Also logs my own two errors: naming an untracked document in reply 52 and leaving it unowned,
and six commits of mine carrying Volt's identity because every lane commits from one worktree
with one .git/config -- author name on this branch is not evidence of authorship. My own doc
now committed (1fd3aca); the ledger row reads CLEARED and stays Volt's to retire.
The document was written to the worktree on 2026-10-20 and never committed, so the ledger
carried docs/deepseek-cost-routing.md as NOT_ADDED (54961d4) and --fail-on-missing returned
rc 0 at a head where the path resolved in no ref. A live deliverable of a present lane is not
a row to tolerate: it is a file to commit. This commits it, appended with a verification
section that grades what holds and what does not -- the arithmetic reproduces from the quoted
fields (Documented), the DeepSeek direct rates reproduce from three independent secondary
sources (Corroborated), the primary rate card is Unrecovered because no fetch backend here can
read it, and the OpenRouter billed field is one live response never re-fetched (Testimony
only). The routing conclusion is unchanged and implies no new gate.
Volt's ledger row is not edited here; the tool now reports it CLEARED, which is his to retire.
The ledger attach loop already visits every MISSING row, and the old return
statement then re-walked missing.values() three more times to recover matched,
new and tolerated. Those three tallies are now accumulated in the attach pass
itself: known and new are exact complements within one row, and matched /
tolerated are read from the record just written. Four traversals of the row
set become one.
Output is unchanged, and that is measured rather than asserted. Against
54961d4's copy of the same tool, twelve invocations over the live worktree are
byte-identical in stdout, stderr, exit code and --json payload: default,
--json, --only missing|docrel|external, --context, --fail-on-missing, an empty
ledger (the `new` list, all 14 counted), the same graded (rc 1, not 0 and not
2), a ledger row naming a class outside the closed set (rc 2), a truncated
ledger (matched/tolerated/dead at once), and a non-HEAD --rev. Selftest is
31/31 on both copies.
No speed claim: five timed runs put HEAD at 6.94/6.92s median and this at
6.70/6.90s -- inside the noise, because the 1598-path filesystem scan dominates
the row walk. The change buys passes, not milliseconds.
manifest_audit.py shipped into tools/ at 25e1cd6 with an unguarded --json
write, so write_probe.py graded it NO_PROBE and verify.py's write-axis leg
read FAULT (rc 1) on every run.
- tools/manifest_audit.py: wrap the --json write; an unwritable target now
prints one line naming the path and returns 2 (house contract: rc 2 outranks
the 0/1 the audit earned). Success path unchanged -- measured over docs/:
rc 0, payload keys cleared,new,no_manifest,root,rows, rows 0.
- tools/write_probe.py: WRITE_PROBES row (--root {tinyrepo} --json {target}).
Bracket, measured: same row run against HEAD's unguarded blob in a detach
worktree -> FAULT manifest_audit.py TRACEBACK rc 1 (FileNotFoundError);
against this tree -> json OK rc 2, naming the target. write_probe --selftest
15/15, manifest_audit --selftest 17/17, verify.py --repo . 8/8 legs pass,
selftest-sweep pin 22 pinned / 22 agree.
The artifact built on 2026-10-23 (wizard-outputs/volt/2026-10-23-manifests)
stayed out of tools/ only because this worktree carried another lane's edits to
selftest_baseline.tsv. tools/ is clean at HEAD, so it graduates.
- tools/manifest_audit.py: byte-identical logic to the artifact (sha256
7e495ada...), docstring adapted -- the spelled-out "Nineteen directories"
census claim is gone (a docstring count is a claim with no witness), and a
section states why it is in no verify.py leg: it grades --root, an artifact
tree, so a fixed leg would report a machine-local path as a repo verdict.
- selftest_sweep.py: 3 probe rows. read-refusal --root missing -> rc 2;
malformed not-a-dir -> rc 2; malformed junk-manifest -> rc 1 EMPTY, which is
the probe that matters: it proves a manifest claiming nothing is GRADED, not
passed silently. New {junkmanifest} fixture (a root whose files.sha256 parses
as no entry) + its legend line.
- selftest_baseline.tsv: one added row, manifest_audit.py 17 cells.
- docs/TOOLS.md: re-rendered (21 -> 22 tools; probes 1 / 0 / 2).
Measured: sweep 27/27 read-refusal, 26/26 malformed, pin 22 pinned 22 agree 0
drift, rc 0; selftest_sweep --selftest 39/39; doc-commands 70 over 20 oracles
OK 70; verify --fast 8 legs, 7 pass, 0 fault, rc 0.
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