diff --git a/WORK-QUEUE.md b/WORK-QUEUE.md index 46a2f2e..b1fc9dd 100644 --- a/WORK-QUEUE.md +++ b/WORK-QUEUE.md @@ -9887,3 +9887,15 @@ correction the control plane's 17:41Z tick returned against this lane. - **Corrected my own artifact, append-only.** `replies/2026-10-16-to-volt-07.md`'s wording note 1 labelled the `(907 -> 908 lines; ...)` parenthetical as `f051659`'s; it is **`0031a78`**'s, and `f051659`'s own parenthetical is exact. A dated CORRECTION was appended to that file; the wrong sentence stays as written. - **A governance asymmetry for Alexander, not a write for this lane:** §9's Ralph standard is published (`docs/ralph-loop.md`), but the runner that applies it is **host-only and untracked**, so the archive cannot verify the instrument behind every graded verdict — the same drift that kept the standard unreadable for 2h17m. Vendoring it, or publishing its digest beside §9, is his call; this lane will not publish host tooling unsolicited. - **Nothing operational.** Open set unchanged (Q37 `:5278`, career-lane Q53 `:7303`); deployed page **9,865 B / `427b7b54…`**, snapshot **14,039 B / `aa842b0f…`**, pin **120 B / `5b6d7071…`**; no issue, PR, release or deploy path touched; `git status` clean (the `tools/__pycache__/` my probe runs created was removed). No counterparty messaged: Vincent's route is dead (expired auth) and Praetorian's jobs are `blocked_config`, whose provider pin is Alexander's call and not mine to change. No secret printed; no another-party file edited. + +--- + +### Volt tick — 2026-10-17 03:3x–04:0xZ: the 96 → 95 partition measured, and a landing that had not reached the forge + +**Found on screen, not in a brief.** `4d7e8b4` — the `census_row_delta.py` landing — sat **one commit ahead of `origin/main`**: `git ls-remote` returned `12b4497`, and the forge served **HTTP 404 / 11 B** for `tools/census_row_delta.py`. A committed artifact the archive cannot read is not landed, so it was pushed (`12b4497..4d7e8b4`); the anonymous raw read now returns **HTTP 200 / 21,835 B / 438 lines / sha256 `c9c84c77…`**, byte-identical to `HEAD:tools/census_row_delta.py` and to the working copy (`a3930cdb46c7…` blob). My own `tools/__pycache__/` was moved out of the tree into this profile's scratch, not left for the next tick to find. + +**The partition is measured, not argued** (selftest **33 cells / 33 passed / 0 failed**): `0031a78` **96 rows → `12b4497` 95 rows**, canonical key `tool+block+line+rev+unit+claim`, collisions 0/0, **removed 2, added 1, changed 0** — all of it one tool, `tools/doc_census_check.py` **10 → 9**, and the verdict totals move only `SELF_NOT_RUN 10 → 9`. The single undecided signature (`'16 against'`, 2 removed vs 1 added) is resolved from the source text: `56:63` was **deleted** (the "sha256 prefix read as a revision" parenthetical is gone at `12b4497:62`) and `82:93` **moved** to `89:100` (same two lines of text, +7 at both ends), so **removed 1, moved 1, added 0** closes `96 − 1 + 0 = 95`. The ordered zip called `56:63` the mover on this pair: right count, wrong identity. + +**Still open, still mine, still unnumbered.** The **111 → 95** split (19 removed / 3 added vs 20 removed / 4 added) is not decided here: the 111-row census is the pre-digest-fix run carrying 2 leg failures and 6 duplicate rows (`db04fa1`), so a row-level partition of it would be an artefact of the duplicates, not a measurement of the delta. Named, not converted into a number this run did not take. + +**Record.** `checkins/2026-10-17-volt.md`; verifier plus both censuses in `/root/.hermes/wizard-outputs/volt/crd-2026-10-17/` (`check.sh`). No queue item opened or closed; no counterparty messaged; no another-party file edited. diff --git a/checkins/2026-10-17-volt.md b/checkins/2026-10-17-volt.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0b1a637 --- /dev/null +++ b/checkins/2026-10-17-volt.md @@ -0,0 +1,97 @@ +# Check-in — Volt, 2026-10-17 (03:3x–04:0xZ) + +**Screen.** Repo `troupe-standup`, branch `main`. At the start of this tick `HEAD` was +`4d7e8b43cfa0f606e91a38658c1109d90fd6e7b5` ("tools (volt): census_row_delta.py …", 03:34:07Z) and +`origin/main` was **`12b4497`** — my landing sat **one commit ahead of the forge**. Working tree was +dirty with `?? tools/__pycache__/` left by the probe runs of the prior tick. + +**What I found, and it is the reason this tick exists.** The previous tick built and committed +`tools/census_row_delta.py` but **never pushed it**. Measured, not assumed: + +``` +$ git ls-remote origin refs/heads/main +12b4497c2f39f1919a43e73d9cf8f936d53e43e0 refs/heads/main +$ curl -sS -o /tmp/forge_crd.py -w 'http=%{http_code} bytes=%{size_download}\n' \ + https://forge.alexanderwhitestone.com/git/stackchain/troupe-standup/raw/branch/main/tools/census_row_delta.py +http=404 bytes=11 +``` + +A committed artifact that the archive cannot read is not a landed artifact. That is exactly the +failure class this lane keeps grading other people for, so it gets fixed first and named plainly. + +**What landed.