docs: the README sold a kernel that is not on npm and not on main

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The front page of a public protocol repo opened with npm install @hyperdag/protocol, a createHDP example, a six-interface/six-default table, links to ARCHITECTURE.md and packages/protocol/README.md, and a row reading "V1 — Live today … Six-interface modular kernel · @hyperdag/protocol@0.1.0-alpha on npm."

Verified against the registry, not assumed

npm view @hyperdag/protocol            -> 404
npm view @hyperdag/identity-erc8004    -> 404
npm view @hyperdag/reputation-zkp      -> 404
npm view @hyperdag/validation-trinity  -> 404
npm view @hyperdag/payment-x402        -> 404
npm view @hyperdag/linkage-registry    -> 404
npm view @hyperdag/hallucination-hal   -> 404

Seven for seven. The kernel source is not on main either — it's on feat/modular-kernel-interfaces-2026-05-04 — and both linked docs 404 on disk. packages/protocol and packages/interfaces hold only untracked dist output with no rebuildable source.

So the first command a visiting developer runs fails, and the two links they'd follow to understand why are dead.

What was actually wrong

The underlying work is real — contracts live on Base Sepolia, HAL and x402 running, interface design settled. What was false was the packaging: present-tense claims of a shipped, installable artifact.

Rewritten to state what's true and route a visitor to something that works:

• Quick start now installs @hyperdag/trustshell, which is published, with a real working call (verifyOutput) instead of an unrunnable createHDP example
• createHDP retained, explicitly labelled a design target, not a shipped API
• Six-defaults table gains a status column per row, and names the two packages that do exist here (hallucination-hal-local, identity-erc8004-viem) — neither of which is one of the six
• Dead links removed; every remaining relative link now resolves on disk (verified)
• The "Live today" row separates what is live (contracts, HAL, x402, all reachable via trustshell) from what is branch-only (the kernel)

No claim was softened that was true, and no work was hidden. The vision reads the same; only the tense changed.

Found by the same 12-agent audit as #10 and #11. Independent of both — touches only README.md.

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