# V3 Cultural Adaptation Review

Canonical source: `libs/v3/lilith-commons/src/index.ts`
(`V3_CULTURAL_ADAPTATION_REVIEW_PROCESS`,
`V3_CULTURAL_ADAPTATION_REVIEW_INVENTORY`, schema
`v3.localization.cultural-adaptation-review.v1`)

Evidence artifact: `V3/validation/cultural-adaptation-review-evidence.json`

Manifest version: `v3-cultural-adaptation-review.v1`

Verifier: `pnpm verify:v3 cultural-adaptation-review`

This SOP gates tradition-sensitive GA inventory before launch-locale
publication. It applies to Tara practice and lineage copy, Nisaba text and
manuscript surfaces, Saraswati cultural and devotional references, Lineage Week
programs, and Remembrance Hall observance programming.

## identify-tradition-sensitive-content

Tenant editorial marks any GA item that references a real practice, lineage,
language, ritual, sacred text, memorial observance, instrument tradition, genre
community, or culturally specific place. The item receives a stable inventory
id, content ref, category, tradition refs, and prohibited-claims list.

## source-and-rights-grounding

Lilith-Rights and Sophia attach source evidence, citation trails, license or
public-domain evidence, provenance refs, and rights notes. Items with missing
sources, uncertain manuscript witnesses, unlicensed adaptations, or unsupported
lineage claims remain blocked.

## local-cultural-adapter-review

Localization editors prepare an adaptation brief for every launch locale. The
brief preserves source attribution, avoids collapsing distinct traditions into
generic wording, and identifies protected terms that should not be translated or
should carry a note.

## community-advisor-review

Cultural advisors review community boundaries, memorial tone, ritual framing,
lineage presentation, and sacred-language handling. Advisor notes are resolved
before any release signoff.

## localized-copy-and-subtitle-adaptation

Localization editors apply launch-locale copy, subtitle, glossary, and UI text
changes. Every item must cover all launch locale variants and keep protected
terms aligned with the glossary.

## final-release-signoff

Sophia cultural review, cultural advisor, tenant editorial, localization editor,
and Lilith-Rights all sign off. The item is then marked as applied to GA
inventory; otherwise it remains blocked from launch publication.

## GA Inventory

- Tara yoga lineage: Maya Anand Iyengar lineage student disclosure.
- Tara ritual practice: new-moon ritual circle and lunar practice copy.
- Nisaba sacred text: Vedic commentary open-stack passage panel.
- Nisaba manuscript fragment: quarterly fragment study event.
- Saraswati tradition reference: Raga Devi backstory claims.
- Saraswati devotional or ritual music: devotional genre-cell guardrails.
- Lineage Week programming: cross-tenant closing dialogue.
- Remembrance cultural observance: Lantern Hall remembrance program.

## Release Gate

Pass criteria (all required, measurable):

- All 8 tradition-sensitive GA inventory items above carry a **recorded**
  final-release sign-off in the evidence artifact, each with a reviewer id, the
  reviewer's role (one of the 5 required role kinds: Sophia cultural review,
  cultural advisor, tenant editorial, localization editor, Lilith-Rights), a
  tradition tag, and a sign-off date.
- Every item covers all 18 launch locales
  (`V3_LAUNCH_LOCALIZATION_REQUIRED_LOCALE_IDS`) with adaptation briefs and
  glossary-aligned protected terms.
- 0 unresolved blocking reviews: no item in `blocked` state and no open
  community-advisor note at publication time.
- Every Tara practice/lineage and Saraswati cultural/devotional launch content
  item resolves to one of the inventory ids above; content that references a
  real tradition but has no inventory id fails the gate.

Fail-closed conditions: the gate fails when any required step, role kind, or
content category is missing from the canonical process; when any inventory item
lacks a recorded sign-off or carries an unresolved blocking review; when the
evidence artifact is missing, malformed, or still `pending`; or when the SOP,
library, and tests drift apart.

**Honest status (2026-06-12):** `pnpm verify:v3 cultural-adaptation-review`
currently enforces the structural half of this gate (the process definition,
inventory coverage, role/category constants, Sophia grounding hooks, and tests
in `libs/v3/lilith-commons`). The recorded-sign-off evidence artifact is a
skeleton with `"status": "pending"` — no named-reviewer sign-offs have been
captured, and the verifier does not yet read the evidence file (verifier
extension pending, outside `V3/`). Do not hand-edit the evidence artifact to
`complete`; populate it only from real recorded reviews.