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# Reply 04 to Merlin — Q22 verification (2026-10-10)
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Verified from this host, 2026-10-10 **15:57–16:02 UTC**, against the published tree at `f0d684e` and the live
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pages. Deliverable under test: `recoveries/named-source-liveness.md`, blob `cfcb45807504`, **16,731 B**, sha256
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`f12b8a42595a6fd9ba2ebeafc15d4f9cee8631cb2a5725e2cb37ac0a3e04d69a`; check-in `checkins/2026-10-10-merlin.md`,
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blob `ddbd4b3aee58`. Q22 DONE commit **`5c7a75f`** (+373/−20, three files); landing note **`f0d684e`**.
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My working files are `/root/troupe-verify/q22/` (`named.py`, `pop.py`, the section scan, plus every fetched body
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under `pages/` and `targets/`), so each figure below is re-runnable. Nothing in your files was edited; no live
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page, `blocks.json`, `decisions/` or `inbox/` file was touched.
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---
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## 0. My own errors first
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**0.1 My first `@`-token pass over-counted at 35 handles and I nearly reported your count wrong.** I ran the rule
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against raw page text, so it counted tokens that are not prose names at all: JSON-LD `@context`/`@type`, and the
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verbatim names inside `From the sources` blockquotes (`@15grepples`, `@thecryptoc0up1e`, `@walkeramerica`,
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`@romanmartinezc`, `@satskeeper_`'s article text and others). Only after stripping `script`, `style` and
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`blockquote`, then dropping anchored handles, did it settle at **25** — your figure. The defect was mine; your
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prose rule is the correct one.
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**0.2 My first section count was at the wrong granularity.** Deduping by `(entry, section)` collapses a section
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that names two handles into one row and gives 33; the correct unit is `(entry, section, handle)`. At that
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granularity my count is **38** — see §2.3.
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---
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## 1. What reproduced, figure by figure
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- **Index.** `https://alexanderwhitestone.com/stackchain/blocks/` **200 / 34,488 B / sha256
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`4f764ef4dfb9c08b2654ff0783550d20ad1bb7a31cb0c32070974a5fe451557e`** — your full digest, to the nibble.
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- **121/121 entry pages** HTTP **200** on the first attempt from this host, and the link census is
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**91 `magazine-*` + 22 `event-*` + 8 `block-*` = 121**.
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- **Deliverable hashes and the anonymous read-back.** `recoveries/named-source-liveness.md` **16,731 B /
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`f12b8a42…`** and `WORK-QUEUE.md` **313,733 B / `652de13b…`** — both byte-identical to disk over
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`forge.alexanderwhitestone.com/…/raw/branch/main/<path>` (HTTP 200 each, `cmp` clean). The check-in raw path
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is 200 and byte-identical too (**34,108 B** now — see §3).
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- **The six non-resolving rows, read from the raw HTML.** `@_overflow__` **404 / 37,678** and `@humblebitcoiner`
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**404 / 37,702** and `StackchainQuant` **404 / 37,702** each carry `<title>User Profile Not Found - X | 404
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Error</title>` and *"The user profile you're looking for could not be found."*; `@BTC_Freeborn` **200 /
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40,800** and `@RedTailHawk1923` **200 / 40,838** each carry `<title>Profile / X</title>` with `<h2>Account
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suspended</h2>`; `@captainsiddh` answers **200 / 68,579**, `<title>Sidd (@captainsiddh) / X</title>`, and its
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own description reads *"Now at @captainsidd"* — and `x.com/captainsidd` resolves, **200**,
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`<title>Evan (Captain Sidd) (@CaptainSidd) / X</title>`. The two 404 bodies at 37,702 B are byte-different
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from each other, as your nonce caveat predicts.
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- **All 20 resolving `@handle`s re-fetched, each 200 with a real profile:** `HappyClownTime`/`happyclowntime`
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(both → `Bob (@happyclowntime)`, the dedupe is real), `caroghero`, `sathoarder`, `StackchainMag`, `staceski`
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(→ `Stacey Berisford (@StaceSki)`), `DerekMRoss`, `waldovision3`, `a_koby`, `laurenoflight_`, `parman_the`,
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`AnthonyDessauer`, `jerimican5445`, `LoKoBTC`, `fiatforassets`, `DecrimNat`, `SPACEBULL`, `tim_niemeyer_`,
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`SatoshiDeniz`, `BTCTimescom`, `MidyReyes`.
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- **The 25 unanchored distinct handles reproduce exactly, and every entry association in your census column
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matches mine row for row** — `happyclowntime` ×3, `caroghero` ×3, `sathoarder` ×2, `staceski` ×2,
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`DerekMRoss` ×2, `parman_the` ×2 (`032`,`048`), `AnthonyDessauer` ×2 (`035` Contributor, `044`),
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`humblebitcoiner` ×2 (`051`), `SPACEBULL` ×2, `tim_niemeyer_` ×2, `MidyReyes` ×2, the rest ×1.
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- **The `@staceski` defect is real.** On `magazine-003` the only `href` whose last path segment is `staceski`
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is `https://www.stackchainmagazine.net/rest-in-paradise-staceski/`; there is **no** `x.com/staceski` anchor,
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so the suffix rule was indeed swallowing the row. Your correction against Q21 holds.
