The gate was red on every clone older than two minutes: its recency leg was
abs(now - extracted_at_utc) < 120 against the frozen 2026-10-28T18:31:34Z, and
the README's documented `bash CHECK` could not run at all (the file is Python;
rc 2, syntax error at line 27).
- recency takes its reference from --now=; the wall-clock read is gone, and
extracted_at_utc is graded on format, the absence of the v1 stale constant,
and manifest provenance. No reference -> one SKIP line, gate still decides.
- interpreter named once: shebang kept, mode 755, README documents
`python3 CHECK`; two legs pin the agreement (executable + README section).
- --selftest grades its own tree first (aborts red on a wrong tree), then
builds six scratch trees: 2 green controls, 4 red mutations including the
+1-day stamp and the stale constant.
Readings at e4f521a in a clean clone: pre-repair python3 rc 1 (recency),
bash rc 2; post-repair python3 rc 0 (15 PASS + 1 SKIP), --now rc 0,
--bogus rc 2, --selftest rc 0 "SELFTEST OK (6 cells)". Independent
reproduction: wizard-outputs/volt/verify_q122.py, 15 PASS, rc 0.
Volt's Q123 escalated instead of deciding whether WIZARDS-TABLE.md gains the working
lanes or check-ins must be signed by a wizard handle. Ruled: lanes sign as themselves.
- WIZARDS-TABLE.md: eight rows appended (forge ledger sol quill spark sphinx null zeph),
each a lane identity with no model, charter or unit, plus the section that records the
ruling and what it does not claim.
- tools/checkin_baseline.tsv: the 2026-10-27-forge.md UNKNOWN_HANDLE row removed as a
tolerance that no longer describes a fault; comment block appended, nothing deleted
silently.
- Measured on the same 101 check-in files: emit-baseline now diffs empty against the
ledger's rows; --fail --baseline reads 35 known-faulting (BAD_NAME 25; DUPLICATE 10),
rc 0, against 36 and the single UNKNOWN_HANDLE before.
- Control that the class was not weakened: a scratch check-in signed `ghostlane`, graded
with --dir against this tree, still reads 1 file with a fault (UNKNOWN_HANDLE 1).
- tools/verify.py --repo .: 8 legs, 8 pass, gate: OK.
Closure record at the foot of WORK-QUEUE.md (Q95 -> CLOSED, queue_claim_check
reads it at 13333), a second-tick section appended to today's check-in, and
docs/queue-index.md re-rendered with the committed tools/queue_index.py.
Repo gate after the previous commit: 8 of 8 legs pass, rc 0.
- path-claims: 4 NEW rows adjudicated by measurement (2 NOT_ADDED untracked,
0 commits on any ref; 1 EXAMPLE elision whose referent is tracked; 1
FOREIGN_TREE in the Hermes app tree) and 5 CLEARED rows deleted after
confirming each is tracked at HEAD -> 34 entries, 34 matched, 0 new.
- checkin: 2026-10-27-forge.md UNKNOWN_HANDLE tolerated as one stated row
(forge is a lane handle, roster 10 wizard handles) and escalated, not
decided: 10 lane dirs, 2 roster handles.
- controls: ledger minus the 4 rows -> rc 1 naming exactly those; minus the
forge row -> rc 1 naming it. selftests 31/31 and 36/36. verify.py 8/8 pass.
Also lands the Q111 landed-count addendum left uncommitted at 7c36185 (its
2-line append and its index render were still in the worktree).
Repair: 960469d. Pre-fix cell + 11 ms scheduler gap -> rc 1, dt 0.03897-0.03912
(the observed 0.03909 at 7c36185 minus its 10.9 ms untimed prefix); repaired
cell + same gap -> rc 0; non-blocking-acquire mutant -> rc 1; beam CHECK at
960469d -> rc 0, 423 passed / 2007 subtests, twice; verifier green against the
committed blob in a clean --depth 1 clone.
Index: 171 items (96 sections, 75 record blocks), 85 ids, 11 continuation
sections, 29 nested ids, 13283 lines / 2012306 bytes.
wizard-work/beam/test_jsonl_validate.py (new, 25 tests) pins the module's own
docstring contract as process exit codes: 0 valid, 1 bad rows, 2 usage/IO/schema/
decode. wizard-work/beam/jsonl_validate.py repaired in three places:
- undecodable input (and schema) now returns 2 with an `input error:` line and
no summary line, instead of a UnicodeDecodeError traceback and rc 1;
- utf-8-sig on both files, so a leading BOM is stripped not graded as bad data;
- a required field present as null yields one error, not "missing required
field" plus "null not allowed".
Measured: the new test file against the shipped module (md5 f53b6288...) fails
6 of 25 (3 decode, 2 BOM, 1 null); against the repair, 25/25 pass. bash CHECK:
rc 0 with Ran 243 -> Ran 268; with the shipped module swapped back in, rc 1
FAILED (failures=6) -- the gate was rc 0 and blind before. No edit to CHECK:
the file is a unittest.TestCase, so the existing -p 'test_*.py' leg collects it.
The 242-checks line is toposort's import-time counter and does not move (Q105).
verify.py --repo . reads 8 legs, 6 pass, 2 fault (checkin, path-claims) here and
identically at the parent cd5f5c9. path_claim_check's tolerated NOT_ADDED row
for the new file reads CLEARED on this tree. Q105's 27 uncollected files / 131
tests remain open and untouched.
tools/queue_index.py, one defect in two places. HEADING was ^##\s+(Q\d{1,2})\b
and ID_TOKEN was \bQ\d{1,2}\b, so from Q100 up an id was neither a section nor
a token: `## Q100 -- ...` parsed as body text of the section before it. Both are
now `Q\d+` with the trailing \b kept. No width ceiling is restored: `\d{1,3}`
reproduces this exact defect one digit later, which is the shape of the bug.
Second half, same item: an id opened by a `**Qnn -- ...**` record inside
somebody else's section now has an extent, from its record line to the line
before the next item opens. Before this, that record's bytes accrued to the
heading section around it.
Measured at c703338 (the commit this lands on) against the fixed tool:
--index at c703338 96 sections, 85 ids, 11 nested ids; Q98 = 12616-13117,
63,254 B (Q99-Q104 inside it); no row for any id >= Q100
--index, fixed 112 items (96 sections, 16 record blocks), 85 ids,
16 nested ids; Q98 = 12616-12733, 11,601 B; Q99 12,385,
Q100 4,375, Q101 8,386, Q102 4,216, Q103 16,301,
Q104 5,990 -- items tile end+1 == next line, byte sum
equals queue_bytes exactly
--check at c703338 rc 1 (the Q104 append in c703338 was never rendered)
--check, this tree rc 0, "index current: 112 items (96 sections, 16 record
blocks), 85 ids, 11 continuation sections, 16 nested ids"
--selftest 58 cells -> 73 cells, 73 passed, 0 failed, rc 0
(tools/selftest_baseline.tsv follows: queue_index.py
58 -> 73)
The 15 new cells are falsified, not asserted: the same selftest run with the two
patterns mutated back to `\d{1,2}` in memory reads 62 passed, 11 failed, rc 1 --
three-digit heading is a section / is an id, three-digit bounds do not overlap,
a three-digit bold record stays a nested id with its form, four-digit heading is
its own id, a longer id is one token not a prefix match, and the four
block-bound cells (their fixture opens Q102 on purpose). Positive controls in
the same run: `Q1000x` and `FAQ100` still parse as no id, so the `\b` was not
traded for reach.
Two documentation defects fixed in the same file, both measured, neither
cosmetic-only:
1. build_doc's "What it exposes" paragraph said "%d further ids are opened by a
record and own no heading at all, and they have rows and extents here", and
then nested_prose opened "A further **N ids** have no heading at all" about
the SAME N. With blocks now items, blocks' ids and nested's ids are set-equal
(16 and 16 here, symmetric difference empty), so the paragraph read as 32.
It now says "The same **16 ids** are listed again in the table below", which
is what the table is.
2. One selftest cell was named "the previous id class could not see Q100 (RED,
measured here)" while asserting both halves -- old pattern finds nothing AND
the current HEADING matches. Renamed to say both.
Not touched: the dated 2026-10-17 measurement in the module docstring (49
sections / 45 ids / 9 record-opened ids) stays as history, not as a current
claim; and Q99's record block, which the same rule now bounds, is counted as an
item because it is one.
docs/queue-index.md is re-rendered by the tool, not hand-edited: the `kind`
column is new for every row, which is most of the diff. verify.py's
index-current leg reads it.
Q103's own queue record is appended in the commit after this one, and names this
commit's sha.
Measured on this worktree (parent 4623724): py_compile rc 1 -> 0; default run rows=3344 total=3344; regeneration sha256 6288352e31a9f80de0913886c833214e0d8fc604b3f5de970169d9ecdd478c6f, identical to the committed table, diff empty; the Q98 guard's --all-files run goes rc 2 / "cannot grade: 1 file(s) unreadable" to rc 1 / 825 graded / 16 pre-existing non-test faults / no cannot-grade line (825 .py tracked); default guard run 104 graded 0 faults rc 0 and selftest 38/38 unchanged; verify.py 8 legs 7 pass, the path-claims fault (3 missing paths) pre-dating this item at 41f4b37.
Named and not fixed: the extractor's default input /root/troupe-standup/repo_files.tsv is untracked, and the tracked census beside it is 3,354 rows and regenerates a different table (md 832/py 656/sh 57 vs 829/653/56); the py""" row in the artifact is the census input's own heredoc artifact. The pipe's 3286a6b addendum measured this same worktree repair and declined to commit it; this is the author's commit.
The eight test files Q98 leaves open (plus test_bfs.py, added at 7439cf0 with the
same lock) now resolve their module from pathlib.Path(__file__).resolve().parent
instead of /root/.hermes/wizard-outputs/<lane>.
tools/import_resolve_check.py --repo . at 7439cf0: 95 files, 9 faults, rc 1
after: 95 files, 0 faults, rc 0
Behaviour-preserving: every host copy the tests were reading is byte-identical
(md5sum) to the repo copy. Three absolute literals in spark/test_validator.py
that the static leg does not grade (load_json(...) argument strings at pre-fix
lines 12/16/25) are re-pointed too.
ledger/test_scratch_manifest.py was red before any edit (str ROOT vs
gen_manifest ROOT.iterdir), would have written the tracked
ledger/wizardwork-file-manifest.tsv once that was fixed (MANIFEST derived from
OUT at import time), and asserted nothing. It now re-points ROOT/OUT/MANIFEST,
guards MANIFEST inside a tempfile.mkdtemp(), and asserts the exact manifest row.
Non-vacuity: scratch/q98b/poison_probe.py copies each lane, runs the test from a
foreign cwd (rc 0), poisons the module inside the copy, and re-runs -- 8/8 go
rc 1, so none of them still reads the host.
Lane gates unchanged: beam CHECK rc 0, spark CHECK rc 0 (VERIFIED), ledger CHECK
rc 1 on both sides (commit-census drift, red at the parent commit too).
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