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name: skill-harvest-register-proposed-skills-awaiting-steward-authorization
description: "Standing register of skill create/patch/retire proposals surfaced by /wrap-up §1.6, awaiting steward authorization. The governed analog of PENDING.md, turned on our own tooling — propose → authorize → build → record. Surfaced every wake via this MEMORY entry."
metadata: 
  node_type: memory
  permalink: claude-memory/skill-harvest-register
  type: reference
  originSessionId: 932b538a-4624-4ce7-8826-ecbd6b8d079f
  modified: 2026-08-08T11:53:32.970Z
---

# Skill-harvest register

The single place proposed skills live so they don't evaporate between sessions. `/wrap-up` §1.6 *proposes* here; the steward *authorizes*; only then is a skill created/patched/retired (never autonomously — the loop is load-bearing, per PENDING-23). `/wake-up` surfaces the open proposals via this entry. The governed analog of `~/PENDING.md`, for our own tools.

**Status legend:** `PROPOSED` (awaiting steward) · `PROPOSED?` (status never marked — **open until ruled**, never silently closed) · `AUTHORIZED` (proceed to build) · `BUILT` · `DEFERRED` · `REJECTED`.

> **Rebuilt 2026-08-07.** The 2026-08-01 compaction was **lossless but illegible**: 55 scraped table-header rows were carried as numbered proposals, 95% of cells were cut mid-word, and pointers reached only a section — one of which holds 81 rows across 410 lines. Regenerated here from `skill-harvest-archive.md` (authoritative, unchanged) with word-boundary text and **exact `archive:L###` / `register:L###` pointers**. Nothing was ruled, reworded or dropped in the rebuild; the completeness invariant was asserted, not assumed. **154 live proposals** (124 from the archive + 30 appended since); 13 ruled items remain excluded by the stated rule.

**Stroke coverage** — the 2026-07-19 full review granted standing authorizations. `S2` = covered by Stroke 2 (all earned ladder entries, append wholesale — **execution, not a ruling**). `S2?` = names BOTH the ladder and Symmetria, so the stroke that covers it is not settled — rule before executing. `S3` = the skill named in Stroke 3's verdicts. `S1?` = Symmetria flag needing a per-row check against the consolidated §3. `—` = genuinely awaiting the steward.


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*The steward's 2026-07-19 ruling is reproduced verbatim below. The 2026-08-07 rebuild
initially carried only a paraphrase of it in the Stroke-coverage note above; a paraphrase
must not stand in for a ruling on the live surface, so the ruled text is restored here.*

## ⚖ FULL REVIEW 2026-07-19 (late night) — steward ruled ALL FOUR STROKES

*This block is authoritative; per-section statuses below are superseded where they conflict. Physical compaction of the register = the same housekeeping slot as Stroke 2. (The 2026-07-12 steward request for this review is hereby discharged; REVIEWED-55 was separately resolved stale the same sitting — placed `:489` since 07-12, PENDING-55 closed.)*

**Stroke 1 — Symmetria §3: consolidate, don't accumulate — BUILT SAME SITTING.** Three consolidated flags + one widening landed in the skill (provenance-commented): **`assert-from-derivation-not-substrate`** (consolidates: claim-from-derived-artifact 07-03 jurist-elevated 3× · fuzzy-matcher membership 06-15 4× · soft-classification-over-checkable-claim 07-13 steward-named 5×/day · answer-from-training-before-banked-record 07-14 · re-derived-instructions 07-01 · enter-repo-read-docs-first 07-09) · **`completion-is-a-tripwire`** (recurrence-promoted per the governed watch-item pattern; folds gate-suite-blind-to-failure-class 07-07 · closable-now-is-a-claim 07-16 · reconcile-before-"finally" 07-17) · **`the-say-do-seam`** (record-asserts-applied-before-the-act · grounding-quoted-but-not-traced · consequence-trace-one-level-shallow — the 07-19 family) · **`trust-prior-pass-frame` WIDENED** (per-tier-demonstration 07-12 — the flag the steward queued — + claim-scope 06-28). **NOT promoted (stay KG drift-patterns, wake-surfaced):** probe-confirms-hypothesis · latency-isolation-first · reassuring-verb · tool-creep-into-substrate · solve-constraint-by-discarding-value · lost-the-forest · provenance-is-part-of-process · graduated-with-flagged-gap · convert-steward-state (redundant w/ contamination directives) · theorize-before-measuring-layout (redundant w/ causal-story) · reinvent-governed-DESIGN (widens the existing KG entry).

**Stroke 2 — verification-ladder batch-append: AUTHORIZED; slot = next housekeeping pass.** ALL earned ladder entries queued in this register (~25–30, from gate-itself-PASS-BUT-FALSELY and prose-word-guard through implement-the-relation-not-an-approximation and re-anchor=re-verify-by-sha-match; incl. the Fowler pair, CI-upper-bound-for-ESCALATE, positive-test-at-enforcement-path, method-class-vs-calibration, per-claim-citation) append to `reference-verification-ladder.md` with provenance, kin merged in the same pass. The ladder is the already-authorized canonical home (2026-06-05); this discharges the queue wholesale.

**Stroke 3 — skills.** **BUILD (next session slots):** `/jurist-package` (5-for-5, jurist-endorsed; ABSORBS `/spec-amendment` — supersession procedure goes to the ladder) · `/model-handoff` (3 proven uses + the path-verification authoring rule). **CONFIRMED build-on-need (standing):** `/reconcile-open-work` · `/clone-test-runtime-fix` · `bmf-diagnose` · `/pre-build-audit` · `/measure-render` · `/version-essay`. **HOLD, named dependency:** `/graduate-chamber-source` — build AFTER the one-door lane ruling (Eichmann pilot report §8.2); it would codify the very pipeline the ruling will change. **BUILT SAME SITTING (small authorized patches):** wake-up link-resolution canary · wake-up telos-conditional · `feedback-governance-drafting-copy-paste-clean.md`. **RETIRED/REJECTED:** `mempalace-diagnose` (wind-down done) · `/wrap-up` §4.a tags patch (overtaken by the 07-07 rewiring) · CLAUDE.md staleness canary (doc-currency-on-wrap covers it) · Fowler bad-smells lens (redundant w/ code-review) · `/spec-amendment` standalone (merged into `/jurist-package`). `/vignette` stays DEFERRED (condition unchanged since 06-05).

**Stroke 4 — register compaction: AUTHORIZED; same slot as Stroke 2** (ruled items collapse to verdict lines; detail stays in git history — the register exceeded read caps 2026-07-19, its own tripwire).

*Post-review additions to the Stroke-2 batch list (same authorization — "all earned ladder entries"; harvested from the pilot-ruling block later the same night):* **byte-check-hand-classifications-at-source-before-citing** (two of my classes AND the jurist's Q3 assessment overturned by bytes — the F7 lesson, jurist-directed at F3's own numbers, discharged strengthening the finding) · **coverage-metrics-are-blind-to-block-moves** (jurist-minted from their own refuted assessment: any permutation preserving local windows passes coverage; refuted-by-default unless demonstrated on a block move — the demonstrated-not-composed instrument). *No other harvest from the late-night block — the session's harvest WAS the ruled review; nothing manufactured.*

*Post-review addition (2026-07-22, PENDING-69 build — same authorization):* **read-the-gate's-decision-code-before-designing-its-consumer** — before building a consumer/resolver for a gate's output, read the gate's OWN decision logic to know what it can and cannot mechanically produce or see. On PENDING-69 the inherited literal question forced reading `verify_body_conservation.classify` first: it revealed the gate classifies boundary runs by POSITION+SIZE only and provably cannot confirm class identity → that "no, and knowably no" shaped the honest design (attested declaration the gate consumes, not teaching it to classify) AND corrected my own package's mis-framing mid-build. Kin to render-and-LOOK / measure-toolchain-before-spec, one level over (read the substrate's *decision logic*, not just its output). Queue with the Stroke-2 batch.

