Correcting my own guidance from earlier today. §378 gave the self-caller chain;
three more variants appeared within hours and two of them BREAK the chain.
Variant 3 (NEW, byte-proven ov_SC04_018/func_8017F35C, banked): conflicting
RETURN type on a decl that is ALREADY no-proto, where the symbol is
ADDRESS-TAKEN rather than called. --any-proto has nothing to relax and
cast_self_callers has no call site to cast; --sync-decls ALONE fixes it, and is
safe precisely because an address-taken site has no arguments to convert.
Variant 4 (REFUTATION of what I wrote in the playbook this morning): "run the
same chain on the callee the diagnostic names" is wrong at scale. Applied to
func_8012AD44 in ov_SC07_000 it no-protoed 60 caller decls and the binary went
RED (265b24bb vs 9dbe4241); reverted via journal. The self case is safe because
step 2 casts the call sites so the decl change cannot alter argument conversion;
for a callee, cast_self_callers correctly refuses and the decl change runs
unprotected. It banked main/func_80021D38 only because that callee had ONE decl,
not sixty.
Rule added: never --any-proto a symbol whose call sites you are not also casting;
count the sites first. The chain is a DECISION TABLE, not a sequence to run
blindly.
tools/triage_ladder.py — the zero-token pre-agent pass, split PRE (target-side:
BANKED/WALL-332/PARKED, no build) from POST (residual_rules_b, needs a draft).
--escalate refuses a walled or banked target; --acceptance is the R39/R32 harness.
Refuses on a non-quiescent tree: a merging gate makes the stub oracle wrong in
both directions (measured, ov_SC01_004:func_8017EB30).
Acceptance, on the whole corpus: false-skip 0/1367 open stubs, recall 426/426
matched, wall tier fires on exactly the 10 enumerated walls (0 extra, 0 missing).
The first wall control asked for evidence that CANNOT exist — it scanned banked
functions' .s, which splat never writes — and printed '0 scanned / 0 tripped',
indistinguishable from a pass. The R32 empty-denominator assertion caught it on
its first run; replaced with a two-sided sweep over all open stubs.
tools/cast_self_callers.py — the §378 lever + --sync-decls for the narrow-param
case C89 forbids no-proto from reaching (§378a).
Wiring: wave_args drops walled/parked targets at draw time via pre_classify (one
implementation, R33); escalate_fable.js refuses any target without triage:'DRAFT'.
Tool fixes found by measurement:
* fix_arity_callers was blind to main entirely (globbed src/main/main*.c; main is
src/*.c) — reported success over an empty file set through three gates. Now
refuses when --binary selects no files.
* parallel_gate records each worker's 'failed by class' line (was truncated out of
the 200-char tail); gater_lane retries in-tree ONLY on the diagnostic-free
blind-worktree signature — S69 ran 22 serial retries against real cc1 errors.
docs: cookbook §376/§377/§378 (index 1033), SETUP.md, wave-playbook §4b.
The S67 FINAL-3 OPEN item, plus the two defects found while doing it.
* fix(dedup_propagate): the tool could not run AT ALL. S67's -j patch wrote
`os.environ` at module level in the one module that imports `os as _os`, so
every invocation died with NameError before doing any work. Propagation was
not deferred, it was impossible. Import-checked the other 7 -j-patched tools.
* propagation, honestly scoped: the real closable set is 11, not 32, derived two
independent ways that agree (seed_ref exact+same_addr, and a direct corpus
derivation). The 3,161-entry --auto-from plan over 53 overlays is dedup
hygiene over already-matched code and closes almost no open stub.
Applied: 2 banked byte-green (ov_SC04_018 func_80181270, func_80182AF8);
3 gate-refused and cleanly reverted; 6 blocked with named blockers
(3 CARRY-FIXABLE, 3 func_80144B9C not-inline-def -> needs the o0 whale carve).
R22 clean fleet: extract 212/212, check 213 passed 0 failed of 213, rc 0/0/0.
Frontier 453 -> 451.
* fix(seed_ref): REFUSE targets in LINKED subsegs. The playbook calls this tool
"the fleet-wide answer" and it reported 82 open stubs with a banked twin --
43 of them main stubs whose TUs the linker script never references. Any C
written there compiles, links and leaves the SHA1 green WHETHER OR NOT IT IS
CORRECT, so a mechanical twin lane fed from that list could have minted up to
43 gate-green FALSE matches the byte gate cannot see. draw_waves has refused
these since S66; this oracle did not. The refusal is counted and printed, not
silent. NC: guarded 39 subset of raw 82, all 43 dropped are main, the non-main
population is identical.
* wave drawn: .run/S68o1 (24 opus 187-770 ins) + .run/S68m1 (30 main), cards +
packs + wave_args asserted, queue of 53. Drafting opened at concurrency 5.
Seven sections from 30 single-function opus workflows on 187-297 instruction targets (30/30 MATCH):
§339 a 2-case switch OMITS gcc's low-bound range test (stmt.c emit_case_nodes) — so slti/bnez
between two beqs is a COUNT TELL that a case node is missing from your draft
§340 §194-K corollary: a 'scheduler' residual can be sched.c's ALIAS ORACLE inventing a false
true-dependence; source order picks the edge's DIRECTION, so reverse it into an anti-dep
rather than fighting it (10->0, zero bytes; 3 alternatives refuted with reasons)
§341 an HImode store temp reweights a sched2 tie no statement order can reach
§342 NEW LAW: a twin's param cast in a local is NOT byte-neutral when a later param also
needs a callee-saved reg — and the §333 converse does NOT hold (gcc may already pad the gap)
§343 decl_prior's fleet MAJORITY can be wrong about the true signature — read the RIVALS.
