Task B, re-scoped from evidence. The 129 dedup_extend failures are 106 conflicting-types /
21 CC1-FAIL / 4 undefined-ref / 3 DIFF — real byte divergence is 2%, and memcpy is 17 of 106,
not the story. Direction reversed too: the byte-true DEF of func_80128ED8 is what the target
.c files already declare; engine_core.h's macro-local extern was the stub-era guess.
Conformed 8 axes to byte-truth (func_8012F14C 2843, func_8012E5CC 2052, func_8012F038 2214,
func_8014C568 1816, func_80128ED8 1524, func_8012C750 406, func_8012C0EC 50, func_80144A04 25).
R22 clean-fleet: check-all 213 passed / 0 failed of 213. Zero functions banked by design.
Tooling (R33/R35) — three guards that asserted completeness over a narrowed population:
- NEW tools/macro_draft.py: a deduped fn has no definition in any .c (body lives in a DEFINE_
macro), so conform_decls had been refusing the largest class it was built for.
- conform_decls skipped engine_core.h wholesale as "a defining TU": 10 stale externs survived
while 1,514 fleet sites moved, and it still printed "axis complete". Skip now scoped to the
defining macro's span.
- Return-axis compare was literal: typedef int/s32 and a missing `extern` faked a return change.
Now compares normalized types.
- §85 consumer scan under-reported (the dangerous direction): a cast between `=` and the call
hid `s0 = (s32 *)func_80144A04(...)`. Now classified by position, validated both ways.
Corrections to my own predictions (R14): the documented scalar-narrowing hazard was benign
across 2,052 sites; the breaks were arity (6 call sites, fixed with §17a-1 fn-ptr casts) and
the consumer-guard gap. A header-only first probe broke ov_SC01_000 — §85 is literal.
Not done, named: memcpy (builtin codegen), ApplyMatrixSV (no DEF), gte_SetRotMatrix (link bug),
func_80147364 (unparseable macro), D_800AE620/D_80126CC4 (data axis). Cookbook §159.
- BANKED: 11 functions at 400-952 ins from the cascade (func_8017D898 952, func_8017CE58 733,
func_801902EC 673, func_8018C2D8 673, func_8018A8D4, func_8017C6F4, func_800CBB38,
func_800CF3A4, +3). check-all 213/213 from a clean tree. 6 near = jr/switch (§53 separate
banking step), 1 failed. The cascade agents wrote 6 new cookbook sections incl. §158.
⚠️ tools-health UNVERIFIED at commit (stale cookbook index fixed, confirming re-run
interrupted) — run it first next session. check-all is the byte oracle and it is green.
- WASTE PREVENTION (Drew: "prevent this from ever happening again, however you need to"):
* tools/validate_targets.py (NEW) — names 5 defect classes (NO-ASM / MID-BODY /
OUT-OF-RANGE / ALREADY-DONE / NO-BOUNDARY), exits non-zero.
* WIRED INTO wave_snapshot so it fails closed — every wave passes through there for its .s
files, so no path from target list to spawned agents bypasses validation. Negative-control:
a 3-target bad list is refused with the exact mid-body offset (+72 bytes of 100).
* The cascade `done()` predicate now short-circuits on SKIPPED as well as MATCH. It tested
only MATCH, so a non-existent target fell Sonnet -> Opus -> Fable and three agents each
proved the same phantom absent: ~29 invalid targets x 3 tiers = 87 of 119 agents, ~9.7M
tokens. A tier that cannot act must END the pipeline, not escalate emptiness.
* docs/accelerators.md A9, including that wave_snapshot's own R32 assertion REFUSED that list
(24 of 57 found) and was routed around — the one instrument warning that was right and ignored.
- B RE-SCOPED (S46-10) and deliberately NOT done: the extend blocker is INTRA-HEADER, not
target-side. engine_core.h declares memcpy FOUR incompatible ways across its DEFINE_ macros;
two in one TU collide. NOT a safe cleanup — the in-tree note at ov_MAIN_012.c:14333 records
that `extern memcpy` disables gcc's builtin and turns an inlined block-move into a CALL, so the
declaration CHANGES CODEGEN. Probe one macro in one binary and byte-gate before any sweep.
- C (dedup_extend over the 129) stays blocked on B. Full context for both in the checkpoint.
- RECOVERY PASS A (wave residue): gate_stage over the 3 big-3 draft dirs recovered
6 sites the bare gate rejected — func_80168664 x3, func_80168F40 x2, func_8012B77C
x1. That is 6 of 19 PLUMBING = ~32%, matching the 16-39% range P29 measured. Batch 1
goes 27 -> 33 of 60. R22 213/213 + tools-health green.
- HONEST SIZING (correcting my own claim): ~32% is NOT "a one-time fix for a ~50% draft
loss". It moves the batch loss from 55% to 45%. Real and free; not transformative.
- WIRED (task 9): dedup_extend now gates through gate_stage (the ladder:
canon_resident_calls -> cast_call_sites -> sig_unify -> harvest_verify) instead of
harvest_verify verbatim. Its 142 candidates failed 0/142 with reasons 118 PLUMBING /
21 CC1-FAIL / 3 DIFF — ~1 in 50 a real byte divergence, the rest declaration conflicts
in the TARGET TU, which is exactly what the ladder reconciles.