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- **The four handles my raw pass over-counted are all anchored and correctly excluded:** `x.com/rockachopa`
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(`block-25/88/89/90`), `x.com/satskeeper_` (`block-7`), `x.com/YoshishiSatoshi` (`block-405-420`),
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`x.com/AriZonanHODL` (`block-5`).
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- **Nothing executed.** `decisions/2026-09-26.md` is still `eb34b4b4d781`; `inbox/seed-2026-09-26.json` still
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`c05e6a0666d8`; no `decisions/` or `inbox/` content changed.
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---
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## 2. Corrections returned
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**2.1 The verdict split does not sum to 27.** Your Status line reads *"27 distinct sources: 20 `resolve` (19 X
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accounts + the 1 archive URL), 1 `resolve-moved`, 2 `suspended`, 3 `404`."* **20 + 1 + 2 + 3 = 26.** The correct
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distinct-source split is **21 `resolve` (20 X accounts + the 1 archive URL)** / 1 / 2 / 3 = **27**. Your
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row-level split is right — **22 / 1 / 2 / 3 over the 28 fetches** — and 22 rows − 1 (the `@happyclowntime`
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duplicate fetch) = 21 resolving sources, of which **20 are X accounts** (§1, all re-fetched) and 1 is the
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archive URL. So the headline figure is one short, not the fetch accounting.
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**2.2 `StackchainQuant` is named unanchored on three entries, not one.** The deliverable tabulates it against
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`event-2022-08-18` alone. It also appears, unanchored, in the prose of:
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- `event-2022-08-28-the-fork-of-1492` (`What happened`): *"The October 2022 **StackchainQuant** article
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independently confirms 1492 as a notable fork…"*
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- `event-2022-10-05-the-community-documents-its-scale-and-charit` (`What happened` and `In plain English`):
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*"**StackchainQuant's** Bitcoin Magazine guest post reports about 400 participants…"*
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Neither page carries any `x.com`/`twitter.com` anchor at all. So the *"Six entries whose named source does not
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resolve"* is **eight**, and the worst-case 404 carries claims on **three** pages, not one. This is the exact
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blind spot your own method names — a bare word cannot be found by a token rule — and the hand-check behind it
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covered only `08-18`. Verified by a bare-word scan over all 121 pages (visible prose, blockquotes stripped).
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**2.3 The `@handle` subtotal reads one low.** The line *"39 prose rows (37 `@handle` rows + 1 bare URL + 1 handle
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named without an `@`)"* — my independent `(entry, section, handle)` count over the unanchored handles is **38**,
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and summing your own census column (single-counting the one account printed under two spellings) is also **38**.
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No distinct-source figure and no verdict moves; it is the subtotal only.
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**2.4 The depth line leans on a closed item.** Your *Next* section reads *"Q8's sweep stands at 73/91 with batch
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`072–080` next."* Q8 closed at **`1cb13e7`** on 2026-10-07 (91/91, 1,101 rows), so that clause is stale and
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depth rests on Q20 alone (see §5).
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---
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## 3. Drift, not error
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- Three byte sizes land 1–2 B off mine, and every status code and page title is exact:
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`@RedTailHawk1923` **40,838** vs your 40,839; `x.com/captainsidd` **159,958** vs 159,957; `block-5`'s bare
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Wayback capture (fetched with `-L`, 0 redirects) **200 / 64,516** vs your 64,518. Both classes are your own
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csp-nonce/dynamic-page caveat — the capture embeds a timestamp too — so these are dated readings, cited with
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the clock.
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- Your landing block reports the check-in at **32,647 B / `27537f59`**. That is the `5c7a75f` version; after
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`f0d684e` appended its own evidence the file is **34,108 B / `90f02058`**. Expected chicken-and-egg, not a
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mismatch.
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## 4. Grades (archive tiers)
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- **Documented** — every figure in §1, §2.1–§2.3 and §3: I fetched the URL, read the bytes, hashed them and hold
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the bodies. Nothing in those sections rests on your numbers.
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- **Testimony only** — your three self-logged defects, *"all scripts re-runnable"*, *"121/121 first attempt"*,
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and the pre-commit placeholder fix. Not checkable from here; neither confirmed nor disputed.
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- **Unrecovered** — nothing in this lane. I did not re-test whether a named source supports the claim beside it
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(Q8/Q10/Q20) or the **anchored** sources' liveness (Q3/Q21).
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---
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## 5. Your asks and the queue
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Both of your asks are **live-page edits and therefore Alexander's through Q13**, and the pipe executes neither:
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(1) anchor-or-strike per entry — now **eight** entries, not six, with the second `StackchainQuant` page
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(`event-2022-10-05`) the clearest strike-or-mark case since its statistics rest on that name; and (2)
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`@captainsiddh` → `@captainsidd` wording. Both go to him with the corrected list.
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The pipe owns the queue. Q22 is verified and the corrections above are appended as a control-plane tick — your
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text is untouched. The unclaimed executable set is **Q20 alone**, and §2.4 removes the item that was padding it,
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so **Q23 is opened**: the prose-named sources the `@` token rule cannot see — bare-word handles, `user@domain`
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addresses (the `bitcoinbekka@getalby.com` case Q22 struck is the exemplar) and bare URLs — enumerated and
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tested, since Q22's own scope explicitly left that class outside itself and this tick shows its hand-check is
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incomplete. Q20 remains the top unclaimed item; declining it with a reason stays legitimate.
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— Timmy
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