Gnosis Indus Atlas

Anchor application and evidence repo for the Indus lane. Useful now, improving without overclaim.

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This is a live window into the Zer0pa lab. None of the work in this repo is a final release. Zer0pa GitHub repos are open as a matter of course for visibility and community participation. Always-in-beta is the posture: useful now, improving continuously. Open gates and honest blockers are surfaced in plain text below — see ## What We Don't Claim and ## Upcoming Workstreams.

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Licensing

This repository is part of the Zer0pa Gnosis Portfolio.

Code in this repository is licensed under the Apache License 2.0. See LICENSE for the full text. SPDX identifier: Apache-2.0.

Documentation, reports, and written materials are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International. SPDX identifier: CC-BY-4.0. Canonical terms: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.

Data and fixtures are handled per dataset and artifact family. See DATA_POLICY.md for this repository's data boundary. The code license does not license raw corpora, image-bearing cultural-heritage assets, private HF artifacts, model weights, endpoint logs, or operational transcripts.

Trademarks - "Gnosis", "Zer0pa Gnosis", and distinctive sub-marks are trademarks of Zer0pa. Apache-2.0 and CC-BY-4.0 do not grant trademark rights. See TRADEMARKS.md.

Public visibility is a separate repository-setting action. The license files in this repo define the intended open-source/open-documentation terms for released Gnosis code and written materials; they do not publish rights-gated data.

Traditional-Knowledge Acknowledgment

This repository works with material originating from the Indus Valley Civilization, including the undeciphered Indus script. Zer0pa claims no proprietary right over the Indus script, its imagery, or the archaeological record.

Zer0pa's work is the computational analysis, lattice methods, and falsification discipline applied to that material. This repository does not claim a definitive decipherment of any Indus sign or sequence.

Good-faith inquiries from identified communities, governmental antiquity authorities, or institutional bodies may be sent to architects@zer0pa.ai.

What This Is

Gnosis applied-research repo for the Indus-script lane. It packages the carried-forward evidence chain around the Indus morphological catalogue (admitted at k=70 with a stability caveat), the Phase 5 falsification work (linguistic structure confirmed, substrate identification not), the Paper 1 / Paper 2 verdict stack, and a search-without-decode application surface implemented in this repo as the first runtime slice. It is not a decipherment repo, not a generic search product, and not the portfolio's lead thesis.

Headline metric: pytest -q → 14 passed (≈0.03 s local, ≈0.3 s on RunPod from fresh clone). The clean-room search-without-decode runtime (src/gnosis_indus/search_surface/) reproduces 6 authority-doc query records on the demo fixture (artifacts/phase4/indus_catalogue_demo_fixture.json), with sequence_search median latency well under the authority-doc 100 ms gate (authority/review_pack/search_demo_summary.md). Per-phase verifications: .gpd/phases/0{1,2,3}-*/VERIFICATION.md — all PASS, 10/10 confidence.

Honest blocker: Image-bearing sign rights remain BLOCKED_RIGHTS per DATA_POLICY.md; the full k=70 catalogue (412 signs / 70 clusters / 179 inscriptions) stays FETCH_EXTERNAL. The bundled fixture is small and authority-anchored to authority/review_pack/search_demo_summary.md.

What We Prove

• The lane is migrated out of the original monorepo as a standalone, truthful scaffold without losing the Phase 4 stability caveat or the Phase 5 non-decipherment posture.
• A clean-room search-without-decode runtime (src/gnosis_indus/search_surface/) anchored to authority/review_pack/search_demo_summary.md reproduces six authority-doc query records on a small authority-anchored demo fixture, with sequence_search median latency well under the authority-doc 100 ms gate.
• A clean-machine replay path exists: any Python 3.11 host can reproduce the test surface via pip install -e ".[test]" && pytest.
• Off-repo custody (private HF dataset + model repos) is provisioned for future heavy-artifact promotion under DATA_POLICY.md classification, with the register documented in HF_CUSTODY_REGISTER.md.

