Paused at six of eight phases, all committed and pushed, nothing left in a
working tree. The page now carries a STATUS section the other machine can
finish from: what is done, which PR each phase is in, what to run next, and
what is deliberately left for the human.
🔴 FOUR THINGS THIS PAGE ASSERTED WERE WRONG, and each is corrected in place
rather than quietly amended:
* "10 dangling citations" was ONE. Eight were DIRECTORY references, which
resolve and are absent only from `git ls-tree`; one was a path ending a
sentence, with the full stop pulled into the match. I reported that 10 to
the human twice.
* `extract -r` is not how the .pe was made and nothing depends on it. The
plain extract is, and the tool Phase 3 keeps reproduces it byte-for-byte.
* The Phase 0 gate compared branches by SHA and called seven safe branches
unpushed -- a branch that is an ancestor of a pushed one is preserved.
* There is no DirectXShaderCompiler drift; the ' m' is nested submodule dirt.
The pattern is worth more than the corrections: every claim that was REASONED
turned out wrong, and every one that was RUN held. Phase 2's gate refuted its
own premise, Phase 3's proved two alarming row deltas were an improvement, and
Phase 4's check caught a deletion I had just made. The page now says to re-run
the gates rather than trust the results recorded in it.
Phase 5 (archive) and Phase 7 (drops) are open and marked NOT STARTED, with
the reason each needs the human: archiving is reversible and deleting a
repository is not, and the drops are on the human's disk.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
PHASE 0 -- the single-copy work is secured. Canary 8e63a9542 commits the
--pad_file_repeat instrument that had been uncommitted while the numbers it
produced were already shipping in the port; sylpheed-re and
audit-handle-lifecycle-probes pushed; all 14 local branches reachable.
Two corrections found by running it:
* There is no DirectXShaderCompiler gitlink drift. `git submodule status`
shows no '+'. The ' m' is NESTED submodule dirt (DXC's own SPIRV-Headers
and SPIRV-Tools), which is upstream's business.
* The gate itself was wrong. It compared branches to remotes BY SHA and
called seven safe branches unpushed -- a branch that is an ANCESTOR of a
pushed branch is already preserved. It now tests reachability, which is
what it meant. A check that goes red for something unactionable is the
failure this repo keeps naming, and this page shipped one.
PHASE 1 -- the four retiring xenia-rs branches pushed (32/52/56/59 commits).
The loop is clean everywhere except pi/clippy, pi/clippy-clean and pi/reauth3,
unreachable by ancestry and redundant by patch-id: the one case where the
answer lives outside the gate.
PHASE 2 GATE -- run, and it corrected this page in two directions.
extract (xex2tractor, no -r) IDENTICAL to the project .pe
extract -r (xex2tractor) differs -- 1,903 bytes over 273 runs
extract (xenia-rs, iterate-4A) IDENTICAL, and .xex.json too
Right: the .pe is an xex2tractor extract. Wrong: it was made WITHOUT -r. So
the dependency this gate existed to protect does not exist -- the tool Phase 3
keeps already reproduces the file. -r drops from 'must port' to optional, with
a warning that it must never become the .pe, since it writes into the image
and would invalidate every byte-offset citation in docs/re/.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The end state the human set: Sylpheed holds the port, the corpus and every
tool; the Canary fork holds the emulator and oracle. Four repos retire.
Eight phases, each with a gate. What matters more than the sequence is the
ledger: every absorption claim here was RUN, not reasoned.
Reborn's 21 remote + 8 local branch tips -> all ancestors of Sylpheed/main
Sylpheed-Godot's 2 tips + the root graft -> all ancestors
agent-backups/, 23 refs across 4 bundles -> all present in Sylpheed
3 unpushed pi/* branches, by patch-id -> all 4 patches already on main
issues / PRs / releases / wikis, 6 repos -> zero outside Sylpheed
Three things the check found that a plan built on the obvious reading would
have destroyed:
1. The F1 instrument -- Canary's --pad_file_repeat patch, the one behind the
repeat rate now shipped in the port -- is UNCOMMITTED, alongside 4 unpushed
commits and a branch contained in no remote. Phase 0 exists for this.
2. xenia-rs has 4 unpushed branches of JIT/multicore/native-threads work.
Dropping the emulator is a decision; dropping work that was never pushed is
a different act, done by accident.
3. The DuckDB tool is not on master, which last moved 2026-06-15. It is on
iterate-4A/apu-xma-stage1, +22 commits, 2026-09-10.
On the captures question the measurement contradicted the premise: 193 of 257
files are cited by a page or opened by a tool, and two are fixtures that
cargo test opens. 64 are orphans. Phase 4 builds docs/re/ the citation check
docs/port/ has had all along -- it already finds 10 dangling citations -- and
fixes those BEFORE deleting orphans, so the deletion cannot ratify them.
Deleting reclaims nothing anyway: the 118 MB is in history, and the build
depends on this repo by tag (formats-pin-2026-09-01, pinned in Cargo.lock).
That is Phase 5's explicit fork rather than a default.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
