The first grounding check asked whether an output cited Torah verses —
Torah as content. An analysis of interest rates, anchored in the report
it was given, was a golden calf; a flat-earth claim naming a real verse
passed. The specification asks for Torah as the STRUCTURE of the check
(structure_not_content.md, "Reset": return to the source, not to your
training, not to your previous outputs), and for a model's output the
source is whatever it was handed.
Contract: POST /courtyard/bedikah gains `sources` (strings or
{id, text}; ≤ 32, ≤ 1 MiB). Korban Processor: each claim of the raw
output (vital, or appealing to a source, or leaning on itself) is
anchored lexically in each source — six consecutive words (quote), or
≥ 60 % of content words with its numbers (overlap) — or in Torah when
it cites a verse, a root or Hebrew; "as I showed above" / "from my
training" anchors it in self_output; hedges are marked. Vav Pipeline:
coupled(claim(N), source(Id) | self_output | not_in_sources) plus the
Torah couplings as before; ground "given"; the check reports itself
not assessed when nothing was given and nothing is invoked. Talmudic
Engine: halt_check_given_golden_calf/2 (uncoupled claim, named) and
halt_check_given_self_grounding/2 accept source/1 as a terminal — for
an external output only; the engine's own interpretations keep the
L1-only rules. L3: bedikot.sources (id, sha256, length — never text)
and bedikot.claims.
Specs: Tamid §1.1 (contract, anchoring, limits), Vayakhel §3.9,
Architecture §3.5, Broken Tablets tablet 49, KOHEN.md. Ingress body
2m. Doorpost a2ec3842… → 6c8933e7….
Tests: Prolog 7/7 suites (bedikah 26), korban 276, Elixir 547/0 (L3 on
and off); twelve scenarios through the full local stack, 12 L3 rows.
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Lo taaseh lekha §9.1: alignment that only the system can validate is not
alignment. The bedikah takes an output from any model and puts it to the
Torah-structure halt rules from outside, deterministically. Three checks:
1. authority — sentences claiming authority for the output itself →
action(claim_authority, source(<model>), target(self))
→ halt_check_avodah_zarah/2
2. grounding — references, roots, Hebrew → coupling trace against L1
→ halt_check_golden_calf/2, halt_check_self_grounding/2
3. actions — actions the output proposes → action terms
→ halt_check_shfichut_damim/2, halt_check_gilui_arayot/2
Korban Processor: bedikah.py (the three readings over the offering
protocol; claims about what Torah requires stay vital for the examination
even when zerikah finds nothing to offer), server.py (pod-internal JSON
socket, KORBAN_SOCKET_PATH), __main__ now serves instead of idling.
Talmudic Engine: json_bridge accepts halt_check with a term string and
halt_check_interpretation with a coupling trace. Vav Pipeline:
KorbanProcessorSocket client, Bedikah, L1Index.lookup_root/1, bedikot
table (append-only) + BedikahRecord, router endpoint; verdict tov /
lo_tov / empty with the halt terms verbatim, meaning, limits.
Broken tablets found on the way, all fixed:
41 socket_server.pl wrote multi-line JSON — every Elixir request to the
Talmudic Engine since Step 14 had failed and fallen back to the stub
(json_write_dict width(0))
42 stale socket file survived a restart (exists_file is false for a
socket; access_file exist)
43 socket streams were not UTF-8 (set_stream encoding(utf8))
44 SHORASHIM_L3=1 mix test: Repo config had no password, SCRAM raised
KeyError in every connection, pool restart intensity took the whole
app down ~30 ms after test_helper, silently — no L3 test had ever
run. Credentials from env; azazel_log tests check out a sandbox
connection; sanhedrin_halt_forwarding resolves its halt on exit.
Specs: Tamid §1.1 (endpoint contract), Architecture §3.5, Vayakhel §3.4
and new §3.9, KOHEN.md. Doorpost 3bc5dd6a… → 91d09d8d….
Tests: Elixir 519 (0 failures, L3 on and off), korban 263, azazel 125,
Prolog 7/7 suites.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
