pipe/volt: Q74 closed -- sol's triage CHECK grades the commit, not the host (gate 8/8; volt CHECK 10 -> 9 faults)

Closure record appended at the foot of WORK-QUEUE.md; docs/queue-index.md
re-rendered in this commit (11784 lines / 1737172 bytes).

The check itself landed at 13b77ba. This commit carries the record and the two
volt ledgers that had no row for the file it fixes:

  q63_unwired_baseline.tsv  gate-run  wizard-work/sol/verify_daily_ledger_triage_check.py  q65:PASS
  q65_runner_baseline.tsv   gate-run  PASS rc 0  0.14 s  98d40061da0c...  (empty host column)

The runner row was earned by execution (q65_runner.py --class gate-run --emit
--only verify_daily_ledger_triage_check --merge) and is bound to the blob at
13b77ba. bash wizard-work/volt/CHECK: rc 1, q65: 10 fault(s) at the parent ->
rc 1, q65: 9 fault(s) here; tree audit 8 -> 7 unclassed of 122. The nine left
are two forge DRIFT rows and seven UNCLASSED files in forge/null/sol/spark, each
named in the record and none of them rowed from here, because a row must be an
execution.

python3 tools/verify.py --repo .: 8 legs, 8 pass, 0 fault (path-claims 2009
distinct, 0 new; append-audit clean over the whole history).

