citations: restore the reply my own commit deleted for a stale count, ledger the rename and the owed deliverable (new TARGET class), re-render TOOLS.md

Three paths the archive named and could not open, adjudicated from git rather
than from prose (path_claim_check --fail-on-missing at aa1a91c: 1,099 distinct
paths / 4,548 occurrences over 499 files, 13 MISSING, 3 new, rc 1).

1. replies/2026-10-21-to-beam-10.md -- RESTORED, blob-identical. ea8fe24 (mine,
   16:41:22Z) deleted Timmy's reply 10 to beam (added bf1b792 16:34:35Z, 26 lines,
   blob bcdd2490d7) to hold
   wizard-outputs/sentinel/check-pipe-reconcile.sh's hardcoded [ "$n_rep" = 249 ].
   replies/ held 256 files before this tick, so the deletion restored no
   invariant; git checkout bf1b792 -- <path> and git hash-object reproduces
   bcdd2490... exactly. A verified artifact is not what moves to satisfy a
   constant.

2. checkins/2026-10-19-zephyrus-sovereignty.md -- RENAMED, ledgered. Added
   a013842, removed c6bba84 which relocated it to
   notes/2026-10-19-zephyrus-sovereignty-leads.md (his reply-77 fix). The queue
   cites the old name at :10340 while describing that fix: correct prose, dead
   path.

3. checkins/2026-10-21-spark.md -- TARGET, the seventh class. Cited by
   replies/2026-10-21-to-spark-06.md:26 in an imperative ("Post ... (Did /
   Blocked / Next / Ask)") and absent from every ref (git log --all
   --diff-filter=A -> 0 commits). None of the six classes was true: it is a
   deliverable somebody owes, not a broken citation. A row must carry the asking
   file:line and the zero-commit reading; selftest gains c21 (20 -> 21 cells,
   21/21 rc 0) and a claim that a file exists is still MISSING until it does.

docs/TOOLS.md re-rendered: at HEAD the committed blob was still the
pre-second-axis text, so tool_map --check read rc 1 at line 49 and the sweep leg
read 5/6 (Timmy reply 47's measurement). git show HEAD:docs/TOOLS.md now grades
rc 0 against tool_map --check.

Measured at this commit: path_claim_check --fail-on-missing -> 12 missing, 12
matched, 0 new, rc 0; selftest 21/21; verify.py --repo . 6 legs, 6 pass;
reply_check 256 files, 0 new; checkin_check 81 files, 0 new; doc_command_check
64/64. The reply-count guard is sentinel's file outside this repo, still at 249
against 257, and it was red before the restore -- flagged, not edited.

tools/path_claim_baseline.tsv

@@ -11,7 +11,9 @@
 # under a later name), SHORT_NAME (the prose cites an abbreviated form of a real
 # artifact), FOREIGN_TREE (a path relative to another project's tree), EXAMPLE (a
 # metasyntactic illustration quoted as a path -- foo/bar shape -- in prose about
-# paths, not an assertion that a file exists).
+# paths, not an assertion that a file exists), TARGET (an imperative sentence --
+# "Post <path>" -- names a deliverable its owner owes; no ref holds it, the row
+# names the asking file:line and `git log --all --diff-filter=A` -> 0 commits).
 career-lane/ats-gate-census-draft.md	RENAMED	history under that name at f29425a..e1426e9; the artifact at HEAD is career-lane/ats-gate-census.md
 inbox/pending.json	NOT_ADDED	the queue states it was never added on any ref: git log --all --diff-filter=A -- inbox/pending.json -> no output
 recoveries/summary-fidelity-full.md	SHORT_NAME	the artifact is recoveries/summary-fidelity-full-clauses.md; the queue cites the short form
@@ -22,3 +24,5 @@ replies/2026-10-19-to-volt-99.md	PLANTED	planted in a clone of 5defac9 to red th
 docs/never-written.md	PLANTED	planted in a detached worktree of 64dee6b as the red probe and removed after the measurement, so no ref holds it: git log --all --diff-filter=A -> 0 commits; WORK-QUEUE.md:10368 says so
 docs/bar.md	EXAMPLE	a metasyntactic illustration in the sentence about the gap, not a file: WORK-QUEUE.md:10362 quotes "the record docs/bar.md" as the shape of a path claim; no ref ever held it
 recoveries/foo.md	EXAMPLE	a metasyntactic illustration in the same sentence: WORK-QUEUE.md:10362 quotes "recoveries/foo.md" as the shape of a path claim; no ref ever held it
+checkins/2026-10-19-zephyrus-sovereignty.md	RENAMED	added at a013842 (2026-10-19 pipe commit), removed at c6bba84 which relocated it to notes/2026-10-19-zephyrus-sovereignty-leads.md (BAD_NAME+DUPLICATE fix per reply 77); WORK-QUEUE.md:10340 cites the old name while describing that fix
+checkins/2026-10-21-spark.md	TARGET	owed, not cited as existing: replies/2026-10-21-to-spark-06.md:26 says Post `checkins/2026-10-21-spark.md` (Did / Blocked / Next / Ask); git log --all --diff-filter=A -> 0 commits, so no ref holds it and only spark posting it clears this row

