session 2026-08-07 evening: PENDING-112 + REVIEWED-95 (route harvested capabilities by firing moment)

Register censused and rebuilt from the archive: 177 claimed -> 154 real live
proposals, legible, with exact archive:L### pointers. The 2026-08-01 compaction
was lossless but illegible (55 scraped header rows; 95% of cells cut mid-word);
completeness verified 124 = 124, so nothing had been dropped.

Skills pruned 63 -> 12 after measuring that 53 had never been invoked across 64
sessions / ~5 months. The finding underneath: retrieval is set by a capability's
HOME, not its importance -- MEMORY.md 83%, register 77% (named in a wake step),
ladder 14%, 'THE GOVERNING FRAME' 12%, 'Read at Step 0' 9%, recall-bound skills 0%.

PENDING-112 filed, jurist design-gated, steward concurred; REVIEWED-95 drafted.
Landed: the /wrap-up 1.6 filing gate (prospective) and the /wake-up ladder
sentence (a pre-registered trial intervention, landed alone). The 20-session
falsifier is WIRED, not intended -- DEFERRED-DECISION ladder-ritual-trial,
trigger: transcripts 84. Wiring it exposed two defects in the deferral checker:
no way to express a session count except as a date proxy, and a scan that never
looked at claude/governance/. Controls 16 -> 19.

Stroke 2's 41-entry ladder append deliberately NOT done: REVIEWED-95 Q3
sequences it after the ladder trigger, which now exists.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NEWjLBP4quXbDPDL2byEzZ

scripts/governance-drift-check.py

@@ -283,6 +283,12 @@ DEFERRED_RE = re.compile(
     r"<!--\s*DEFERRED-DECISION:\s*([a-z0-9][a-z0-9-]*)\s*\n(.*?)-->", re.S)
 
 SCAN_ROOTS = [HOME / "_Dev", HOME / "dotfiles"]
+TRANSCRIPTS = HOME / ".claude/projects/-Users-davidglidden"
+# Governance packages live outside the */docs/** convention the scan was written for,
+# so a deferral filed there was invisible to this check. Found 2026-08-07 while wiring
+# PENDING-112's falsifier: the mechanism existed, and the one place it most needed to
+# reach was the one place it did not look.
+EXTRA_SCAN_GLOBS = [(HOME / "dotfiles", "claude/governance/**/*.md")]
 deferrals: list[dict] = []
 
 
@@ -315,13 +321,28 @@ def trigger_fired(d: dict) -> bool | None:
             else (d["root"] / arg).exists()
     if kind == "date":
         return datetime.date.today().isoformat() >= arg
+    if kind == "transcripts":
+        # Session-count trigger. Added 2026-08-07 for PENDING-112's pre-registered
+        # 20-session falsifier, which the jurist required be BINDING rather than a
+        # disclosed intention. A date would have been a proxy — sessions run at wildly
+        # variable rates — and this block's own comment records that proxies are what
+        # failed last time. Counting transcripts encodes the real condition.
+        try:
+            return len(list(TRANSCRIPTS.glob("*.jsonl"))) >= int(arg)
+        except (ValueError, OSError):
+            return None
     return None
 
 
-for root in SCAN_ROOTS:
+_scan_targets = [(r, "*/docs/**/*.md") for r in SCAN_ROOTS] + EXTRA_SCAN_GLOBS
+_seen_files: set = set()
+for root, pattern in _scan_targets:
     if not root.is_dir():
         continue
-    for f in root.glob("*/docs/**/*.md"):
+    for f in root.glob(pattern):
+        if f in _seen_files:
+            continue
+        _seen_files.add(f)
         try:
             if f.stat().st_size > 400_000:
                 continue
@@ -343,6 +364,16 @@ control("deferred-decision parser reads a well-formed block",
         len(_p_ok) == 1 and _p_ok[0]["slug"] == "tei-native")
 control("deferred-decision parser rejects a non-block",
         not parse_deferrals("<!-- DEFERRED: nope -->", CLAUDE_MD))
+# transcripts-trigger controls: it must fire on a threshold already passed and stay
+# silent on one that has not. An absence is not evidence until the instrument is shown
+# capable of detecting presence — and this trigger carries a standing obligation.
+control("transcripts trigger fires on a passed threshold",
+        trigger_fired({"trigger": "transcripts 1", "root": HOME}) is True)
+control("transcripts trigger silent on an unreached threshold",
+        trigger_fired({"trigger": "transcripts 999999", "root": HOME}) is False)
+control("governance dir is inside the deferral scan",
+        any("claude/governance" in str(p) for p in _seen_files)
+        or not (HOME / "dotfiles/claude/governance").is_dir())
 control("trigger evaluator FIRES on a met condition",
         _p_ok and trigger_fired(_p_ok[0]) is True)
 control("trigger evaluator does NOT fire on an unmet condition  "