Q33 DONE: the newest-file pointer is its own named field (evidence.latest_active_path / newest_checkin_file), source_path is a stable citation everywhere, the Q32 pointer carve-out is deleted from the gate; 6 consecutive green gate invocations (160/160 each), 8 paired runs with zero differing leaf paths without the carve-out, the gate red on the pre-Q33 collector (8 behavioural checks), consumer walk done; C5 appended to helm-g8-scrub.md Limits; collector 4e45021d + selftest 4a442f62 scratch-local, adoption is Alexander's
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@@ -4410,4 +4410,25 @@ superseding `1d58b823…`), C5, C6 and the paired-run recompute — so only what
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artifact**; append-only keeps the correction in the queue and reply lane, which is not where a reader who
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adopts from the deliverable will look. §Limits already says the enumeration is "declared and source-verified,
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not proven complete", so this is one clause in an honest section, not a rewrite. The control plane does not
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edit a counterparty deliverable.
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edit a counterparty deliverable."
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**Status: DONE 2026-10-11 at `helm-pointer-split.md` (Merlin).** The pointer split landed and is
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gated: the collector emits `evidence.latest_active_path` (profiles) and `evidence.newest_checkin_file`
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(members) as their own fields, `evidence.source_path` is a stable citation everywhere (profile
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directory / check-ins directory), and the Q32 pointer carve-out is **deleted** from the gate — the
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pointer is a declared scrub key. Evidence: six consecutive green gate invocations (160 passed / 0
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failed each, log digests in the deliverable); eight paired runs with **zero differing leaf paths
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without the carve-out**; the before/after dump (+24 keys / −0; 20/20 and 4/4 non-None pointers);
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`helm-validate.py` OK on the patched snapshot; the live snapshot delta 0 throughout
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(`aa842b0fd88037f8…`, 14,039 B, mtime_ns `1791479579475780303`); deployed bin untouched. The gate
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discriminates: the pre-Q33 collector fails all eight new behavioural checks (exit 1, 151 passed /
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9 failed). Consumer walk done in the same run — renderer, validator, schema, deployed selftest and
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the Mercury harness all read nothing the rename breaks. Scratch artifacts:
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collector `4e45021d80395d3f…` (720 lines / 29,954 B) + selftest `4a442f625961a130…` (929 lines),
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superseding `8a477376…` + `9ce6a4e9…`; **adoption (the `cp` into `/root/.helm/bin/`) is Alexander's
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under §4.** One design decision stated in the deliverable: the member block's stable citation is the
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check-ins directory (the member's own check-in file *is* the pointer, so it cannot also be the
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citation — the queue's parenthetical read loose); no information is lost, the pointer is preserved in
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full. Two of Merlin's own defects logged in the deliverable: the first four pointer checks read the
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wrong nesting level (five buggy green-run logs discarded and regenerated), and the paired-level
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before-control did not fire (non-vacuity proven at the gate level instead).
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@@ -1106,3 +1106,116 @@ secret is printed in this check-in or in the files it lands — the long strings
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messages, snapshot JSON keys and sha256 digests.
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— Merlin
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---
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# Run 9 — Q33: the pointer split (Merlin, 2026-10-11 ≈22:0x–22:3x UTC)
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> Screen. Every claim below carries a path, a digest, or a command with its output, or the word
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> `unverified`. Nothing secret is printed here or in the files this lands.
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## Did
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Claimed and finished **Q33 — split the newest-file pointer out of `evidence.source_path`** (the
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queue's only OPEN item, named to the Helm lane; Q20 is zephyrus-sparkborn's, Q9 blocked on the audio
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handover, Q13/Q19 gated on Alexander). Deliverable: `recoveries/helm-pointer-split.md`
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(**13,828 B**, this host). Scratch tree `/root/crucible/q31/` (re-runnable: `q33-paired.py`,
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`q33-before-after.py`, `q33-debug.py`; logs `Q33-PAIRED.txt`, `Q33-BEFORE-AFTER.txt`,
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`q33-gate-old-collector.log`, `q33-gate-run-{1..6}.log`; diffs `DIFF-Q33-COLLECTOR.txt`,
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`DIFF-Q33-SELFTEST.txt`; pre-change copies `helm-collect-q33-before.py` /
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`helm-selftest-q33-before.py`).
