Weave: preserved architecture, switchable implementation and provisional answers

.github/workflows/weave.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+name: Weave modular experiments
+on:
+  pull_request:
+    paths:
+      - 'research/weave/**'
+      - '.github/workflows/weave.yml'
+  push:
+    branches: [main]
+    paths:
+      - 'research/weave/**'
+      - '.github/workflows/weave.yml'
+  workflow_dispatch:
+permissions:
+  contents: read
+jobs:
+  test:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - name: Fetch exact source without unpinned action dependencies
+        env:
+          SOURCE_SHA: ${{ github.event.pull_request.head.sha || github.sha }}
+        run: |
+          set -euo pipefail
+          git init .
+          git remote add origin https://github.com/The-Interdependency/stack.git
+          git fetch --depth=1 origin "$SOURCE_SHA"
+          git checkout --detach FETCH_HEAD
+          test "$(git rev-parse HEAD)" = "$SOURCE_SHA"
+      - name: Verify assembly and provisional transport, not native cipher security
+        run: |
+          set -euo pipefail
+          python3 -VV
+          PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE=1 python3 research/weave/test.py --receipt "$RUNNER_TEMP/weave-check.json"
+          cat "$RUNNER_TEMP/weave-check.json"

AGENTS.md

@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ projects may later graduate into their own repositories.
   substituted a recursive pairing/authenticated codec for Erin Spencer's intended
   multi-arity interleaving construction. Do not extend it or treat any passing test,
   vector, decoder audit, or measurement as evidence for the intended URPCS design.
+- `research/weave/` owns new Stack-local research into the full intended encryption system. Preserve all declared layers: hyperspace/gonol plaintext construction, private-gonol recovery, multiple reconstruction-dependent threads, thread-associated corpus/material, multi-arity last/first interleaving, and the intended asymmetric public/private relation. Read `SPECIFICATION.md` before implementation. Unresolved mechanics must fail closed as `hmmm`; do not reduce the project to its interleave layer or substitute a familiar cipher, codec, permutation generator, or URPCS mechanism.
 - `research/zfae/` owns Stack-local inference-construction experiments. ZFAE
   retains conceptual authority, PTCNA owns neural construction, and a0 owns
   runtime integration. Keep a0-betatest comparisons separately attributed.
@@ -137,6 +138,9 @@ coherence; it does not replace workspace behavioral tests.
   independent repository/release authority boundary; exact UCNS affixiation geometry is unresolved.
 - URPCS is retired for specification divergence. Why GPT substituted the different
   architecture remains `hmmm`; its retained evidence is historical and implementation-local.
+- Weave is specification-first research. Uneven partitions, stage-input
+  composition, schedule encoding, thread/corpus binding, hyperspace/gonol binding,
+  authentication/state, and the threat model remain `hmmm` until explicitly resolved.
 - The complete root `skill-lib/` snapshot refresh remains separate because the current
   provenance-bound fresh-making doctrine is newer than the local generator snapshot.
 - Project graduation automation remains unimplemented.

README.md

@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ stack/
 │   ├── edcm/                # current EDCM measurement research + BASE.json
 │   ├── pcea/                # current PCEA research + BASE.json
 │   ├── urpcs/               # RETIRED: substituted GPT-produced codec; historical evidence only
+│   ├── interlace-encryption/ # intended multi-arity interleaving encryption research
 │   ├── ptcna/               # current PTCNA research + BASE.json
 │   ├── zfae/                # inference construction research and gonol input parser
 │   ├── epac/                # historical forge evidence; active implementation is independent
@@ -101,10 +102,11 @@ multi-arity interleaving construction during GPT-assisted implementation. The re
 for the substitution is unresolved. Its tests and receipts apply only to that
 substituted codec and must not be used to validate or falsify the intended URPCS design.
 
+The replacement research path is `research/weave/`. It owns the full intended encryption construction: hyperspace/gonol plaintext representation, private-gonol recovery, multiple reconstruction-dependent threads, thread-associated corpus/material, multi-arity bit interleaving, and the eventual asymmetric public/private relation. The interleave is one layer, not the project identity. The workspace deliberately contains no URPCS implementation dependency and makes no security claim.
+
 ```bash
-python3 research/urpcs/urpcs_v1_reference.py --self-test
-python3 -m unittest discover -s research/urpcs/tests -p 'test*.py'
-node research/urpcs/tests/test_independent_decoder.js
+cat research/weave/SPECIFICATION.md
+cat research/weave/BASE.json
 ```
 
 ### Change stack structure
@@ -137,6 +139,8 @@ Python Gonol Construction is likewise stack-local and ungraduated; its Python 3.
 constructor is an implemented candidate, not stack or language canon.
 URPCS is retired; its retained vectors and replay evidence establish behavior only
 of the substituted historical codec. No URPCS claim may be inferred from them.
+Weave is new stack-local research and remains specification-first; no
+confidentiality or production-security standing is implied by its placement.
 Psychsocio metafauna and From Photons to the Macroverse remain stack-local
 pre-graduation research. EPAC has an independently published MPL-2.0 `v0.1.0`
 release and has passed public Stack reconsumption. Its Python forge copy is retired;

