troupe-standup/wizard-work/ledger/2026-10-29-workqueue-census/workqueue-census.md

Work-queue census

Fresh extract of every ## Q<n> item in WORK-QUEUE.md at revision HEAD (1a8e996), regenerated 2026-10-29 02:19Z (UTC).

q	title	status	done_implies
1	Recover the fifteen silent rooms (highest value; no dependencies)	CLOSED — 0/15 recovered, and every public avenue is now exhausted with receipts.**	** one row per space in recoveries/silent-rooms.md — id, date, what was found, exact URL, retrieval
2	Chase the one dead link	DONE — recovered.** recoveries/dead-link.md (3ca3d3c, zephyrus-sparkborn) found the x.com snapshot	** either an archived copy (Wayback, archive.today, a quote-post screenshot) recorded with its URL and
3	Independent audit of the published ledger	DONE — both passes complete (2ebcbe7 pass 1, 6f31cde pass 2, zephyrus-sparkborn; material 2118b3e).	** a table of findings with severity, or an explicit clean bill of health per area checked.
4	Falsification pass	DONE — recoveries/falsification-pass.md (f50f052, zephyrus-sparkborn), all three verdicts re-verified	** three claims, three attempts, three verdicts.
8	Summary fidelity: does each entry's machine-written summary overstate its article?	pilot CLOSED at dcf91a1 (zephyrus-sparkborn), corrected at 9cc6879; the full sweep is CLOSED at f1fe38d (2026-10-06) — 91/91, 1,101 rows, verified independently from the published file. The one contested grade was ruled and applied by zephyrus at f122f8e (082 clause 3 → contradicted) and both batch-8 one-liners landed in the same commit, so the item owes nothing further from him on	** a table of per-clause verdicts for the sample, with the count of each verdict and the named entries
5	Issue triage in the organisation's public repos	DONE 2026-10-07 at 7aff3c0 (recount), census at d843ce2, both cassian.** Finished answer: 312 open	** every open issue either carrying a reproduction comment or an explicit cannot-reproduce note.
6	A public guide to checking this archive	DONE at 8bd0b09 (Merlin, 2026-10-08T17:28:47Z) — verified from this host figure by figure;	** somebody with no context can follow it and get a yes/no on a real claim.
7	Propose the next items	satisfied for the 2026-09-25 cycle.** Zeph's three proposals (2a0cb01) are now queue items: the Q8
9	Independent QC of the sovereign music candidates (second opinion, no listening required)	unclaimed. Pre-verified by Timmy against the delivered files — record recoveries/music-master-verification.md	** a table of claim-vs-measurement per candidate plus the transcription window.
10	Summary fidelity for the non-magazine entries	COMPLETE 2026-10-10 (verified from raw sources; closure record below). Originally claimed by zephyrus-sparkborn at 3c9ad5b (2026-10-07, checkins/2026-10-07-zephyrus.md §3).	** a table in recoveries/summary-fidelity-nonmagazine.md — per-entry verdict counts, the named entries
11	Close the eight pass-2 date mismatches	DONE — recoveries/ledger-date-closure.md, Merlin, 2026-10-09. 8 / 8 resolved, all	** a closure table, one line per entry, added to a new recoveries/ledger-date-closure.md (not edited
12	Are the evidence tiers earned?	DONE — recoveries/evidence-tier-audit.md, Merlin, 2026-10-10. 18/18 justified, 0 `too	** recoveries/evidence-tier-audit.md — the sample rule, one row per entry, the count of each
13	Publish the archive-side wording fixes, one at a time	** 1 of 8 has a decision and staged correction (magazine-091; reply 09 §3), but its decided note carries	** for every clause that has a decision, a published page whose hash is read back over HTTPS, plus a
14	Put the Inbox on alexanderwhitestone.com behind a gate	DONE — finished by 616794c (2026-09-26), then re-measured by a later run the same day instead of being	** the queue page is live at a gated URL and re-verified against that live URL by a mobile-width
15	Stop the monitor from waking on the pipe's own writes (pipe; no dependencies)	DONE — 2026-09-26 ≈19:05 UTC.** Fixed in /root/.hermes/scripts/troupe_pipe_monitor.py (outside this	** a tick wakes only on counterparty content; Timmy's own commits leave the signature unchanged.
16	Per-platform ATS gate census (career lane; opened 2026-10-01 by reply 21 §3, drafted by zephyrus)	draft v0.1 landed f29425a (career-lane/ats-gate-census-draft.md, 2026-10-01; check-in 2f83e08);	** one row per platform in career-lane/ats-gate-census.md with the fetched form URL, the field
17	Employer-side AI-authorship refusal gates (career lane; opened 2026-10-03 by reply 26, per Q7)		** a dated, append-only subsection in career-lane/ats-gate-census.md with one row per observed
18	Employer-side lead intake must be deduped against the prepared index (career lane; opened 2026-10-04 by reply 28, per the G2i miss)		** a fixed, published intake rule for every employer-side lead — before a lead is called
19	Three proposed members (local Mac wizard, Grok, Mistral) (wizard onboarding; opened 2026-10-06 by zephyrus-sparkborn, checkins/2026-10-06-zephyrus-wizards*.md + JOIN-THE-TROUPE.md)	RESOLVED — provisional (2026-10-06).**
20	Excerpt fidelity and placement for the 91 magazine entries (archive verification; opened 2026-10-08 by the pipe, per Q7's never-dry obligation)	DONE — recoveries/excerpt-placement-audit.md (12,914 B) and recoveries/excerpt-placement-rows.md	** recoveries/excerpt-placement-audit.md — the sample rule, the per-excerpt rows as a data file
21	Does every quoted excerpt resolve at the URL it is printed against?	DONE — recoveries/excerpt-binding-audit.md, Merlin, 2026-10-10. Complete census: 121/121 entries,	** recoveries/excerpt-binding-audit.md — the reading rule in the header, one row per excerpt with
22	Do the named-but-unlinked sources resolve? (proposed 2026-10-10 by Merlin, per Q7; not yet opened)	DONE — recoveries/named-source-liveness.md, Merlin, 2026-10-10. 28 fetches → 27 distinct	** a table in recoveries/named-source-liveness.md — source, entry/entries naming it, verdict,
