research(a0-municipality): place the municipal handoff in Stack

.github/workflows/stack-consistency.yml

@@ -36,10 +36,34 @@ jobs:
   consistency:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - uses: actions/checkout@3d3c42e5aac5ba805825da76410c181273ba90b1 # v7.0.1; Node.js 24
         with:
           fetch-depth: 0
       - name: Verify stack authority and provenance projections
         run: python tools/check_stack_consistency.py
       - name: Validate the repository-owned portfolio report
-        run: python skill-lib/interdependent-work-graph/portfolio_plan.py docs/work-graphs/repository-plan-report.json --output /tmp/stack-portfolio-validation.json
+        run: |
+          python skill-lib/interdependent-work-graph/portfolio_plan.py docs/work-graphs/repository-plan-report.json --output /tmp/stack-portfolio-validation.json
+          # Full history above is required: an exact source must remain reachable.
+          source_commit=$(python -c 'import json; print(json.load(open("docs/work-graphs/repository-plan-report.json"))["source"]["commit"])')
+          git merge-base --is-ancestor "$source_commit" HEAD
+      - name: Verify the preserved municipal handoff
+        working-directory: research/a0-municipality
+        run: |
+          # Run from research/a0-municipality for the same local integrity gate.
+          sha256sum -c HANDOFF.sha256
+          python - <<'PY'
+          import hashlib
+          import json
+          from pathlib import Path
+
+          handoff = Path("HANDOFF.md").read_bytes()
+          artifact = json.loads(Path("SOURCE_RECEIPT.json").read_text(encoding="utf-8"))["artifact"]
+          if artifact["path"] != "HANDOFF.md":
+              raise SystemExit("Source receipt must identify HANDOFF.md")
+          if artifact["sha256"] != hashlib.sha256(handoff).hexdigest():
+              raise SystemExit("Handoff SHA-256 differs from source receipt")
+          if type(artifact["size_bytes"]) is not int or artifact["size_bytes"] != len(handoff):
+              raise SystemExit("Handoff byte count differs from source receipt")
+          print(f"Source receipt verified: {len(handoff)} bytes")
+          PY

AGENTS.md

@@ -37,6 +37,13 @@ projects may later graduate into their own repositories.
   Its input parser consumes the exact English GlyphGonol producer and UCNS
   carrier declared in GONOL_PARSER.json. Preserve occurrences and missing
   admission; parser completion is not neural or higher-gonol completion.
+- `research/a0-municipality/` owns the municipal application specification and
+  cross-project integration research. Read its README for current placement,
+  then preserve the complete v1.1 HANDOFF.md and its source receipt. a0 owns
+  runtime implementation; UCNS and current Stack/UCHC owners retain construction
+  authority. Keep all four workflows, the reserved fifth, homeless-union
+  stewardship, tax-funded remuneration and native origin requirements. Placement
+  is not a working app, partner authorization or operational proof.
 - `integration/epac/` consumes the hash-pinned public EPAC release.
   `research/epac/` retains historical evidence only; route implementation changes to
   `The-Interdependency/epac`. Do not restore the retired forge import path.

README.md

@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ stack/
 │   ├── weave/               # full gonol/private-key/thread/corpus/interleave research
 │   ├── ptcna/               # current PTCNA research + BASE.json
 │   ├── zfae/                # inference construction research and gonol input parser
+│   ├── a0-municipality/     # municipal application handoff and composition research
 │   ├── epac/                # historical forge evidence; active implementation is independent
 │   ├── epac-derived-carrier/ # active Stack audit consuming exact EPAC source
 │   ├── psfr/                 # Psychosocial Fauna Research: lineages, agency displacement, coalescence
@@ -170,6 +171,17 @@ the construction sequence, the first executable input-distinction experiment,
 and the remaining UCNS/PTCNA and UCHC prerequisites. This is Stack research;
 conceptual, producer and runtime authority remain with their owners.
 
+### a0 Municipality composition research
+
+[research/a0-municipality/](research/a0-municipality/README.md) holds the complete
+v1.1 municipal application handoff, its source receipt and exact research inputs.
+It preserves the four workflows, the Oakland/Berkeley homeless union stewardship
+model, tax-funded remuneration and UCNS/UCHC native construction requirements.
+Stack owns composition research; a0 owns runtime implementation. This is
+specification-first work, with the fifth workflow reserved and operational proof
+still outstanding. Read the workspace README for current producer standing, then
+HANDOFF.md for the full build and acceptance contract.
+
 ### Make derived artifacts fresh without depending on hosted CI
 
 `backend/` implements the durable `fresh-making` control plane. PostgreSQL on the VM is

