Integrity, Evolution, and Governance
Meta Reports
Dedicated assessments of Gaia Skill Tree's evolution. These reports document major shifts in nomenclature, prestige rules, and structural audits executed via programmatic meta-shifts.
Major Registry Assessments
A living chronicle of how the graph matures and adapts to new evidence classes.
August 6, 2026
A Registry Correction on caveman, and Two Install Fixes
mattpocock/caveman removed and replaced by its true original at an honest 1-star; two skills got clearer install slugs; several silent install failures now fail honestly.
August 4, 2026
Skill Tree Report: Backlog Changes in /registry/
A reader-facing report on the backlog-era /registry/ changes: new and refreshed named skill files, expanded generic skill nodes, benchmark-source trust infrastructure, and public surfaces that make those records easier to inspect.
August 1, 2026
Registry Audit Report: DeepMind Cluster Audit & Release v7.3.3 Rank Calibrations
Origin-gate enforcement across DeepMind cluster nodes, trust-ledger 1-star redactions, timeline backfills, and 12 new named-skill admissions in v7.3.3.
July 30, 2026
Intake Batch: 11 Named Skills Onboarded — ev-pipeline v2 Live
Eleven named skills across seven contributors cleared the evidence pipeline and landed in the registry. ev-pipeline v2 ships deterministic append scripts and a three-hop intake label ladder.
July 26, 2026
Yggdrasil II: Two Types, One Trust Gate, and a Branch Axis That Is Never Declared
The Yggdrasil I to II meta shift collapses three node types to two, derives the branch axis at read-time, and retires the Evidence Floor so Trust Magnitude is the sole promotion gate.
July 13, 2026
Firecrawl Suite Curation and Origin Recalibration
Five named Firecrawl components plus a capstone enter the registry; five buckets recalibrate to a single origin each; gaia dev fuse timeline bug fixed.
July 3, 2026
Curation Report: Addy Osmani 7-Skill Suite Integration
Gaia integrates Addy Osmani's 7-Skill developer suite and applies mothership discounting.
July 3, 2026
GSD Suite Curation
Gaia adds the GSD pipeline as a named suite candidate and introduces stricter trust appraisal for high-star suite curation.
June 20, 2026
GAIA Trust Infrastructure: A June 2026 Retrospective
Phase 1 baseline through Phase 1.5 ratification — G7 RFC, Trust Magnitude formula, apex gate, public Trust Ledger. Now includes the Phase 1.5 closeout addendum on per-evidence grade calibration and the Trust Ledger May/June rollout.
June 17, 2026
G7 Trust Magnitude Supersedes the 2026-06-15 Methodology
How GAIA's Trust Magnitude (S≥250 / A≥100 / B≥50 / C≥20) sits on top of per-row Evidence Grades, and why both currently-6★ skills demote at G7 cutover.
June 15, 2026
The GAIA Trust Methodology: Evidence Types, Grades, and Inherited Standing
How GAIA replaced evidence classes and numeric scores with Types, Grades, and inherited standing.
June 3, 2026
Chained Curation: Thirteen Starless References and a Unique Reclassification
Gated chain adds 13 starless references; feed-monitoring reclassified from Unique to Basic.
June 2, 2026
June Week 1 Meta Update
Origin reassignments, URL curation, and CLI enhancements — extended by a whole-registry automated meta sweep with adversarial verification and a before/after confusion matrix.
May 31, 2026
Starless Skills Update
Generic skill taxonomy refactored as rank-free, with star-based prestige reserved for named implementations.
May 25, 2026
May 2026 Meta-Shift
Enforcing prestige rules and star bar requirements.
Meta Timeline
The raw record of every rank-up, name claim, and fusion in the canonical registry.