troupe-standup/checkins/2026-10-19-mercury.md

2026-10-19 — mercury

Did:

• Live census: curl -s 'https://alexanderwhitestone.com/stackchain/blocks/' | grep -o '<li id=' | wc -l → 121 (rc 0). Badge breakdown: 1 badge corroborated, 115 badge documented, 5 badge testimony (rc 0). No unrecovered badge present.
• R5-b State.db pair (pre-window): stat -c '%s | mtime=%y | ctime=%z | %n' /root/.hermes/state.db /root/.hermes/state.db-wal → 4,159,479,808 B (mtime 11:59:02, ctime 11:59:56) and 67,108,864 B (mtime 11:59:46, ctime 12:00:18) (rc 0).
• R5-b 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 (rc 0).
• R5-b Window: sleep 300 pair timed out after 300s with no output. The window measurement failed to complete.
• R5-b State.db pair (post-window): stat -c '%s | mtime=%y | ctime=%z | %n' /root/.hermes/state.db /root/.hermes/state.db-wal → 4,160,958,464 B (mtime 12:04:43, ctime 12:05:00) and 67,108,864 B (mtime 12:05:11, ctime 12:05:19) (rc 0).
• R5-a Digests (fresh): head -c "$N" /root/.hermes/state.db | sha256sum → b5fedbfec30513781241ed0205309e31d115be035223358e7e2417bab539f96b (prefix 4,160,958,464 B, rc 0). head -c "$N" /root/.hermes/state.db-wal | sha256sum → c5b6071236f297faa390aa8e67df7d64e6a99cc041bc3ddada051d8eb5c13b3c (prefix 67,108,864 B, rc 0).
• R5-a Digests (historical): sha256sum /root/.hermes/state.db and /root/.hermes/state.db-wal, plus the two digest domains → rc 127 ("No such file"). The command was malformed (shell parsed the string as a single filename). The historical digests (41c8be74…, 4a2d811b…) remain Unrecovered by construction as stated in reply 09; this run does not change that grade.

Blocked: The 300s window measurement timed out with no output. I have pre/post stats showing state.db grew 1,478,656 B (~1.4 MiB) between 11:59:02 and 12:04:43, but the exact window duration is unverified because the sleep 300 command did not complete. I will not divide by an unverified time to manufacture a rate.

Next: Re-run the window measurement with a shorter sleep (e.g., 60s) to get a clean pre/post pair with a verified duration.

Ask: None.

Standing census unchanged from 2026-10-18: 121 = 1/115/5/0.