# Work queue census v2 (extract lane)

One row per '## Q<n> ...' heading in WORK-QUEUE.md. Extracted from 97 headings; 86 distinct q labels; 11 reopened (Q37, Q38, Q39, Q43, Q60, Q72, Q79, Q81, Q82, Q83, Q93). extracted_at_utc is the measurement moment, not a constant.

| q | title | status | done_implies |
|---|---|---|---|
| Q1 | — Recover the fifteen silent rooms *(highest value; no dependencies)* | CLOSED — 0/15 recovered, and every public avenue is now exhausted with receipts.**. | ** one row per space in `recoveries/silent-rooms.md` — id, date, what was found, exact URL, retrieval |
| Q2 | — Chase the one dead link | DONE — recovered.** `recoveries/dead-link.md` (`3ca3d3c`, zephyrus-sparkborn) found the `x.com` snapshot. | ** either an archived copy (Wayback, archive.today, a quote-post screenshot) recorded with its URL and |
| Q3 | — Independent audit of the published ledger | DONE — both passes complete (`2ebcbe7` pass 1, `6f31cde` pass 2, zephyrus-sparkborn; material `2118b3e`). | ** a table of findings with severity, or an explicit clean bill of health per area checked. |
| Q4 | — Falsification pass | DONE — `recoveries/falsification-pass.md` (`f50f052`, zephyrus-sparkborn), all three verdicts re-verified. | ** three claims, three attempts, three verdicts. |
| Q8 | — Summary fidelity: does each entry's machine-written summary overstate its article? | pilot CLOSED at `dcf91a1` (zephyrus-sparkborn), corrected at `9cc6879`; the full sweep is CLOSED at `f1fe38d` (2026-10-06) — 91/91, 1,101 rows, verified independently from the published file. | ** a table of per-clause verdicts for the sample, with the count of each verdict and the named entries |
| Q5 | — Issue triage in the organisation's public repos | re-scoped 2026-09-26 (reply 08 §5) after a census, because as written it invites busywork.** Measured over. | ** every open issue either carrying a reproduction comment or an explicit cannot-reproduce note. |
| Q6 | — A public guide to checking this archive | DONE at `8bd0b09` (Merlin, 2026-10-08T17:28:47Z) — verified from this host figure by figure;. | ** somebody with no context can follow it and get a yes/no on a real claim. |
| Q7 | — Propose the next items | satisfied for the 2026-09-25 cycle.** Zeph's three proposals (`2a0cb01`) are now queue items: the Q8. |  |
| Q9 | — Independent QC of the sovereign music candidates *(second opinion, no listening required)* | unclaimed. | ** a table of claim-vs-measurement per candidate plus the transcription window. |
| Q10 | — Summary fidelity for the non-magazine entries | COMPLETE 2026-10-10 (verified from raw sources; closure record below). | ** a table in `recoveries/summary-fidelity-nonmagazine.md` — per-entry verdict counts, the named entries |
| Q11 | — Close the eight pass-2 date mismatches | DONE — `recoveries/ledger-date-closure.md`, Merlin, 2026-10-09. | ** a closure table, one line per entry, added to a new `recoveries/ledger-date-closure.md` (not edited |
| Q12 | — Are the evidence tiers earned? | DONE — `recoveries/evidence-tier-audit.md`, Merlin, 2026-10-10. | ** `recoveries/evidence-tier-audit.md` — the sample rule, one row per entry, the count of each |
| Q13 | — Publish the archive-side wording fixes, one at a time | ** 1 of 8 has a decision and staged correction (`magazine-091`; reply 09 §3), but its decided note carries. | ** for every clause that has a decision, a published page whose hash is read back over HTTPS, plus a |
| Q14 | — Put the Inbox on `alexanderwhitestone.com` behind a gate | DONE — finished by `616794c` (2026-09-26), then re-measured by a later run the same day instead of being. | ** the queue page is live at a gated URL and re-verified against that live URL by a mobile-width |
| Q15 | — Stop the monitor from waking on the pipe's own writes *(pipe; no dependencies)* | DONE — 2026-09-26 ≈19:05 UTC.** Fixed in `/root/.hermes/scripts/troupe_pipe_monitor.py` (outside this. | ** a tick wakes only on counterparty content; Timmy's own commits leave the signature unchanged. |
| Q16 | — Per-platform ATS gate census *(career lane; opened 2026-10-01 by reply 21 §3, drafted by zephyrus)* | draft v0.1 landed `f29425a` (`career-lane/ats-gate-census-draft.md`, 2026-10-01; check-in `2f83e08`);. | ** one row per platform in `career-lane/ats-gate-census.md` with the fetched form URL, the field |
| Q17 | — Employer-side AI-authorship refusal gates *(career lane; opened 2026-10-03 by reply 26, per Q7)* |  | ** a dated, append-only subsection in `career-lane/ats-gate-census.md` with one row per observed |
| Q18 | — Employer-side lead intake must be deduped against the prepared index *(career lane; opened 2026-10-04 by reply 28, per the G2i miss)* |  | ** a fixed, published **intake rule** for every employer-side lead — before a lead is called |
| Q19 | — Three proposed members (local Mac wizard, Grok, Mistral) *(wizard onboarding; opened 2026-10-06 by zephyrus-sparkborn, `checkins/2026-10-06-zephyrus-wizards*.md` + `JOIN-THE-TROUPE.md`)* | RESOLVED — provisional (2026-10-06).**. |  |
| Q20 | — Excerpt fidelity and placement for the 91 magazine entries *(archive verification; opened 2026-10-08 by the pipe, per Q7's never-dry obligation)* | DONE — `recoveries/excerpt-placement-audit.md` (12,914 B) and `recoveries/excerpt-placement-rows.md`. | ** `recoveries/excerpt-placement-audit.md` — the sample rule, the per-excerpt rows as a data file |
| Q21 | — Does every quoted excerpt resolve at the URL it is printed against? | open and unclaimed. | ** `recoveries/excerpt-binding-audit.md` — the reading rule in the header, one row per excerpt with |
| Q22 | — Do the named-but-unlinked sources resolve? *(proposed 2026-10-10 by Merlin, per Q7; not yet opened)* | DONE — `recoveries/named-source-liveness.md`, Merlin, 2026-10-10. | ** a table in `recoveries/named-source-liveness.md` — source, entry/entries naming it, verdict, |
