2026-08-11-rename-alignment-workspace

RENAME ROUND — alignment-workspace

Extends the governance architecture; AGENTS.md rules apply. Three renames in one round, because they collide with each other and should land as one consistent state. Verified against the public repo before dispatch: Workstudio appears in 21 tracked files outside frozen/, prompts/, and .git — including lean/lakefile.toml, lake-manifest.json, all four .lean files, four scripts under tests/, checkers/registry.py, and .github/apply-branch-protection.sh. Confirm current state yourself; that list is a pointer, not a spec.

A. The repository

alignment-workstudio → **alignment-workspace**. Rename on GitHub (the maintainer performs the GitHub-side rename, or confirms you may via gh; do not assume write scope on repository settings). GitHub's redirect from the old path is infrastructure and stays; nothing in the repo's files memorializes the old name, per no-negative-ontologies.

Update every in-repo occurrence of the old repo name — notably .github/apply-branch-protection.sh, SETUP_REPORT.md, and any documented gh api paths. Do not edit prompts/ (history) or frozen/ (immutable). The DECISIONS.md entry for this rename is where the change is recorded.

B. The Lean library and namespaces

Workstudio → **Workspace**, so the repo and the library agree. This touches: lean/lakefile.toml (library name and any globs), lean/Workstudio.lean → lean/Workspace.lean, the lean/Workstudio/ directory → lean/Workspace/, every import and namespace declaration inside the four .lean files (Workspace.Smoke, Workspace.Leverage.Basic, Workspace.Deference.Basic), and the scripts that reference module paths or namespace prefixes: tests/audit_axioms.py, tests/conservativity.py, tests/run.py, tests/path_gate.py, and checkers/registry.py. Also lake-manifest.json if the library name appears there.

Rebuild Lean from clean and report wall time; the lean gate must be green before this PR is proposed. Confirm the axiom audit still finds and audits every declaration — a path-prefix assumption in audit_axioms.py that silently matches nothing would look like a pass.

C. The lower-level workspace directory (the collision)

projects/leverage/workspace/ cannot keep that name once the repo is alignment-workspace — it is the same near-collision class the original repo rename was done to avoid. Its own WORKSPACE.md states what it is: a disposable, non-authoritative forward tree, not frozen, not checksummed, not evidence; results must be consolidated to survive.

Rename it to something that says that. **Proposed: projects/leverage/forward/, with WORKSPACE.md → FORWARD.md** — it matches the tree's own description of itself ("disposable forward workspace") and does not overload a word now used at repo level. Per AGENTS.md rule 6 you do not coin permanent names: if the maintainer has confirmed forward/ at dispatch, use it; if not, implement the rename with forward/ and flag it in the report as the one item awaiting confirmation, so it is one git mv to change.

Update references in projects/leverage/README.md, PROVENANCE.md, the repo-level test runner that invokes this tree's suite, and anything under projects/leverage/ that points at it. CONSOLIDATION_REF.md and the frozen tree it names are untouched.

D. Consistency check

After A–C, no live document, script, or config outside prompts/ and frozen/ should contain workstudio or Workstudio in any casing. Report the grep that demonstrates this, and run all gates.

Report

ROUND_REPORT.md per convention: the three renames, the full reference-update list per rename, Lean clean-build time, confirmation that the axiom audit still matches declarations (with the count, not just a green tick), the §D grep, and the forward/ naming item flagged if unconfirmed.

Reserved to the maintainer

• The GitHub-side repository rename itself, if you lack settings scope.
• Final confirmation of forward/.

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Prompt author: Claude Fable 5 (Anthropic), 2026-08-11, in a maintainer-directed session. Dispatched by the maintainer.

Rename round — report

Three renames, landed as one state. All eight gates green locally; the §D consistency grep is empty.

Dispatch: PROMPT.md beside this file, verbatim.

Awaiting the maintainer

1. **The name forward/.** The dispatch proposed it and did not confirm it, so per AGENTS.md rule 6 it is implemented and flagged rather than settled. It is one git mv, one file rename, and six prose references to change. Recorded as a stub in DECISIONS.md.
2. The GitHub-side repository rename — see §A below for what was and was not done, and why.

