadd…
AI-4 Engineering AI-4 Candidate Self-Test Report v0.2.6 (Chinese) 1.8 KB 8fd61e2871628245…
AI-4 Engineering AI-4 Candidate 216-File Hash Manifest v0.2.6 (Chinese) 24.9 KB 2e1c58a5ce85833d…
AI-5 Independent replay AI-5 Independent Engineering Replay Acceptance v0.2.6 — FAIL (ACCEPTANCE-PACKET-IMPORT-EDGE-COUNT-01) (Chinese) 8.4 KB 3831f8464c5b4811…
AI-6 Scholar AI-6 Traditional-Complexity Scholar Re-Review Report v2.0 (Chinese) 36.2 KB 15332569b7f430aa…
AI-7 Scholar AI-7 Cross-Paradigm Bridging Scholar Cross-Check Report v2.0 (Chinese) 42.8 KB 55a8204c89e79cd3…