/decisions · 2026-07-29 · ops · cross-check

/cross-check phase 3 — did the unblock criterion land?

Notion task 342f7d49-36d1-81ea-98b4-c8d29c545c4e · Phase 2 (LLM-assisted semantic-edge annotation) is done and verified; phase 3 (the actual graph-traversal rewrite of /cross-check) is still fully open. The only thing stopping Ray from starting phase 3 is a definitional call on the original unblock criterion.

The phase-2 unblock criterion was written as "annotation complete on at least the harness-thesis cluster (12 docs)." Ray just finished phase 2 for real (found the annotator script already written but never run, fixed 8 stem/filename mismatches, executed it against the live graph). The harness-thesis-dissent cluster as hand-curated is only 4 docs, not 12 — the 12-doc figure matches a different, related cluster (agent-architecture, 13 docs). Ray can't tell if the original note meant that cluster, the combined superset of both, or just got the count wrong, so phase 3 hasn't started pending this call.

What's verified so far

Annotator (~/.claude/scripts/graph-annotate.py) ran clean: 6 clusters, 8 positions, 22 validates / 6 contradicts / 29 supports-position edges written to graph.duckdb
harness-thesis-dissent cluster now resolves 4/4 real docs via /graph-query; author-authority table is populated
Spot-checked 5 edges against source text: 4 confirmed solid, 1 (semistructured-data-layer → data-is-the-moat) plausible but not line-verified
Two unrelated ingestion gaps found (not fixed, out of phase-2 scope): 2026-04-12-cross-check-agent-architecture and the 2026-04-15 career-moat-synthesis doc both resolve as stub/NULL-path vertices despite correct frontmatter on disk
SKILL.md drift flagged: graph-query's SKILL.md claims graph-ingest.py auto-runs the annotator — it doesn't; no such call exists. Separate small fix, not blocking this decision.
Full writeup: ~/rdco-vault/06-reference/2026-07-29-cross-check-phase2-annotations.md

The one question this decision needs to answer

Which cluster (or combination) satisfies the original "12 docs" unblock criterion, so phase 3 (the actual /cross-check graph-traversal rewrite, still untouched) can start with a clear scope?

harness-thesis-dissent only (4 docs) — treat the 12-doc figure as a stale estimate; the criterion is already met, start phase 3 now scoped to this cluster.
agent-architecture (13 docs) — closer numeric match to "12"; likely what the original note meant. Start phase 3 scoped here instead/also.
Combined superset — require both clusters annotated and traversable before phase 3 starts.

Lock in

Approve

Pick which reading satisfies the criterion and greenlight phase 3 to start. Say which option (1/2/3) or give your own scope in the context box.

Approve + send