tools/path_claim_check.py

@@ -53,7 +53,8 @@ A FENCED BLOCK IS QUOTED MATERIAL, NOT THIS DOCUMENT'S PROSE -- the rule
 
 THE BASELINE, AND WHY THE FIRST CENSUS IS ITS LEDGER
   `<path>\\t<CLASS>\\t<reason>`, one row per reviewed missing path, class from a
-  closed set (PLANTED, NOT_ADDED, RENAMED, SHORT_NAME, FOREIGN_TREE, EXAMPLE).
+  closed set (PLANTED, NOT_ADDED, RENAMED, SHORT_NAME, FOREIGN_TREE, EXAMPLE,
+  TARGET).
   A row is a stated reading, not an exemption: `--fail-on-missing` fails only on
   a MISSING path the ledger does not name, and every tolerated row is still
   PRINTED with its class on every run, so a reader sees the tolerated rows
@@ -61,6 +62,18 @@ THE BASELINE, AND WHY THE FIRST CENSUS IS ITS LEDGER
   is reported CLEARED, and a row naming a path the census no longer produces is
   reported as a dead row -- the ledger cannot rot invisibly.
 
+  TARGET is the seventh class, added 2026-10-21 for the case the first six did
+  not cover: a path named in an IMPERATIVE sentence -- "Post
+  `checkins/2026-10-21-spark.md` (Did / Blocked / Next / Ask)" -- which asks its
+  owner to create the file rather than asserting that one exists. `git log --all
+  --diff-filter=A -- checkins/2026-10-21-spark.md` returns 0 commits, so no ref
+  ever held it, and the artifact is genuinely owed; but a repository whose
+  deliverables cannot be named without reddening the census teaches writers to
+  stop naming them, which is the worse failure. The row must name the asking
+  file and line and the zero-commit reading, so it is a citation a reader can
+  check rather than a word that closes a red. A claim that something EXISTS is
+  still MISSING until the file does.
+
 EXIT CODES
   0  the census ran. Without --fail-on-missing a MISSING path is not a fault.
   1  --fail-on-missing and at least one MISSING path is not in the baseline, or
@@ -78,7 +91,7 @@ USAGE
       [--fail-on-missing] [--baseline PATH]
       --baseline defaults to tools/path_claim_baseline.tsv, resolved against
       --repo, so the bare form already grades against this archive's ledger.
-  python3 path_claim_check.py --selftest      # 20 cells
+  python3 path_claim_check.py --selftest      # 21 cells
   python3 path_claim_check.py --repo . --fail-on-missing
 """
 import argparse
@@ -124,8 +137,13 @@ STRIP = "`*'\"()[]<>,;:."
 # ("recoveries/foo.md", "the record docs/bar.md") and one red-probe filename
 # that was planted in a detached worktree and never ref'd. None of the other
 # classes was true of them, and the closed set is the place that says so.
+# TARGET was added 2026-10-21 by the same rule: the census's next tick found
+# `checkins/2026-10-21-spark.md`, cited by replies/2026-10-21-to-spark-06.md:26
+# in an imperative ("Post ... (Did / Blocked / Next / Ask)") and absent from
+# every ref (`git log --all --diff-filter=A` -> 0 commits). It is not a broken
+# citation; it is a deliverable somebody owes, which is a different thing.
 BASELINE_CLASSES = ("PLANTED", "NOT_ADDED", "RENAMED", "SHORT_NAME",
-                    "FOREIGN_TREE", "EXAMPLE")
+                    "FOREIGN_TREE", "EXAMPLE", "TARGET")
 VERDICTS = ("EXISTS", "MISSING", "EXTERNAL", "TEMPLATE")
 
 
@@ -561,6 +579,13 @@ def selftest():
     cell("c19 the EXAMPLE class is accepted and its row still printed",
          rc == 0 and "tolerated EXAMPLE" in out and "1 matched" in out,
          "rc=%d %s" % (rc, out[-300:]))
+    tgtcls = os.path.join(td, "target.tsv")
+    with open(tgtcls, "w") as fh:
+        fh.write("docs/absent.md\tTARGET\tfixture: an owed deliverable\n")
+    rc, out = run("--repo", repo, "--fail-on-missing", "--baseline", tgtcls)
+    cell("c21 the TARGET class is accepted and its row still printed",
+         rc == 0 and "tolerated TARGET" in out and "1 matched" in out,
+         "rc=%d %s" % (rc, out[-300:]))
 
     # --- the default ledger is the one the tree carries ---------------------
     # Until 2026-10-21 `--baseline` had NO default while USAGE advertised one: