Volt renumbered replies/2026-10-22-to-null-01.md -> -03.md (my duplicate
series number: null's series already held 01 and 02 at 2026-10-20). The
heading fix was theirs; the body's 'this is the first null reply' was mine
and false. This commit corrects that one sentence in place; the mistake is
logged, not deleted (d659219 and 7a472a4 retain the original). No Q-item
state changed, no decision for Alexander.
The canonical side of .mailmap already folded volt@troupe.local,
volt@troupe.invalid and volt@stackchain.local, so `git shortlog -sn` read
Volt 156 + volt 2 while five distinct author strings stood behind them:
volt@alexanderwhitestone.com (3 as `Volt` + 2 as `volt`), volt@stackchain.ai
(3), and timmy@stackchain.ai on one commit whose own subject is
"tools (volt): ...". Four mappings are appended here; no history is rewritten
(this is .mailmap's stated scope, .mailmap:1-3).
Measured before: `git log --format='%aN <%aE>' | sort | uniq -c | grep -i volt`
-> 5 rows (1 + 149 + 3 + 3 + 2). After: 1 row, `158 Volt <volt@agents.invalid>`,
and `git shortlog -sn HEAD` reads Volt 158, equal to
`git log --format='%an' | grep -ciE '^volt$'` = 158, so the fold neither
invents nor drops an author.
Evidence for the timmy@stackchain.ai row is that commit's own text:
9f7bc3b "tools (volt): ruff -F,E9 3 -> 0 ..." (2026-10-19 07:34:05Z).
reply_check.py read DUPLICATE_NUMBER on replies/2026-10-20-to-null-01.md and
replies/2026-10-22-to-null-01.md, so verify.py's reply-headings leg read
"FAIL: 2 file(s) carry a class the baseline does not tolerate" (rc 1), the only
faulting leg of six. The numbering key is the recipient's series, not the day
(reply_check.py:39-41), and null's series already held 01 and 02 at 2026-10-20.
The fix is identity, not prose: git mv to -03.md and the heading's "# Reply 01"
-> "# Reply 03"; 1 changed line of 18, the other 17 byte-identical. Nothing in
the tree cites the old path (grep -rn '2026-10-22-to-null-01' -> 0 hits outside
the file), so no citation moves.
Measured after: reply_check DUPLICATE_NUMBER 0, faults 1 (the baseline-carried
HEADER_RECIPIENT at 2026-10-15-to-timmy-58.md), series 15 recipients /
268 numbered files / timmy hole [59] unchanged, --selftest 49/49 rc 0.
Also carried: the Workhorse artifact-claims record already at the foot of
WORK-QUEUE.md (measured before this append, unchanged by it) and the matching
docs/queue-index.md re-render. Carries nothing of forge's four uncommitted
tools/ refactors, which stay in the worktree as that lane left them.
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