Measured: void(s32) x1374 vs the truth s32(s32) x163. The tool is honest, the corpus is wrong.
§344 raise a biv's global_alloc priority with a zero-byte REFERENCE; a register pin kills LSR
§345 volatile STORE evicts the MEM from cse and keeps sh; volatile LOAD blocks combine and
degrades lh into lhu+sll+sra — the qualifier is not symmetric
Also: seed_ref validated on a live A/B. The same 187-ins body cost 102,193 tokens / 476 s in
ov_SC03_107 when the card said 'no banked twin', and 72,077 tokens / 135 s in ov_SC07_006 once the
card carried the twin — 30% fewer tokens, 3.5x faster. A second instance (func_8017F62C) went
63,595 vs 118,485 tokens. others_open=137 on that one exemplar, so it compounds.
R22 caught it: 212/213 after the S67-cc1 gate run. `ov_SC04_018` was RED.
ROOT CAUSE (from the diff, not inferred). Commit commit:3354's propagation replaced three bodies in
`ov_SC04_018_jr_80135D20.c` with DEFINE_func_*() instantiations and deleted the 981 lines they
occupied — INCLUDING the TU's file-scope declaration layer, which the two surviving non-deduped
bodies still referenced. A duplicate copy of those decls survived at line 225, BELOW the function
that uses them at line 42, so C89 ordering made it fatal (`D_8018D7A4' undeclared).
THE STRUCTURAL GAP: gate_stage byte-gates the SOURCE binary, then propagation writes to N OTHER
binaries and nothing re-verifies them. "fleet 99.2%" in the commit subject is a metric, not a gate.
This is the blind spot R50 exists for, and only the periodic whole-fleet R22 could see it.
REPAIR: restored src/ov_SC04_018 to commit:3354^, re-extracted (banking had pruned the .s stubs the
restored INCLUDE_ASM lines need), rebuilt rc=0 at the locked SHA fe9b413f. dedup-check clean
(2193 validated, 0 failed, C1 255302/255302). Cost: the 2 banks in that binary.
NEW tools/restore_dropped_decls.py — compiler-driven recovery for this failure mode: build, read
which identifiers cc1 calls undeclared, look each one up in the pre-deletion git ref, insert it
above the leading #include block, repeat. Two defects found and fixed in it while using it:
* anchoring after "the last extern in the first 400 lines" inserts BELOW the point of use, so the
build fails identically and the loop re-inserts forever (measured: 25 rounds, 100 dead decls).
The only safe anchor is the top of the file.
* a no-progress guard now REFUSES when a round asks for what the last round already inserted.
It also correctly refused when the failure changed class (link-level undefined references), which
is how the wider damage was found rather than papered over.
NOT a defect of the S67 §8d rung: scope_demote_drafts only ever writes draft dirs under .run/.
FLEET: make clean + extract-all + check-all = 213 passed, 0 failed of 213.
FRONTIER: 530 -> 526 (4 functions closed this session, measured from corpus.stubs).
MEASURED (denominators in .run/S67_findings.md):
* 193 of the 530 open functions ALREADY have a draft on disk (1,885 wave targets seen,
1,521 banked, 171 open-no-draft, 166 never drawn). Classified in their real TUs:
37 MATCH / 67 NEAR / 89 CC1-FAIL.
* 159 open functions (30% of the frontier) reference a jump table; 96 are PLAN-REFUSED
by build_carve (non-contiguous same-subseg .rodata), 75 non-main across 38 subsegs.
Not a codegen wall and not a decl wall — carve plumbing.
NEW
* tools/strand_census.py — coverage-asserted census + rtu_match classifier + draft staging.
Keys binary:fn (R48); classifies each pair once after merging every manifest's view.
* tools/o0_detect.py — the -O0 prologue tell extracted from match_one (which parses argv at
import and therefore cannot be imported). match_one re-exports it; ONE definition (R33).
Wiring it into the classifier turned md_MAIN_003 from 8 NEAR (7 of them >20) into 6 MATCH.
Negative-controlled both directions.
* tools/scope_demote_drafts.py — §8d as an _xform-contract gate rung. NOT yet exercised.
FIXED
* jtbl_carve --probe now runs build_carve (a pure planner) and reports plan-refused. It
previously called only island_probe, which answers a necessary-not-sufficient question —
every blocked function probed "carveable", and S66 priced 32 of them as free on that.
* blocker_probe.macro_scope selects the LAST #define per macro name, matching cpp.
engine_core.h has 1,037 duplicate DEFINE_func_ names and 4 with DIFFERENT bodies.
NOT VALIDATED — DO NOT SCALE
* jr_isolate_all: two real defects fixed (carried types deduped by name; header-provided
types no longer re-emitted) but ov_SC02_000 STILL fails the byte gate after them.
Open lead: file_scope_types carries a block without its enclosing #if guard. 20 of 35
blocked overlays dry-run clean and that number means nothing until one round-trips.
0 functions banked this session. tools-health has ONE pre-existing cdecl defect
(1 of 74,749 declarations, func_8017EE08_p55352/struct ZnRec) — cdecl.py and its inputs
are byte-identical to HEAD, so it is not from this change.
Knowledge banked: cookbook §322/§323/§323a/§323b, decision-log pivot, accelerators #13/#14.
draw_waves.py gains --only-main (the main lane draws main and nothing else; implies --main so the
LINKED refusal still applies). Progress/backlog regenerated: fleet 99.2% instruction-weighted,
98.1% distinct.
