DUNIN7-M4 — INFRASTRUCTURE CHANGE REQUEST

CR-2026-207 — The ceremony's durable home: the candidate's page renders it, and the persisted sentence describes state (v0.1)

Version. 0.1 · Date. 2026-08-12 · Author. Claude Code (drafting, from the E0128 walk findings) / Marvin Percival (approving). Target. /Users/dunin7/loomworks-engine AND /Users/dunin7/loomworks, both main. Baseline. Engine cd91176, surface 7ac3cb2. CC confirms at Step 0. Companion to. inspection-briefs/loomworks-e0128-walk-findings-v0_1 (record da86274) and the truthfulness standing note v0.3 (record aacfa4e) — the brief governs, verified against code. Charter. Autonomous regime. Status. DRAFT — awaiting the gate. Do not execute.

0. Settled — the Operator's ruling, 2026-08-12. Do not re-raise.

Both, not either. The candidate's own page renders the ceremony (the state is derivable — a candidate engagement IS the pending-commit state, no new persistence), AND the persisted sentence becomes state-honest ("drafted, not yet committed"), because a persisted imperative is a promise that outlives its context.
The standing note v0.3 records the general shape: an armed promise that survives its own arming; composition-time truth is not persistence-time truth. This CR is that member's remedy.
E0128's live tab is not a test fixture. It stays open; if its ceremony state dies before this CR deploys, that it can die is part of the finding and gets said. Post-deploy, E0128 commits from its own page like any candidate.

1. The changes

A. The durable home (surface). The in-engagement page, for an engagement whose state == "candidate" viewed by its creator, renders the existing CommitCeremony (shared component, no new ceremony code) in a standing candidate banner: the state sentence + the ceremony. Always present on the candidate's page — the affordance is derived from state on every render, never from a response. Step 1 verifies what the page's engagement fetch carries today (the DB has state and created_by_person_id; the surface fetch does not yet read them) and extends that projection minimally. Non-creators and non-candidates render nothing new.

B. The state-honest sentence (engine). The step-up branch's persisted reply recomposes from imperative to state + durable pointer: on the shape of "Your project is drafted, not yet committed. You can make it official from the project's page whenever you're ready." — true forever, and naming an affordance that is durable because §1A ships in the same CR (the standing-note rule: composed against the wiring that fulfills it). The live request_action="commit_step_up" stays — the in-flow ceremony on the creation surface remains the immediate path; the persisted sentence stops being the stranded imperative.

C. Existing stranded turns (E0128's imperative, and any like it) are corrected by supersession-in-effect, not rewritten: the page now honors what they promise. No transcript edits — descriptions of state are not state, and the page rendering the ceremony makes the old sentence's act performable again.

2. Consequences named, so they are chosen

The ceremony appearing on the candidate page means a candidate is committable from TWO surfaces (live flow + page). Both run the same WebAuthn step-up endpoint; double-commit is guarded by the endpoint's own state check (Step 1 verifies and pins: committing an already-active engagement fails cleanly).
E0129 (the control-test residue) becomes committable too — inert unless the Operator chooses; noted, not prevented.
The banner is state-derived, so it also appears for door-3 candidates mid-flow if their page is visited — convergence, not a leak (same act, same ceremony).

3. Tests — each observed failing first

Surface: banner + ceremony render for creator-viewed candidates; absent for active engagements, absent for non-creators (fence); the projection carries state/creator. Engine: the recomposed sentence asserted (imperative absent, state sentence present — source and wire); request_action still fires live; the double-commit guard pinned. Eye-test: E0128 committed from its own page — the walk that failed, repeated and passing (the passkey act itself is the Operator's; the eye-test reaches the ceremony rendered where the instruction strands the reader, and the Operator finishes it).

4. seed-mutability impact

Kind C expected: state projection, a banner, a recomposed sentence; the commit endpoint itself is untouched. Checked at Step 1; a null finding is an entry.

5. Build steps

| Step | What | Mode | |---|---|---| | 0 | Pre-flight — baselines, clean trees. | Auto | | 1 | Verify the fetch projection, the commit endpoint's state guard, the banner's data needs; tests written, observed failing. | Auto | | 2 | Engine sentence + surface banner/ceremony + projection. | Auto | | 3 | Both suites; ruff; mypy (verdicts read in full); tsc. | Auto | | 4 | Eye-test: candidate page renders the ceremony (E0128 — without committing it; the commit is the Operator's). | Auto | | A | Checkpoint. | Checkpoint | | 5 | Tag cr-2026-207-candidate-ceremony-home; push both; watch both runs; redeploy; post-deploy: the Operator's walk repeated. | Auto |

6. Acceptance gate

The candidate page renders the ceremony for its creator; fences hold (non-candidate, non-creator).
The persisted sentence describes state, names only the durable affordance; the imperative is gone from new composition (source-asserted).
Double-commit fails cleanly (pinned).
Suites green; gates clean; runs watched; redeployed; the Operator's E0128 walk succeeds where it failed.
seed-mutability recorded.

7. Kickoff prompt


Execute CR-2026-207 v0.1 at change-requests/cr-2026-207-loomworks-
candidate-ceremony-home-v0_1.md in loomworks-record. Confirm CR number
and both baselines. Two repos: engine + /Users/dunin7/loomworks.

§0: both halves, not either — the page renders the ceremony from
DERIVED state; the persisted sentence describes state, never instructs.
The E0128 tab is not a fixture; if it died, say so.

The walk that failed is the acceptance test: the Operator lands on the
candidate's page and the ceremony is there.

DUNIN7 — Done In Seven LLC — Miami, Florida CR-2026-207 — the ceremony's durable home — v0.1 — 2026-08-12 The affordance derives from state; the sentence stays true forever.