GATE_NO_ARITY=1 is forced for the child: gate_stage's arity pre-pass writes the
fleet-shared engine_core.h BEFORE the gate and a failing draft can leave that edit
behind — the F1 defect that broke 141 of 213 binaries in S45. The ladder's other rungs
are draft-local. --ladder can be disabled to restore the old path.
- DOCTRINE (step 3): gate every wave with gate_stage, not bare harvest_verify. Batch 1
needed a second manual pass only because I used the bare gate first.
- LEVERAGE METRIC CORRECTED (R14/R35): the behemoth ranking must use LIVE reach
(unmatched sharers), not total sharers. func_80144B9C reads 770 ins x 141 = 108,570
by total, but 138 of those are already banked — its true weight is 770 x 3 = 2,310.
Same x134 over-count the cookbook records in §25; build_wave_args --rank live exists
precisely for this and I used the wrong ranking. Remaining >=400 ins: 57 distinct
functions / 77 live instances / 38,968 ins, reach ~1.35 => ~0.3% instr-weighted.
60-agent wave over the big-3 (ov_SC03_107, ov_SC02_037, ov_MAIN_012), size-routed per §157.
- BANKED: 14 distinct functions, 27 sites. 11 of the 14 landed in 2-3 binaries
independently => shared engine code, so each is a propagation candidate.
- Gate: ov_SC03_107 11/24, ov_SC02_037 6/17, ov_MAIN_012 10/19 = 27/60.
check-all 213/213 from clean; tools-health OK; dedup 1949/0.
- THE CONVERSION GAP, MEASURED AGAIN: match_one claimed 53/60, the whole-binary
gate banked 27. The losses are 19 PLUMBING + 3 CC1-FAIL + 11 DIFF — i.e. ~2/3 of
the loss is declaration plumbing, not wrong code. Same ratio P29 measured
(~92% byte-correct drafts, ~27% banking) and the same class that blocked all
142 dedup_extend candidates tonight. Three independent populations, one wall.
Concentrated: D_800AF634 x6, D_800AE620 x3, RotMatrixX x2 (data-decl class ->
reconcile_decls) and func_80146A6C x3, func_801376E8 x3 (DEF-side signature
class -> canon_sig_reconcile v3.2).
- EFFORT A/B: INCONCLUSIVE, recorded as such. Yield 16/20 (default) vs 17/20
(effort:low) is noise, matching P13-T7 at the other end of the ladder — BUT the
positive control failed to materialise: the workflow journal carries only
agentId/key/type, no per-agent token usage, so "low effort is free" and "the
effort parameter silently inherited" remain observationally identical. Not
written into doctrine. A future test needs an EXTERNAL measure (per-agent
wall-clock or tool-call counts), not the agents' self-reported iteration counts.
- Sonnet's 50-59 ins arm claimed 20/20, contributing the larger bodies
(func_80142BB4, func_8012B77C) — §157 size-routing held at the top of its range.
Drew: "make it more multi-threaded... I still see my cpu idle for far too long."
Measured, fixed, and regression-tested against the S46-3 bank as a KNOWN ANSWER.
- THE MEASUREMENT: 31s saturated (33 makes/48 cc1/load 27) then ~25s with ONE build alive
while 31 cores idled, repeating. Causes: ex.map starts in list order so the giants land
last, and apply/restore is single-threaded.
- gate_all -> gate_failures: return EVERY failure the sweep already computed (~138 rounds -> 1).
- Longest-first gate scheduling; results re-sorted into `changed` order so the verdict stays
bit-identical to the serial loop's.
- PER-OVERLAY INDEPENDENT SEARCH, IN PROCESSES. My first cut used threads and the box refuted
it: 0-4 builds alive at load 3, because the work is regex over 15k-line files and 138
"parallel" searches all queued on the GIL. Same logic in a ProcessPoolExecutor: 14-29 builds,
load 34.75, search phase ~100s. Safe because the shared header is written ONCE by the parent
and each overlay owns its own .c files + build/<bin>/. Seeded with one in-process search
first — a pool submitted at once gives every worker an empty suspect list and makes all 138
pay a full bisection. place_in_overlay extracted to module level so the worker and the
in-process apply cannot drift (R33); compiles_standalone's fixed t.c is per-call now.
- THE REGRESSION (the point, not the stopwatch): revert src/+config to pre-bank, re-run the
identical command -> 29 functions (same), 141 overlays byte-identical, 682s vs ~1440s, and
285 exclusions vs ~350 => +62 MORE member instances (249,161). The old prefix-based
necessity probe was OVER-EXCLUDING (charging 4 fns to 9 overlays that did not all need
them); the per-overlay shrink minimises per overlay. The faster path is also more correct —
a timing comparison would never have shown it. R22 213/213 + tools-health green.
- STILL SERIAL, now the actual wall-clock (neither is a build): ~3min setup before the first
gate (registered_addrs() yaml-parsing a 1949-group/249k-instance registry + 213 sig loads)
and ~2.5min of sequential reconcile_caller_extern after the search.