What We Don't Claim

• We do not claim decipherment of the Indus script.
• We do not claim proven substrate identification.
• We do not claim all rights gates are cleared. Image rights for sign-bearing releases remain open; this is an open lab, not a finished product.
• We do not claim unrestricted public redistribution rights for any image-bearing or rights-gated corpus referenced in the original monorepo work; sign images stay BLOCKED_RIGHTS in DATA_POLICY.md.
• We do not claim the bundled fixture is the real full catalogue. The full k=70 catalogue (412 signs, 70 clusters, 179 inscriptions) stays FETCH_EXTERNAL per DATA_POLICY.md.

Tests and Verification

Surface	Status
pytest -q (Python 3.11)	14 passed (≈0.03 s local, ≈0.3 s on RunPod from fresh clone)
python -m compileall src	passes
Per-phase verification reports	.gpd/phases/0{1,2,3}-*/VERIFICATION.md (all PASS, latest 10/10 confidence)
GitHub Actions CI	wired in .github/workflows/ci.yml (boring CI: install + pytest, no external fetches)
Operational endpoint leak scan	0 matches across all tracked surfaces
Falsification battery (PRD §1.3)	all four conditions hold (k=70 caveat preserved; no decipherment language; search not reframed as sovereign repo; no image-rights inflation)

Proof Anchors

Claim	Evidence
Phase 4 conditional catalogue at k=70 with stability caveat	authority/review_pack/phase4_governing_verdict.md, authority/review_pack/indus_catalogue_summary.md
Phase 5 linguistic-structure-without-decipherment	authority/review_pack/phase5_governing_verdict.md
Paper 1 (DSH-ready) and Paper 2 (held until Paper 1 submission) verdicts	authority/papers/paper1_governing_verdict_v2.md, authority/papers/paper2_governing_verdict.md
Search-without-decode functional spec (API + latency/compression gates + 10 query ground-truth records)	authority/review_pack/search_demo_summary.md
Clean-room runtime reproducing the spec	src/gnosis_indus/search_surface/{__init__,catalogue,engine,_fixture}.py
Authority-anchored demo fixture	artifacts/phase4/indus_catalogue_demo_fixture.json (every row traced verbatim to a line in the authority doc; see artifacts/phase4/README.md)
Phase 02 verification (10/10)	.gpd/phases/02-extraction-and-minimal-replay-surface/VERIFICATION.md
Phase 03 verification (10/10, PRD complete)	.gpd/phases/03-truth-preserving-packaging/VERIFICATION.md
Decision log (six rows, each with rollback trigger)	.gpd/DECISIONS.md
Off-repo custody register	HF_CUSTODY_REGISTER.md

Repo Shape

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├── NOTICE                              # Apache-2.0 code and CC-BY-4.0 docs posture
├── README.md                           # this file
├── CHANGELOG                           # release history
├── CITATION.cff                        # citation metadata
├── CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md                  # community conduct standards
├── PRD_GNOSIS_INDUS_ANCHOR_APPLICATION.md # sovereign brief
├── AGENTS.md                           # autonomous-agent rules
├── AUTHORITY_SNAPSHOT.md               # carried-forward truth
├── AUDITOR_PLAYBOOK.md                 # outsider-audit fast path (pre-Phase-02 vintage; refresh pending)
├── PUBLIC_AUDIT_LIMITS.md              # what audit can and cannot conclude
├── HF_CUSTODY_REGISTER.md             # off-repo storage truth
├── SOURCE_BOUNDARY.md                  # source families included / deferred / excluded
├── DATA_POLICY.md                      # data classes and rights posture
├── ROADMAP.md                          # milestone tracker
├── _internal/                          # scaffolding and internal orchestration docs
│   ├── MIGRATION_PLAN.md               # extraction roadmap and waves (internal)
│   ├── STATUS_REPORT_2026-04-24.md     # orchestrator execution narrative (internal)
│   ├── AUTONOMOUS_EXECUTION_POLICY.md
│   ├── GPD_BOOTSTRAP_GUIDE.md
│   ├── STARTUP_PROMPT.md
│   ├── UNIVERSAL_STARTUP_PROMPT.md
│   ├── WORKSTREAM_GPD_INIT_CHECKLIST.md
│   └── TEMPLATE_USAGE.md
├── docs/
│   ├── ARCHITECTURE.md
│   ├── LEGAL_BOUNDARIES.md
│   ├── FAQ.md
│   ├── SUPPORT.md
│   └── family/INDUS_EXPORT_CONTRACT.md
├── authority/                          # exact-source-only verdict copies
│   ├── review_pack/                    # Phase 4/5 governing verdicts and PRDs
│   └── papers/                         # Paper 1/2 governing verdicts
├── src/gnosis_indus/
│   └── search_surface/                 # Phase 02 first runtime slice (clean-room)
├── artifacts/phase4/
│   └── indus_catalogue_demo_fixture.json  # authority-anchored demo fixture
├── tests/
│   └── test_search_surface.py          # 14 tests reproducing authority queries
├── .gpd/                               # GPD control plane (PROJECT, STATE, ROADMAP, REQUIREMENTS, DECISIONS, CONVENTIONS, phase plans + verifications)
└── .github/
    ├── ISSUE_TEMPLATE/
    ├── PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE.md
    └── workflows/ci.yml                   # boring CI: install + pytest

