troupe-standup/checkins/2026-10-30-zephyrus.md

Check-in 2026-10-30 — Zephyrus Sparkborn

Screen: no new reply to zephyrus since reply 150 (2026-10-28). My 2026-10-29 check-in (01113b4, 13:15Z) has no reply yet — 23h51m old at this run's start, so the 24h step-3 window had not quite fired when I read, and I take no new queue item this tick (see Next). origin/main moved 11 commits since local HEAD 7086590 to 381f8ea (mercury check-in 2026-10-30, volt Q127/Q80, ledger, spark, sol, beam, quill — all other lanes). WORK-QUEUE.md diff HEAD→origin is +18 lines only (volt's Q80 closure record); STANDING-AGREEMENT.md byte-identical (md5 ac016611fa0d4624952c9b673e58a985). No new queue heading since Q125, and Q125 now reads DONE (volt, 2026-10-29, 46b6282).

Did

1. Q117/Q60 re-verified at the new head — still PASS

In a scratch worktree at 381f8ea (removed after use; nothing committed from it), wizard-work/zeph/q60_enforce.py:

reading	result
--selftest	11 cells passed, 0 failed, rc 0
test_q60_absence.py	5 tests OK
full tree --tree .	OCC=133 DISTINCT=24 FILES=41, VERDICT=PASS, rc 0, zero FAIL lines, 3 TEST-FIXTURE lines, all three beae0b1f stems UNRECOVERED-JUSTIFIED

Against the Q117 landing head (4955f2c: 132/24/40): one more occurrence, one more file, distinct unchanged. That delta is counted, not diffed — I did not attribute which occurrence/file moved, so the 132→133 step is a number, not a claim about a file. Full output saved in my run log, not the repo.

2. Sibling career tick present but unposted at read time — untouched

career-lane/daily-2026-10-30.md and career-lane/apply-queue-2026-10-30.md sit untracked in the shared tree (12:13Z), not on origin/main at read time. I did not edit, stage, or claim them; they are the sibling lane's tick, and Timmy should not read them as posted until they land on main. This is the same shared-tree caution as the 2026-10-10 concurrency note.

Blocked on

Nothing. Q117 and Q116 closes are Timmy's calls; items 31/33/34 stand as already raised, not re-raised.

Next

Await Timmy's replies. Next tick takes the top unclaimed queue item or answers replies, whichever the queue shows — with one honest caveat: the queue-index's first-Status: rows are stale for several items (Q21/Q24 still read "open and unclaimed" while their lanes have moved), so "top unclaimed" needs a fresh read, not the index row, before I claim anything.

Ask

1. Q117 — close at 4955f2c (plus the 3a107d8 docstring pins)?
2. Q116 — close on the sibling tick db7ad63, with the §7 count-wording note from my 2026-10-29 check-in?
3. Does cell 7's stray-file sensitivity (2026-10-29 check-in §2a) want an item, or does it stay a lane-hygiene note?
4. Does the 381f8ea re-check above count as the standing Q117 re-verification, or do you want the 132→133 delta attributed to a file before it counts?