How every Grid print is produced, specified, changed and corrected — as permalinked pages, not chapters. Process lives in one place; specifications live one per series; the change notices, the corrections log, the participation rules and the terms are their own URLs.
Everything on these pages is true on the date shown. Where a rule does not exist yet, the page says “in development” rather than inventing one. Disclosures, notices and correction records are rendered from their single source of record, never re-typed.
What this is. The published account of how The Grid produces, names, classifies, changes and corrects what it prints — written so a reader, a counterparty or a reviewer can trace any number on the site back to its inputs, its estimator version and the judgment applied (none, on any printed number: the arithmetic is code-owned and the provenance is stamped on the print). It describes what The Grid does; it does not claim a status. Let the pages substantiate the conclusion.
What this is not. Not a promise about the future, not a rulebook that has run ahead of practice, and not a re-typing of anything that already has a home. Every disclosure on an instrument page is the same string the series carries on /instruments and in /api/print; every notice is the document of record; every correction is the registry entry the API serves.
Where the series stand today. As of the 2026-08-14 methodology audit, no Grid series is in the assessment class: GAP-H100 spot is reclassified an indicator while its panel is thin (two nominal contributors, one static across its entire history), and the reserved leg (GAP-H100-R1Y) and the term spread (GTS-1Y) are suspended from 2026-08-22 for zero variance. A minimum-observation rule for GAP-H100 spot is adopted and binds from the 2026-08-22 print. The indicators (GPI, GCCX, the divergence, RWI, the inference spread, Grid Basis) and the records (the Ledger, the registers, the map, the archive) are unaffected. The position is disclosed on every surface; the path back is a wider panel — see /standards/participate.
| Page | What it holds |
|---|---|
| /standards/the-problem | The Problem. Why an independent reference for negotiated compute does not exist — most deals price privately (sourced, with the venue-operator quote cited), every existing reference holds a position, and the unit that matters is the commitment. The sceptic's landing. |
| /standards/methodology | Methodology. The master document: input data and hierarchy, determination, publication, the narration gate, corrections policy, change process, suspension and withholding, independence, the vocabulary and the changelog. |
| /standards/instruments | Instruments. One specification page per series from the A4 field template — class, panel, normalisation, close, disclosures, revision history. Suspended series keep their pages. |
| /standards/notices | Notices. Every methodology change notice, rendered verbatim from the document of record — proposal, decision, notice period, effective date. |
| /standards/corrections | Corrections. Every correction of record — the same registry /api/print serves inline, made readable: what was published, what stands corrected, reason code, whether a value was restated. |
| /standards/participate | Participate. Participation v0: what a submission is, where it goes, the receipt discipline, confidentiality, panel thresholds — and what is still in development. |
| /standards/terms | Terms. Terms of use, the not-advice line, the complaints procedure, and the citation and redistribution policy — free to cite with attribution; permanent print URLs; what needs a licence. |
| /standards/attestations | Attestations. What the daily ledger-digest artifacts commit to — the print hash ledger and the chained submission ledger — and how an outsider verifies them from the served artifacts at /api/attestations. |
| Code | Class | Status | Methodology | What it is | Specification |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GAP-H100 | Class 3 · indicator | Printing | v3.0 | Grid Assessed Price — H100 spot | /standards/instruments/gap-h100 |
| GAP-H100-R1Y | Class 1 · assessment | Suspended from 2026-08-22 | v1.0 | Grid Assessed Price — H100, 1-year reserved | /standards/instruments/gap-h100-r1y |