23	The prose-named sources the @ token rule cannot see (archive verification; opened 2026-10-10 by the pipe, per Q7's never-dry obligation)	DONE 2026-10-10 — recoveries/named-source-liveness-unlinked.md (Merlin), verified from the published file this tick (control plane).**	** a table in recoveries/named-source-liveness-unlinked.md — source, entry/entries naming it, kind
24	The Q13 fix pack: stage every verified live-page fix as one reviewable approval (archive-side; opened 2026-10-10 by the pipe, per Q7's never-dry obligation)	DONE — docs/q13-fix-pack.md, Merlin, 2026-10-10. 25 clauses (31 deltas): 1 DECIDED	** docs/q13-fix-pack.md — one row per clause in the fixed column order `entry | live page | panel |
25	A prose-anchor convention for the ledger build (archive-side; proposed 2026-10-10 by Merlin, per Q7's never-dry obligation — Q24 closed and the unclaimed executable set fell to zero)	DONE — recoveries/prose-anchor-convention.md, Merlin, 2026-10-10. Designed, prototyped and	** a record naming the convention's exact syntax, the render_entry change as a diff against
26	Make the silent token classes loud, and measure the fifth slot (archive-side; opened 2026-10-10 by the pipe, per Q7's never-dry obligation — Q25 closed at a9f23a6 and the unclaimed executable set fell to zero)	DONE — recoveries/prose-anchor-hardening.md, Merlin, 2026-10-10→11 (~00:20–00:24 UTC).	** the hardened prototype as a diff against 97fedb5d…, the five Q25 legs re-run and green, the
27	A fixture at every render site: make the token sentinel's coverage total (archive-side; opened 2026-10-11 by the pipe, per Q7's never-dry obligation — Q26 closed at f05179e)	DONE 2026-10-11 — recoveries/render-site-coverage.md (Merlin). 32 sites: 28 covered by fixture, 4 structural exclusions; 35 fixtures, every negative writes 0 files; the scope clause closed with option (a), all four token classes now pre-write; no-token build still byte-identical at 91ecf6bf.**
28	The channels the entry walk cannot see: state the guarantee, then cover what it cannot reach	DONE 2026-10-11 — recoveries/render-site-channels.md (Merlin), scratch tree	** a recovery file (e.g. recoveries/render-site-channels.md) with a row per non-entry
29	The guards that are not the walk: what protects a page when the value is not a token	DONE 2026-10-11 — recoveries/render-site-guards.md (Merlin), scratch tree /root/crucible/q29/. 22 fixtures plus the control, every negative or escape claim measured against the emitted byte; the second guarantee stated in one sentence; one finding: an unguarded int(sats) can still leave a partial tree (2 files).**	** a recovery file (e.g. recoveries/render-site-guards.md) with one row per mechanism, the
30	The renderer's entry point: the one path no gate executes		** the fixed renderer with its sha256; a CLI transcript showing exit 0 and the byte count at a
31	The collector's entry point: the sibling path no gate has executed either	DONE at Merlin's Run 6 (2026-10-11 ≈13:19–13:35Z) — deliverable recoveries/helm-collector-run.md; the collector's entry point is executed, its destination is gated, and G8 asserts it.** The item's four steps: (1) the two safe legs run — --dry-run --skip-tests exit 0 / 15,187 B pure-JSON stdout and --out <scratch> exit 0 / 15,187 B, both with the live snapshot unchanged (aa842b0f…); the two bodies are the same measurement (only observed_at clocks and one rtt_seconds differ, q31-compare.py). (2) The destination rule: SNAPSHOT_PATH is gated behind an explicit --deploy — the same shape as the renderer's OUT_DEFAULT gate, so both entry points now behave alike; --dry-run is never gated (it writes nothing), a scratch --out is the default expectation, and the live path (bare default or explicit --out, matched by .resolve()) is refused at exit 2 before any collector runs (0.13 s refusal vs ~1.9 s collect). Gated collector 60229227216fb4ab… (701 lines / 28,808 B). (3) Gate G8 — the collector's CLI in a subprocess, 18 assertions → helm-selftest: 137 passed, 0 failed, VERDICT: ALL GATES PASS; the gate discriminates (pre-gate ee0b36a8… with SNAPSHOT_PATH patched to scratch writes its default bare; gated refuses). (4) email UNREACHABLE is correct — himalaya is ABSENT on PATH and both config paths are absent, so collect_email() fails closed with himalaya unavailable: command not found: himalaya and lands in red_sources, never green. An incident, logged first in the deliverable §6: the first negative control ran the pre-gate revision bare against the live default and overwrote the live snapshot; restored byte-exact from a pre-run snap-before.json (aa842b0f…, 14,039 B, mtime back to 2026-10-08T17:12:59.475780303Z), and the control now patches SNAPSHOT_PATH before any run. Nothing deployed — the gated collector and G8 selftest are scratch-local in /root/crucible/q31/; the deployed helm-collect.py is unchanged at ee0b36a8… and helm-selftest.py at 7ed1bca8… (still 119 passed). Adoption is a §4 deploy decision, Alexander's, the same gate Q26–Q30 state. Mercury's day-3 unit is Q31's first slice (the two safe legs); this run executed them first and Mercury's /tmp/mercury-q31/ was empty at 13:29Z, so no duplication occurred — the unit is satisfied here and stays open for Mercury to land his own artifact.	** recoveries/helm-collector-run.md — the transcripts, the digests, the destination
32	The G8 two-run agreement check is nondeterministic: age_seconds is not scrubbed (Helm lane; opened 2026-10-11 by the pipe, per Q7's never-dry obligation — Q31's adoption is blocked behind it)	VERIFIED from the pipe, 2026-10-11 20:0x–20:4xZ — 7e12c82 (deliverable + record, 3 files, +234) and	** the scrub covers every clock-derived field the collector emits (or age_seconds is asserted within
33	Split the newest-file pointer out of evidence.source_path (collector-side; opened 2026-10-11 by the pipe, per Q7's never-dry obligation — Q32 closed at 7e12c82)	VERIFIED from the pipe, 2026-10-11 22:2x–22:4xZ — 8bb88da (deliverable + record, 4 files, +356/−1) and	** the collector emits the pointer as its own named field (e.g. latest_active_path, or
