[FIX] He was reciting his own examples, not watching the session — steward caught it

Measured before agreeing: three of five recent outputs were near-verbatim lifts from the
seven sample lines the soul carries. "Somebody's going to inherit that and think it was
easy" and "It'll outlast you, not by much" are not observations; they are the prompt
being handed back.

⚠ THIS REINTRODUCED PRECISELY WHAT AMENDMENT 6 RULED OUT. Type-only canned strings were
rejected there because they "make a mood ring — atmosphere within a fortnight", and the
material was settled as the live session for that reason. The implementation then let
canned strings back in through the one door nobody was watching: the illustrative
examples inside the register itself. The doctrine was right and the wiring undid it.

Two fixes, because a prompt instruction alone is a promise. The prompts now mark the
samples as illustrations of REGISTER, NOT VOCABULARY, and add the operative test — if
the line would suit any other session equally well, it is wrong. And a mechanical net:
echoes_soul() rejects a 4-word run shared with any sample line, or a 6-word run shared
with the soul's prose. Checked against samples rather than the whole soul at n=4 because
the soul's prose shares ordinary 4-grams with ordinary English, and a net firing on those
would silence him for speaking normally.

Fixtures are the REAL measured lifts, not invented ones, with two of his own lines as
negative controls.

⚠ This TIGHTENS the net; silence-on-violation is untouched and still absolute.

Verified after: he now speaks about this session, including about this very defect.

body 32 · mumble 32 · seam 15 · invoke 21 · wrap 21.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01J6hZXNYSxEfZseBGTni4sf

scripts/tarbuckle-seam.py

@@ -41,7 +41,8 @@ sys.path.insert(0, os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)))
 # reimplementing is the "one canonical source" rule applied to a constraint: a second
 # copy of `acceptable()` is a second, quietly divergent standard.
 from tarbuckle_mumble_shim import (acceptable, soul_register, session_material,  # noqa: E402
-                                   source_lacks, muted, log_event, REJECTS)
+                                   source_lacks, muted, log_event,  # noqa: E402
+                                   echoes_soul, REJECTS)
 
 LAST_TICK = os.path.expanduser("~/.claude/state/tarbuckle-last-tick")
 SEAM_TIMEOUT_S = 15
@@ -68,6 +69,9 @@ He has just walked in on this, already in progress:
 </session>
 
 Write ONE line in his voice, on arriving. Absolute constraints:
+- ⚠ THE SAMPLE LINES ABOVE ARE ILLUSTRATIONS OF REGISTER, NOT VOCABULARY. Do not reuse
+  them, any phrase from them, or their subject matter. What he says must come from the
+  session above. If the line would suit any other session equally, it is wrong.
 - Between 3 and 9 words. One clause. Present tense. Flat, no lift.
 - IT MUST HAVE NO TRUTH VALUE. Nobody must be able to open a file and check it, agree
   with it, or refute it. Put two things next to each other so a shape shows.
@@ -129,6 +133,8 @@ def main() -> int:
         return 0
     line = (r.stdout or "").strip().strip('"').strip()
     ok, why = acceptable(line)
+    if ok and echoes_soul(line, register):
+        ok, why = False, f"recited the soul: {echoes_soul(line, register)!r}"
     if not ok:
         log_silence(why, line)
         log_event("seam", "silent")