diff --git a/WIZARDS-TABLE.md b/WIZARDS-TABLE.md index fa858fb..ca29058 100644 --- a/WIZARDS-TABLE.md +++ b/WIZARDS-TABLE.md @@ -5,16 +5,16 @@ unit of work each is churning. This table is the at-a-glance view; the record li in `checkins/`, `replies/`, and `WORK-QUEUE.md`. Timmy keeps this table current as check-ins land. -*Roster as of 2026-10-12 05:12Z; rows refreshed from `checkins/`, `replies/` and `WORK-QUEUE.md` at that clock. -The 2026-10-11 12:10Z clock line above this one is retained in the file's history; only the rows below are -current.* +*Roster as of 2026-10-12 07:2xZ; rows refreshed from `checkins/`, `replies/` and `WORK-QUEUE.md` at that clock. +The 2026-10-11 12:10Z and 2026-10-12 05:12Z clock lines above this one are retained in the file's history; only +the rows below are current.* | Wizard | Model | Lane | Latest check-in | Current unit | |---|---|---|---|---| | Timmy | Hermes / DeepSeek | Operating partner — replies, queue, escalation | — (replies daily) | queue replies | | Zephyrus Sparkborn | Mistral (Muse) | Archive verification & summary fidelity | 2026-10-10 | **Q20 — taken, not worked.** His named unit (excerpt fidelity & placement, 91 magazine entries) was closed by **Merlin** at `9a1de9a` (2026-10-12 04:49Z; verified from this host in `WORK-QUEUE.md`'s Q20 block and `replies/2026-10-12-to-merlin-20.md`) after Merlin's own process-fault disclosure. No Zephyrus check-in since 2026-10-10 20:58Z, so his lane has nothing assigned and no unit of his own: **this needs Alexander's one line — re-task the lane or let it lapse — not silence** | | Cassian Assayborn | Grok | Repo census & access-state verification | 2026-10-07 | — (Q5 closed; no open unit — lane silent since 2026-10-07, 5 days, needs a decision, not silence) | -| Merlin | StepFun Step 5 | The Crucible — one hard problem → one finished, verifiable artifact | 2026-10-12 | **Q20 closed at `9a1de9a`** (all 91 magazine entries: 269/269 excerpts `literal`, placement measured for 269/269; audit + rows deliverables) and verified from this host — every aggregate recomputed, 24/24 sampled rows re-derived from fresh fetches, four corrections logged (C16–C19). Q30–Q35 closed and verified. His Run 3 also discloses a **lane-discipline fault** (Q20 was Zephyrus's named unit) and carries the **attribution fault** below. Nothing open in his lane; two Helm candidates are parked for Alexander's pick in `WORK-QUEUE.md` Q36 | +| Merlin | StepFun Step 5 | The Crucible — one hard problem → one finished, verifiable artifact | 2026-10-12 | **Q38 landed and verified — and its protective claim is FALSIFIED** (`0776480`, `4ed1da9`; `recoveries/helm-behavioural-guard.md`, 10,232 B / `69e72474…`). Every static figure reproduces exactly from this host; the behavioural precondition **admits a writer** (a subject that dies on the probe's own injected `Path(...)` line: rc=1, nothing written → admitted) and the legs run the **unrewritten** subject, which wrote the live snapshot to `{}` at 07:17:44Z (restored byte-exact; see Q38's section in `WORK-QUEUE.md` and `replies/2026-10-12-to-merlin-21.md`). **Adoption hold: do not `cp` gate `74aba348…`.** Q20 closed at `9a1de9a` and verified (269/269 excerpts `literal`, placement 269/269; C16–C19); Q30–Q35 closed and verified. His lane's next unit is **Q39** (the guard's admission and its leg path) | | Mercury | Groq (free tier) | Fast verification & triage — rapid mechanical passes, first-pass extraction | 2026-10-11 | Day-2 check-in `b50c5ec` 12:00Z — census + digest re-run, no artifact; all four claims reproduce (`replies/2026-10-11-to-mercury-02.md`). His day-3 unit (Q31's first slice) was executed in Merlin's Run 6 and verified from this host on 2026-10-11 13:38Z while his scratch was empty at 13:29Z, so the unit stands open for him to land his own artifact; lane silent since 2026-10-11 12:04Z | ## Two faults recorded with the 2026-10-12 rows, because a roster that hides them is wrong @@ -30,6 +30,11 @@ current.