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alexmandClaude 8c8b51cc3f feat: validator, bundle builder and release checks for 0.1.0
- Add tools/validate.py: validates packages, and with --correction runs
  proposed corrections through the gate against a package without
  writing anything (spec/11 §11.4). The gate now refuses a proposal that
  fails the correction schema, rule correction.schema.
- tools/load.py validates every package before loading, and with
  --bundle --built-from builds a scienting-bundle/1 with the FTS5 search
  index and bundle_meta (spec/13 §13.5). Search rows are defined per
  unit (sentence, cell, equation outside a sentence, figure-text) with
  the parent kind as context.
- Roster keys carry a role, and a key with the role owner may revoke any
  receipt (spec/08 §8.7, spec/20); roster schema, store table and the
  fixture roster updated. The checker signs a trial revocation to prove
  the rule both ways.
- A qa: receipt raises the nodes it sampled except those in its errors
  (spec/08 §8.2); the example paper's fidelity counts become 27 F3,
  13 F2, 4 F1 and 1 F0.
- The destination chooses the keyed scheme, not the text policy:
  hmac-team between the team's machines, hkdf-pages outside the team
  (spec/05 §5.8, spec/12 §12.5).
- A TextQuoteSelector must repeat the anchor's plain quote and is absent
  for hashed or keyed anchors (spec/18 §18.3).
- Add fixtures/records/suspect.json, a scienting-suspect/1 record.
- Oracle: hashes are kept incrementally and checked after every
  correction against a full recomputation; load and write refuse unsafe
  manifest paths; Ed25519, HKDF and schema validation come from the
  cryptography and jsonschema packages; canonical JSON uses the built-in
  encoder with an exact RFC 8785 fallback.
- The tools need Python 3.14 with cryptography and jsonschema; the py310
  CI environment is dropped and the workflow runs the default only.
- Resolve every [CHECK] note in the docs, READMEs and context; add
  CONTRIBUTING.md; every tool answers --help and refuses unknown options.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-14 18:58:00 -04:00

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12. The package

A document travels as a package: a folder named by its key, or the same folder zipped.

12.1 Files

Path Required Holds
MANIFEST.json Yes The manifest (12.3).
document.json Yes The document (2.2).
nodes.jsonl Yes Every node, in document order (3).
witnesses.json Yes Every witness, with its rights (2.3).
provenance.json Yes Tools and versions, backends, cached readings, stages and where each ran.
pages.jsonl No Every page of every witness (7.3).
locations.jsonl No Geometry per node and page (7.4).
references.jsonl No Parsed references and their resolution (10).
corrections.jsonl No Every correction, in order (11).
receipts.jsonl No Receipts and revocations, sorted by at and then id (8).
ids.jsonl No Retired IDs and legacy aliases (4.4).
suspects.jsonl No Unresolved suspects, sorted by id (5.7).
roster.json No The roster its receipts need (8.7).
assets/ No Images and crops, as <sha256>.<extension>, present or listed only.
datasets/<id>/ No Datasets (15).
derived/ No Rebuildable renderings, never authoritative (12.7).

An optional JSON Lines file with no records is omitted. Every file is in the canonical form of 1.9.

12.2 Paths

Paths use /, are relative, have no empty, . or .. segment, no backslash and no NUL, and are already normalized. In a zip, entries are UTF-8 named, sit under one top-level folder named by the key, are stored or deflated, carry no symbolic links, and are unique; a consumer refuses an archive that breaks any of these, or whose expanded size exceeds its own limit. A producer that wants byte-identical archives writes entries sorted by path, dated 1980-01-01 00:00, with no extra fields.

12.3 The manifest

MANIFEST.json, scienting-package/1, is {format, doc, key, files}: the package format, scienting-doc/1, the document key, and every other file as {path, sha256, size}, sorted by the UTF-8 bytes of the path. An asset whose bytes stay in the asset store is listed with present: false; nothing else may be. The SHA-256 of MANIFEST.json pins the whole package.

12.4 Provenance

provenance.json holds tools ({name, version}), and optionally backends, readings (each cached reading's ID, witness, backend and SHA-256), stages (each stage's name, tool, input hashes, output hash, the processor where it ran, and the uses it ran under) and a session. Every stage that uses a model or an outside service records where it ran (14).

12.5 Text policies

Policy Means
full Every leaf keeps its content.
checks-only Every leaf has withheld: true and no content; panels drop their figure text; references keep their resolution but no CSL; there are no corrections, suspects or datasets; and the hashing scheme is keyed: hmac-team between the team's machines and hkdf-pages outside the team (5.8).

A checks-only package is how a team shares its annotations on a paywalled paper without sharing the paper. Its text lives in the team's private asset store, and only key holders can check its values. fixtures/packages/hale2026harmonic.checks-only is such an export of hale2026harmonic to another machine of the team, under the team key in fixtures/keys/.

12.6 Assets

Assets are named by SHA-256, so every read is rehashed and a regenerated crop is a different asset. Bytes that live only in the asset store are listed in the manifest with present: false, with their size.

12.7 Derived files

derived/ holds what a pinned tool makes from the package, such as derived/mathml.jsonl, whose lines are {node, run, tool, mathml} with run null for an equation node. Nothing derived is content, and a consumer may delete and rebuild it.

12.8 Media type and extension

A zipped package has the extension .sct.zip and the media type application/vnd.scienting.doc+zip.