The paper: vendored snapshot
August 23, 2026 · View on GitHub
This directory carries a verbatim snapshot of the paper Specification Gaming as an Orthogonal Failure Axis in Autonomous Coding Loops so the repo is self-contained and citable even before the paper lands on arXiv.
Why THIS repo vendors it: the paper is load-bearing for solidforge twice over — (1) the
orthogonal-axis frame (same-family vs different-family verification) behind
USER_GUIDE's degradation/defense model, and (2) the ORIGIN of the
primary-source-verification skill: the paper's own cross-source-review pass let
citation misattributions slip that only independent primary-source spot-checks caught —
the exact gap that skill closes (skills/primary-source-verification/docs/proposal.md).
The provenance trails below RAN on this workspace's own skills (csr / psv dogfood).
Artifacts
| File | Role |
|---|---|
spec-gaming-orthogonal-axis.md | Text authority (canonical snapshot, copied verbatim; last_updated in its frontmatter) — diffable, reviewable, searchable |
spec-gaming-orthogonal-axis.pdf | The citation artifact — built from the text via LaTeX, after the last text edit |
spec-gaming-orthogonal-axis.tex | LaTeX source of the PDF (GENERATED from the text; rebuildable — the .md is the authority) |
spec-gaming-orthogonal-axis.pub-readiness.md | Publication-readiness review + proposed fixes (context, not part of the paper) |
Provenance trails (the paper dogfooded on itself)
| File | Role |
|---|---|
spec-gaming-orthogonal-axis.convergence.json | The paper's csr convergence record (3-round reconvergence of 2026-07-31, of the 4-round 2026-07-08 pass; schema-validatable) |
spec-gaming-orthogonal-axis.loopx-reconvergence.json | The LoopX-amendment reconvergence delta (§7 peer paragraph + §4.4 control-plane note) |
loopx-research.md + loopx-research.psv/coverage-record.json | The LoopX evidence trail the reconvergence record cites (psv coverage record) |
(The readiness review's own csr/psv record set — spec-gaming-orthogonal-axis.pub-readiness.csr/ — remains in the canonical knowledge base; not vendored.)
Canonical source & drift rule
The canonical source remains the author's knowledge base:
~/dev/ws-wiki/fedaot-kb/docs/papers/spec-gaming-orthogonal-axis.md (its convergence /
verification trails live beside it there).
This snapshot is updated only by an explicit sync step — never silently.
bash docs/papers/sync-paper.sh # re-copies the artifact set from the canonical KB and reports freshness