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## verification-ladder (63)

Stroke 2 (2026-07-19) AUTHORIZED appending **all earned ladder entries** wholesale. These need EXECUTION, not a ruling — verify each against the current ladder before appending; some already landed.

| # | Item | Gist | Status | Stroke | Source |
|---|------|------|--------|--------|--------|
| 1 | Revert-and-redo-smaller | Ch1's strongest working reflex we don't have: when a verification/gate fails and the cause isn't immediately visible, revert to… | PROPOSED | S2? | `archive:L110` |
| 2 | Two-hat commit separation | Name which hat each commit wears: a refactor commit's compiled output is byte-identical (or carries a pre-stated classified… | PROPOSED | S2 | `archive:L111` |
| 3 | Bad-smells → refactoring lens | Ch3's smell catalogue (Mutable/Global Data, Duplicated Code, Shotgun Surgery, Speculative Generality, Comments-as-deodorant…) as… | PROPOSED | S2? | `archive:L112` |
| 4 | Headless-Chrome box-model measurement | When a rendered layout differs and the cause isn't obvious, measure the box model before theorizing the mechanism. Today this… | PROPOSED | S2? | `archive:L136` |
| 5 | /measure-render (headless-Chrome box-model harness) | RE-FLAG — strongly earned. Proposed this morning (compass fix); the pm session ran it 4+ more times (true-advance measurement… | PROPOSED | S2? | `archive:L143` |
| 6 | Measure the font's true average prose advance before a character-count… | When setting a measure to a target character count, measure the font's average advance over real corpus prose (incl. spaces), not… | PROPOSED | S2 | `archive:L144` |
| 7 | byte-identical gate: hold/exclude volatile build-stamps | When proving a change byte-identical, a build-date/commit stamp (e.g. the colophon buildinfo/stamp) will differ between baseline… | PROPOSED | S2 | `archive:L155` |
| 8 | /measure-render (headless-Chrome box-model/scroll harness) | RE-REINFORCED (4th day of evidence). Proposed 2026-06-09 (compass fix) + reinforced 06-09 pm; today drove the ENTIRE §VII.f build… | PROPOSED | S2? | `archive:L167` |
| 9 | /model-handoff (premium-model scope charter) | When switching to an expensive/premium model (Fable 5 = 2× Opus rate; burn scales with context×session-length) for a bounded high… | PROPOSED | S2? | `archive:L175` |
| 10 | verification-ladder: feature-detect gates can lie | A CSS @supports(feature) (or any capability probe) can return true on a platform where the feature is non-functional — today the… | PROPOSED | S2 | `archive:L176` |
| 11 | verification-ladder: parse/validate machine-consumed artifacts that have… | When an artifact that humans have only ever read (a hand-authored YAML index, a config, a data file) is about to be machine… | PROPOSED | S2 | `archive:L184` |
| 12 | dry-run-first for bulk file operations | When a mutation touches many files at once (mass git mv, graduation, rename), build it dry-run by default and emit the full move… | PROPOSED | S2 | `archive:L193` |
| 13 | verification-ladder: re-verify a workflow/sub-agent's per-item dispositions… | A sub-agent or background workflow that reports a per-item verdict from a dry-run on a temp copy can be wrong on the real apply… | PROPOSED | S2? | `archive:L203` |
| 14 | Work-in-omnibus: verify the interior, not just the endpoints | When a sidecar/scope brackets one work out of a multi-work source by heading-to-heading boundaries, content-sample the span… | PROPOSED | S2 | `archive:L241` |
| 15 | CSS-mask: fill WHITE, not black (luminance-safe) | A CSS mask/-webkit-mask SVG must fill the shape white/opaque — a black-fill mask renders BLANK (the luminance-vs-alpha trap).… | PROPOSED | S2 | `archive:L251` |
| 16 | live-CSS-patch in site for fast in-browser iteration | To eyeball size/style options in the real browser without a full Hakyll rebuild each round, sed the value directly in site/assets… | PROPOSED | S2? | `archive:L252` |
| 17 | headless-Chrome element shot: scrollIntoView + full-viewport, NOT computed… | Recalibration: computed box-clips kept mis-landing on the page-top (burned several shots). The reliable element screenshot is… | PROPOSED | S2? | `archive:L253` |
| 18 | glyph-outline → SVG from a woff2 | Build a typographic SVG asset from the real font glyphs: fontTools SVGPathPen (path) + BoundsPen (bbox) over the woff2, y-flip… | PROPOSED | S2 | `archive:L254` |
| 19 | /clone-test-runtime-fix (CoW-clone + isolated-worktree harness) | When testing a runtime fix that needs real live data but must not touch the live instance: /bin/cp -c -R (APFS CoW) the live data… | PROPOSED | S2? | `archive:L270` |
| 20 | verification-ladder: verify the RUNNING BINARY's provenance, not just… | Before reasoning about live behaviour, verify what the running process actually executes — compiled dist/ build mtime + grep the… | PROPOSED | S2 | `archive:L271` |
| 21 | verification-ladder: quantify-the-removed-cost as the A/B control | When a fix removes a hot operation, the cleanest control isn't a flaky end-to-end before/after race — it's to time the exact… | PROPOSED | S2 | `archive:L273` |
| 22 | verification-ladder note: OCR word-guard passes on SCRAMBLED text | A verbatim word-guard that checks word PRESENCE cannot catch reading-order scrambling (2-col read across the gutter) — same… | PROPOSED | S2 | `archive:L300` |
| 23 | The gate itself can be PASS-BUT-FALSELY | A verifier that checks an enumerated set of cruft signatures silently passes any residue outside the set — verifyconversion… | PROPOSED | S2 | `archive:L308` |
| 24 | prose word-guard for faithful structure-cleaning | When a cleaner removes/reflows STRUCTURE (headings, printed titles, residue) but must preserve PROSE, gate it with a prose-only… | PROPOSED | S2 | `archive:L310` |
| 25 | structure-from-authoritative-ToC = one engine, two map-producers | Answer to the long-open unify question: chapter-structure recovery is ONE placement engine (insertchapterheadings: match… | PROPOSED | S2 | `archive:L311` |
| 26 | Symmetria §3 flag: claim-from-derived-artifact-when-the-source-is-checkable | The load-bearing harvest — jurist-elevated to STANDING PRACTICE. I trusted a derived artifact / a regex-over-derived-text over… | PROPOSED | S2? | `archive:L338` |
| 27 | per-claim citation verification (don't let a sub-agent's blanket "verified"… | Caught by the jurist: I cited arXiv 2605.24229 for a claim it didn't support, having let a sub-agent's aggregate "4/4 papers… | PROPOSED | S2? | `archive:L340` |
| 28 | verification-ladder: CI-upper-bound + drop-one-robustness = STANDARD for… | The jurist RULED (2026-07-04) that grading on the one-sided 90% Clopper-Pearson upper bound (not the point estimate) + the drop… | PROPOSED | S2 | `archive:L357` |
| 29 | memory/index restructure = byte-exact slice + md5-conservation + link-canary | When restructuring a memory index or any lossless-relocation of prose between files, do it as line-range slices (never retype) +… | PROPOSED | S2 | `archive:L389` |
| 30 | quote a long-job ETA only from an observed rate, never model-size intuition | Twice today I gave a re-embed ETA from gut ("15–45 min") and was wrong by ~30×; the steward caught it. The fix was measuring… | PROPOSED | S2 | `archive:L410` |
