docs(spec): name the manifold kernel DAAT — Direction-Anchored Ambiguity Triage

Operator-approved. Apostrophe dropped (ASCII identifier law: import daat, DaatQuery,
dolphin_daat.*, no Unicode in any symbol/path/table). The acronym earns its letters:
D=direction (cosine retrieve), A=anchored (magnitude envelope gate), A=ambiguity
(the state we refuse to collapse), T=triage (KNOWN/MARGINAL/OUT_OF_DISTRIBUTION).

'Triage' is deliberate — the house already triages NOT_ATTEMPTED/REFUSED/INDETERMINATE
at the venue. Same verb, same law, now the names say so. Da'at (knowledge, the hidden
sefirah that sits above Malkhut and feeds it) survives in the etymology, where it costs
nothing. YESOD considered and set aside: it names the conduit, not the knowing.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

prod/docs/SPEC_MALKHUT_ACTUALS_INTAKE.md

@@ -771,19 +771,52 @@ defends all of them**, and it is the magnitude/support gate of stage 2.
 
 That is why this is worth building once, properly, as a shared kernel.
 
-### A.8.4 A name, offered (the operator names things; I only propose)
+### A.8.4 THE NAME (operator-approved 2026-07-13): **DAAT**
+
+## DAAT — **D**irection-**A**nchored **A**mbiguity **T**riage
 
 The house speaks Kabbalah: MALKHUT is *kingdom* — the lowest sefirah, the
 **ground**, where everything finally touches the world. Fitting, for execution.
 
-The manifold-query engine is not a *thing that acts*; it is the faculty by which
-the system **knows where it is**. In the tree that is **Da'at** — *knowledge* — the
-hidden sefirah that is not counted among the ten, the one that emerges from the
-others and unifies intellect with action. It is precisely the *knowing* that stands
-between understanding and doing.
+The manifold kernel is not a thing that *acts*; it is the faculty by which the
+system **knows where it is**. In the tree that is **Da'at** — *knowledge* — the
+hidden sefirah, not counted among the ten, that emerges from the others and unites
+intellect with action: precisely the *knowing* that stands between understanding
+and doing. It sits directly above MALKHUT and feeds it. That is our architecture,
+drawn a thousand years early.
 
-**DA'AT** — the manifold kernel. It knows where we are, and — more valuable — it
-knows when it does not.
+**The apostrophe is dropped** (ASCII identifier law: `import daat`, `DaatQuery`,
+`daat.query()`, `dolphin_daat.*`, no Unicode in any symbol, path, or table name).
+The etymology survives in the letters; the acronym earns them:
+
+| Letter | Stage | What it names |
+|---|---|---|
+| **D**irection | 1 — RETRIEVE | cosine on the unit vector. The reflex. The matmul. |
+| **A**nchored | 2 — GATE | anchored to the explored **magnitude** envelope + support count — the guard cosine structurally cannot provide (§A.3.1) |
+| **A**mbiguity | — | the honest middle state; the thing we refuse to collapse into a guess |
+| **T**riage | verdict | `KNOWN` / `MARGINAL` / `OUT_OF_DISTRIBUTION` |
+
+**"Triage" is not decoration — it is the house's own word for this exact
+operation**, and using it twice is the point:
+
+| Subsystem | Triage |
+|---|---|
+| **Venue** (`bdc54fb`) | `NOT_ATTEMPTED` / `REFUSED` / `INDETERMINATE` |
+| **DAAT** (this annex) | `KNOWN` / `MARGINAL` / `OUT_OF_DISTRIBUTION` |
+
+Same verb. Same law. Now the names say so.
+
+> **DAAT** — it knows where we are, and, more valuable, it knows when it does not.
+
+**Canonical spellings (binding):** package `daat/`; class `DaatQuery`; verdict enum
+`DaatVerdict.{KNOWN, MARGINAL, OUT_OF_DISTRIBUTION}`; CH namespace `dolphin_daat`;
+docs may write *Da'at* in prose for the etymology, **never in code**.
+
+*(Alternative considered and set aside: **YESOD** — foundation — the sefirah that
+funnels everything from above into Malkhut. Architecturally exact (the kernel feeds
+the executor) and ASCII-clean, but it names the **conduit**, not the **knowing**.
+DAAT names the faculty; the faculty is the thing we are building. Recorded here so
+the choice is not re-litigated.)*
 
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@@ -800,7 +833,7 @@ knows when it does not.
 | A7 | **Risk gate honours OOD** → doctrinal fallback policy | Test: novel regime ⇒ no confident recommendation, ever |
 | A8 | Component detection (cheap clustering); refuse cross-component interpolation | |
 | A9 | **IFF EARNED**: persistent homology / mapper, offline, Mode 1, as a *gate-shaping diagnostic* | Only after A6's variance shows structured failure |
-| A10 | Generalize to a shared kernel (DA'AT); second consumer = MARAS fingerprint | One engine, two manifolds, before claiming generality |
+| A10 | Generalize to a shared kernel (DAAT); second consumer = MARAS fingerprint | One engine, two manifolds, before claiming generality |
 
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@@ -815,7 +848,7 @@ knows when it does not.
 
 *Annex A written by **Claude (Opus 4.8)**, on Fable's watch, at HJ's order,
 2026-07-13. The cosine proposal is the operator's; the three-stage decomposition,
-the magnitude-blindness argument, the topology IFF-discipline, and the DA'AT
+the magnitude-blindness argument, the topology IFF-discipline, and the DAAT
 generalization are mine, and I stand behind them. Where I have asserted a
 mathematical property (locally-Euclidean tangent spaces; GP variance growth away
 from data; cosine's magnitude invariance) it is standard and checkable. Where I