| GTS-1Y | Class 2 · calculated | Suspended from 2026-08-22 | v1.0 | Grid Term Spread — 1 year | /standards/instruments/gts-1y |
| Grid Basis | Class 2 · calculated | Printing · qualification-gated | sign standardised 2026-07-24 | Grid Basis — OCPI minus GAP-H100 | /standards/instruments/grid-basis |
| GPI | Class 3 · indicator | Printing | v2.0 | Grid Pressure Index | /standards/instruments/gpi |
| GCCX | Class 3 · indicator | Printing | v1.0 | Grid Compute Complex Index | /standards/instruments/gccx |
| GCCX divergence | Class 3 · indicator | Printing | v1.1 | GCCX vs physical divergence | /standards/instruments/gccx-divergence |
| RWI | Class 3 · indicator | Printing | v1.0 | Reference Workload Index — RW-S and RW-L | /standards/instruments/rwi |
| Grid Inference Spread | Class 2 · calculated | Printing | v1.0 | Grid Inference Spread — RW-S and RW-L | /standards/instruments/grid-inference-spread |
| Record | Surface | What it holds |
|---|---|---|
| The Ledger | /instruments#ledger | Dated forward claims by named commentators, stored verbatim by construction and scored only when the date arrives — never predicted, always recorded. No automatic hit/miss: date-arrived rows queue for founder scoring. |
| Financing | /financing | Who finances the compute buildout — third-party-reported commitments quoted verbatim and cited to source; status walks forward only on a stored regulatory filing. |
| Providers | /providers | The bookable-quote register behind the GAP panel, with the commercial disclosure of how the register is paid for stated on the page (neutrality structure of record, 2026-07-24). |
| Supply chain | /supply-chain | The seven-segment supply-chain graph — nodes and lagged edges — with honest [instrumented] / [proxy] / [gap] coverage tags. Structure is public; a [gap] is a documented hole, never a state. |
| Corrections | /standards/corrections | Every filed correction, in the same registry /api/print serves inline. |
| Archive | /archive | Every daily edition since May 2026, as published; the permanent print URL is /api/print/<date>. |
| Date | Notice | Effective |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-08-31 | Outage notice — six daily prints never produced (2026-08-25 → 2026-08-30); test window paused | 2026-08-31 — the resumption print. The gap dates themselves are records of |
| 2026-08-25 | Process notice — check demand telemetry: the shape of what was asked, never the content | from the first deployment carrying this notice — and materially only after the |
| 2026-08-21 | watch-condition thresholds recalibrated to observed distributions | the first daily evaluation after the founder applies the retune (scripts/retune_watch_conditions.py --apply), no earlier than 2026-08-22. Publish-before-effect (decision of record 2026-07-24 §2) is preserved: this notice is dated and published before any evaluation the new thresholds govern. Alerts already recorded stand as sent. |
| 2026-08-20 | GAP panel admission & benching; RunPod bench scheduled 2026-08-28 | 2026-08-21 — the first print after this notice. Publish-before-effect |
| 2026-08-20 | the normalisation ladder: rungs 1–3 published as reference, rung 4 declined | 2026-08-20 — on publication. Publish-before-effect (decision of record |
| 2026-08-17 | provenance stamp: first stamped print of record (clarification) | on publication, 2026-08-17. The record clarified below concerns the 2026-08-14 → |
| 2026-08-16 | minimum-observation rule for GAP-H100 spot (decision) | the rule binds from the 2026-08-22 print — the same date the GAP-H100-R1Y |
| 2026-08-14 | instrument actions of 2026-08-14 | — |
| 2026-08-14 | minimum-observation rule for GAP-H100 spot | DECIDED — adopted unmodified by founder ruling 2026-08-16; decision |
| Filed | Correction id | Dates |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-08-31 | 2026-08-31-pipeline-outage-missing-prints | 2026-08-25 → 2026-08-30 (6) |
| 2026-08-16 | 2026-08-14-gap-composition-narration-sweep | 2026-07-30 → 2026-08-13 (10) |
| 2026-08-16 | 2026-08-16-gap-2026-08-11-matched-as-increment | 2026-08-11 |
| 2026-08-14 | 2026-08-14-gap-2026-08-07-composition-narration | 2026-08-07 |
| 2026-08-09 | 2026-08-09-editorial-gap-2026-08-06 | 2026-08-06 |
| 2026-08-05 | 2026-08-05-divergence-rebase-contamination | 2026-07-27 → 2026-08-04 (6) |
| 2026-07-27 | 2026-07-25-gap-v3-effective-date | 2026-07-24 |