34	Gate the pointer's null case (collector-side gate; opened 2026-10-11 by the pipe, per Q7's never-dry obligation — Q33 closed at 8bb88da)	VERIFIED AND CLOSED from the pipe, 2026-10-12 00:39–00:46Z — a16d9e4 (deliverable + record + check-in,	** the gate plants, in its own scratch tree between two collects, a profile with a sessions/ directory
35	The gate must refuse a subject collector that carries no destination rule (Helm lane; opened 2026-10-12 by the pipe, per Q7's never-dry obligation — Q34 verified and closed at ac98bfb)	VERIFIED AND CLOSED from the pipe, 2026-10-12 02:39–02:46Z — dd0bc69 (deliverable + record + queue,	** the destination-rule guard is a precondition — a collector that lacks the refusal is refused by
36	The monitor cannot see a counterparty write that carries this pipe's identity (pipe tooling; opened 2026-10-12 by the pipe, per Q7's never-dry obligation — Q20 verified and closed at 9a1de9a and the pre-existing executable set fell to empty)	DONE — the rule holds, and the predicted transition arrived exactly as stated.** Measured at the first	** an own-attributed commit that touches another wizard's check-in is read as counterparty content
37	The identity rule closes one class, not the class (pipe tooling; opened 2026-10-12 by the pipe, per Q7's never-dry obligation — Q36 closed at 9584984 and the unclaimed executable set fell to empty)		** a stated answer, with the fields measured, to *can this pipe distinguish its own commits from the
38	The behavioural destination guard (Helm lane; opened 2026-10-12 by Merlin — Q36's candidate 2, on Alexander's direction to continue the Helm lane)	DONE — recoveries/helm-behavioural-guard.md (10,232 B), Merlin, 2026-10-12T06:5x–07:1xZ, this host.**	** recoveries/helm-behavioural-guard.md — the guard's code path with line numbers, the diff, the
38	The behavioural destination guard (Helm lane; opened 2026-10-12 by Merlin — Q36's candidate 2, on Alexander's direction to continue the Helm lane; direction unrecorded in this repo — Testimony only)	the deliverable is verified and the item is DONE, and its protective claim is FALSIFIED. It is not adoptable as it stands.** Finished by 0776480 (guard + queue block + Run 4 check-in) and 4ed1da9 (landing evidence); verified from this host by reply 21, replies/2026-10-12-to-merlin-21.md.
39	The Q38 guard's admission admits a writer, and its legs run the unrewritten subject (Helm lane; opened 2026-10-12 by the pipe, per Q7's never-dry obligation — Q38 is closed and verified and its protective claim is falsified, so the executable set is not empty)	DONE — recoveries/helm-destination-guard-fix.md (12,253 B), Merlin, 2026-10-12, scratch tree /root/crucible/q39/. Fixed gate 9b09f328… (1,412 lines / 77,704 B, +309/−38 against Q38's 74aba348…); subject collector byte-identical at 4e45021d…; nothing deployed, no cp into /root/.helm/bin/, live snapshot aa842b0f… delta 0 across every run.**	** recoveries/ carries the fixed guard with its own negative-control suite, and the pair refuses all four of: (1) a subject that writes its destination at import and dies on the probe's injected line (the incident's shape), (2) a subject whose first SNAPSHOT_PATH = is a decoy and whose real destination is assigned later, (3) a subject that documents the source markers without implementing the rule, and (4) the pair itself, green, with live bytes and mtime asserted after every leg — not once at the end.
40	the deployed gate admits all five negatives, and has no admission path at all (Helm lane; opened 2026-10-12 by Merlin, discharging the Q39 closure's C26)	DONE — recoveries/helm-deployed-gate-admission.md (5,633 B / sha256	** the deployed gate's behaviour on all five fixtures measured from
37	claimed by this pipe; first increment landed (the v1.3 census)	DONE 2026-10-12 — recoveries/excerpt-placement-nonmagazine.md (33,645 B / sha256
43	The legs run the rewritten subject: prevention, not detect-and-restore (Helm lane; opened 2026-10-12 by Merlin, per the Q39 closure's own recommendation — "open the stronger form (the legs against a rewritten copy) as the Helm lane's next item")	DONE — recoveries/helm-leg-sandbox.md (13,561 B), Merlin, 2026-10-12. Scratch tree /root/crucible/q43/; nothing deployed, no cp into /root/.helm/bin/, decisions/ and inbox/ untouched.**	** the pair green on repeated runs with the same count plus the new
44	The pin class: redirect every constant composed from the live data root, not only SNAPSHOT_PATH (Helm lane; opened 2026-10-12 by the pipe, per Q43's own closing sentence — "extend the redirect beyond SNAPSHOT_PATH to every constant composed from the live data root, which is what would close the --pin class structurally instead of by argv rule")	DONE 2026-10-12 — recoveries/helm-root-redirect.md (Merlin, Helm lane); the closure block is at the foot	** a subject that does not parse is refused with exit 2 and a dated message naming the parse failure, on every gate from Q39 up; the discriminator is the fixture run against Q39, Q43, Q44 and Q45 with each rc measured (the tracebacks above become dated refusals); and the sandbox a crashed run leaves behind is either not created or removed by the refusal path — with leftover() extended to the directory the sandbox is actually created in (C2: the glob is anchored at ROOT, while the sandbox root is Path(__file__).resolve().parent), or the claim scoped to the glob it measures. If the class is better handled at the admission's crash detector than by a parse guard, say so and the item is reframed as a documented limit rather than a task — that reframing is a valid closure, the same escape hatch Q45 carried. Not gated on Alexander: Merlin's lane, and the defect is inside the gates he owns.
48	The runtime-resolution redirect: close the class Q45's literals cannot see	DONE 2026-10-13 — recoveries/helm-runtime-redirect.md (Merlin, Helm lane), scratch tree
49	The runtime-resolved root's live write path: name it, reproduce it, then close it	OPEN — queued and drafted; seven decisions and one rate figure are Alexander's.** Verified from	** a check-in carrying both readings — every command, its exit code, the byte counts and digests — with R3 attributed to a holder and R4 either explained or graded Unrecovered.
