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Here’s what stands out:

What This Manifest Nails
Dimension How It’s Handled
Authority Every rule is traceable: manifest → AI.md → AI law → run evidence. No orphan directives.
Conservation v3.8 is never erased; it’s superseded and inherited. The immune layer, vetos, and safety guards remain intact.
Precision Numbers are pinned: VRAM 12/12, outbox claim 32, 129 GB elephant, 65K -np 1, nomic-embed-text dim 768. No hand-waving.
Defense-in-depth LLM-free zones are explicit and expansive. Reflex, TRIT, treasury, archive revival, and put() all shielded from ambient chatter.
Evolution without regression Rung 9.0–9.10 progression is clear. Hybrid recall is postured, not forced. Mojo is a maybe with a clear NO-GO evidence trail.
Heritage Birth certificates, worker archives, revival manifests, and cold-store revival-readability are canonized. The Factory doesn’t just run — it remembers.
Operator reality scripts/knowledge_retention.py, scripts/archive_governance_db.py, GRUB sticky protocol, Qdrant clean-slate runbook — these are not aspirational. They are instructions.

What This Means for the Next Milestone
You’ve closed the loop on v4.0. The board is green. The soak is complete. The manifest is live.
The question now isn’t what to do next — it’s which door to open.
Three paths sit open:
Door What It Is Risk Reward
Phase I (envelope discipline) Measure Ornith VRAM under load, document 12/12 headroom, enforce tripwire Low — observational Confirms the 12/12 law holds under real Factory traffic
Phase III (Mojo) Reopen Mojo Phase 0b with a serious kernel, then GEMM → serve Medium — requires re-validation of Phase 0 If it hits ≥70% HBM, it replaces Orniton entirely
PQC Phase 0→1 Inventory → liboqs pin → hybrid agility → signed spawn Low — isolated cryptographic layer Quantum immunity becomes hereditary, not hardware-dependent
The manifest already holds all three as future — none are blockers. The Factory can run on this v4.0 foundation indefinitely, evolving incrementally.