STACK_MANIFEST.md

@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ Provenance and authority-boundary record for `The-Interdependency/stack`.
 - 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):
-  `f0ce9606681cc053d9dcbb010805a932290207d49a5d8714297b8c3ce455ec41`
+  `1592038e77f342b15fd4044815487628e31beefae094bb26eea2fff4c81f31b1`
 - Weave workspace creation UTC: `2026-09-28`; new specification-first research starts from the intended multi-arity interleaving mechanism without URPCS inheritance
 - Machine-readable copy: [`stack-manifest.json`](stack-manifest.json)
 
@@ -87,6 +87,14 @@ release identity.
 | `research/zfae/` | `The-Interdependency/metapat` | `e4165b0cac9eca41daef9c2f941881028ca55d48` | current domain-restraint consultation; root impact none | no |
 | `research/zfae/` | `The-Interdependency/skill-lib` | `abd259b4722901317e4388d774a20d6819d959c2` | current research, source, structural-update and metadata rules; no snapshot refresh | no |
 | `research/zfae/` | `The-Interdependency/ucns` | `4086ab82399c4d142b0eacfbc09e0a69ed151aa5` | exact Public Gonol carrier consumed by the Stack glyph producer for the finite parser profile; no function semantics inferred | no |
+| `research/a0-municipality/` | `The-Interdependency/stack` | `6504ed963d93836f66fc88e354fe52809a1a3b7a` | starting forge baseline containing the merged English Hilbert candidate, PSFR boundaries and orchestration contracts; placement adds no runtime or canon | no |
+| `research/a0-municipality/` | `The-Interdependency/a0` | `ad958a4e5f4cdb17ba815539d2e6a545034db161` | intended municipal phone, permissions, finance and persistence implementation owner; inspected source, not a deployment claim | no |
+| `research/a0-municipality/` | `The-Interdependency/ucns` | `380ce7b7ec6b8b45ffa53ea4210070f0b3129747` | source-qualified relational geometry producer; no municipal semantics or operational authority transfer | no |
+| `research/a0-municipality/` | `The-Interdependency/uchc` | `0b3ada9ef2f8e32bba10daf104fc0d38730c3a77` | native glyph, word and definition origin reference; current English/Hilbert authority remains Stack-owned pending graduation | no |
+| `research/a0-municipality/` | `The-Interdependency/metapat` | `1cdfb09dd00a451cee30eec2e78624df8c682662` | source-qualified semantic distinctions; structural resemblance transfers no authority or status | no |
+| `research/a0-municipality/` | `The-Interdependency/skill-lib` | `3024df2b91a2cf7f103dc60640081ec03505335a` | separately pinned current placement doctrine; does not refresh the root operational snapshot | no |
+| `research/a0-municipality/` | `The-Interdependency/uchc` | `0401191adcfd490bc98856d3f4f8e9f3c1ae189c` | unmerged PR #3 documentation reference; no duplicate Hilbert implementation or completed graduation | no |
+| `research/a0-municipality/` | `The-Interdependency/stack` | `1df56909816362695b3519838dd7da38226ec565` | unmerged draft PR #66 protocol reference only; no implemented recovery, theorem or minimum-complexity claim | no |
 
 The imported `libs/` trees are the complete tracked working trees of their source
 repositories at the pinned commits, produced from Git trees / `git archive` contents.
@@ -144,6 +152,21 @@ UCHC extraction has not completed release/reconsumption. No `libs/` pin or
 upstream authority changes. Usage: read `research/zfae/README.md` and replay its
 source-bound input and gonol-parser probes.
 
+## a0 Municipality placement
+
+`research/a0-municipality/` preserves the complete 2 October 2026 handoff v1.1
+and registers its current application-composition placement on 4 October 2026.
+The eight research-only identities above bind the starting Stack baseline,
+a0, UCNS, UCHC, METAPAT, current external skill-lib doctrine and the unmerged
+UCHC migration/holography references. They do not change canonical `libs/` pins.
+
+Stack owns this specification and integration research; a0 owns runtime
+implementation. Native construction remains with the declared geometry/language
+producers. Read the workspace README for the merged Stack Hilbert status and
+incomplete UCHC graduation, then HANDOFF.md for all four workflows, the reserved
+fifth, UCNS/UCHC origin requirements and T01–T38. No app, funds, partner authority
+or six-month proof is established by this registration.
+
 ## License status at pinned commits
 
