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.
September 13, 2026
September Mid-Cycle Update: Frozen Ranks, Upstream Sync, and the Four-Tier Audit
What changed in the registry between v8.7 and v8.12: two new skills admitted (trailhq/graft at 4★), four skills disentangled from an unrelated purge and restored — Matt Pocock's trio to 3★ and rico-favor/implement-with-discernment to 1★ — six suites synchronized to upstream releases, 48 rank recalibrations, and the Four-Tier Audit Taxonomy that now governs how skills are evaluated.
September 10, 2026
September 9 Rank Calibration
Updated named-skill ranks to match current Trust Magnitude grades and added Steward drift detection.
September 7, 2026
September 2026 Intake Wave: Evidence Before Promotion
Seven intake issues resolved through one topology gate, evidence verification, bounded suite curation, and honest rejection.
September 5, 2026
Yggdrasil III Meta Shift: Structural Provenance, Logarithmic Adoption, and the Full S-Grade & Leaderboard Recalibration
The definitive Yggdrasil III chronicle (August 25 – September 5, 2026): the foundational crisis ruling that structural provenance is not trust, the emergency repository-star recalibration, Fusion Score ratification, forensic audit of 339 named skills with 12 imposter purges, evidence lake decontamination of 35 DeepMind consortium rows and hijacked citations, logarithmic adoption curve capped at 175 TM, the Grade S witness gate, and the dramatic S-grade shifts culminating in only three authentic skills earning Grade S through verified independent witnesses.
August 29, 2026
Yggdrasil III: Structural Provenance Is Not Trust
Yggdrasil III separates structural provenance from trust and recalibrates repository-star adoption so every current 5-star skill remains above the 250 TM floor. Stored stars did not change.
August 20, 2026
From Question to Code: Matt Pocock's Skill Curation
Gaia's Matt Pocock curation maps a connected work loop—from shaping a problem to implementation, review, and handoff—while keeping suite structure, trust, and historical records visible.
August 10, 2026
98 Out of the Top 100 Installed Skills Aren't Good Enough
We ran the skills.sh top-100 leaderboard through our curation pipeline. 73 of 100 entries are from two vendor clusters gaming install count. Here's what actually survived.
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.