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• Docs: review index says 37 decision records, but docs/decisions/INDEX.md lists 73

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  docs good first issue P3

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  JacksonSibold/ntpers-research#113 · Opened Oct 14, 2026

• Docs: kernel-nt.md summary table does not match its finding headings

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  docs good first issue P3

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  JacksonSibold/ntpers-research#112 · Opened Oct 14, 2026

• Track M-F: 21 criteria (WinRT, physical hardware, and the boot and installer chain)

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  conformance enhancement P3

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  JacksonSibold/ntpers-research#111 · Opened Oct 14, 2026

• Track M-E: 110 criteria (services, COM, networking, graphics, input, audio, the CLR and WOW64)

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  conformance enhancement P2

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  JacksonSibold/ntpers-research#110 · Opened Oct 14, 2026

• Track M-D: 145 criteria (process creation, filesystem, synchronization, named pipes and the windowing base)

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  conformance enhancement P2

  Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 6/100

  JacksonSibold/ntpers-research#109 · Opened Oct 14, 2026

• Track M-C: 103 criteria (core loader and kernel objects)

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  conformance enhancement P1

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  JacksonSibold/ntpers-research#108 · Opened Oct 14, 2026

• Track M-B: 20 criteria (first loader and kernel foundations)

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  conformance enhancement P1

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  JacksonSibold/ntpers-research#107 · Opened Oct 14, 2026

• Track M-A: 5 criteria (repository-local work)

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  conformance enhancement P0

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  JacksonSibold/ntpers-research#106 · Opened Oct 14, 2026

• Decision records: 57 open or blocked ADRs to decide and implement

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  blocked-on-owner P2 research

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  JacksonSibold/ntpers-research#105 · Opened Oct 14, 2026

• External input: the MS-ERREF table source for the NTSTATUS to Win32 error mapping

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  blocked-on-owner conformance P1

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  JacksonSibold/ntpers-research#104 · Opened Oct 14, 2026

• External input: the audit board that authors and holds the canary corpus

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  blocked-on-owner conformance P1

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  JacksonSibold/ntpers-research#103 · Opened Oct 14, 2026

• External input: the RFC 3161 time-stamp authority for evidence bundles

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  blocked-on-owner conformance P1

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  JacksonSibold/ntpers-research#102 · Opened Oct 14, 2026

• External input: the build signing key pair for evidence bundles

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  blocked-on-owner conformance P1

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  JacksonSibold/ntpers-research#101 · Opened Oct 14, 2026

• Harness: four goldens hard-code windows_build 26200.9168 and block the integrity lint and dodrun

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  bug differential harness P1

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  JacksonSibold/ntpers-research#100 · Opened Oct 14, 2026

• Golden corpus: probe_sharemode_direct is reported with no golden, but a golden file is present

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  differential docs good first issue P3

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  JacksonSibold/ntpers-research#99 · Opened Oct 14, 2026

• Golden corpus: 64 KiB publication policy leaves captured goldens unpublished (probe_path, probe_path_direct, probe_sharemode, probe_virtualquery_direct, probe_ntstatus_direct)

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  blocked-on-owner conformance differential P2

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  JacksonSibold/ntpers-research#98 · Opened Oct 14, 2026

• BUILD-RECIPE G24: two NT sources exist in both trees and the copy order decides which runs (open)

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  blocked-on-owner kernel P2 vm/linux-env

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  JacksonSibold/ntpers-research#97 · Opened Oct 14, 2026

• BUILD-RECIPE G22: first boot of the personality kernel is untested

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  needs-guest P1 vm/linux-env

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  JacksonSibold/ntpers-research#96 · Opened Oct 14, 2026

• BUILD-RECIPE G13: the gate order in kbuild.sh cannot pass on a fresh tree

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  blocked-on-owner P2 vm/linux-env

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  JacksonSibold/ntpers-research#95 · Opened Oct 14, 2026

• BUILD-RECIPE G12: PE test binaries are untracked (step 8 of the recipe)

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  blocked-on-owner P3 vm/linux-env

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  JacksonSibold/ntpers-research#94 · Opened Oct 14, 2026

• BUILD-RECIPE G8: the object count disagrees across the repository (20, 18 and 17)

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  blocked-on-owner P3 vm/linux-env

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  JacksonSibold/ntpers-research#93 · Opened Oct 14, 2026

• BUILD-RECIPE G7: vm/kernel-config-ntpers is missing

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  blocked-on-owner P2 vm/linux-env

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  JacksonSibold/ntpers-research#92 · Opened Oct 14, 2026

• BUILD-RECIPE G1: SHA256 of the kernel tarball is not pinned in the repository (partly closed)

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  blocked-on-owner P2 vm/linux-env

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  JacksonSibold/ntpers-research#91 · Opened Oct 14, 2026

• probe_virtualquery (non-VM): 128 of 139 fields match

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  bug differential kernel needs-guest P2

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  JacksonSibold/ntpers-research#90 · Opened Oct 14, 2026

• probe_teb_peb (non-VM): 79 of 104 fields match

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  bug differential kernel needs-guest P2

