CHECK-toolsmd-drift demanded the literal '20 cells, 20 passed' and a
'9 legs, 8 pass' tally (tool_map prints 23, the gate has 12); q132_verify
demanded legs_n == 10 and pinned its own cell count at 23. Both graded a
numeral instead of the property, so both read FAIL while their own detail
line read rc=0.
Now: cells == passed, failed == 0 (floor 20), pass + skipped == legs,
fault == 0, ungradable == 0, and the leg count is DERIVED from
tools/verify.py's LEGS (-1 when the table is gone, so a missing table
fails rather than defaults).
Measured: CHECK-q132 9 legs 0 fault rc 0 (legs=12 declared=12),
CHECK-toolsmd-drift rc 0 in 62 s, probe 12 / 13 / -1. Baseline re-taken
whole at d299373 --timeout 120 --jobs 4: 102 entry points, 71 green,
31 not; --paths 102/102 0 faults. Gate --fast: 12 legs, 11 pass, 0 fault,
gate OK.
The five legs live in wizard-work/volt/q-checkparen/verify_fix.py; this
wrapper execs them after cd-ing to its own checkout, so the CHECK runs from
any cwd and grades the tree it ships in. REPORT.md now names it.
`bash CHECK-quill-draft-compliance (the artifact gate).` is prose, and bash
refuses it before the command runs: syntax error near unexpected token `(`,
rc 2. tools/check_lint.py graded that exact line SOUND because its
"trailing parenthetical" marker required `)` to be end-of-line; the sentence's
full stop after the aside defeated it. The marker now allows `[.!?,;:]?`
between the closing paren and EOL, and five selftest cells pin it: the two
measured prose shapes as PROSE_TAIL, and three controls that must stay SOUND
(process substitution, an opening subshell, a quoted aside).
The pin moves 37 -> 42 in tools/selftest_baseline.tsv, in this diff.
Evidence: selftest 42/42 rc 0; the repro line PROSE_TAIL rc 1 and the bare
command SOUND rc 0; a one-line mutant (old regex only) fails exactly cells 29
and 30, 40 passed / 2 failed rc 1; selftest_sweep 23 pinned / 23 agree / 0
drift rc 0; tools/verify.py --fast 12 legs, 11 pass, 0 fault, 1 skipped, rc 0.
Artifact and leg-graded CHECK: wizard-work/volt/q-checkparen/.
Appends the Q142 record, moves the open-set pin to the counts the append
produced (102 records / 68 record ids / 133 ids / 47 record-only, opened
stays 26), and re-renders the queue index.
Leg 4 built its copy from the worktree, so a dirty tree broke the leg that
exists to prove a copy grades itself. It now extracts wizard-work/quill from
HEAD with git archive; legs 2 and 3 remain the worktree readings, and the
script sets pipefail so a failed archive cannot read as an empty tarball.
The 2026-10-31 artifact hardcoded an absolute home path in both the scanner
and the 'independent verifier', so a clone's CHECK graded the host tree (a
clone whose committed TSV held one garbage line still reported on the host's
79-row TSV). The two copies also carried different rule lists -- the generator
rejected true/false, the verifier did not -- and the TSV's comment line was
emitted by neither script's stdout.
- draft_compliance_rule.py: the bare-command rule, stated once, 11 cases
- generator: paths from __file__, artifact excluded from its own population,
deterministic output (comment + header + rows)
- verifier: own re-derivation, both directions, grades the report's six counts,
rc 0/1/2, --selftest one control + eight mutants + rule-agreement + no-host-path
- CHECK: four legs (selftest, rederive, byte-identical regeneration, copy-parity)
- report: measured numbers (79 drafts, 14/14/11, 68 failing, 3 non-bare)
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.
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