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.
Written after the last harvest, per the rule that the checkpoint is always last. Supersedes the
interim S66 block. Machine quiesced, tree clean at commit:3350.
Leads with the three things a fresh session must not re-learn: main is ~94 open not 1,099 (and
drafting into a LINKED subseg would gate GREEN while wrong); the family era is over so integration
is the whole game (147 of 591 open fns already had byte-correct drafts stranded on four blockers);
and 'independent' means a different INSTRUMENT — two refusals from parallel_gate were one instrument
twice, after which the serial gate banked 16/32 of that class.
Also records that ~56 of the 416 banks came from ZERO drafting agents, purely from work already on
disk, and Drew's binding harvest-then-toolify-before-the-next-wave rule.
Written for a fresh session. Headlines: main is ~100 open not 1,099 (960 stubs are LINKED dead text,
and drafting into them would gate GREEN while wrong); families are spent (84-93% singletons, twin
pool dry); integration is now the whole game (147 of 591 open fns already had byte-correct drafts
stranded on four blockers). Records Drew's binding rule — harvest, then toolify, BEFORE the next
wave — and the F18 retraction: two refusals from parallel_gate were one instrument twice, not two
independent tests; the serial gate then banked 16/32 of that class.
CURRENT_PHASE.md now holds 27 checkpoint blocks and several older ones say 'supersedes every earlier
block' — true when written, false now. The S64 FINAL block sits ~370 lines above the live S65 FINAL-4
one and makes the same claim, so a fresh session reading top-down could anchor on a state the tree has
moved past by 647 banked functions. Banner at the top states the rule: the LAST block is the live one.
R30/R31 capture while hot: the resolver pivot (63 zero-token banks of 245 staged of 424 judged of
1,352 nominated), the RED-fleet finding (15/214 baseline-RED refusing 174/182 doubly-verified
drafts), the three byte-proven repairs so far, and rule candidates R56–R58.
Drew asked whether waves cracked better before MAXTOK went 8000 -> 16000. Recording both halves
of the answer so next session does not relitigate it from memory:
CLEAN: raising to 16k did cause a real regression — draft completion 84-89% (8k) -> 41% on wave
bt, 69% on bu — but the cause was a harness interaction, not the model. A 16k generation runs
~530 s at ~30 tok/s while STRAGGLER_GRACE was 120 s, so agents were cut off mid-thought with no
draft. Grace at 700 s fixed it; completion has run 97-99% since.
CONFOUNDED: on banks per draft the 8k era looks better (S59: 1,335 of 2,996 = 44.6%; today's best
16k waves dd 34.7%, de 29.7%) — but the populations differ completely. 8k waves had never-drafted
work; today's draw from skeletons that refused six times. Budget and exhaustion moved together, so
neither figure isolates the other. Neither should be cited as evidence about the budget.
AGAINST the simple story: truncated-turn rate is INVERSELY correlated with bank rate (cx 8.7%
trunc/43.9% bank, dd 8.3%/51.4% vs dl 1.3%/0.5%, ej 0.6%/0%). Budget exhaustion driving the
decline would produce the opposite relationship.
THE A/B: split ONE wave's card pool — half the shards at 8k, half at 16k, same generation mix,
same binaries, same gate, same tree, grace 700 s in both arms. Compare banks per DRAFT and per
GATE MINUTE. Holding the population constant is the whole point; every historical comparison
fails exactly there. If 8k matches 16k, the cheaper budget also buys more agents per unit time.
Drew T