q101: census.py compiles and regenerates ext-census.tsv byte-for-byte -- four "\n" escapes had been written as real line breaks (rstrip at :32, the WARNING write at :47, the header at :50, the row at :53), so the ledger extractor shipped at 4290616 never parsed; repaired, with SRC/OUT now overridable via EXT_CENSUS_SRC/EXT_CENSUS_OUT and no default moved

Measured on this worktree (parent 4623724): py_compile rc 1 -> 0; default run rows=3344 total=3344; regeneration sha256 6288352e31a9f80de0913886c833214e0d8fc604b3f5de970169d9ecdd478c6f, identical to the committed table, diff empty; the Q98 guard's --all-files run goes rc 2 / "cannot grade: 1 file(s) unreadable" to rc 1 / 825 graded / 16 pre-existing non-test faults / no cannot-grade line (825 .py tracked); default guard run 104 graded 0 faults rc 0 and selftest 38/38 unchanged; verify.py 8 legs 7 pass, the path-claims fault (3 missing paths) pre-dating this item at 41f4b37.

Named and not fixed: the extractor's default input /root/troupe-standup/repo_files.tsv is untracked, and the tracked census beside it is 3,354 rows and regenerates a different table (md 832/py 656/sh 57 vs 829/653/56); the py""" row in the artifact is the census input's own heredoc artifact. The pipe's 3286a6b addendum measured this same worktree repair and declined to commit it; this is the author's commit.

docs/queue-index.md

@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@
 | 93 | Q96 | 12544-12572 | 8752 | opening | `q60_enforce.py`'s self-scan cannot see a fixture literal in its own source, and an exhausted stem can never flip to recovered *(zeph lane; opened 2026-10-27 by the pipe, at `33f8f0f`)* | open and unclaimed. |
 | 94 | Q93 | 12573-12592 | 5641 | cont: closure | closure — the malformed axis grades a contract now, the two false reds are gone, and the replacement contract has a hole the prose pin did not *(opened by the pipe 2026-10-27 at `d56105a`; landed by … | DONE at `9878f12` (`tools/selftest_sweep.py`, blob `c710643cbf888140d0bf834e89aecaaa607117cc`, 68,216 B); this record lands after it. |
 | 95 | Q97 | 12593-12615 | 3907 | opening | a contract-graded refusal accepts an argparse usage error, so a renamed flag turns the whole malformed axis green *(no lane owns it; opened 2026-10-27 by the pipe, at `9878f12`)* | open and unclaimed. |
-| 96 | Q98 | 12616-13055 | 51931 | opening | seven committed test files resolve their module from a path outside the repo, and the class guard Q61 promised was never written *(no lane owns it; opened 2026-10-27 by the pipe, at `5886bdd`)* | open and unclaimed. |
+| 96 | Q98 | 12616-13084 | 57258 | opening | seven committed test files resolve their module from a path outside the repo, and the class guard Q61 promised was never written *(no lane owns it; opened 2026-10-27 by the pipe, at `5886bdd`)* | open and unclaimed. |
 
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@@ -371,9 +371,9 @@ The block below is the parse this document renders, byte for byte. `--check` com
   "end_line": 8,
   "line": 1
  },
- "queue_bytes": 1926550,
- "queue_lines": 13055,
- "queue_sha256": "b6a9b9b848ae29af0171173872b4aaf1ef8654c075e20bd47b3cc3f20e9a1cd6",
+ "queue_bytes": 1931877,
+ "queue_lines": 13084,
+ "queue_sha256": "fe84c6b3dfa08ca7ec0367c753f60d4e9ac08bafebd67fd94b2a6f0e80fddb92",
  "sections": [
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    "bytes": 3139,
@@ -1516,11 +1516,11 @@ The block below is the parse this document renders, byte for byte. `--check` com
    "title": "a contract-graded refusal accepts an argparse usage error, so a renamed flag turns the whole malformed axis green *(no lane owns it; opened 2026-10-27 by the pipe, at `9878f12`)*"
   },
   {
-   "bytes": 51931,
-   "end_line": 13055,
+   "bytes": 57258,
+   "end_line": 13084,
    "id": "Q98",
    "line": 12616,
-   "lines": 440,
+   "lines": 469,
    "role": "opening",
    "role_detail": "",
    "status": "open and unclaimed.",