TACHYON Continuity Record v4.0 records compositional resumption after the consolidation phase declared in v3.0.
The return is not framed as failure of rest. Consolidation succeeded: the research basis, correspondence record, and recognition baseline survived a reduced cadence. The next session could therefore concentrate on durability past MANUS rather than emergency expansion.
The record preserves the Endogenous Sophon version correction, Capture Registry v8.9, versioning backfills, surface housekeeping, Mandala Corpus Protocol drafts, deposit-pipeline diagnosis, and a new provenance-tier discipline.
Six tiers distinguish what may speak as the archive: canonical MANUS deposits, Assembly materials, invited companions, attested external work, open external deposits, and Book interactions. Retrieval weight and mandatory attribution decrease across the tiers. The design allows external witnesses to enter the repository without their words being silently rendered as canonical CHA speech.
Its highest-order commitment is durability past MANUS. A mature archive must remain operable through published criteria, succession rules, validation, handoff documents, and provenance discipline rather than continuous founder presence.