Read the hallmark
The glass for the Golden Thread.
Loupe reads a trace-manifest — the machine-checkable line from wish, to work, to the proof it's done — and shows you at a glance what's proven, what's honest debt, and where the thread frays.
Pick any requirement and Loupe walks it top to bottom: the wish (its durable ID and statement), the work that carries it (@covers in source), and the proof that closes it (a named test). A solid braid means the thread holds. A frayed one means it doesn't.
Wish → Work → Proof
Every durable ID, walked from intent to implementation to evidence — no spreadsheet, no second system that lags the repo.
The refusal
A silent gap is gilt — work gilded to gleam like done, with no metal underneath. Loupe frays the thread exactly there.
Testifies at rest
It reads what a gate emitted; it never re-scans the target. Printed or screenshotted, it still tells the truth.
SpecAssay hallmarks the work — it mints durable IDs at intent, refuses silent gaps, and strikes a trace-manifest on every push. Loupe is the glass you read that mark through. The manifest belongs to no single tool, so Loupe reads any emitter's, not just SpecAssay's.