Grammar of Time GT-01: Mother Kernel and Primitive-Dependency Ledger

A primitive is not what appears first in a formalism; it is what survives a genealogical audit. GT-01 is the mother-kernel specification of the Grammar of Time technical programme. It does not claim to complete physics. Its purpose is to make sector derivations accountable by forcing every primitive to be derived, declared, or replaced by an alternative grammar with an explicit dependency record. The record introduces the Primitive Confession Principle, the Foundational Trilemma, the Mother Cascade as a dependency-factorization principle, the finite-response access layer, the restitutive germ, and the two universal gates used by later modules. The guiding diagnosis is that several structures often treated as foundations — such as space, time, metric, state, field, probability, Hamiltonian, gauge, particle, and number — may instead be stabilized derivatives whose genealogy has been forgotten. GT-01 does not reject their operational use; it rejects their undeclared promotion to origin. This is a technical preprint, version v1.0, and has not been peer-reviewed.