The distill prompt asserted 'the whole-binary byte-gate ACCEPTED the final draft, so the final body is
ground truth' for EVERY target. With --with-unbanked now feeding it drafts the gate REFUSED, that
sentence would have laundered an unproven body into a byte-proven cookbook entry (R14/G3). A target
with banked=False now gets an explicit PROVENANCE WARNING telling the distiller to extract the lever
anyway (cookbook 52: a model that FAILS still distils the idiom that cracks its siblings) but to mark
every claim UNPROVEN and never assert byte-equality; the verifier is told the same so its
entry_markdown carries the label. Exercised this session: the one surviving ADDENDUM came from an
unbanked draft and is filed UNPROVEN.
Also regenerates the scoreboard after the day's banks.
.run/maintenance.sh (what runs) and tools/lanes/maintenance.sh (a pre-S59 copy) had
diverged. The 150->50 threshold tune landed on the stale copy and was then copied over
the live one, silently reverting five S59 fixes:
* the R47 shape filter (staging fell back to status=='AGREE' alone — the exact defect
that staged 82 hopeless drafts every 45 minutes)
* the R48 (binary, fn) keying (bare-fn keys collide across overlays)
* reloc --fix MISMATCH auto-repair (measured 4/4 repaired to AGREE)
* rtu_second_chance (re-judges standalone COMPILE-FAILs against the real TU)
* fix_tu_ret_decls (the return-type half of the stale-decl wall)
Rebuilt from the S59 lineage with the 150->50 threshold and the periodic fleet R22
re-applied, both paths now byte-identical, `bash -n` clean, and the two-path hazard
documented in the header so the next edit cannot repeat it.
Also: relaunch_drafter_shell.sh 30s -> 5s ready-marker poll; regenerated backlog and
fleet progress artifacts.
R42: gate_main reverted 61 byte-proven overlay banks it could not distinguish from its own
substitution (sweep_parallel gates commit=False by design). Fixed by committing overlay banks
before the main batch, chunking main at 8 to bound bisect cost, and replacing every blind
'git checkout -- src/ config/' with commit-or-refuse in ox_campaign and idiom_serial.
R43: sweep_parallel had an explicit branch admitting main, which cannot be gated incrementally
— wave ab banked 0/105 main cards while its non-main cards banked 94/115 (82%), and the wave
read as a drafting failure. sweep_parallel now refuses main and names gate_main.py.
Also: validate_targets now prefers the card's own addr field (named symbols like SYS_OBJ_F00
were MALFORMED and discarded whole 220-card waves); ox_campaign deals model lanes by
smallest-ratio scheduling (a 73-card wave had put 73 shards on ox and 0 on deepseek);
docs/accelerators.md gains the four vacuous-check defects.
An external-model bake-off, not a banking session. Nothing was banked; that is
the next session's first task.
FINDINGS
- CARD FUEL is the biggest lever, bigger than model choice: the same 10 cards
went 4/10 -> 9/10 when seed_ref/tu_ref/decl_prior were injected. The
"60-instruction ceiling" was an artifact of withholding fuel.
- Sub-50 is near-free: 19/19 verified MATCH at $0.007/function, blind.
7,724 sub-50 open functions = 73.5% of the remaining set.
- A free model (stealth/ox-alpha) cracked a 611-ins function and a jtbl
exemplar, and distilled §206 — whose two negative results were
independently byte-confirmed before banking.
- §206 transfers WITHIN a family (40 turns -> 11) but NOT across (56 turns,
0 compiles). jtbl costs ~40 turns of learning per family, not per class.
TOOL FIXES (all negative-controlled)
- family_remap.gather_externs: took the first ALPHABETICAL extern across the
overlay's TUs, carrying two types swapped (sh/lh vs lbu/sb). Now prefers
the extracted unit's own file. Blocked a 4-member/2,444-ins family.
- atlas.member_lever: aprop_card was loaded and never read while a bare
ledger DIFF forced needs-autopsy. PURE now outranks it — rescues 32
members / 11 families / 3,810 ins.
- decl_prior._ASM_SYM: the %hi/%lo arm had never fired (0 of 1,210 over four
waves). jal 306->306 zero regressions, data 0->299.
- api_agent.py (new): --cards, --brief, --max-cost, nudge loop, 429
attribution + backoff, transport retry, non-fatal tool faults, and a
repeated-call guard.
RULES PROPOSED: R40 (exonerate the instrument before attributing a failure to
its subject — seven instances this session) and R41 (a cost/rate/yield number
ships with its denominator — I quoted $0.30 against a $6.31 bill).
Wave Z: 74/75 MATCH, 72 banked first gate, 2 recovered for zero agent tokens
(§203 address-order typedef hoist; §202 alias on a DEFINITION for the §183.3
DEF-side return wall). Sibling sweep re-scoped after --only was keyed on the
atlas gid rather than family_hseq's exemplar: 3 -> 50 banked.
Harvest: 82 gap reports -> 5 laws, 16 rejected, 30 already-covered; the
adversarial verifier killed 7 of 12 claims. §204 written (510 lines).
