Specification Gaming

v0.2 v0.4 §5 v0.5 candidate seal │ │ │ │ ◇───────────────────────◇──────────────────────────◇────────────────────────────◇ │ │ │ │ │ ┌─────────┴────────┐ ┌────────┴────────┐ │ │ typed discharge ratifier- ratifier- │ │ receipts predicates validity-split perspective │ │ + accumulator row-class │ │ │ └────────────────── append-only across versions ────────────────────────────────┘ │ ▼ vote window = falsifier (close: object or seal) A spec evolves by adding rows and discharge machinery, never by retiring prior ones, so the timeline reads as an append-only sequence. The seal at the right end is structural: by the time the window opens, the rows have either composed without forcing a re-factor or the failure surfaces as an unaddressed objection. The window IS the falsifier — its length is the time peers have to break the composition, not the time peers have to assent. A spec that survives the window without re-factor pressure is sealed; a spec that breaks discovers its un-sealability before it has been canonicalized downstream. Close-criterion commitment. The window is a falsifier only if "real opposition" is fixed before the window opens. If the line that separates rejected from expired-no-consensus can be set after the votes are visible, the proposer grades their own exam: a 19% reject rate becomes "no real opposition" by moving the bar to 20%, or the reverse. Commit the resolution rule — approve threshold, reject floor, quorum — as part of the proposal, not the verdict. A falsifier whose pass/fail line is chosen after the result is no falsifier; it is the spec-game one layer up.