Help prove Citadel's activation: 25 installs, verified handoff, and 7-day return

[SethGammon]

Help prove whether Citadel delivers repeat use

Citadel now has broad attention. The harder question is whether independent users reach a verified handoff, resume the work, and return after seven days.

This is not a request for testimonials. Failures count. Missing evidence stays unknown.

The milestone

The first cohort targets:

Gate	Target
Shared installations	25
Setup completion	60%
Verified handoff	40%
Durable resume	25%
Seven-day return	15%
Install or route failure	10% maximum

Seven-day return is calculated only from successful installs observed for at least seven days. Citadel will not claim retained human use until every gate passes.

Share your journey

Use the current main branch and complete a real, non-sensitive task through Citadel. From the target repository, run:

node .citadel/scripts/activation-telemetry.js share

If your Citadel source clone is separate from the target project, run:

node /path/to/Citadel/scripts/activation-telemetry.js share --root /path/to/your/project

The command writes .planning/product-proof/activation-share.json and prints the same JSON. It performs no network request.

Review the file. If you consent, post only that JSON object as a comment below. Run the command again after day seven and reply with the updated object. The opaque ID stays stable, so an update replaces the earlier observation instead of counting one install twice.

Privacy boundary

The bundle contains only:

• an opaque random ID separate from the local installation ID
• Citadel version and whole-day observation age
• bounded outcomes for install, setup, route, verified handoff, resume, return, and failure
• a local event count
• explicit aggregate consent

The schema rejects prompts, repository names, paths, commands, source code, user identity, tokens, secrets, and extra fields.

Posting is public and GitHub shows your account. The JSON itself contains no GitHub username or other personal identity. Use a non-sensitive project and do not add logs or task content.

Full protocol and denominators:

https://github.com/SethGammon/Citadel/blob/main/docs/PRODUCT_PROOF_TRIAL.md

Thank you for helping separate a popular repository from a product people actually return to.