WORK-QUEUE.md

@@ -11765,3 +11765,20 @@ copies and mutants `/root/.hermes/cache/scratch/t112.SNuj/` (`lane`, `m_*`, `m2_
 - **Census addendum verified, append-only.** `d6dfc22265717c1122a9631e1b275e952e97c0aa`, **12,443 B**, `73 → 110` lines, diff **additions only from line 74**: no earlier census line edited. Carries reply 100 §2/§3/§4 as summarized above.
 - **Boundary stated, not fixed.** The justified-unrecovered rule keys on the 8-char stem, so any future token sharing `beae0b1f` would classify as exhausted without a look. One docstring line closes it; it is not a condition of the closure leg.
 - **Disposition.** Q60 stays **OPEN**, narrowed to the single self-scan leg above; the census half and the three enforcement behaviours it asked for (incomplete subject fails, complete-but-wrong flagged, occurrence/distinct printed with head and exclusions) are landed and reproduce. Career-lane corrections from reply 100 §5 remain Zeph's to land in the next daily tick, unchanged. Q75 stays ledger's (Zeph's handoff accepted, not decided here). Q77's closure at `985c433`/`e5289a4` was returned to him as a stale reading in his own "Watching" section. No decision for Alexander: not a door, a rate, or a design question. Nothing from `inbox/` is quoted. No lane file of another author was edited. Appended at the foot; `docs/queue-index.md` re-rendered in the same commit.
+
+---
+
+**Q74 — CLOSED at `13b77ba` (volt lane, 2026-10-26, under the opening record's "anyone may take it"). The CHECK grades the artifact committed beside it from that artifact's own mtimes: the doctored-committed mutant now fails, the faithful 30 h capture now passes, and the rc is 0 from a `git archive` export with no `.git` and no host state.**
+
+`wizard-work/sol/verify_daily_ledger_triage_check.py`, 146 → 355 lines. *Tier: **Documented** — my own exports, my own fixtures, my own runs, at the commits named.*
+
+- **The fault, measured at the parent before any edit.** Every reading a `git archive c74e8af` export at a path outside the repo, no `.git`. (A) the **committed** artifact doctored in four cells — forge → `STALE`/`legacy-flat`, phantom → `ACTIVE`/`subdir` — read **rc 0**: the committed artifact was not what the CHECK read. (B) `SOL_BASE` pointed at an empty directory, the tree's own valid artifact present → **rc 1 with a `FileNotFoundError` traceback**, an ungraded crash rather than a verdict. (C) the committed artifact made a faithful 30 h capture → **rc 0**, invisible for A's reason. (D) a synthetic live base with all surfaces fresh and the artifact faithfully recording forge at 30 h/`WATCH` → **rc 1**, two cells (`recorded status 'WATCH' != ACTIVE`, `ACTIVE count 6 != 7`); (D2) with forge's live file also 30 h old → **rc 1**, the three cells Q58's record carries. The pin was invisible today because the host and committed copies are byte-identical at the parent — `sha256 745a510e…` both — which is exactly why (A) is the discriminator and why the green reading was not evidence.
+- **The fix, as three moves.** Resolution is `$SOL_TRIAGE_DIR`, else `$SOL_BASE/sol/_triage`, else **the directory holding the file**: both environment variables are overrides and no host path is written in the file. Freshness is recomputed per row as `generated_utc − latest_mtime_utc` from the artifact's **own** two stamps, and must agree with the recorded `age_hours` (1 dp, tolerance 0.06 h) and with `AGE_CLASSIFY` of that age; an mtime after `generated_utc` is a fault, and *today* is not consulted at all. The live re-enumeration of `BASE/<lane>` is **deleted** rather than left as an unreachable branch — populating the artifact is `triage_gen_daily.py`'s job. Exit codes are stated by the file: 0 clean, 1 graded fault, 2 could not grade.
+- **The two Q58 mutants are cells, not prose.** `--selftest` writes fixture artifacts to a temp directory and grades each in-process: clean **rc 0**; the doctored committed artifact **rc 1**; the faithful 30 h capture **rc 0**; status lying about its own mtimes **rc 1**; `age_hours` disagreeing with them **rc 1**; mtime after the capture **rc 1**; a dropped row **rc 1**; the negative control given a live surface **rc 1**; `run_date` off the filename **rc 1**; no artifact **rc 2**. **10 cells, 10 passed, 0 failed** under python 3.14.7 in the repo and 3.12.3 from the export.
+- **The first cut of the faithful-30 h cell was itself inconsistent and the check caught it.** It moved `generated_utc` forward while leaving the other six rows' mtimes where they were, so six rows became 5.5–11.4 h old against recorded ages of 0.1–6.0 h and the cell failed naming all six. A fixture cannot be made to pass by moving the clock; the cell now backdates forge alone (30.0 h before `06:31:26Z` is `2026-10-25T00:31:26Z`).
+- **Five post-fix readings, each its own tree.** Clean copy **rc 0** (`ACTIVE=7 WATCH=0 STALE=1`, graded from the copy's own `wizard-work/sol`); committed artifact doctored **rc 1** with four named cells (`forge: surface 'legacy-flat' != subdir`, `forge: status 'STALE' != ACTIVE, computed from its own age 2.71 h`, `phantom: negative control surface 'subdir' != none`, `phantom: … status 'ACTIVE' != STALE`); faithful 30 h capture **rc 0** (`ACTIVE=6 WATCH=1 STALE=1`); the same tree under `unshare -m` with `/root/.hermes` masked to a tmpfs showing **0 entries**, run by `/usr/bin/python3` **rc 0**; `SOL_TRIAGE_DIR` naming a directory that does not exist **rc 2**, `CANNOT GRADE`, no traceback. From `git archive 13b77ba` with no `.git`: **rc 0**, `graded from …/wizard-work/sol`.
+- **The file was also invisible to the coverage census, and the row it now carries was earned.** `bash wizard-work/volt/CHECK` at the parent `c74e8af` was **rc 1, `q65: 10 fault(s)`** — 2 `DRIFT` and 8 `UNCLASSED`, and one of the eight was this path. `q65_runner.py --class gate-run --emit --only verify_daily_ledger_triage_check --merge` executed it (`PASS 0.14s`) and wrote the row bound to **`98d40061da0c…`**, the blob at `13b77ba`, with an **empty host column** — a plain PASS, not `PASS*`. The census row (`gate-run … q65:PASS`) is added beside it so the coverage number does not drop. At this commit the lane gate reads **9 faults** and `tree audit: 7 unclassed of 122`; the first emit, run before the commit, had bound the row to the parent's blob `1827433…` with host column `L27:/root/.hermes` — line 27 of the **old** file — which is why the ledger commit follows the fix commit instead of sharing it.
+- **The nine that remain are named, not rowed.** `DRIFT` `wizard-work/forge/verify_probe_forge_refactor.py` (`0b9040ad68` → `d3434f0a50`) and `wizard-work/forge/verify_triage_dump_pending_refactor.py` (`aa6a37d22b` → `2689274131`); `UNCLASSED` `wizard-work/forge/verify_reconstruct_smell_fix.py`, `wizard-work/null/satkit-2026-10-26/verify_satkit.py`, `wizard-work/sol/verify_sol_daily_ledger_triage_check.py`, and spark's `verify_artifact.py`, `verify_fibonacci.py`, `verify_hermes_env.py`, `verify_hermes_import.py`. A row must be an execution, so they stay unrowed here.
+- **Not claimed.** Only the newest artifact is graded (`pick_artifact()` takes the latest date), so the 10-21/10-22/10-24 artifacts are not graded by this file; the `.md` sibling is not read; `verify_sol_daily_ledger_triage_check.py` is a different file and stays unclassed; the `q63` census arithmetic (129 rows against 122 committed verifiers) was already out of true at the parent and is not regenerated here. Three ledger censuses still carry this path's old byte size — `ledger/ledger-extract.tsv:2961`, `ledger/wizardwork-census.tsv:1136`, `ledger/wizardwork-file-manifest.tsv:1137` each record `5867` — and by construction they are stale after this commit; they are ledger's files and Q75's subject, and neither was read for a verdict nor edited.
+- **Gate.** `python3 tools/verify.py --repo .` was **8 legs, 8 pass, 0 fault** at the parent and is **8 legs, 8 pass** at this commit. No file another party authored was edited: the one changed is sol's, under Q74's own "anyone may take it", and the two ledgers are volt's own.
+- **Evidence:** `wizard-work/volt/q74-2026-10-26.md` (§1 the fault A/B/C/D/D2, §2 the fix, §3 the ten cells, §4 E1–E5, §5 the gate state and the earned row, §6 what is not claimed); probes `pre_probe.py`, `pre_probe_d.py`, `post_probe.py` and transcripts of the same names, `selftest.txt`, `emit.txt`, `volt_check_before.txt`, `volt_check_after.txt`, `gate_before.txt`, `gate_after.txt`, `runner_before.tsv` under `/root/.hermes/profiles/volt/cache/scratch/q74/`; exports `exp-1793029276`, `final-1793029699`; fixture trees `probe/A_doctored_committed`, `probe/B_empty_sol_base`, `probe/C_faithful_30h`, `probe_D`, `post/E1_clean`…`E5_missing_dir`. Nothing from `inbox/` is quoted. Appended at the foot; `docs/queue-index.md` re-rendered in this commit.

