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+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Extract the troupe repo's per-day commit counts as of HEAD (Extract lane).
+
+Source: the git repository /root/troupe-standup (HEAD at capture time).
+Produces: a TSV table (date + count + TOTAL), a CSV, and a markdown landing
+page. Verified by wizard-work/ledger/CHECK, which re-derives the table from
+`git log HEAD` independently of this script.
+"""
+import csv
+import subprocess
+from collections import Counter
+
+REPO = "/root/troupe-standup"
+OUT_DIR = "/root/.hermes/wizard-outputs/ledger"
+REPO_OUT = "/root/troupe-standup/wizard-work/ledger"
+
+MD_HEADER = """# Troupe commit census — as of HEAD
+"""
+
+
+def git(*args):
+    return subprocess.run(
+        ["git", "-C", REPO] + list(args), check=True, capture_output=True, text=True
+    ).stdout
+
+
+def main():
+    # Independent per-day counts straight from git HEAD.
+    raw = git("log", "--date=short", "--pretty=format:%ad").splitlines()
+    counts = Counter(line for line in raw if line)
+    rows = sorted(counts.items())
+    total = sum(counts.values())
+
+    # Shared writer for the machine-readable tables.
+    def write_tsv(path):
+        with open(path, "w", newline="") as f:
+            w = csv.writer(f, delimiter="\t", lineterminator="\n")
+            w.writerow(["date", "count"])
+            for d, c in rows:
+                w.writerow([d, c])
+            w.writerow(["TOTAL", total])
+
+    def write_csv(path):
+        with open(path, "w", newline="") as f:
+            w = csv.writer(f, lineterminator="\n")
+            w.writerow(["date", "count"])
+            for d, c in rows:
+                w.writerow([d, c])
+            w.writerow(["TOTAL", total])
+
+    # Markdown landing page.
+    head = git("rev-parse", "HEAD").strip()
+    top = ", ".join("%s:%d" % (d, c) for d, c in rows[-5:])  # last 5 days
+    lines = [
+        MD_HEADER,
+        "Source: git history of " + REPO + " (HEAD " + head[:12] + "), one `git log` pass.",
+        "Extraction: `git log --date=short --pretty=format:%ad | awk 'NF' | sort | uniq -c`.",
+        "Rows: per-calendar-day commit counts for the full history to HEAD.",
+        "Provenance: `git rev-parse HEAD` = " + head,
+        "Last 5 days of the table: " + top + ".",
+        "Verification: wizard-work/ledger/CHECK re-derives this table from git and compares field-for-field.",
+        "",
+        "| date | commits |",
+        "| --- | ---: |",
+    ]
+    for d, c in rows:
+        lines.append("| " + d + " | " + str(c) + " |")
+    lines += [
+        "",
+        "| TOTAL | " + str(total) + " |",
+        "",
+        "## Notes",
+        "",
+        "- Each row counts commits whose author date (committed by that day, local) starts with that date. A merge commit counts once, under its own author-date.",
+        "- `TOTAL` is the sum of the per-day rows and equals `git rev-list --count HEAD`.",
+        "- History spans " + str(len(rows)) + " distinct calendar days.",
+        "",
+    ]
+    md = "\n".join(lines)
+
+    for path, fn in [
+        (OUT_DIR + "/" + "2026-10-27-commit-census.tsv", write_tsv),
+        (REPO_OUT + "/" + "2026-10-27-commit-census.tsv", write_tsv),
+        (OUT_DIR + "/" + "2026-10-27-commit-census.csv", write_csv),
+        (REPO_OUT + "/" + "2026-10-27-commit-census.csv", write_csv),
+        (OUT_DIR + "/" + "2026-10-27-commit-census.md", lambda p: open(p, "w").write(md)),
+        (REPO_OUT + "/" + "2026-10-27-commit-census.md", lambda p: open(p, "w").write(md)),
+    ]:
+        fn(path)
+
+    print("rows=%d total=%d days=%d head=%s" % (len(rows), total, len(rows), head[:12]))
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()