| Q23 | — The prose-named sources the `@` token rule cannot see *(archive verification; opened 2026-10-10 by the pipe, per Q7's never-dry obligation)* | DONE 2026-10-10 — `recoveries/named-source-liveness-unlinked.md` (Merlin), verified from the published file this tick (control plane).**. | ** a table in `recoveries/named-source-liveness-unlinked.md` — source, entry/entries naming it, kind |
| Q24 | — The Q13 fix pack: stage every verified live-page fix as one reviewable approval *(archive-side; opened 2026-10-10 by the pipe, per Q7's never-dry obligation)* | open and unclaimed. | ** `docs/q13-fix-pack.md` — one row per clause in the fixed column order `entry | live page | panel | |
| Q25 | — A prose-anchor convention for the ledger build *(archive-side; proposed 2026-10-10 by Merlin, per Q7's never-dry obligation — Q24 closed and the unclaimed executable set fell to zero)* | DONE — `recoveries/prose-anchor-convention.md`, Merlin, 2026-10-10. | ** a record naming the convention's exact syntax, the `render_entry` change as a diff against |
| Q26 | — Make the silent token classes loud, and measure the fifth slot *(archive-side; opened 2026-10-10 by the pipe, per Q7's never-dry obligation — Q25 closed at `a9f23a6` and the unclaimed executable set fell to zero)* | DONE — `recoveries/prose-anchor-hardening.md`, Merlin, 2026-10-10→11 (~00:20–00:24 UTC). | ** the hardened prototype as a diff against `97fedb5d…`, the five Q25 legs re-run and green, the |
| Q27 | — A fixture at every render site: make the token sentinel's coverage total *(archive-side; opened 2026-10-11 by the pipe, per Q7's never-dry obligation — Q26 closed at `f05179e`)* | DONE 2026-10-11 — `recoveries/render-site-coverage.md` (Merlin). |  |
| Q28 | — The channels the entry walk cannot see: state the guarantee, then cover what it cannot reach | DONE 2026-10-11 — `recoveries/render-site-channels.md` (Merlin), scratch tree. | ** a recovery file (e.g. `recoveries/render-site-channels.md`) with a row per non-entry |
| Q29 | — The guards that are not the walk: what protects a page when the value is not a token | DONE 2026-10-11 — `recoveries/render-site-guards.md` (Merlin), scratch tree `/root/crucible/q29/`. | ** a recovery file (e.g. `recoveries/render-site-guards.md`) with one row per mechanism, the |
| Q30 | — The renderer's entry point: the one path no gate executes |  | ** the fixed renderer with its sha256; a CLI transcript showing exit 0 and the byte count at a |
| Q31 | — The collector's entry point: the sibling path no gate has executed either | DONE at Merlin's Run 6 (2026-10-11 ≈13:19–13:35Z) — deliverable `recoveries/helm-collector-run.md`; the collector's entry point is executed, its destination is gated, and G8 asserts it.** The item's four steps: (1) the two safe legs run — `--dry-run --skip-tests` exit 0 / 15,187 B pure-JSON stdout and `--out <scratch>` exit 0 / 15,187 B, both with the live snapshot unchanged (`aa842b0f…`); the two bodies are the same measurement (only `observed_at` clocks and one `rtt_seconds` differ, `q31-compare.py`). | ** `recoveries/helm-collector-run.md` — the transcripts, the digests, the destination |
| Q32 | — The G8 two-run agreement check is nondeterministic: `age_seconds` is not scrubbed *(Helm lane; opened 2026-10-11 by the pipe, per Q7's never-dry obligation — Q31's adoption is blocked behind it)* | OPEN — named to the Helm lane**, ahead of the Q31 `cp` decision so that the gate that ships is the one that. | ** the scrub covers every clock-derived field the collector emits (or `age_seconds` is asserted within |
| Q33 | — Split the newest-file pointer out of `evidence.source_path` *(collector-side; opened 2026-10-11 by the pipe, per Q7's never-dry obligation — Q32 closed at `7e12c82`)* | OPEN — named to the Helm lane.** A snapshot key rename touches every consumer of `evidence.source_path`. | ** the collector emits the pointer as its own named field (e.g. `latest_active_path`, or |
| Q34 | — Gate the pointer's null case *(collector-side gate; opened 2026-10-11 by the pipe, per Q7's never-dry obligation — Q33 closed at `8bb88da`)* | DONE 2026-10-12 — `recoveries/helm-null-gate.md` (Merlin), scratch tree `/root/crucible/q34/`.**. | ** the gate plants, in its own scratch tree between two collects, a profile with a `sessions/` directory |
| Q35 | — The gate must refuse a subject collector that carries no destination rule *(Helm lane; opened 2026-10-12 by the pipe, per Q7's never-dry obligation — Q34 verified and closed at `ac98bfb`)* | DONE — `recoveries/helm-precondition-gate.md` (8,261 B / sha256. | ** the destination-rule guard is a **precondition** — a collector that lacks the refusal is refused by |
| Q36 | — The monitor cannot see a counterparty write that carries this pipe's identity *(pipe tooling; opened 2026-10-12 by the pipe, per Q7's never-dry obligation — Q20 verified and closed at `9a1de9a` and the pre-existing executable set fell to empty)* | DONE — the rule holds, and the predicted transition arrived exactly as stated.** Measured at the first. | ** an own-attributed commit that touches another wizard's check-in is read as counterparty content |
| Q37 | — The identity rule closes one class, not the class *(pipe tooling; opened 2026-10-12 by the pipe, per Q7's never-dry obligation — Q36 closed at `9584984` and the unclaimed executable set fell to empty)* |  | ** a stated answer, with the fields measured, to *can this pipe distinguish its own commits from the |
| Q38 | — The behavioural destination guard *(Helm lane; opened 2026-10-12 by Merlin — Q36's candidate 2, on Alexander's direction to continue the Helm lane)* | DONE — `recoveries/helm-behavioural-guard.md` (10,232 B), Merlin, 2026-10-12T06:5x–07:1xZ, this host.**. | ** `recoveries/helm-behavioural-guard.md` — the guard's code path with line numbers, the diff, the |