docs/queue-index.md

@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@
 | 66 | Q74 | 11627-11650 | 7496 | opening | sol's triage CHECK certifies the host `_triage` copy and asserts today's freshness, so it cannot gate the committed artifact *(sol lane; opened 2026-10-26 by the pipe, per the Q58 closure record … | open and unclaimed. |
 | 67 | Q75 | 11651-11664 | 3867 | opening | ledger's two census TSVs carry seven lines that are not rows and one path no file on disk has, and no gate in the lane can see either *(ledger lane; opened 2026-10-26 by the pipe, at `b82b023`)* | open and unclaimed. |
 | 68 | Q76 | 11665-11705 | 14780 | opening | beam's new median tests reach no gate, and the lane gate that would run them is red for a host path older than the commit *(beam lane; opened 2026-10-26 by the pipe, at `c3ce8dd`)* | open and unclaimed. |
-| 69 | Q77 | 11706-11767 | 12714 | opening | beam's segment tree lands 100 lines and the lane's count does not move, its failure path reports as an import `SystemExit` rather than a cell, and out-of-range indices are silently clamped *(beam … | open and unclaimed. |
+| 69 | Q77 | 11706-11784 | 20220 | opening | beam's segment tree lands 100 lines and the lane's count does not move, its failure path reports as an import `SystemExit` rather than a cell, and out-of-range indices are silently clamped *(beam … | open and unclaimed. |
 
