Purpose

Why the ledger exists
  • give reviewers and PR readers a compact way to distinguish public-main perception from current branch reality
  • keep branch improvements visible without promoting bridge work into false completion
  • separate stale public gap claims from the real remaining architectural gaps

Reading Rule

Promotion discipline
  • use docs/HLF_CLAIM_LANES.md when reusing or promoting any statement from this file
  • this ledger is branch-aware, not main-only
  • a branch-resolved item means the gap is no longer accurate for this checkout, not that the full target pillar is complete

Verified Branch Facts

Grounding facts

active branch: integrate/vscode-operator-governed-review

divergence from main: 0 behind, 10 ahead

packaged surface count in this checkout: 69 tools, 31 resources

Verdict System

Overstated, valid, resolved, and open classifications
Overstated Valid Resolved Open
Overstated Public Gaps
5
Overstated Public Gaps

5 branch-aware classifications in this lane.

Valid Public Gaps
5
Valid Public Gaps

5 branch-aware classifications in this lane.

Branch-Resolved Gaps
5
Branch-Resolved Gaps

5 branch-aware classifications in this lane.

Still-Open Architectural Gaps
7
Still-Open Architectural Gaps

7 branch-aware classifications in this lane.

These chips classify statement status. They do not erase the need to read the linked markdown authority before promoting wording.

Reviewer Decision Panel

How a branch reviewer should read the claims ledger
What is real now
resolved

active branch: integrate/vscode-operator-governed-review

Verified branch facts anchor the ledger before any gap language is promoted.

What is improved in branch
resolved

Branch-resolved gaps are no longer accurate for this checkout.

5 rows currently sit in the resolved lane.

What is still missing
open

Still-open gaps remain constitutive architecture work.

7 rows remain explicitly open.

What is safe to claim publicly
claim-lane

Resolve stale gap claims without declaring full completion.

use docs/HLF_CLAIM_LANES.md when reusing or promoting any statement from this file

Overstated Public Gaps

Overstated Public Gaps
Branch-aware review table

5 classified statements remain grounded in the markdown ledger authority.

Public gap claim Branch-aware reality True remaining gap after both are considered
Formal verification is only a placeholder or source-only ideaPackaged formal-verifier behavior now exists in hlf_mcp/hlf/formal_verifier.py with tests and front-door resource proofDeeper verifier semantics, broader proof coverage, and fuller upstream restoration remain open
There is no governed review or operator evidence normalizationhlf_mcp/governed_review.py and weekly artifact/evidence-query surfaces now exist and are testedThe fuller operator product and richer audit dashboards remain open
The repo has no symbolic bridge lane at allhlf_mcp/hlf/symbolic_surfaces.py provides tested relation-edge extraction, projection, explanation, and audit loggingBroader symbolic-semantic restoration remains bridge work
Dream/media evidence is absent as a governed branch laneBounded dream-cycle, media evidence, citation-chain proposal, and multimodal contract surfaces now exist in this checkoutThe lane is still advisory and not yet a fully restored autonomous-evolution subsystem
There is no VS Code bridge or operator shell workextensions/hlf-vscode/ now contains a real claim-lane-aware operator bridge scaffoldIt remains a scaffold, not Marketplace-shipped completion

Valid Public Gaps

Valid Public Gaps
Branch-aware review table

5 classified statements remain grounded in the markdown ledger authority.

Public gap claim Branch-aware reality True remaining gap after both are considered
The fuller upstream routing fabric is not yet restoredCorrectStill open: packaged route traces and governed selection exist, but the broader gateway/router fabric is not yet back
Orchestration is still only partially packagedCorrectStill open: packaged lifecycle and DAG slices exist, but not the full upstream plan-execution and delegation stack
Memory governance is still incompleteCorrectStill open: freshness, revocation, supersession, trust-tier, and unified evidence contracts still need stronger completion
Gallery/operator legibility is not yet fully restoredCorrectStill open: current operator-readable resources are stronger, but gallery-grade and end-to-end operator surfaces remain bridge work
Signed disclosure and ALS-style audit sealing are still missingCorrectStill open

Branch-Resolved Gaps

Branch-Resolved Gaps
Branch-aware review table

5 classified statements remain grounded in the markdown ledger authority.

Gap previously inferred from public-facing materials What now exists in this checkout Lane-qualified reading
Weekly artifact handling is only a basic automation baselineDecision persistence, verified loading, evidence querying, and normalized governed-review outputs now existcurrent-true for the bounded packaged surfaces; broader operatorization remains bridge-true
Multimodal is an empty lane familyQualification profiles and hlf://status/multimodal_contracts now existbridge-true
Dream findings cannot be inspected or linked to proposalsDream-cycle status/findings/resources and observe-propose-verify-promote citation-chain proposals now existbridge-true
Formal verifier only exposes a status stubTools, reports, and regression proof now existcurrent-true for the packaged slice
Symbolic proof has no concrete implementation sliceTested relation-edge symbolic surface now existsbridge-true

Still-Open Architectural Gaps

Still-Open Architectural Gaps
Branch-aware review table

7 classified statements remain grounded in the markdown ledger authority.

Gap Why it is still open
Full routing fabric restorationPackaged routing is stronger, but the upstream gateway/bus/router coordination layer is not yet restored
Full orchestration lifecycle restorationPackaged lifecycle and DAG normalization exist, but multi-agent execution, delegation, and fuller crew orchestration remain incomplete
Stronger memory-governance closureRevocation, expiry, supersession, and one coherent evidence contract still need stronger packaged closure
Deeper formal-verification semanticsThe packaged verifier is real now, but the upstream proof stack is broader than the current packaged slice
Operator/gallery-grade trust surfacesCurrent resources are useful but not yet the full operator trust product
Governance integrity cleanupThe host-function registry drift was resolved by re-manifesting governance/host_functions.json, but integrity still depends on keeping MANIFEST.sha256 refreshed when tracked governance files change
Remote recursive-build promotionLocal bounded build assistance is real, but remote streamable-http self-hosting remains gated until the full initialize path is proven

Bottom Line

How reviewers should read the branch

The public repo can still make the branch look thinner than it is.

The corrective reading is:

That is the split reviewers should use before judging whether the repo is merely under-documented, materially improved, or still missing constitutive HLF pillars.

  • some public gaps are stale or overstated for this checkout
  • some are genuinely resolved in the branch but still bridge-qualified
  • some remain real architectural gaps even after the branch work is counted

Source Provenance

Operator-facing generation trace
markdown source HLF_BRANCH_AWARE_CLAIMS_LEDGER_2026-03-20.md watermark 2026-03-20T00:00:00Z

This page is rendered from the branch-aware claims-ledger markdown authority. Promote wording from it only with the claim-lane rules it references.