Developer-confirmed milestone: 149 distinct byte-identical bodies across 158
registered regions, up from 34 / 39 at Phase 7 close - 115 new bodies against a
target of 70, produced by three sessions working one worktree under a written
protocol.
Adds PhaseEnd_Phase8.md and the digest entry, archives CURRENT_PHASE.md as
logs/Phase8.md, and completes docs/PHASE8_PROTOCOL.md with the retrospective the
developer asked for: which rules were load-bearing (worker/coordinator file
ownership, candidate-first merging, worklist regeneration, self-contained
charters), where the protocol needed a decision, the four failure modes seen with
their mitigations, and reusable CHARTER and worker-report templates so the next
coordinated phase does not pay the cost of writing them again.
Final gates: 203 tests; make clean, make all, cmp and SHA-1 e173426c...; make
check green at c_regions=158 with 0 differing bytes and regions=158
disagreements=0; registry audit 0 violations; no untracked file in src/; 244
tracked files, none under a prohibited root.
Christopher Williams
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