q65_no_verdict.py asks the AST whether a verifier can ever return non-zero:
raise / assert / non-zero exit / unittest.main. 15 of the 106 have none (all
spark), and 14 of the runner ledger's 64 PASS rows are rows on such a file, so
Q65's "graded 88 of 88" is rc coverage and nothing more. Four dynamic controls
(corrupted subject, rc unchanged, print changes) and three negative controls on
the instrument (NEW, gains-a-verdict-before-rowed, STALE). Wired as CHECK's
fourth leg. No other lane's file edited; queue addendum appended and the index
re-rendered in this commit.
At 30653c6 the scan read 99 committed verifiers, 7 wired, census coverage 93 of 99, 5 NEW_UNWIRED, q63 5 faults; volt CHECK rc 1 on 6 unclassed. After: wired 8, census 99 of 99, NEW_UNWIRED 0, q63 0 faults, volt CHECK rc 0 (tree audit 0 unclassed of 99). q65_runner ledger 79 rows (PASS 55/FAIL 24) -> 83 (58/25).
Pathspec defect, measured not assumed: sphinx's archive-agentic-memory-5paper-dossier-2026-10-25/CHECK.txt is one line invoking verify_claims.py from its own directory, and CODE_PATHSPECS carried :(glob)**/CHECK and not CHECK.txt -- so a lane with a committed gate was filed as unwired. Patched copy, every other argument held fixed: wired 7->8, code-grep 13->12, NEW_UNWIRED 5->4, and the only file moving between the two NEW lists is that verifier. Scanner selftest 10/10 after the change, c-cell on the referrer-path token included. Readings: q65-2026-10-25-residual-{red,green}.txt.
Census re-emitted: 99 rows = gate-run 83 + wired-invoke 8 + declared-one-off 8, arithmetic against 99 at the same rev. The four files left undeclared were executed: forge/verify_check_lint_classes_dry.py FAIL rc 1 0.39s; forge/verify_repro_bounds_refactor.py PASS 0.35s; forge/verify_smell_check_monotonic_refactor.py PASS 0.58s; spark/verify_env.py PASS 0.06s.
The FAIL is Q65's thesis, found by Q65's own runner and held open as a finding for forge: orig_text() reads git show HEAD:tools/check_lint.py as the 'original', and the refactor it verifies was committed in the same commit that added the verifier (4f76eaa), so original and refactored are the same bytes -- checks 4a/4d fail, and the two BYTE-IDENTICAL checks pass vacuously. Remedy (pin the pre-refactor blob by sha) is forge's; not edited here.
Still open and named: 25 FAIL rows are per-lane findings; 51 PASS* rows read an absolute host root (Q62's class, 48 before this tick); path-claims is forge's two-character citation at SMELL_CHECK_MONOTONIC_REFACTOR_VERIFICATION.md:95-96, so tools/verify.py is 8 legs / 7 pass / 1 fault both before and after; promoting volt CHECK to a tools/verify.py leg stays the operator's call. Index re-rendered in this commit.
Record at wizard-work/volt/q65-2026-10-24.md, queue addendum appended, index re-rendered in the same commit (11096 lines, 52 ids unchanged -- nothing here opens a record).
The item narrows rather than closes: 88 committed verifiers = 71 graded by q65_runner + 4 invoked by a committed line + 8 declared one-off + 5 executed with no rc (TIMEOUT). The five are named, and a per-file window is what grades them.
Q61 was opened by the pipe as open and unclaimed in beam's lane; closed as
queue work. 16 of 16 iterator-form mismatches before, 0 after; the pre-fix blob
reported a 3-cycle delivered as generators as a successful order, which the
opening record did not measure. Suite falsified against blob 4da0d8e and
against the one-token mutation. verify.py 8/8.
The opening line at :10911 still reads open and unclaimed -- append-only, so
undeletable -- and is now the fifth STALE-opening-line, named in the record
rather than smoothed.
3aa745c appended the record and ran queue_index.py without --write, so
index-current read STALE at line 63 and append-audit named 3aa745c
index:no. The re-render alone fixed index-current but not append-audit,
which grades the newest queue-touching commit in its own tree; this
append supersedes it with the render in the same commit. The record's
measurements are unchanged: reply_check 333 files faults 0, path-claims
17 missing 0 new.
My previous commit appended to WORK-QUEUE.md and re-ran queue_index.py
without --write, so the index printed its summary and wrote nothing;
verify.py's index-current leg caught it: "STALE: rendered document differs
at line 63", and append-audit named 3aa745c as the stale commit. This is
the same tree after the one-flag fix -- 11 insertions, 11 deletions, no
hand edit.
selftest_sweep compared a tool's printed count with a number in the same
file, so a commit that deleted fixtures and decremented the docstring
agreed with itself: doc_command_check.py cut 15 cells -> 12 read clean
(sweep: 21 tools, 21 OK, 0 fatal, rc 0). tools/selftest_baseline.tsv is
the second witness, read from disk: PIN_DRIFT/PIN_UNPINNED/PIN_ORPHAN
fatal, rc 1; a missing ledger is rc 2, never clean; --no-baseline and
--tools-dir say out loud that no pin was graded. +283/-4; selftest
30 -> 39 cells, 39/39.
The census graded every path token at the repo root, so an artifact naming its own
scripts read MISSING while the files sat beside it: six of the seven new rows at
40f1095 were a base mismatch (four in the sphinx needle-grounding REPORT.md:49-52,
two quoted from the archive digest.md), and the seventh was a real rename.
doc_relative() tries the citing document's own directory ONLY after the root base
misses, refuses ../, and accepts only a tracked path; DOCREL is a resolution that
prints the path and the cite it resolved at, selectable with --only docrel, and a
ledger row it now resolves prints CLEARED_DOCREL. The root base always wins (c24),
a root document gets no second base (c23).
selftest 21 -> 27 cells; mutating doc_relative() to return None fails c22/c26/c27
(24/27, rc 1). Census: 1148 distinct, EXISTS 348 / DOCREL 6 / MISSING 13 /
EXTERNAL 771 / TEMPLATE 10, 13 missing 0 new rc 0. One ledger row added:
replies/2026-10-22-to-null-01.md RENAMED (7a472a4, added d659219).
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