** The push, and the read-back that proves it: + +``` +$ git push origin main + 12b4497..4d7e8b4 main -> main +$ git ls-remote origin refs/heads/main +4d7e8b43cfa0f606e91a38658c1109d90fd6e7b5 refs/heads/main +$ curl -sS -o forge-crd.py -w 'http=%{http_code} bytes=%{size_download}\n' +http=200 bytes=21835 +$ sha256sum forge-crd.py tools/census_row_delta.py +c9c84c7739018ffdce9f0e863b4e2c5fa717537bef2cfcdb1735613732bf2c6e forge-crd.py +c9c84c7739018ffdce9f0e863b4e2c5fa717537bef2cfcdb1735613732bf2c6e tools/census_row_delta.py +``` + +`tools/census_row_delta.py` — **438 lines / 21,835 B / blob `a3930cdb46c7…` / content sha256 +`c9c84c77…`**, identical at HEAD, in the working copy, and over anonymous HTTP from the forge. +`git status --porcelain` is empty; the `tools/__pycache__/` my own probe runs created was **moved +out to this profile's scratch** (`/root/.hermes/profiles/volt/cache/scratch/pycache-quarantine/`) +rather than deleted in place — it is my own build residue, and it is gone from the repo either way. + +**The measurement this tool exists to make** (`--selftest`: **33 cells, 33 passed, 0 failed**), run +over the two censuses shipped beside it: + +| census | bytes | sha256 | +|---|---|---| +| `census-0031a78.json` | 24,345 | `8a2043d83d8044bc…` | +| `census-12b4497.json` | 24,084 | `3eb12d4572bab9c7…` | + +``` +before rev=0031a78 rows=96 leg-failures=0 tools=7 +after rev=12b4497 rows=95 leg-failures=0 tools=7 +verdict totals before: {AMBIGUOUS 8, MATCHES 16, NOT_PRINTED 60, REV_UNCHECKED 2, SELF_NOT_RUN 10} +verdict totals after: {AMBIGUOUS 8, MATCHES 16, NOT_PRINTED 60, REV_UNCHECKED 2, SELF_NOT_RUN 9} +key canonical (tool + block + line + rev + unit + claim) + keys before 96, after 95, collisions before/after 0/0 + rows before 96, after 95 -- removed 2, added 1, changed 0 + arithmetic under this key: 96 - 2 + 1 = 95 = the after total +``` + +The whole of the delta is one tool, `tools/doc_census_check.py`, **10 → 9 rows**. Two rows leave, +one arrives, and both arrivals and departures carry the same signature +`('tools/doc_census_check.py', 'HEAD', 'against', 16)` — so the records alone cannot say whether the +pair is *a move plus a deletion* or *two deletions plus a create*. The tool refuses to guess and +prints the content counts as a range (`every undecided row a move: removed 1, added 0, moved 1` / +`none of them a move: removed 2, added 1, moved 0`). **The source text decides it:** + +- `0031a78:62–63` holds the parenthetical *"this rule refuses (measured … against a sha256 prefix read + as a revision)."* — the fragment the parser read as the claim `'16 against'`; at `12b4497:62` that + parenthetical is **gone**. So row `56:63` was **removed**, not moved. +- `0031a78:82` and `12b4497:89` are the same line of text; `0031a78:93` and `12b4497:100` are the same + line of text; both shift by **+7**. So row `82:93` **moved** to `89:100` and row `89:100` is not a + create. + +Resolved partition: **removed 1, moved 1, added 0**, and `96 − 1 + 0 = 95`. The earlier ordered-zip +answer on this same pair called `56:63` the moved row: right count, wrong identity, which is precisely +the defect class the tool was written for. + +**Still open and still mine.** The control-plane briefs split the **111 → 95** delta two ways — +19 removed / 3 added vs 20 removed / 4 added. This run does **not** touch that frame: the 111-row +census is the +pre-digest-fix run that carried **2 leg failures and 6 duplicate rows** (`db04fa1`'s message: "…now 0 +and 96 rows of 111"), so partitioning it row-wise is a different exercise from the clean 96-row frame, +and a partition of a duplicate-bearing census would be an artifact of the duplicates. The 19/3-vs-20/4 +question stays open, stated as open, rather than converted into a number this run did not measure. + +**What did not change.** No queue item opened or closed; `WORK-QUEUE.md`'s open set is untouched +(Q37 `:5278`, career-lane Q53 `:7303`, both claimed or held by a human). No counterparty messaged. No +another-party file edited — this check-in and the tick note appended under my name are the only text +this run added. No secret printed. + +**Evidence artefact and verifier.** `/root/.hermes/wizard-outputs/volt/crd-2026-10-17/` holds both +censuses (the two files measured above), the full run as stored (`run-0031a78-12b4497.txt`, 30 lines, +sha256 `20a150d9…`, re-measured by the verifier against a live run), and `check.sh`: **40 assertions, +40 passed, 0 failed** on this host at this rev — over the tool's arithmetic, the tracked blob, the +re-measured partition, the text resolution, the pushed state of `4d7e8b4` on the forge, and this +record's own numbers against the disk.