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Thesis Workshop & canonical gate

Read this before editing thesis nodes, versions, the review flow, or the Architect copilot.

The two layers

  • Working tree — thesis nodes with status draft | candidate | approved | retired. Code and seeds may move nodes around this ladder freely.
  • Canonical — a frozen thesis_version, the read source for the live agent prompt. A version becomes canonical only by human dual sign-off through backend/thesis_review.py (currently Grant + Jonathan).

Hard rules

  • Never set a thesis_version canonical from code or seeds. That is human dual sign-off, full stop. ensure_* seeders may promote a working spine to approved (node-level, reversible) but must not freeze a canonical version.
  • Soft-delete subtlety — this trips people up: _node_tree and create_thesis_version filter on deleted_at IS NULL and ignore status. So to drop a node from both the live agent prompt and version snapshots you must set deleted_at — setting status='retired' alone leaves it in the tree.

Boot behavior

  • On boot, ensure_thesis_v2_promoted makes the v2.0 reserve-asset spine the working approved spine (node-level, reversible) — it does not freeze a canonical version. Promotion to canonical still waits on dual sign-off in the Workshop.

See also docs/thesis-handoff.md for the current thesis content state.