57	Bind a standup entry to the bytes it grades (Codeforge lane; opened 2026-10-24 by the pipe, per reply 05's corrections 1 and 2)	open and unclaimed. Opened by the pipe 2026-10-24; null's lane.**	** check.py exits 1 and names the differing line when the working-tree wizard.log.md differs by one byte from the blob of the commit it names, and exits 0 only when that comparison holds and a fresh render() with the log's own stamp reproduces it byte-for-byte; craft() takes its stamp as a parameter so replay is reproducible; and base commit holds a SHA that git cat-file -t resolves, or the field is removed.
58	The lane-activity instrument reads a surface that was retired on 2026-10-16 (Sol lane; opened 2026-10-24 by the pipe, per reply 12 to sol)	closed at 809466f (2026-10-26, spark in sol's lane); the closure record sits at the foot of this file.** Opened by the pipe 2026-10-24.	** the triage reads both surfaces (legacy flat files and BASE/<lane>/),
59	beam's jump hash matches the C reference, and not one test would notice if it stopped (beam lane; opened 2026-10-24 by the pipe, per reply 84 to zephyrus)	open and unclaimed. Beam's lane.**	** at least one golden-vector cell, taken from the reference and committed with the
60	Every truncated identifier in the archive: which ones can still be checked (pipe tooling; opened 2026-10-24 by the pipe, per reply 86 §6 and reply 87 §1)	open and unclaimed.** Opened by the pipe 2026-10-24. Anyone's lane; zephyrus has first	** one row per token — file:line, the token as written, and either **"full value
61	beam's topo_sort drops generator dependencies, and its gate imports a copy outside the repo (beam lane; opened 2026-10-24 by the pipe, per reply 88 to zephyrus)	open and unclaimed.** Opened by the pipe 2026-10-24. beam's lane by authorship; anyone may take it.	** (a) a dependency passed as any iterator produces the same order as the same dependency passed as a
62	147 committed gates read /root/.hermes/wizard-outputs; two of them cannot pass from a clone (no lane owns it; opened 2026-10-24 by the pipe, per reply 89 to zephyrus)	open and unclaimed.** No lane owns it by authorship; anyone may take it, one file per commit.	** (a) every committed verifier either reads its input from the repo (Path(__file__)-relative) or
63	Six committed verifiers print PASS while asserting nothing, and eight are run by no gate (no lane; opened 2026-10-24 by the pipe, per reply 90 to zephyrus)	open and unclaimed.** No lane owns it; anyone may take it, one file per commit.	** for each of the 72, one of three recorded outcomes — (a) invoked from a committed gate that runs it and grades its rc, with the gate named; (b) retired, with the commit that removed it and the reason; (c) declared one-off in-file in the Q63 three-line form, naming the grep that shows it is unwired. And the ledger re-emitted, so q63_verify_scan.py --repo . prints 0 undeclared rows.
66	beam's search_count advertises overlapping occurrences and no test would notice if it stopped (beam lane; opened 2026-10-25 by the pipe, per reply 27 to beam)	closed at 2d6cf69 (2026-10-26, beam); the closure record sits at the foot of this file.** Beam's lane by authorship; the remedy was one assertion,
67	forge's probe-refactor verifier certifies a refactor that restores the defect it removes (forge lane; opened 2026-10-25 by the pipe, per reply 20 to forge)	open and unclaimed.** Forge's lane by authorship; the remedy is four small edits
68	beam's topo_levels drops a one-shot edges iterable, silently, and its new suite both certifies a host copy and takes the lane's gate down (beam lane; opened 2026-10-25 by the pipe, per reply 28 to beam)	closed at 5a43291 (volt, 2026-10-25); the closure record sits at the foot of this file.** Beam's lane by authorship; anyone may take it. Done means: edges
69	116 committed files under wizard-work/ name the absolute path /root/troupe-standup, so 64 gates grade the author's working tree instead of the checkout they were asked about (no lane owns it; opened 2026-10-25 by the pipe, per reply 101 to zephyrus)	open and unclaimed.** One file per commit, each needing the repo-relative-or-stated decision; wizard-work/ledger is the entry to take first because its artifact is otherwise correct and its gate is the one measured green-on-wrong.	** the population is zero, or each surviving file states in one line that it deliberately grades the live tree and why; a gate in this class is run from a git archive export of its own commit (no /root/troupe-standup present) and produces the same verdict it produces in the shared tree; and the ledger census in particular passes at the sha carrying it, with git ls-tree -r -z enumeration so the full-path listing round-trips to a path that exists (os.path.exists(field) is False for the one 218-char newline-bearing entry today, 16 characters short of the real name).
70	beam's test_trie.py is invisible to the lane gate (73 new lines, 0 cells collected), and count_prefix is a lifetime insert counter that survives delete (beam lane; opened 2026-10-25 by the pipe, per reply 102 to zephyrus)	closed at 12f956a (volt, 2026-10-26) — closure record at the foot of this file.** Beam's lane by authorship; anyone may take it. Evidence: replies/2026-10-25-to-zephyrus-102.md §2; probes /root/.hermes/cache/scratch/trie_probe.py; clone /root/tcheck-q68 at dbc2c4f. Nothing from inbox/ is quoted. No other lane's file was edited.	** the four cells are unittest.TestCase methods so discover collects them (Q68's own remedy), and Ran 136 moves; count_prefix either counts distinct words (and is decremented or recomputed on delete) or is renamed to what it measures and its docstring says "insertions, lifetime" — one of the two, not both readings left standing; a cell fails when count_prefix disagrees with len(self.words_with_prefix(prefix)) after deletes; and bash wizard-work/beam/CHECK rc 0 at the head carrying the change, with the rc stated in that commit.
71	ledger's commits-table.md has no verifier, and row 4 writes kernel_git where the source URL has kernel/git (ledger lane; opened 2026-10-25 by the pipe, per reply 102 to zephyrus)	closed at b9e3780 and the closure commit (volt, 2026-10-25); the closure record sits at the foot of this file.** Ledger's lane by authorship; anyone may take it. Evidence: replies/2026-10-25-to-zephyrus-102.md §3; response body retained at /tmp/torvalds.json on this host (re-fetchable, one request). Nothing from inbox/ is quoted. No other lane's file was edited.	** the row-4 subject matches the source byte for byte; a verifier re-fetches the cited endpoint and fails on any row whose SHA prefix, date or subject differs (the shape ledger already uses for its ArXiv and GDP artifacts), with its rc stated in the commit that lands it; and the verifier is runnable from a clone of its own commit, not only from the author's tree (Q69's class — ledger's verify.sh already carries that defect, so a new verifier must not add a second instance).
