From 0620967e792350d109be4d1762c108334e3f6b68 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: sylph-decoder Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2026 22:57:17 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] method: the overtaken-section sweep invents defects -- 7 flags, 0 real Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Wuu56cE8vJGTBtn1ppsk8v --- docs/re/METHOD.md | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/re/METHOD.md b/docs/re/METHOD.md index 9f847ed3..014ccb76 100644 --- a/docs/re/METHOD.md +++ b/docs/re/METHOD.md @@ -2508,3 +2508,25 @@ samples at a fixed rate**, so *frames presented per sample consumed* is a frame measured against a quartz reference rather than against a timer that may itself be starved. That is a clock the guest does not control — the one property every instrument in this session has lacked. + +## The overtaken-section defect was found by reading, and my detector for it invents defects + +`sylpheed-port` noticed that a `HANDOFF.md` section still read as live while two +later sections had overtaken **both** its claims — the initial-focus disagreement +was settled, and *"never once run: whether focus persists"* had been run. A +newest-first convention protects a top-down reader; **a grep lands mid-document**. +Fixed with a forward marker, and the section kept rather than deleted, because it +is what the port was told at the time. + +⚠️ I then tried to sweep for the same defect and the sweep is worthless. Flagging +`## 🔴` headings whose section contains no correction word returned **7 candidates +and 0 real defects**: in this corpus 🔴 marks *a correction being delivered* far +more often than *a section since overtaken*, and no pattern separates the two — +the first checked, "Ⓑ from EXTRAS DOES go black", is corroborated by +`screen-transitions.md` and entirely live. + +📌 **That is the same failure the port had already paid for: an audit that invents +defects is worse than no audit**, because its false positives are indistinguishable +from its true ones until each is opened by hand. Seven to open by hand is worse +than the one a reader found by reading. Recorded as a negative so the next person +does not build it again.