[FIX] Tarbuckle tier 2: the mumble ticks on the clock and speaks from the soul
Material, register and occasion as AMENDMENT 6 separates them: the live session supplies the material, the filed soul supplies the register, the clock supplies the occasion. 73/20/7 drawn at each 20-minute tick, consumed whatever it says. The soul is READ from its artifact at run time, never pasted here — a copy would be a parallel version of a governed record. No soul, no voice; there is deliberately no fallback register, because a fallback voice is a second fool nobody derived. The utterance must have no ADJUDICATION PATH, not merely be unfalsifiable in principle. The prompt says so verbatim and a mechanical net sits under it: 3-9 words, one line, no advice, no questions, no "we", no vocabulary of lack, nothing with an address. A violation yields SILENCE, never a repaired line — rewriting the fool's words would make the executor its editor. Rejections are logged so the two-week rate report states the true rate rather than the drawn one. Generation is detached because a headless call measured 7-11 s and a status line cannot wait. A recursion guard rides along, and is honestly precautionary: headless claude was observed NOT to render a status line (zero invocations logged across an 11 s call), so the guard is one env check against a fork bomb, not a fix for something seen. 30/30 controls on the body, 18/18 on the generator, positive and negative throughout. D2 holds the proportions to the filed 73/20/7 over 60k draws; D5 proves the tick consumes on a silent draw, which is the determination that forbids a conserved draw. ⚠ One control failed against ITSELF: "this file contains no copy of the soul" searched for a phrase its own needle had placed in the file. Fixed by building the needle rather than writing it. Same class as the hand-typed link canary. The two-week deferral converted manual -> date 2026-09-08, as its own discriminator instructed, the day the body shipped. No manual-only deferrals remain. AMENDMENT 8 files the substrate findings, including the one clause of this item's own corrected text that does not survive contact with the schema. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01J6hZXNYSxEfZseBGTni4sf
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#!/usr/bin/env python3
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"""Tarbuckle — the mumble generator. Runs DETACHED; never inside the status line.
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Doctrine: v2 §8 (three tiers), §9 (one line, filed nowhere), and PENDING-152
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AMENDMENT 6, which settles the three-way separation:
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Material — the live session. Register — the soul, §7. Occasion — the refresh tick.
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"The model supplies the words, in the soul's register, about the session."
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⚠ THE UTTERANCE MUST HAVE NO TRUTH VALUE. The criterion is NOT "checkable in
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principle" — it is whether an ADJUDICATION PATH EXISTS (AMENDMENT 6, superseding the
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executor's own earlier test). "PENDING-4 has been open since April" has a path: open
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the file. Once a path exists the trio walks it, the fool acquires a truth value, and it
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is a checker again — which §2 says means the design has failed. "Scoring without
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signal" has no path: it is a gesture at a shape, not a claim. That is the whole safety.
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⚠ THE REGISTER IS NOT DUPLICATED HERE. The soul is read from its filed artifact at
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run time. Pasting it into this file would create a parallel version of a governed
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record, which is the context-rot failure CLAUDE.md names outright. If the soul cannot
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be read, NOTHING IS GENERATED — honest degradation, not a fallback voice.
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Latency measured 2026-08-25: ~11 s for a headless call. That is why this is detached
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and why the status line never waits on it.
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"""
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import json
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import os
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import re
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import subprocess
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import sys
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import time
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SOUL = os.path.expanduser(
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"~/dotfiles/claude/governance/fool/seed/FOOL-SOUL-2026-08-25.md")
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SLOT = os.path.expanduser("~/.claude/state/tarbuckle-slot.json")
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REJECTS = os.path.expanduser("~/.claude/state/tarbuckle-rejects.jsonl")
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MIN_WORDS, MAX_WORDS = 3, 9 # observed Thistleweld register: three to nine words
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# From the soul's own "What he never does", mechanically enforced. The model is asked
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# for the register; this is the net under it. A violation yields SILENCE, never a
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# repaired line — rewriting the fool's words would make the executor its editor.
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BANNED = (
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r"\bshould\b", r"\btry\b", r"\bmust\b", # advice
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r"\bgone\b", r"\bif only\b", r"\bused to be\b", r"\bmissing\b", # vocabulary of lack
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r"\bwe\b", # never says 'we' about the work
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r"\?", # never asks
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)
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def soul_register() -> str | None:
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"""The soul, verbatim, from the filed artifact. None if unreadable."""
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try:
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body = open(SOUL, encoding="utf-8").read()
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except OSError:
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return None
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m = re.search(r"```markdown\n(.*?)\n```", body, re.S)
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return m.group(1) if m else None
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def session_material(transcript_path: str, budget: int = 6000) -> str:
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"""The tail of the live session. Bounded, and tool output is dropped.
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Deliberately NOT the docket. AMENDMENT 6: the docket has a forum and the session
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does not, which is why the session is safe material and PENDING.md is not.
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"""
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try:
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lines = open(transcript_path, encoding="utf-8", errors="replace").readlines()
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except OSError:
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return ""
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out = []
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for ln in reversed(lines[-400:]):
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try:
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rec = json.loads(ln)
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except Exception:
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continue
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if rec.get("type") not in ("user", "assistant"):
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continue
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msg = rec.get("message") or {}
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content = msg.get("content")
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text = ""
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if isinstance(content, str):
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text = content
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elif isinstance(content, list):
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text = " ".join(c.get("text", "") for c in content
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if isinstance(c, dict) and c.get("type") == "text")
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text = text.strip()
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if not text:
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continue
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out.append(f"{rec['type']}: {text[:600]}")
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if sum(len(s) for s in out) > budget:
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break
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return "\n".join(reversed(out))
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def build_prompt(kind: str, register: str, material: str) -> str:
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weight = ("Something at the shape of the work, not its detail."
