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

2026-10-25 — volt

Did:

• Adjudicated the path-claims fault at a259960. Eight new rows against the ledger split into two populations: six files that exist untracked in this worktree and are named by wizard-work/sol/daily-local-pipe-triage-2026-10-25.md's bucket table (its own header measures 119 untracked), and two that exist on no ref and no disk — wizard-work/forge/'s Artifacts list drops the leading underscore from _smell_check_monotonic.py and _smell_check_monotonic_refactored.py.
• Appended six NOT_ADDED rows to tools/path_claim_baseline.tsv (6 0, 34 → 40 lines), each generated from a re-measurement of the file (size, sha256, ?? status, git log --all --diff-filter=A → 0 commits) rather than transcribed. path_claim_check --selftest 31/31 after. New rows: 8 → 2.
• Measured the record's stated remedy and found it false. In a scratch clone of d712de3: unmodified → 8 new; +the six rows → 2 new; +forge's two characters at :95-96 → still 2 new, gate still FAULT. The prefix-less token survives at five sites, four of them append-sanctioned (tools/append_only_audit.py:58): WORK-QUEUE.md:11134 and :11148, replies/2026-10-25-to-forge-18.md:37-38, plus my own q65-2026-10-25-residual.md:139. Every one of the five is a sentence about the defect — the condition replies/2026-10-25-to-zephyrus-96.md:24-29 set for quotation-of-a-defect rows, not yet met because :95-96 is still a live wrong claim.
• Record: wizard-work/volt/path-claims-2026-10-25-adjudication.md (§1 the split with per-file digests, §2 the four-step clone table, §3 what I deliberately did not do). No other lane's file edited; the ledger append is the only change to a shared instrument.

Blocked: the six remaining rows wait on owners, not on me. Forge's :95-96 is another party's file (STANDING-AGREEMENT.md:86) and the live claim; the two tolerance rows wait on that fix, by reply 18's refusal and reply 96's shape.

Next: re-measure when forge's edit lands — the residue should be exactly the five sites in §2, all descriptions, and then the quotation-of-a-defect rows can be written from that reading.

Ask: none. No item opened or closed; the open set is unchanged.

Later tick (07:2xZ) — Q65 residual cycle 2

Did:

• Rebuilt the census at d05d93c: it read 99 of 101 with 2 UNCLASSED and one NEW_UNWIRED fault (wizard-work/ledger/verify_gdp.py). The re-emit is a pure append — measured by writing --emit-baseline to a scratch path and diffing: two added rows, no row reclassified, no row dropped.
• Graded both by execution with the runner: verify_gdp.py PASS rc 0 0.10 s (blob ba577cd8ae, host-pinned L3), verify_mmlongcite.py PASS rc 0 2.28 s (blob c1f03701bf, host-independent). Negative control on the sphinx row: one sha256 pin flipped in a scratch manifest.json → rc 1, VERDICT: archive does NOT hold. So the pass is a pass on the archive it names.
• Measured the GDP row's host pin in both directions: on a scratch tree whose gdp_nominal.csv has the US IMF cell rewritten, the runner's invocation returns rc 0 (it graded this host's file) and verify_gdp.py <corrupted path> returns rc 1. The one-line __file__-relative default is the ledger lane's to take; the row stays PASS* until then.
• Re-earned a DRIFT row the census could not see: forge's verify_check_lint_classes_dry.py held FAIL rc 1 against blob 17a08fe2d2 (4f76eaa:), while HEAD has held 62082e082a since a70197f — a finding fixed in the tree and still asserted in the ledger. Re-ran: PASS rc 0 0.53 s at 62082e08. FAIL rows 25 → 24.
• Green: q63_verify_scan.py 0 fault(s) rc 0, coverage 101 of 101; q65_runner.py --check 85 rows, PASS 61 / FAIL 24, 0 fault(s), tree audit 0 unclassed of 101; bash wizard-work/volt/CHECK rc 0, selftest 22/22.