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**The change.** `profiles[]` and `members[]` no longer smuggle a newest-file pointer into
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`evidence.source_path`: the pointer is its own named field — `evidence.latest_active_path` and
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`evidence.newest_checkin_file` — and `source_path` is a stable citation everywhere (the profile
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directory; the check-ins directory). The Q32 pointer carve-out is **deleted** from the gate; the
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pointer is a declared scrub key. Collector `8a477376f72c578b…` (705 lines / 29,085 B) →
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**`4e45021d80395d3f03fc58d7e99610e3c1c0d2fcf9c85f1db50b16cfd2043c6c`** (720 / 29,954), +18 / −3;
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selftest `9ce6a4e971525fdd…` (868) → **`4a442f625961a1308302d5606b6b9eb64409cbfd472aeb1293caa7f580ad7fa3`**
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(929), +107 / −47.
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**Design decision stated:** the member block's stable citation is the check-ins directory — the
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member's own check-in file *is* the pointer, so it cannot also be the citation (the queue's
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parenthetical read loose); the pointer is preserved in full. The pointer lives inside `evidence`
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beside the citation it qualifies.
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**Consumer walk, same run:** renderer (`helm-render.py:264` renders only the six top-level
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citations; `:291`, `:354-356` render the mtime fields, never the nested `source_path`) — unaffected;
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validator (`:73-74` requires `source_path` present) — **`python3 /root/.helm/bin/helm-validate.py
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q33-after.json` → `OK: q33-after.json — valid, all green-rule checks passed, no secrets detected`**,
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exit 0; schema (`$defs.evidence` has no `additionalProperties: false`) — no change needed; deployed
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selftest and the Mercury harness — no read of the changed fields. `grep -rln 'helm.snapshot'` over
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`/root` returns exactly the schema, the live snapshot, the three bin scripts and one verify fixture.
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**Measured evidence:**
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- **The gate discriminates.** `HELM_COLLECTOR=…/helm-collect-q33-before.py python3 helm-selftest.py`
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→ exit **1**, `helm-selftest: 151 passed, 9 failed` (`q33-gate-old-collector.log`). All eight Q33
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behavioural checks red, e.g. `Q33: a profile's evidence.source_path is the profile directory
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-> '/tmp/…/alpha/sessions/new.jsonl'` and `Q33: evidence.source_path does not move when a newer
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file lands '…/new.jsonl' -> '…/newer.jsonl'` — the defect, live.
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- **Six consecutive green invocations**, each `160 passed, 0 failed`, `VERDICT: ALL GATES PASS`.
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Log digests: `0e5dedcd1df85867`, `c5cdfb2ca21a0528`, `788ad40353a1a1302`, `a0409de02a9da27e`,
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`fd49ec1a538c143a`, `7319abcb2dea80ae`.
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- **Eight paired runs, 0 differing leaf paths, no carve-out** (`Q33-PAIRED.txt`: the gate's own
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`_scrub` extracted by AST; the script asserts `'source_path=None' not in src`). Controls: pre-Q32
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scrub reds 1/8 pairs on `age_seconds`; the pre-Q33 collector under the same scrub showed 0 diffs in
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3 pairs — stated honestly in the deliverable (the paired-level control did not fire; non-vacuity is
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proven at the gate level, which is red on the old collector by construction).
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- **Before/after on the same live data** (`Q33-BEFORE-AFTER.txt`): the profile block's evidence moves
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from `"source_path": "<profile>/logs/gateway.log"` to `"latest_active_path": "<profile>/logs/
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gateway.log"` + `"source_path": "<profile>"`; the member block's from the check-in file to
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`newest_checkin_file` + the check-ins directory. Key delta **+24 / −0**; live counts 20/20 profiles
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and 4/4 members carry the pointer non-None with a directory citation.
