Merlin
dd0bc69061
The subject collector named by HELM_COLLECTOR is checked for the rule (--deploy and SNAPSHOT_PATH.resolve() in its source) at helm-selftest.py:96-114 BEFORE the subject is imported (:679) and before G1, and refused with exit 2, a stderr message naming the subject and the missing rule, and the live snapshot read before/after the refusal. Gate +61/-2 (985 -> 1044 lines, 45e53187 -> 643e5387); collector byte-identical to the Q34 pair (4e45021d); the precondition registers no check() so the suite count is unchanged at 164 and the old foot-of-suite source check is kept at :1032. Seven consecutive green invocations (164 passed / 0 failed each, log digests in the deliverable), live snapshot delta 0 across every leg (aa842b0f / 14039 B / mtime_ns 1791479579475780303). Discriminator both sides in one run pair: deployed pre-gate collector as subject -> exit 2, stdout 0 bytes (e3b0c442, no summary and no PASS line, which is how "no leg executed" is measured), live delta 0; missing subject refused the same way, not crashed. Mechanism probe from this tree (q35-mechanism.py, mech-probe.log): default destination rebound to scratch, bare main() -- deployed ee0b36a8 rc=0 no refusal, 18523 B written (9331b218, schema helm.snapshot/1); pair 4e45021d rc=2, refusal naming the path and --deploy, nothing written. Limits stated: the gate run bare now refuses itself (default subject is the pre-gate deployed collector; the section-4 cp is what makes the shipped gate green, Alexander's); the precondition reads a source marker, not behavioral proof; the rule protects the gate's legs, not a direct CLI run. Nothing deployed; decisions/ and inbox/ untouched.
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