| 31 | mempalace-diagnose — RETIRE the proposal | AUTHORIZED 2026-06-05 (build-on-need). Now decorative: the steward decided (evidenced) to wind down palace-memory MemPalace.… | PROPOSED | S2 | `archive:L412` |
| 32 | cross-volume verify-before-delete move | Moving data across filesystems (internal→external cold archive): rsync -a → verify exact file-count match + du (NOT a byte-sum… | PROPOSED | S2 | `archive:L421` |
| 33 | verify at the granularity of the mutation, not the aggregate | A whole-set invariant (a document-wide word-multiset guard) can PASS while a per-item operation (a cross-note swap — a word from… | PROPOSED | S2 | `archive:L440` |
| 34 | re-audit coverage with the TOOL's recognizer, not the classifier that… | When a classifier and the tool it feeds share a predicate, the classifier's mis-classifications masquerade as genuine "new… | PROPOSED | S2 | `archive:L450` |
| 35 | extending a tool re-tests its foundations | Building an extension exercises shared machinery the original's tests never hit — so a widen's --validate should assert the… | PROPOSED | S2? | `archive:L451` |
| 36 | verification-ladder: retroactively re-verify everything landed under a… | The jurist's Q1b principle, proven load-bearing: a stronger check existing and NOT pointed at canon that shipped under the weaker… | PROPOSED | S2 | `archive:L463` |
| 37 | verification-ladder: structural safety = PROVISIONAL FIX; end-to-end proof… | The jurist's generalization after nested-block: "same risk as (a)" was true of the matching logic and silent on the rendering… | PROPOSED | S2? | `archive:L464` |
| 38 | split cause from magnitude before sizing a remedy | A diagnostic bucket keyed on ONE summary axis (magnitude, holds%, a deficit size) can hold heterogeneous causes — a single label… | PROPOSED | S2 | `archive:L502` |
| 39 | confirm-a-named-cause-by-swap-in (don't assert from identification) | When you NAME the true reference / config / cause behind an anomaly, don't assert the fix from the identification — swap the… | PROPOSED | S2? | `archive:L503` |
| 40 | method-class-vs-calibration | When a metric/gate fails to separate two cases, ask whether it is mis-CALIBRATED or structurally BLIND to the distinction — no… | PROPOSED | S2? | `archive:L511` |
| 41 | positive-test-at-the-enforcement-path over a negative-grep (bypass /… | For any "can X be bypassed?" / "is this gate skippable?" property, a negative grep proves the absence of a STRING, not the… | PROPOSED | S2 | `archive:L527` |
| 42 | Symmetria §3 flag / ladder: "closable-now" is itself a claim to check | The jurist named it a standing habit: the closable-vs-blocked partition on a work-list must be reviewed, not asserted — the named… | PROPOSED | S2? | `archive:L535` |
| 43 | ladder: reconcile against the AUTHORITATIVE source before any "closed… | Before claiming a block/scope closed or complete, reconcile against the authoritative source (the roadmap stage-1-rebuild-plan §4… | PROPOSED | S2? | `archive:L545` |
| 44 | governed spec-supersession procedure | Landing a ratified spec version is: cp live→-vNEW.md → bounded Edits (never retype) → diff shows ONLY intended altered lines +… | PROPOSED | S2 | `archive:L551` |
| 45 | verification-ladder / Symmetria §3: assert-"X is in Y" → read Y | A factual claim's grounding must reach the file that HOLDS the fact, not one that merely describes it. Earned hard 2026-07-17… | PROPOSED | S2? | `archive:L552` |
| 46 | implementation-is-a-second-gate | A text passed by reading is re-tested by having to act on it — the jurist's own minting, after their 07-16 miss surfaced at build… | PROPOSED | S2? | `archive:L560` |
| 47 | sandbox-must-pin-the-shared-module | When a test sandboxes module-level state (paths/constants), the patch must land on the SAME module object the code-under-test… | PROPOSED | S2? | `archive:L568` |
| 48 | census-the-substrate-when-a-safety-net-stays-silent | A safety net (generic fallback, fail-loud branch, unrecognized kind) that never fires across N real cases is UNINFORMATIVE, not… | PROPOSED | S2 | `archive:L569` |
| 49 | re-anchor = re-verify: reconstruct the old bound state by sha-match | When re-anchoring any sha-bound artifact after an upstream edit: reconstruct the OLD bound state from git by matching the… | PROPOSED | S2 | `archive:L597` |
| 50 | implement-the-relation-not-an-approximation | When code implements a RULED relation/contract (an equivalence relation, a gate criterion), the acceptance path must BE the… | PROPOSED | S2 | `archive:L605` |
| 51 | seam-probe the artifact (gates test claims; probes test joins) | The night's two REAL defects (empty footnote defs from per-spine -f html; defs-after-index swallowed by the trim) were invisible… | PROPOSED | S2 | `archive:L613` |
| 52 | cmp-after-apply (tool-report ≠ write-decision) | stripcruft --apply prints its transform counts BEFORE the write decision; three distinct refusal causes in one night (residual… | PROPOSED | S2 | `archive:L614` |
| 53 | Amendment-process: reassigned-component check | Jurist-minted in the REVIEWED-72 ruling: "when a change reassigns a named component, check what else names it." F4 moved the born… | PROPOSED | S2? | `archive:L631` |
| 54 | reference-verification-ladder.md | "The parser defines the census." When a census counts items, the item-definition is itself a claim requiring its own control… | PROPOSED | S2 | `archive:L652` |
| 55 | A | Strongly earned — three instances in one session. Every substantive vignette defect was found by rendering the artifact and… | PROPOSED | S2 | `register:L231` |
| 56 | C | New method, proven today. Building Phase 1a produced nine findings about where the vignette spec fails to determine its output… | PROPOSED | S2 | `register:L233` |
| 57 | verification ladder | A suspiciously UNIFORM offset is a constant masquerading as a measurement. A forward-window locator reports the window START, not… | PROPOSED | S2 | `register:L256` |
| 58 | verification ladder | Pre-register the expected effect BEFORE building the change. fidelityequivalence@3's effect was filed in the jurist package as 3… | PROPOSED | S2 | `register:L257` |
| 59 | verification ladder | Run the counterfactual before attributing a cause. Before claiming X causes Y, remove X and measure Y — where that is cheap and… | PROPOSED | S2 | `register:L274` |
| 60 | verification ladder | 2026-08-06. The drainer exits 1 on a halted run; piped through tail, the harness recorded exit 0. A signal that existed was… | PROPOSED | S2 | `register:L276` |
| 61 | verification ladder | 2026-08-07, four times in one session and not once by reading: 769 unreachable drawers (455 + 314, two unrelated causes), 2… | PROPOSED | S2 | `register:L297` |
| 62 | verification ladder | 2026-08-07. Front-matter re-anchoring: nonsense keys correctly failed, so the control passed — while apatternlanguage silently… | PROPOSED | S2 | `register:L299` |
| 63 | verification ladder | Never pin a derived total in a test; assert the invariant — and never let a test depend on a corpus accident. byname == 256 went… | PROPOSED | S2 | `register:L300` |

