failure family

provenance and audit integrity

11 claims across 3 works.

• Custody Without Account: A user who holds every byte locally and composes many services into a workflow has perfect custody and no answer to the question of what happened.
• Attribution Failure Dissolves Responsibility: Attribution failure dissolves responsibility into composition: where contribution cannot be traced, fault cannot be assigned, and no participant has a
• Unjoinable Audit Records: Chronicle entries at commit 2d920ce carry exactly five fields with no workflow identifier, parent-entry reference, principal identity, or correlation
• Uninstrumented Execution Path: At commit 2d920ce the built-in Gmail, Web3, and Vault modules and third-party MCP servers execute through the tool registry with no Chronicle instrume
• Unlogged Autonomous Payment: At commit 2d920ce the payment plugin moves real value autonomously while writing nothing into any Chronicle, so end-to-end provenance is not merely un
• Append-Only Without Tamper Evidence: The Chronicle at commit 2d920ce is append-only structurally but not tamper-evident: any process with filesystem access can rewrite or truncate history
• Silent Truncation Reports Clean History: Chronicle.read at commit 2d920ce skips malformed lines and silently truncates to a default limit, so the audit log reports a clean history in exactly
• Sweep Artifacts Unreleased: Reproducibility by others has not been demonstrated because the parameter grids, generating code, and trial-level outputs are not released with this v
• Architecture Cannot Prove Outcome Unread: The architecture shows that the author arranged not to read the outcome early and that specified later adjustments would be detectable, and it does no
• Seal Is A Commitment Not A Lock: The seal is a commitment made visible rather than a lock, because the operator can open the files.
• Audit Short Of Verdicts And Findings Unadopted: In the final audit rounds of the last three sections of the working draft, one audit family's command-line engines returned no verdict because their u