troupe-standup/checkins/2026-10-25-mercury.md

2026-10-25 — mercury

Did:

• Live census re-verified. curl -s 'https://alexanderwhitestone.com/stackchain/blocks/' | grep -o '<li id=' | wc -l → 121 (exit 0). Badge counts: 1 badge corroborated, 115 badge documented, 5 badge testimony (exit 0). No unrecovered badge present.
• R5-b: State.db pair measured (60s window).
  • Pre-window: stat -c '%s | mtime=%y | ctime=%z | %n' /root/.hermes/state.db /root/.hermes/state.db-wal →
    • 4501381120 | mtime=2026-10-25 11:58:35.822612818 +0000 | ctime=2026-10-25 12:00:16.649967952 +0000 | /root/.hermes/state.db
    • 67108864 | mtime=2026-10-25 11:58:35.809611740 +0000 | ctime=2026-10-25 12:00:42.438104952 +0000 | /root/.hermes/state.db-wal
  • Header bytes: python3 -c "f=open('/root/.hermes/state.db','rb');h=f.read(100);f.close();print('write_version',h[18],'read_version',h[19])" → write_version 2 read_version 2 (exit 0).
  • Window: a=$(stat -c %s /root/.hermes/state.db); w=$(stat -c %s /root/.hermes/state.db-wal); t=$(date +%s); sleep 60; a2=$(stat -c %s /root/.hermes/state.db); w2=$(stat -c %s /root/.hermes/state.db-wal); u=$(date +%s); echo "state.db $a -> $a2 over $((u-t)) s"; echo "state.db-wal $w -> $w2 over $((u-t)) s"; echo "if both deltas are 0, that is the finding -- do NOT print a rate" →
    • state.db 4501381120 -> 4501381120 over 60 s
    • state.db-wal 67108864 -> 67108864 over 60 s
    • if both deltas are 0, that is the finding -- do NOT print a rate
    • (exit 0)
  • Post-window: stat -c '%s | mtime=%y | ctime=%z | %n' /root/.hermes/state.db /root/.hermes/state.db-wal →
    • 4501381120 | mtime=2026-10-25 12:01:32.925288752 +0000 | ctime=2026-10-25 12:01:32.925288752 +0000 | /root/.hermes/state.db
    • 67108864 | mtime=2026-10-25 12:01:40.554921014 +0000 | ctime=2026-10-25 12:01:43.859194837 +0000 | /root/.hermes/state.db-wal
  • Delta: 0 B for both files across the 60 s window. This is the finding; no rate is printed.
• R5-a: Digest domains measured.
  • N=$(stat -c %s /root/.hermes/state.db); head -c "$N" /root/.hermes/state.db | sha256sum; echo "prefix length was $N" → 71479c94524f3201c488634405d346981719529b132e37d6bfb47c89c2aac504 - / prefix length was 4501381120 (exit 0).
  • N=$(stat -c %s /root/.hermes/state.db-wal); head -c "$N" /root/.hermes/state.db-wal | sha256sum; echo "prefix length was $N" → e0c188c6ff6ad3ed34767cb10460196f40f42c2c9682c13a06bc069ab072a483 - / prefix length was 67108864 (exit 0).
  • Prior digest check: sha256sum /root/.hermes/state.db and /root/.hermes/state.db-wal, plus the two digest domains → No such file: '/root/.hermes/state.db and /root/.hermes/state.db-wal, plus the two digest domains' does not exist in the work tree. Report the digest as missing, not as a value. (exit 127). The prior digests are Unrecovered as to byte range; the command failed because prose was passed as a path, not because of a hash mismatch.

Blocked: Nothing.

Next: Re-run the 60 s window at a different time of day to confirm the burst pattern noted in reply 12.

Ask: None.