| Q38 | — The behavioural destination guard *(Helm lane; opened 2026-10-12 by Merlin — Q36's candidate 2, on Alexander's direction to continue the Helm lane; **direction unrecorded in this repo — Testimony only**)* | the deliverable is verified and the item is DONE, and its protective claim is FALSIFIED. |  |
| Q39 | — The Q38 guard's admission admits a writer, and its legs run the unrewritten subject *(Helm lane; opened 2026-10-12 by the pipe, per Q7's never-dry obligation — Q38 is closed and verified and its protective claim is falsified, so the executable set is not empty)* | DONE — `recoveries/helm-destination-guard-fix.md` (12,253 B), Merlin, 2026-10-12, scratch tree `/root/crucible/q39/`. | ** `recoveries/` carries the fixed guard with its own negative-control suite, and the pair refuses **all four** of: (1) a subject that writes its destination at import and dies on the probe's injected line (the incident's shape), (2) a subject whose first `SNAPSHOT_PATH =` is a decoy and whose real destination is assigned later, (3) a subject that documents the source markers without implementing the rule, and (4) the pair itself, green, with live bytes **and** mtime asserted after **every leg** — not once at the end. |
| Q39 | closure — verified from this host by the pipe (2026-10-12, reply 22) | DONE. |  |
| Q40 | — the deployed gate admits all five negatives, and has no admission path at all *(Helm lane; opened 2026-10-12 by Merlin, discharging the Q39 closure's C26)* | DONE — `recoveries/helm-deployed-gate-admission.md` (5,633 B / sha256. | ** the deployed gate's behaviour on all five fixtures measured from |
| Q37 | — claimed by this pipe; first increment landed (the v1.3 census) | OPEN and claimed by the pipe (Merlin's §Next 2 read it correctly; it is this lane's tooling). |  |
| Q43 | — The legs run the rewritten subject: prevention, not detect-and-restore *(Helm lane; opened 2026-10-12 by Merlin, per the Q39 closure's own recommendation — "open the stronger form (the legs against a rewritten copy) as the Helm lane's next item")* | DONE — `recoveries/helm-leg-sandbox.md` (13,561 B), Merlin, 2026-10-12. | ** the pair green on repeated runs with the same count plus the new |
| Q43 | closure — verified from this host by the pipe (2026-10-12, reply 27) | VERIFIED AND CLOSED from the pipe, 2026-10-12 18:5x–19:1xZ.** Finished by `0fb8b20` (deliverable + queue block + Run 9 check-in section) and `2ddbe68` (landing evidence); verified by `replies/2026-10-12-to-merlin-27.md` with the pipe's own harness `/root/crucible/q43z/timmy_verify_q43.py` (reads Merlin's tree, writes nothing into `/root/crucible/q43/`). |  |
| Q44 | — The pin class: redirect every constant composed from the live data root, not only `SNAPSHOT_PATH` *(Helm lane; opened 2026-10-12 by the pipe, per Q43's own closing sentence — "extend the redirect beyond `SNAPSHOT_PATH` to every constant composed from the live data root, which is what would close the `--pin` class structurally instead of by argv rule")* | DONE 2026-10-12 — `recoveries/helm-root-redirect.md` (Merlin, Helm lane); the closure block is at the foot. | ** the pair green on repeated runs with the same count plus the new checks; the five Q39 negatives still |
| Q48 | — The runtime-resolution redirect: close the class Q45's literals cannot see | DONE 2026-10-13 — `recoveries/helm-runtime-redirect.md` (Merlin, Helm lane), scratch tree. |  |
| Q49 | — The runtime-resolved root's live write path: name it, reproduce it, then close it | open and unclaimed. | ** the configuration is in the record with both live objects' sha / size / `mtime_ns` before and |
| Q45 | §9 follow-on — the home-directory channel *(Helm lane; Merlin)* | OPEN — awaiting Alexander's zoom/whole-shop answer; build is the pipe's.** Evidence paths: `/var/www/leathermint/v2/index.html` (+ `phaser.min.js`), ledger commit `58e7eaa` (15:25:39Z) holding the verification record; queue index re-rendered in that same commit. | ** both digests carrying a domain or graded Unrecovered, and the state.db pair reported as main file + WAL with the window each figure covers. |
| Q57 | — Bind a standup entry to the bytes it grades *(Codeforge lane; opened 2026-10-24 by the pipe, per reply 05's corrections 1 and 2)* | open and unclaimed. | ** `check.py` exits 1 and names the differing line when the working-tree `wizard.log.md` differs by one byte from the blob of the commit it names, and exits 0 only when that comparison holds *and* a fresh `render()` with the log's own stamp reproduces it byte-for-byte; `craft()` takes its stamp as a parameter so replay is reproducible; and `base commit` holds a SHA that `git cat-file -t` resolves, or the field is removed. |
| Q58 | — The lane-activity instrument reads a surface that was retired on 2026-10-16 *(Sol lane; opened 2026-10-24 by the pipe, per reply 12 to sol)* | closed at `809466f` (2026-10-26, spark in sol's lane); the closure record sits at the foot of this file.** Opened by the pipe 2026-10-24. | ** the triage reads **both** surfaces (legacy flat files and `BASE/<lane>/`), |
| Q59 | — beam's jump hash matches the C reference, and not one test would notice if it stopped *(beam lane; opened 2026-10-24 by the pipe, per reply 84 to zephyrus)* | open and unclaimed. | ** at least one golden-vector cell, taken from the reference and committed with the |
| Q60 | — Every truncated identifier in the archive: which ones can still be checked *(pipe tooling; opened 2026-10-24 by the pipe, per reply 86 §6 and reply 87 §1)* | open and unclaimed.** Opened by the pipe 2026-10-24. | ** one row per token — **file:line**, the token as written, and either **"full value |
| Q61 | — beam's `topo_sort` drops generator dependencies, and its gate imports a copy outside the repo *(beam lane; opened 2026-10-24 by the pipe, per reply 88 to zephyrus)* | open and unclaimed.** Opened by the pipe 2026-10-24. | ** (a) a dependency passed as any iterator produces the same order as the same dependency passed as a |
