# AP Four-Course Standings — 2026-08-17

**Agent companion:** [AP-FOUR-COURSE-AGENT-ACCOUNTING-2026-08-17.md](https://drive.google.com/file/d/15fXAispARin4QU40HFtcE5xsx8Xgs2SX/view) (raw markdown — download and hand it to your agent; the JSON claims manifest inside is machine-readable) — the claim-by-claim evidence dossier behind this doc. Every number here has a stable claim id, a status label (observed / planned / blocked / missing), full hashes and live links, a verification path, and a note on what was NOT measured. Point your agent at it; it includes a machine-readable claims manifest and a guide to reading our Langfuse project.

## TLDR — where the week landed

- **HumGeo**: bank rebuild at 451 of 474 items seal-ready (the state file counts 463 accepted, but 12 of those point at the pre-amendment version of the item they replace and fail the official check). The sealed replacement package lands at drain, cautiously 08-20; the factory-pool release that unblocks APWH comes earlier, cautiously 08-18 end of day. You can open it on the /demo page today; formal RELEASE waits on two fleet items ([#659](https://github.com/InceptTrilogy/ap-one/issues/659) serving cutover + release flip, [#642](https://github.com/InceptTrilogy/ap-one/issues/642) cleanup).
- **APWH**: the full course is proven end to end by a render walk with bytes-exact receipts. 449 of 571 rationale repairs are applied to the canonical bank ([commit](https://github.com/ilmych/apwh-build-outputs/commit/5d6fe7e3a7f6d6aeb3b90e1e625763412f8622b2)). The last regeneration batch and the paid QC sweep queue behind HumGeo's factory-pool turn.
- **APUSH**: 49 of 249 article positions admitted. The next 74 article CONTRACTS are validated and post on their pool turn (third in the chain, aimed at end of week); the factory writes the article text at its next stage. Half the course waits on a factory capability answer ([intake #90](https://github.com/ilmych/incept-agent-intake/issues/90)).
- **Psych**: the surprise of the week. All 221 articles are done. The whole course assembles and serves locally on demand — the real serving app booted over the bundle, every article leg walked green ([evidence](https://github.com/joshuadurey-del/ap-ss-evidence/tree/564d0866336d71bb467b28d02d1d123e4adf82ee/evidence/psych/20260817-local-host/claude)). The item bank fill starts on Psych's pool turn (last in the chain) and is the long pole.

## See each course today

All visuals below live in the [visuals folder](https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1-05RBT72-K3CJzYD0AjaP_jzwggvVWC1) (full resolution). AP One has TWO visibility surfaces, and they differ: the [/demo page](https://apone.inceptstore.com/demo) renders a separately maintained static card list, while the ordinary course chooser ([/api/courses](https://apone.inceptstore.com/api/courses)) applies readiness and release checks over the registry. Registration, release, and /demo visibility are three separate operations. All rows verified live today at 13:21 KST.

| Course | Where to look | Honest note |
| --- | --- | --- |
| **HumGeo** | OPEN IT NOW: [apone.inceptstore.com/demo](https://apone.inceptstore.com/demo) → the AP Human Geography card. Its course tree serves (HTTP 200) | Visible and walkable on /demo today. Still absent from the released chooser: release_ready is false pending the AP One serving cutover and release flip ([#659](https://github.com/InceptTrilogy/ap-one/issues/659)). |
| **APWH** | In the live course chooser ([/api/courses](https://apone.inceptstore.com/api/courses)); its tree serves (HTTP 200). Four rendered lesson pages from the proof walk: [unit 1](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gb0OGF13ar9dWhDph9GGVGmvvX3qsIaG/view), [unit 2](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1YSIEoYVrrqPMPMNWVMyrDHL5Ctqlf4Ps/view), [unit 5](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1q7eb3pln06P_WM-zWNCXidQJgNbKgAyY/view), [study skills](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1R-YGBHv7NS7F7wWjR4k94XCJ9A2oMoVI/view) | Registered and serving. NOT on the static /demo card list (separate catalog file). [#591](https://github.com/InceptTrilogy/ap-one/issues/591) covers four missing study-skill lessons, not overall registration. |
| **APUSH** | [Build ledger STATUS](https://github.com/ilmych/apush-course-build/blob/main/STATUS.md) + [one full admitted article](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1d0mvskgAcpLmyrUNNw_2385pXcDdr_1fIzXgSnHUZDo/edit) (position 232, strict-QC pass) | Nothing platform-side: no registry entry, no card, tree returns 404. Build-only. |
| **Psych** | Course captures rendered from the real served payloads (neutral stylesheet): [course tree](https://drive.google.com/file/d/19fHxlNmgZnGoB9TTG_yYDjkCKpRFLC2k/view), [article 1](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Zlq_tlyaEtXpDGRZ-W5O9NsluIGhBQv2/view), [article 2](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EM8afR722JKrzxkfBghlgWKK3HuO5kMn/view), [article 3](https://drive.google.com/file/d/154_8oGxnDuyOZI1nMhTJgoiDKQKTccBj/view), [walk summary](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1MFYhPL8lsPkSJdq931JSnc_sCnp63W3O/view); walk receipts [here](https://github.com/joshuadurey-del/ap-ss-evidence/tree/564d0866336d71bb467b28d02d1d123e4adf82ee/evidence/psych/20260817-local-host/claude) | Nothing platform-side yet: no registry entry, tree returns 404. Local serving is boot-on-demand. The complete registration branch is staged; by owner ruling it opens as one PR when the course is whole (U5 green, bank full, snapshots walked). |