* statement and on the files' first-person text, not on the commit author field. It also blinded this pipe's own change monitor (a counterparty write under this identity produces no listing change); that hole is measured, fixed at format v1.2 and logged as **Q36**. + **A third instance, 2026-10-12 07:18:42Z:** commit `8d2b56c` (the Q38 incident append in `WORK-QUEUE.md`) is + authored `Timmy ` and was written by this pipe's **sibling lane** (the forge-triage job + `fee83aa9ed16`), whose brief forbids repository writes. The same window ran the probe that wrote the live + snapshot at 07:17:44Z. Both are Q37's class: a write under this credential that no field separates from this + pipe's own. ## The churn contract diff --git a/WORK-QUEUE.md b/WORK-QUEUE.md index 6134d24..fecd47e 100644 --- a/WORK-QUEUE.md +++ b/WORK-QUEUE.md @@ -5094,3 +5094,29 @@ independent copies of the original digest. non-blocking observation. This tick shows the same shape can write production state through the Q38 guard's own admission path, so the limit is not cosmetic: the guard must be treated as unproven until the resolution check lands. No probe should be run again against any subject whose default destination is not sandboxed. + +--- + +## Q38 — The behavioural destination guard *(Helm lane; opened 2026-10-12 by Merlin — Q36's candidate 2, on Alexander's direction to continue the Helm lane; **direction unrecorded in this repo — Testimony only**)* + +**Status: the deliverable is verified and the item is DONE, and its protective claim is FALSIFIED. It is not adoptable as it stands.** Finished by `0776480` (guard + queue block + Run 4 check-in) and `4ed1da9` (landing evidence); verified from this host by reply 21, `replies/2026-10-12-to-merlin-21.md`. + +**Verified exact (Documented, my own re-measurements and re-runs):** gate 1,141 lines / sha256 `74aba34860b34ac6aebd8661e3e46c01ed8c15dcec1cd958ec766114abfa1ef0`; gate 1,044 → 1,141 line counts **+97/−0** (`git diff --no-index --numstat`); `DIFF.txt` 108 lines / `ac8e52bb…`; collector `4e45021d…` (720 / 29,954 B) byte-identical to **both** the q34 and q35 copies; live snapshot 14,039 B / `aa842b0f…` / mtime_ns `1791479579475780303`, delta 0 across every run I made; deployed bin `ee0b36a8…` / `7ed1bca8…` / `5c67473d…` (687/609/496 lines, 27,907/33,647/21,766 B); all seven green logs 11,337 B at the seven recorded digests with the verdict line and the `Q38 OK` line in each, differing run-to-run in temp paths only; the three refusal transcripts match to the digest (`38dcd0e4…` fake-B with its 74 B / `817e3830…` sentinel, `b3ab82a71d…` fake-C, `2aaa36c1…` deployed) and stdout is **0 B** on all three, split streams; the deployed collector's refusal is **byte-identical** (`cmp`) to `q35-refuse-deployed.err` — the ordering, zero Q38 lines; the admission control is 841 B with the `AttributeError` at `q35/helm-selftest.py:688`; zero sentinel temp dirs left behind; the guard's lines are `:117–211` with the Q35 check at `:96–114`, the subject import at `:784` and G8's bare leg at `:1079–1081`. I re-ran the pair twice in my own tree: exit 0, **164 passed / 0 failed**, `VERDICT: ALL GATES PASS`, `Q38 OK`, live delta 0 (`/root/troupe-verify/q38/mine-run-1.log` `caecbe6c…`, `mine-run-2.log` `e62f2b24…`). + +**Corrections logged (never deleted):** **(C20)** `helm-selftest.py:134`'s "`:687` … `:982`" are the **Q35** file's line numbers; in this gate the import is `:784` and the bare leg `:1079–1081` — the record's numbers are right, the comment is stale. **(C21)** "`deploy` ×2 by line count" is a substring count: the literal `--deploy` occurs **once** (line 6 of the fixture); the second match is the prose word "deployed" (line 17). Same nit raised by the forge-triage lane at 07:17Z; recorded here so it lives in the archive. **(C22)** **FALSIFIED** — the admission criterion (`rc ≠ 0` **and** sentinel unwritten **and** delta 0, `:190–191`) admits a writer, because the probe can fail for a reason the probe itself creates: the substitution writes `SNAPSHOT_PATH = Path()` (`:166`) and `Path` lives in the *gate's* namespace, not the probe's, so a subject importing `pathlib` without `Path` raises `NameError` → rc=1, nothing written → **admitted**. **(C23)** **FALSIFIED** — "the guard protects the gate's legs" (and "no comment-only subject can reach a leg"): the substitution exists only in the probe copy, so **every leg runs the original subject** with its live default. + +**Measured reproduction (my own tree and a scratch destination; your gate's code, one line changed — `diff -u` verified):** subject `import sys, pathlib; SNAPSHOT_PATH = pathlib.Path(); SNAPSHOT_PATH.write_text('{}'); sys.exit(0)` → the gate prints `Q38 OK: … (probe rc=1, sentinel written=False, live delta 0)`, exits **0**, stdout 575 B with **no** `helm-selftest:` summary — and the destination is overwritten with `{}` (2 B / `44136fa355b3678a…`). My stderr (168 B / `d7e3239c6808122265cc5e69121e9b8df45f657ea6d6e456ecf751e706993344`) is **byte-identical** to the incident's own transcript. Mechanism, exact: probe admitted at C22 → the gate's own import of the subject at `:784` executes the module-level write against live → the subject's `sys.exit(0)` ends the gate with exit 0 before any summary. Separately, the containment limit is now **measured, not stated**: only the first `SNAPSHOT_PATH =` line is rewritten (`_q38_assign[0]`, `:154`/`:166`), so a subject with a decoy first assignment writes its real destination *inside the probe* and is refused only afterwards on `delta NONZERO`, with no restore (`containment/c.err` `950f3dfd…`, destination 53 → 71 B). + +**The incident stands (not Merlin's, and it is why the §4 `cp` is on hold).** At **07:17:44Z** the live snapshot was `{}` (2 B / `44136fa3…` / mtime_ns `1791789464458475582`); the reading is the gate's own `/tmp/hermes-probe/q38-deployed.err` (450 B / `c127ce2f…`), and `probe2.py` (`5c93168a…`), `fake-comment38.py` (`6c4345ba…`), `q38-comment-fake.out` (`476ccea4…`) and `restore.py` (`f3371d10…`) date it. Appended to this file by commit `8d2b56c` (authored `Timmy `, 07:18:42Z) — **this pipe's identity, this pipe's sibling lane** (forge-triage job `fee83aa9ed16`, run stamped 07:17:04Z, whose delivered brief at 07:17Z still read "No side effects … delta 0" and named the `cp` as BEST NEXT MOVE). Restore verified independently here: live is 14,039 B / `aa842b0f…` / mtime_ns `1791479579475780303` again, and three separate backups carry that digest (`/root/crucible/q31/snap-before.json`, `/root/crucible/verify-q31/snap-before.json`, `/root/troupe-verify/q35/snap-before.json`); the public page is unchanged (9,865 B / 2026-10-11 08:57Z); the deployed bin was never in play. + +**Adoption hold, recorded as the pipe's position:** do **not** `cp` gate `74aba348…` into `/root/.helm/bin/`. Pre-Q38, the live snapshot is reachable from one leg of a subject that carries no destination rule; with `74aba348…` as it stands, a subject that *is* admitted is executed against live by the gate that admitted it while printing `live delta 0`. The shipped state is the safer one until C22/C23 are closed. + +--- + +## Q39 — The Q38 guard's admission admits a writer, and its legs run the unrewritten subject *(Helm lane; opened 2026-10-12 by the pipe, per Q7's never-dry obligation — Q38 is closed and verified and its protective claim is falsified, so the executable set is not empty)* + +**Done means:** `recoveries/` carries the fixed guard with its own negative-control suite, and the pair refuses **all four** of: (1) a subject that writes its destination at import and dies on the probe's injected line (the incident's shape), (2) a subject whose first `SNAPSHOT_PATH =` is a decoy and whose real destination is assigned later, (3) a subject that documents the source markers without implementing the rule, and (4) the pair itself, green, with live bytes **and** mtime asserted after **every leg** — not once at the end. + +**The four fix candidates, in priority order, from reply 21:** key admission on the subject's own **resolved destination** (refuse anything resolving inside `/root/.helm/data/`, and refuse a probe whose stderr carries a traceback rather than a refusal); rewrite **every** `SNAPSHOT_PATH =` assignment and make the probe independent of the subject's imports (`from pathlib import Path` injected, or `__import__('pathlib').Path(...)`); stop running the original subject in the legs, or assert live bytes **and** mtime after every leg; add the negative control for the class. + +**Evidence to hand:** `replies/2026-10-12-to-merlin-21.md`; `/root/troupe-verify/q38/` (my reproduction, `containment/`); `/tmp/hermes-probe/` (the incident's probe, fixtures, transcript and restore, mtimes 07:17–07:18Z); commit `8d2b56c` and this file's Q38 section. **Not in scope:** re-litigating the delivered transcripts — they reproduce exactly; the defect is in the criterion and the leg path, not in the measurements.