{
  "schema_version": 1,
  "generated_on": "2026-09-28",
  "title": "Track 3 external-capability handoff",
  "purpose": "Machine-readable acceptance contracts for the empirical capabilities that a public repository cannot manufacture.",
  "semantics": [
    "UNKNOWN means required external evidence is unavailable to the public repository.",
    "A protocol is not an empirical observation.",
    "Missing public records are not evidence of absence.",
    "Queue, contract, annual power and interval meter measurements remain distinct."
  ],
  "blockers": [
    {
      "id": "T3-X1",
      "name": "Global transaction-level accelerator accounting",
      "current_state": "BLOCKED_EXTERNAL_CAPABILITY",
      "repository_evidence": [
        "data/track3/global_compute_supply_chain.json",
        "data/track3/entity_resolution.json"
      ],
      "missing_evidence": "Globally complete production, sale, resale and transfer records with stable asset identifiers and timestamps.",
      "required_authority": "Manufacturers, distributors, resellers, owners and competent authorities.",
      "acceptance_test": "Every in-scope transaction is represented or explicitly excluded with a reason; overlap and duplicate rules are reproducible; provenance is retained."
    },
    {
      "id": "T3-X2",
      "name": "Authorized physical inspection",
      "current_state": "BLOCKED_EXTERNAL_CAPABILITY",
      "repository_evidence": [
        "data/track3/inspection_protocol.json"
      ],
      "missing_evidence": "Lawful inspection observations with authority, access basis, equipment observations and chain of custody.",
      "required_authority": "Authorized inspectors under an agreed mandate.",
      "acceptance_test": "Each inspection has immutable ID, authority/access basis, evidence hashes, equipment scope, exceptions and independent review state."
    },
    {
      "id": "T3-X3",
      "name": "Global serial-number continuity",
      "current_state": "BLOCKED_EXTERNAL_CAPABILITY",
      "repository_evidence": [
        "data/track3/serial_continuity_protocol.json"
      ],
      "missing_evidence": "Global asset/serial ledger covering acquisition, transfer, staging, service, decommissioning and final disposition.",
      "required_authority": "Manufacturers, custodians/owners and verification authority.",
      "acceptance_test": "No in-scope serial has an unexplained lifecycle transition; concurrent-location conflicts are resolved or explicitly ambiguous."
    },
    {
      "id": "T3-X4",
      "name": "Verified decommissioning and recycling",
      "current_state": "BLOCKED_EXTERNAL_CAPABILITY",
      "repository_evidence": [
        "data/track3/decommissioning_protocol.json"
      ],
      "missing_evidence": "Compute-specific destruction/recycling events independently corroborated to equipment scope.",
      "required_authority": "Owners, recyclers/destruction providers and independent verifier.",
      "acceptance_test": "Disposition evidence is linked to equipment scope and independent verification state; unsupported claims remain UNKNOWN."
    },
    {
      "id": "T3-X5",
      "name": "Closed statistical audit population and realized sample",
      "current_state": "BLOCKED_EXTERNAL_CAPABILITY",
      "repository_evidence": [
        "data/track3/audit_population_protocol.json",
        "data/track3/sampling_protocol.json",
        "data/track3/certificate_model.json"
      ],
      "missing_evidence": "Externally fixed threshold, closed sampling frame, reproducible random sample and observed failures.",
      "required_authority": "Agreed verification/audit mechanism.",
      "acceptance_test": "Population hash, eligibility rule, seed, sample, failure definition, outcomes and calculation reproduce independently."
    },
    {
      "id": "T3-X6",
      "name": "Comprehensive covert-site intelligence and discovery",
      "current_state": "BLOCKED_EXTERNAL_CAPABILITY",
      "repository_evidence": [
        "data/track3/detection_universe.json",
        "data/track3/remote_sensing_observations.json"
      ],
      "missing_evidence": "Coverage capable of discovering deliberately concealed facilities outside the public-reference universe.",
      "required_authority": "Lawful intelligence, remote-sensing and investigative partners.",
      "acceptance_test": "Closed detection universe, acquisition coverage, candidate adjudication, error characterization and audit trail are defined."
    },
    {
      "id": "T3-X7",
      "name": "Independent verification governance",
      "current_state": "BLOCKED_EXTERNAL_CAPABILITY",
      "repository_evidence": [
        "data/track3/verification_protocol.json",
        "data/track3/inspection_protocol.json"
      ],
      "missing_evidence": "Independent authority, access rights, disputes, confidentiality, enforcement and conflict-of-interest procedures.",
      "required_authority": "Participating states/institutions under a formal mandate.",
      "acceptance_test": "Governance instrument defines authority, independence, audit access, dispute path, evidentiary standard, publication and enforcement procedures."
    }
  ],
  "completion_semantics": "The public repository is complete only as engineering/research infrastructure. Empirical closure remains UNKNOWN until these acceptance tests are met with external evidence."
}