Tooling, all negative-controlled:
- the S46 validity gate was off the path for waves T-Z; wired into
build_wave_atlas where cards are born, with the PRE-DRAFT-ONLY constraint
documented (it condemns banked work if run later)
- wave_snapshot honors the card's `sub` (9/9 legacy byte-identical, 66/66
split-TU recovered)
- §204-E: decl_prior's %hi/%lo arm had never fired (jal 306->306 zero
regressions, data 0->299)
Wave Y's recovery lane ran during a total API outage (two rounds of 529 Overloaded, 12 agents, 0
tokens), so the five gate drops were fixed by hand -- and the fix turned out to be ONE repeatable
move rather than five negotiations. §183's playbook negotiates with the TU's spelling; §200 declines
to share the C identifier at all, binding a private name to the same link symbol with gcc's asm
label (§37/§124). Five different refusal classes -- array-vs-scalar where reconcile_slate's own fix
had broken the match, a slate-mate's private struct, void* vs s32, and two DEF-side return conflicts
including a function whose only in-TU use takes its ADDRESS -- all five aliased, all five still
MATCH, 4 re-gated and banked.
Ordering recorded so it stays the escape hatch and not the first move: adopt the TU's spelling ->
cast at the use site -> alias. An alias is a readability debt; every one in the tree carries a
comment naming the spelling it could not use.
13 agents, 63 gap reports: 7 CONFIRMED, 2 REJECTED, 56 already-covered. TWO of the seven correct
laws banked EARLIER THE SAME SESSION, from two independent readers -- the adversarial-verifier
design earning its cost.
§189-A (banked this morning) claimed an interloper between a split constant's lui/ori PROVES the
target wrote two source steps, because the halves are LUID-adjacent and "no statement order and no
pin can put a third constant between them". Byte-refuted four ways: the banked one-statement slice
`prim.col[1] = 0x101010;` compiles with SEVEN insns between its lui and ori; the two-step spelling
§189-A prescribes is BYTE-IDENTICAL (the fix is inert); moving an unrelated statement moves a third
constant in and out of the gap; and one separated pair is 0x88888889 -- gcc's synthesized reciprocal
magic for a `/ 0x3C`, a constant with NO source spelling, making "the target wrote two steps"
unsatisfiable. rank_for_schedule tests INSN_PRIORITY FIRST (sched.c:2395) and reaches the LUID
tie-break only at :2428, so the derivation dropped its equal-priority scope; the real separator is
the BIRTHING BOOST (birthing_insn_p, gated reg_n_sets == 1), which the split pair can never have
because try_split gives its pseudo two sets. Verified off cc1's own -dS dump, which also corrects
the submitting reader: sched1 is a BACKWARD list scheduler, so it is the LUI that sinks, not the ORI.
8 separated pairs across 5 functions in 3 binaries. §189-A's split-TIMING half survives and now
carries a correction banner.
Recovery note: this run was killed by the session usage limit with 3 verifiers outstanding;
resumeFromRunId replayed 10 cached agents and re-ran 3 for 398k tokens vs the original 1.31M.
HARVEST (10 agents, 68 gap reports): 4 CONFIRMED, 3 REJECTED, 41 already-covered. Yield fell from
14 because the readers were seeded with §193 AND §194 AND §195 -- three sessions of laws off the
table before they started, which is the flywheel working.
§197-A IS BANKED AS ONE ENTRY WITH ITS ATTRIBUTION FLAGGED CONTESTED. Two verifiers independently
confirmed the same phenomenon (lhu;sll 16;sra 16+K where the target has lh;sra K) and attributed it
to DIFFERENT passes -- one to cse's fold_rtx associative block with -da dumps showing the middle insn
already gone in x.i.cse, one to combine preferring the count-merge over forming lh. R34 forbids
treating agreement between disagreeing oracles as corroboration, so the observable, the tell and the
cure (a zero-byte asm re-tie; a fresh temp works with no second SET at all) are banked, and the pass
question is recorded as open. Both verifiers independently byte-refuted §136 type-form rule 9's cure:
u16 v[4] and SVECTOR v compile BYTE-IDENTICALLY in rule 9's own context. Banner added at rule 9.
§198 (in the tool's own help text): UNKNOWN was excluded from the default --levers while the wave
PROMPT told every agent "UNKNOWN does NOT mean hard -- it means the atlas could not name a lever."
The tool was silently overriding the doctrine. Measured: UNKNOWN held 607 of 1,179 in-band members,
more than every other lane combined; wave W drew 73 cards from it into 3 gate groups (24.3 drafts per
rebuild vs wave V's 7.8) for 71/71 drafted, 68 banked. Recorded cost: UNKNOWN groups are mostly
singletons, so the free sibling remap yielded ZERO where waves T/U/V got 49/34/25.
Also releases func_80185480 and func_8017EC98 from wave W's spent-card file -- their agents died on
server rate-limiting and no draft exists, so they must not be marked already-waved.
32 agents over wave V's 67 index_gap reports: 14 CONFIRMED, 9 REJECTED, 76 already-covered (the
third harvest this session; readers seeded with §193 AND §194 so neither could be re-derived).
THE HEADLINE IS A DEFECT IN OUR OWN VERIFIER (§195-D). masked_diff.mask_for short-circuited on the
OPCODE -- `if (word >> 26) in (2, 3): return 0` -- ahead of the reloc dispatch, so every `j` to a
LOCAL label was dropped from the comparison. The assembler resolves those itself and emits no
relocation, so there was nothing link-time about them. For a loop or switch arm, which label a `j`
targets is the difference between `break` (fall into the shared tail and execute its calls) and
`return` (skip them): byte-proven on ov_SC03_118:func_801825EC, where the banked `break;` and a
call-skipping `return;` variant differ in exactly one word (0800003e vs 08000041) and BOTH reported
MATCH. The blindness reached match_one, the permuter's MaskedScorer, family_cousins.tok and the
atlas similarity tiers at once -- nothing between a draft and the whole-binary gate could see it.
