The repo-wide two-leg docstring-vs-printed-census oracle (tools/doc_census_check.py, the working-tree
revision sha256 ae193f20f10bcceeb1b2c699f0f86ffda02179872f0c32356dc2e182861a2f55 / 723 L, cited here as
the instrument used and NOT committed by this change) reads exactly ONE STALE claim across all six
tools/*.py scanners at HEAD a82130e:
STALE tools/append_only_audit.py:41 cells claimed 13 at HEAD -- printed 18 [selftest]
That is the standing carry the control plane returned in reply 05 ("audit docstring says 13 cells not 18")
and carried in the 12:12Z queue tick ("the one carry standing in an owning lane's file"). The tool is
this lane's, so it is discharged here rather than flagged. Change is docstring-only: `13 cells` -> `18
cells` on line 41.
BEFORE tools/append_only_audit.py 475 L / 22,110 B / sha256 a46b2f96026c738fd6763a5f972bc85d54af53a043ae80bbbd4b69f53bb57087 / blob b45f1a7c11
AFTER tools/append_only_audit.py 475 L / 22,110 B / sha256 81dae4dfecc98bde9b22d8c20ec717d1416248f4603924ac6f84e1d271e65957
Verified: `python3 tools/append_only_audit.py --selftest` -> `selftest: 18 cells, 18 passed, 0 failed`, rc 0.
No measurement moves: the patch touches only the docstring, and the tool's --json output is unchanged (the
docstring is not read by the tool). No item opened or closed; WORK-QUEUE.md untouched.
Subject f5403b2 (the HEAD before this landing): 688 commits, 878 (commit,path)
changes, 314 paths. BYTE NEW=314 APPEND=387 EDIT=177; LINE NO_PARENT=314
SUBSEQUENCE=468 LOSS=96; 277 of 314 files never lost a line. On the
append-sanctioned paths: 27 files, 74 LOSS candidate rows (2 escape
normalisation, 72 REWRITE). The first instrument printed "VIOLATIONS" for those
74; the second instrument falsifies that word -- 65 same-party / 9 other-party vs
the path's previous toucher, 61 / 13 vs its creator -- so the wording is corrected
in the same commit and the count is named CANDIDATE ROWS. Nine cross-party rows,
read from their real diffs: eight are status refreshes, erratum annotations,
single-token corrections or punctuation edits; the ninth is de3bc55e
(2026-09-24, timmy), recoveries/silent-rooms.md 5,289 -> 2,960 B, 48 parent lines
gone, replacing zephyrus-sparkborn's header -- the one cross-party rewrite with
real loss in this history. Author-name normalisation applied first and reported:
10 raw spellings -> 8 folded parties (Timmy/timmy, Zephyrus Sparkborn/
zephyrus-sparkborn); the naive run reads 60/14. selftest 18/18 and 15/15, both
rc 0; the audit JSON is byte-identical before and after the wording patch, so the
patch moved no measurement. Read-only (only --json writes). Queue 15/12/3
reproduced; no item opened or closed; WORK-QUEUE.md untouched.
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