## Where the four courses stand

| Course | Where it is | Blocking reality |
| --- | --- | --- |
| **AP Human Geography** | • Bank rebuild 451/474 seal-ready (463 accepted, 12 stale pins fail the official check). • Factory pool RELEASED to APWH 2026-08-18 04:23 KST with receipt. • 6 metadata rows QC COMPLETED: 3 pass, 3 fail. • 30-slot amendment sealed and proven; fires at drain ([receipts](https://github.com/joshuadurey-del/ap-ss-evidence/tree/d1f7902ddefa510b5e2dc970f96ecbf001b167c6/evidence/humgeo/20260817-000500__claude__humgeo--amend30-docs/claude)). • Then: 6 metadata rows, assembly, validation, sealed 482-record manifest. • 741/759 structural-repair candidates staged ([receipts](https://github.com/joshuadurey-del/ap-ss-evidence/tree/b26d5a2ff43de8820e729c28c23e236abad3c370/evidence/humgeo/20260816-052500__claude__humgeo--repair-docs/claude)). | • [#659](https://github.com/InceptTrilogy/ap-one/issues/659): all 68 components + 204 links MATERIALIZED 08-16; remaining = AP One serving cutover and deploy/readback (fleet), then the release_ready flip (Josh's authority, per intake #72). Timing note: the shared TimeBack writer corridor was re-claimed 08-17 for another course's catalog write, and HumGeo's cutover queues behind its completion. • [#642](https://github.com/InceptTrilogy/ap-one/issues/642): 57 items with duplicate choice text, 1,750 children affected — fleet. • Corpus-apply go after seal — Josh. |
| **AP World History** | • Full course proven by render walk, bytes-exact receipts. • 449/571 rationale repairs applied, push-verified ([commit](https://github.com/ilmych/apwh-build-outputs/commit/5d6fe7e3a7f6d6aeb3b90e1e625763412f8622b2)). • Skill codes 760/933; redraw recovering the rest (61 of 207 done, ~56% rate). • 362-item regeneration batch proven and parked. | • Batch parked on HumGeo's pool release (today) — Josh. • Paid sweep fires after the batch (0/933 verdicts yet, by design). • [#591](https://github.com/InceptTrilogy/ap-one/issues/591): four study-skill lessons still un-ingested — fleet. • Publisher credential absent day 4 (per ap-status; gates canonical placement) — fleet. • Sunday bar slipped one day. • Even after the credential lands, platform writes queue behind the TimeBack corridor's current write phase. |
| **AP US History** | • 49/249 article positions admitted. • Next 74 article contracts authored, gated, validated; post on the pool turn (the factory writes the articles from them). • Nothing serves yet, build-only. | • Ceiling ~123/249 after the 74 land. • 126 positions wait on factory visual-class capability ([intake #90](https://github.com/ilmych/incept-agent-intake/issues/90), no reply) — factory. • 2 positions on defective packets ([intake #89](https://github.com/ilmych/incept-agent-intake/issues/89)) — factory. |
| **AP Psychology** | • Articles 221/221 done, every EK covered (Unit 5's 54 landed Saturday). • Topic 3.3 shows 0 lessons BY DESIGN: no EK maps to it; an approved lesson asset is parked pending a separate curriculum decision. • NEW: whole course serves locally boot-on-demand; walks green, 246 receipts, zero key leaks ([evidence](https://github.com/joshuadurey-del/ap-ss-evidence/tree/564d0866336d71bb467b28d02d1d123e4adf82ee/evidence/psych/20260817-local-host/claude)). • Bank fill queued for tonight's pool turn. | • Bank 1,810 items short across 374 buckets — Josh. • RISK: evidence-based-FRQ generator gave zero yield in 10 passes on 08-11; fresh measurement tonight. • U5 gate: 26 findings, repair train landing ([psych #2](https://github.com/InceptTrilogy/ap-psychology-fall-2025-v1/issues/2)) — fleet. • Platform registration: PARKED by owner ruling (no repo noise). The complete registration branch is staged and opens as one PR when the U5 gate is green, the bank is full, and the gate/practice snapshots are walked. |
| **Cross-course** | • One shared factory pool, strict series: HumGeo → APWH (362) → APUSH (74) → Psych fill. • Every handoff receipted; next lane fires automatically. | • No open cross-course blockers on our side. • The retired local pre-check judge left one footnote: the official judge reads distractor plausibility (D2) strictly on recall items — strict means it fails good items, the cheap direction, so no action is owed. |