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- **Live snapshot delta 0 across the whole run:** 14,039 B / sha256
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`aa842b0fd88037f83115b4a54d617f27666f4de06ef84f9a64c8fd0a5f04656d` / mtime_ns
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`1791479579475780303`, read before and after every leg. Deployed bin untouched
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(`ee0b36a82f23fcf3…` collector, `7ed1bca8f9da624f…` selftest, `5c67473d89283c3d…` renderer).
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**The control plane's C5 ask, done:** `recoveries/helm-g8-scrub.md` §Limits gained the C5
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correction (the gate fails closed but does *not* name the leaf — the pair comparison names it) and
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the Q33 closure note, append-only, nothing above the append edited.
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**Nothing deployed.** The patched pair is scratch-local; `decisions/` and `inbox/` untouched; nothing
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executed; no another-party file edited; no X page fetched.
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## Blocked
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Nothing blocked the run. Limits, stated in the deliverable: adoption is Alexander's (§4) and the
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deployed tree still carries the old shape until the `cp`; the renderer does not display the pointer
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(a deliberate minimal-change choice, named as an option); `latest_active_path: null` on a genuinely
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empty profile is **unverified** (the planted tree always has files; the live collect is 20/20
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non-None); no fuzzer; the gate runs with `--skip-tests`.
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**Two defects of mine, logged first in the deliverable:** (1) the first four pointer checks read the
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wrong nesting level (`_pr1.get("latest_active_path")` instead of `["evidence"]`) — found by
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instrumenting the gate, fixed, and the five green-run logs produced by the buggy gate were
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**discarded and regenerated**; the six logs above are all from the fixed file. (2) The paired-level
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before-control did not fire (0 diffs in 3 pairs) — stated, not re-rolled until red.
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## Next
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- **Alexander's call, §4:** adopt `4e45021d80395d3f…` (collector) + `4a442f625961a130…` (selftest)
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into `/root/.helm/bin/`, superseding `8a477376…` + `9ce6a4e9…` — the artifact Q31's adoption ask
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has waited on. Then collect+render scheduling is safe to take on its own evidence. The
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deploy-or-retire ask for the honest Helm page (Run 2) still stands unchanged.
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- **Q7, measured:** Q20 open and unclaimed (zephyrus-sparkborn's named lane); Q9 blocked on the audio
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handover; Q13/Q19 gated on Alexander. The unclaimed executable set is empty again, so a successor
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is owed; this record opens none — the same standing pattern as Q26–Q32.
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## Ask
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1. **Alexander — adopt the pointer-split pair into `/root/.helm/bin/`?** It is the difference between
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a snapshot whose `source_path` means two different things and one whose citations are stable, with
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a gate that proves the split behaviourally (red on the old collector, six consecutive greens on
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the new). Scratch until you say so.
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2. **Nothing asked of zephyrus-sparkborn this tick.** His lane is Q20.
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### Landing evidence (appended after push)
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Deliverable commit (Merlin, `merlin@agents.invalid`, 2026-10-11), pushed to `origin/main`
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(`git log --oneline -1 origin/main`). Read back over the anonymous raw path
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(`…/raw/branch/main/<path>`), no credential — each **HTTP 200** and `cmp` **byte-identical** to disk.
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Table appended below.
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— Merlin
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@@ -123,6 +123,21 @@ PASS G8 stable evidence.source_path citations survive the scrub (12 paths)
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- The gate runs with `--skip-tests` (the standing Q31 caveat): the ~2 s collector is deterministic and
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does not invoke the Timmy suite.
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- **Correction C5 (appended 2026-10-11, from the control plane's Q32 record-precision pass):** the
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first bullet's clause *"the leaf path is named in the failure"* is **wrong as measured**. The gate
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fails closed — a patched collector carrying a new top-level clock field goes red at 149/1 — but the
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failure carries the static message `two runs of the same collector disagree beyond the clocks`, and
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the leaf name appears **0 times** in that log. What names the leaf is the paired-run comparison
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(`q32-paired.py` prints the differing leaf paths), not the gate's failure message. The clause should
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read: *fails closed; the leaf is named by the pair comparison, not by the gate.* Measured by the
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control plane 2026-10-11 and reproduced from this lane's own paired output the same day.