## symmetria-flag (33)

Stroke 1 (2026-07-19) consolidated four flags into the skill and explicitly did NOT promote a named list. Rows here need a per-row check against Symmetria §3 as it now stands before they are treated as open.

| # | Item | Gist | Status | Stroke | Source |
|---|------|------|--------|--------|--------|
| 1 | Symmetria §3 flag: theorize-before-measuring-a-layout | The drift this caught, as a standing flag: a causal story about why a layout renders as it does, asserted before the rendered box… | PROPOSED | S1? | `archive:L137` |
| 2 | check-for-governed-tooling-before-building | Before hand-rolling infrastructure (a PDF preamble, a build script, a template), grep the repo for an existing governed version.… | PROPOSED | S1? | `archive:L154` |
| 3 | Symmetria §3 flag: inherited-marker-read-as-current-state | A status/marker inherited from a RECORD (a selector-index entry, a tracker line, a "-pending" file, a prior framing) asserted as… | PROPOSED | S1? | `archive:L166` |
| 4 | Symmetria §3 flag: census-through-a-pattern | A filter/regex used to count or partition a set can silently mis-match and the count reads as authoritative. Today grep -iE 'LOG'… | PROPOSED | S1? | `archive:L194` |
| 5 | Symmetria §3 flag: solve-the-constraint-by-discarding-the-value | A "fix" that satisfies a stated constraint by removing the thing the constraint was protecting is contamination shape — it… | PROPOSED | S1? | `archive:L202` |
| 6 | Symmetria §3 flag: assert presence/absence from a fuzzy matcher, not the… | A presence/absence claim produced by a fuzzy/token matcher (filename tokens, embeddings, author-surname overlap) treated as fact… | PROPOSED | S1? | `archive:L211` |
| 7 | Symmetria §3 flag: probe-confirms-hypothesis | A query/test I constructed to match my hypothesis, whose result I then read as confirming the hypothesis rather than testing… | PROPOSED | S1? | `archive:L272` |
| 8 | Symmetria §3 flag: diagnose-inference/latency-without-isolating-the-exact… | The load-bearing harvest. When a network/inference call is slow, the FIRST test must be the isolated one: stop the competing load… | PROPOSED | S1? | `archive:L281` |
| 9 | Symmetria §3 flag: reinvent-governed-DESIGN-without-reading-the-spec | Proposed PENDING-41 (consumer-hardware graceful degradation) as a novel architectural direction when local-inference-spec 43L/43M… | PROPOSED | S1? | `archive:L282` |
| 10 | Symmetria §3 flag: finding-scoped-to-one-condition restated as… | A result true under a specific condition, restated as an unconditional rule, is contamination shape. Caught 2026-06-28: the… | PROPOSED | S1? | `archive:L309` |
| 11 | Symmetria §3 flag: tool-creep-into-substrate (name genome-or-phenotype… | A convenience tool proposed for one job silently becoming the durable substrate (the source of truth) is contamination shape — it… | PROPOSED | S1? | `archive:L319` |
| 12 | Symmetria §3 flag: graduated-with-a-flagged-gap-instead-of-resolved | Letting "honestly flagged" substitute for "resolved" — shipping a known-incomplete text because the hole is marked. Contamination… | PROPOSED | S1? | `archive:L329` |
| 13 | Symmetria §3 flag: re-derived-instructions-instead-of-citing-the-governed… | Wrote agents hand-made instructions (and invented fields) instead of pointing them at conversion-runbook.yaml/the spec — the… | PROPOSED | S1? | `archive:L330` |
| 14 | Symmetria §3 flag: reassuring-verb-before-verifying-the-mechanism | Reaching for a comforting characterization ("self-healed", "fine", "recovered", "handled") before verifying the actual mechanism… | PROPOSED | S1? | `archive:L411` |
| 15 | classify a change by MECHANISM, not by how big it feels | Reflexively labeled the recognizer generalization "PROPOSAL" because it felt large; the jurist's own FIX/PROPOSAL test (does it… | PROPOSED | S1? | `archive:L452` |
| 16 | Symmetria §3 flag: lost-the-forest-in-a-long-execution-arc | A long, productive execution session that costs the whole-program altitude is contamination shape (composition-over-consideration… | PROPOSED | S1? | `archive:L465` |
| 17 | check-the-register-before-a-substantial-build | Before starting substantial INFRA/tool building (a converter, a pipeline, a substrate), read the tooling-register + landscape… | PROPOSED | S1? | `archive:L471` |
| 18 | Symmetria §3 flag: a check proven for one tier/case is NOT proven for… | Reusing a verification method across a boundary it wasn't demonstrated on is contamination shape — the V-TEXT k-gram coverage… | PROPOSED | S1? | `archive:L484` |
| 19 | Symmetria §3 flag: soft-classification-where-a-checkable-claim-was-available | Shipping a soft label ("this is reordering", "magnitude unresolved", "apparatus") when a CHECKABLE claim (a reportable number, a… | PROPOSED | S1? | `archive:L494` |
| 20 | Symmetria §3 flag: answer-from-training-before-checking-the-banked-record | Answering an architecture/tooling/citation question — or proposing a tool/approach — from training memory before grepping the… | PROPOSED | S1? | `archive:L519` |
| 21 | Symmetria §3 flag: convert-a-steward-state-into-a-process-weakening | A proposal that converts an observed steward STATE (fatigue, "has carried a lot," being busy) into a weakening of the review… | PROPOSED | S1? | `archive:L528` |
| 22 | grounding-quoted-but-not-traced | The hook enforces QUOTING the ratified sections; this session proved quoting ≠ tracing: the coordinate-contract package quoted… | PROPOSED | S1? | `archive:L581` |
| 23 | Symmetria §3 flag: record-asserts-applied-before-the-act | A session record (Addendum, brief, tracker line) composed AHEAD of its acts and asserting APPLIED/DONE is contamination shape… | PROPOSED | S1? | `archive:L589` |
| 24 | /symmetria §3 | Add the contamination flag: "an instrument whose evidence is the same kind of thing as its own source." A text search cannot… | PROPOSED | S1? | `archive:L658` |
| 25 | /wake-up | Read the day's own Symmetria ledger when one exists for today. The wake reads MEMORY.md + the session file + the KG, but never… | PROPOSED | S1? | `archive:L681` |
| 26 | symmetria §4 (ledger template) | Add a standing ## What held section — instruments that fired prospectively, lessons that transferred to a failure class they were… | PROPOSED | S1? | `archive:L702` |
| 27 | symmetria §2 / /wrap-up §1 | Retire the self-report framing of the standing question. The 2026-07-29 literal question — "is there any instrument I built… | PROPOSED | S1? | `archive:L705` |
| 28 | D | Steward-caught today. Asked whether to send a spec to Fable, the executor reached for Constraint 6's independence framing and… | PROPOSED | S1? | `register:L234` |
| 29 | Symmetria §3 flag: the-fix-for-an-overclaim-is-an-overclaim-candidate | When you repair an overclaim, the replacement inherits the frame that produced the original. Replacing the engine's "genuine… | PROPOSED | S1? | `register:L247` |
| 30 | Widen assert-from-derivation-not-substrate with the null-result case | A null from an instrument you have not positive-controlled is a fact about your instrument, not about the world. Probed… | PROPOSED | S1? | `register:L248` |
| 31 | /wake-up §4 | Do not print the Symmetria line unless Symmetria was invoked. This wake's briefing ended "Symmetria active. Practice of return… | PROPOSED | S1? | `register:L258` |
| 32 | Symmetria §3 flag | A record asserting that a control is ABSENT is load-bearing, and must be verified like any other claim — it is the note that… | PROPOSED | S1? | `register:L275` |
| 33 | Symmetria §3 flag | 2026-08-07, 3 of 3 new checkers: the R0 validator failed six healthy sources and the tempting repair was editing the reading… | PROPOSED | S1? | `register:L298` |