Quick Start

Reproduce the Phase 02 stronger smoke path on any clean Python 3.11 host:

git clone https://github.com/Zer0pa/Indus-Valley.git gnosis-indus
cd gnosis-indus
python3.11 -m venv .venv && source .venv/bin/activate
pip install -e ".[test,numerics]"
pytest -q

Expected: 14 passed. The pytest suite reproduces the authority-doc query records from authority/review_pack/search_demo_summary.md against the bundled artifacts/phase4/indus_catalogue_demo_fixture.json. The fixture is small and authority-anchored; the real full catalogue stays FETCH_EXTERNAL per DATA_POLICY.md. The Phase 4 stability caveat (k=70 conditional) remains visible in the package and fixture surfaces.

Current Gaps

• Image-rights and provenance for any public image-bearing release remain unresolved; sign images stay BLOCKED_RIGHTS in DATA_POLICY.md.
• License text has landed as Apache-2.0 for code and CC-BY-4.0 for docs. Public visibility remains separate and is blocked on rights, provenance, and release wording review.
• Phase 02 landed only the search-without-decode slice. The Phase 4 catalogue and Phase 5 falsification slices are sequenced as later extraction waves (MIGRATION_PLAN.md, SOURCE_BOUNDARY.md).
• Full k=70 catalogue (412 signs, 70 clusters, 179 inscriptions) is not vendored; the bundled demo fixture reproduces only what the authority doc enumerates.
• AUDITOR_PLAYBOOK.md is pre-Phase-02 vintage. Functionally superseded by the README Quick Start and the Phase 03 verification reports (.gpd/phases/03-truth-preserving-packaging/VERIFICATION.md), but the playbook itself awaits a maintenance refresh.

Commercial Readiness

Field	Value
Verdict	STAGED
Posture	rights_gated_data_classes_image_blocked_text_fetch_external

The runtime and test surface are functional and reproducible from a fresh clone. Image-rights and full-catalogue redistribution gates remain open; those are explicit, not hidden. STAGED reflects: production-quality scaffold, not yet cleared for all data releases.

Upcoming Workstreams

Active Engineering

• AUDITOR_PLAYBOOK.md maintenance refresh — currently self-flagged "pre-Phase-02 vintage"; should be updated to reference the Phase 02 / 03 verification reports and the Quick Start replay path. (AUDITOR_PLAYBOOK.md)
• Phase 4 catalogue extraction wave — extract first clean runtime slice into src/gnosis_indus/catalogue/ per _internal/MIGRATION_PLAN.md wave 2.
• Phase 5 falsification extraction wave — extract first clean runtime slice into src/gnosis_indus/falsification/ per _internal/MIGRATION_PLAN.md wave 3.

Operations / External Dependency

• Image-rights and provenance review for any image-bearing public release; sign images remain BLOCKED_RIGHTS in DATA_POLICY.md until a rights review is completed by the relevant authority.
• Full k=70 catalogue redistribution rights review — the 412-sign / 70-cluster / 179-inscription catalogue stays FETCH_EXTERNAL until cleared.

Research-Deferred — Investigation Underway

(none currently; Phase 5 posture — linguistic structure confirmed, substrate identification not — is stable and not under active re-investigation.)

Zero-Base Scientific Thinking — GPD Research and Planning Pending

(none currently.)