SSM-Clock—Mechanics & Capabilities (0.2–0.3)

0.2 Why it works (mechanics, intuitive)

Stacked consensus suppresses aliases. Multiple rhythms create a joint valley in E(t). Even if one cycle aliases, the stack pins the correct t.
Coarse->fine + Brent refine. A small coarse grid finds the right neighborhood; a derivative-free, bracketed refine locks onto the valley without gradients.
Circular residual inside the energy. Use wrap180 so phase wrap is handled natively; the minimum respects periodicity.
Frozen manifest = auditability. With fields {label, period_days, b0_deg, w_deg_per_day}, anyone can reproduce outputs from inputs alone.
Phase-only, device-native. No wall clock or ephemeris means recognition remains local, private, and resilient to network loss.

Recover “now” to minutes from phase snapshots; robust to drift, missing timestamps, and offline conditions.
Run fully offline with deterministic I/O; pocket calculator covers T_search, modeled phases, residuals, circular error, and features.
Set symbolic waits (SSM-Wait):

wait N minutes  ->  advance by Delta_tau >= N/1440 days

Unwrap across the modulo horizon T_search and fire deterministically offline.

Publish confidence lawfully. Report Z and (optionally) carry alignment in <m,a> without altering magnitudes.
Audit end-to-end. Frozen manifests + ASCII objective + deterministic CLI make external verification straightforward.