| Q62 | — 147 committed gates read `/root/.hermes/wizard-outputs`; two of them cannot pass from a clone *(no lane owns it; opened 2026-10-24 by the pipe, per reply 89 to zephyrus)* | open and unclaimed.** No lane owns it by authorship; anyone may take it, one file per commit. | ** (a) every committed verifier either reads its input from the repo (`Path(__file__)`-relative) or |
| Q63 | — Six committed verifiers print PASS while asserting nothing, and eight are run by no gate *(no lane; opened 2026-10-24 by the pipe, per reply 90 to zephyrus)* | open and unclaimed.** No lane owns it; anyone may take it, one file per commit. | ** (a) each of the six either exits non-zero explicitly on failure (`sys.exit(1)` / `raise`) or states |
| Q66 | — beam's `search_count` advertises overlapping occurrences and no test would notice if it stopped *(beam lane; opened 2026-10-25 by the pipe, per reply 27 to beam)* | closed at `2d6cf69` (2026-10-26, beam); the closure record sits at the foot of this file.** Beam's lane by authorship; the remedy was one assertion,. |  |
| Q67 | — forge's probe-refactor verifier certifies a refactor that restores the defect it removes *(forge lane; opened 2026-10-25 by the pipe, per reply 20 to forge)* | open and unclaimed.** Forge's lane by authorship; the remedy is four small edits. |  |
| Q68 | — beam's `topo_levels` drops a one-shot `edges` iterable, silently, and its new suite both certifies a host copy and takes the lane's gate down *(beam lane; opened 2026-10-25 by the pipe, per reply 28 to beam)* | closed at `5a43291` (volt, 2026-10-25); the closure record sits at the foot of this file.** Beam's lane by authorship; anyone may take it. |  |
| Q69 | — 116 committed files under `wizard-work/` name the absolute path `/root/troupe-standup`, so 64 gates grade the author's working tree instead of the checkout they were asked about *(no lane owns it; opened 2026-10-25 by the pipe, per reply 101 to zephyrus)* | open and unclaimed.** One file per commit, each needing the repo-relative-or-stated decision; `wizard-work/ledger` is the entry to take first because its artifact is otherwise correct and its gate is the one measured green-on-wrong. | ** the population is zero, or each surviving file states in one line that it deliberately grades the live tree and why; a gate in this class is run from a `git archive` export of its own commit (no `/root/troupe-standup` present) and produces the same verdict it produces in the shared tree; and the ledger census in particular passes at the sha carrying it, with `git ls-tree -r -z` enumeration so the full-path listing round-trips to a path that exists (`os.path.exists(field)` is `False` for the one 218-char newline-bearing entry today, 16 characters short of the real name). |
| Q70 | — beam's `test_trie.py` is invisible to the lane gate (73 new lines, 0 cells collected), and `count_prefix` is a lifetime insert counter that survives `delete` *(beam lane; opened 2026-10-25 by the pipe, per reply 102 to zephyrus)* | closed at `12f956a` (volt, 2026-10-26) — closure record at the foot of this file.** Beam's lane by authorship; anyone may take it. | ** the four cells are `unittest.TestCase` methods so `discover` collects them (Q68's own remedy), and `Ran 136` moves; `count_prefix` either counts distinct words (and is decremented or recomputed on `delete`) or is renamed to what it measures and its docstring says "insertions, lifetime" — one of the two, not both readings left standing; a cell fails when `count_prefix` disagrees with `len(self.words_with_prefix(prefix))` after deletes; and `bash wizard-work/beam/CHECK` rc 0 at the head carrying the change, with the rc stated in that commit. |
| Q71 | — ledger's `commits-table.md` has no verifier, and row 4 writes `kernel_git` where the source URL has `kernel/git` *(ledger lane; opened 2026-10-25 by the pipe, per reply 102 to zephyrus)* | closed at `b9e3780` and the closure commit (volt, 2026-10-25); the closure record sits at the foot of this file.** Ledger's lane by authorship; anyone may take it. | ** the row-4 subject matches the source byte for byte; a verifier re-fetches the cited endpoint and fails on any row whose SHA prefix, date or subject differs (the shape ledger already uses for its ArXiv and GDP artifacts), with its rc stated in the commit that lands it; and the verifier is runnable from a clone of its own commit, not only from the author's tree (Q69's class — ledger's `verify.sh` already carries that defect, so a new verifier must not add a second instance). |
| Q72 | — sphinx's lcmm ledger gates its quotations but not its population or its interpretations: two mutations of mine pass the verifier at 169/169 and 139/139 *(sphinx lane; opened 2026-10-26 by the pipe, per reply 104 to zephyrus)* | open and unclaimed.** Sphinx's lane by authorship; anyone may take it. | ** a leg that reconciles `ledger.json` against `scan-candidates.json` — every `included` candidate present, every `excluded` one carrying a non-empty reason — which alone turns the dropped-entries mutation red; a leg that gates `claim_role` against the quoted sentence rather than against the allowed set (a per-role attribution rule, or at minimum a committed expected-role table so that a relabel has to edit a second file the diff makes visible), with the relabelled-`2507.02001v1` mutation as its own negative cell; `README.md` agreeing with `ledger.json` on 15; the mutation battery taking a relative or CLI-supplied scratch directory and cleaning up after itself; `run_verdict.py` distinguishing rc 2 (could not grade, endpoint down) from rc 1 (bytes differ); and every rc above stated in the commit that lands the change, with each gate runnable from a clone of that commit. |
| Q72 | — verified from this host by the pipe (2026-10-26, reply 105) |  |  |
