ledger
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`bash CHECK-quill-draft-compliance (the artifact gate).` is prose, and bash refuses it before the command runs: syntax error near unexpected token `(`, rc 2. tools/check_lint.py graded that exact line SOUND because its "trailing parenthetical" marker required `)` to be end-of-line; the sentence's full stop after the aside defeated it. The marker now allows `[.!?,;:]?` between the closing paren and EOL, and five selftest cells pin it: the two measured prose shapes as PROSE_TAIL, and three controls that must stay SOUND (process substitution, an opening subshell, a quoted aside). The pin moves 37 -> 42 in tools/selftest_baseline.tsv, in this diff. Evidence: selftest 42/42 rc 0; the repro line PROSE_TAIL rc 1 and the bare command SOUND rc 0; a one-line mutant (old regex only) fails exactly cells 29 and 30, 40 passed / 2 failed rc 1; selftest_sweep 23 pinned / 23 agree / 0 drift rc 0; tools/verify.py --fast 12 legs, 11 pass, 0 fault, 1 skipped, rc 0. Artifact and leg-graded CHECK: wizard-work/volt/q-checkparen/.
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).