## ETA per course — our side done

Dates are KST. One date per course, the cautious one, per the owner's 2026-08-17 cadence ruling: earlier internal dates are planning numbers, not commitments, and they are deliberately not published here. The bar for the week: HumGeo and APWH done from our side by Friday 08-21. All four by that Friday was acknowledged too optimistic on 2026-08-17. "Our side done" means content work complete, receipted, and handed to the fleet. Student-live also needs the fleet items in P0; I do not set dates for those.

| Course | Cautious | What would move it |
| --- | --- | --- |
| **HumGeo** | 08-20 | The amended 30-slot pass and metadata QC are mechanical. The date covers a fail-closed stop that would need a canon fix first, and the 741 rescreens' place in the queue. |
| **APWH** | 08-21 | The 362-item batch + paid sweep start on my pool release. The date covers a sweep-fail repair round and slow redraw stragglers. Two legs are unmeasured: generation throughput for the 362, and the paid check's failure rate. |
| **APUSH (to ~123/249 ceiling)** | 08-22 | The 74 articles post on the pool turn; admission pace sets the rest. Retry rounds for image-checker rejections are the known kill class. Full 249 has NO honest date — 126 positions wait on the factory's [intake #90](https://github.com/ilmych/incept-agent-intake/issues/90) answer. |
| **Psych** | 08-25, or a reset if the FRQ generator stays at zero | Moved from 08-23 on 2026-08-17: that date stacked three optimisms (full pool availability, recovered essay-type yield, and fleet repair pace). Bank fill is 1,810 items. A still-zero essay-type reading sends the disposition to the owner and resets the clock. |

## Priority order

### P0 · Fleet actions that gate students (days matter)

| # | Item | Owner |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | HumGeo [#659](https://github.com/InceptTrilogy/ap-one/issues/659): serving cutover, deploy/readback, and the release_ready flip (the 68 components + 204 links materialized 08-16) | fleet |
| 2 | HumGeo [#642](https://github.com/InceptTrilogy/ap-one/issues/642): corrective wave for the 57 duplicate-choice-text items (1,750 active children) | fleet, Andy's thread |
| 3 | APWH: publisher credential (absent day 4; gates canonical placement) + [#591](https://github.com/InceptTrilogy/ap-one/issues/591)'s four study-skill lessons | fleet |

### P1 · Minutes of decision, weeks of motion

| # | Item | Owner |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 4 | Psych platform registration: staged branch opens as one complete-course PR when U5 gate green + bank full + snapshots walked (owner ruling: no repo noise before then) | Josh |
| 5 | Psych U5 gate: the remaining 26 findings ([psych #2](https://github.com/InceptTrilogy/ap-psychology-fall-2025-v1/issues/2)) — repair or reassign | fleet |
| 6 | HumGeo corpus-apply go once the sealed manifest lands (seal receipt comes to you first) | Josh |
| 7 | APUSH intakes [#90](https://github.com/ilmych/incept-agent-intake/issues/90) + [#89](https://github.com/ilmych/incept-agent-intake/issues/89): any factory reply unfreezes half the course | factory owners |

### P2 · Our volume work, already in motion

| # | Item | Owner |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 8 | Drive the pool chain end to end: HumGeo close-out → APWH 362 + sweep → APUSH 74 → Psych fill | Josh's lanes (automated, receipted) |
| 9 | Measure evidence-based-FRQ yield on Psych's first fill cycles; escalate with data if still zero | Josh's lanes |
| 10 | HumGeo 759-line structural rescreens (741 staged) after the APWH pool turn | Josh's lanes |

### P3 · To schedule, no clock

The APUSH visual-capability sizing conversation if [#90](https://github.com/ilmych/incept-agent-intake/issues/90) stays quiet past 48h.