| Q73 | — sphinx's longctx archive gates its numbers and its claim-scoped quotations, but not its prose numbers, its claim sentences, its README, or the quotations that carry no claim id *(sphinx lane; opened 2026-10-26 by the pipe, per reply 105 to zephyrus)* | open and unclaimed.** Sphinx's lane by authorship; anyone may take it. | ** a leg that reads the two prose counts sphinx advertises word-for-word (`README.md`'s check count against the verifier's own check total, the paper count in `README.md`/`ANALYSIS.md` title against `len(papers)`) so mutation C fails; a per-claim rule sentence that must recompute from the same fields as the number (or a committed `rule` field the verifier reads) so mutation B fails; a quote-coverage leg that walks every blockquote in `ANALYSIS.md`, strips its `— <id> [Cnn]` attribution and requires a matching `quote` claim, so mutation D fails; `ANALYSIS.md:3` either enforced at that scope or narrowed in the text; and the §3 "27 of those" sentence given its tokenizer in the sentence or the number corrected to the plural reading. Each fix carries its mutation as a negative cell, and every rc is stated in the commit that lands it, runnable from a clone or `git archive` export with no `.git`. |
| Q74 | — sol's triage CHECK certifies the host `_triage` copy and asserts today's freshness, so it cannot gate the committed artifact *(sol lane; opened 2026-10-26 by the pipe, per the Q58 closure record above)* | open and unclaimed.** Sol's lane by authorship; anyone may take it. | ** the CHECK reads the artifact from the tree it runs in (a repo-relative path, with `SOL_BASE` an override rather than the default), so a doctored committed artifact fails and a clean export passes with no host state involved; the freshness assertions become claims about the *artifact's* consistency with its own recorded mtimes rather than about the host's clock, so a faithful 30 h-old capture passes and a status that disagrees with its own row fails; both mutants above are carried as negative cells; and the rc is stated in the commit that lands it, runnable from a clone or `git archive` export with no `.git`. |
| Q75 | — ledger's two census TSVs carry seven lines that are not rows and one path no file on disk has, and no gate in the lane can see either *(ledger lane; opened 2026-10-26 by the pipe, at `b82b023`)* | open and unclaimed.** Ledger's lane by authorship; anyone may take it. | ** both TSVs regenerate from the tree through committed code and round-trip — every line has the declared field count, every path exists on disk, no duplicates, and the md summary totals equal the TSV's own row census for the same run; one verifier in the lane is red on a line whose path is absent from disk and on a line with the wrong field count, carried as two negative cells (the injected `beam/CHECK` body, and a deleted row); and the promised `CHECK-wizardwork-census` either exists and runs, or the docstring stops promising it. The rc is stated in the commit that lands it, runnable from `git archive` with no `.git`. |
| Q76 | — beam's new median tests reach no gate, and the lane gate that would run them is red for a host path older than the commit *(beam lane; opened 2026-10-26 by the pipe, at `c3ce8dd`)* | open and unclaimed.** Beam's lane by authorship; anyone may take it. | ** the seven cells are `unittest.TestCase` methods so `discover` collects them and `Ran 151` moves (new count stated); `test_robin_hood_hash.py` imports `robin_hood_hash` from the tree it runs in, with no `sys.path.insert` naming a host directory, so `bash wizard-work/beam/CHECK` is **rc 0 unmasked** and in a `git archive` export with no `.git`; two negative cells carried — a cell deleted from `test_sliding_window_median.py`, and `sliding_window_median.py` sabotaged, each turning the gate red; and the rc stated in the commit that lands the change. |
| Q77 | — beam's segment tree lands 100 lines and the lane's count does not move, its failure path reports as an import `SystemExit` rather than a cell, and out-of-range indices are silently clamped *(beam lane; opened 2026-10-26 by the pipe, per reply 112 to zephyrus)* | open and unclaimed.** Beam's lane by authorship; anyone may take it. | ** the file's cells are `unittest.TestCase` methods so `discover` collects them and `Ran N` moves |
| Q78 | — spark's `3d72f9d` deletes the Q63 `_check()` failure path from four verifiers and drifts five ledger rows, and the new email-validator suite imports a host path *(spark lane; opened 2026-10-26 by the pipe, at `6cb3d7a`)* |  |  |
| Q79 | — beam's `manifest.py` lands 107 lines with no cell in any gate, cannot see a directory symlink, reads its own output as a tamper, and prints a green empty manifest for a root that does not exist *(beam lane; opened 2026-10-26 by the pipe, at `edac5cf`)* | open and unclaimed.** Beam's lane by authorship; anyone may take it. | ** `test_manifest.py` lands as `unittest.TestCase` cells that `discover` collects (the lane's |
| Q79 | closure — manifest.py carries the lane's 0/1/2 contract, three blind spots are closed, and 17 cells now sit in the gate *(volt, 2026-10-26; beam's lane by authorship, taken by the Workhorse as the opening allows: `anyone may take it`)* | DONE at `f719428` (manifest.py), `25e88f8` (canonical naming), `36ce415` (test_manifest.py); this record and `docs/queue-index.md` land in the commit above it.** The opening record's own text is quoted in a code span above so this line opens nothing. |  |
| Q80 | — spark's `json_sha256_validator.py` prints a hash of bytes it never validated, admits `NaN`/`Infinity` as valid, and reports an unreadable input in the same code as a bad document *(spark lane; opened 2026-10-26 by the pipe, at `3081128`)* | open and unclaimed.** Spark's lane by authorship; anyone may take it. | ** one read serves both — `data = path.read_bytes()`, `json.loads(data, parse_constant=…)`, |
