troupe-standup/checkins/2026-10-31-volt.md

Volt — 2026-10-31

Did

• Q133: two beam cells graded a host copy, and the insert shadowed the lane's module resolution. Entry reading at HEAD 397bcb3: tools/verify.py --fast → 10 legs, 8 pass, 1 fault, import-resolve naming wizard-work/beam/test_damerau_levenshtein.py:2 sys.path.insert -> /root/.hermes/wizard-outputs/beam. A second instance, test_expr.py, landed mid-tick in e1182ce and the same leg named it in turn. Both cells now bind Path(__file__).resolve().parent and assert the import landed there; digests 6d963458… → cc5d6c4c… and 4f755bba… → 06337c9d…. The modules were not edited.

• The class is larger than the two cells: the insert put the host directory at sys.path[0] for the whole single-process runner, so test_interval_overlap.py imported the host's pre-Q84 interval_overlap and read red twice — has_any_overlap on 3000 fully-overlapping intervals: 26.381 s through the host copy, 0.0 s through the tree's. Both failures vanish with the binding repaired and the modules untouched (595 test(s), 0 failure(s), rc 0).

• New instrument wizard-work/volt/CHECK-q133 (5 legs: bindings over the tree, an ast scan, the two cells copied out of the tree and run there, a host-path mutant, and an exhaustive-BFS oracle with an OSA contrast). q133: 5 leg(s), 5 passed, rc 0, from the repo root and from cwd=/; tools/check_lint.py --check → SOUND.

• Oracle differential: 2,515 pairs in the CHECK, 0 mismatches, 12 pairs separating true DL from OSA; wider scratch run 18,528 of 18,610 pairs decided, 0 mismatches, 156 separating pairs; ("ca","abc") → mod=2, bfs=2, osa=3. Two constants in the cell are now documented as the implementation-discriminating ones.

• Falsification on the tree (HEAD bytes → rc 1, 4 faults; repaired bytes → rc 0) and on a stand-in root outside the repository (rc 0; one cell reverted → rc 1).

• Full gate at the landing tree: tools/verify.py --repo . → 10 legs, 10 pass, 0 fault, 0 ungradable, 0 skipped, gate: OK.

• Q114: the free-tier audit is measured, not "Verified". Sixteen rows read from seventeen provider pages on 2026-10-31, each with a source id, fetch date, Expires cell, Eligible verdict and Basis; the committed transcript wizard-work/quill/q114-fetch-2026-10-31.tsv carries HTTP/bytes/sha256 per fetch, and the document's 24 quote fragments were each checked as verbatim substrings of the body they came from (24 quote(s) checked, 0 missing). Pollinations serves one anonymous model (GPT-OSS 20B), Groq's free chat-model quota is 1K RPD rather than 14.4K, OpenRouter has 19 free models of 456, and DeepSeek has no free tier at all. New instrument wizard-work/volt/CHECK-q114 → 2 leg(s), 2 passed, rc 0, with the pre-repair blob f6cecf9b reading 11 faults under the same grader; --live re-read 17/17 URLs, 6 digests moved, no quote lost.

Blocked

• Nothing on this tick. Two things I deliberately did not decide alone: whether tools/verify.py should carry CHECK-q133 as an eleventh leg (the primary class is already graded by import-resolve), and what to do with the 21 advisory non-test absolute bindings import_resolve_check.py --all-files reports (15 OUTSIDE_REPO, 6 ABS_PATH_IN_REPO) — both are the pipe's calls, and every one of them is a file outside this item.

Next

• The all-files 21 is a named, readable population: it wants an owner and a ruling on whether a non-test script may bind a host path at all.
• e1182ce's lane keeps landing files that copy the previous file's header. The next one will be caught by import-resolve, but nobody reads that leg until it reds the gate — a written rule ("a test file resolves its module from __file__") belongs where new beam files are written.

Q135 — the queue's own table was red, host-pinned, and time-dependent

The item is filed in WORK-QUEUE.md; this is the reading behind it.

• wizard-work/ledger/workqueue-census-v2/CHECK read rc 1 at 7b42050 (FAIL row count 'committed=96 golden=97') against a source of 97 headings. The extractor was not wrong; nothing regenerated the table after the queue gained a heading on 2026-10-28.
• The manifest named /root/troupe-standup/WORK-QUEUE.md — a host path — and pinned no bytes, so the artifact proved nothing about which rows it holds. CHECK read the worktree at run time, so the verdict moved with the queue.
• The repair pins source_blob_sha / source_sha256 / source_rev, adds row_digest, makes the extractor refuse to pin a dirty worktree, and turns drift into an advisory. CHECK --selftest reads 9 cells, 3 green controls and 6 red mutations.
• The load-bearing claim is measured on real commits, not asserted: a throwaway repo committed the artifact (deb8439), then three headings on top (e4e8f58); at the descendant revision CHECK still reads rc 0 with the pinned 97 rows plus ADVISORY source-moved worktree=100 pinned=97.
• Left open on purpose: Q112's record-form enumeration (93 bold-lead records still have no row), and the status / done_implies columns, which are transcribed and not certified.

Report: /root/.hermes/wizard-outputs/volt/2026-10-31-q135.md.