# Development Timeline

**Purpose**: Document framework development timeline for Working Paper v0.1
**Date Collected**: 2025-10-25
**Scope**: Development-time governance only

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## Project Timeline

### October 6, 2025 - Project Initialization
**Commit**: 4445b0e
**Description**: Initialize tractatus project with directory structure
**Significance**: Project start date

**Commit**: 47818ba  
**Description**: Add governance document and core utilities
**Significance**: First governance-specific code

### October 7, 2025 - Framework Core Implementation
**Commit**: f163f0d
**Description**: Implement Tractatus governance framework - core AI safety services
**Significance**: Initial implementation of 6 framework services:
- BoundaryEnforcer
- ContextPressureMonitor
- CrossReferenceValidator
- InstructionPersistenceClassifier
- MetacognitiveVerifier
- PluralisticDeliberationOrchestrator

**Commit**: e8cc023
**Description**: Add comprehensive unit test suite for Tractatus governance services
**Significance**: Framework testing established (238 tests)

**Commit**: 0eab173
**Description**: Implement statistics tracking and missing methods in 3 governance services
**Significance**: Framework operational capabilities

**Commit**: b30f6a7
**Description**: Enhance ContextPressureMonitor and MetacognitiveVerifier services
**Significance**: Framework refinement

### October 25, 2025 - Enforcement Architecture
**Commit**: 08cbb4f (13:15:06 +1300)
**Description**: Implement comprehensive enforcement architecture
**Significance**: Wave 1 - Baseline enforcement (11/39 = 28%)
**Components**:
- Token checkpoint monitoring (inst_075)
- Trigger word detection (inst_078, inst_082)
- Framework activity verification (inst_064)
- Test requirement enforcement (inst_068)
- Background process tracking (inst_023)

### October 25, 2025 - Wave 2-5 Deployment
**Wave 2** - Commit: 4fa9404
- Coverage: 18/39 (46%)
- Improvement: +7 rules (+64%)

**Wave 3** - Commit: 3edf466
- Coverage: 22/39 (56%)
- Improvement: +4 rules (+22%)

**Wave 4** - Commit: 4a30e63
- Coverage: 31/39 (79%)
- Improvement: +9 rules (+41%)

**Wave 5** - Commit: 696d452
- Coverage: 39/39 (100%)
- Improvement: +8 rules (+27%)

**Session Lifecycle Integration** - Commit: 6755ec3
- Integrated Wave 5 mechanisms into session-init.js and session-closedown.js

**Research Documentation** - Commit: 3711b2d
- Created RESEARCH_DOCUMENTATION_PLAN.md
- Planned publication strategy

### October 25, 2025 - Handoff Auto-Injection
**Commit**: 292c9ce
- Implemented inst_083 (handoff auto-injection)
- Prevents 27027-style pattern recognition failures
- Session-init.js now auto-displays handoff context

### October 25, 2025 - Phase 0 Complete
**Commit**: 4716f0e (current)
- Fixed all defense-in-depth gaps
- 100% enforcement coverage (40/40)
- Clean baseline established
- Ready for research publication

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## Summary Statistics

**Total Timeline**: October 6-25, 2025 (19 days)
**Core Framework Development**: October 6-7, 2025 (2 days)
**Enforcement Architecture**: October 25, 2025 (1 day, 5 waves)
**Research Documentation**: October 25, 2025 (1 day)

**Key Milestones**:
1. Oct 6: Project start
2. Oct 7: Framework core implementation (6 services)
3. Oct 25: Enforcement architecture (Wave 1-5, 28% → 100%)
4. Oct 25: Research documentation plan created
5. Oct 25: Phase 0 validation complete

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## What This Timeline Shows

**Rapid Development**:
- Core framework: 2 days (Oct 6-7)
- Enforcement coverage: 1 day, 5 waves (Oct 25)
- Total project: 19 days (as of Oct 25)

**Honest Limitation**:
- Short timeline = limited evidence of long-term stability
- Rapid deployment = potential for issues not yet discovered
- Single developer context = generalizability unknown

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## Wave Deployment Intervals

All 5 waves deployed October 25, 2025:

| Wave | Time (approx) | Coverage | Interval |
|------|---------------|----------|----------|
| 1 | 13:15 +1300 | 28% | Baseline |
| 2 | ~14:00 +1300 | 46% | ~45 min |
| 3 | ~15:00 +1300 | 56% | ~1 hour |
| 4 | ~16:00 +1300 | 79% | ~1 hour |
| 5 | ~17:00 +1300 | 100% | ~1 hour |

**Note**: Times are approximate based on commit timestamps

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## Verification

```bash
# First commit
git log --all --reverse --oneline --date=short --format="%h %ad %s" | head -1

# Framework core commits
git log --all --oneline --date=short --format="%h %ad %s" | grep -i "framework\|governance" | head -10

# Wave commits
git log --all --grep="wave" -i --oneline --date=short --format="%h %ad %s"

# Current status
git log --oneline -1
```

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**Last Updated**: 2025-10-25
**Author**: John G Stroh
**License**: Apache 2.0