Now the 26-bit field is masked only when reloc_kind == "26" (the linker really does fill it).
R39 control: 35/35 already-banked wave-V drafts still MATCH against their snapshot .s.
Other confirmations of note: §195-A bounds §167-08 with a byte-proven false-negative class (an
argument that DIES at the call is allocated straight into $aN, so its only def is a plain load and
every use reads $aN -- there is no positive tell in either direction, only the two-arity A/B);
§195-B a CALL_INSN does not start a basic block in gcc-2.7.2, so a call-crossing temp can be a
LOCAL-alloc quantity; §195-M frame `vars` is a sequential bump-allocation, unifying §193-I's
CEIL(aggregate,8) term with §165-03/§167-06's 8x-orphan term as one frame_offset walk.
Wave P drafted at 97% and then cost a dozen clean rebuilds to bank, and not one of those rebuilds
failed on a matching problem. Banks the whole failure surface:
A. The SEVEN under-reporting holes in gate_main, all the same shape (R32): the checker never read
the destination TU, shared headers, a draft's own definition, lines with trailing comments,
typedef aliases, the build's own error text, or file order. Law: audit a batch-integration tool
for what it DOESN'T look at -- its verdicts can be correct on the inputs it reads and still be
worthless, because the compiler reads more.
B. Typedef handling, with the two wrong strategies that both look right: blanket STRIP (assumes
the surviving definition sits above the insertion point -- src/800.c defines Rec14 at 7336
while stubs wanting it sit at 7272), blanket RENAME (breaks drafts sharing an identical
typedef, because their externs stop agreeing -- my regression, three drafts at once), and the
rescan loop that deletes the definition it just renamed. The survivor is body-aware +
position-aware in a single pass over a snapshot.
C. The remaining limit: conflict detection compares spelled type NAMES, so three drafts each
defining their own Slot54 with different layouts all declare func_80032A74(Slot54*) and compare
equal. Comparing struct LAYOUTS is the real fix.
D. The measured cost shape -- drafting cheap and solved, integration expensive -- and therefore the
next lever: a STATIC pre-gate check over the substituted text, no make at all. Plus the R39
lesson that negative controls apply to the tool you are FIXING, not just the one you ship.
A wave is now sized by INSTRUCTION MASS, not card count. The metric is instruction-weighted, so a
wave is worth what its instructions are worth: the 12-42-ins card lanes carried ~1,400 ins/wave
(~0.011pp, ~440 waves to finish) while wave O carried 6,266 ins at the same gate cost and the same
draft rate.
build_wave_atlas --target-ins draws cards until the instruction budget is met (still capped by n)
and refuses to under-fill silently. Standard recipe: --target-ins 6500 --min-ins 60 --max-ins 200
--max-bins 4, levers now including UNKNOWN.
THE MEASUREMENT BEHIND IT: draft rate barely decays with size -- wave M 98% at avg 51 ins, wave N
92% at avg 65, wave O 96% at avg 128. Mass is nearly free.
THE UNKNOWN UNLOCK: UNKNOWN is not a difficulty label, it means the atlas could not name a lever,
and it had been routed as needing its own bespoke lane. Wave O's 22-card R37 probe drafted it like
any other lane -- reclassifying ~138k ins (a quarter of everything open) as ordinary wave fuel.
With UNKNOWN in, 9,224 fns / 417,325 ins = 70% of all open instructions are agent-draftable; the
60-200-ins mass band alone is 164,357 ins ~= 27 waves, and is the band to work first.
Also banks the five-step PRE-GATE PROTOCOL (independent re-verify -> reloc_identity -> dry-run to
0-dropped -> reconcile declarations toward the form the match needs -> gate), cookbook §176g.
- 48 atlas mass cards on ov_SC02_000 with --min-ins 40: 45/48 shape-verified, 42 banked,
ONE gate group. stubs 11,549 -> 11,477. distinct-code 90.4%.
- the band question is answered: 94% draft at avg 65 ins (up to 119), after 98% at avg 51 in
wave M. The mass lane is NOT size-limited in the band the instruction-weighted metric tracks.
- 2 NEARs enqueued with unusually deep analyses, both reusable beyond their own functions:
* func_80189C6C (close=2): magic 0x66666667 + mfhi-shift 5 DECODES to a plain /80 — write
'(x<<12)/80' and let gcc synthesize its own magic multiply. Residual root-caused against
REAL cc1 -da RTL dumps to loop.c move_movables desirability (threshold 29 vs measured
insn_count 24-26). Matches the func_80015A74 hard-tail class.
* func_80185840 (close=3): 'register u32 zr __asm__("$0"); c = val + zr;' reproduces the
non-coalescing addu-zero copy that cookbook §52a had classified as a WALL; plus 'r = K;'
before a SINGLE-armed if is what lets reorg's backward scan steal the li into the delay
slot (any two-arm spelling needs the eager target-thread steal, which never fires).
- 44 atlas mass cards on ov_SC04_011, avg 51 ins (up to 112) -> 43/44 shape-verified,
40 banked, ONE gate group. stubs 11,589 -> 11,549.
- data point that matters for the endgame: the mass lane holds at ~98% draft on the LARGER
band (51 avg vs the 12-42 cousins the night started with). Since the public metric is
instruction-weighted, that is the band that moves it — and it is in reach of haiku/sonnet,
not only the frontier tier.
- 1 near enqueued (func_80188A30, close=9: gcc reorders a beqz + delay-slot nop; core logic
verified correct) as grinder fuel.
