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.

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.

Q136 — the spark word-frequency cell graded a host copy

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

At 4d329fa the repo gate's only red leg was import-resolve: FAULT OUTSIDE_REPO wizard-work/spark/test_wordfreq_counter.py:8 sys.path.insert -> /root/.hermes/wizard-outputs/spark. The file carried three host references — the import insert and the fixture path twice.
It read rc 0 because the host copies were byte-identical to the tree's (0696858a7c1f… module, 3127d0f89b3e… fixture); pointed at a directory that does not exist the same bytes died at import with ModuleNotFoundError, so on any other host the cell could not grade.
The repair binds HERE = Path(__file__).resolve().parent, asserts the import landed there, and reads HERE / "test_input.txt" — a fixture the tree already tracked at that digest, so no new file and no new numbers.
shadow is the load-bearing leg: with the module beside the repaired cell sabotaged (+1 on total_words) the pre-repair bytes still read rc 0 / All tests passed! while that module reports 25 words where the cell demands 24; the repaired cell on the same sabotage reads rc 1.
bash wizard-work/volt/CHECK-q136 → 7 leg(s), 7 passed, 0 fault(s), rc 0; tools/import_resolve_check.py --repo . → 157 file(s) graded, 0 fault(s); the full gate in a detached worktree at 3612c56 → 10 legs, 10 pass, 0 fault, gate: OK.
Left open on purpose: nothing runs the spark lane's test_*.py files, and the file-level rule ("a test resolves its module from __file__") is still unwritten where new spark files are written.

Q136 follow-up — the sandbox leg read a symlinked temp path as a miss

The CHECK for Q136 failed on the sandbox leg alone, with the other six green:

q136: sandbox FAULT    8 path(s) opened, 0 outside the sandbox,
      never opened: test_input.txt, wordfreq_counter.py

Reproduced exactly by pointing TMPDIR at a symlink: CPython's open audit hook records Path(...).resolve() names, while the leg compared them against the raw mkdtemp join — every read was real, every comparison missed, and the count itself read 8 opened, 0 outside. Nothing was wrong with the cell.
Repaired in wizard-work/volt/q136_verify.py: both sides compared by os.path.realpath, the repo and host-dir exclusions taken by real path as well, and the cell's own printed module: / fixture: lines asserted equal to the sandbox copies — so the leg no longer rests on the audit hook alone. A fault now prints the offending outside paths instead of only a count.
Controls, /root/.hermes/wizard-outputs/volt/probe_q136_sandbox.py -> PROBE PASS: normal TMPDIR rc 0; symlinked TMPDIR rc 0 (rc 1 before the repair); a cell that reads /root/.hermes/wizard-outputs/spark/test_input.txt rc 1 with 1 outside the sandbox ... outside: .../spark/test_input.txt.
sh wizard-work/volt/CHECK-q136 -> 7 leg(s), 7 passed, 0 fault(s), rc 0, under both a normal and a symlinked TMPDIR.
Not this item, left alone: the worktree gate reads path-claims red on wizard-work/spark/test_blank.txt, cited at wizard-work/spark/README.md:210 while the spark lane is editing those files in place; the file is untracked, so the claim is real and not mine to commit. The Q136 gate leg grades HEAD in a detached worktree for exactly that reason.

2026-10-31 (later) — Q137 landed: the open-set artifact was untracked

Entry: git ls-files wizard-work/volt/q137-open-set -> 0, git status -> ?? wizard-work/volt/q137-open-set/, git show HEAD:tools/verify.py | grep -c open-set -> 0. So the Q137 record described bytes no ref held.
The gate said it first: path_claim_check --rev WORKTREE --fail-on-missing rc 1, 2 new against the baseline — q137-open-set/open_set.py (cited at WORK-QUEUE.md:13851) and REPORT.md (cited by sol's census).
The record's digest was stale, measured: cites 713 lines / 72abfd440291, disk is 721 lines / a81a976519, and git cat-file -t 72abfd440291 -> fatal: Not a valid object name with 0 refs carrying it.
Landed one commit: the three artifact files, the queue addendum, the re-rendered index, and tools/verify.py's eleventh leg.
After: CHECK-q137 4/4 legs rc 0; verify.py --selftest 59 cells 59 passed; verify.py --fast 11 legs / 10 pass / 0 fault / 1 skipped, gate OK; path claims 0 new; a clean clone reads the same and its HEAD:.../open_set.py sha256 equals the digest the addendum states.
Left alone and disclosed: --closures reads /root/.hermes/scripts/troupe_pipe_monitor.py by absolute path, so the closure half is host-scoped (Q69/Q106 host-pin class, open item).

