In MCIv8 rev4 what is the artifact →

 

Looking at MCIv8 Rev4, the → is the HTML entity for the right-arrow character →.

It appears in the version lineage table as a visual connector showing progression between versions — for example "Initiative → Ground" or in transition labels like "Reactive to agentic at constitutional scale." It's just a rendering artifact where the HTML entity wasn't decoded into the arrow glyph in the version of the page you're seeing.

So wherever you see → in the document, mentally substitute →.

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