Open Problems
16 live gaps (12 open, 4 specified but untested). 3 old questions scratched because they were the wrong shape. A system that hides failure conditions is a religion.
Engineering backlog still lives in docs/GAPS.md. Codex v2.1 stays frozen. This page is the public list as of 7 Sep 2026.
LocalFlow is the errand face
Post it. Someone nearby does it. You confirm. That closes a loop. You do not type how much a lawn is worth.
SignalFlow is the protocol mouth
It proposes ΔS from the model you trust plus evidence. Lookers attach later, in parts. Smart contracts run the named case after that. Models do not become the ledger.
Has to happen in the world
First live till
No shop is running H_cap, S, and a dying spark on real tickets. Until that door exists, every other gap is a story. Publish one hostile spec and attack it.
ΔS calibration on one class
A hundred identical tasks. Independent estimates. Prediction error has to get expensive. If it does not, the proxy is a sermon.
Farming the class
Split one job into four hundred fake-rare classes. The formula will not catch that. The DAG has to see one operation. Untested.
Meters that now have a shape
House juicing the spark
Used to be one mashed H. Now H_cap is the week (inbound cash), S is you at this house, β is the proof. Official skins hide raw XP. Still untested whether a captured house can extract.
Leaked XP zeroing a local regular
EP = XP · L + λ · L. λ default 0.15, published by the web. Design closed. Whether 0.15 is the right floor is not.
Town-club CT
Shared CT_W is the feature. A whole strip can overpay posted tasks together. Stranger-close is the rule. Useless if the strangers are the club.
Company CAT as a leash
On-duty β is how a trucker sparks like a local. Issuer can revoke. Spite revoke is a vertex on the issuer. Still a labor-capture surface.
Cash and desks
XP versus the dollar
Parallel system. Cash is the remainder and the honesty check. Spark is not a wage. Law-shaped away from a Howey bag. Not a live tax ruling.
Import floor
A strip can underprice Tuesday milk. Fuel, rent, and Shenzhen still want dollars. The overlay does not print a plant.
H_cap that saves the shop too late
Four-week cash auto can still bounce the truck if the podcast week printed too much overlay first.
Rooms
Thin graph
How few people before a posted task just sits. Escalation text exists. Density does not.
MICRO puff into MACRO gospel
Late burn, F, stranger-close, looking writes a vertex. Still unproven that a dense graph is calibration and not a popular story.
Contracts that freeze last quarter
Smart contracts eat the decision-caste on named cases. If only a desk can amend the case, you rebuilt management in code.
Still research
Opening-condition fights
A kitchen looks clean to one person and filthy to another. Convergence of like-cases is the bet. Not proven.
Net entropy across a boundary
Cool room, hot planet. Leakage has to sit on the claim. Easy to leave off.
w · E as a faction knob
If domain weights move with a clique and not with evidence, the DAG is a sermon.
Scratched
CT lockup / six bags
CT is the community meter on a web, not a lockup coin. Same readout at grocery and laundry if they stayed on the language. There is no transfer rail to optimize.
Who validates the first validators?
That was a priesthood question. Work is posted. Someone nearby does it. Both edges sign. Density is what remains, not a founding caste.
One universal entropy unit for every domain
There is no ESF that adds farming to mediation in SI units. Each door publishes a mapper. ΔS is a bits-equivalent proxy inside that boundary. Unknown leakage stays unknown.