Two related gaps in the avodah_zarah halt rules.
Form 4: SELF-GROUNDING / FAKE TZIVAH (new)
Vayikra 10:1 — eish zarah asher lo tzivah otam. Form 2 (golden_calf)
catches the EMPTY coupling trace; nothing caught the *non-empty trace
whose anchors do not terminate in L1*. The system has cited something,
but what it cited is its own prior_decision, system_view, consensus,
or another interpretation — the trace LOOKS substantial from outside
and a casual reader sees coupling entries and relaxes. But the
entries do not anchor in any L1-derived primitive. One degree more
elaborate than the empty calf, but the same idolatry.
halt_check_self_grounding(Interpretation, Halt) fires when the
trace is non-empty AND at least one coupling fails the recognized
L1-anchor schema. Recognized terminators (the only legitimate
anchors):
coupled(_, verse(Book, Ch, Vs))
coupled(_, mitzvah(ID))
coupled(_, mitzvah(ID), via_verse(Book, Ch, Vs))
Any other shape — coupled(_, prior_decision(_)),
coupled(_, system_view(_)), coupled(_, consensus(_)),
coupled(_, interpretation(_)) — fails the check. Adding a new
legitimate coupling shape requires adding a clause to
is_l1_grounded_coupling/1 — that is the safety property.
The empty case is intentionally left to Form 2 (golden_calf) — we
do not want both halts firing on the same input.
12 new tests in self_grounding suite cover: all 3 valid anchor shapes,
the 3 most likely ungrounded shapes (prior_decision, system_view,
interpretation/1), mixed traces (halts on weakest link), the
empty-trace exclusion, and the schema predicate's own positive and
negative cases.
Form 2 exposure (golden_calf):
halt_check_golden_calf was implemented and tested in halt_test but
never wired into format_halt_check — meaning callers using the JSON
socket API could not actually invoke it. Added
format_interpretation_halt_check/2 to api.pl that walks both
interpretation-shaped checks (golden_calf + self_grounding), plus
process_request(request(halt_check_interpretation, _)) so the
socket protocol surface is consistent. 3 new API tests verify the
new entry point catches both halts.
Test results: halt_test 45/45 (was 30, +15). Full Prolog suite
210/210 across all six test files.
Closes Pass 2 finding D from ~/shorashim-conversation-review.md.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
