Quote verification migration acceptance record

Dated observation: 2026-09-27. Retained for auditing the corpus conversion and citation repairs implementing ADR 094. The report records this migration's acceptance evidence; it is not a live validation dashboard. GPT-6 inspected ambiguous occurrences under the operator's approved quote-migration plan and the repository's collection contracts.

Result and scope

The migration converted 158 ingests from 822 list items to 820 attributed blocks. Every surviving extract retained its quoted bytes, including multiline passages. Two exact duplicate extracts were removed under explicit operator authorization; distinct locator information was preserved. Six repeated source passages received ranges selected from their section or table context.

All 806 checkable retained extracts match their pinned snapshots. Fourteen extracts in three ingests remain explicitly unverified because their local snapshots were already missing: AlphaDev, automated refinement of Horn-clause domain theories, and explanation-based generalization. This was an approved exception. The ten emphasis-dependent matches were paper prose; all repository extracts passed whitespace-only matching.

The citing-artifact comparison covers 291 files. All 52 real prose quotations match after migration. Two citations needed longer excerpts to distinguish overlapping retained passages; their claims did not change. Two raw-parser mismatches in the graph-loader workshop and an unresolved inline example in the articles contract are explanatory examples outside standing quote validation.

The analysis sweep checked 159 retained and local artifacts. All 3,613 quotes in its 120 current-run artifacts pass. A separate sweep of all 40 current review projections passes; 8 of these contain 13 quoted passages. The migration corrected 163 result/specialist citations and two review citations across 15 current runs. Selection reasons and citation-only dispositions are recorded per edit. One JSONL excerpt includes more surrounding text because two copies occur on the same source line. No analysed-system claim changed.

The operator authorized synchronizing current-run local copies and dependent hashes. Retained/local results now agree for all 15 affected runs; specialist report pins, generated-review pins, run-state receipts, and affected live comparison-table hashes agree. Two original paper captures were recovered exactly by reversing an earlier type-path change in separate current-run copies; their recorded checksums and source identities are unchanged. The current ingest snapshots were not edited.

Superseded and unreferenced runs remain unchanged: 15 of 39 audited artifacts have 40 quote diagnostics. Frozen comparison exports remain historical observations. The collection kb/agent-memory-systems/ was excluded because the operator plans to decommission it; this migration did not edit its quotes.

Checks and practical limits

The full Python suite passes: 899 tests. The publication trial rejects a specialist quotation whose valid, in-bounds range points elsewhere, then publishes after returning to the original unranged citations. This is a controlled fixture, not a new external-system analysis.

Validation of the initial 167 edited KB documents reported zero failures and nine pre-existing warnings. The installation probe confirmed that fresh projects receive the new quote contract, existing ingests remain untouched by initialization, converted ingests validate, and a second initialization is byte-idempotent. Redirect validation passes after proposal archival.

Broader validation of the affected completed analysis runs still reports pre-existing comparison-schema errors in 13 runs and missing links to the retired conjectural-learning definition in some reviews. Their comparison content and these links were not changed by citation repair. They are outside this quote migration; the exact diagnostics are retained below. No remaining current-run diagnostic concerns quote matching or affected byte identities.

Matching establishes occurrence under the selected normalization, not source truth or semantic support. Repeating the source checks requires the original Git objects or local captures; the records below remain readable without them.

Evidence

Cleanup

The adopted proposal is archived, its public URL redirects to ADR 094, and historical ADRs point to the amended contract. The output-document redesign workshop records that it must preserve the corrected citations. Temporary migration tooling and the completed quote-migration workshop were removed; current-run state, source captures, and unrelated checkout changes were kept.