Q34 DONE: the pointer's null case is gated (recoveries/helm-null-gate.md, scratch /root/crucible/q34/). Four checks planted in the gate's own scratch tree between two collects on a profile with sessions/ and logs/ and no files: latest_active_path null, source_path still the profile directory, the key present with value null rather than absent, and a follow-up collect where a planted file sets the pointer while the citation holds; the member analogue stated unreachable by construction. Seven consecutive green gate invocations (exit 0, 164 passed 0 failed each, the Q33 160 plus these four), log digests in the deliverable. Red on both comparators: Q33-before collector under the full gate exit 1 / 153 passed 11 failed (the Q33 nine plus Q34 checks 3 and 4); pre-Q33 collector 2 passed 2 failed on the four checks by module import with no subprocess leg; checks 1-2 pass vacuously on both comparators and are reported as vacuous. The collector did not move (byte-identical to the Q33 pair, 4e45021d, 720 lines); the gate moved +56/-0 (929 -> 985 lines, 45e53187), so the §4 adoption ask is now a three-file ask. One incident logged first: the first red leg ran the full gate against the pre-Q33 collector, which has no destination gate, so the bare --skip-tests leg wrote the live snapshot (aa842b0f -> e4d1ad5, 14039 -> 18524 B, mtime_ns 1791479579475780303 -> 1791764761933369921 at 00:26:01Z); restored byte-exact from /root/crucible/q31/snap-before.json with the mtime re-stamped and the comparator re-run by import only; live snapshot delta 0 across every leg after the restore. Deployed bin untouched. Limits: a live empty profile is unobserved; checks 1-2 vacuous on the comparators; the null value is not schema-constrained.
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N ≥ 5**, each with its log digest. **Evidence:** the new check names with their pass/fail on both collectors, the
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N ≥ 5**, each with its log digest. **Evidence:** the new check names with their pass/fail on both collectors, the
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**Status: OPEN — named to the Helm lane.** Deliberately separate from Q33's record: Q33's deliverable is a finished
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**Status: DONE 2026-10-12 — `recoveries/helm-null-gate.md` (Merlin), scratch tree `/root/crucible/q34/`.**
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artifact and the adoption pair under §4 must not move under a second edit while Alexander is deciding on it.
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Four checks planted in the gate's own scratch tree (profile `empty` with `sessions/` and `logs/` and no
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files, between two collects): (a) `evidence.latest_active_path` is `null`, (b) `evidence.source_path` stays the
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profile directory, (c) the key is **present** with value `null` rather than absent, (d) after a file lands the
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pointer is set and the citation is unchanged. The member analogue is stated unreachable by construction, not
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asserted (a member row exists only for an existing check-in file). **Seven consecutive green gate invocations**
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(exit 0, `164 passed, 0 failed` each — the Q33 suite's 160 plus these four), log digests in the deliverable.
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Q33 nine plus Q34 checks 3 and 4), and the pre-Q33 collector **2 passed / 2 failed** on the four Q34 checks
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(module-import run, no subprocess leg) — checks 1 and 2 pass vacuously on both comparators and are reported as
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such, so the discriminating checks are 3 and 4. The collector **did not move** (byte-identical to the Q33 pair,
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`4e45021d…`, 720 lines); the gate moved **+56/−0** (929 → 985 lines, `45e53187…`). Live snapshot delta 0 across
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every leg after the restore below; deployed bin untouched. **One incident, logged first in the deliverable:**
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the first red leg ran the full gate with `HELM_COLLECTOR` pointed at the pre-Q33 collector, which has no
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destination gate, so the gate's own bare `--skip-tests` leg wrote the live snapshot (`aa842b0f…` → `e4d1ad5…`,
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14,039 → 18,524 B, mtime_ns `1791479579475780303` → `1791764761933369921`, 2026-10-12T00:26:01Z); restored
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byte-exact from `/root/crucible/q31/snap-before.json` with the mtime re-stamped (`VERDICT: RESTORED
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BYTE-EXACT`), and the comparator re-run by import only. **§4 consequence:** the adoption ask now covers three
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scratch files — collector `4e45021d…` unchanged, selftest `4a442f62…` superseded by `45e53187…`. Limits: a live
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are vacuous on the comparators; the null value is not schema-constrained. Scratch artifacts
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`/root/crucible/q34/`: gate, both comparators, the seven logs, `Q34-NULL-EVIDENCE.txt`, `q34-restore.py`.
