# Stack E Q/E Triplex Branch Lifecycle

Version: `0.2.0-implemented-candidate`

Status: `SOURCE PATCH IMPLEMENTED / CANDIDATE BRANCH / NON_RUNTIME`

Request: `M2M-STACK-E-01`

This package specifies three distinguishable contextual traces for the
carrier-B species `affirmation`, `negation`, and `doubt`. The traces may have
different evidence, lifecycle states, and return outcomes. The species remain
carrier-dependent and non-autonomous.

Operationally, this is the `QB` procedure that reduces overfitting and
premature hypothesis closure during OPERA Q: admissible affirmative, negative,
and dubitative traces remain independently inspectable until an explicit
current judgment rule lawfully closes the comparison frame.

## Controlling boundaries

- The activation-time `04_STACK_E` tree was
  `cf0c0e291968a3d940f6389ec5b9fb8da1c56445`.
- The maintainer specifically authorized the minimum five-provider mutation
  for the long-overdue interrogative case procedure of rule `QB`.
- The maintainer separately authorized rebuilding `SIGMA_SATOR_E` from those
  five updated providers.
- This package proposes no majority vote, consensus, hidden synthesis, truth
  judgment, or ontology for a species.
- A branch-local failure does not become a global traversal failure.
- Lack of support does not become negation.
- The PALATIUM triplex (content, interaction, narration) is a separate
  interface architecture and is not imported as this lifecycle.
- Graph lifecycle and downstream handoff candidates are crosswalk inputs only.
- No Graphus, MACHINA, global Sigma index, `SYSTEM_INDEX`, deployment, or
  runtime authority follows.
- Integration and downstream promotion remain separate decisions.

## Implemented candidate

The package contains the source impact ledger, terminology and transition
table, versioned trace schema, deterministic aggregation/return algorithm,
minimum patch record, twelve expectation cases, concrete versioned traces,
PALATIUM compatibility report, Graph/MACHINA crosswalk, promotion impact
ledger, and scope validator. The five Stack E providers carry the authorized
minimal implementation on this branch.