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  JacksonSibold/ntpers-research#89 · Opened Oct 14, 2026

• probe_sync (non-VM): 0 of 74 fields compared; the comparator guard fires

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  bug differential P2 tests

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  JacksonSibold/ntpers-research#88 · Opened Oct 14, 2026

• probe_section (non-VM): 128 of 129 fields match, but the comparison is vacuous

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  bug differential kernel needs-guest P2

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  JacksonSibold/ntpers-research#87 · Opened Oct 14, 2026

• probe_registry (non-VM): 0 of 140 fields match; no JSON

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  JacksonSibold/ntpers-research#86 · Opened Oct 14, 2026

• probe_process_thread (non-VM): 0 of 182 fields match; no JSON

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  bug differential kernel needs-guest P2

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  JacksonSibold/ntpers-research#85 · Opened Oct 14, 2026

• probe_peloader (non-VM): 0 of 34 fields match; no JSON

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  bug differential loader needs-guest P2

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  JacksonSibold/ntpers-research#84 · Opened Oct 14, 2026

• probe_path (non-VM): 51355 of 72523 fields match

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  bug differential needs-guest ntdll P2

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  JacksonSibold/ntpers-research#83 · Opened Oct 14, 2026

• probe_ntstatus (non-VM): 2190 of 2199 fields match

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  bug differential needs-guest ntdll P2

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  JacksonSibold/ntpers-research#82 · Opened Oct 14, 2026

• probe_namedpipe (non-VM): 3 of 45 fields match

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  bug differential kernel needs-guest P2

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  JacksonSibold/ntpers-research#81 · Opened Oct 14, 2026

• probe_handles (non-VM): 82 of 111 fields match

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  bug differential needs-guest ntdll P2

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  JacksonSibold/ntpers-research#80 · Opened Oct 14, 2026

• probe_fileinfo (non-VM): 129 of 221 fields match

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  bug differential needs-guest ntdll P2

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  JacksonSibold/ntpers-research#79 · Opened Oct 14, 2026

• probe_exception (non-VM): 0 of 76 fields match; exits 139

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  bug differential needs-guest ntdll P2

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  JacksonSibold/ntpers-research#78 · Opened Oct 14, 2026

• probe_directory (non-VM): 0 of 67 fields match after the startup-module fix

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  bug differential needs-guest ntdll P2

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  JacksonSibold/ntpers-research#77 · Opened Oct 14, 2026

• probe_virtualquery_direct: 47902 of 49181 fields match (VM run 10)

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  bug differential kernel needs-guest P2

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  JacksonSibold/ntpers-research#76 · Opened Oct 14, 2026

• probe_sharemode_direct: 462439 of 462451 fields match (VM run 10)

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  bug differential kernel needs-guest P2

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  JacksonSibold/ntpers-research#75 · Opened Oct 14, 2026

• probe_section_direct: 104 of 129 fields match (VM run 10)

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  bug differential kernel needs-guest P2

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  JacksonSibold/ntpers-research#74 · Opened Oct 14, 2026

• probe_process_thread_direct: 177 of 184 fields match (VM run 10)

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  bug differential kernel needs-guest P2

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  JacksonSibold/ntpers-research#73 · Opened Oct 14, 2026

• probe_path_direct: 122713 of 237589 fields match (VM run 10)

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  bug differential kernel needs-guest P2

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  JacksonSibold/ntpers-research#72 · Opened Oct 14, 2026

• probe_ntstatus_direct: 2904 of 3977 fields match (VM run 10)

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  bug differential kernel needs-guest P2

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  JacksonSibold/ntpers-research#71 · Opened Oct 14, 2026

• probe_handles_direct: 114 of 121 fields match the golden (7 mismatched, VM run 10)

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  bug differential kernel needs-guest P2

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  JacksonSibold/ntpers-research#70 · Opened Oct 14, 2026

• NtReplyWaitReceivePortEx has no handler (MISSING, SSN 0x002b)

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  enhancement kernel P3

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  JacksonSibold/ntpers-research#69 · Opened Oct 14, 2026

• NtCloseObjectAuditAlarm has no handler (MISSING, SSN 0x003b)

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  enhancement kernel P3 security

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  JacksonSibold/ntpers-research#68 · Opened Oct 14, 2026

• Both builds: NtExtendSection is a stub (SSN 0x00e7)

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  enhancement kernel P3

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  JacksonSibold/ntpers-research#67 · Opened Oct 14, 2026

• Kernel build and userspace: NtGetContextThread and NtSetContextThread are stubs (SSN 0x00f7, 0x0193)

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  enhancement kernel P2

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  JacksonSibold/ntpers-research#66 · Opened Oct 14, 2026

• Kernel build: NtCreateProcess and NtCreateProcessEx are stubs (SSN 0x00bc, 0x004d)

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  blocked-on-owner enhancement kernel P2

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  JacksonSibold/ntpers-research#65 · Opened Oct 14, 2026

• audit pass 5 item 3: the write-back ignores the pwrite result, so a failed flush or unmap loses data

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  bug kernel P2

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  JacksonSibold/ntpers-research#64 · Opened Oct 14, 2026