- wave H: 40 atlas mass cards on ov_SC02_005 -> 38/40 standalone (95%), 34 banked, ONE gate
group. R22 213/213. stubs 11,788 -> 11,751. fleet 95.4%.
- §175 (NEW): a register pin to a CALLER-SAVED reg is not a scheduling hint, it changes program
meaning. func_80182EB0: value written before a jal and read after it; the $2 pin let gcc treat
the pre-call store as dead across the call and SILENTLY DELETE addiu v0,zero,-1 (49 vs 50 ins),
post-call read = garbage. Fix was to DROP the pin and kill the cross-call live range in C.
Rule: never pin a caller-saved reg to a value whose live range crosses a jal — use a
callee-saved $s0-$s7 (safe by ABI, the §17 lever) or restructure. A one-instruction count
mismatch on a caller-saved-pinned draft is this bug until proven otherwise.
- 2 NEARs enqueued with full diagnoses (prologue $ra-save scheduling; S3 chain-priority).
- wave G: 36 atlas mass cards on ov_SC03_006 -> 36/36 standalone (100%, independently
re-verified), 32 banked of 33 gated, ONE gate group. R22 213/213. stubs -> 11,788.
- two TU-packed waves now confirm the shape: ~1 rebuild per wave instead of 23.
- law 1b added to the wave prompt: agents reconstruct CODE at 91-100% but INVENT PsyQ symbol
names (S80131E00->Square0, Blk20_...->RotMatrixY, SRM_...->RotTransSV). Dangerous because
match_one MASKS relocations -> a wrong callee name still reports MATCH; only the
whole-binary gate + symbol audit catch it, after a wasted rebuild.
- 3 wave-G drafts held by that audit (would previously have crashed it pre-commit:2330).
- wave F: 60 atlas 'mass' cards (fresh crack, NO seed body) -> 55/60 standalone pre-repair
(59/60 post-repair), 50 BANKED of 53 gated, in a SINGLE gate group. R22 213/213.
- the throughput thesis is confirmed: wave D banked 45 across 23 whole-binary rebuilds;
wave F banked 50 across 1. gate cost scales with (binary,TU) groups, not drafts.
- the fresh-crack lane converts like the seeded lanes (~91%) => the atlas's ~7k draftable
candidates are all reachable, not just those resembling a prior match.
- grinder: 0 banked across 8 seeds / 11 ILS cycles (band exhausted); re-exposed the Phase-22
split-file blindness (no .s under md_MAIN_027).
- KNOWN DEFECT logged: aprop_symfix crashes on non-hex symbols (int('Square0',16)) — one
PsyQ-named callee aborts the whole audit; needs 1:1-rename handling + per-pair isolation.
- stubs 11,876 -> 11,826
- wave D (48 adapt cards): 47/48 standalone, 45 BANKED across two gates (40 + 5 late-repair).
Operational lesson: build the gate slate AFTER the repair stage lands — the first slate was
built early and 5 rescued drafts needed a second gate.
- wave C (35: 11 tell + 24 weak): 32 banked, 91% gate. Weak lane proven 24/24 on haiku.
- MAIN BLOCKER DIAGNOSED (the night's most valuable finding): main drafts are byte-correct yet
gate 0/4. Byte-diff of the built EXE = exactly 2 bytes in 413,696, NOT in the drafted fn: a
jal at 0x80060E74 retargets func_80061FA8 (game code, 800c2.o) -> firstfile (PsyQ libapi
A66.o). Adding one C fn perturbs symbol resolution between game code and the LINKED PsyQ
archives. main is an INTEGRATION wall, not a matching wall -> its own lane; excluded from
build_wave_atlas by default.
- build_wave_atlas.py now packs by (binary, TU) — the REAL gate-group key, since each group is
one whole-binary rebuild (wave D: 42 drafts / 23 groups = the throughput ceiling).
- 3 NEARs enqueued as grinder fuel incl. func_80183578 at close=1 DELAY-SLOT (§60a precedent).
