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ALPHAC Foundry / design status

A research engine that is not allowed to trade.

Foundry is the bounded research system behind future ALPHAC trials. Its contracts pass local verification. Its DigitalOcean deployment does not exist yet, and none of the eleven operational receipts is attached.

Inspect the isolation boundary Read the exact receipt
Claim boundary

This receipt verifies committed local contracts. It is not a Terraform plan, cloud inventory, deployment, network probe, database integration test or restore receipt.

The air-gap ledger

Research can publish evidence. It cannot reach execution.

The contract separates research, holdout and broker execution. The only outward path shown here is sanitized public evidence.

Bounded lifecycle

The identity is spent before the outcome is visible.

Declared states
17
From feasibility to terminal verdict
Allowed transitions
31
Every transition names its authority
Holdout consumption
1
Maximum per identity
Human gate override
Forbidden
A failed gate stays failed

A model can propose code. A human must approve outcome-bearing work. No state in the lifecycle grants broker write access.

First migration / frozen target

Start with a failure, then prove the system keeps it failed.

The first selected migration is an existing killed petroleum-inventory trial. It cannot spend another identity, use the network, reopen the result or take a second replay attempt.

Open the historical trial packet
Public trial
ft_a9ae69f6bc4a5269
Preserved state
Killed
Foundry replay
Not run
Network policy
NONE
Maximum attempts
1
New identity spend
Forbidden

Operational burden

Eleven receipts stand between source code and an operational claim.

Every item must bind to the same infrastructure, source commit, image digest and contract set. A partial deployment stays not operational.

Attached0 of 11Incomplete Not Operational
  1. Cloud Firewall Export Missing
  2. Database Role Tests Missing
  3. Honest Public Status Missing
  4. Host Firewall Export Missing
  5. Migration Replay Sanitizer Packet Missing
  6. Negative Network Probe Missing
  7. Object Permission Tests Missing
  8. Redacted Secret Scope Inventory Missing
  9. Restore And Post Restore Replay Missing
  10. Reviewed Terraform Plan Missing
  11. State Machine Tests Missing

Machine-verifiable source

Local verification is evidence of the contracts. Nothing more.

The receipt hashes the deployment manifest, runtime contract, lifecycle, acceptance contract and migration packet. Its PASS does not convert any missing cloud receipt into evidence.

curl -sO https://canlicapital.com/glassbox/foundry_local_contract_verification.json
python3 - <<'PY'
import hashlib, json
p=json.load(open('foundry_local_contract_verification.json'))
h=p.pop('content_hash')
s=json.dumps(p,sort_keys=True,separators=(',',':')).encode('ascii')
print(h == 'sha256:' + hashlib.sha256(s).hexdigest())
PY

The next proof

The page changes only when the receipts do.

Provisioning requires a reviewed plan, a dedicated DigitalOcean principal and a separate billable apply decision. Until then, Foundry remains a verified design and an unproven deployment.

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