Conformance updates.

docs/ROADMAP.md

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ What the Mechanical Compiler is for, and the order in which it gets built.
 
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-| Updated | 2026-08-17 |
+| Updated | 2026-08-18 |
 | Companions | `PROCESS.md`, `ENVIRONMENT.md`, `STAGING-STATE.md`, `FAILURES.md` |
 
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@@ -133,6 +133,11 @@ a new call into the same machinery, not a new machine.
   monitored, four test alerts received, serial numbers recorded, reboot-proven.
 - **Container SMTP egress blocked, 2026-08-17.** The project-local half of F-025
   is corrected; the estate question about `wg-pk` client trust remains open.
+- **Repository seeded, 2026-08-18.** Reference implementation, frozen oracle,
+  pinned toolchain and test harness at `c7e32d8`. Dependencies installed, oracle
+  verified in-container, `3 passed, 236 skipped`.
+- **Container baseline established, 2026-08-18.** All three containers on
+  `srv-b` conform, asserted by an executable check rather than by inspection.
 
 ### Next — the port
 
@@ -172,6 +177,24 @@ getting their own generators.
 
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+## 4a. Parallel project
+
+**Kane Fabric** — a separate project on the same host, and the platform on
+which SASE, HOA Diagnostics, the Mechanical Compiler and other SASE-consuming
+projects are implemented.
+
+It is recorded here so its existence is known, not because it creates work.
+Kane Fabric owns geographic state; the Mechanical Compiler owns member
+geometry, qualification and workflow state. Both sets of documents describe a
+future interface between them; **neither defines it, and that is deliberate.**
+Part I §6 holds that use cases precede interface proliferation, and no use case
+crosses the boundary yet.
+
+The contract becomes real work when a compiled member first needs to be sited
+somewhere. It will be cheaper to define then, against a concrete artifact.
+
+---
+
 ## 5. Staging to production
 
 `srv-b` is standalone and will remain so. Promotion is export/restore, not
@@ -264,3 +287,14 @@ on whether it makes distributed manufacturing capacity legible.
    have observed the positive case.
 12. **A component surviving its own restart is not proven to survive the
    host's.** Different machinery; assert against the one that matters (F-026).
+13. **A standard must be executable.** If conformance cannot be asserted by
+   running something, it is not a standard but a recollection, and it will
+   drift. A property not checked is not part of the standard (F-031).
+14. **Check the thing, not something related to it.** An assertion inferred
+   from an adjacent observation is not evidence, however reasonable the
+   inference (F-031).
+15. **Verify by counting, not by scanning.** A long, correct-looking list is
+   exactly where an unexpected 437 files hide (F-029).
+16. **Conformance precedes backup.** Backing up an unverified configuration
+   preserves the confusion along with the data, and a restore returns it
+   faithfully.