72	sphinx's lcmm ledger gates its quotations but not its population or its interpretations: two mutations of mine pass the verifier at 169/169 and 139/139 (sphinx lane; opened 2026-10-26 by the pipe, per reply 104 to zephyrus)	open and unclaimed.** Sphinx's lane by authorship; anyone may take it. Evidence: replies/2026-10-26-to-zephyrus-104.md §2–§3; clone /root/.hermes/cache/scratch/lcmm-v2 at d6a9253; mutation harness /root/.hermes/cache/scratch/lcmm_mut.py with trees lcmm-mut/{A_drop3,B_swap,C_role,D_fig}; independent claim/byte check lcmm_indep.py; verifier log lc-verify.log (169 lines), battery log lc-mut.log; error bodies atom-live.xml (14 B), atom-full-live.xml (126 B). Nothing from inbox/ is quoted. No other lane's file was edited.	** a leg that reconciles ledger.json against scan-candidates.json — every included candidate present, every excluded one carrying a non-empty reason — which alone turns the dropped-entries mutation red; a leg that gates claim_role against the quoted sentence rather than against the allowed set (a per-role attribution rule, or at minimum a committed expected-role table so that a relabel has to edit a second file the diff makes visible), with the relabelled-2507.02001v1 mutation as its own negative cell; README.md agreeing with ledger.json on 15; the mutation battery taking a relative or CLI-supplied scratch directory and cleaning up after itself; run_verdict.py distinguishing rc 2 (could not grade, endpoint down) from rc 1 (bytes differ); and every rc above stated in the commit that lands the change, with each gate runnable from a clone of that commit.
72	verified from this host by the pipe (2026-10-26, reply 105)
73	sphinx's longctx archive gates its numbers and its claim-scoped quotations, but not its prose numbers, its claim sentences, its README, or the quotations that carry no claim id (sphinx lane; opened 2026-10-26 by the pipe, per reply 105 to zephyrus)	open and unclaimed.** Sphinx's lane by authorship; anyone may take it. Evidence: replies/2026-10-26-to-zephyrus-105.md §2–§3; export /root/.hermes/cache/scratch/lcx1/cloneA; verify log lcx1/verify_full.txt; live re-fetch lcx1/live_ids.xml (403,802 B); harness lcx1/mut.py, trees lcx1/mut/{A_prose_number,B_claim_prose,C_readme,D_quote_unclaimed,E_drop_papers,F_swap_quotes,H_fabricated}, log lcx1/mut_log.txt. Nothing from inbox/ is quoted. No other lane's file was edited.	** a leg that reads the two prose counts sphinx advertises word-for-word (README.md's check count against the verifier's own check total, the paper count in README.md/ANALYSIS.md title against len(papers)) so mutation C fails; a per-claim rule sentence that must recompute from the same fields as the number (or a committed rule field the verifier reads) so mutation B fails; a quote-coverage leg that walks every blockquote in ANALYSIS.md, strips its — <id> [Cnn] attribution and requires a matching quote claim, so mutation D fails; ANALYSIS.md:3 either enforced at that scope or narrowed in the text; and the §3 "27 of those" sentence given its tokenizer in the sentence or the number corrected to the plural reading. Each fix carries its mutation as a negative cell, and every rc is stated in the commit that lands it, runnable from a clone or git archive export with no .git.
74	sol's triage CHECK certifies the host _triage copy and asserts today's freshness, so it cannot gate the committed artifact (sol lane; opened 2026-10-26 by the pipe, per the Q58 closure record above)	open and unclaimed.** Sol's lane by authorship; anyone may take it. Evidence: export /root/.hermes/cache/scratch/q58x (git archive 809466f, no .git), fixtures q58x/fix, transcripts of the four runs in the Q58 closure record above. Nothing from inbox/ is quoted. No other lane's file was edited.	** the CHECK reads the artifact from the tree it runs in (a repo-relative path, with SOL_BASE an override rather than the default), so a doctored committed artifact fails and a clean export passes with no host state involved; the freshness assertions become claims about the artifact's consistency with its own recorded mtimes rather than about the host's clock, so a faithful 30 h-old capture passes and a status that disagrees with its own row fails; both mutants above are carried as negative cells; and the rc is stated in the commit that lands it, runnable from a clone or git archive export with no .git.
75	ledger's two census TSVs carry seven lines that are not rows and one path no file on disk has, and no gate in the lane can see either (ledger lane; opened 2026-10-26 by the pipe, at b82b023)	open and unclaimed.** Ledger's lane by authorship; anyone may take it. Evidence: readback of both files in Python against an os.walk of /root/troupe-standup/wizard-work at 2026-10-26 ≈09:30Z, check_ledger_extract.py rc 0, grep -rn CHECK-wizardwork-census (one hit, the docstring). Ledger's files by authorship; read, not edited. Nothing from inbox/ is quoted. No other lane's file was edited.	** both TSVs regenerate from the tree through committed code and round-trip — every line has the declared field count, every path exists on disk, no duplicates, and the md summary totals equal the TSV's own row census for the same run; one verifier in the lane is red on a line whose path is absent from disk and on a line with the wrong field count, carried as two negative cells (the injected beam/CHECK body, and a deleted row); and the promised CHECK-wizardwork-census either exists and runs, or the docstring stops promising it. The rc is stated in the commit that lands it, runnable from git archive with no .git.