- wave C: 35 cards (11 tell + 24 weak) -> 35/35 standalone (re-verified independently, R14)
-> 32 banked / 3 near, 91% gate, 0 symbol failures (Law 4 prevention worked)
- weak lane proven for the first time: 24/24 on haiku; 890 candidates remain
- reach measured: 32 exemplars, 8 with sharers, x2 each => ~1.25x effective (the x134
era ended in P25/29/30) -> throughput, not leverage, is now the lever
- tools/build_wave.py (pool=adapt|weak, corpus-derived open-stub filter, R35 gate guard)
- 3 self-inflicted instrument defects found+fixed+NC'd (P9, recorded not buried):
pgrep self-match via shell=True; corpus.stubs() is addr->Stub not names (nearly
declared both card pools spent); a wave fired on hand-typed placeholder cards (stopped)
- STRATEGIC: card lanes are ~0.23% of open ins/wave; the Atlas's head-crack bucket is
1,276 groups / 186k ins with high-reach groups up to 265 instances -> retarget waves
at atlas groups next
- probe 3 tell-cards: 1 MATCH, 2 NEAR (both genuine compiler residuals -> grinder)
- func_80181724 gated 0/1 at standalone MATCH: the TU already declared it (s32,s32) while
the matching def wanted s16 -> conflicting prototype. Canonical sig + cast-at-use
((s16)a0) = identical 13 bytes, re-gated 1/1
- cookbook §174 Law 4 + measured lane economics (tell ~100k tok/card @33% vs adapt
64-88k/bank @95% gate) + 'a standalone MATCH that gates 0 is a declaration fact'
- 2 NEARs enqueued as permuter fuel (func_8017DAEC count-exact 113=113, role swap)
- tools/plumbing_groups.py: derives the honest still-open pool from the classified
ledgers (R38) — '1,217 PLUMBING' collapsed to 237 (SELF 109 / CALLEE 48 / OTHER
48 / DATA 32)
- recover_integration: PER-GROUP ISOLATION (git-checkout binary TUs between groups
— one TU-stage edit was poisoning every other group's whole-binary gate with a
phantom shared error; per-group banked_from_source capture) + new stages
'macro-externs' (§121 draft-tier, via family_sweep.macro_def_sig_map, R33) and
'tu-scope' (§103 STU binary-tier, the sweep-only lever)
- the probe (ov_SC03_107): raw 0/14 -> root-caused (poisoning + stale seed
symbols; rtu_match MATCHes them — blind to reloc names, R34) -> symfix-first
-> 9/14 BANKED (64%)
- sweep finding (Law 3): the no-draft majority (ov_SC02_037 44/44, most of
ov_MAIN_012) had verdicts from transient sweep remaps never persisted — family-
lane fuel, not recovery fuel; the stored-draft class is consumed
- cookbook §173 (symfix-first / per-group isolation / verdicts-without-drafts);
index 518 green; R22 clean fleet 213/213; phase total 17 banked @ 0 agent tokens
The §172a/§172b tells + repaired instruments swept over all 892 open near-misses:
- 33/95 stored drafts re-verified MATCH and banked through the whole-binary gate
(aprop_symfix caught 40/108 carrying stale seed symbols before gating — §171 at scale)
- 19/20 hand/mech fixes banked: four pure lhu<->lh s16 flips; the lhu+sltiu->lh+slti
shared-global quadruplet (D_80126B5E/B66/CB0, D_80126CB0 are s16 FLEET-WIDE); one xor-eq
rewrite; 11 per-location literal swaps (mask/threshold constants from sibling binaries)
- 1 refusal (func_8017EE78) stays as redraft fuel
Stubs 12,111 -> 12,059. Fleet 95.3% instr / 90.0% distinct / 96.68% fn-count.
Veins mapped for next waves: ~400 LEN+N drafts, 13 ambiguous-symbol, 7 multi-literal.
Audit ledger: .run/c294/audit_results.json (classifier derives from match_one's own sig).
The crack was NOT achieved; the wall is now mechanism-complete instead of inferred:
- caller-save.c setup_save_areas DISCOVERED as a second never-referenced-slot producer:
eager 4-byte areas per call-clobbered hard reg carrying a call-crossing pseudo at ANY
reload iteration (-fcaller-saves is on at -O2), emitted code or not.
- Alignment math corrected: alter_reg slots 8B (align -1), save areas 4B (align 0).
- The whole-binary gate run on v_best/v_dialfree for the FIRST time: both rejected —
the standalone NEAR-2/NEAR-25 verdicts are faithful, no TU-state leak.
- 200-variant randomized structural sweep: swapped-arm recomputes are the ONE dimension
that moves vars upward (cse does not merge the swapped select) at ~1:1 real-code cost;
four coincidental vars=256 hits, all heavy-drift.
- Proof: cross-jump cannot delete slot-bearing code (identical-offset requirement) —
the last no-residue mechanism branch closed by argument, not probe.
- Inline forms collapse the chain 246->209 ins: the bytes REQUIRE textual macro repeats.
- cc1 flag axis (-fforce-addr/-fno-force-mem/-fno-caller-saves/-fno-schedule-insns):
vars=224 invariant.
Idioms delivered (Drew's second ask): §172 v2 (complete frame-residue model: producers,
alignment, orphan rule, the three-layer canonicalization wall with its honest bound) +
§172a (the lhu/lh typing tell: movhi=lhu copy vs extendhisi2=lh promotion, the double-load
signature; the macro-vs-inline tell: re-evaluated compares in arms = textually repeating
macros, load-bearing redundancy). The 0x801F1CD8/0x8017D290 family idioms were §171a/b.
Floor stays NEAR 2/246. Parked for P32 with the siege kit: tools/cc1_dumps.sh, the §172-v2
model, sweep_gen.py, the swaprepeat lead. ~240 cumulative refutations, each byte-grounded.
Three carries a mechanical seed-body draft needs beyond the symbol rebase (cookbook §171b),
each found from one compiler verdict:
- DATA DEFINED INSIDE THE MEMBER'S OWN .s must be DEFINED, not externed — it vanishes with
the stub it lives in. Re-initialised with THIS member's bytes (the 0x801F1CD8 family carries
4 distinct 8-byte patterns across 42 members). Flat-byte-list initializers only; refuse the
rest rather than mis-initialise something the gate would reject unexplainably.
- SHARED TYPES the destination cannot see: MATRIX/SVECTOR live in engine_types.h, which md_*
TUs never include. `parse error before 'm1'` was the only thing between 4 of 9 members and a
bank. Carried brace-matched, vetoed by the destination.
- A POSITIONAL LITERAL MAP where imm_map_tier1 gives up: it refuses a value that also appears
at a non-differing slot (0x10 collides with the struct offsets), but the 8 differing slots
map 1:1 onto the C's call sites in order. Asserted ([C literals] == [seed slot values])
before substituting — that assert is the whole safety argument. 10/10 refused -> 9/9 banked.
