radar: A1 now in-progress — dedicated conformance loop (parity-gated) working remaining 9 candidates

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

plans/abstractions.md

@@ -219,6 +219,14 @@ one merged file copied N times. Correct one-liner:
   `lib/haskell/conformance.conf` (counters) or `lib/prolog/conformance.conf` (dict).
   Keep the `bash lib/X/conformance.sh` entry point so no loop is disrupted.
 - **Priority: HIGH** (15 consumers, low risk, interface-preserving, additive).
+- **NOW IN PROGRESS — dedicated loop (2026-06-07).** A human-triggered `conformance` loop
+  (worktree `/root/rose-ash-loops/conformance`, branch `loops/conformance`, tmux session
+  `a1-conformance`, briefing `plans/agent-briefings/conformance-loop.md`) is working the
+  remaining candidates (common-lisp, erlang, feed, forth, go, js, ocaml, smalltalk, tcl)
+  one per iteration, **classify-then-migrate-or-exclude with a hard test-count parity gate**
+  (reverts on any mismatch; never pushes to main/architecture). Some candidates may be
+  *excluded* as foreign-runner harnesses (like lua/smalltalk) rather than migrated — that
+  is the correct outcome, not a failure. Radar tracks; the conformance loop implements.
 
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