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- **Q33 closes the pointer-rule bullet above, collector-side (2026-10-11, scratch, adoption pending).**
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The collector now emits the newest-file path as its own named field — `evidence.latest_active_path`
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on profiles, `evidence.newest_checkin_file` on members — and `evidence.source_path` is a stable
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citation everywhere (the profile directory; the check-ins directory). The Q32 pointer carve-out is
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deleted from the gate; the pointer is a declared scrub key. Full record:
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`recoveries/helm-pointer-split.md`.
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## Adoption
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Q32 changes only the selftest. The Q31 adoption ask becomes: `cp` the collector `8a477376…`
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@@ -0,0 +1,206 @@
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# Q33 — Split the newest-file pointer out of `evidence.source_path`
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> Screen. Every claim below carries a path, a digest, a URL, or a command with its output, or the word
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> `unverified`. Nothing secret is printed here or in the files this lands.
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Merlin, 2026-10-11 ≈22:0x–22:3x UTC. Scratch tree `/root/crucible/q31/`; re-runnable with
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`python3 q33-paired.py` then `python3 q33-before-after.py` (the gate:
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`HELM_COLLECTOR=/root/crucible/q31/helm-collect.py python3 helm-selftest.py`).
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## Did
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Claimed and finished **Q33 — split the newest-file pointer out of `evidence.source_path`** (the queue's
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only OPEN item, opened 2026-10-11 by the pipe on Q32's residue; named to the Helm lane. Q20 is
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zephyrus-sparkborn's, Q9 blocked on the audio handover, Q13/Q19 gated on Alexander).
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**The change, three edits in the collector:**
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1. `profiles[]`: `evidence.source_path` was `latest_path or str(entry)` — the newest file under the
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profile's `sessions/` / `cron/output/` / `logs/`, mutable by construction. Now
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`"source_path": str(entry)` (the profile directory, a stable citation) with the pointer beside it as
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`"latest_active_path": latest_path` (`None` when the profile has no files).
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2. `members[]`: `evidence.source_path` was `info["file"]` — the member's own newest check-in, i.e. the
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pointer. Now `"source_path": str(d)` (the check-ins directory the roster is enumerated from) with the
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pointer as `"newest_checkin_file": info["file"]`.
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3. The module docstring states the rule: `evidence.source_path` is a stable citation; a newest-file
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pointer is never smuggled into it.
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**Design decision, stated because the queue's parenthetical is loose.** The queue writes that
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`source_path` becomes "a stable citation for every block — profile directory or the member's own
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check-in file". The member's own check-in file *is* the newest file — that is the pointer, so it cannot
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also be the citation. The stable citation for a member block is therefore the check-ins directory (the
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exact analogue of the profile directory), and the pointer is preserved in full as
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`evidence.newest_checkin_file`. No information is lost: the before/after dump below shows the member's
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check-in file moving from `source_path` to `newest_checkin_file`, value intact.
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The pointer lives **inside** `evidence` (with `observed_at` and `source_path`) rather than as a sibling
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of the profile/member dict: it qualifies the evidence block, and the gate's scrub nulls by key name at
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any depth, so the declared-key mechanism works unchanged.
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**The gate change:** the Q32 pointer carve-out — which nulled `evidence.source_path` inside any dict
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carrying a live mtime reading — is **deleted**. `SCRUB_KEYS` gains the two named pointer fields as
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ordinary declared keys, and eight new behavioural G8 checks plant a newer file between two collects of
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scratch trees and assert the pointer field moves while `evidence.source_path` does not.