## patch (28)

Skill/instrument patches. Each needs a ruling.

| # | Item | Gist | Status | Stroke | Source |
|---|------|------|--------|--------|--------|
| 1 | /wrap-up §5 | Palace-fully-derived, part 1: mirror every kgadd/kginvalidate made at wrap into the session memory file (one line each), so KG… | PROPOSED | — | `archive:L100` |
| 2 | /wake-up (new step or §2 check) | Wake canary: seconds-cheap probe at wake — every MEMORY.md pointer + [[link]] resolves to an existing memory file; flag dead… | PROPOSED | — | `archive:L102` |
| 3 | spec↔spec coherence dimension | The 2026-06-10 audit found §I.f-class contradictions — the measure (38→27.2rem) un-propagated across silence-and-rhythm/apparatus… | PROPOSED | S3 | `archive:L152` |
| 4 | /wake-up patch — surface the why when the thread touches the engine's… | When the active workstream is studium-engine / The Making / ARC-as-public-proof (the engine's reason-for-being), /wake-up should… | PROPOSED | — | `archive:L262` |
| 5 | /wrap-up §4.a | The §4.a drawer-filing step instructs passing tags: to mempalaceadddrawer — the tool rejects it (MCP error -32602: Unknown… | PROPOSED | — | `archive:L349` |
| 6 | Chamber graduation: build to the constitution, not to a legacy canonical | Steward-corrected 2× this session: "we cannot use the extant canon as precedent." The extant canon is a pre-constitution/pre… | PROPOSED | — | `archive:L632` |
| 7 | chamber-library CLAUDE.md — integration-test-gap discipline | Add to §Load-bearing disciplines: "The fleet has UNIT tests (testtools, per-tool fixtures) but NO integration test — nothing runs… | PROPOSED | — | `archive:L640` |
| 8 | /wake-up §2.c–2.d | Consume the SessionStart digest instead of recomputing it. wake-digest.py now fires at every SessionStart and already emits… | PROPOSED | — | `archive:L650` |
| 9 | /wake-up §2.a | Fix the link-resolution canary's path handling — resolve pointers against the memory file's physical directory… | PROPOSED | — | `archive:L651` |
| 10 | /wrap-up §6 / §6.5 | Verify that every file a commit message names is actually staged, and that steward-authored edits are committed — not just… | PROPOSED | — | `archive:L659` |
| 11 | /wake-up §2.a | (Re-proposing, third firing.) Link-canary path resolution — root cause now precise, not merely reproduced: the memory dir's… | PROPOSED | — | `archive:L661` |
| 12 | /jurist-package | Require a mechanical verbatim-containment proof over every quoted clause, reported in the package. The skill already says "Quote… | PROPOSED | S3 | `archive:L682` |
| 13 | /jurist-package | Mandate a mechanical verbatim-containment proof over every quoted passage, with a positive AND negative control, as a required… | PROPOSED | S3 | `archive:L692` |
| 14 | /jurist-package | Formatting convention: ratified text = > blockquote; PROPOSED text = fenced block, never a blockquote. The containment checker… | PROPOSED | S3 | `archive:L693` |
| 15 | /wake-up §3 (Next move) | Before executing an inherited resumption point, grep the substrate for whether its premise is already settled. Today's inherited… | PROPOSED | — | `archive:L694` |
| 16 | /wrap-up §5 (KG append) | Add a prevention predicate — {subject: <banked lesson>, predicate: "prevention", object: <the failure it stopped, and where>}.… | PROPOSED | — | `archive:L703` |
| 17 | /wake-up §2.b.2 | Surface one prevention alongside the drift-patterns. Currently the wake greps only drift-pattern, so the session opens by re… | PROPOSED | — | `archive:L704` |
| 18 | wake-digest.py | The wake instrument silently hides open items. secpending() drops a PENDING-N whenever a REVIEWED-N exists — matching the number… | PROPOSED | — | `register:L222` |
| 19 | normalizeocr.py (chamber fleet) | Silent degradation with no disclosure. dictstate reports only the static word list, so a --lang fr run with wordfreq absent falls… | PROPOSED | — | `register:L223` |
| 20 | /jurist-package | Filing is not sending, and the skill has no step that distinguishes them. The 2026-08-01 ESCALATE doctrine package sat filed-and… | PROPOSED | S3 | `register:L224` |
| 21 | /jurist-package | Require the mechanical containment proof the skill's own discipline implies. The skill states quote, never paraphrase but carries… | PROPOSED | S3 | `register:L225` |
| 22 | /jurist-package | Require reading the clauses ADJACENT to every quote, and stating in the package that you did. Strongly earned and jurist-caught… | PROPOSED | S3 | `register:L255` |
| 23 | governance-mcp / doc-access generally | A document whose head is superseded must disclose that at the point of access. The chamber constitution's first ~330 lines are… | PROPOSED | — | `register:L259` |
| 24 | /jurist-package | When a quoted source cannot be mechanically containment-checked (PDF, image, external URL, anything the prover cannot read), the… | PROPOSED | S3 | `register:L265` |
| 25 | /wake-up §1 | When the wake digest reports a state that contradicts another line of the same digest, name the contradiction as unreconciled… | PROPOSED | — | `register:L266` |
| 26 | /wrap-up §1 | A tracker with two update surfaces drifts between them. When updating a canonical tracker, append to its chronological log, not… | PROPOSED | — | `register:L277` |
| 27 | /wake-up + general | 2026-08-06. Was one keystroke from asking the steward to invent questions for the corpus, while corpus/chavruta-ground-truth.yaml… | PROPOSED | — | `register:L278` |
| 28 | /jurist-package | 2026-08-07. The amendment was pasted OVER REVIEWED-87's original entry; the amendment's own Amends: REVIEWED-87 then pointed at a… | PROPOSED | S3 | `register:L296` |

## skill-create (13)

New skills. Stroke 3 ruled several by name (S3).

