The Decoder checked their check_refuted.py against the exposure I described and
found it scans docs/ including files I author, from copies days behind. Mine had
the same shape. Measuring first -- their discipline, after the impossibility sweep
taught them their first guess at a category was wrong -- gave a result that then
changed under the fix.
Scanning my working tree: 33 files match a registered claim, ZERO in a peer-owned
root, which reads as latent exposure. Scanning their branch head: SIX occurrences
across four of their files. So the exposure was not latent, my copy was too old to
see it. docs/re/ is 246 commits behind their head here, docs/agents/ 13,
docs/game/ 9. Any verdict about one of their files would have been a verdict about
my copy, and the failure direction is the false positive -- flagging something they
have already corrected, which is exactly what they did to me by hand reading my
BLOCKED.md 234 commits behind.
Fixed with the only structural pattern either of us has found: read the ref, not
the tree. Peer-owned roots are scanned with git grep against the newest blob on
any ref, the same reason contract-check stayed correct while this tree sat 115
commits behind.
The first version of the fix over-claimed. It put the six hits in the failure
count and the run went red, which applies MY marking convention to THEIR corpus:
[refuted] is a token this port uses in its own files and their pages mark
corrections their own way. Three of the six are in their METHOD.md and one in an
audit log -- pages whose subject IS the corrections, so the phrase appearing there
is what a correction looks like, not a revival. Now reported and not counted: a
prompt to look, never a verdict. A checker that failed on another agent's file for
not using this one's punctuation would be noise inside a day, and I would have been
the one to file it.
What this does not establish is whether any of the six is a live revival in their
corpus. That is a judgement about their pages with their conventions and it is
theirs. What changed is that the question can now be asked from the right copy.
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