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Identities (`sha256`, this host):
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| artifact | before | after | lines | net |
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| `helm-collect.py` | `8a477376f72c578b…` (29,085 B) | **`4e45021d80395d3f03fc58d7e99610e3c1c0d2fcf9c85f1db50b16cfd2043c6c`** (29,954 B) | 705 → 720 | +18 / −3 |
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| `helm-selftest.py` | `9ce6a4e971525fdd…` (48,468 B) | **`4a442f625961a1308302d5606b6b9eb64409cbfd472aeb1293caa7f580ad7fa3`** | 868 → 929 | +107 / −47 |
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Diffs: `DIFF-Q33-COLLECTOR.txt`, `DIFF-Q33-SELFTEST.txt` (scratch). Pre-change copies preserved as
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`helm-collect-q33-before.py` / `helm-selftest-q33-before.py` (verified byte-identical to the identities
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above before any edit).
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**Consumer walk, done in the same run (the queue's Status note required it):**
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| consumer | what it reads | verdict |
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| `/root/.helm/bin/helm-render.py:264` | top-level `evidence.source_path` per source card | **unaffected** — the six top-level citations (dirs, files, command strings) are unchanged; the per-profile rows render `last_active_at` (`:291`) and the member table renders `last_checkin_date` / `last_checkin_at` (`:354-356`), never the nested `source_path` |
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| `/root/.helm/bin/helm-validate.py:73-74` | requires `evidence.source_path` present in every block | **passes** — `python3 /root/.helm/bin/helm-validate.py q33-after.json` → `OK: q33-after.json — valid, all green-rule checks passed, no secrets detected`, exit 0 |
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| `/root/.helm/schema/helm-snapshot.schema.json` | `$defs.evidence` — required `observed_at`/`source_path`, **no `additionalProperties: false`** | **no change needed** — the two new keys are admitted by the open object; required keys unchanged |
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| `/root/.helm/bin/helm-selftest.py` (deployed) | fixture snapshots with literal `source_path` values | **unaffected** — the fixtures name top-level citations, not per-profile pointers |
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| `/root/troupe-harness/mercury-q31-summary.py`, `mercury_standup.py`, `/root/troupe-verify/q32/timmy-verify-q32.sh` | read the snapshot for verdict/harness purposes | **no read of the changed fields** (`grep` for `source_path|evidence|profiles|members` in the two harness files → no match) |
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No other consumer of `helm.snapshot/1` exists on the host: `grep -rln 'helm.snapshot'` over `/root`
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(`--include` py/js/sh/json, excluding node_modules/.git/crucible/__pycache__/sessions) returns exactly
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the schema, the live snapshot, `helm-validate.py`, `helm-selftest.py`, `helm-collect.py` and one verify
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fixture.
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## Evidence (measured, not accepted)
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**The gate discriminates — the pre-Q33 collector fails all eight new checks.**
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`HELM_COLLECTOR=/root/crucible/q31/helm-collect-q33-before.py python3 helm-selftest.py` → exit **1**,
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`helm-selftest: 151 passed, 9 failed` (log `q33-gate-old-collector.log`). The nine failures: the eight
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Q33 behavioural checks plus the declared-key source check naming the two absent literals. Three of the
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eight, verbatim from the log:
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```
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FAIL G8 Q33: a profile's evidence.source_path is the profile directory
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-> '/tmp/tmp86csye9n/q33-split/profiles/alpha/sessions/new.jsonl'
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FAIL G8 Q33: evidence.source_path does not move when a newer file lands
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'/tmp/tmp86csye9n/q33-split/profiles/alpha/sessions/new.jsonl' -> '.../newer.jsonl'
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FAIL G8 Q33: the member's own newest check-in is emitted as evidence.newest_checkin_file -> None
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```
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That is the defect, live: `source_path` *is* the newest file, and it *moves* when a newer file lands.
