Self-Evo WDC v0.1.2: Witness Dependency Capture Release-Candidate Package

Self-Evo WDC v0.1.2 is a Witness Dependency Capture release-candidate documentation package for bounded self-evolution governance in c = a + b systems. It records the WDC addendum, affected-document deltas, review records, gate records, package assembly records, academic PDFs, manifests, and SHA-256 checksum files.

The package grew from an external witness-independence critique into a versioned Self-Evo v0.1.2 release-candidate package.

The core WDC rule is that a witness that cannot survive saying "no" is not independent. The package adds Witness Dependency Capture, Witness Resource Floor, Challenge Survivability Test, Witness Resource Change Gate, checker vocabulary harmonization, fixture-surface verification, contradiction/open-issue tracking, and boundary/nonclaim controls.

This package is documentation and package-control evidence. It does not certify any live system, does not authorize deployment, does not prove witness independence in operation, does not certify checker implementation conformance, does not record fixture-runner execution, and does not authorize runtime or autonomous self-evolution.

Boundary wording: not a conformance certificate; not deployment authorization; not witness-independence certification; not checker implementation certification; not fixture-runner execution; not live self-evolution permission.