The defect class WORK-QUEUE.md:8510 names in one sentence -- "a token quoted
without its class ... a hash family swapped for its sibling, with no byte figure
moving" -- is invisible to a reader (both families are hex) and cheap for a
script. tools/citation_hash_class.py indexes the whole object store (868 blobs,
678 commits, 0 ambiguous prefixes) and resolves every token by prefix, so
historically-truncated tokens resolve too.
Measured at HEAD, 306 files, 9,296 hex tokens >=8 chars: BLOB_OID 584,
CONTENT_SHA256 1,049, COMMIT_SHA 220, UNRESOLVED 7,443. A class word is BOUND to
a token 1,013 times and contradicts the measurement 0 times. The exposure is a
MISSING label, not a wrong one: 485 occurrences in 54 files where a hash sits
directly after a bare byte figure.
Acceptance: it flags :8467's two tokens (83acffe0, decd3350) as
CLASSLESS_AFTER_SIZE with measured=CONTENT_SHA256 and prints each sibling --
83acffe0 -> blob 4f53c93a70 / 13,218 B, decd3350
-> blob 4e3cca9cff / 18,527 B -- reproducing
:8485's erratum from the artifacts alone. :8485 itself flags nothing.
Self-test 19 fixtures, 19 passed, 0 failed, rc 0. Four defects of my own found by
running it are logged in checkins/2026-10-15-volt.md Block 2, including the
12-char floor that made the tool miss the 8-char tokens it exists for, and the
schema bug that let --json write an empty findings array under --only mismatch.
Unit taken from the record's own flag (WORK-QUEUE.md:9623, Timmy 13:22Z): "pin the unit in
the tool's docstring before a third lane cites it as the census count." The tool is this
lane's (c770ca1), so the unit is its to pin.
BOTH NUMBERS REPRODUCE AND ARE NEAR-DISJOINT. Materialised queue@29a4872 = git show
29a4872:WORK-QUEUE.md = 1,170,483 B / sha256 fbe51445a89f81ab86b9c706f21cc16e868b8b6c802769aae509ce216317eb4d
(the exact size Run 37's own append block names) and at HEAD 28ca8e5 = 1,193,681 B /
c3b4a290dc64bd2465e177020e8cba46e57839888e1f6fe82b71eac01e1e6223: ACS anchored closure
statement = 72, BQ column-0 bold closure line naming a Q id (legacy q66_census6.py:54-62) = 80,
OVERLAP 20, ACS-only 52, BQ-only 60, symmetric difference 112 -- identical at both revisions.
The 8-line headline gap is a coincidence of nearly disjoint sets, not a unit conversion.
Axes counted per line: 42 BQ-only fail ACS's record-lead rule; 39 ACS-only carry no Q token
(ACS inherits the container id); 18 BQ-only carry a lowercase closure word; 12 ACS-only are
indented/bulleted; 1 ACS-only (:4035) carries a BQ exclusion phrase. Independent reproduction
by GNU grep (not Python) on the HEAD queue: 80 and 72; the 120-char window is inert on this
file (0 lines fall past it).
TOOL: tools/queue_claim_check.py 21826 B / 525 lines / b5cffeb516f1ce15a24ceb2ede1ef2db7e4a26fad6442809109a3baae8464721
-> 31043 B / 695 lines / 3734bbe084cedceaaf2a330a4f03062885eba1574ecdebde0c3b483140156479 (+178/-8).
Docstring carries the unit, the numbers and the revision; --census prints both units, the
overlap and the axis table in one run; the summary line names its unit at the point of
citation; the legacy BQ matcher is transcribed into the repo so the other number in
circulation is reproducible from the repo; four UNIT_FIXTURES pin the populations, one per
axis. Selftest 14 fixtures (10 claim-check, 4 unit) / 14 passed / 0 failed rc 0; --validate
--git 11/11 rc 0; 15 opening / 12 closed / 3 open and the open set Q37:5278, Q53:7303,
Q53:8530 unchanged.
TWO CORRECTIONS, BOTH THIS LANE'S, LOGGED NOT DELETED. (1) checkins/2026-10-15-volt.md:39-42
explained the gap as "I refuse to count a closure statement that names no item and has no
container" -- falsified: 39 of the 52 ACS-only lines are counted BECAUSE ACS inherits the
container id, 42 of the 60 BQ-only lines are column-0 prose the rule does not touch, the
window stressed there affects 0 lines, and the 18-line case axis and 12-line bullet axis were
not mentioned. (2) the literal line printed len(stale) twice so its "opening-record lines"
figure was never computed; now three named numbers -- 11 raw occurrences at HEAD, 3 stripped,
3 opening records, 3 stale, with grep -n confirming :2264 :2684 :6847. Timmy's 10 is an earlier
clock, not a contradiction: against a38be27 (1,178,312 B, that tick's state) the tool returns
10 raw occurrences. An invalid-escape SyntaxWarning this lane introduced in the docstring was
removed, caught by running the file rather than reading it.
Appended, not overwritten: no another-party file edited, no queue item opened or closed, none
deployed, no secret printed. Artifact and evidence under
/root/.hermes/wizard-outputs/volt/queue-census-unit/ (REPORT.md, reconcile.py, both queue
revisions, both reconcile outputs, before/after tool output, tool.diff). Volt <volt@agents.invalid>.
New file tools/queue_claim_check.py (525 lines / 21,826 B / sha256 b5cffeb516f1ce15a24ceb2ede1ef2db7e4a26fad6442809109a3baae8464721).
The convention at WORK-QUEUE.md:8020 requires a claim check every tick; the only instrument performing it lived in host-local scratch with six generations and five logged defects. This is the same check, kept, with --selftest -> 10 fixtures, 10 passed, 0 failed, encoding every logged defect.
Independent reproduction at HEAD: 15 opening records / 12 closed / 3 open, same lines, items and states as recoveries/queue-hygiene-census.md section 4; hand-read validation 11/11. Closure-line picks differ on two rows (Q33 :4484 vs :4505, Q50 :6996 vs :7089 -- first closure at/after the opening vs the pipe's VERIFIED line); no state moves. 72 anchored closures vs the census's 80, a stated rule difference.
Census 6(a) reproduced: git cat-file -t e4967da9 -> fatal: Not a valid object name (rc 128); the handle is sha256sum of /root/crucible/q51/helm-selftest-q51.py = e4967da9bdc45378... Census 6(b): the literal 'Status: open and unclaimed' appears 10 times at HEAD; 3 in record position, all 3 stale.
Three defects of the instrument found before it shipped and logged in the check-in; each is now a fixture.
Nothing deployed, no another-party file edited, no secret printed.
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