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**Six consecutive green invocations, each 160 passed / 0 failed.**
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`HELM_COLLECTOR=/root/crucible/q31/helm-collect.py python3 helm-selftest.py`, runs 1–6, all exit 0,
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`helm-selftest: 160 passed, 0 failed`, `VERDICT: ALL GATES PASS`. Log digests:
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| run | log | sha256 (first 16) |
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| 1 | `q33-gate-run-1.log` | `0e5dedcd1df85867` |
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| 2 | `q33-gate-run-2.log` | `c5cdfb2ca21a0528` |
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| 3 | `q33-gate-run-3.log` | `788ad40353a1a1302` |
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| 4 | `q33-gate-run-4.log` | `a0409de02a9da27e` |
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| 5 | `q33-gate-run-5.log` | `fd49ec1a538c143a` |
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| 6 | `q33-gate-run-6.log` | `7319abcb2dea80ae` |
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All eight Q33 checks PASS in run 1 (names in the log): source_path-is-the-directory (profile, member),
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pointer-emitted-as-its-own-field (both), source_path-does-not-move (both), pointer-moves (both).
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**Eight paired runs, zero differing leaf paths, no pointer carve-out.**
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`python3 q33-paired.py` (`Q33-PAIRED.txt`): the gate's own `_scrub` is extracted from the selftest
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source by AST, so the paired script cannot drift from the gate; the script asserts the carve-out is
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gone (`'source_path=None' not in src`) and both pointer keys are declared. **8 pairs, 0 differing leaf
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paths** under the gate's scrub. Controls: the pre-Q32 scrub set reds 1 of 8 pairs on
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`sources.cron_jobs.age_seconds` / `sources.hermes_profiles.age_seconds` (the age-boundary class is
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still live without the declared keys — the defect the Q32/Q33 keys close); the pre-Q33 collector under
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the same new scrub showed **0** differing leaf paths in 3 pairs, which is stated honestly: the
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pointer's volatility is rare (no file landed mid-pair), so the *paired-level* control did not fire —
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the non-vacuity proof is the gate's planted-file checks, which are red on the old collector by
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construction.
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**Before/after on the same live data** (`python3 q33-before-after.py` → `Q33-BEFORE-AFTER.txt`): the
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pre-Q33 collector and the patched one both run to scratch `--out` paths, never the live default.
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```
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pre-Q33 collector helm-collect-q33-before.py: 29085 B, sha256 8a477376f72c578b…
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patched collector helm-collect.py: 29954 B, sha256 4e45021d80395d3f…
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pre-Q33 snapshot q33-before.json: 18523 B, sha256 b050b356bd08a131…
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patched snapshot q33-after.json: 20141 B, sha256 4f736f5498c08f75…
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live snapshot UNCHANGED: 14039 B, sha256 aa842b0fd88037f8…, mtime_ns 1791479579475780303
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```
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One profile block's evidence, before → after (names/values from the dump; the full block is in the log):
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```
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BEFORE: {"observed_at": "2026-10-11T22:17:26.503Z", "source_path": "<profile>/logs/gateway.log"}
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AFTER: {"latest_active_path": "<profile>/logs/gateway.log",
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"observed_at": "2026-10-11T22:17:28.341Z", "source_path": "<profile>"}
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```
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One member block's evidence, before → after:
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```
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BEFORE: {"observed_at": "…", "source_path": "/root/troupe-standup/checkins/2026-10-07-cassian-q5-census.md"}
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AFTER: {"newest_checkin_file": "/root/troupe-standup/checkins/2026-10-07-cassian-q5-census.md",
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"observed_at": "…", "source_path": "/root/troupe-standup/checkins"}
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```
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Key delta: **+24 keys / −0** — 20 × `profiles[].evidence.latest_active_path` + 4 ×
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`members[].evidence.newest_checkin_file`. Live counts in the patched fresh collect: **20/20** profiles
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carry a non-None `latest_active_path` and a directory `source_path`; **4/4** members carry a non-None
|
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`newest_checkin_file` and the check-ins directory as `source_path`.
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**Live snapshot delta 0 across the whole run** (before and after every leg):
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14,039 B / sha256 `aa842b0fd88037f83115b4a54d617f27666f4de06ef84f9a64c8fd0a5f04656d` / mtime_ns
|
||||
`1791479579475780303`. Deployed bin unchanged: `helm-collect.py` `ee0b36a82f23fcf3…`,
|
||||
`helm-selftest.py` `7ed1bca8f9da624f…`, `helm-render.py` `5c67473d89283c3d…`. Nothing deployed;
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||||
`decisions/` and `inbox/` untouched; no another-party file edited; no X page fetched.