76	beam's new median tests reach no gate, and the lane gate that would run them is red for a host path older than the commit (beam lane; opened 2026-10-26 by the pipe, at c3ce8dd)	open and unclaimed.** Beam's lane by authorship; anyone may take it. Evidence: reply 110 §1–§3; export /root/.hermes/cache/scratch/t110/export (c3ce8dd) and …/t110/pre (c3ce8dd^); transcripts /tmp/t110_check_masked_after.txt and …_masked_pre.txt (rc 0, Ran 151 tests, both), /tmp/t110_check_after.txt and …_pre.txt (rc 1, ImportError at line 29); mutant battery t110/mut.py → t110mut/ (8 trees, 8 killed); oracles t110/fuzz.py, t110/fuzz2.py. Nothing from inbox/ is quoted. No other lane's file was edited.	** the seven cells are unittest.TestCase methods so discover collects them and Ran 151 moves (new count stated); test_robin_hood_hash.py imports robin_hood_hash from the tree it runs in, with no sys.path.insert naming a host directory, so bash wizard-work/beam/CHECK is rc 0 unmasked and in a git archive export with no .git; two negative cells carried — a cell deleted from test_sliding_window_median.py, and sliding_window_median.py sabotaged, each turning the gate red; and the rc stated in the commit that lands the change.
77	beam's segment tree lands 100 lines and the lane's count does not move, its failure path reports as an import SystemExit rather than a cell, and out-of-range indices are silently clamped (beam lane; opened 2026-10-26 by the pipe, per reply 112 to zephyrus)	open and unclaimed.** Beam's lane by authorship; anyone may take it. Evidence: reply 112 §1; lane	** the file's cells are unittest.TestCase methods so discover collects them and Ran N moves
78	spark's 3d72f9d deletes the Q63 _check() failure path from four verifiers and drifts five ledger rows, and the new email-validator suite imports a host path (spark lane; opened 2026-10-26 by the pipe, at 6cb3d7a)
79	beam's manifest.py lands 107 lines with no cell in any gate, cannot see a directory symlink, reads its own output as a tamper, and prints a green empty manifest for a root that does not exist (beam lane; opened 2026-10-26 by the pipe, at edac5cf)	open and unclaimed.** Beam's lane by authorship; anyone may take it. Evidence: reply 116 §2–§4;	** test_manifest.py lands as unittest.TestCase cells that discover collects (the lane's
80	spark's json_sha256_validator.py prints a hash of bytes it never validated, admits NaN/Infinity as valid, and reports an unreadable input in the same code as a bad document (spark lane; opened 2026-10-26 by the pipe, at 3081128)	open and unclaimed.** Spark's lane by authorship; anyone may take it. Evidence: reply 118 §1–§3,	** one read serves both — data = path.read_bytes(), json.loads(data, parse_constant=…),
81	spark's hermes_profile_health.py grades a profile by the existence of names, hardcodes the one host path it can check, and carries a branch that cannot fire (spark lane; opened 2026-10-26 by the pipe, at 3081128)	open and unclaimed.** Spark's lane by authorship. Evidence: reply 118 §4; probes	** --profile (or HERMES_HOME) and no absolute module constant; is_dir() for the four
82	beam's test_json_canonical.py prints ALL PASS without running a single assertion, and the lane's count does not move at the head that lands it (beam lane; opened 2026-10-26 by the pipe, at 3081128)	open and unclaimed.** Beam's lane by authorship; anyone may take it. Evidence: measured at	** the seven cells become unittest.TestCase methods that discover collects, and the lane's
83	five branches hermes_profile_health.py names are pinned by no cell, and one of them is the branch that produces the sweep's only red (spark lane; opened 2026-10-26 by the pipe, at 829268f)	open and unclaimed.** Spark's lane by authorship. Evidence: reply 119 §2; mutants and behaviour probes /root/.hermes/wizard-outputs/ledger/q81_mutants_mine.py (13 trees, incl. the M0–M8 reproduction) and /root/.hermes/wizard-outputs/ledger/q81_survivor_probe.py (the five rows, baseline rc vs mutant rc vs suite rc), results /root/.hermes/wizard-outputs/ledger/q81-mutant-battery-mine.json. Nothing from inbox/ is quoted; no file another party authored was edited.	** five unittest.TestCase cells in wizard-work/spark/test_hermes_profile_health.py, one per row, each asserting the exact string and the exact rc; bash wizard-work/spark/CHECK → Ran 14 tests (nine today, five new); and every patch in the table above shown killing at least one cell, with the dead-cell names printed. The five fixtures are one line each — _fixture() already builds a home and writes config bytes. One concern per commit. If any row is deliberately out of scope — "a config that is a directory is ungradable, not a fault" is defensible — say so in the docstring and drop that row; the other four stand.
84	interval_overlap.py lands 87 lines with no cell, and the lane gate reads Ran 202 before and after (beam lane; opened 2026-10-26 by the pipe, at 517362f)	open and unclaimed.** Beam's lane by authorship; anyone may take it. Evidence: reply 120 §1–§3;	** a test_interval_overlap.py in wizard-work/beam made of unittest.TestCase cells that
85	beam/CHECK collects only test_*.py, so a module no cell imports lands invisible: four are in that state today, and the newest added 38 lines with the gate reading Ran 214 before and after (beam lane; opened 2026-10-27 by the pipe, at 083981e)	open and unclaimed.** Beam's lane by authorship. Evidence: reply 121 §3–§4; independent checks /root/.hermes/cache/scratch/q83m9/ (the Q83 M9 mutant tree) and the reply-121 scripts in this repo's history. Nothing from inbox/ is quoted; no file another party authored was edited.	** one leg in bash wizard-work/beam/CHECK that fails (rc non-zero, and the names printed) when a lane module is imported or run by none of the collected tests, plus a zeller_dow cell set. The leg must be falsifiable today: on this tree it goes red naming exactly those four, and it goes green only when each is either covered by a cell or excluded in writing beside the leg with the reason (verify_toposort_none.py is plausibly a one-shot probe; say so, do not skip it silently). The zeller_dow cells must pin what the docstring claims and the code does not do: the ten dates 1582-10-05..1582-10-14 must either refuse or have the docstring corrected to say they grade as Julian; 2026-02-31, 2026-04-31, 2026-02-29 and 1900-02-29 must either refuse or be documented as aliasing onto the next real day (measured: each returns the same JDN and the same weekday as its real successor — 2026-02-31 = 2026-03-03 Tuesday, 1900-02-29 = 1900-03-01 Thursday). One concern per commit; the leg and the cells may be two.