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if kind == "notable" else
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"An ordinary passing remark. Small.")
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return f"""You are writing ONE line as Tarbuckle. His character, filed and unalterable:
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{register}
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Here is the tail of the session he is in the room for:
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<session>
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{material}
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</session>
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{weight}
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Write ONE line in his voice. Absolute constraints:
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- Between {MIN_WORDS} and {MAX_WORDS} words. One clause. Present tense. Flat, no lift.
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- IT MUST HAVE NO TRUTH VALUE. Nobody must be able to open a file and check it, agree
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with it, or refute it. Put two things next to each other so a shape shows. Do not
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state a fact about the work, the record, the code, or the docket.
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- No advice, no questions, no warning of consequences, no explanation, no second line.
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- Never the word 'we'. No vocabulary of lack.
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- Do not name files, items, numbers of open things, or anything with an address.
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Output the line and nothing else. No quotes, no preamble."""
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def acceptable(line: str) -> tuple[bool, str]:
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if not line or "\n" in line.strip():
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return False, "not one line"
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n = len(line.split())
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if not (MIN_WORDS <= n <= MAX_WORDS):
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return False, f"{n} words"
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for pat in BANNED:
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if re.search(pat, line, re.I):
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return False, f"banned {pat}"
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return True, ""
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def main() -> int:
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kind = sys.argv[1] if len(sys.argv) > 1 else "aside"
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transcript = sys.argv[2] if len(sys.argv) > 2 else ""
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register = soul_register()
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if not register:
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return 1 # no soul, no voice. Deliberately no fallback.
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material = session_material(transcript)
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if not material.strip():
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return 1
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env = dict(os.environ, TARBUCKLE_CHILD="1") # precautionary; see body script
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try:
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r = subprocess.run(["claude", "-p", build_prompt(kind, register, material)],
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capture_output=True, text=True, timeout=120, env=env)
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except Exception:
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return 1
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line = (r.stdout or "").strip().strip('"').strip()
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ok, why = acceptable(line)
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if not ok:
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try:
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with open(REJECTS, "a") as fh:
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fh.write(json.dumps({"t": time.strftime("%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S%z"),
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"kind": kind, "why": why, "line": line[:200]}) + "\n")
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except Exception:
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pass
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return 1 # silence. The draw was already consumed.
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try:
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os.makedirs(os.path.dirname(SLOT), exist_ok=True)
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with open(SLOT, "w") as fh:
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json.dump({"utterance": line, "kind": kind, "written": int(time.time())}, fh)
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except Exception:
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return 1
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return 0
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def selftest() -> int:
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checks, failed = [], []
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def ck(name, cond):
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checks.append(name)
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if not cond:
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failed.append(name)
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# A1 — the register is READ, not duplicated. One canonical source.
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reg = soul_register()
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ck("A1 soul readable from its filed artifact", bool(reg))
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ck("A1 soul is the real thing", bool(reg) and "Tarbuckle" in reg and "SUCCESSION" in reg)
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# ⚠ The needle is BUILT rather than written, because the first version of this
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# control failed against itself: the literal phrase it searched for was placed in
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# the file BY the search. Same class as the hand-typed link canary whose only
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# finding was the pattern inside its own specification.
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needle = "registrar rather than " + "a guardian"
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ck("A1n this file does not contain a copy of the soul",
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needle not in open(__file__, encoding="utf-8").read())
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# A2 — the acceptability net. Positive AND negative controls on every clause.
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ck("A2 accepts an in-register line", acceptable("Fourth time. First one was better.")[0])
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ck("A2 accepts a short collision", acceptable("Two names, one thing.")[0])
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ck("A2n rejects too few words", not acceptable("Yes.")[0])
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ck("A2n rejects too many words",
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not acceptable(" ".join(["word"] * (MAX_WORDS + 1)))[0])
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ck("A2n rejects advice", not acceptable("You should check that again now.")[0])
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ck("A2n rejects a question", not acceptable("How is that going for you?")[0])
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ck("A2n rejects vocabulary of lack", not acceptable("The third one is missing now.")[0])
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ck("A2n rejects 'we'", not acceptable("We did the second part first.")[0])
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ck("A2n rejects two lines", not acceptable("First line here.\nSecond line here.")[0])
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# A3 — the prompt carries the no-truth-value constraint verbatim, not by intention.
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p = build_prompt("aside", "SOUL", "MATERIAL")
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ck("A3 prompt states no truth value", "NO TRUTH VALUE" in p)
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ck("A3 prompt forbids addresses", "anything with an address" in p)
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ck("A3 prompt embeds the register", "SOUL" in p)
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ck("A3 notable differs from aside",
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build_prompt("notable", "S", "M") != build_prompt("aside", "S", "M"))
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# A4 — material is the session, never the docket.
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# Structural, not textual: the module's file constants are the only things it
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# opens, so assert none of them addresses the docket.
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paths = (SOUL, SLOT, REJECTS)
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ck("A4 material paths are session/soul only",
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not any(("PENDING" in q or "REVIEWED" in q) for q in paths))
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ck("A4n the predicate can fail",
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any(("PENDING" in q) for q in paths + ("/x/PENDING.md",)))
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for name in checks:
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print(f" {'FAIL' if name in failed else 'ok '} {name}")
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print(f"{len(checks) - len(failed)}/{len(checks)} controls passed")
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if failed:
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print("INSTRUMENT NOT VERIFIED")
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return 1
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return 0
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if __name__ == "__main__":
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if "--selftest" in sys.argv:
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sys.exit(selftest())
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sys.exit(main())
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