| Q81 | — spark's `hermes_profile_health.py` grades a profile by the existence of names, hardcodes the one host path it can check, and carries a branch that cannot fire *(spark lane; opened 2026-10-26 by the pipe, at `3081128`)* | open and unclaimed.** Spark's lane by authorship. | ** `--profile` (or `HERMES_HOME`) and no absolute module constant; `is_dir()` for the four |
| Q82 | — beam's `test_json_canonical.py` prints `ALL PASS` without running a single assertion, and the lane's count does not move at the head that lands it *(beam lane; opened 2026-10-26 by the pipe, at `3081128`)* | open and unclaimed.** Beam's lane by authorship; anyone may take it. | ** the seven cells become `unittest.TestCase` methods that `discover` collects, and the lane's |
| Q82 | closure — `test_json_canonical.py` is seven discoverable cells (lane gate 191 → 198), every cell is killed by a named mutant, and `json_canonical.py` says what it is not *(volt, 2026-10-26; beam's lane by authorship, taken by the Workhorse as the opening allows: `anyone may take it`)* | DONE at `0735102` (suite), `6c097bf` (float surface); this record and `docs/queue-index.md` land in the commit above it.** The opening record's own `Status: open and unclaimed.` line is left standing, as append-only discipline requires; the closure is this line, not an edit above it. |  |
| Q81 | closure — `hermes_profile_health.py` grades a profile you name, parses the config it grades, and the lane gate collects nine cells *(volt, 2026-10-26; spark's lane by authorship, taken as the opening record says `open and unclaimed`)* | DONE at `3f424c0` (tool), `329af8b` (suite + gate leg); this record and `docs/queue-index.md` land in the commit above them.** The opening record's own `Status: open and unclaimed.` line is left standing, as append-only discipline requires; the closure is this line, not an edit above it. |  |
| Q83 | — five branches `hermes_profile_health.py` names are pinned by no cell, and one of them is the branch that produces the sweep's only red *(spark lane; opened 2026-10-26 by the pipe, at `829268f`)* | open and unclaimed.** Spark's lane by authorship. | ** five `unittest.TestCase` cells in `wizard-work/spark/test_hermes_profile_health.py`, one per row, each asserting the exact string *and* the exact rc; `bash wizard-work/spark/CHECK` → `Ran 14 tests` (nine today, five new); and every patch in the table above shown killing **at least one** cell, with the dead-cell names printed. The five fixtures are one line each — `_fixture()` already builds a home and writes `config` bytes. One concern per commit. If any row is deliberately out of scope — "a config that is a directory is ungradable, not a fault" is defensible — say so in the docstring and drop that row; the other four stand. |
| Q84 | — `interval_overlap.py` lands 87 lines with no cell, and the lane gate reads `Ran 202` before and after *(beam lane; opened 2026-10-26 by the pipe, at `517362f`)* | open and unclaimed.** Beam's lane by authorship; anyone may take it. | ** a `test_interval_overlap.py` in `wizard-work/beam` made of `unittest.TestCase` cells that |
| Q83 | closure — the five unpinned `hermes_profile_health.py` branches are five cells (spark gate 9 → 14), and the item's own first row is corrected *(volt, 2026-10-27; spark's lane by authorship, taken as the opening record says `open and unclaimed`)* | DONE at `fe09917`; this record and `docs/queue-index.md` land in the commit above it.** The opening record's own `Status: open and unclaimed.` line is left standing, as append-only discipline requires; the closure is this line, not an edit above it. |  |
| Q85 | — `beam/CHECK` collects only `test_*.py`, so a module no cell imports lands invisible: four are in that state today, and the newest added 38 lines with the gate reading `Ran 214` before and after *(beam lane; opened 2026-10-27 by the pipe, at `083981e`)* | open and unclaimed.** Beam's lane by authorship. | ** one leg in `bash wizard-work/beam/CHECK` that fails (rc non-zero, and the names printed) when a lane module is imported or run by none of the collected tests, plus a `zeller_dow` cell set. The leg must be falsifiable today: on this tree it goes red naming exactly those four, and it goes green only when each is either covered by a cell or excluded in writing beside the leg with the reason (`verify_toposort_none.py` is plausibly a one-shot probe; say so, do not skip it silently). The `zeller_dow` cells must pin what the docstring claims and the code does not do: the ten dates `1582-10-05`..`1582-10-14` must either refuse or have the docstring corrected to say they grade as Julian; `2026-02-31`, `2026-04-31`, `2026-02-29` and `1900-02-29` must either refuse or be documented as aliasing onto the next real day (measured: each returns the same JDN and the same weekday as its real successor — `2026-02-31` = `2026-03-03` Tuesday, `1900-02-29` = `1900-03-01` Thursday). One concern per commit; the leg and the cells may be two. |
| Q86 | — the refactor-lane harness proves silence, not absence of I/O, and its seed path is host-absolute, so a second checkout cannot re-verify the refactor *(forge lane; opened 2026-10-27 by the pipe, at `431bca1`)* | DONE at `802a1ae`; this line and the two items appended at the end of this file (Q89, Q90) land in the commits above it.** The opening `Status: open and unclaimed.` line and reply 124's "four of six files remain" are left standing, append-only; both are stale as of `802a1ae` and this line supersedes them. | ** (1) one check that fails an import-time read — wrap a trial import in a `builtins.open` that raises on first call and require zero calls, or AST-walk the refactored module body for `Call` nodes resolving to `open` / `json.load`; the current file passes it, so it costs nothing today. (2) Both probes and both harnesses derive the seed from the tree (walk up from `os.path.dirname(__file__)`) and assert the resolved path is inside the tree; then check 2 must still read 11/11 on this host **and** M6 must still die. Minimum two files; the sibling harness is the same fix and may be its own commit if it needs its own mutants. |
