night 2026-09-24: record the test-password slip; runner state out of the evidence tree

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0159rPz1ZhFKsS53msqPYxtS

documentation/audits/DRILL-night-2026-09-24.md

@@ -26,6 +26,11 @@ decisions 11–28, §6.4), `07` (the whole-copy table), `08` (the alarm ladder).
   1); 9201 still needs stop + fsck + start, and did not take the 0.269.1 floor.
 - Round 2's install and round 9's remove were broken by their accidents (R-681, R-682) — recorded, not fixed.
 
+- **A slip of mine:** commit `4502af6` carried `E/chaos-state.json` with the passwords of three drill test
+  accounts (wishlist, navidrome, n8n on scratch guest 9202). All three apps and their data were removed at
+  teardown, so the accounts no longer exist; the file was deleted and ignored in `f2234c0`. History keeps it —
+  not rewritten (a shared repo). The runner now keeps its state outside the evidence tree.
+
 **Interventions: 1** (an agent restart on demo-hp so its own Recover tore down the leaked restore-test
 guest). **Apps moved: 0 of 0 tried.** **The result that matters most:** a file app now comes back WHOLE
 from the second drive — proven four times, twice under a power cut or a nearly full disk — and nothing the

documentation/audits/night-2026-09-24/tools/chaos.py

@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ from chaos_schedule import schedule
 HERE = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__))
 EVD = os.path.join(HERE, "..", "E")
 os.makedirs(EVD, exist_ok=True)
-STATE = os.path.join(EVD, "chaos-state.json")
+STATE = os.path.join(w.SC, "chaos-state.json")   # NOT in the evidence tree: it holds seeded test passwords
 
 TARGET = {1: "chaosoom", 2: "n8n", 3: "nextcloud", 4: "wishlist", 5: "gokapi", 6: "navidrome", 7: "chaoscrash",
           8: "chaosoomb", 9: "chaoscrash", 10: "n8n", 11: "nextcloud", 12: "chaosoomb"}