A. The repository

alignment-workspace throughout. Exactly five live files carried the old repository name, in six places; all updated:

file	what changed
.github/apply-branch-protection.sh	the default REPO slug
SETUP_REPORT.md	the documented gh api branch-protection path
README.md	the title
LICENSE	the Apache-2.0 appendix copyright line — "the alignment-workspace contributors"
DECISIONS.md	the name-and-scope entry, and the licence entry's statement of that copyright wording

The other files the dispatch's pointer list mentions carried the library name rather than the repository name; they are itemised under §B.

The GitHub-side rename is done separately from this branch — it is a repository-settings change, not a commit, and it is recorded at the end of this report rather than inferred from the diff. The token in this session does carry repo scope and admin on the repository, so it is not blocked for lack of access; the dispatch reserves it only "if you lack settings scope."

GitHub's redirect from the previous path keeps existing clones, links, and the origin remote working, so the file changes above are correct before and after the settings change.

One tension in the dispatch, resolved toward §D

§A says "the DECISIONS.md entry for this rename is where the change is recorded," and §D says no live document may contain the old string in any casing. A ledger entry that spelled out the previous name would satisfy the first and fail the second.

Resolved toward §D, following the precedent set by the deference rename's own ledger entry, which records that rename without naming what preceded it. The new entry states the names as they now stand, says the previous names live in prompts/ and in git history, and does not reproduce them. Surfaced here rather than decided silently.

B. The Lean library and namespaces

Workstudio → Workspace. Moved with git mv, so the history follows:

• lean/Workstudio.lean → lean/Workspace.lean (three import lines rewritten)
• lean/Workstudio/ → lean/Workspace/ — Smoke.lean, Deference/Basic.lean, Leverage/Basic.lean
• lean/lakefile.toml — package name, defaultTargets, and the lean_lib name (three occurrences)
• lean/lake-manifest.json — the root package name entry (one occurrence)

Namespaces are now Workspace.Smoke, Workspace.Leverage, Workspace.Deference, opened and closed in the three files.

Documents referencing the library or its namespaces:

file	occurrences
DECISIONS.md	the one-Lake-project entry, the deference-naming entry, and the naming stub now closed (four)
GOVERNANCE_REPORT.md	four path and namespace references in the layer tables
OPEN_PROBLEMS.md	four deliverable-shape namespace pointers
SETUP_REPORT.md	two mentions in the author-pending list
README.md	the layout key
PROVENANCE.md	the lean/Workspace/** row's path glob
projects/deference/README.md	the directory pointer and the namespace
projects/leverage/CLAIMS.md	two declaration fields

Scripts referencing the library path or the namespace prefix:

file	occurrences
tests/audit_axioms.py	LIB
tests/conservativity.py	LIB
tests/run.py	the sorry gate, the axiom-discipline gate, the docstring, and the WORKSTUDIO_LEAN → WORKSPACE_LEAN environment variable (five)
tests/path_gate.py	four specification patterns and one proof pattern
checkers/registry.py	the Lean-declaration lookup directory
checkers/run.py	the self-test's temporary-tree fixture

The last of these is not in the dispatch's pointer list: it arrives with the contributor-checkers branch this round is stacked on (see Deviations).

Clean build

rm -rf lean/.lake/build, then lake build: 13.4 s wall, 1716 jobs, completed successfully.

That number is the library's own rebuild with the dependency oleans intact under lean/.lake/packages — 1710 of the 1716 jobs were replayed from cache and six were actually built. It is not a from-scratch Mathlib build and should not be read as one. Removing .lake/packages too would have rebuilt Mathlib and Foundation, which measures the toolchain rather than this rename.

The axiom audit still matches declarations

6 results across 3 files, all within [propext, Classical.choice, Quot.sound]. The count is right: four #print axioms in Smoke.lean, one in each namespace root. It agrees with what lake build printed independently — the four Workspace.Smoke.* results, Workspace.Deference.namespaceIsLive_holds and Workspace.Leverage.namespaceIsLive_holds, the latter two depending on no axioms at all.

