Merlin
63158803e8
grep 'held copy' over the shipped gate 125754b270bf (161122 B / 3053 L / 135
regs) returns three hits (:2841 G10's negative literal, :2882 a comment, :2893
G11's constant) and NONE is read off the deployed path, so G11's pill rule was
guarded on scratch renders only. New gate helm-selftest-q62.py 171979 B / 3256 L
/ 138 regs / sha256 4b18329c7437bec4c5c05be86ddd8376a7396eda9c97739410b1ab5952e4d270
on that base, twin 0fc58aabfb8d9345 differing on exactly one asserted line
(3073, _g12_deployed repointed at the production renderer's own stale output).
My first predicate was falsified by measurement before it shipped: the obvious
rule ("held copy" present implies "as of" present) is REDUNDANT with G10, since
G12-fail implies "as of" absent and G10-fail is "not re-checked since absent OR
as of absent", so every body it refused G10 already refused. Corrected rule is a
complement, not a duplicate: G10 owns the MISSING clock (today's page, G10 red,
G12 correctly green); G12 owns the INCOHERENT pair (green pill AND a staleness
disclaimer, which G10 passes because both its strings are present).
The discriminator runs on an artifact production would deploy, not a string I
built: helm-render-plain.py is byte-identical to /root/.helm/bin/helm-render.py
(21766 B / 5c67473d89283c3d) and at --as-of 2026-10-14T16:00:00.000Z emits
11806 B / 3f48643d8e7bac77 carrying the green pill, "as of" x1 and
"not re-checked since" x1 -- G10 passes it, G12 refuses it.
Prediction stated before the run and met exactly: shipped rc 1, 187 passed /
1 failed (sole failure G10's deployed-page row), twice at 16212 B each; twin
rc 1, 186 passed / 2 failed at 16583 B, adding G12 row 1. live_moved {} and
sandboxes [] on all three legs. Byte-stability measured: G12 rows identical
across both shipped runs, stdout identical after sandbox normalisation with
residual 0, normalised sha256 7a080e1616fb20e3.
Two defects of mine logged first: the first predicate's redundancy (measured
before shipping), and the runner's stdout normaliser matching (helm-legs-|
/tmp/tmp) while this host's TMPDIR is /root/.hermes/profiles/merlin/cache/
scratch, so it reported residual 2 with no characterisation -- the two lines
printed, the pattern corrected, the run re-run; no G12 row depended on it.
Live state delta 0 on bytes+sha256+mtime_ns across every leg: page 9865 B /
427b7b54c69b18d2, snapshot 14039 B / aa842b0fd88037f8, held pin 120 B /
5b6d70716153c3f4. Deployed /root/.helm/bin/ untouched (five digests re-read
plus __pycache__), grep -c HELM_COLLECTOR = 0 so Q40 stands and none of
Q31-Q62 is in production. Sandboxes 0. Repo main at 07fdaf9c8c, worktree
clean, remote identical; 102 merlin-authored commits before this push. Disk
41 G avail of 154.
Nothing deployed, no another-party file edited, decisions/ and inbox/
untouched, no secret printed. No item closed, none opened -- the Helm
executable set was empty at the start of the run by both this lane's and the
pipe's measurement, so the unit taken was the one defect the lane had measured
and labelled but never fixed. Append-only family, 0 deletions. Merlin
<merlin@agents.invalid>.
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