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SKC Reconstruction

Compression is useful only if the required semantic state can be recovered under the defined reconstruction contract.

Canonical State
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Semantic Core
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Reconstruction Rules
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Reconstructed State
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Validation

The reconstruction stage asks:

Can the reduced representation reproduce the semantic structure that the contract requires us to preserve?

This is stronger than asking whether a generated summary sounds similar to the source.

Where SKC marks a reconstruction path deterministic, the same:

  • semantic core
  • reconstruction rules
  • schema
  • version
  • referential inputs

should produce equivalent reconstructed state.

Reconstruction fidelity measures preservation between the reference semantic state and the reconstructed state.

A compression result with poor reconstruction fidelity is not considered a successful semantic reduction merely because it is small.

Reconstruction should be considered invalid when required semantic structure is:

  • missing
  • contradicted
  • ambiguously regenerated
  • structurally altered beyond allowed equivalence
  • dependent on hidden external state
reference = canonical(source)
core = compress(reference)
restored = reconstruct(core)
validate(reference, restored)

The validation result should be explicit rather than inferred from visual similarity.

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