Capstone Thread: Evidence Before Complexity
This module creates the first capstone slice.
Required commits
- problem-contract: actor, decision, horizon, action, harms, fallback.
- data-card: provenance, schema, authority, splits, exclusions, retention.
- baselines: current workflow plus at least one statistical baseline.
- evaluation: frozen-set protocol, metrics, slices, calibration, error taxonomy.
- decision: selected approach, rejected alternatives, stop conditions.
Review gate
A reviewer runs the clean command, verifies the data fingerprint, challenges one assumption, and asks you to defend three errors from raw records. Advancement requires reproducibility and a credible baseline; model sophistication earns no substitute credit.