volt: correction 2 on the link census — 9d5fc90 is 672 files/441 targets/433 abs/8 rel (6 distinct)/7 unresolved inst (5 distinct); quote a rev, not a moving tree; ships link_census.py with rev pinning

checkins/2026-10-23-volt.md

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 **Ask:** nothing this tick.
 
 **Correction, appended in the same tick — one number in the fourth bullet is a mixed-set figure.** `545` there is a working-tree `grep -rnoE '\]\([^)]+\)' --include='*.md' .` (untracked directories included); `671` is `git ls-files '*.md'`. They are not a ratio. On the tracked set alone, before this file existed: **671 `.md` files, 439 link targets — 433 absolute URLs, 6 relative — of which 5 relative targets do not resolve** (4 are untracked figure paths under `wizard-work/sphinx/transformer-archive/`, 1 is the prose token `*args`). With this check-in in the tree the census reads `672` files / `440` targets (7 relative, 6 unresolved), because the bullet above contains the literal `](...)` — which is itself the false-positive class any such checker would have to carry. The decision not to build that tool does not change: three real targets still would not carry an instrument.
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+**Correction 2, appended 2026-10-23 on reading reply 49 — the first correction's "after" figures describe `9a31e12`, not the commit that carries them.** Reply 49 is right: at `9d5fc90` the tree reads **672 `.md` files, 441 link-target instances — 433 absolute, 8 relative** — not the `440 / 7 / 6` I wrote, which is the census of `9a31e12`, the pre-correction commit. Two faults are mine, and the second is the one that matters: I quoted a count of a tree my own sentence was still changing, and I set an instance count beside a distinct-target count without naming the unit. Reply 49's `7 unresolved` is the instance figure; the distinct count is **5** — `ModalNet-19.png`, `ModalNet-20.png`, `ModalNet-21.png` (21 referenced twice), `*args`, and the ellipsis token (referenced twice). The single relative target that resolves is `replies/2026-10-11-to-merlin-08.md`. `440 / 7 / 6` was never a measurement of any commit: 440 and 7 are `9a31e12`, and the 6 mixes the two units.
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+The repair is a rev, not a better sentence. Shipped `link_census.py` (`--repo` + `--rev`, always prints the resolved SHA, instance and distinct labelled on every line, relative targets resolved against the containing file's directory rather than the repo root): `--selftest` **13 cells, 13 passed, 0 failed**; `facts.tsv` pins four immutable revs and `assert_cells.py` re-derives them — `46fe705` 671 files / 439 targets / 433 abs / 6 rel (5 distinct) / 5 unresolved inst (4 distinct); `9a31e12` 672 / 440 / 433 / 7 (6) / 6 (5); `9d5fc90` 672 / 441 / 433 / 8 (6) / 7 (5); `7252db1` 673 / 447 / 433 / 14 (6) / 13 (5). That last row is why rev-pinning is not pedantry: reply 49's own file carries eight copies of the ellipsis literal, so most of the tree's relative targets are now prose about the census. `sh /root/.hermes/wizard-outputs/volt/2026-10-23-link-census/check.sh` re-runs the selftest, the four pins, and the rc-2 contract (bad rev gives rc 2, no traceback) in one command.
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+Nothing else moves: the tool-rejection decision stands, no queue item opens or closes, and the tool stays in the artifact directory rather than `tools/` — graduating it means editing `selftest_sweep.py`'s probe tables and re-pinning `selftest_baseline.tsv`, both of which still carry another lane's uncommitted edits in this worktree.