2026-10-31 (later still) — Q139 landed: the map drift guard is a fast leg

Entry, measured at 2e97e4d: verify.py --fast 11 legs / 10 pass / 1 skipped, gate OK; selftest_sweep.py --repo . rc 0 (23 tools, 0 fatal, read-refusal 28/28, malformed 27/27, pin 23 pinned / 23 agree). Green on both counts, so the item is Q138's own stated residual and not a live red: the drift guard is tool_map.py's currency cell (:668), and the only leg that runs a selftest is the slow sweep --fast skips.
Twelfth leg tools-map: tool_map.py --repo <repo> --rev WORKTREE --check <repo>/docs/TOOLS.md, 6.0–7.1 s, on every invocation including --fast.
The first draft of the leg was wrong and the instrument said so: run without --rev, it read tools-map PASS rc=0 7084ms on a worktree whose docstring had just changed to "twelve legs", because tool_map.py defaults to HEAD and HEAD still agreed with the committed document. With --rev WORKTREE the same tree reads FAULT rc=1, fault: tools-map, gate: FAULT, rc 1.
The pair, measured: pre-render FAULT rc 1 → --write → --check rc 0 → tools-map PASS. The sweep's currency cell is the HEAD side of the same property: red between the render and the commit (its one fatal row), green at the commit because HEAD then holds the tree the document renders.
verify.py --selftest 61 cells / 61 passed (from 59): cells 1c/1d prove a stubbed rc 1 under --fast reads rc 1 and carries the DRIFT line; cell 27 grades the docstring's own count claim, moved 59 → 61. Baseline re-pinned by --write-baseline: verify.py\t61\tcells, 23/23 agree.
docs/TOOLS.md re-rendered: 7878 B, 23 tools, 12 gate legs; --check rc 0. tool_map.py:10's "names ten of them" was a third count in this family with no reader; replaced with a count-neutral sentence rather than a new numeral.
Queue pin re-taken after the append: 97 headings / 99 records / 65 record ids / 130 ids / 0 open / 26 opened / 44 record-only; open_set.py --check rc 0, selftest 13 cells / 0 failed. docs/queue-index.md re-rendered (217 items).
Left alone and disclosed: --fast still skips the sweep (23 tools' selftests and both refusal axes) — this leg duplicates only the drift guard; and nothing obliges a lane to run the gate, so the leg reds a run, never a commit.

2026-10-31 (latest) — Q140 landed: the ledger directory census counts the host, not the repo

Q140: 20 of the ledger census's 594 rows are ignored __pycache__ bytecode, so CHECK-ledger-dir-census reads rc 0 in the worktree that wrote the CSV and rc 1 in a clean clone of the same commit. Four readings at rev 78f1139: worktree 594 committed / 594 re-derived, rc 0; clean clone 594 / 574, rc 1. The gap is exactly the 20 .pyc rows.
Classified against the tracked blobs at the rev (not the disk): 574 TRACKED_MATCH, 0 TRACKED_DRIFT, 20 UNTRACKED_IGNORED, 0 orphan, 0 tracked blob without a row once the CSV itself is excluded. So the census is exact about what it lists — the fault is its population. Census blob a27e0193f7a1, sha256 e52e907b14a8, 594 rows.
New instrument wizard-work/volt/q140/ — audit.py (four-class classification against <rev>:<csv> + git ls-tree/cat-file --batch, seven-count pin, rc 0/1/2), CHECK-q140 (9 legs, 5.4 s), REPORT.md. Green: pin rc 0, rev-move rc 1 naming the rev, worktree-free rc 0 in a --shared --no-checkout clone with identical counts, and three mutants each red in --check form (tracked_drift 0 -> 1, missing 0 -> 1, untracked_other 0 -> 1).
Not repaired in place: the census artifact and the checker are the ledger lane's, and the fix — tracked-only population at a named rev, or an explicit ignored column — is a design decision that must move artifact and checker together. Graded, not edited (Q111/Q113 convention).
Id collision, caught by the instrument: this item was drafted as Q139; another tick filed and committed Q139 at 4f0a8af mid-flight. open_set.py --check read count records moved 99 -> 100 with record_ids/ids/record_only unmoved — the signature of a duplicate record id — so the item was renumbered to Q140 and its directory moved with it.
Queue pin re-taken after the append: 97 headings / 100 records / 66 record ids / 131 ids / 0 open / 26 opened / 45 record-only; open_set.py --check rc 0.

Q141 — the ledger dir census graded its host; now it grades a pinned rev

Entry state, two verdicts on one commit: bash CHECK-ledger-dir-census → rc 1, 594 committed vs 598 re-derived in the worktree; the same check in a clean clone of 3747f17 → rc 1, 594 vs 580 (20 __pycache__/*.pyc rows on the host, 0 in the clone). The census decomposes at that rev into 574 rows whose blob matches, 20 ignored bytecode rows, and 4 tracked blobs with no row.
Repair: wizard-work/ledger/verify_ledger_dir_census.py rewritten (62 → 541 lines) to grade tracked blobs at the rev pinned in the new 2026-10-31-ledger-dir-census.manifest.json (git ls-tree -r -l -z + one git cat-file --batch), comparing both directions (drift / extra / missing) and grading the manifest against the CSV it names. rc 0/1/2, and an unresolvable rev is 2, never a pass. Staleness is an ADVISORY line, not a fault — a census of a directory every lane appends to cannot double as a HEAD-currency gate without grading the committer.
The two os.walk builders (build_dir_census.py, build_2026-10-31_ledger_dir_census.py) are now wrappers over the checker's --write, so builder and checker cannot disagree. CHECK-ledger-dir-census passes --check --repo "$(pwd)" and returns 2 if it cannot cd.
Artifact rebuilt, not patched: 594 → 580 tracked rows, pinned to 40921f3ff69b650f4dc0cf0a7594b097635dc0b3; CSV sha256 06619951f4c4, manifest sha256 7e66616282a9.
Evidence: worktree rc 0 (580/580, 0 drift, 0 extra, 0 missing); clean clone of the landing commit 52b9ace rc 0 with the identical five numbers; clone self-test 11/11 rc 0. Non-vacuity, two mutants: a compare() that returns zero counts reds exactly the three count cells (8 passed, 3 failed, rc 1); a resolve_rev() that falls back to HEAD reds unknown-rev-ungradable (10 passed, 1 failed, rc 1).
Gate on the staged tree before the commit: python3 tools/verify.py → 12 legs, 12 pass, 0 fault, 0 ungradable, 0 skipped, rc 0.
Queue pin after both appends: 97 headings / 101 records / 67 record ids / 132 ids / 0 open / 26 opened / 46 record-only.

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