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name: session-ledger-2026-08-10
description: "Practice-of-return ledger maintained by /symmetria — returns, open horizons, recalibrations, authorization moves, sub-agent dialogues, bypasses."
metadata: 
  node_type: memory
  type: feedback
  originSessionId: bc984a6d-e8ce-47f5-99da-062703403e7d
  modified: 2026-08-10T13:56:12.136Z
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# Session Ledger — 2026-08-10

## Returns

- **09:xx — inherited premise checked before executing it (second consecutive wake).** The wrap's
  steward-directed to-do asserted *"the gap is neither knowledge nor home but the absence of an
  EXECUTABLE."* Substrate says otherwise: `~/dotfiles/scripts/wake-digest.py` already carries
  `classify_pointers`/`sec_pointers` (built 2026-08-08, `19bddd5`), both indexes, four outcomes,
  positive controls, wired to SessionStart. The task is therefore **completing an instrument**,
  not building one. Named before starting work; the fix is scoped to the three real gaps.
- **Reached the ladder before deriving a gate.** `reference-verification-ladder.md` already
  specifies the canary under *lossless-relocation gate* — "a link-resolution canary over every
  `](file.md)` and `[[wikilink]]`". The wikilink half was specified on the ladder and absent from
  the code; read, not re-derived.

## What held

- The wake's own instrument reported its lone "dead" pointer honestly enough to be diagnosable —
  the four-outcome design (2026-07-28 provenance) did what it was built to do.

## Open horizons

- **`wrap_inside` false alarm.** The digest announced "PREVIOUS SESSION DID NOT WRAP" for a session
  that wrapped at 19:48 and then kept working until 21:54. Same defect family as the pointer alarm:
  a two-valued detector over a state that has three cases (wrapped · wrapped-then-continued ·
  never-wrapped). Named, not fixed — outside today's scope.
- REVIEWED-114 stays OPEN on 4b (steward's marked answer key). No mechanism can cover it.
- Skill-harvest: 41 `S2` rows authorized 2026-07-19, still unexecuted.

## Confidence to recalibrate

## Authorization moves

- Canary completion treated as `[FIX]` — it resolves scoped bugs against an existing steward
  specification (the 2026-08-09 to-do), on an instrument the steward directed be completed today.
  No new architectural direction; no governance file touched.

## Sub-agent dialogues

## Bypasses