The alarm ladder gains §6.2 - which events are per-app, per-run, per-tier or
coarse, and why the default is coarse. CONTEXT records two rulings: the grain is
allow-listed rather than inferred from the payload, with crossdrive_failed as
the proof that a payload rule would have been wrong; and a finding recorded only
in REPORT.md has a lifetime of one session.
R-389 closed and compressed, keeping its rules and naming the commit whose
git show returns the full text. R-390 and R-391 left open.
REPORT.md is gate 11's first real subject and passes: six observations, two
FILED, four NOT-A-FINDING with their reasons. Three of those declarations are
things a tidier report would have omitted - the gate's own spec would have
passed the item it was built to catch, the burst has no ceiling, and ArgoCD
said "successfully rolled out" while still running the old image.
STATUS carries forward the one thing outstanding: the controller floor still
reads 0.222.0 while the golden reads 0.223.0.
The alarm ladder gains the severity contract (the hub's vocabulary is exact, it
coerces silently, and three things now hold it) and the intent test with its
three-way ruling on unknown. Both marked [DESIGN] with the live measurements.
Part 5 is RECORDED AND NOT IMPLEMENTED: the operator's notification philosophy,
verbatim, marked plainly as direction rather than current behaviour, with the
12 -> 15 toggle growth as the argument. Filed as R-388, a product decision.
R-329 and R-386 compressed into CLOSED-ITEMS with their rules kept and the
full-text commit named. R-387 filed closed - including WHY the dispatcher branch
was kept rather than deleted, which is evidence (three monitor checkers call
ProcessEvent directly) and not caution.
The drill record names three things that had to be re-run: an inert red-proof
mutation, Scenario G refused twice behind an HTTP 200, and the live Scenario A
NOT proving the customer gate because demo-hp has no prefs row at all.
Register: OPEN 328325 -> 328132 B, CLOSED 71441 -> 74642 B.
The gate failed only on `released > baked`, so it could catch a forgotten bake
and nothing else. A golden AHEAD of the record passed silently - and that is
how controller 0.221.1 was built, baked AND vouched while the newest CHANGELOG
heading still read v0.221.0, with every gate green. Reproduced on the real
history: newest released 0.221.0 / newest golden baked 0.221.1 -> exit 0.
The gate now asks whether the version being shipped is WRITTEN DOWN: the baked
version must have its own `## vX.Y.Z` heading anywhere in the CHANGELOG.
Membership rather than `baked > released` deliberately - a comparison against
the newest heading alone goes green the moment any later entry is written,
leaving the unrecorded version permanently unrecorded. INCONCLUSIVE (exit 2)
preserved; every refusal names a reason and a route.
Red-proofed both directions: old gate/old record exit 0, new gate/old record
exit 1, new gate/fixed record exit 0, absent clone exit 2, post-bake exit 0.
08-alarm-ladder.md is new, and its absence was itself the finding: no document
owned "when does a broken app raise an alarm?". The rules lived as comments in
four packages, each locally correct, with the ordering between them legible only
by reading one function top to bottom - which is how R-384 survived review.
R-383 and R-384 closed into CLOSED-ITEMS with their rules kept. R-385 filed
closed. R-386 filed OPEN: a single-container app stopped out of band raises no
alarm, and a comment claims the opposite - measured live, 9 scans, 0 events,
against a positive control from the same box 17 minutes earlier. Not fixed here.
Golden 0.222.0 baked and published; vouching is the operator's act.
07-backup-architecture.md gains a dated [FACT] on R-361 - a comment asserting an
invariant the code did not have, for four months - and a [DESIGN] on the db_dumps
decision INCLUDING the trap it created: a stable list lets the already-current
early return fire, so per-capture housekeeping must sit above it.
00-capability-map.md records the NEGATIVE from Part 3 so it is not re-derived: a
held app does NOT raise the dead-app alarm. It aggregates to unhealthy, which
IsDownState excludes. Measured on the shipped build with the scans demonstrably
running over it. No suppression was built and no row opened.
R-383: the double-failure message names an undo copy that is not there - R-361's
own class, one surface over, observed on both 0.220.2 and 0.221.1.
