The same parenthetical header shape that broke ruled_pendings in wake-digest.py on
2026-09-05, in a second instrument, found the next day. Taken as one act with that
widening, per the jurist.
RE_ID was ^((?:PENDING|REVIEWED|COMPLETED)\S*)\s*[—–-]\s*(.*)$. On
`## REVIEWED-131 (PENDING-172) — …` the greedy \S* backtracked until the hyphen INSIDE
`REVIEWED-131` served as the separator, yielding ident `REVIEWED`. No un-amended
`REVIEWED-131` original was then found, so the register check reported that
REVIEWED-131's amendment had replaced the record it amends. It had not — the record is
intact and the reader could not see it.
[FIX] against existing specification: the check's stated subject is detecting an
amendment that replaced its record, and reporting a replacement that did not occur
fails that specification. Taken now rather than queued because a false alarm standing
in the register is the disarmed-tripwire hazard PENDING-139 measured — red-on-absent
trains the reader to discount red.
ENUMERATED BEFORE LANDING, per REVIEWED-132 condition 3 — enumerate, do not count.
All 549 headers across REVIEWED.md, PENDING.md and PENDING-archive.md classified under
both patterns: exactly THREE change, all parenthetical rulings recovering their true
ident (REVIEWED-131, -132, -133). Nothing else in the record moves.
Controls are paired, and the mangled-ident case is stated as its own control because
"ident is wrong" and "header is unseen" fail identically downstream. 59 -> 65 controls,
all passing; the false finding is gone and no new finding replaced it.
PENDING-139 RE-MEASURED, not repaired, and it needs re-reading before it is ruled:
leg (A) — REPAIRED. RE_HEAD_LINE is ^#{2,3}, so a ###-level amendment heading is seen
and classifies id+marker, identically to ##. The item still reads as live on this leg.
leg (B) — STILL LIVE. RE_BUILT is r"\bBUILT\b" and fires on "NOT BUILT", "NOT YET
BUILT" and "the mechanism is NOT BUILT". Untouched here; it is not this fix's subject.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01X3L79vgAnt1x2kxvf23Qt7
