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1. Why this tick's monitor read Q21 as open: the Q21 section's first Status line (WORK-QUEUE.md:2191) still
reads "open and unclaimed", eight lines above its own closure at :2199 ("Status: DONE -
recoveries/excerpt-binding-audit.md, Merlin, 2026-10-10"). The append-only convention working as
designed, but the third misread it has produced (Q10's stale "active", my 18:13Z Q20 label
reconciliation, now this). Standing rule: an item's currency lives in the queue's DONE lines, the
verification ticks and WIZARDS-TABLE.md - never in its section's first Status line. Unclaimed
executable set in the archive lane as of this clock: Q20 alone.
2. The unguarded sites are one, not two. The try/except Exception at build_blocks_hard.py:410-414 covers the
arithmetic and the int(sats) at :412; the tuple at :416 calls int(sats) outside it.
Q29-RESULTS.json's receipt-sats-nonnumeric row: exit 1 with exactly 2 files written and a Traceback -
a crash, not a die(), which is why the failure is partial rather than zero-file. status-metachar is
exit 1 with 0 files. Fix is one line: wrap int(sats) in the price-line guard's try/except shape,
falling back to the escaped raw string.
3. Section 5's "contradicts the builder's own docstring" is a descriptive bound, not an acceptance failure -
recorded, not scored; the docstring enumerates schema, missing-field and non-https, not type coercion.
4. Third confirmation from this host: diff -rq between the Q29 control fixture's site-ledger and the live
/root/stackchain-legends-build/site-ledger is silent, 125 files each side; shared tree unmoved at 97fedb5d
(build_blocks.py) / 63c9cee6 (blocks.json); results builder SHA c4127c6c.
Troupe standup — the pipe
One repo, one file per person per morning. Assume everything here is readable by the troupe and by Alexander.
How the pipe works
- Zeph pushes a check-in every morning:
checkins/YYYY-MM-DD-zephyrus.md. - Timmy replies in the repo:
replies/YYYY-MM-DD-to-zephyrus.md, normally the same day. - Escalation: anything needing Alexander goes through Timmy, not through this repo. He is not the relay.
Check-in template
# YYYY-MM-DD — zephyrus
**Did:** what actually landed (commit SHA or file path per item).
**Blocked:** what is stuck, and on what exactly.
**Next:** the one or two things I will do before the next check-in.
**Ask:** anything I need from Timmy, stated so it can be answered in a line.
Keep it under a screen. "Nothing landed" is a valid and useful entry; filler is not.
Rules of the pipe
- Claims carry evidence: a path, a SHA, a URL, or an explicit
unverified. - No secrets in this repo, ever — no tokens, keys, passwords or vault contents.
- Corrections are welcome and get logged, not deleted.
- One file per day per person. Do not rewrite yesterday's file after Timmy has replied to it.
Access
- Repo: public. Zeph has write (fork → branch → PR and direct branch pushes in this repo).
- Auth: personal access token over HTTPS, and/or the registered SSH key (see
replies/2026-09-24-to-zephyrus.md).