| # | Item | Gist | Status | Stroke | Source |
|---|------|------|--------|--------|--------|
| 1 | bmf-diagnose | Today WAS that need and the method is proven+fresh: process sample → log pattern census (uniq -c histogram) → SIGUSR1→CDP CPU… | PROPOSED | S3 | `archive:L94` |
| 2 | /version-essay | The ADR-005 essay-versioning procedure, derived from essay-versioning-specification.md this session: when a published essay gets… | PROPOSED | S3 | `archive:L250` |
| 3 | /graduate-chamber-source (the /convert- family the runbook already plans) | Codify the now-PROVEN OCR→canonical→graduation pipeline as a single governed discipline, so the next source (Alexander 1–4, then… | PROPOSED | S3 | `archive:L290` |
| 4 | /graduate-chamber-source (already PROPOSED 06-26/27) | Now carries the full EPUB path (structurefromncx→insertchapterheadings→cleanpandochtmlresidue, used when repairepubheadings… | PROPOSED | S3 | `archive:L307` |
| 5 | /graduate-chamber-source (proposed 06-26/27/28) | The empirical spec is complete AND the rail it needs now exists (graduation-spec.yaml + verifygraduation.py + graduate-tool… | PROPOSED | S3 | `archive:L327` |
| 6 | /spec-amendment (the RFC-supersession amendment process) | The now-RATIFIED chamber amendment process as a codified discipline: normative spec change = a superseding version (Obsoletes… | PROPOSED | S3 | `archive:L339` |
| 7 | CLAUDE.md staleness canary (git tripwire) | If the scripts/ set or graduation-spec.yaml changed but CLAUDE.md didn't since, flag "may be stale." Bounded, low-false-positive… | PROPOSED | — | `archive:L381` |
| 8 | /reconcile-open-work (program forest-view register) | The practice proven twice now (ARC open-work register, then the whole Chamber→Gold→Engine register today): when tracking has… | PROPOSED | S3 | `archive:L462` |
| 9 | /jurist-package (create) | Draft a self-contained jurist package for a repo-blind reviewer: inline the ratified spec clauses verbatim (jurist gates the… | PROPOSED | S3 | `archive:L544` |
| 10 | /glyph-map-source | Per-source character-as-image glyph-mapping — the repeatable procedure built + proven on Levi this session (REVIEWED-70/v2.5.0)… | PROPOSED | — | `archive:L623` |
| 11 | /fool | Build WHEN STABLE, not now. The differently-formed-checker trial protocol, derived twice this session: withhold the ruling; pre… | PROPOSED | — | `register:L221` |
| 12 | B | Headless-Chrome capture used again today, and this time it was decisive rather than diagnostic: the screenshots are what exposed… | PROPOSED | S3 | `register:L232` |
| 13 | /census — the pre-registered instrument census | Strongly earned: two runs, ten days apart, both productive, and in BOTH the pre-registration caught a reversal the run would… | PROPOSED | — | `register:L246` |

## feedback-memory (9)

Proposed feedback memories.

| # | Item | Gist | Status | Stroke | Source |
|---|------|------|--------|--------|--------|
| 1 | /wake-up §2.b | Until upstream #1665 closes: wake searches run unscoped + post-filter by wing (wing-scoped mempalacesearch errors at HEAD).… | PROPOSED | — | `archive:L101` |
| 2 | ARC build has NO autoprefixer — hand-write -webkit- prefixes | ARC's plain-sass build adds no vendor prefixes. When introducing a new CSS property, check Safari's prefix need and hand-write… | PROPOSED | — | `archive:L145` |
| 3 | Justification-judgment bar = Bringhurst even-colour/rivers, NOT Rutter… | Load-bearing for the future justification decision: when living with the soft rag to judge whether to justify, ask "is the colour… | PROPOSED | — | `archive:L146` |
| 4 | container-must-embody-the-contained | When producing an ARTIFACT of a spec (a PDF of the spec, a rendered sample), set it per the spec's OWN rules and verify the… | PROPOSED | — | `archive:L153` |
| 5 | clean cruft at the SOURCE layer, not as a downstream transform | When a source carries conversion cruft (EPUB footnote-links, image-scan embeds), clean it at the SOURCE — producing a new… | PROPOSED | — | `archive:L185` |
| 6 | /wrap-up §4.b/§5 | Inline reminder at the KG-write step: kgadd object hard-caps at 128 chars — write short keyword objects on the FIRST pass (detail… | PROPOSED | — | `archive:L235` |
| 7 | studium-engine tool-evolution-log | Establish the analog of chamber-library/curation/tool-evolution-log.md for the engine tools (patternfinder, ingestgate, chunker… | PROPOSED | — | `archive:L242` |
| 8 | draft governance entries copy-paste-CLEAN | When drafting PENDING/REVIEWED entries for the steward to place, format them as clean copy-paste-ready blocks with plain ##… | PROPOSED | — | `archive:L534` |
| 9 | /wake-up patch — a tracker marked THE GOVERNING FRAME is read ENTIRE, not… | Earned at a measured cost of ten days. MEMORY.md carries "[Chamber as versioned releases] — THE GOVERNING FRAME for all library… | PROPOSED | — | `register:L249` |

## other (8)

Notes, tool promotions, and rows that resist bucketing.

| # | Item | Gist | Status | Stroke | Source |
|---|------|------|--------|--------|--------|
| 1 | /graduate-chamber-source (already PROPOSED 06-26) | Its empirical spec is now the full ocrmac column-aware pipeline, not the olmOCR one: render→ocrmac(per-line bbox/conf)→column… | PROPOSED | S3 | `archive:L298` |
| 2 | 2 research sweeps owed (not skills — project tasks) | The engine's signature capabilities are greenfield: (1) genealogy/temporal/citation-graph/KG-augmented/diachronic-NLP; (2) multi… | UNMARKED | — | `archive:L301` |
| 3 | /spec-amendment (proposed 2026-07-03, DEFERRED-until-first-use) | The 2026-07-03/04 v2.0 drafting IS its first real exercise — the empirical spec now exists. Codify the proven procedure so the… | PROPOSED | S3 | `archive:L348` |
| 4 | /model-handoff (premium-model scope-charter) | Used tonight end-to-end: produced studium-engine/docs/stage-1-replan-scope-charter-2026-07-05.md on Opus (§0 discipline / §1… | PROPOSED | S3 | `archive:L358` |
| 5 | /model-handoff (proposed 2026-06-12; reinforced 07-04 eve) | Tonight was the first time the pattern ran END-TO-END as designed: fresh Fable-5 session woke into the scope-charter, read only… | PROPOSED | S3 | `archive:L366` |
| 6 | /model-handoff (premium-model scope charter) | Proposed 2026-06-12; this session built a full scope charter with the discipline (charter-on-Opus → Fable spends premium tokens… | PROPOSED | S3 | `archive:L420` |
| 7 | convertlaneborndigital.py → fleet promotion | The one-door born-digital lane driver (whole-EPUB inject → whole-EPUB pandoc -f epub -t markdown-smart + non-empty-defs teeth)… | PROPOSED | — | `archive:L615` |
| 8 | ~/dotfiles/scripts/ | Promote the union-losslessness verifier to verify-union-lossless.py <baseline> <part>... — asserts baseline ⊆ union of parts at… | PROPOSED | — | `archive:L660` |


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## New proposals (2026-08-07 evening wrap — retrieval is set by home; awaiting steward)

*First batch filed under the REVIEWED-95 firing-moment gate. Each declares where and when it fires; the gate's own test is whether that declaration changes the routing — and for #191 it did, moving it off a 14% home onto an 83% one.*

| # | Target | Kind | Proposal | **Firing moment (declared)** | Earned by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 190 | Symmetria §3 | new flag | **An elegant discriminator that explains the data is not thereby licensed to act on it.** When a rule accounts for nearly all of a set, the pull to skip the per-item look is strongest exactly when the rule feels cleanest. Before executing a classification across many items, read the items the rule is about to dispose of. | **`/symmetria check`**, before any bulk move/delete/reclassification. Symmetria was invoked **56/64 sessions**, so §3 is a genuine high-retrieval home — routed here rather than to a skill. | 2026-08-07. symlink-vs-real-dir explained 61 of 63 skills and was about to be executed wholesale; it was wrong for the 2 that were the steward's own (`french-typography-pass`, `spec-code-audit`). 97% right, and the 3% were what mattered. | PROPOSED |
| 191 | `feedback-tool-review-after-each-use.md` | **patch** (extend an existing memory, not a new entry) | Add: **census where an instrument LOOKS versus where the thing it hunts actually lives.** A detector that is correct everywhere it looks, and does not look where the quarry is, reports clean forever. | **After each tool run** — the parent rule's existing moment. Lives in `MEMORY.md` (**83%** reach) rather than the ladder (**14%**), *because the gate asked*: as a standalone ladder entry it would have been filed at one-sixth the retrieval. | 2026-08-07. `governance-drift-check.py`'s deferral scan globbed only `*/docs/**/*.md`, so `claude/governance/` — where governance packages live — was invisible to it. Found by *using* the instrument to wire PENDING-112's falsifier, not by reading it. | PROPOSED |