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**Q33 citation repair — the pre-Q32 control figure does not match the log it cites. 2026-10-11 22:43Z
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**Q33 citation repair — the pre-Q32 control figure does not match the log it cites. 2026-10-11 22:43Z
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(control plane).** One block, one subject, appended after reading the tail and grepping for the existing record: the
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(control plane).** One block, one subject, appended after reading the tail and grepping for the existing record: the
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# 2026-10-12 — merlin
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> Screen. Every claim below carries a path, a hash, a URL, or a command with its output, or the word
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> `unverified`. Nothing secret is printed anywhere in this check-in or in the files it lands.
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---
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## Did
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Claimed and finished **Q34 — gate the pointer's null case**, the last open item and the one named to
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my lane (Q20 is zephyrus-sparkborn's, Q9 blocked on the audio handover, Q13/Q19 gated on Alexander).
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Deliverable: `recoveries/helm-null-gate.md` (**9,924 B / sha256
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`84b1e714bfad1c0be948845f0f0a9f92a739ce5b64b68a197523bbb7c0808a58`**, this host). Queue block
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appended to `WORK-QUEUE.md` (was 519,292 B / sha256
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`592523616f8b9a8ca45f4dabc631508baeb173c68de1f01cc125c0b0682a4f3e` before this run's append).
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Scratch tree `/root/crucible/q34/`; nothing deployed.
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**What was gated.** Q33's one `unverified` limit: `evidence.latest_active_path: null` for a profile
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with a `sessions/` directory and no files, with the Q32 pointer carve-out deleted, needed an
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exercised branch. The gate now plants, in its own scratch tree between two collects, a profile
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`empty` carrying `sessions/` and `logs/` and no files, and asserts four things — pointer `null`,
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citation still the profile directory, the key **present with value null rather than absent**, and a
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follow-up collect where a planted file sets the pointer while the citation holds. The member
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analogue is stated unreachable by construction, not asserted (a member row exists only for an
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existing check-in file); the rule is a comment in the gate, not a test.
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**Seven consecutive green invocations**, exit 0 each, `helm-selftest: 164 passed, 0 failed` (the
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Q33 suite's 160 plus these four), log digests in the deliverable:
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`7f01728d…` / `997b1308…` / `96678a66…` / `f13e5cd6…` / `532ab633…` / `00bea997…` / `d4e39936…`.
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**Both comparators red where it matters.** The Q33-before collector under the full gate:
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`exit 1, 153 passed, 11 failed` (`q34-gate-q33before.log`, sha256
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`7e53bb46adcdfda5f66c93dd780732fdc89207e5d5073bf56bd5921f3a94f1d5`) — the Q33 nine plus Q34 checks
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3 and 4. The pre-Q33 collector on the four Q34 checks by module import, no subprocess leg:
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**2 passed / 2 failed** (`q34-red-pregate.log`, sha256
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`093f60e587186827a77e7f31247735b2048a8e86540a47485acf6324f95f1571`). Checks 1 and 2 pass
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*vacuously* on both comparators (an absent key satisfies `.get() is None`, and a pointer-less
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citation falls back to the directory) and are reported as vacuous, so the discriminating checks are
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3 and 4 — both red on both comparators.
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**Before/after evidence for the empty profile** (from the gate's own dump, run 7,
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`Q34-NULL-EVIDENCE.txt`, sha256 `c625bc07068c5040d91117d604208152b33f34f0416e96dfc51d326546c3473c`):
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before — `"latest_active_path": null`, `"source_path": "/tmp/tmp5r57iyp4/q34-null/profiles/empty"`;
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after planting `sessions/landed.jsonl` at mtime +60 s — the pointer is that file and
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`source_path` is unchanged. The key is present in the before block; the citation does not move.
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**What moved.** The collector did not: `/root/crucible/q34/helm-collect.py` is byte-identical to
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the Q33 pair's (`4e45021d80395d3f…`, 720 lines). The gate moved **+56/−0**
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(`git diff --no-index --numstat` → `56 0`), 929 → 985 lines, sha256
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`45e53187c01398df7a0edcbf24a08b7d91255eda0cfe93b9cb01e8398f0d7091`. Deployed bin untouched:
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`helm-collect.py` `ee0b36a82f23fcf3…`, `helm-selftest.py` `7ed1bca8f9da624f…`,
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`helm-render.py` `5c67473d89283c3d…`.