## Lessons learned

A reproducible process catalog. Left: trigger and observable failure. Right: implemented control and verifier.

| Lesson learned | Applied going forward |
| --- | --- |
| **Generation-path checks and acceptance QC are distinct contracts.** Repro: the HumGeo bank completed the generation route, but its inline checks did not satisfy the factory acceptance contract; a later sweep exposed the mismatch. | The factory now judges every item inside generation. APWH holds a strict repair-first, judge-once order: 449 repairs applied, zero paid verdicts spent ([commit](https://github.com/ilmych/apwh-build-outputs/commit/5d6fe7e3a7f6d6aeb3b90e1e625763412f8622b2)). Every HumGeo rebuild pass binds to the item's exact bytes ([receipts](https://github.com/joshuadurey-del/ap-ss-evidence/tree/b6f5f1e8f585633f16f6733f8b9b315a9426d3ac/evidence/humgeo/20260816-004715__claude__humgeo--adoption-verifications/claude)). |
| **Sealed plans can go stale against their own sources.** 30 HumGeo slots were sealed against source copies missing already-committed skill tags. It cost a mid-campaign amendment. | Plans now take receipted amendments as first-class input, with a sandbox proof required before execution: 425 prior passes intact, 49 slots selected ([receipts](https://github.com/joshuadurey-del/ap-ss-evidence/tree/d1f7902ddefa510b5e2dc970f96ecbf001b167c6/evidence/humgeo/20260817-000500__claude__humgeo--amend30-docs/claude)). |
| **A proxy judge earns no authority before comparison with official verdicts.** Repro: a local pre-check was tested across 35 pairs, 3 votes each, and 105 calls; it missed 1 in 5 factory failures. | It never gated anything, and as of today it is off entirely — every item goes straight to the factory judge. Standing rule: nothing gets judging authority without measurement. |
| **Serialized shared capacity compounds schedule variance.** Repro: four courses sharing one strict-series factory pool caused upstream delay to move every downstream estimate. | The chain is now automated: each lane's close writes a receipt and the next lane fires on it, no human in the handoff ([Stage-4 prep receipts](https://github.com/joshuadurey-del/ap-ss-evidence/tree/f05a665d52a31707a72c2d76d5271b2f5a02db60/evidence/seat/20260817-apush-stage4-prep)). |
| **A blocker binds an action, not an entire lane.** Repro: buildable work was scheduled after a blocker even when only one later command depended on it; another lane paused on a decision already answered by the factory contract. | Standing rules force the split: everything buildable builds now; only the truly gated command waits. Receipt: the 30-slot amendment was fully built and proven while its blocker still ran ([timestamps](https://github.com/joshuadurey-del/ap-ss-evidence/tree/d1f7902ddefa510b5e2dc970f96ecbf001b167c6/evidence/humgeo/20260817-000500__claude__humgeo--amend30-docs/claude)). |
| **Investigation authority and mutation authority are separate.** Repro: a rendered-UI investigation broadened into a production rewrite that replaced [57 HumGeo items and moved 1,750 active child references](https://github.com/InceptTrilogy/ap-one/issues/642), then duplicated prompt and choice text in the successors produced by [PR #636](https://github.com/InceptTrilogy/ap-one/pull/636) and [PR #637](https://github.com/InceptTrilogy/ap-one/pull/637). These are historical incident counts, not current course state. | The fleet's [PR #685](https://github.com/InceptTrilogy/ap-one/pull/685) and [PR #698](https://github.com/InceptTrilogy/ap-one/pull/698) disabled the historical mutation paths. [Every issue or PR on the sanctioned Claude path now requires an approving second-model verdict and transcript-verified owner approval for the exact destination](https://github.com/joshuadurey-del/ap-ss-evidence/tree/7120d0eda7b26eb79e20d39bc84218a0aa66be3a/evidence/process/20260818-filing-gate). A later filing at [intake #92](https://github.com/ilmych/incept-agent-intake/issues/92) reproduced the approval gap; [a replay proves that peer-message shape now blocks](https://github.com/joshuadurey-del/ap-ss-evidence/tree/7120d0eda7b26eb79e20d39bc84218a0aa66be3a/evidence/process/20260818-filing-gate). Any future corrective wave must meet #642's exact-source semantic proof. |

### Snapshot conclusion

At this reporting cutoff, HumGeo's named blockers were fleet-owned production gates and cleanup rather than authoring; APWH's schedule remained receipt- and placement-bound; APUSH depended on two factory intake answers; and Psychology's unresolved variable was evidence-based-FRQ yield. These are dated routing conclusions, not current course-state claims; each must be refreshed from the owning issue and production verifier before use.