STACK_MANIFEST.md

@@ -14,10 +14,11 @@ Provenance and authority-boundary record for `The-Interdependency/stack`.
 - EPAC-derived carrier workspace separation UTC: `2026-09-18` at `545e135e2efbbcf29f033ab5530ac4876a68b718`
 - URPCS v1 workspace integration UTC: `2026-09-20` from Stack baseline `a428a41a38a8b30bacb7025a4d54070b228a8089`
 - URPCS retirement UTC: `2026-09-28`; specification divergence discovered after conversation-history review; retained implementation is historical evidence only
+- Weave workspace creation UTC: `2026-09-28`; new specification-first research starts from the intended multi-arity interleaving mechanism without URPCS inheritance
 - English four-view complete-corpus audit UTC: `2026-09-22`, exact view source `1f9a35eb355296fc88d09784c7a3e2e95511ca31`; all 164,864 words, native and independent agreement.
 - Stack-manifest schema: `the-interdependency.stack-manifest` version `1.1.0`
 - Work-graph digest (SHA-256 over canonical `repositories` + `research_participants` + `boundaries` JSON):
-  `1e9a8f485c290bf7e3537e66cc72ac8ced749ce58fd4005647bd3981e071af1f`
+  `fa81adcbc37d2042bd6691857f3f97c26f8a16f89821bef66b8331df9553d251`
 - Machine-readable copy: [`stack-manifest.json`](stack-manifest.json)
 
 ## Directory contract
@@ -61,7 +62,8 @@ release identity.
 |---|---|---|---|---|
 | `research/epac/` | `The-Interdependency/stack` | `0e8384bbb60e4c2189016a212bdd0030d04aed7d` | historical forge evidence; active implementation consumed from the independent EPAC release | no |
 | `research/epac-derived-carrier/` | `The-Interdependency/stack` | `545e135e2efbbcf29f033ab5530ac4876a68b718` | active stack-local carrier audit consuming exact EPAC source; no EPAC implementation/public-contract or scientific standing transfer | no |
-| `research/urpcs/` | `The-Interdependency/stack` | `a428a41a38a8b30bacb7025a4d54070b228a8089` | stack-local authenticated recursive pairing codec research with byte-exact reference vectors; no confidentiality, PCEA compatibility, or UCNS-gonol identity transfer | no |
+| `research/urpcs/` | `The-Interdependency/stack` | `a428a41a38a8b30bacb7025a4d54070b228a8089` | retired historical evidence for the substituted recursive pairing/authenticated codec; not evidence for the intended URPCS construction | no |
+| `research/weave/` | `The-Interdependency/stack` | `01f340ba5b4c5f107703233750768e201a41da68` | new specification-first research for the intended multi-arity interleaving encryption construction; no URPCS implementation inheritance or security standing | no |
 | `research/english-gonol/` | `The-Interdependency/stack` | `99b3598b02a6e683b3c84184d8ea443b12fc0e1a` | stack-local English lexical/gonol construction separated from EDCM; full pinned-corpus v2 build/replay survived; consumes UCNS geometry; EDCM may evaluate outputs but does not define construction | no |
 | `research/python-gonol/` | `The-Interdependency/stack` | `0e8384bbb60e4c2189016a212bdd0030d04aed7d` | stack-local bottom-up Python 3.12 source gonol construction; applies METAPAT affixiation semantics, consumes optional UCNS geometry, and transfers no language authority to UCNS or EDCM | no |
 | `research/ucns/` | `The-Interdependency/ucns` | `1975fe70cf4e0826a8020c2da3047569e277af64` | explicit source base for integrated stack-local UCNS research; does not refresh or replace the manifest-pinned `libs/ucns` canonical view | no |
@@ -129,6 +131,8 @@ construction. The reason for that substitution remains unresolved. All retained
 vectors, decoder evidence, and measurements describe only the substituted codec;
 they do not validate or falsify the intended URPCS design.
 
+The intended construction now has a separate research owner at `research/weave/`. Weave preserves the full system rather than naming only the interleave layer: hyperspace/gonol plaintext construction, private-gonol recovery, multiple reconstruction-dependent threads, thread-associated corpus/material, multi-arity bit interleaving, and the intended asymmetric public/private relation. The workspace starts with no implementation inheritance from URPCS and no confidentiality or production-security claim.
+
 ZFAE construction research lives at `research/zfae/`. Its exact research-only
 inputs are recorded above. The parser consumes the existing English GlyphGonol
 producer at the Stack baseline and the separately pinned UCNS carrier. Its
@@ -201,12 +205,16 @@ fixtures remain executable historical evidence for the substituted profile only.
 No result from that profile may be promoted to a claim about the intended URPCS
 construction.
 
+Weave is a new stack-local research component. It is not yet an
+independent repository, release, or security-reviewed cryptosystem.
+
 ## hmmm
 
 - UCNS has no `LICENSE` file at pinned commit `828c0b8`.
 - English Gonol Construction remains stack-local research; independent repository/release authority and the exact UCNS displacement law have not been established.
 - Python Gonol Construction remains stack-local research; independent repository/release authority and exact UCNS affixiation geometry remain unresolved.
 - URPCS is retired for specification divergence; why GPT flattened/substituted the intended construction remains unresolved, and retained evidence is scoped only to the substituted implementation.
+- Weave preserves the intended mechanism, while uneven partitioning, stage-input composition, schedule encoding, thread/corpus binding, hyperspace/gonol binding, authentication/state, and the threat model remain unresolved.
 - `skill-lib/` remains a special operational snapshot at stack root rather than following the ordinary `libs/` + `research/` pair.
 
 ## UCHC input candidate