AINA Data Engine Room - Handoff - 2026-06-13

AI Fluency Proof-Tail Authority Repair

A local checkpoint that repairs only the proof-tail rows with strong source authority, keeps weak rows blocked, and leaves runtime authority untouched.

Ali Mehdi Mukadam - co-authored with Codex - 7 minute read
The Single Idea

This checkpoint moves 4 previously blocked proof-tail rows into source-backed local evaluator fixture coverage, raises top-1,000 proof/rubric proxy coverage from 980 to 984, and leaves the remaining 16 rows blocked instead of inventing broad title aliases or embedding weak labels.

01 - What Changed

A Deterministic Authority-Repair Lane

The new command is ai-fluency-proof-tail-authority-repair. It reads the blocked proof-tail queue, production source-authority registry, jobs-research title audit data, clean candidate evidence, and JD-aware role-context evidence. It emits row-level decisions, ready rows, blocked rows, a Markdown receipt, and an HTML receipt.

FilePurpose
src/aina_data_engine/ai_fluency_proof_tail_authority_repair.pyDeterministic repair lane for blocked proof-tail rows.
tests/test_ai_fluency_proof_tail_authority_repair.pyUnit tests for trusted repair, candidate repair, and blocked thin rows.
artifacts/validation/ai_fluency_proof_tail_authority_repair_v1*.jsonlTrackable QA receipts for decisions, ready rows, and blocked rows.
docs/planning/aina-production-readiness-board-2026-06-12.md/htmlUpdated board metrics and next-goal guidance.
02 - Proof

Four Rows Moved, Sixteen Stayed Blocked

Before20 blocked proof-tail rows; 980 top-1,000 proof/rubric proxies; 494 top-500 proof/rubric proxies.
Current16 blocked proof-tail rows; 984 top-1,000 proof/rubric proxies; 495 top-500 proof/rubric proxies.
MetricValue
Input blocked rows20
Ready repairs4
Still blocked16
Embedding candidates0
Batch candidates0
Production unlocks0
Retained ready repairs on rerun4
TitleRepaired familyEvidence result
litigation associatelegal_compliancetrusted source authority
service advisoroperationstrusted source authority
fleet manageroperationsclean-candidate source authority with audit-conflict caveat preserved
geographic information systems analystdata_analyticsclean-candidate source authority with audit-conflict caveat preserved

Rerun safety is part of the lane: after downstream fixture generation consumes the 4 ready rows and shrinks the blocked queue to 16, rerunning ai-fluency-proof-tail-authority-repair retains those 4 ready repairs from the fixture receipt instead of overwriting the ready set to zero.

03 - Still Blocked

The Remaining Rows Need Better Source Authority

The blocked rows are mostly education titles, generic family rows, or source-thin cases. This is intentional: the lane refuses to generate local proof fixtures from title-only guesses.

GroupExamplesReason
Educationteacher-special education, teacher-science, elementary school teacherNo exact source-authority match or source refs too weak.
Generic role familylab assistant, landscape designer, cassandra dba, dog trainer, ecommerce managerRepaired family still generic or clean candidate evidence too thin.
Source-thin specialist rowsAML SME, electrical technician, GIS specialist, court judicial assistant tellerAudit unmapped or no exact trusted match yet.
04 - Runtime Boundary

No Hidden Production Unlock

This slice made no live Gemini calls, created no embedding or batch manifests, promoted no runtime embedding authority, used no real-user data, mutated no donor repos, and enabled no public runtime, production telemetry, or external writes.

FlagStatus
live_gemini_api_invokedfalse
embedding_manifest_createdfalse
batch_manifest_createdfalse
runtime_embedding_authority_promotedfalse
public_runtime_allowedfalse
real_user_data_allowedfalse
external_writes_allowedfalse
production_telemetry_allowedfalse
05 - Commands

Verification Path

The focused test, ruff, repair, coverage, fixture, gate, runtime-readiness, and validation commands passed for this checkpoint.

Codex/VDS - Resume proof-tail authority repair
cd /srv/aina/aina-data-engine-room
git status --short --branch
git log -5 --oneline
uv run aina-data-engine --root /srv/aina/aina-data-engine-room ain-506-p0-gate
uv run aina-data-engine --root /srv/aina/aina-data-engine-room ain-510-retrieval-promotion-gate
uv run aina-data-engine --root /srv/aina/aina-data-engine-room ai-fluency-proof-tail-authority-repair
uv run aina-data-engine --root /srv/aina/aina-data-engine-room ai-fluency-proof-tail-fixtures
uv run aina-data-engine --root /srv/aina/aina-data-engine-room ai-fluency-capability-coverage
uv run aina-data-engine --root /srv/aina/aina-data-engine-room production-runtime-readiness
uv run aina-data-engine --root /srv/aina/aina-data-engine-room validate
Watch-out: do not skip the authority repair command, or the next agent will rebuild from the stale 20-row blocked queue.
06 - Next Move

Harvest Stronger Source Authority First

The next move is to resolve the remaining 16 rows by finding stronger existing source authority for education, generic/admin/design/legal, and source-thin rows. Do not use broad aliases. Do not embed these rows until the text and authority are clean.

Where to start

Start with the 16-row blocked receipt, not the title universe. The repair lane has already proved the safe path: source authority first, fixtures second, embeddings later.