Conformity declaration scaffolding is advertised but not implemented (CR-MISC-003) #459

Wave 1 · theme D1-9: Compliance mappings and marketing language · highest severity High · 1 finding(s) · effort small

Summary

A deployer relies on the claim for EU AI Act Art. 16 conformity evidence.

Primary finding

CR-MISC-003 — Conformity declaration scaffolding is advertised but not implemented

severity High · reachability default · intent contract-violation · confidence confirmed · independently confirmed · reproduced end to end · already tracked: KNOWN-OPEN DOCS-02/14/15/16 (S15) — docs/roadmap/phase-16-trust-surface-hardening.md:776-778

What happens. introduction.md:59 (EN and TR) and the site translation string promise conformity declaration scaffolding/templates. No code or template exists, and the project's own compliance pages state ForgeLM does not generate one.

Where.

• docs/usermanuals/en/getting-started/introduction.md:59
• docs/usermanuals/tr/getting-started/introduction.md:33
• site/js/translations.js:3867
• docs/usermanuals/en/compliance/overview.md:61
• docs/usermanuals/en/compliance/annex-iv.md:183
• site/js/translations.js:3926
• overview.md:61 and annex-iv.md:183 are the correct statements, not claim sites
• site/js/translations.js:3985
• site/js/translations.js:4028
• site/js/translations.js:4071

Evidence.

• rg -i 'conformity|declaration' forgelm/ finds nothing relevant; standalone export lists no declaration file.

Recommended fix. Remove the claim or implement the scaffold; align with overview.md.

Acceptance criteria

• A regression test reproduces the failure scenario and asserts the corrected behaviour.
• Documentation listed above is corrected in English and in its Turkish mirror in the same PR.
• Every finding in this issue is resolved or explicitly closed with a reason.

_{Found by the October 2026 ForgeLM code and documentation review against commit cab2947. Code links point at that commit; line numbers may have moved since. Finding IDs (CR-…, DOC-…, TECH-…) are stable references for this backlog.}