Student Path

Students enter through a Gateway-issued pseudonymous role. Prior suite metrics are useful but optional. When no prior evidence exists, Vigil starts at lab-01 and records that the absence of history is not a failure.

Nine laboratories

1. Identify the boundary between scrypt, AEAD and geometry.

2. Inspect an FQLC1 public header.

3. Classify useful and avoidable metadata.

4. Compare source bytes with a geometric permutation.

5. Verify exact Apollonian reflections, cycles and symmetry collisions.

6. Run a bounded red-team action against a synthetic fixture.

7. Apply and document a defensive correction.

8. Request a minimal metric from another Education tool through Vigil and the Gateway.

9. Assemble a capstone orb and portfolio evidence bundle.

Every run records the action, fixture, proof, limitation and Tenebris budgets. A successful action produces evidence, not a grade. Vigil organizes the evidence; a professor retains the final decision.