LIMITATIONS — Forge Proof Layer Upgrade

Everything simulated, mocked, skipped, or static-only is disclosed here.

• DISCLOSED_SEAM: Verification exercises the Proof Layer tools against

synthetic disposable fixtures created at runtime, plus one real existing outcome (sar-crop-acreage). It does not re-prove every historical delivery package.

• DISCLOSED_SEAM: The PRODUCTION_VALIDATED state and Evidence Grades A and

A+ require an official benchmark, independent reproduction, and external validation. None of those inputs exist in this environment, so those code paths are defined and unit-reachable but not exercised end-to-end here.

• DISCLOSED_SEAM: "Independent reproduction" and "external validation" are

declared via explicit CLI flags (--independent-reproduction, --external-validation) and must themselves be backed by evidence before use; this outcome does not set them.

• Static-only: The Trust Score weights are fixed in tools/forge-proof.mjs;

they are a transparent, documented heuristic, not a calibrated statistical model.

• Assumption: The verification report's status/passed/total fields

faithfully represent the build; the Proof Layer trusts the report it re-runs.