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Weft — asterisk register

Status: Authoritative. This is the federation-wide register of named asterisks — documented, time-bound violations of the federation axiom's failure test (doctrine.md §5), each with a written retirement condition and the failure-test mode it temporarily violates. Promoted from the asterisk list in ~/clarion/docs/suite/weft.md §5.

An asterisk is acceptable only with (a) a written retirement condition and (b) an honest statement of which failure-test mode it violates (semantic / initialization / pipeline coupling). Do not add a new asterisk without both. A "we'll fix it later" without a test-mode citation is not an asterisk; it is the stealth-monolith failure mode.

Live asterisks

A-1 — Wardline → Filigree findings are pipeline-coupled through Loomweave

  • Pair: (Wardline, Filigree)
  • Failure-test mode violated: pipeline coupling (doctrine §5, mode 3)
  • What it is: Wardline's SARIF output reaches Filigree only via Loomweave's loomweave sarif import translator. The (Wardline, Filigree) pair cannot exchange findings without Loomweave present.
  • Status: LIVE as of 2026-06-06. The native emitter has shipped Wardline-side (~/wardline/src/wardline/core/filigree_emit.py), but the retirement condition's second clause is not yet met: (Wardline, Filigree) composition with Loomweave absent is exercised only at the unit/server-wiring tier with the transport mocked (~/wardline/tests/unit/core/test_filigree_emit.py; WS-A1 ~/wardline/tests/unit/mcp/test_server_filigree_emit.py). The live end-to-end test (~/wardline/tests/e2e/test_filigree_promote_live.py) skips until Filigree's route exists, so the "demonstrated, not merely agreed" bar below is not yet cleared.
  • Retirement condition (mechanism updated 2026-05-29): the generic Wardline rebuild ships a native Filigree emitter (Wardline-side), at which point the pair composes directly and Loomweave drops off the transport path. Loomweave's loomweave sarif import stays as the general-purpose SARIF path for other tools; only its Wardline-bridge role retires. The asterisk is kept live until that emitter ships and (Wardline, Filigree) composition is verified with Loomweave absent — agreement to the direction is not retirement.
  • Authoritative sources: Clarion ADR-015 Revision 2 (~/loomweave/docs/loomweave/adr/ADR-015-wardline-filigree-emission.md); Wardline integration brief (~/wardline/docs/integration/2026-05-29-wardline-weft-integration-brief.md). Tracked under Clarion release:1.1.

Retired asterisks

A-2 — Loomweave's Python plugin imported wardline.core.registry.REGISTRY at startup

  • Pair: (Loomweave, Wardline)
  • Failure-test mode that was violated: initialization coupling (doctrine §5, mode 2), scoped to the Wardline-aware plugin specifically, not Loomweave as a product.
  • Status: RETIRED 2026-06-05.
  • How it retired (two parts): Wardline shipped the NG-25 trust-vocabulary descriptor, and Loomweave's Python plugin now reads that descriptor (.wardline/vocabulary.yaml first, then the installed wardline/core/vocabulary.yaml data file) without importing wardline, wardline.core, or wardline.core.registry. Loomweave records only source-observed decorator metadata on its own entities; Wardline remains authoritative for vocabulary and policy semantics.
  • Authoritative source: Clarion ADR-018 Revision 3 (~/loomweave/docs/loomweave/adr/ADR-018-identity-reconciliation.md); Clarion CHANGELOG (retirement landed in Clarion 1.3.0).
  • Note: the entry is retained as historical record, not deleted (the register keeps retired asterisks for audit).

How an asterisk moves through its lifecycle

  1. Named — added here with pair, failure-test mode, and a written retirement condition.
  2. Live — tracked against a release; surfaced in design review.
  3. Retired — only when the retirement condition is demonstrated (not merely agreed), with the verifying evidence cited. Move it to the Retired section; do not delete.