frontiers / frontier
Current answer
No synthesized decision answer has been authored yet. The current reading is assembled from the frontier’s strongest accepted findings, shown below.
Frontier operating path
A frontier is the bounded record object. The record holds accepted state, the engine routes reviewed work back into it, the body renders derived maps, and proof fixes the release boundary.
record
Finding bundles, source records, evidence atoms, typed links, review events, and trails are the canonical frontier record.
open state →
engine
Sources, gaps, attempts, checks, benchmark runs, and reviewable changes return through Workbench and Review before state changes.
inspect review →
body
Graphs, briefs, atlases, and constellations materialize accepted records into navigable bodies. They guide work; they do not become the record.
open graph →
proof
Proof packets, citation packages, source manifests, and release pins make the current state portable and replayable.
open proof →
next action
Open reviewable changes are waiting for checks and reviewer authority before they can change accepted state.
inspect review →
Signals show what can change this record next: review queues, campaign work, benchmark gaps, proof boundaries, contested findings, and event history.
review signal
review waitingOpen reviewable changes need checks and reviewer authority before the record changes.
inspect review →
review signal
never_exportedNo sealed proof packet is present for this frontier. Events can still be inspected, but the release boundary is not frozen.
A frontier is the record. Work enters as gaps, attempts, reviewable changes, checks, and reviews before accepted events update proof, atlases, and constellations.
gapframing
A missing experiment, unresolved contradiction, extraction defect, or stale proof cell worth reviewing.
reviewable changework
A reviewable frontier-state change with affected findings, evidence, rationale, checks, and expected proof impact.
attemptwork
An agent, capability, procedure, system, or human run with input material, declared output material, environment, disclosures, failure state, and cited artifacts.
checkgate
A schema, provenance, contradiction, benchmark, proof, or evaluation result over a reviewable change or release.
Finding types
16 findingsTop findings
all stateNIF conducted first-ever controlled fusion ignition with target gain Q>1 on December 5, 2022, yielding 3.15 MJ fusion energy from 2.05 MJ direct laser input.
0.99vf_7bc5fd51ab6d4064NIF repeated fusion ignition in 2023-2024 with demonstrable gain improvement: July 2023 achieved 3.88 MJ output; February 2024 reached 5.20 MJ output; 5 of 16 shots in 2023 achieved target Q≥1.
0.95vf_b2ddaee4b3dadca4NIF's facility-level efficiency gap: generating 2.05 MJ laser input requires ~300 MJ of electrical energy from the facility, making site-level Q far below 1 despite target gain >1.
0.93vf_f10257598b5d6018inspect proof →
reviewgate
A human or authorized reviewer decision over a reviewable change, check, candidate gap, or contested finding.
eventaccepted
A signed, reviewable state transition that changes the Vela-backed frontier record.
releaseaccepted
A citation-ready bundle of source state, proof artifacts, mirrors, and known caveats.
Review state
Magnetic confinement (tokamak + stellarator) and inertial confinement (NIF) remain orthogonal approaches: NIF has achieved Q_target>1 but lacks repeatability and facility efficiency; magnetic designs target 10+ year steady-state operation but have not yet achieved sustained Q>1.
0.93vf_39e216f35b83e245Showing 12 of 16. Clone the full state with vela registry pull vfr_30ac47d7e1277ba8.