 | Repository | License file |

docs/work-graphs/repository-plan-report.json

@@ -9,10 +9,10 @@
     "blob_sha": "9b347b2dff7692054b571602f30ee6d00c2e7265"
   },
   "source": {
-    "branch": "actual-interlace-encryption",
-    "commit": "5dd67dec2d3cfe7eeb2cdd3d4f132bc9b8007ba9",
-    "generated_at": "2026-10-01",
-    "note": "PR #62 review repair from its exact starting head, revalidated against merged retirement 1ba201449731337dc20c564788f4303c8910bfdd; containing commit owns the update. Historical receipts retain their original source identities."
+    "branch": "research/a0-municipality-handoff",
+    "commit": "0679879486d3a9b43a3cc1aa7aa2effdee53bd2c",
+    "generated_at": "2026-10-04",
+    "note": "Municipal-placement report bound to the reviewed PR #69 snapshot, retained as an ancestor of the repair and merge history. That snapshot contains the complete workspace, source receipt and municipal registration. Earlier component claims retain their source-specific evidence; this report does not re-audit their implementations or claim later main-branch changes."
   },
   "authority": {
     "owns": [
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@
   },
   "status": {
     "state": "active composition forge; EPAC graduated and consumed as an immutable public release",
-    "current_claim": "Stack composes pinned participant identities and consumes independently published MPL-2.0 EPAC v0.1.0 from exact release source 949cb1cb304927942966c9fb396caf6227120e7f. Same-candidate pre-publication verification, public reconsumption and clean retired-source replay passed. All 37 forge Python implementation/test files are retired; 28 historical files retain their actual Stack BASE. The scoped receipt transfers only EPAC implementation/public-contract authority to its independent repository. Python Gonol and English Gonol are current Stack research workspaces. URPCS is retired substituted-codec historical evidence only; no result transfers to the intended design. ZFAE construction research is incubating at research/zfae/ with exact source comparison, a frozen character-input probe, and a source-verified gonol input parser over a declared 165-scalar profile; inference capability is not established. Historical English four-view receipts cover every word at their frozen implementation; current view payloads require a new full-corpus qualification. Weave preserves all intended layers in research/weave/ with switchable assembly and an explicit transport candidate; native asymmetric derivation remains unresolved."
+    "current_claim": "Stack composes pinned participant identities and consumes independently published MPL-2.0 EPAC v0.1.0 from exact release source 949cb1cb304927942966c9fb396caf6227120e7f. Same-candidate pre-publication verification, public reconsumption and clean retired-source replay passed. All 37 forge Python implementation/test files are retired; 28 historical files retain their actual Stack BASE. The scoped receipt transfers only EPAC implementation/public-contract authority to its independent repository. Python Gonol and English Gonol are current Stack research workspaces. URPCS is retired substituted-codec historical evidence only; no result transfers to the intended design. ZFAE construction research is incubating at research/zfae/ with exact source comparison, a frozen character-input probe, and a source-verified gonol input parser over a declared 165-scalar profile; inference capability is not established. Historical English four-view receipts cover every word at their frozen implementation; current view payloads require a new full-corpus qualification. Weave preserves all intended layers in research/weave/ with switchable assembly and an explicit transport candidate; native asymmetric derivation remains unresolved. a0 Municipality is now registered at research/a0-municipality/ with the complete handoff v1.1, source integrity receipt and eight exact research inputs. This establishes specification placement only; runtime implementation belongs in a0 and the six-month operational proof remains outstanding."
   },
   "delivered": [
     {
@@ -87,6 +87,11 @@
       "surface": "research/weave/",
       "status": "Switchable assembly, explicit transport candidate and fail-closed key/plan/source provenance checks",
       "boundary": "No inherited URPCS result, complete native cipher implementation or security standing; full profiles require actual corpus dependence."
+    },
+    {
+      "surface": "research/a0-municipality/",
+      "status": "Complete v1.1 handoff preserved byte-for-byte, current placement and producer standing documented, source integrity gate and eight research-only inputs registered.",
+      "boundary": "Specification-first composition research; no municipal runtime, partner authority, funding, geometry proof, producer graduation or six-month operational proof is claimed."
     }
   ],
   "active_frontier": [
@@ -96,17 +101,24 @@
     "Maintain Python and English Gonol construction/replay as bounded Stack research against their declared source and geometry identities.",
     "Resolve the UCNS neural-audit prerequisite and derive higher-scale closure and runtime integration from the source-preserving gonol input boundary.",
     "Evaluate English view usefulness on a defined inference task and preserve source-qualified addresses with explicit corpus-version remapping.",
-    "Derive and validate the missing native Weave key, gonol, binding and thread/corpus relations without replacing the preserved architecture."
+    "Derive and validate the missing native Weave key, gonol, binding and thread/corpus relations without replacing the preserved architecture.",
+    "Continue the complete a0 Municipality build contract, preserving four interacting workflows, the reserved fifth and native UCNS/UCHC origin construction; place application runtime work in a0."
   ],
   "next_actions": [
     {
       "action": "Bind the UCNS neural audit required by PTCNA and extend admitted constructions through explicit producer profiles; integrate only after the owning gates close.",
       "owner": "The-Interdependency/stack",
       "dependency": "Current PTCNA intended-construction gate and UCHC release/reconsumption boundary."
+    },
+    {
+      "action": "Produce the handoff section 13 source-bound gap/placement map, then implement the complete municipal application through its section 12 sequence and T01-T38 gates.",
+      "owner": "The-Interdependency/a0 for runtime; The-Interdependency/stack for composition research",
+      "dependency": "research/a0-municipality/HANDOFF.md; exact producer APIs and native origin/affixiation contracts; actual authority before corresponding live operations."
     }
   ],
   "blocked": [
-    "Intended PTCNA-dependent ZFAE construction remains subject to the UCNS neural-audit gate; UCHC is not yet a released/reconsumed dependency."
+    "Intended PTCNA-dependent ZFAE construction remains subject to the UCNS neural-audit gate; UCHC is not yet a released/reconsumed dependency.",
+    "Live municipal operation requires actual union/municipal/payer authority and deployment acceptance; native semantic-origin/affixiation integration and holographic recovery remain unestablished by the handoff."
   ],
   "cross_repository_relations": [
     {
@@ -151,7 +163,7 @@
     },
     {
       "repository": "The-Interdependency/a0",
-      "relation": "producer-state and Zeta evaluation source inspection; no runtime mutation",
+      "relation": "producer-state and Zeta evaluation source inspection; no runtime mutation; intended runtime owner for a0 Municipality, whose specification and integration research live in Stack",
       "authority_transfer": false
     },
     {
@@ -182,7 +194,11 @@
     "zfae_gonol_parser": "research/zfae/gonol_parser.py",
     "english_full_view_audit": "research/english-gonol/FULL_VIEW_AUDIT.json",
     "english_full_view_report": "research/english-gonol/docs/hyperspace-views-full-v1.md",
-    "weave": "research/weave/README.md"
+    "weave": "research/weave/README.md",
+    "a0_municipality": "research/a0-municipality/README.md",
+    "a0_municipality_handoff": "research/a0-municipality/HANDOFF.md",
+    "a0_municipality_base": "research/a0-municipality/BASE.json",
+    "a0_municipality_source_receipt": "research/a0-municipality/SOURCE_RECEIPT.json"
   },
   "hmmm": [
     "organization aggregate and website-projection derivation specs are not yet registered in fresh-making",
@@ -192,6 +208,7 @@
     "URPCS is retired; intended-design transcript identity and cause of substitution remain unresolved.",
     "ZFAE state, propagation, learning and readout laws remain construction work; input preservation alone does not demonstrate inference.",
     "English view discrimination is established on the complete fixed corpus; downstream inference usefulness and address remapping across corpus versions remain unresolved.",
-    "Weave public/private key derivation and source of asymmetry remain unresolved; provenance-bound key labels are not a mathematical implementation."
+    "Weave public/private key derivation and source of asymmetry remain unresolved; provenance-bound key labels are not a mathematical implementation.",
+    "a0 Municipality preserves the four workflows and reserved fifth; native producer integration, live payer/union/municipal authority and six-month operational proof remain separate work."
   ]
 }

