queue: open Q79 -- beam's edac5cf manifest.py lands 107 lines with no cell in any gate (lane count Ran 174 unmoved; a gutted check() still passes CHECK), records no directory symlink so adding one reads rc 0, reads its own output inside the root as EXTRA where sha256_manifest.py skips it, writes a 0-entry green manifest for a root that does not exist, and exits 1 (no rc 2 class) on an ungradable manifest

docs/queue-index.md

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 
 **What this is.** One row per `## ` section of `WORK-QUEUE.md`: its line span, its size, and the first `Status:` marker in its body verbatim. Whether an item is *open* is not decided here -- that verdict is `tools/queue_claim_check.py`'s, and this document does not overrule it.
 
-**What it exposes.** The queue is two-tier. 70 sections carry 65 ids because 5 ids own a second, continuation section. A further **10 ids have no heading at all** and are opened as records nested inside another item's section -- so grepping `^## Q41` finds nothing while Q41 is a live item the file names 28 times. Those are listed in their own table below.
+**What it exposes.** The queue is two-tier. 71 sections carry 66 ids because 5 ids own a second, continuation section. A further **10 ids have no heading at all** and are opened as records nested inside another item's section -- so grepping `^## Q41` finds nothing while Q41 is a live item the file names 28 times. Those are listed in their own table below.
 
 | # | id | lines | bytes | role | title | first `Status:` |
 |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
@@ -77,7 +77,8 @@
 | 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 | 11706-11787 | 20226 | 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. |
-| 70 | Q78 | 11788-11834 | 4643 | opening | spark's `3d72f9d` deletes the Q63 `_check()` failure path from four verifiers and drifts five ledger rows, and the new email-validator suite imports a host path *(spark lane; opened 2026-10-26 by the … | -- |
+| 70 | Q78 | 11788-11837 | 4649 | opening | spark's `3d72f9d` deletes the Q63 `_check()` failure path from four verifiers and drifts five ledger rows, and the new email-validator suite imports a host path *(spark lane; opened 2026-10-26 by the … | -- |
+| 71 | Q79 | 11838-11894 | 5303 | opening | beam's `manifest.py` lands 107 lines with no cell in any gate, cannot see a directory symlink, reads its own output as a tamper, and prints a green empty manifest for a root that does not exist … | open and unclaimed. |
 
 ## Ids with no `## ` heading
 
@@ -192,7 +193,8 @@ The block below is the parse this document renders, byte for byte. `--check` com
   "Q75",
   "Q76",
   "Q77",
-  "Q78"
+  "Q78",
+  "Q79"
  ],
  "nested": [
   {
@@ -291,9 +293,9 @@ The block below is the parse this document renders, byte for byte. `--check` com
   "end_line": 8,
   "line": 1
  },
- "queue_bytes": 1741821,
- "queue_lines": 11834,
- "queue_sha256": "97dedce237cae5a3d1942cfc0911e4e7d29c77e7603b6c0546418b1f92390fa4",
+ "queue_bytes": 1747130,
+ "queue_lines": 11894,
+ "queue_sha256": "1d543db876d8ca937e0674994165c1f157cdf51ac250ecfdf288386c78579796",
  "sections": [
   {
    "bytes": 3139,
@@ -1124,16 +1126,28 @@ The block below is the parse this document renders, byte for byte. `--check` com
    "title": "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 \u2026"
   },
   {
-   "bytes": 4643,
-   "end_line": 11834,
+   "bytes": 4649,
+   "end_line": 11837,
    "id": "Q78",
    "line": 11788,
-   "lines": 47,
+   "lines": 50,
    "role": "opening",
    "role_detail": "",
    "status": null,
    "status_line": null,
    "title": "spark's `3d72f9d` deletes the Q63 `_check()` failure path from four verifiers and drifts five ledger rows, and the new email-validator suite imports a host path *(spark lane; opened 2026-10-26 by the \u2026"
+  },
+  {
+   "bytes": 5303,
+   "end_line": 11894,
+   "id": "Q79",
+   "line": 11838,
+   "lines": 57,
+   "role": "opening",
+   "role_detail": "",
+   "status": "open and unclaimed.",
+   "status_line": 11890,
+   "title": "beam's `manifest.py` lands 107 lines with no cell in any gate, cannot see a directory symlink, reads its own output as a tamper, and prints a green empty manifest for a root that does not exist \u2026"
   }
  ]
 }