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.md

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 - [Character-as-image hazard](feedback-character-as-image-hazard.md) — EPUBs rendering diacritics as inline images are SILENTLY MUTILATED by image-drop. Mechanism built (`apply_char_glyphs.py`, REVIEWED-70/v2.5.0), wired as a born-digital precondition; per-source glyph-maps still owed. VIEW the glyph; map to SOURCE form.
 - [Sidecar typology — protocol-dependent reading-indexes](project-sidecar-typology-protocol-dependent.md) — TWO layers: `.meta.json` structural sidecar = PROTOCOL-NEUTRAL (the graduated bar); reading-indexes (rich YAML) = PROTOCOL-DEPENDENT, probably PLURAL — **don't design the schema yet**; settle corpus to gold, let protocols declare themselves. Steward 2026-06-29.
 - Studium Engine — *no tracker file yet*; moves in per-session memories + the **[architectural charter](reference-studium-engine-architectural-charter.md)**. Steps 0–7 built; corpus CLEAN; **V1 `verify-quote` + `fidelity_equivalence@2` GOVERNING** (Greek/Latin census owed → @3). Stage-1 rebuild plan: V1 done → V2→V4 / N1→N3.
-- [L1 reliability](project-L1-reliability.md) — canonical L1 tracker. **Baton rule LIFTED 2026-08-03.** Ingest mystery SOLVED (`ANALYZE` never run ⇒ boolean-index pathology; B1.1's cap works ⇒ **defect is DATA not code**); repair run, **replay in flight**. **Read the tracker before ANY L1 work** — walked past once on 2026-08-03.
+- [L1 reliability](project-L1-reliability.md) — canonical L1 tracker. **BLOCKED ON SEB (PENDING-94) — nothing moves until he rules; BMF is down and staying down.** The replay **has never resumed, only restarted**: `minCursor` is a minimum over all 11 modules and two never participate ⇒ every start rebuilds from seq 0 (13/13, 0 catch-up). Completion is gated by **uninterrupted run length, not rate** — which is why ANALYZE/B1.1/N6 were all real and all changed nothing. **Recall never worked either** (`retrieval_count = 0` across the whole April–June graph). Yesterday's "ingest mystery solved" was **corrected 2026-08-04**. **Read the tracker before ANY L1 work** — walked past once on 2026-08-03.
 - [Be (laundromat)](project-be-laundromat.md) — canonical Be tracker (est. 2026-06-08). Be = Skemantix startup (Seb+David) funding CapableMind's ladder; **bridge, not venture**. Decisions LOCKED (entity/pricing/infra in file); a11y gate MERGED. **Pre-revenue WTP gate = renovate Pat → charge her; discipline: no new spec until it clears → nothing for executor on be.** Repo @ `f43a0fd`.
 
 ## Active Session
-- [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** (the real answer to #65). Repair run, **replay in flight (~30 h)**. **`coherence_evaluated = 0` of 813,178 — not one, ever.** **PULLING THREAD: the replay** — does it complete, and does the coherence evaluator ever run?
+- [Session 2026-08-04 — the replay had never resumed](session-2026-08-04-the-replay-had-never-resumed.md) — **four mechanism hypotheses proposed and refuted in one day** (sleep · entity timeout · drain gating · Ollama saturation); the steward's *"how can this be so persistently elusive?"* stopped a fifth being born. **The answer came from killing the replay and reading what it left at rest, not from profiling.** `minCursor = Math.min(...)` over **all 11** modules; `structured`+`training` have **never processed an event** (0 deferrals, 0 errors) ⇒ floor pinned at 0 ⇒ every start a full rebuild. **13/13 restarts, 6/6 rebuild, 0 catch-up — the resume branch has never executed.** Explains #65's *"fails differently each time"* and why every real rate fix (ANALYZE 6.4×, B1.1, N6) changed nothing: completion is gated by **uninterrupted run length**, not rate. **Recall never worked either — `retrieval_count = 0` across 19,915 nodes / 813,178 chains** (writer + call site verified live first); ingestion-never-completes and recall-never-worked are **one fact from two ends**. Replay **killed** (steward-authorized, premise re-verified, 2 verified backups); **BMF down and staying down**. PENDING-92/93/94 filed; note pushed to Seb (`CapableMind-AI@ad285df`). **L1 now blocked on Seb.** **PULLING THREAD: census 01 against the chamber/engine tooling** — sharpened question: *has this instrument ever produced a positive result at all?*
 
 ## Historical reference → MEMORY-reference.md
 Older archived-session pointers and the stable reference layer (steward profile · project-state detail · L1/L2/Chamber inventories · legacy pending-work · reference-file list) live in [MEMORY-reference.md](MEMORY-reference.md) — consult on demand; not loaded at wake. Recent cross-session trajectory comes from the Active Session entry above + the recent `session-*.md` files (wake §2.b.1; the MemPalace `handoffs` glance was retired 2026-07-07 with the wind-down).