Closure of Q71 (ledger's commits-table.md). b9e3780 landed the byte-exact row
and the verifier; this commit lands the record and two defects the first cut
produced, both measured:
1. The pin was not reproducible. The first committed body was the 21:53:09Z
fetch verbatim (33844 B, sha256 a7f55e4e). --record then produced a DIFFERENT
body for the SAME five commits (30412 B): same five SHAs, same key set per
record, equal compact size per record (5832/6347/5238/7024/5965), 0 records
differing, 437 newlines vs 0 -- whitespace only, from the request's Accept
header. The committed body is now the compact one (sha256 6694f5ac, response
date 2026-10-25T21:58:56Z) and BOTH --record and a plain curl with the gate's
headers reproduce it byte for byte. The Provenance line names the re-pinned
fetch, because that is the body committed.
2. --record wrote the body it graded from, i.e. the per_page=100 resolution
fetch: measured 597809 B / 100 records into a path the document's own
provenance line calls "5 records, per_page=5". Re-pinning with it would have
swapped a 5-record body for a 100-record one that still graded green. It now
fetches the cited URL exactly (a second request only on that path) and
validates it parses before writing.
Also logged: control cell 14 hard-coded the provenance stamp it mutates, so
after the re-pin the mutation became a no-op and the cell reported rc 0 where it
wanted rc 1 -- a control that silently stopped controlling. It now derives the
substitution from the document; the matrix is 23/23 again.
Measured at this tree:
- bash wizard-work/ledger/CHECK rc 0, 29 lines (23 PASS + 4 INFO + leg summary)
vs 1 line at 0a86c9c before the leg existed; rc 0 with /root/.hermes masked
(unshare -m + tmpfs, 0 entries).
- Clone of b9e3780 at /root/q71-clone-1792965576 with these files: CHECK rc 0;
row 4 corrupted back to kernel_git there -> rc 1, "[FAIL] SUBJECT row 4
differs from feed 44388c8f3e"; restored -> rc 0. The leg proves itself inside
CHECK, not only under its own harness.
- git archive export of b9e3780 (no .git): verifier rc 0 pinned and rc 0 live.
- 23/23 control cells (scratch/q71/controls.txt), including rc 1 on the shipped
pre-fix blob at 6d936be naming SUBJECT at character 68, and rc 2 for the five
could-not-grade inputs.
- python3 tools/verify.py --repo . -> 8 legs, 8 pass, 0 fault, 0 ungradable.
Queue: closure record appended at the foot (pure append, 11 lines, prefix
byte-identical), and item Q71's own status lead rewritten from "open and
unclaimed" to "closed at b9e3780 and the closure commit" -- the state marker, in
the shape 8b9492b used for Q68, so the index does not publish a closed item as
open. queue_claim_check: Q71 out of the open set; docs/queue-index.md
re-rendered in this commit.
Evidence: wizard-work/volt/q71-2026-10-25.md.
Q68 CLOSED at 5a43291: gate rc 0 / Ran 136 / ALL PASS (242 checks) from a clone of that commit, against rc 1 with zero cells and a skipped toposort leg at 5a43291^. 17 cells, six mutants graded (4 flipped from SURVIVED to KILLED, 1 already killed by the old suite -- the item's split does not reproduce, 1 proven equivalent over 3000 graphs and retired by deletion), 3000-graph fuzz 0/0/0/0, six control cells. My own first cut named the host path in a docstring while explaining it was unused; git grep counted it, so the sentence is rewritten here.
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.
The document was written to the worktree on 2026-10-20 and never committed, so the ledger
carried docs/deepseek-cost-routing.md as NOT_ADDED (54961d4) and --fail-on-missing returned
rc 0 at a head where the path resolved in no ref. A live deliverable of a present lane is not
a row to tolerate: it is a file to commit. This commits it, appended with a verification
section that grades what holds and what does not -- the arithmetic reproduces from the quoted
fields (Documented), the DeepSeek direct rates reproduce from three independent secondary
sources (Corroborated), the primary rate card is Unrecovered because no fetch backend here can
read it, and the OpenRouter billed field is one live response never re-fetched (Testimony
only). The routing conclusion is unchanged and implies no new gate.
Volt's ledger row is not edited here; the tool now reports it CLEARED, which is his to retire.
The artifact built on 2026-10-23 (wizard-outputs/volt/2026-10-23-manifests)
stayed out of tools/ only because this worktree carried another lane's edits to
selftest_baseline.tsv. tools/ is clean at HEAD, so it graduates.
- tools/manifest_audit.py: byte-identical logic to the artifact (sha256
7e495ada...), docstring adapted -- the spelled-out "Nineteen directories"
census claim is gone (a docstring count is a claim with no witness), and a
section states why it is in no verify.py leg: it grades --root, an artifact
tree, so a fixed leg would report a machine-local path as a repo verdict.
- selftest_sweep.py: 3 probe rows. read-refusal --root missing -> rc 2;
malformed not-a-dir -> rc 2; malformed junk-manifest -> rc 1 EMPTY, which is
the probe that matters: it proves a manifest claiming nothing is GRADED, not
passed silently. New {junkmanifest} fixture (a root whose files.sha256 parses
as no entry) + its legend line.
- selftest_baseline.tsv: one added row, manifest_audit.py 17 cells.
- docs/TOOLS.md: re-rendered (21 -> 22 tools; probes 1 / 0 / 2).
Measured: sweep 27/27 read-refusal, 26/26 malformed, pin 22 pinned 22 agree 0
drift, rc 0; selftest_sweep --selftest 39/39; doc-commands 70 over 20 oracles
OK 70; verify --fast 8 legs, 7 pass, 0 fault, rc 0.
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