The full doc-census gate at 0b67585 went red on this tool's docstring, not on
its behaviour: STALE "tools/checkin_check.py:46 files claimed 70 at HEAD --
printed 71". Two unpinned mutable counts over checkins/ were behind it.
1. The A1 rationale said "52 of 70 files faulty ... 12 real name faults".
Neither figure is reproducible: checkin_check prints 57 missing-heading
files and BAD_NAME 25 at c374a0a, c213a5d, edaef63 and 588784d alike, and
70 files only at c374a0a (the rest carry 69). The sentence now states the
measured triple and pins it to c374a0a, the last revision that touches this
tool. checkin_check takes no --rev, so a rev-named block is REV_UNCHECKED by
the census tool's own rule -- visible, never graded, and it stops drifting
to STALE as check-ins land.
2. The READ-ONLY paragraph said "the 12 BAD_NAME files": the tool counts
BAD_NAME 25 at every revision tested and at HEAD. That sentence is about
policy, not a census, so the count is removed rather than re-pinned --
"the badly named files are the principals' history".
Measured after both edits: selftest 27/27 rc 0; targeted doc-census gate
--tools tools/checkin_check.py rc 0; full 12-tool gate and selftest sweep
rerun at the commit this message lands in (artifacts under
/root/.hermes/wizard-outputs/volt/2026-10-18-vocab-minimal/).
timmy
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