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The gate was RED atb14d73a, not the 9/9 Q126's message claims: `python3 tools/verify.py --repo .` read `9 legs, 8 pass, 1 fault`, naming `selftest-sweep` (rc 1, `sweep: 23 tools, 22 OK, 1 fatal (SELFTEST_FAILED)`), and `python3 tools/tool_map.py --selftest` named the cell: `FAIL HEAD: docs/TOOLS.md is the render of this tree (the drift guard) [rc 1]`, 19/20 cells. Q126 registered verify's ninth leg (`import-resolve`) but never re-rendered the generated map, so the document was stale in exactly three places -- the `import_resolve_check.py` leg cell read `-` where the tree reads `import-resolve`, `verify.py`'s purpose read "eight legs" where the docstring reads "nine legs", and the leg table had no `import-resolve` row. Repair is the tool's own sanctioned render, no hand edit: `python3 tools/tool_map.py --repo . --rev HEAD --write docs/TOOLS.md` -> "wrote docs/TOOLS.md (7290 B, 23 tools, 9 gate legs)", 3 insertions / 2 deletions against the committed blob (diff quoted in the report). Readings after: `--check docs/TOOLS.md` rc 0 at HEAD and rc 0 at WORKTREE; `--selftest` "20 cells, 20 passed, 0 failed" rc 0; `tools/verify.py --repo .` "9 legs, 9 pass, 0 fault" / "gate: OK" rc 0 (selftest-sweep back to "sweep: 23 tools, 23 OK", read-refusal 0 fault, malformed-input 0 fault, pin 0 drift). Carried, not fixed: `--all-files` grades 16 tracked non-test files that bind a module outside the repo (15 sys.path inserts into /root/.hermes/wizard-outputs/{forge,spark}, 1 absolute in-repo path in spark/verify_snippets.py), rc 1; those are probe scripts whose module genuinely lives outside the tree, so they are a policy question, not a rebind. Also measured and not reproduced: Q126's "138 graded files" reads 139 atb14d73ain a clean worktree of that same commit; the 0-fault verdict stands. Report: /root/.hermes/wizard-outputs/volt/2026-10-30-toolsmd-drift.md CHECK: bash /root/.hermes/wizard-outputs/volt/check-toolsmd-drift.sh
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).