# CEREMONIAL_PATTERN_SIGNAL

**Type:** Output schema template
**Producer:** Self-Audit Resistance Monitor, Step 7 (Step 8 cross-audit analysis)
**Consumer:** Reopen Authority Enforcer (suppresses ceremonial reopens, triggers architectural review)
**One signal per reopen sequence showing ceremonial pattern.**

---

```yaml
ceremonial_pattern_signal:
  run_header:
    audit_window_id: <string>
    monitor_invocation_id: <string>
    cadence_source: RAE_schedule
    reporting_surface_parity_verified: true
    taxonomy_version: E9.v1
  reopen_sequence:
    sequence_id: <string>
    question_id: <string>
    reopen_records_analyzed:
      - reopen_id: <string>
        trigger_finding_id: <string>
        prior_reopens_for_question: <int>
        escalation_state: <string>
        outcome: re_closed_same_verdict | verdict_changed | escalated
  ceremonial_pattern_detected:
    value: <bool>
    confidence: low | med | high
    pattern_signatures:
      - signature: recurrent_reopen_no_verdict_change
        instances: <int>
      - signature: reopen_triggered_by_high_manufactured_confidence_finding
        instances: <int>
      - signature: reopen_with_no_new_evidence_in_search_ledger
        instances: <int>
      - signature: reopen_density_tracks_evaluator_activity_not_ram_output
        instances: <int>
      - signature: escalation_never_reaches_human_handoff
        instances: <int>
  institutional_grounding: |
    Power 1997 -- when reopen exists for legitimacy rather than
    verification, audit becomes ritual. DiMaggio-Powell 1983 --
    isomorphic pressure drives reopen sequences toward ceremonial
    forms independent of effect on actual verification outcome.
  recommended_action: suppress_next_reopen_in_sequence | trigger_architectural_review | human_handoff
  # Cross-audit pattern (Step 8 if invoked on history)
  cross_audit_metrics:
    window_count: <int>
    ceremonial_pattern_density_trend: rising | stable | falling
    over_report_signal_density_trend: rising | stable | falling
    under_report_signal_density_trend: rising | stable | falling
    indistinguishability_detection_rate_trend: rising | stable | falling
  anti_sycophancy_attestation:
    monitor_did_not_manufacture_ceremonial_pattern_to_justify_run: true
    threshold_for_pattern_detection_pre_registered: true
```

## Hard rules

- `ceremonial_pattern_detected.value=true` requires AT LEAST TWO distinct `pattern_signatures` with instances > 0.
- `recommended_action=trigger_architectural_review` when `cross_audit_metrics` shows two or more rising trends simultaneously.
- `reopen_sequence.reopen_records_analyzed` MUST be non-empty; a ceremonial-pattern signal with no reopen history is invalid.
- The phrase "positive-nothing-found" does NOT appear in this template.

## Reporting-surface parity

Emitted on the same Reopen Authority Enforcer channel as findings and calibrated-silence emissions. Never demoted; never bundled into a findings emission.

## Validation (Reopen Authority Enforcer side)

- Cross-check against Reopen Authority Enforcer's own reopen history; if the signaled sequence does not exist there, reject.
- If the signal's `cross_audit_metrics` contradict RAE's own aggregate counts, reject and emit contradiction signal back to the Monitor.