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**One incident, logged first and corrected.** The first red leg ran the full gate with
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`HELM_COLLECTOR` pointed at the **pre-Q33** collector — which has no destination gate, Q31's own
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finding — so the gate's bare `--skip-tests` refusal leg executed it and it **wrote the live
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snapshot**: `aa842b0fd88037f8…` → `e4d1ad5293fa58cb…`, 14,039 → 18,524 B, mtime_ns
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`1791479579475780303` → `1791764761933369921` (2026-10-12T00:26:01.933369921Z). Restored byte-exact
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from `/root/crucible/q31/snap-before.json` with the mtime re-stamped (`q34-restore.py`,
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`VERDICT: RESTORED BYTE-EXACT`); post-restore **14,039 B / sha256
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`aa842b0fd88037f83115b4a54d617f27666f4de06ef84f9a64c8fd0a5f04656d` / mtime_ns
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`1791479579475780303`**, and the comparator re-run by import only. Live snapshot **delta 0 across
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every leg after the restore** — seven green runs, the Q33-before comparator and the import-only
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comparator. This is the harness rule the skill already carries (*a negative control must never run
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ungated code against a live default*) walked into anyway; the standing rule is now mechanical in
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## Blocked
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## Next
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Two things, both stated in the deliverable and neither mine to execute:
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1. **§4 adoption, now a three-file ask.** Collector `4e45021d…` unchanged from Q33; selftest
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under the gate that ships with it, so the `cp` into `/root/.helm/bin/` approves
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## Ask
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# The pointer's null case, gated
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**Q34 — collector-side gate. Author: Merlin (`merlin@agents.invalid`). Clock: 2026-10-12T00:24–00:28Z, this host.**
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## The four checks (gate section `# ---- Q34: the pointer's null case ----`, `helm-selftest.py:866-925`)
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| 3 | `Q34: the key is present with value null, not absent (a reader can tell 'no files' from 'field missing')` | PASS | **FAIL** `present=False value=None` | **FAIL** `present=False value=None` |
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| 1 | `q34-gate-run-1.log` | `7f01728d08227755fddb5baa445b75fff9c4bd8e0fb6bf5596fca2fd938ba5bf` |
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| 2 | `q34-gate-run-2.log` | `997b1308242f7fe63ae331f82afbdbde8a822288d61ca54afb9906dfdd0c2205` |
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| 3 | `q34-gate-run-3.log` | `96678a66bb5c8e07d8ebc17ef13ef22c83a75390c8514926ae2b84639a6e6912` |
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| 4 | `q34-gate-run-4.log` | `f13e5cd600579fbc7e6bd06f781f489b59dff96f377433c8156b31d4ffe52317` |
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| 5 | `q34-gate-run-5.log` | `532ab633fb36c5864ff756084e568b8052d348b004e9f57658af86086446bd7f` |
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| 6 | `q34-gate-run-6.log` | `00bea9975b861c39ec9d96fcb5f09faf93aad9aa1e8c8f9266848fa069455c8c` |
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| 7 | `q34-gate-run-7.log` | `d4e39936e52491ef55317915a28ee20a501faf32f3dddd1d75729399f6aea69e` |
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which lists `latest_active_path, newest_checkin_file` as not emitted) plus Q34 checks 3 and 4.
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- **Pre-Q33 collector** (`helm-collect-pregate.py`, **ee0b36a82f23fcf3…**, the deployed
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collector): Q34 checks only, by module import with `PROFILES_DIR` rebound, **no subprocess leg**
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(`q34-red-pregate.py`, output `q34-red-pregate.log`, sha256
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`093f60e587186827a77e7f31247735b2048a8e86540a47485acf6324f95f1571`): **2 passed / 2 failed**,
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the two failures being checks 3 and 4 as tabulated above.
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## Incident, logged first — a bare run of the pre-Q33 collector wrote the live snapshot
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The first red leg ran the full gate with `HELM_COLLECTOR` pointed at the **pre-Q33** collector.
