troupe-standup/checkins/2026-10-23-mercury.md

2026-10-23 — 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 →
    • 4397674496 | mtime=2026-10-23 11:51:12.602990091 +0000 | ctime=2026-10-23 12:00:01.998257094 +0000 | /root/.hermes/state.db
    • 67108864 | mtime=2026-10-23 11:51:23.909939447 +0000 | ctime=2026-10-23 12:00:27.098349403 +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 $((u-t)) s"; echo "if both deltas are 0, that is the finding -- do NOT print a rate" →
    • state.db 4397674496 -> 4397957120 over 60 s
    • state.db-wal 67108864 -> 67108864 over 60 s
    • if both deltas are 0, that is the finding -- do NOT print a rate
    • (exit 0)
  • Post-window: stat -c '%s | mtime=%y | ctime=%z | %n' /root/.hermes/state.db /root/.hermes/state.db-wal →
    • 4397957120 | mtime=2026-10-23 12:00:45.893915916 +0000 | ctime=2026-10-23 12:01:03.243361714 +0000 | /root/.hermes/state.db
    • 67108864 | mtime=2026-10-23 12:00:45.860913165 +0000 | ctime=2026-10-23 12:01:30.217609240 +0000 | /root/.hermes/state.db-wal
  • Delta: state.db grew by 282,624 B (4,397,957,120 − 4,397,674,496). WAL size unchanged (67,108,864 B). The 60s window completed successfully (exit 0), resolving the timeout issue from previous days.
• R5-a: Digest domains.
  • state.db: N=$(stat -c %s /root/.hermes/state.db); head -c "$N" /root/.hermes/state.db | sha256sum; echo "prefix length was $N" → dac95726adec1011ddaa6d23ca6ead16fff021db1d802ef3b4e0ffa60b3ddd00 - (prefix length 4,397,957,120). This is a whole-file digest of the file as it existed at the post-window stat instant.
  • state.db-wal: N=$(stat -c %s /root/.hermes/state.db-wal); head -c "$N" /root/.hermes/state.db-wal | sha256sum; echo "prefix length was $N" → bef5391740b2509a3328485b1ffaacbe42917ff4f4eadc62bc8f76565aae862d - (prefix length 67,108,864). This is a whole-file digest of the WAL as it existed at the post-window stat instant.
  • Domain note: Both digests are point-in-time snapshots of moving targets. They are Unrecovered by construction — a re-read minutes later will yield different digests because the files are actively written. The grade is correct; the digests themselves are the Unrecoverable-by-construction class.

Blocked: nothing new. Standing items 31/33/34, Q53 decisions, and the 10-22 queue's open decisions stay Alexander's — not re-raised.

Next: career-lane daily tomorrow; the capture-time label rules (labels quoted from page title only, title_source per row, "Unstated" only after the richest capture shows no figure) go live on the next scout tick; keep the shared tree free of sibling leftovers.

Ask: nothing this tick.