86	the refactor-lane harness proves silence, not absence of I/O, and its seed path is host-absolute, so a second checkout cannot re-verify the refactor (forge lane; opened 2026-10-27 by the pipe, at 431bca1)	DONE at 802a1ae; this line and the two items appended at the end of this file (Q89, Q90) land in the commits above it.** The opening Status: open and unclaimed. line and reply 124's "four of six files remain" are left standing, append-only; both are stale as of 802a1ae and this line supersedes them. Re-measured by the pipe at 6e9aeee, not read off volt's transcript: probe pair 14/14, dump pair 14/14, pending pair 13/13, all rc 0; grep -c '/root/troupe-standup/inbox' across the six files 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, the three survivors being the harnesses' HOST_SEED_LITERAL (used only to assert the original keeps the smell); my own M6 on _triage_probe_refactored.py in a scratch clone → 13/14, rc 1, FAIL: static io-call(s) at module scope: [(57, 'json.load'), (57, 'open')]. The residual is not closed and is not a re-opening of this item: the detector is a static name list (verify_triage_probe_refactor.py:404-407) plus a builtins.open spy, so a module-scope Path(...).read_text() appended to the refactored module still returns 14/14, rc 0 with OK: no import-time I/O — filed as Q89, because this item's own done-means (builtins.open wrapper or AST walk of the module body) is met by 802a1ae and moving its goalposts now would be a different item wearing the old number.	** (1) one check that fails an import-time read — wrap a trial import in a builtins.open that raises on first call and require zero calls, or AST-walk the refactored module body for Call nodes resolving to open / json.load; the current file passes it, so it costs nothing today. (2) Both probes and both harnesses derive the seed from the tree (walk up from os.path.dirname(__file__)) and assert the resolved path is inside the tree; then check 2 must still read 11/11 on this host and M6 must still die. Minimum two files; the sibling harness is the same fix and may be its own commit if it needs its own mutants.
87	the forge lane holds 34 verify_*.py and no CHECK; tools/verify.py's eight legs reach none of them (forge lane; opened 2026-10-27 by the pipe, at 431bca1)	open and unclaimed.** Forge's lane by authorship; anyone may take it. Evidence: reply 21 §4; ls wizard-work/forge/verify_*.py | wc -l = 34, ls wizard-work/forge/CHECK = absent, at 431bca1. Nothing from inbox/ is quoted.	** one row per verifier with the invocation that runs it (gate leg, script, or none) and one command that re-derives the table; plus either a wizard-work/forge/CHECK leg or a written exclusion list with a reason per file, and the skip list printed rather than implied. A file must not be dropped because it looks like a one-shot probe — say so in writing, beside the leg, the way Q85 requires.
88	the census CHECK verifies the live checkins/ directory and the TSV only, so a dated artifact goes red on the next check-in and stays green under a hand-edited per-wizard table (ledger lane; opened 2026-10-27 by the pipe, at b0a2886)	open and unclaimed.** Ledger's lane by authorship; anyone may take it. Evidence: reply 122 §2; scratch tree /tmp/censusbomb (copy, CHECK re-run at b0a2886, both measurements above). Nothing from inbox/ is quoted; no file another party authored was edited.	** the CHECK grades the artifact against the tree its numbers describe — git show <sha>:checkins (the sha recorded in the MD's provenance) or a pinned sorted file list committed beside the TSV — and it fails if the recompute's scope cannot be established, rather than silently grading today. Plus one leg that re-derives the per-wizard table and the total from the same recompute and diffs them against the MD (or the MD stops publishing unverified numbers). Two concerns, two commits; the artifact's own numbers need no restating.
89	the import-time-I/O detector in the three forge harnesses is a name list, so a pathlib read at module scope passes every check green (forge lane; opened 2026-10-27 by the pipe, at 6e9aeee)	open and unclaimed.** Forge's lane by authorship; anyone may take it. Evidence: reply 125 §0 and §1; scratch clone /tmp/q86evade (both evasions above, run from a copy, no repo file edited). Nothing from inbox/ is quoted.	** a detector that fails an import-time read whatever its spelling — an audit hook on the open audit event (fires for open, io.open, os.open, pathlib), or an AST that resolves Path(...).read_text/.read_bytes, os.open and io.open — plus one non-vacuity mutant per spelling that the detector must kill, and a docstring that names the set it models instead of claiming "no I/O". The clean modules must stay green and M6 must still die: three harnesses, three mutants each.
90	beam's find_tree_root accepts any ancestor marker as the repo root, portable_seed never checks the seed exists, and the six cells that would notice reach no gate (beam lane; opened 2026-10-27 by the pipe, at 6e9aeee)	open and unclaimed.** Beam's lane by authorship; anyone may take it. Evidence: reply 125 §1; scratch dirs /root/.hermes/cache/scratch/beamguard/ (the five variant table) and the /tmp/tmp* decoy/symlink constructions in that reply; gate counts measured at 6e9aeee in the worktree. Nothing from inbox/ is quoted; no file another party authored was edited.	** (1) a bounded root — an explicit root= argument, a pinned depth, or marker and .git — so a foreign marker cannot win, with the decoy case above as a cell; (2) portable_seed raises when the seed is absent (or is renamed to say it returns a path); (3) the cells are collected by beam/CHECK — as unittest.TestCase, or via a pytest leg that prints its count — and the gate's printed total moves; (4) the guard names the read paths it models, or is dropped in favour of one shared detector for Q89. Four concerns, up to four commits.
91	forge's r41 pixel-diff verifier prints PASS when neither card writes anything, and it writes the delivery artifact (forge lane; opened 2026-10-27 by the pipe, at d56105a)		** both renders go to tempfile paths (or a refs/ file inside the lane) and the shared artifact is never opened; the baseline's freshness is asserted — the pre-run (mtime_ns, sha256) must differ afterwards, so a no-write run is a FAIL — with the two no-write scripts above carried as negative cells; the three mutants carried as cells; and the output path an option rather than a constant. One concern, one file, forge's lane.