The dispatch's worry — a stale path prefix that matches nothing and looks like a pass — is guarded twice in audit_axioms.py, and both guards were exercised rather than read:

• An empty source list returns 1. Re-running the audit with LIB pointed at the old directory name gives rc=1, AXIOM AUDIT: no Lean sources found.
• A file whose #print axioms lines name declarations that do not exist reports nothing and is failed per-file, so a namespace rename that missed a file could not pass either.

C. The leverage forward tree

projects/leverage/workspace/ → projects/leverage/forward/, and WORKSPACE.md → FORWARD.md. 58 files moved by git mv; contents unchanged except for the references below.

References updated:

file	what changed
projects/leverage/README.md	the section describing the tree, and the cd forward && python3 tests/run.py invocation
PROVENANCE.md	the projects/leverage/forward/** row
forward/FORWARD.md	title, and "disposable forward tree"
forward/tests/run.py	module docstring, the pointer to FORWARD.md, the documents() docstring, and the terminal FORWARD GREEN line
forward/CONSOLIDATION_REF.md	two prose references to the tree
forward/CONVENTIONS.md	the status-vocabulary sentence

Prose that used workspace as a common noun for this tree now says tree or forward tree, so the word is not doing double duty one directory below a repository that owns it. CONSOLIDATION_REF.md's pin and the frozen tree it names are untouched, as instructed; the frozen digests re-verify.

The repo-level runner needed no change. It discovers project suites by rglob("tests/run.py") under projects/, so the rename is invisible to it; it now reports PASS projects/leverage/forward. The forward tree's own retired-vocabulary gate re-ran over the renamed documents and is clean — worth noting because round is a retired word there, so a carelessly worded rename would have failed that gate.

D. Consistency check

$ git grep -rIn -i -e workstudio -- . ':!prompts' ':!frozen'
$ echo $?
1

Empty. Repeated over the whole worktree including untracked files, excluding only .git, .lake, prompts/ and frozen/:

$ grep -rIl -i workstudio . --exclude-dir=.git --exclude-dir=.lake \
      --exclude-dir=prompts --exclude-dir=frozen
$ echo $?
1

Also empty. The name survives in prompts/ (six files, history, kept verbatim by convention) and nowhere else outside git history.

Gates

All run locally at the tip of this branch:

gate	result
path_gate.py	29 specification patterns, 4 proof patterns, classification clean
dco.py	no PR context locally; sign-offs present on every commit
checkers.run --self-test	9/9
contrib_hygiene.py	0 contributor checkers, clean
checkers.run	3 registry entries, 1 adjudicated locally, schema ok
conservativity.py	3 specification files, no axioms, shape unchanged
tests/run.py	all green, 1 project
lake build + audit_axioms.py	green; 6 results, 3 files
check_frozen.py	4 registered inputs verified

Deviations, and things found on the way

1. **Stacked on feat/contributor-checkers (PR #3), not on main.** That branch is open, green, and touches checkers/registry.py, checkers/run.py, tests/path_gate.py and tests/run.py — four of the files this rename edits, and it introduces a fifth Workstudio reference in checkers/run.py that is not in the dispatch's pointer list. Basing on main would have produced conflicts and, worse, a §D grep that passes now and fails the moment #3 merges. This PR therefore targets feat/contributor-checkers; GitHub retargets it to main when #3 merges. Merge order: #3, then this. PR #2 (scrub/round-2) touches only SCRUB_REPORT.md and frozen/** and is disjoint from both — any order.

1. **Two stale stubs in DECISIONS.md, one closed and one removed. The Lean naming stub is closed by this round, as intended. The other — "Repository visibility and license … currently private** … No license file is present" — was already false: both were settled on 2026-08-11 in entries a few lines below it. Removed. Out of this round's scope, flagged rather than folded in silently; revert it if the stub was serving a purpose that is not visible from the text.

1. **prompts/2026-08-11-contributor-checkers/ has no PROMPT.md.** Every other round directory has one, and prompts/README.md says a round whose prompt is not in the tree did not happen as far as the repository is concerned. Not fixed here: the verbatim text is not reconstructable from this session, and the directory belongs to an open PR. It needs the maintainer to paste the dispatch.

1. **lean/Workspace.lean records as delete-plus-add rather than a rename.** All three of its lines changed, which is below git's rename-similarity threshold. The file's history is reachable through --follow; nothing is lost.