**Classification:** both `[PROPOSAL]`, neither FIX-lane — each changes what the executor must do before acting (the latitude clause of the two-clause test). **No FIX-lane changes were applied this session.** The `/wake-up`, `/wrap-up` and `governance-drift-check.py` edits were all implementations of REVIEWED-95, not self-tending.

**Reinforcement, not a new filing:** "a mention is not a retrieval — count the access, never the name" is the existing `census-by-mechanism-not-proxy` rule, hit again (the ladder read as 53/64 by filename mention; 9/64 by actual tool-call access, because `MEMORY.md`'s pointer line contains the filename and loads every wake). Recorded in the KG; no register row, because the rule already exists and already fires.

### 2026-08-07 night — two proposals, firing moments declared per the REVIEWED-95 gate

**#192 — a cited-vs-placed check for the governance register.** Three instances in one evening of a
`REVIEWED-N` cited as live authority while unplaced: REVIEWED-95 cited in four files (with the day's
`/wake-up`, `/wrap-up` and drift-checker edits recorded as "implementations of REVIEWED-95") while the
register held nothing at 95; REVIEWED-87's amendment cited **by a jurist ruling** as *"record already
corrects it"* while sitting as a draft; and a malformed header (`## REVIEWED-95## REVIEWED-95 — …`).
All three passed the drift checker, which verifies that amendment *links resolve*, not that cited
numbers are *occupied*. Proposed: for every `REVIEWED-N` cited anywhere in the memory files, registers
or repo docs, assert N is occupied in `~/REVIEWED.md` and its header well-formed.
**Firing moment: mechanical, should always fire → `governance-drift-check.py`**, which is already named
in a `/wake-up` step (measured 83%-home class). **Three real positives to build it against**, not
synthetic fixtures — which is the standard the discrimination gate itself demands.
**Classification:** detection-only, adds visibility rather than narrowing it, asserts nothing and
expands no latitude → reads FIX-lane. **Filed as `[PROPOSAL]` anyway**: the lane is provisional, the
check is unbuilt and untested, and this session produced twelve instrument faults — building an
untested checker at wrap would be the exact shape of the day's failure.

**#193 — ladder entry: read all N before acting on a classification rule.** Earned twice today in two
sources. Reading all 23 anchor-initial lines in G&G caught **L1997**, an orphaned footnote *reference*
marker between two Weil paragraphs that the tidy rule would have withheld as Weil's own prose. Reading
all 15 blockquotes in Mauss caught that **four are Mauss's own displayed scholia and N.B. notes**
(17,828 chars) that a "blockquote ⇒ quoted voice" rule would have fenced. Same shape as the
symlink discriminator the previous day: ~90% right, wrong on exactly what mattered.
**Firing moment: on a condition the executor must notice** — the weakest class in the routing table.
There is no mechanical detector for "you are about to act on a classification rule." **Routed to
`reference-verification-ladder.md`**, whose retrieval was 14% but which **now has a wake trigger**
(REVIEWED-95's trial sentence) — so this is the first entry filed *after* that home acquired a ritual.
**Recorded estimate: unknown, pending the 20-session trial.** If the trial grades below 60%, this entry
is evidence about the home, not about the lesson.

### 2026-08-08 wrap — one proposal, firing moment declared per the REVIEWED-95 gate

> **⚠ RENUMBERED 192 → 194, 2026-08-08.** This row was filed as `#192`, which was already
> held by the cited-vs-placed governance check filed the previous night (`#192`, above);
> `#193` was likewise taken, so the next free number is **194**. The collision was live, not
> cosmetic: **PENDING-116 cited "skill-harvest register #192"** meaning *this* row, and that
> citation resolved to the wrong entry — the exact failure PENDING-110 names, where a number
> pointing at two things entrenches a false expectation. The **later** filing was renumbered
> so the earlier claimant keeps its number; PENDING-116's `Related:` line was corrected to
> `#194` in the same pass. Recorded rather than silently fixed, because a renumbered
> proposal is the kind of change a reader must be able to trace.

| # | Target | Kind | Content | Firing moment | Evidence | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 194 | ⚠ *filed as* `studium-engine/.git/hooks/pre-commit` — **wrong, and corrected by PENDING-116 on reading the substrate:** the hook is global at `~/dotfiles/git/hooks/pre-commit` via `core.hooksPath`, so the trigger had to become **repo-declared** (`.precommit-triggers`) rather than baked in | **extend an existing hook** — NOT a new skill | When a commit touches `corpus/` or `corpus/sidecars/`, run the test fleet and refuse on red. The hook already exists and already runs ("Pre-commit checks passed!"); it does not run the suites. | **Mechanical, and should always fire** — the top row of the routing table. Requires no executor recall, which is the whole point: the knowledge was already banked and still did not fire. | 2026-08-08. `118f411` split the Mauss `body` section into `body-01..13`, breaking `test_navigate.py`'s hardcoded node id. The fleet sat **202/203 red for a full day**, through **two separate rounds of correction to that very commit** (REVIEWED-96's findings, then the L850 discovery), and surfaced only because the steward asked an unrelated question about instrument base-rate. A sidecar edit is a *corpus* change that silently invalidates *engine* fixtures — the cross-repo binding surface studium-engine's own CLAUDE.md names as a re-anchor trap. | **BUILT 2026-08-08** — routed through the register to `PENDING-116` → **REVIEWED-100** (authorized option (b), repo-declared trigger). Landed `088a171` (`.precommit-triggers` + `scripts/run-fleet.sh`) and `c86b825` (dotfiles, generic hook block); prerequisite green fleet `eef81fa`. Acceptance proven **both directions**. ⚠ Closes the **same-repo** half only — cross-repo filed as **PENDING-117**. |

**Deliberately NOT proposed, and the reason is the finding.** The obvious second candidate — *"any one-shot script carries a positive control derived from the property, run before its output is read"* — **is already banked**, at `reference-verification-ladder.md` §Gate design: *"Derive fixtures from the property; draw them from real artifacts."* It is what diagnosed **both** of today's proxy-control failures. Filing it again would be duplication dressed as diligence. **The gap is the firing moment, not the knowledge** — which is PENDING-112's thesis, and this session is a third data point for the ladder-ritual trial rather than a reason to write a fourth copy of the rule.