research/a0-municipality/BASE.json

@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+{
+  "schema": "the-interdependency.stack-research-base",
+  "version": "1.0.0",
+  "project": "a0-municipality",
+  "source_repository": "The-Interdependency/stack",
+  "source_commit": "6504ed963d93836f66fc88e354fe52809a1a3b7a",
+  "source_path": ".",
+  "canon_path": null,
+  "authority": "Stack-local municipal application specification, composition planning and future integration research; runtime implementation remains a0-owned",
+  "standing": "stack-local-research",
+  "lifecycle": "incubating",
+  "authority_transfer": false,
+  "source_role": "starting forge baseline; the imported handoff has its own byte identity in SOURCE_RECEIPT.json",
+  "work_graph": "../../stack-manifest.json#research_participants[workspace=research/a0-municipality/]",
+  "specification": "HANDOFF.md",
+  "source_receipt": "SOURCE_RECEIPT.json",
+  "runtime_owner": "The-Interdependency/a0",
+  "usage": "Read README.md for current placement, then the complete HANDOFF.md. Run the root consistency checker, portfolio validation, and HANDOFF.sha256 integrity check.",
+  "hmmm": [
+    "No municipality runtime or live pilot is established by placement.",
+    "Native semantic-origin closure, affixiation, cross-origin operations and holographic recovery require producer-owned work.",
+    "UCHC stable release/reconsumption/authority transition remains incomplete.",
+    "Actual municipal, union and payer authority and the fifth workflow remain unresolved."
+  ]
+}