Sylpheed port agent c909d1dc49 port: the contract I read is 3185 lines shorter than the contract ...

docs/port/HANDOFF.md on main is 926 lines, last touched 0fd8e69 on 2026-08-29.
The live one is 4111 lines at 27938aa, +3930/-745 across 96 commits I have never
read, several of them addressed to the port by name. The Decoder writes HANDOFF
on origin/auto/no-disc-and-menu-captures; main is a hundred-odd commits behind
it; I open main's copy every iteration as instructed.

So the rule meant to prevent this cannot detect it. tools/port/blocked-provenance
recovers each row's derivation from history rather than memory -- git log -S on
the row's key phrase -- and all 27 open rows derive from 0fd8e69, because
HANDOFF-on-main has not moved. A constant cannot separate a fresh row from a
rotten one. Withdrawn in BLOCKED.md: 'HANDOFF has not moved in four milestones'
was missing the qualifier that carried its meaning.

The tool's first version silently missed its own known positive: P6 looping vs
712cac8, whose 9.44 s answer this port already ships. 'looping' did not stem to
'loop', 'menu' was stoplisted, and a >=2-shared-words threshold dropped the rest.
The threshold was the defect -- two common words outscored one rare one -- so
ranking is now by log(N/df) with no cutoff at all, and the control passes at rank
1 of 7 without touching the stoplist. Every discard is counted: struck rows,
sub-rank pairs, stoplisted words. Same rule applied to check-claims, which now
reports the 40 occurrences it suppresses; the Decoder reached it the same day
from the opposite failure, a silent suppression path making a clean run
unfalsifiable.

The reading list found two open rows already answered: the plate's pulse period
(120, not 105) and the main menu having no idle self-return, which refutes the B
row's own reasoning.

Refutation attempted on '+0x08 is the loop length', the claim the port was about
to build on. It survives: their falsifier re-run on my own read of the disc gives
0 violations in 1781 records, and on the eight records this port animates their
table reproduces cell for cell. Adopted -- screen.rs exports loop_length_units
and ScreenView._loop_period prefers it, announcing any disagreement rather than
silently resolving it. The value does not change: authored/timing.json already
had 120 from a wall-clock measurement, so a disc field and an emulator stopwatch
agree while sharing no instrument.

Two asks filed: the field is exposed in no public API on any ref, so the port
reads four bytes it should not own; and eleven focus records declare the same
120-unit cycle while only the plate is authored to animate, which is behavioural
and not mine to infer.

Every asserting check passes; oracle RMSEs unchanged, as 120 == 120 predicts.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01N7FiFFFwbvG2uxdcEh8HyF

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