- ROOT-CAUSE FIX: body_text matched `extern void func_X(...);` at column 0 and returned the
NEXT function's body — silently shipping wrong seed bodies, visible only as "no definition
after rename" skips. A definition is now confirmed by a `{` with no `;` before it.
R22 clean rebuild: check-all 213 passed, 0 failed of 213. Stubs 12,161 -> 12,111.
Fleet 95.3% instr / 90.0% distinct / 96.66% fn-count.
Final S50 state: 307 instances banked, stubs 12,468 -> 12,161, fleet 95.3% instr / 90.0%
distinct / 96.65% fn-count. R22 clean rebuild 4x, check-all 213/213 every time.
- tools/aprop_autodraft.py + tools/draft_prechecks.py: seed body + symbol_map + a MINIMAL
synthesized preamble. The seed's decl layer never travels — that layer is family_sweep's
dominant failure (331 of 458 S49 verdicts). 256 banked at zero agent tokens, against the
~20M the same work would have cost as a wave.
- Macro seeds (567 of 1196 members, all 3737 de-macroize) take the DEFINITION only; the block
stays the decl source. Pasting it whole measured 28% vs inline's 68% — func_8016AB6C's macro
is 1,891 lines of which 108 are the function.
- IMM is a second engine, not a wall: T2a's imm_map_tier1 resolves a per-location LITERAL like
symbol_map resolves a per-location SYMBOL. 131 of 275 IMM members resolve.
- draft_prechecks negative-controlled against ALL 205 banked drafts: zero false positives,
catches 39 of 67 known failures. That control found two bugs in the checks themselves —
C89 `f()` declares UNSPECIFIED parameters (not zero), and a member's own definition read as
a call to itself. Conservative by design: a pre-check that discards good drafts is worse
than one that lets a few builds fail.
- The A-prop pool is now priced exactly: PURE 437/37,376 ins, IMM 275/8,849, STRUCT 238/4,259.
- Cookbook §171a; SETUP rows; CURRENT_PHASE S50 FINAL checkpoint.
- The blocker was carried as "one missing file-scope extern gates 83 PURE members". Both
halves were wrong (R14): corpus.stubs says 4 open members, and D_801ED98C is a DEFINED
const Blk8 whose rodata lives inside the member's own nonmatchings .s — replacing the stub
deletes the data with it. gather_externs can carry an extern DECL, never a DEFINITION,
which is why it reported "no file-scope decl" for a symbol md_SC05_023 defines on line 114.
- Fix: paste typedef + const definition + body per sibling (data bytes verified identical
across md_SC05_024/025/028/029). 4/4 banked.
- aprop_symfix: new `local-only` class — draft-DEFINED identifiers that merely carry a
vram-looking suffix (Blk8_…, S8_…, L_call_…) are not stale symbols. Measured: that is every
non-clean case in the whole wave-7a/7b stored-draft residue, which holds ZERO stale-symbol
recoveries (a clean negative result — the defect was A-prop-specific).
- cookbook index regenerated (tools-health fails closed on a stale index — it caught §171).
- R22 clean rebuild: check-all 213 passed, 0 failed of 213. Stubs 12,445 -> 12,441.
- NEW family_cousins.py --aprop-cards + tools/wave/aprop_wave.js: lane A (1,700 open fns /
76,419 ins) had NO card type — cousin diffs are empty for h_seq-identical members, so the card
is a positional WORD diff vs the matched sibling, grouped BY FAMILY (one agent, N drafts).
Head cards: 13 families / 433 members, median TWO differing words each.
- calibration 9 batches / 108 members: 98 agent-MATCH (91%, best of any wave) -> 56 BANKED (57%),
~80k tok/banked fn vs 157k (cousin card) vs 400k+ (crack wave). R22 213/213 BYTE-IDENTICAL.
- HONEST GAP (R14): 91% agent -> 57% gate is the worst conversion measured; 14 groups banked 0.
Hypothesis TESTABLE not proven — family batching concentrates members per destination TU, the
§169 collision. Re-gate unbanked ONE PER TU before scaling the remaining 320.
- >=16 head diagnosed: 3 of 4 blockers are plumbing — the --band substantial default hid 5 of 13
families from every prior sweep; one missing file-scope extern (D_801ED98C) gates 56 PURE
members; dedup_extend is macro-only. Only func_8017C294 is a genuine crack.
- fleet 96.56% fn / 95.2% instr / 89.9% distinct; stubs 12,535 -> 12,468; dedup 2,043/0.
- cookbook §170.
- thresholds relaxed to <=6 blocks/<=16 tokens UNION edit-fraction <=0.20: cards 518 -> 721,
MIXED 310 -> 50 skeletons; the 753-ins func_8017BEBC (0.987 sim) became reachable.
- 59 cards -> 48 agent-MATCH (81%) -> 44 BANKED (92% MATCH->bank, 75% end-to-end), 6.9M tok.
- FINDING (the actionable one): 7b's bank rate crushed 7a's because it SPREAD 48 drafts over 35
destination TUs; 7a's failures were per-TU declaration collisions between sibling drafts.
Cookbook §169 updated with the spread law.
- R22 213/213 BYTE-IDENTICAL from clean; fleet 96.55% fn / 95.2% instr / 89.9% distinct;
stubs 12,584 -> 12,535; dedup 2,035/0.
- incidents 3 & 4 recorded: an agent wrote a TRACKED header (guard caught it, prose is not
enforcement); my own gate_lane filtered on the wrong key and printed 'gating 0 drafts' as a
result (R32 silent skip) — fixed with a coverage assertion that refuses to report 0.
Drew T