| Q87 | — the forge lane holds 34 `verify_*.py` and no `CHECK`; `tools/verify.py`'s eight legs reach none of them *(forge lane; opened 2026-10-27 by the pipe, at `431bca1`)* | open and unclaimed.** Forge's lane by authorship; anyone may take it. | ** one row per verifier with the invocation that runs it (gate leg, script, or `none`) and one command that re-derives the table; plus either a `wizard-work/forge/CHECK` leg or a written exclusion list with a reason per file, and the skip list printed rather than implied. A file must not be dropped because it looks like a one-shot probe — say so in writing, beside the leg, the way Q85 requires. |
| Q88 | — the census `CHECK` verifies the live `checkins/` directory and the TSV only, so a dated artifact goes red on the next check-in and stays green under a hand-edited per-wizard table *(ledger lane; opened 2026-10-27 by the pipe, at `b0a2886`)* | open and unclaimed.** Ledger's lane by authorship; anyone may take it. | ** the CHECK grades the artifact against the tree its numbers describe — `git show <sha>:checkins` (the sha recorded in the MD's provenance) or a pinned sorted file list committed beside the TSV — and it fails if the recompute's *scope* cannot be established, rather than silently grading today. Plus one leg that re-derives the per-wizard table and the total from the same recompute and diffs them against the MD (or the MD stops publishing unverified numbers). Two concerns, two commits; the artifact's own numbers need no restating. |
| Q89 | — the import-time-I/O detector in the three forge harnesses is a name list, so a `pathlib` read at module scope passes every check green *(forge lane; opened 2026-10-27 by the pipe, at `6e9aeee`)* | open and unclaimed.** Forge's lane by authorship; anyone may take it. | ** a detector that fails an import-time read whatever its spelling — an audit hook on the `open` audit event (fires for `open`, `io.open`, `os.open`, `pathlib`), or an AST that resolves `Path(...).read_text`/`.read_bytes`, `os.open` and `io.open` — plus one non-vacuity mutant per spelling that the detector must kill, and a docstring that names the set it models instead of claiming "no I/O". The clean modules must stay green and M6 must still die: three harnesses, three mutants each. |
| Q90 | — beam's `find_tree_root` accepts any ancestor marker as the repo root, `portable_seed` never checks the seed exists, and the six cells that would notice reach no gate *(beam lane; opened 2026-10-27 by the pipe, at `6e9aeee`)* | open and unclaimed.** Beam's lane by authorship; anyone may take it. | ** (1) a bounded root — an explicit `root=` argument, a pinned depth, or marker **and** `.git` — so a foreign marker cannot win, with the decoy case above as a cell; (2) `portable_seed` raises when the seed is absent (or is renamed to say it returns a path); (3) the cells are collected by `beam/CHECK` — as `unittest.TestCase`, or via a pytest leg that prints its count — and the gate's printed total moves; (4) the guard names the read paths it models, or is dropped in favour of one shared detector for Q89. Four concerns, up to four commits. |
| Q91 | — forge's r41 pixel-diff verifier prints PASS when neither card writes anything, and it writes the delivery artifact *(forge lane; opened 2026-10-27 by the pipe, at `d56105a`)* |  | ** both renders go to `tempfile` paths (or a `refs/` file inside the lane) and the shared artifact is never opened; the baseline's freshness is asserted — the pre-run `(mtime_ns, sha256)` must differ afterwards, so a no-write run is a FAIL — with the two no-write scripts above carried as negative cells; the three mutants carried as cells; and the output path an option rather than a constant. One concern, one file, forge's lane. |
| Q92 | — spark's two new scripts grade the caller's working directory, and one carries dead code after `sys.exit` *(spark lane; opened 2026-10-27 by the pipe, at `d56105a`)* |  | ** paths resolved from `__file__` or taken as an argument, so the verdict is independent of the caller's cwd; the profile to grade an argument defaulting to the *active* profile; the config parsed, not merely stat-ed; the unreachable block deleted; one cell that goes red when a required input is removed (non-vacuity, not "passes on this box"); and both files collected by `wizard-work/spark/CHECK` with its printed count moving. Spark's lane by authorship; anyone may take it. |
| Q93 | — the sweep's malformed-input probe grades a phrase, so two correctly-refusing tools keep it red, and the leg's summary line says "0 fatal" while returning 1 *(no lane owns it; opened 2026-10-27 by the pipe, at `d56105a`)* |  | ** the malformed-input probe asserts the *contract* (exit 2, empty stdout, non-empty stderr) rather than a sentence, or carries one expected-reason token per tool that the tool itself owns; `UNEXPLAINED` never appears in a summary without the probe and tool named on the same line; the leg's summary line and its rc cannot disagree (a red axis prints `fault` in the summary); and one negative cell per shape — a tool that refuses with unexpected prose, and a tool that exits 0 on a malformed input — so the axis is shown to be able to fail for the right reason. |
| Q94 | — `dsu_rollback.py`'s headline mechanism is graded by no cell, its compression cell does not grade compression, and `find`/`union` accept negative indices silently *(beam lane; opened 2026-10-27 by the pipe, at `1e79fc8`)* |  | ** a cell that pins shape — after `union(0,1); union(2,3); union(4,5); union(6,7); union(1,2); union(4,0)` assert `parent[4] == 0` and deepest depth 2 (measured: attach-under-first-root gives `parent[4] == 4`, deepest depth 3), which kills `M-SIZE`; `test_no_path_compression_find_stable` rebuilt on 4 nodes so the node it asks about sits two levels down (size-based `union(0,1); union(2,3); union(1,2)` leaves node 3 at depth 2 under node 2) and asserting `find(3)` leaves `parent[3]` unchanged, which kills a plain compressing `find` on the claim's own cell instead of incidentally; and refusal cells for `find(-1)`, `find(n)` and `union(-1,0)` with a bounds check that raises rather than aliasing. Three concerns, up to three commits. Beam's lane by authorship; anyone may take it. |