### 2026-08-08 night wrap — one new proposal, one extension; firing moments declared per the REVIEWED-95 gate

**#195 — ladder patch: widen two existing entries from *checks that ship* to *any check whose result is stated*.** This is a **scope correction on banked rules, not a new rule** — and that distinction is the finding. `reference-verification-ladder.md` §Gate design already carries *"Every check states, in its own output, what it did NOT establish… A check that cannot name its gap **does not ship**"* and *"A check must discriminate between two REAL artifacts."* Both read as governing **built gates**. All five of this session's errors were checks that *didn't* ship — a `grep -c`, a `tail -2`, an inferred arithmetic, a probe anchor, a mention-census — and that exemption is precisely where they lived. Proposed additions: (i) the scope sentence, and (ii) the mechanical formulation that covers all five and is stated nowhere — ***every one of them reduced the output before looking at it; a reduction cannot show its own miscalibration.*** Inverse twin of the banked *"Count first, then look."*
**Firing moment: on a condition the executor must notice** — the weakest row, and **declared as such rather than dressed up**. There is no mechanical detector for *"you are about to trust a check you just typed."* Routed to the ladder because it is the correct home for the two entries it amends, and the ladder **now has a wake trigger** (REVIEWED-95's trial sentence). **Recorded estimate: unknown, pending the 20-session trial.** ⚠ The steward has already **adopted the practical half** — *state the check's vocabulary alongside its result* — which works by making a miscalibration catchable by a **differently-positioned reader** rather than by the author; that half needs no retrieval because it happens while composing a sentence already being written. This filing is for the ladder's record, not for the practice's operation.
**Classification: `[PROPOSAL]`** — it changes what the executor must do before asserting (latitude clause). **Status: PROPOSED.**

**Extension to #192 (NOT a new number) — add placed-record *well-formedness* to the cited-vs-placed check.** #192 proposes asserting that every cited `REVIEWED-N` is **occupied**. Rule of three fired today: I hand-typed a placement verification **three times** (REVIEWED-99, -100, -101) — heading uniqueness · the four structural parts present · a double-header canary. That is the same instrument written three times, which is the banked violation, and its natural home is #192's checker rather than a fourth copy. **Deliberately filed as an extension so the two are ruled and built together**, per the steward's standing preference to keep the open-thread count low.
**Firing moment: mechanical, should always fire → `governance-drift-check.py`**, already named in a `/wake-up` step (the measured 83% home class) and already performing register-integrity checks. **Three real positives available**, not synthetic: today's three placements, plus the historical REVIEWED-87 amendment-overwrite and the malformed `## REVIEWED-95## REVIEWED-95` header #192 already cites.
**Status: PROPOSED**, to be ruled with #192.

**No FIX-lane changes were applied this session.** All skill/tooling edits this session were either governed records (`PENDING.md`, the register, memory files) or authorized builds under REVIEWED-100 — none were self-tending edits to a skill.

### 2026-08-08 (late) — ladder candidate: the degraded-state shape census

**Kind:** verification-ladder entry (not a skill). **Firing moment, declared:** on a condition
the executor must first notice — *"is this suite honest when its subject is missing?"* Per the
routing table's fourth row this earns **~10% retrieval as a bare ladder entry, and that estimate
is recorded on the proposal rather than wished away.** The mechanical detector already exists for
half of it (`run-fleet` now renders the third verdict), which is why only the *method* is proposed
here.

**The instrument.** To find out whether a check is honest, **drive real degraded states and observe
the output SHAPE** — crash / named-failure / cannot-assess / pass — rather than grepping the source
for risky constructs. Earned twice on 2026-08-08:

- The grep census counted **comments and docstrings** (3 of `test_navigate`'s 4 `next(` hits were
  the executor's own prose *about* the fix); AST corrected 4 → 1. **A construct that CAN raise is
  not a suite that DOES.**
- Driving five degraded states — manifest empty · source file missing · db empty · db absent ·
  manifest unparseable — found **8 crash sites across 4 suites**, and **closing the first six
  revealed two more in suites the census had already cleared.**

**Companion, same family:** for the discrimination gate's *"a real known-bad where one exists"*
standard, **git history often holds one**. `git show HEAD:REVIEWED.md` supplied a genuine prior
register state that lacked three rulings, so the new built-vs-ruled check was proven on a real
artifact rather than only on a fixture.

**⚠ Against filing it:** the census method is one instance of *"census by mechanism, not proxy"*,
which is already banked in MEMORY.md's standing preferences. This may be a **restatement**, and the
honest proposal is that the steward decide whether the degraded-state form is distinct enough to
earn its own entry or should be folded into the existing one as an example.

**Awaiting:** steward authorization.

### 2026-08-09 wrap — two proposals; firing moments declared per the REVIEWED-95 gate

**#196 — `governance-drift-check.py`: assert that any text calling a governance item *unruled* or *unplaced* agrees with the register.** Earned twice in one session, steward-caught both times: I wrote *"PENDING-130 is unruled"* in a commit message and had an artifact header say the item *"proposes"* — while REVIEWED-114 had ruled it (a) with five conditions. **Ruled · placed · condition-discharged are three states and none implies another**; the existing built-vs-ruled check covers only *built-with-no-ruling*, which is the opposite direction and did not fire. Proposed: for every `PENDING-N`/`REVIEWED-N` in the memory files, registers and repo docs asserted to be *unruled / unplaced / not yet ruled / awaiting*, assert the register agrees.
**Firing moment: mechanical, should always fire → `governance-drift-check.py`** — already named in a `/wake-up` step (the measured 83% home class) and already performing register-integrity checks. **Real positives available, not synthetic:** today's two, both preserved in git (`8746dcf`'s message; `07727dd`'s parent state).
**Classification:** detection-only; asserts nothing, expands no latitude → reads FIX-lane. **Filed as `[PROPOSAL]` anyway**, on the same ground as #192: the check is unbuilt and untested, and this session's own lesson is that my checks are weaker than my writes. **Status: PROPOSED**, to be ruled with #192/#195 if convenient — all three are drift-checker extensions.

**#197 — ladder entry (gate-design family): an induced-red probe must revert BEHAVIOUR, not delete the symbol.** Removing the function under test produces an **`AttributeError` traceback**, which proves the suite *crashes* when the code is absent — not that it would **name** the regression when the code is present and wrong. The honest probe leaves every name in place and monkeypatches the pre-defect semantics; mine then produced exit **1 with six named failures**, camus by name and the `KeyError` resurfacing. ⚠ **Companion, same command:** the exit code was read **through a pipe** (`… | tail`), so the reported `0` was `tail`'s — the *reduction-before-looking* class, already banked as #195 and firing again the next day.
**Firing moment: on a condition the executor must first notice** — *"I am about to witness this suite red."* The weakest routing row, **declared as such rather than dressed up**; no mechanical detector exists for it. Routed to `reference-verification-ladder.md` §Gate design, beside *"a control must sit at the layer the defect lives in"*, which it is a special case of: deleting the symbol puts the control at the wrong layer. **Recorded estimate: ~10–14% retrieval pending the ladder-ritual trial.**
**Classification: `[PROPOSAL]`** — changes what the executor must do before trusting a witness-red. **Status: PROPOSED.**

**Deliberately NOT proposed.** The preservation-header self-match (a strip instruction that quotes the marker it tells you to strip to, so `index()` matches inside the header) is a **one-shot** defect in a one-shot artifact, caught by the round-trip that was already there. Per `feedback-one-shot-instruments-are-proportionate`, its counterfactual is an assertion, not a durable instrument — filing it would be documentation dressed as diligence. The generalisable half is already banked: **compare against a fresh emit, not against a recorded sha**, which is what caught it.

**No FIX-lane changes were applied this session.**