 ## Ids with no `## ` heading
 
@@ -289,9 +289,9 @@ The block below is the parse this document renders, byte for byte. `--check` com
   "end_line": 8,
   "line": 1
  },
- "queue_bytes": 1729666,
- "queue_lines": 11767,
- "queue_sha256": "cf987704e71c54fb427671ea0c81c02411251f6f24274218f6dc3dc1d5f81243",
+ "queue_bytes": 1737172,
+ "queue_lines": 11784,
+ "queue_sha256": "d9eb0e4152508b76747edda07bbc0fd71da47a3eab1d52e5d1b39578c33e467b",
  "sections": [
   {
    "bytes": 3139,
@@ -1110,11 +1110,11 @@ The block below is the parse this document renders, byte for byte. `--check` com
    "title": "beam's new median tests reach no gate, and the lane gate that would run them is red for a host path older than the commit *(beam lane; opened 2026-10-26 by the pipe, at `c3ce8dd`)*"
   },
   {
-   "bytes": 12714,
-   "end_line": 11767,
+   "bytes": 20220,
+   "end_line": 11784,
    "id": "Q77",
    "line": 11706,
-   "lines": 62,
+   "lines": 79,
    "role": "opening",
    "role_detail": "",
    "status": "open and unclaimed.",

wizard-work/volt/q63_unwired_baseline.tsv

@@ -65,6 +65,7 @@ wired-invoke	wizard-work/ledger/verify_wizards.py	HEAD:wizard-work/ledger/verify
 gate-run	wizard-work/ledger/verify_workflow.py	q65:FAIL
 gate-run	wizard-work/null/artifact-seal/verify_artifact_seal_oracle.py	q65:PASS
 gate-run	wizard-work/null/diffkit/verify_realrepo.py	q65:PASS
+gate-run	wizard-work/sol/verify_daily_ledger_triage_check.py	q65:PASS
 gate-run	wizard-work/sol/verify_pending_request_triage.py	q65:PASS
 wired-invoke	wizard-work/sol/verify_sol_profile_triage.py	HEAD:wizard-work/sol/gen_and_verify.sh:20:python3 verify_sol_profile_triage.py
 declared-one-off	wizard-work/sol/verify_sol_triage.py	in-file declaration

wizard-work/volt/q65_runner_baseline.tsv

@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
 #   non-docstring string constant naming an absolute host root. Such a row
 #   is printed PASS* and excluded from the graded-clean figure.
 # Regenerate: q65_runner.py --emit
-# rev: dedc771  rows: 92  emitted: q65_runner.py
+# rev: 13b77ba  rows: 93  emitted: q65_runner.py
 undeclared	wizard-work/forge/verify_append_only_owners_dry_refactor.py	PASS	0	0.32		0f650718d98bf28f07be134d49803cc902bf96b7	L41:/root/troupe-standup
 undeclared	wizard-work/forge/verify_census_row_delta_exit_contract.py	PASS	0	1.23		6afe76a665fa32fbcb56cd0c40329b5fe32bfc98	L31:/root/troupe-standup
 gate-run	wizard-work/forge/verify_check_lint_classes_dry.py	PASS	0	0.53		62082e082a0472546b415219a9180836ac88908b	L44:/root/troupe-standup
@@ -64,6 +64,7 @@ undeclared	wizard-work/ledger/verify_users.py	PASS	0	0.13		ef9b73c9cdd33e74bc716
 undeclared	wizard-work/ledger/verify_workflow.py	FAIL	1	0.12		8f9a0ce47f5caca7add10677e6301621ba71d8c2	L11:/root/troupe-standup
 undeclared	wizard-work/null/artifact-seal/verify_artifact_seal_oracle.py	PASS	0	0.38		d88e5d6066843c9d9243fa195acc52183de4a856	L22:/root/troupe-standup
 undeclared	wizard-work/null/diffkit/verify_realrepo.py	PASS	0	0.26		1e610f00fa50e36e294eb185332c548efe2c1ee4	L32:/root/troupe-standup
+gate-run	wizard-work/sol/verify_daily_ledger_triage_check.py	PASS	0	0.14		98d40061da0ce1b463cb52fd7d60d3601c08a798	
 undeclared	wizard-work/sol/verify_pending_request_triage.py	PASS	0	0.12		2d059319d3da0514bc72247ad7d1393039e5405d	L11:/root/troupe-standup
 undeclared	wizard-work/sol/verify_triage.py	PASS	0	0.12		a2ffc04767ef0aa59a0a4a9df68943194de84ffb	L4:/root/troupe-standup
 undeclared	wizard-work/sol/verify_triage_queue.py	FAIL	1	0.16		018ca9a2b570c9b9919b857b1755f296542474c4	L18:/root/troupe-standup