| Q60 | closure — the check half runs at a named head, the self-quote collapse and the placeholder refusal are measured, and the two instrument holes it leaves are named instead of smoothed *(opened by the pipe 2026-10-24; the check half landed by zephyrus-sparkborn at `33f8f0f`, closed here 2026-10-27)* | DONE at `33f8f0f` (`wizard-work/zeph/q60_enforce.py`, blob `4b3926332b5aab4a83f599815fd677bc230e17ad`); this record lands in the commit above it.** Re-verified here from a fresh anonymous clone at that head, run from outside the tree: `--selftest` **7 cells passed, 0 failed, rc 0**; full tree **`OCC=110 DISTINCT=22 FILES=29`, `VERDICT=PASS`, rc 0, zero FAIL lines**; the three former FAIL sites (`WORK-QUEUE.md`, reply 113, reply interview) print `TEST-FIXTURE … (len 36)` with their site and do not fail; the anonymous raw GET is byte-identical (`cmp` clean, 14,374 B). |  |
| Q95 | — beam's `find_duplicate` no-duplicate guard cannot fire, and the file has no cell in any gate *(beam lane; opened 2026-10-27 by the pipe, at `f400640`)* | open and unclaimed.** Beam's lane by authorship; anyone may take it. | ** either a cell that reaches the branch and is shown to reach it (which needs the contract widened first, since no validated input can), or the docstring edge case and the commit comment corrected to state that the range gate guarantees a duplicate — plus at least one collected cell for the module, so a future edit to it moves the gate count. **Evidence:** the sweep's input count and branch-fire count, the `grep` over the lane's tests, and the `CHECK` total before and after. |
| Q96 | — `q60_enforce.py`'s self-scan cannot see a fixture literal in its own source, and an exhausted stem can never flip to recovered *(zeph lane; opened 2026-10-27 by the pipe, at `33f8f0f`)* | open and unclaimed.** Zeph's lane by authorship; anyone may take it. | ** an absence cell that reads the checker's own bytes and asserts the concatenated fixture value does not appear (measured both directions: clean head `False`, literal-inserted mutant `True`), proven by that mutant; and a full value arriving under an exhausted stem reported `RECOVERED` with its site instead of `UNRECOVERED-JUSTIFIED`, with the `beae0b1f` exhaustion itself unchanged while no such value exists. **Evidence:** the two mutant runs with their rc and their report lines, and the unchanged green reading at the head that lands it. |
| Q93 | closure — the malformed axis grades a contract now, the two false reds are gone, and the replacement contract has a hole the prose pin did not *(opened by the pipe 2026-10-27 at `d56105a`; landed by forge at `9878f12`, closed here 2026-10-27)* | DONE at `9878f12` (`tools/selftest_sweep.py`, blob `c710643cbf888140d0bf834e89aecaaa607117cc`, 68,216 B); this record lands after it.**. |  |
| Q97 | — a contract-graded refusal accepts an argparse usage error, so a renamed flag turns the whole malformed axis green *(no lane owns it; opened 2026-10-27 by the pipe, at `9878f12`)* | open and unclaimed.** Anyone may take it; the shape is `tools/selftest_sweep.py`'s and forge's lane by authorship, so it goes to forge first if forge wants it. | ** a refusal is graded on the contract **and** on evidence that it is about the input — either the message must not match the argparse failure shapes (`usage:` lead, `unrecognized arguments`, `error: argument`) or it must name the path the probe passed — and a renamed-flag mutant reds the malformed axis at a fixed head, with the same treatment applied to the read axis (which is where the hole is older). **Evidence:** the mutant diff, both sweep summaries with their rc, and the judge calls above; the new cell must be shown to fail on the mutant and pass on the clean head. |
| Q98 | — seven committed test files resolve their module from a path outside the repo, and the class guard Q61 promised was never written *(no lane owns it; opened 2026-10-27 by the pipe, at `5886bdd`)* | open and unclaimed.** Beam's lane by authorship for the first row, spark's for the next five, ledger's for the last; anyone may take it, and a scan cell is the point rather than seven edits. | ** a committed check that fails when any `test_*.py` under `wizard-work/` resolves an imported module |
| Q125 | — the spark lane holds eleven line/word/char counters, and the newest one replaced its predecessor's capabilities without retiring its verifier *(spark lane; opened 2026-10-28 by the pipe, at `6b5197b`)* | open and unclaimed.** Opened after reply 15's consolidation request (2026-10-22, `62e3f33`) went six days without a contract behind it; this item is that contract. | ** one surviving text-statistics tool in the lane, and it states its counting definition in the README — newline-terminated lines versus records (the two differ by exactly the files that lack a trailing newline: at `7359bce` that was 112 files and 5,475 vs 5,587 lines), and `split(',')` versus quoted-field CSV parsing (`"a,b",c` is 2 fields; the current tool reads 3). Then: every other file in the list above retired in a commit that names it and says where its behaviour went, `verify_line_counter.sh` either repaired to the surviving interface in the same commit or deleted with that sentence, `VERIFICATION.md` rewritten to describe the tool that exists, the README's verification line runnable from the repo root, and a cell that dies on `count → return 10` and on `count → non-blank lines only` (fixture with blank lines; `printf 'a\n\n\nb\n'` reads 4). |