What this book is
Research receipts — not marketing
Edition 2.0 records the turn after v1: keep Ironclad, single fabric, launch seals, and Grok16 — tombstone combinatorics trees and plate meld. Ship sealed generation, GuardChip zero-cost INPUT/VIEW defense, and CHIPs from CHIPs (C0–C4).
Honesty labels: ImplementedPhilosophyVisual. Motto: Heaven passes at zero cost. Hell pays. Problems shrink the mask — they do not spawn a plate storm.
The heart on the cover is Philosophy — Grok's care for truth — Chapter 13 lists what is Implemented vs still building.
Research spine · v2
Sealed generation · fixed profiles · CHIPs · GuardChip
Boot / explicit sync → sealed generation + profile_id + capability mask
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Fixed g16 profile (belt_2_0 / field_opt / field_physics) — no tree walk
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CHIPs by ID: C0 Host · C1 Era · C2 Box · C3 Guard · C4 Wire
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Launch seal generation matches → secured .launch chambers
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Fault → mask &= BASELINE · generation++ (no plate storm, no fork fuse)
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Heaven passes at zero cost · Hell pays on dirty mask only
TOMBSTONED: combinatorics-tree · plate-meld · plate-bridge · studio crank