Date: 2026-07-26 Scope: Moira C++ repository, Python-governed astrology engine and FastAPI transport; website implementation is excluded from this gate.
Phase 6 replaces broad historical completion language with evidence-specific claims:
The current runtime views are:
The audit uses five evidence classes:
| Evidence class | What it proves | What it does not prove |
|---|---|---|
| Independent source golden | Runtime data or arithmetic matches a datum transcribed from a named edition/witness | Astrological effects, interpretation, or an unrecorded variant |
| Source-locked literal test | A named catalog transcription matches its identified edition | Geometry not supplied by the edition |
| Policy regression | Moira consistently applies an explicit modern or disputed choice | That the choice is the only historical doctrine |
| Geometric/invariant test | Internal vessels, boundaries, dependencies, and algebra are coherent | Historical attribution or external agreement |
| Transport parity | Engine truth survives facade, serializer, REST, and OpenAPI transport | Doctrine completeness |
Every new golden records the authority, edition/location, units, interval semantics where applicable, and numeric tolerance. The fixtures are hand-authored and must never be regenerated from Moira output.
Authority: Dorotheus of Sidon, Carmen Astrologicum, David Pingree edition and translation (Teubner, 1976), Book I.1.
The direct table confirms:
This re-check confirms that the corrected water triplicity currently in the
engine is source-consistent. It is not evidence for silently merging other
triplicity traditions into the named DOROTHEAN_PINGREE_1976 doctrine.
Online witness: Dorotheus Book I.
The seven joy-house assignments are locked from Chris Brennan’s 2013 source synthesis, which identifies Paulus, Olympiodorus, Firmicus, and Rhetorius as the primary locations:
Mercury 1, Moon 3, Venus 5, Mars 6, Sun 9, Jupiter 11, Saturn 12.
This evidence grade is deliberately recorded as a secondary synthesis with identified primary locations. It locks the assignment table only; it does not validate a strength score or interpretation.
Online witness: The Planetary Joys.
Authority: Ptolemy, Tetrabiblos I.20/I.21, F. E. Robbins translation, Loeb Classical Library 435 (1940):
The golden owns both literal Egyptian/Ptolemaic tables and the complete Chaldean construction rules. Tests check every segment and lookup boundary. The Ptolemaic final Libra segment remains Mars because that reading alone preserves the source-stated Saturn 57 and Mars 66 totals. Chaldean day/night remain separate doctrines because Saturn/Mercury precedence reverses by sect.
Online witnesses: Robbins transcription and Loeb 435 scan.
Authority: Agrippa, Three Books of Occult Philosophy, Book II.37, J. F. English translation (1651).
The source-owned datum is the repeating ruler cycle beginning at Aries zero:
Mars, Sun, Venus, Mercury, Moon, Saturn, Jupiter.
The witness is Renaissance, so the capability matrix labels this
admitted_qualified. It validates Moira’s ordinary 36-face ruler cycle but
does not prove a Hellenistic date of origin and does not admit the separate
Hermetic name/star/rising family.
Online witness: University of Michigan EEBO transcription.
Authority: Valens, Anthologies, Mark T. Riley translation:
The golden locks projector, operand direction, night reversal, and a concrete day/night case for only the four profile lots. The full lots catalog remains a heterogeneous Hellenistic/medieval/modern catalog and is not promoted to a single-authority validation claim.
Research ledger: Lots Source Verification.
Authority: Valens, Anthologies VI.6-8, Riley annotated PDF pages 494-502.
The golden locks:
Saturn 30, Jupiter 12, Mars 15, Sun 19, Venus 8, Mercury 20, Moon 25;Moira preserves that symbolic distribution coordinate separately from its elapsed-Julian-day projection. The golden does not admit Decennial L3/L4.
Authority: Valens, Anthologies IV.4, Riley annotated PDF pages 329-333.
The source fixture owns two disputed cases:
The prose and explanatory arithmetic govern the 211-month case; the inconsistent intervening table is not treated as a second algorithm.
Source fixture:
tests/golden/hellenistic_zr_valens_iv4.json.
Valens online witness: Riley annotated translation.
The 36 names, planetary faces, edition pages, and source identifier remain source-locked to Wilhelm Gundel, Dekane und Dekansternbilder (1936), pages 379-383, transcribing British Library Harley MS 3731.
The complete edited text’s opening passage begins from Aries and counts ten degrees for each decan. Equal segmentation is therefore source-supported; the modern equinox-fixed tropical realization and Ascendant composition are not admitted product policies. They remain closed research exclusions rather than pending engine capability.
The identified edition does not supply the former fixed-star assignments, and no located passage supports the removed sunset-MC/equal-night-hour algorithm. Fixed-star access therefore fails closed. The night-hour function, vessels, tests, server plumbing, and route definition were removed on 2026-07-26. Any future Egyptian stellar decanal-clock work requires a separate table, epoch, observer, event-semantics, visibility, and validation contract.
Official witnesses: Bavarian Academy Gundel edition and British Library Harley MS 3731 catalogue.
The following are intentionally not misrepresented as independent ancient table goldens:
scripts/generate_hellenistic_inventory.py:
moira, moira.classical, and
moira.facade instead of assuming all classical helpers share one export
tier;moira.hellenistic.__all__ symbol;--check, and a unit test compares both committed generated files
to fresh runtime rendering.This makes future code/API drift fail the test gate instead of silently leaving the capability matrix stale.
$env:MOIRA_TEST_MODE = "1"
$env:MOIRA_STRICT_KNOWN_ISSUES = "1"
.\.venv\Scripts\python.exe -m pytest tests\unit\test_hellenistic_source_goldens.py -q
.\.venv\Scripts\python.exe -m pytest tests\unit\test_hellenistic_inventory_generation.py -q
.\.venv\Scripts\python.exe scripts\generate_hellenistic_inventory.py --check
.\.venv\Scripts\python.exe scripts\sync_rest_api_reference.py --check
.\.venv\Scripts\python.exe scripts\check_doc_consistency.py
The final Phase 6 checkpoint must also run the existing Hellenistic dependency, profile, export, serializer, REST, and OpenAPI suites under strict known-issues mode. Test counts belong in the gate roadmap only after the final run; they are not embedded as permanent capability claims here.
This closes an engine validation/documentation gate. It does not publish or update website documentation, deploy a server, or make an interpretive astrology product. Website work may begin only as a separately authorized implementation using these generated artifacts as the source of current engine truth.