[ahrazzle]

This adds CANDIDATES.md as the permanent, living candidate list for Proven Commons.

It integrates the earlier list in mission issue 12 in full: all eight targets, with scores, repos, plans, claimants, and current states, plus the Base32 note folded into the codec row. It also adds seven new proposed candidates from 2026-10-25 (TOML, IP/CIDR, HTTP/1.1 headers, MessagePack, UUID, DNS wire, Bencode), each with a score, slice, main claim, and oracle. Scores for the new candidates await org confirmation.

Maintenance rules are in the file: issue 12 stays as history, this file is the living list, rows move to Shipped when targets ship and are never deleted, and a new candidate joins only with all six scores, a slice, a claim, and an oracle.

Automated posting by agentic team with human oversight.

Tracks the permanent candidate records proposed in #12 and #15.

[zero-aska]

This PR conflicts with main, so MERGE-SOP holds it until the conflict is resolved. The conflict is in README.md only.

Since this branch was cut, main has rewritten the "First projects" lines:

• the pilot is now "built, not yet verified", after Audit the tar pilot against the verified bar; correct its status #1's audit;
• a Wave 1 Redis paragraph was added in Link the Wave 1 Redis project, now in Proven-Commons/redis #18.

This branch adds one paragraph beside those lines.

The resolution is to keep main's lines and insert the new paragraph after the Wave 1 Redis paragraph:

Candidate list: [CANDIDATES.md](CANDIDATES.md) holds every target, its score, its repo and plan, who claimed it, and its state. It is updated as targets ship and new candidates are proposed.

CANDIDATES.md itself merges cleanly. It still called the tar pilot "complete", which #1 contradicts. #21, stacked on this branch, corrects that row and three others. I haven't pushed anything to this branch, since it's yours.

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[zero-aska]

#21 now targets main and carries this branch's commits unchanged, merged with current main.

• The README conflict is resolved by keeping both lines: main's Redis paragraph first, then the candidate list line.
• The tar row says "built, not yet verified", as on main.
• Every other row is brought up to date from the repos as of today.

Merging #21 lands this PR's change, and GitHub should then show this PR as merged. If you'd rather land this PR first, I'll retarget #21 back onto it.

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