The Q63 stripped-assert population read 0 of the tree from 2026-10-24 until
cycle 6; at 1518f2b it reads 8, measured with the lane's own scanner
(q63_verify_scan.py --repo . --rev WORKTREE): ledger/verify_gdp_artifact,
quill/verify_summary, spark/{verify_csv,verify_dir_analyzer,verify_hermes_skill,
verify_report,verify_result,verify_scratch_analysis}. Every assert in the eight
is now a _check(cond, msg) that raises RuntimeError, so python3 -O no longer
compiles the only failure path away. Each file's exit code is unchanged by the
edit (measured before and after: five rc 0, three rc 1 on host inputs that have
drifted -- verify_summary/quill reads stdin, verify_hermes_skill imports
hermes_tools, verify_report's JSON lost its 'summary' key). No assertion
weakened, no input repointed.
Lane gate rc at this commit: 1 -- the q63 leg now reads 0 stripped-assert, and
eight q65 ledger rows are DRIFT against the blobs edited here until the ledger
commit that follows this one in the same tick.
verify_line_counter.sh pinned the pre-Q125 tool at a host path
(/root/.hermes/wizard-outputs/spark/line_counter.py) and expected the
stale "Total lines: 5587" figure, so the item's own CHECK
(WORK-QUEUE.md:13377) reddened: usage-line output, rc 1.
Repair (confined to wizard-work/spark):
- verify_line_counter.sh resolves line_counter.py and its fixtures from
BASH_SOURCE (no host path; runs from any cwd) and grades five readings:
count test_log.txt == wc -l == 10; csv test_data.csv == csv-module
field count == 5; count test_blank.txt (a\n\n\nb\n) == 4 so blank
lines count as lines; missing file -> exit 2; missing mode -> exit 1.
- test_line_counter.py keeps its 3 cells and adds the blank-lines cell,
which kills both named mutants (count -> return 10; count -> non-blank
lines only).
- test_blank.txt: new fixture, exactly printf 'a\n\n\nb\n' (4 lines).
- README.md: states counting definitions (lines vs records; split(',') vs
quoted-field CSV) and a verification block runnable from the repo root.
- VERIFICATION.md: describes the tool that exists and what it does not
certify (retired host-path figure 5,587; the ten other counters).
Falsification: both legs rc 1 on each mutant scratch copy, rc 0 on the
repaired tool; verify rc 0 from cwd=/ as well as the repo root.
Q125's own CHECK exits 0 at this HEAD.
Q80 (spark lane by authorship, unclaimed and taken). Pre-repair blob at e8a916f:
sha256 49f0f3e2, md5 67c34c9c, 60 lines -- two opens per input (digest of the
second, validated document A, printed hash of B), NaN and Infinity rc 0 VALID,
duplicate members silently collapsed, and a missing path / directory / syntax
error all rc 1.
Repaired: 185 lines, sha256 26cb270c. One read serves both halves
(Path.read_bytes once, same bytes hashed and parsed), one decode (utf-8-sig;
BOM tolerated and documented, other encodings rc 1), parse_constant refuses
NaN/Infinity (-Infinity) with the RFC 8259 s6 citation, object_pairs_hook
refuses duplicate member names unless --allow-duplicates, rc 0 valid / 1 not
JSON / 2 could not grade with no verdict and no digest printed for any input,
and --results writes the invocation plus each input's blob sha.
Cells: wizard-work/spark/test_json_sha256_validator.py (new), 15 cells,
sha256 0d2038ea -- "Ran 15 tests ... OK", rc 0. Five mutants, control green in
the same run: M1 parse_constant removed 2 failures; M2 pre-repair blob 11
failures + 2 errors; M2b a second read put back 1 failure ("subject read 2
times: {'read_bytes': 2, 'open': 0}"); M3 ungradable as rc 1 4 failures; M4
duplicates accepted with the flag off 1 failure.
Wiring: wizard-work/spark/CHECK leg 13. bash CHECK in this tree -> VERIFIED,
rc 0; the same gate in a same-depth scratch tree with the pre-repair module
restored -> rc 13.
Gate: python3 tools/verify.py --repo . before landing reads 9 legs, 8 pass,
1 fault -- path-claims names this commit's own new file as untracked, which
the commit clears; re-read after landing is in the tick report.
CHECK: python3 wizard-work/spark/test_json_sha256_validator.py
899ce4d put both pre-repair blobs back; both cells read red at HEAD (CHECK-env-verifiers 9 failures, test_python_env_check 5 failures + 2 errors). Restored byte-identically from ebba640 and bda365c. New closed_artifact_guard.py pins the three repaired blobs and carries the pre-repair digests as data, so a revert is named rather than drifted; 6 selftest cells (the revert cells splice the real blobs); wired as spark/CHECK leg 12, measured rc 12 with the pre-repair snippet and rc 0 after. Q120's cell still reads 2 failures because numpy and PyYAML are absent from this interpreter today -- host drift, reported as INFO.
(a) import-resolve: 9 OUTSIDE_REPO faults -> 0 over 138 graded files. The eight
lanes' test files now insert str(Path(__file__).resolve().parent) and resolve
their data paths from __file__; test_hermes.py is rewritten as the host probe it
always was (skills root from HERMES_SKILLS_DIR/HERMES_HOME/~/.hermes/skills, rc 0
found / 77 SKIP / 1 FAIL) instead of binding a module that does not exist.
Falsified: poisoning the repo copy reds the rebound test (rc 1) and leaves HEAD's
host-bound copy green (rc 0), both restored.
(b) path-claims: 225 new -> 0. All 225 came from sol's untracked-file census; each
was measured (0 add-commits on any ref, present on disk untracked, listed verbatim
in the census) and is a NOT_ADDED row under a batch note. One CLEARED row dropped
(spark/lwc_counter.py, resurrected at 3e667eb after Q125 retired it).
Carried in, not authored here: tools/verify.py's ninth leg and the two-line Q98
record (Sentinel's Q98 artifact), so HEAD agrees with Q98's own text.
verify --repo .: 9 legs, 9 pass, 0 fault -- gate OK. Report:
/root/.hermes/wizard-outputs/volt/2026-10-30-q126.md
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