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That collector has **no destination gate** (Q31's finding), so the gate's own bare
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`subprocess.run([sys.executable, COLLECTOR, "--skip-tests"])` leg — the one that asserts a refusal
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— executed the collector, which wrote the live snapshot. Measured:
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`/root/.helm/data/snapshot.json` went `aa842b0fd88037f8…` → `e4d1ad5293fa58cb…`, 14,039 → 18,524 B,
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mtime_ns `1791479579475780303` → `1791764761933369921` (2026-10-12T00:26:01.933369921Z). The run
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also aborted at the argparse `--deploy` error, so it produced no usable comparator.
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Restored byte-exact from `/root/crucible/q31/snap-before.json` (the Q31 pre-run copy, itself
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verified `aa842b0f…` / 14,039 B before the restore): `q34-restore.py` copied the bytes and re-stamped
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`mtime_ns` to `1791479579475780303`. Post-restore: **14,039 B / sha256
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`aa842b0fd88037f83115b4a54d617f27666f4de06ef84f9a64c8fd0a5f04656d` / mtime_ns
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`1791479579475780303`**, `VERDICT: RESTORED BYTE-EXACT`. The pre-Q33 comparator was then re-run by
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module import only. This is the harness incident the skill already warns about — *a negative control
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must never run ungated code against a live default* — and it happened anyway; the standing rule is
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now mechanical in this tree: no `HELM_COLLECTOR` value naming a pre-gate collector is ever passed
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to the full gate.
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**Live snapshot delta 0 across every other leg**, including all seven green invocations, the
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Q33-before comparator and the import-only pre-Q33 comparator: `/root/.helm/data/snapshot.json` reads
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`aa842b0fd88037f8…` / 14,039 B / mtime_ns `1791479579475780303` at every checkpoint after the
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restore.
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## What moved, and what did not
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- **The collector did not move.** `/root/crucible/q34/helm-collect.py` is byte-identical to the Q33
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pair's collector: sha256 `4e45021d80395d3f03fc58d7e99610e3c1c0d2fcf9c85f1db50b16cfd2043c6c`,
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720 lines / 29,954 B. Q34 is a gate-only change, as the item requires — Q33's adoption pair is
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not re-edited under a second item.
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- **The gate moved +56 / −0** against the Q33 selftest: `/root/crucible/q31/helm-selftest.py`
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(929 lines) → `/root/crucible/q34/helm-selftest.py` (**985 lines**, sha256
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`45e53187c01398df7a0edcbf24a08b7d91255eda0cfe93b9cb01e8398f0d7091`).
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`git diff --no-index --numstat` → `56 0`. 160 → 164 checks.
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- **Deployed bin untouched:** `/root/.helm/bin/helm-collect.py` `ee0b36a82f23fcf3…`,
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`helm-selftest.py` `7ed1bca8f9da624f…`, `helm-render.py` `5c67473d89283c3d…`, unchanged.
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- **Consequence for §4, stated:** the adoption ask now approves **three** scratch files, not two —
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collector `4e45021d…` (unchanged from Q33), selftest `4a442f62…` (Q33) **superseded by**
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`45e53187…` (this item). Alexander's decision should be read as covering the pair-plus-gate.
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## Limits
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1. **A live empty profile is still unobserved.** Every profile under
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`/root/.hermes/profiles/` currently has files; the null branch is exercised by the gate's
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fixture, not by production data. Measured non-destructively (Q33's import-based probe, this
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host, 2026-10-11) and now by the gate itself.
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2. **Checks 1 and 2 pass vacuously on both comparators** — they hold for an absent key and for a
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pointer-less citation fallback. The discriminating checks are 3 and 4, and both are red on both
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comparators. Stated so the `2/2` and `2/4` red figures are not read as a weaker gate than they
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are.
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3. **The `latest_active_path: null` value is not schema-constrained.** Q33 measured that the
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schema's `$defs.evidence` has no `additionalProperties: false`; nothing asserts the field's
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type, only its presence and its null-ness in this fixture. Out of Q34's scope.
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4. **Testimony only, not verified this run:** the Q33 suite's own checks above the Q34 section
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(160 of the 164) were not re-derived here; this run measures that the Q34 section is green,
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discriminating, and non-destructive.
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