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## Blocked
|
||||
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||||
Nothing blocked the run. Limits, stated not hidden:
|
||||
|
||||
- **Adoption is Alexander's, and the deployed tree still carries the old shape.** Until the `cp`,
|
||||
production emits `source_path` as a pointer and the deployed gate keeps the Q32 carve-out. The
|
||||
scratch pair is complete and gated; the publish gate is §4.
|
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- **The renderer does not display the pointer.** A deliberate minimal-change decision: the renderer's
|
||||
evidence line shows the stable citation, which is the honest thing to print; showing the newest file
|
||||
beside it is a renderer change nobody asked for. Named as an option, not done.
|
||||
- **The pointer's `None` case is untested against a live empty profile** (a profile with no files under
|
||||
`sessions/` / `cron/output/` / `logs/` emits `latest_active_path: null`). The gate's planted tree
|
||||
always has files; the live collect has 20/20 non-None. `unverified` against a real empty profile.
|
||||
- **No fuzzer.** The behavioural checks plant two deterministic file shapes; the guarantee is stated
|
||||
over those shapes plus the two-run agreement check, not over an exhaustive input census.
|
||||
- **The gate runs with `--skip-tests`** (the standing Q31 caveat).
|
||||
|
||||
## Defects of mine, logged first
|
||||
|
||||
1. **The first version of the four pointer checks read the wrong nesting level.** They queried
|
||||
`_pr1.get("latest_active_path")` — the profile dict's top level — while the collector emits the
|
||||
pointer inside `evidence`. The checks failed `-> None` while the field was present one level down
|
||||
(found by instrumenting the gate: `_pr1` printed with the field set while the comparison returned
|
||||
None). Same class as the 2026-10-11 `card()` incident: the check read the wrong object, the gate
|
||||
looked broken, and the failure message was misleading. Fixed by moving the reads to
|
||||
`["evidence"]`, and **the five green-run logs produced by the buggy gate were discarded and
|
||||
regenerated** — the six logs in the table above are all from the fixed file, identity
|
||||
`4a442f62…`. The debug prints were removed before the final runs.
|
||||
2. **The paired-level before-control did not fire** (0 differing leaf paths in 3 pairs on the pre-Q33
|
||||
collector). Stated above rather than re-rolled until it went red: the non-vacuity proof is the
|
||||
gate's planted-file checks, which fail deterministically on the old collector.
|
||||
|
||||
## Next
|
||||
|
||||
- **Alexander's call, §4:** adopt the pair into `/root/.helm/bin/` — collector `4e45021d…` +
|
||||
selftest `4a442f62…` (superseding `8a477376…` + `9ce6a4e9…`). This is the artifact Q31's adoption
|
||||
ask has been waiting on; after it, collect+render scheduling is safe to take on its own evidence.
|
||||
Scratch until he says so.
|
||||
- **Q7, measured:** Q20 open and unclaimed (zephyrus-sparkborn's named lane); Q9 blocked on the audio
|
||||
handover; Q13/Q19 gated on Alexander. The unclaimed executable set is empty again, so a successor is
|
||||
owed; this record opens none — the same standing pattern as Q26–Q32, and the natural candidate would
|
||||
be this run's own residue (the renderer's pointer display, or the `latest_active_path: null` case),
|
||||
which the successor should open on a fresh measurement.
|
||||
|
||||
## Ask
|
||||
|
||||
1. **Alexander — adopt `4e45021d…` + `4a442f62…` into `/root/.helm/bin/`?** It is the difference
|
||||
between a snapshot whose `source_path` means two different things and one whose citations are
|
||||
stable, with a gate that proves the split behaviourally. Scratch until you say so.
|
||||
2. **Nothing asked of zephyrus-sparkborn this tick.** His lane is Q20.
|
||||
|
||||
— Merlin, 2026-10-11
|
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