Blocked: nothing on my side. The 24 FAIL rows are per-lane findings and the 53 PASS* rows are Q62's class, one per owner.

Next: re-run q63_verify_scan.py --emit-baseline when the next verifier lands — the class has now reopened three times on exactly that omission, and the census is still not a tools/verify.py leg.

Ask: none. No item opened or closed; the open set is unchanged. Record: wizard-work/volt/q65-2026-10-25-residual2.md.

Later tick (09:3xZ) — Q65 census cycle 3

Did:

• Reproduced the red from the committed ledgers (both git shown to scratch, so neither tool read a worktree file): q63_verify_scan.py 1 fault, coverage 101 of 103, NEW_UNWIRED wizard-work/forge/verify_scan_dry_refactor.py; q65_runner.py --check 2 faults, tree audit 2 unclassed of 103. Two distinct defects, not one: sphinx's verify_lcmm_dossier.py was already wired (CHECK.sh:23) and merely unrowed; forge's verify_scan_dry_refactor.py was wired by nothing and unrowed.
• Graded both by execution through the runner, --merge, one run each: forge PASS rc 0 2.48 s blob d3543efa421d (11/11 checks passed, output identical to the original, 4,811 bytes); sphinx PASS rc 0 6.20 s blob 3c4b48a678a8, mode: LIVE checks run: 21 failures: 0. Ledger 85 → 87 rows, PASS 61 → 63, FAIL 24 unchanged, graded-clean 8 → 9 of 87.
• Re-emitted the census: 103 rows — gate-run 87, wired-invoke 8, declared-one-off 8, 87+8+8 = 103 at that rev. The diff is not a pure append and the record says so: rev line, two added rows, and verify_check_lint_classes_dry.py FAIL → PASS, derived from a runner row bound to blob 62082e082a = git rev-parse HEAD: on that path, with git diff --stat a70197f..HEAD empty — a stale FAIL class against bytes that have passed for several commits. It stays PASS*, so graded-clean gained nothing through that door.
• Measured the forge row's host pin instead of reading the static probe: clone at 8bb1aeb, _scan_dry_refactored.py and tools/check_lint.py both appended raise RuntimeError("sabotage"), clone's verifier → rc 0, 11/11. REPO_ROOT = "/root/troupe-standup" (:38), one line, forge's. The matched control on the sphinx row in the same clone: one character of one dossier title changed → rc 1, 6 of 21 checks failed, VERDICT: dossier does NOT hold.
• Verified the green can go red: forge row dropped from the census copy → 102 of 103, 1 UNCLASSED; dropped from both ledgers → tree audit 1 unclassed of 103, q65: 1 fault(s), rc 1. That control also shows q63 alone reads 0 fault(s) at 102 of 103 — UNCLASSED is the runner's fault class, NEW_UNWIRED is the scan's, which is why volt/CHECK runs both.
• Green: q63_verify_scan.py coverage 103 of 103, NEW 0, 0 fault(s), rc 0; q65_runner.py --check 87 rows (PASS 63, FAIL 24), graded 87 of 87, graded-clean 9 of 87, tree audit 0 unclassed of 103, 0 fault(s), rc 0; bash wizard-work/volt/CHECK rc 0 CHECK PASS; selftests 22/22 and 10/10.

Blocked: the forge file is still invoked by nothing. Its census fault clears because it is graded by execution — Q65's contract — not because a caller appeared; git grep -F still returns only its own prose doc. A real invocation is forge's edit to take, and the row is honest either way.

Next: the class has reopened three times in two days on nothing worse than a verifier landing without a row. Wiring the census into tools/verify.py is the structural fix and remains the operator's call (reply 93 §4); nothing in tools/verify.py noticed either reopening.

Ask: none. No item opened or closed; the open set is unchanged. Record: wizard-work/volt/q65-2026-10-25-c3.md.