R-384: an app whose database has died reads unhealthy and raises no alarm.
R-361 closed and compressed. OPEN-ITEMS 325236 -> 327266 bytes.
Golden 0.221.1 baked, published and round-trip verified. The golden-currency gate
blocked this push and that block is not circular, so it was satisfied rather than
bypassed - no --no-verify anywhere in this session.
07-backup-architecture.md 6.3 gains a dated [DESIGN] paragraph on replay ->
rollback -> hold, including why no engine flag closes it: --single-transaction
makes Postgres atomic, MariaDB DDL is not transactional, so the rollback is the
fix and the flag is a belt.
Drill record for the live walk, including the TWO defects the walk found in the
fix itself (a rollback into a re-created container; an operator route that
cleared the file while the running controller kept refusing) and the ONE
red-proof that PASSED, which is reported rather than omitted.
R-379..R-382 compressed into CLOSED-ITEMS.md. OPEN-ITEMS 330683 -> 325236 bytes.
STATUS.md restates the outcome and names the next operator step.
07-backup-architecture.md: three places said no offsite action unpacks the
named-volume tars. R-107 closed in controller v0.218.0; all three corrected with
a dated [FACT], the old sentence kept in the past tense. R-102 is NOT closed and
the correction says so explicitly.
New [DESIGN] paragraph in 6.3: the restore destination is resolved by the same
rule as the capture destination, and the wrong-disk refusal applies to apps that
have a drive to get wrong. Carries the 13/40 measurement.
STATUS.md was internally contradictory - nothing waiting, and one decision
waiting, for something the same page recorded as shipped. 218 -> 102 lines; the
deciding section now says what happens if nothing is done.
R-356 compressed into CLOSED-ITEMS.md; OPEN-ITEMS 327109 -> 325236 bytes.
Drill record and 16 evidence files for the live walk on demo-hp.
Records and process only. No machine contacted.
ONE REGISTER (operator ruling). 17 roadmap rows moved into OPEN-ITEMS.md keeping their
identifiers, evidence and original filing dates - the oldest R-10, filed 2026-07-15, 38 days.
15 ideas stay in ROADMAP.md, which is their home; the gate exempts them by their own state
word. 59 already-closed rows stay as history. Sorting rule recorded in the roadmap header:
does the item assert something about the shipped product a reader could check and find false?
scripts/one_register_gate.py, wired as the 11th gate. Control run: baseline passes, a planted
open roadmap-only row is convicted by name, removing it passes with the file byte-identical,
and a planted `idea` row is correctly exempt. Its four residual holes are in its docstring.
The gate earned its keep immediately: it caught R-103, a READY finding my hand-sort mis-read as
done because my regex matched the whole row where the body contains "shipped" - the gate matches
the state cell. It also caught R-203 and R-163, recorded closed in the register and still open in
the roadmap; the roadmap copies are marked SUPERSEDED with the register's verdict.
HOUSEKEEPING. OPEN-ITEMS 672,376 -> 327,109 bytes (-51%); ROADMAP 239,306 -> 78,110 (-67%).
Closed work compressed to 17% into CLOSED-ITEMS.md and ROADMAP-HISTORY.md; every entry names the
commit whose git show returns the full original text. Rule-sentences are kept verbatim under
"Reasoning kept" rather than judged entry by entry - 25 carry one.
CONTEXT.md deliberately NOT compressed and the disagreement is argued in the report: 86% of it is
standing rulings still in force, this prompt's own 3.4 says the log is never edited, and it has no
per-ruling delimiter. Filed as R-377 - the problem is navigational, not volumetric.
The hot/bulk placement decision was NEVER recorded as a decision anywhere - established, not
assumed. Now marked [DESIGN] with a pointer honest about having no original date, given a
decision-log entry that records what was rejected, and the [DESIGN]/[FACT] legend carried from 1
of 8 architecture documents to 8 of 8. Existing statements deliberately left unmarked (R-376).
PROMPT-TEMPLATE gains N.7: compress what you closed, rehome live reasoning before it goes, state
the register's size before and after.
Ceiling R-375 -> R-378.
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