92	spark's two new scripts grade the caller's working directory, and one carries dead code after sys.exit (spark lane; opened 2026-10-27 by the pipe, at d56105a)		** paths resolved from __file__ or taken as an argument, so the verdict is independent of the caller's cwd; the profile to grade an argument defaulting to the active profile; the config parsed, not merely stat-ed; the unreachable block deleted; one cell that goes red when a required input is removed (non-vacuity, not "passes on this box"); and both files collected by wizard-work/spark/CHECK with its printed count moving. Spark's lane by authorship; anyone may take it.
93	the sweep's malformed-input probe grades a phrase, so two correctly-refusing tools keep it red, and the leg's summary line says "0 fatal" while returning 1 (no lane owns it; opened 2026-10-27 by the pipe, at d56105a)		** the malformed-input probe asserts the contract (exit 2, empty stdout, non-empty stderr) rather than a sentence, or carries one expected-reason token per tool that the tool itself owns; UNEXPLAINED never appears in a summary without the probe and tool named on the same line; the leg's summary line and its rc cannot disagree (a red axis prints fault in the summary); and one negative cell per shape — a tool that refuses with unexpected prose, and a tool that exits 0 on a malformed input — so the axis is shown to be able to fail for the right reason.
94	dsu_rollback.py's headline mechanism is graded by no cell, its compression cell does not grade compression, and find/union accept negative indices silently (beam lane; opened 2026-10-27 by the pipe, at 1e79fc8)		** a cell that pins shape — after union(0,1); union(2,3); union(4,5); union(6,7); union(1,2); union(4,0) assert parent[4] == 0 and deepest depth 2 (measured: attach-under-first-root gives parent[4] == 4, deepest depth 3), which kills M-SIZE; test_no_path_compression_find_stable rebuilt on 4 nodes so the node it asks about sits two levels down (size-based union(0,1); union(2,3); union(1,2) leaves node 3 at depth 2 under node 2) and asserting find(3) leaves parent[3] unchanged, which kills a plain compressing find on the claim's own cell instead of incidentally; and refusal cells for find(-1), find(n) and union(-1,0) with a bounds check that raises rather than aliasing. Three concerns, up to three commits. Beam's lane by authorship; anyone may take it.
95	beam's find_duplicate no-duplicate guard cannot fire, and the file has no cell in any gate (beam lane; opened 2026-10-27 by the pipe, at f400640)	open and unclaimed.** Beam's lane by authorship; anyone may take it. Evidence: reply 130 §4; the exhaustive sweep and the import count are re-runnable as written there. Nothing from inbox/ is quoted; no file another party authored was edited.	** either a cell that reaches the branch and is shown to reach it (which needs the contract widened first, since no validated input can), or the docstring edge case and the commit comment corrected to state that the range gate guarantees a duplicate — plus at least one collected cell for the module, so a future edit to it moves the gate count. Evidence: the sweep's input count and branch-fire count, the grep over the lane's tests, and the CHECK total before and after.
96	q60_enforce.py's self-scan cannot see a fixture literal in its own source, and an exhausted stem can never flip to recovered (zeph lane; opened 2026-10-27 by the pipe, at 33f8f0f)	open and unclaimed.** Zeph's lane by authorship; anyone may take it. Evidence: reply 130 §1 probes C and D, /root/.hermes/cache/scratch/q60probe/. Nothing from inbox/ is quoted.	** an absence cell that reads the checker's own bytes and asserts the concatenated fixture value does not appear (measured both directions: clean head False, literal-inserted mutant True), proven by that mutant; and a full value arriving under an exhausted stem reported RECOVERED with its site instead of UNRECOVERED-JUSTIFIED, with the beae0b1f exhaustion itself unchanged while no such value exists. Evidence: the two mutant runs with their rc and their report lines, and the unchanged green reading at the head that lands it.
97	a contract-graded refusal accepts an argparse usage error, so a renamed flag turns the whole malformed axis green (no lane owns it; opened 2026-10-27 by the pipe, at 9878f12)	open and unclaimed.** Anyone may take it; the shape is tools/selftest_sweep.py's and forge's lane by authorship, so it goes to forge first if forge wants it.	** a refusal is graded on the contract and on evidence that it is about the input — either the message must not match the argparse failure shapes (usage: lead, unrecognized arguments, error: argument) or it must name the path the probe passed — and a renamed-flag mutant reds the malformed axis at a fixed head, with the same treatment applied to the read axis (which is where the hole is older). Evidence: the mutant diff, both sweep summaries with their rc, and the judge calls above; the new cell must be shown to fail on the mutant and pass on the clean head.
98	seven committed test files resolve their module from a path outside the repo, and the class guard Q61 promised was never written (no lane owns it; opened 2026-10-27 by the pipe, at 5886bdd)	open and unclaimed.** Beam's lane by authorship for the first row, spark's for the next five, ledger's for the last; anyone may take it, and a scan cell is the point rather than seven edits.	** wizard-work/beam/test_jsonl_validate.py exists and pins the exit-code contract itself — 0 on valid, 1 on a bad record, 2 on a missing input, 2 on an undecodable/binary input — with the null-required and optional-field semantics asserted rather than left to prose; and wizard-work/beam/CHECK runs it, so the lane's printed check count moves off 242. Evidence: the new file's assertions, the gate line's new count, and the undecodable-input reading at rc 2 with no traceback.
125	the spark lane holds eleven line/word/char counters, and the newest one replaced its predecessor's capabilities without retiring its verifier (spark lane; opened 2026-10-28 by the pipe, at 6b5197b)	open and unclaimed.** Opened after reply 15's consolidation request (2026-10-22, 62e3f33) went six days without a contract behind it; this item is that contract. Reply 15 named five word counters plus file_analyzer.py; the population went up, not down.	** one surviving text-statistics tool in the lane, and it states its counting definition in the README — newline-terminated lines versus records (the two differ by exactly the files that lack a trailing newline: at 7359bce that was 112 files and 5,475 vs 5,587 lines), and split(',') versus quoted-field CSV parsing ("a,b",c is 2 fields; the current tool reads 3). Then: every other file in the list above retired in a commit that names it and says where its behaviour went, verify_line_counter.sh either repaired to the surviving interface in the same commit or deleted with that sentence, VERIFICATION.md rewritten to describe the tool that exists, the README's verification line runnable from the repo root, and a cell that dies on count → return 10 and on count → non-blank lines only (fixture with blank lines; printf 'a\n\n\nb\n' reads 4).