session 2026-08-04: PENDING-92/93/94 + the replay-never-resumed finding + l1-replay-sampler

Filed PENDING-92 [HARDENING] idle ladder (cool/deep unreachable, spec §9A.1
divergence), PENDING-93 [PROPOSAL] event_seqs normalisation, PENDING-94
[ESCALATE] the resume floor — minCursor pinned at 0 by two non-participating
modules, so 13/13 restarts rebuilt from seq 0 and the catch-up branch has
never executed. Recall never worked either (retrieval_count = 0 across the
whole April-June graph); same fact from the other end.

Adds scripts/l1-replay-sampler.py (external read-only sampler, four positive
controls, refuses to run blind). Note to Seb pushed separately as
CapableMind-AI@ad285df.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01WuMjg3ipEVa3n8CoSzoyvc

claude/memory/MEMORY-reference.md

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 # MEMORY — Reference layer (consult on demand)
 
 ## Relocated from MEMORY.md at the 2026-07-19 evening budget trim (verbatim; wake-value judged low — MemPalace-era mechanics + reactive-mode ARC specifics)
 
+- [Session 2026-08-03 — the governors that never engaged](session-2026-08-03-the-governors-that-never-engaged.md) — the inherited question answered, and it became the day's theme: **controls that exist in code and never engage**, invisible because an inert control reports success. **Census 01** (pre-registered): `fool/` strong, but **drift-check 3-of-5 families INERT** and **71 of 75 ladder entries cited nowhere** (no IDs ⇒ firing history unrecordable). **S-series closed** on discovering the **jurist ruled all Q1–Q5 on 2026-05-18** and the items were mislabelled 2½ months (S6/S7/S9 built · S2 rebuilt as `[FIX]` · S4/S5 withdrawn with MemPalace). Dormant legacy + GH swept: **22 → 10 open**; `#170` found **undelivered since April**. Steward lifted the L1 baton rule → **mindfabric-00 pinned 6 days**; CDP profile named it; **`ANALYZE` never run in 4 months** so SQLite preferred a *boolean* index over the selective one (**6.4×**, 99.8%→6.0%, `/health` silent→200 in 0.13 s). **B1.1's cap verified WORKING ⇒ the defect is DATA, not code** — 836k edges minted before the governors landed; the ingest was **divergent, not slow**. **`coherence_evaluated = 0` of 813,178 — not one, ever.** ⚠ **Its headline claim was corrected 2026-08-04**: `ANALYZE` explained the *slowness*, not why the ingest never completes — see [[session-2026-08-04-the-replay-had-never-resumed]]. *(Demoted on promote at the 2026-08-04 wrap.)*
 - [Session 2026-08-02 evening — the control was not sound](session-2026-08-02-evening-the-control-was-not-sound.md) — **Trial 03 VOID ×3** (harness certified a run with no answer · anti-echo forbade the region under test · **it was never the false-positive control** — I inherited that label from my own wrap). Steward corrected the blocking framing: **operational soundness relative to a declared axiomatic kernel** is reachable where unconditioned soundness is not. Yield: **Control Kernel v1.0→v1.1** (`A` demoted to a diagnostic; a control document is a **derivation**), a reduction arm (**8.5%** on a ruling, **68.6%** on a package), the first kernel-sound control + a **defect twin with ledger ground truth**, and a **discrimination gate**. **Trial 04 = CONTROL VOID:** two readers, two different real defects in my control. The one that matters is mine — draft 3's "fix" **concealed** a defect instead of closing it. Unplanned real yield: the **first instrument for Constraint 6's own falsifier** — jurist **4/6**, Fool **0/6**, no overlap. **PULLING THREAD: CONTROL-A v2**, parked deliberately for distance, not deferred. *(Demoted on promote at the 2026-08-03 wrap.)*
 - [Session 2026-08-02 pm — the transfer landed, and the vignette was a diagram](session-2026-08-02-pm-the-transfer-landed-and-the-vignette-was-a-diagram.md) — **PENDING-90**: the first L2 transfer, carrying Constraint 6 into CapableMind's calibration loop (AdaptationChain records who *initiated* an adaptation, never who *checked* it; `authorization.required:false` = the whole self-adjustment case, no checker in the record). **#176 reply posted.** Then ARC: the **vignette built from zero** (Phase 1a, `tools/vignette-proto/`, no protected surface touched) + **PENDING-91** jurist package. **Every substantive defect was found by rendering and looking, none by the mechanical checks — all of which passed.** Steward's **Notre-Dame** anchor reframed it: the render is a *diagram* where the spec intends *inscription*; **meaning lives in the syntax, not the lexicon**. Yield = a **nine-item census** of where the spec under-determines the render. **PULLING THREAD: Trial 03** — the Fool's false-positive control, unblocked now the M4 is reachable.
 - [Session 2026-08-02 — the archive answered, and Constraint 6 moved](session-2026-08-02-the-archive-answered-and-constraint-6-moved.md) — the **v1 Chamber archive** supplied the matched-capability arm the Fool trials cannot: **mutual divergence 3 of 3** comparable pairs + a **self-exemption** the steward had named in a **2025-01-20** guide. Jurist passed the doctrine for **drafting only**; **steward placed it at Constraint 6** — the constitution now states the **jurist–executor pair is not a check in the strong sense**. **REVIEWED-85 FIX lane + batch 1** landed; `wake-digest` ID bug fixed (**PENDING-78/-81/-82 reappeared**). Five corrections, four steward-handed, **all census failures — formation diversity buys reading, not scope**. *(Demoted on promote at the 2026-08-02 pm wrap.)*