- Captured as defaults: docs/accelerators.md A8 + memory fleet-tool-parallelism-defaults.
cookbook index regenerated (my §155c append left it stale — the gate caught it, exit 1).
The S45p9 blocker is closed, and the recovery loop that kept it from finishing is rewritten.
- BANKED: dedup_propagate --auto-from ov_SC02_037 --recover -> 29 functions propagated,
141 overlays byte-identical, dedup 1920 -> 1949 groups, member instances 246,284 ->
249,099 (+2,815). make clean && extract-all && check-all -> 213 passed / 0 failed (R22).
- WHY IT FINISHED THIS TIME: gate_all -> gate_failures returns EVERY failure from the sweep
that already computed them, and the recovery loop resolves them all per round. Converged in
3 rounds; the old one-overlay-per-sweep design needed ~138. That reframes the S45 run — it
was not nearly done when it died, it had barely started.
- Batching did NOT cost capability: per-overlay necessity probes excluded four of the nine
culprits from only the 9 overlays that needed it (not all 138), and ov_SC07_006 was
RECOVERED by the Part-B caller-extern reconcile instead of excluded.
- Plan phase parallelised: 5 min -> 26 s, plan + skip classification byte-identical. Its
compiles_standalone temp file is per-call now — the fixed `t.c` was the same fake-isolation
class as match_one's shared --work dir (P28 T5), latent until something ran it in parallel.
- docs/accelerators.md (NEW, Drew 2026-08-07): the reusable-workflow ledger — what we learned
late that a future decomp should know on day one, each entry with when we found it, when it
WAS findable, what it cost, and the honest prerequisite where one exists.
Drew's S45 idea, delivered fleet-wide + wired into the permanent references.
- THE BLOCKER WAS OUR INSTRUMENT (R35, the 3rd time): the S45 plan ("require a
register-verified reference to the run's address") returns ZERO for both byte-proved
tables. They are read by gcc's indexed global-array form —
lui $at,0x8019 ; addu $at,$at,$a0 ; lh $v0,-0x2844($at) -> 0x8018D7BC
— where the address exists only as (lui imm, LOAD offset) with the index add between.
find_addr_refs killed the lui register at the addu, so the halves never rejoined and
the tables looked unreachable. Now it carries the hi half through the index add (still
strictly register-tracked, never window-paired) and labels those hits `-indexed`.
- tools/idxtab_map.py (NEW): fleet-wide payload -> owning binary -> load address.
Controls-gated (refuses to emit unless ov_SC01_000 0x8017EEC8/37 + *0x801A3234, and
ov_SC03_001 0x8018D7BC/5 + *0x801EBC68 reproduce from the images alone). Index space
DERIVED from the extracted tree (reproduces §S44's table independently). Process-pooled.
Rejects all-zero and majority-zero runs (132 of the first pass's 452 "tables" were that).
- RESULT: 213 binaries -> 143 with a referenced table (294), 141 with a DESTPTR (141/141
resolved from the binary's OWN image), 61 payloads. The two dominant tables are
fleet-wide CONSTANTS (5-entry and 37-entry, identical in all 141 overlays); the
per-binary variable is the destination (134 distinct).
- CORRECTION 1 (R14): §S45 p6's "the SC03 trio are owned by ov_SC03_001" is refuted —
that 5-entry table is identical in ALL 141 overlays. The byte-observed parts stand.
- CORRECTION 2 (P9): this route CANNOT settle MAIN/7+9. They are absent from all 294
tables — but so are MAIN/13/20/34/42/44, which are byte-proved to load. Absence here
means "not on this route", nothing more. Recorded so it is not re-derived as a finding.
- Confidence is stated per-claim in docs/idxtab-map.md: proven (controls) / high (283
fleet-wide-class tables) / low (3 named rare rows) / UNMEASURED (recall — no oracle
for "all tables" exists beyond the 2 controls).
- Wired in permanently: docs/idxtab-map.md (the how/when/limits), memory-map.md §S46,
cookbook §155c (the generalizable law: "no code references X" is a claim about your
DECODER until it is shown to recognise the forms the compiler emits), SETUP.md
tooling inventory (R21).
The S45p9 blocker: `[FAIL] ov_MAIN_012: 0x80156600 not instantiated — REVERTED`
92 minutes into a --auto-from run, naming no mechanism.
- FIRST, the honest finding (R14/R35): it does NOT reproduce at HEAD. A replay of
apply_plan's per-file site resolution over the exact 30-fn plan resolves
0x80156600 as a stub at line 7505, and def-range/stub-line overlaps = 0 (the
splice-swallow hypothesis refuted). The failing input state was not the committed
tree — most likely a concurrent writer mid-run. So this commit does not "fix" that
run; it makes the next occurrence name itself.
- SILENT SKIP -> LOUD (R32): an address resolving as neither the sp-regex stub nor a
def just stayed in `remaining`. apply_plan now records gaps={ov:[addrs]} and the
caller fails FIRST with a per-site diagnosis (whole-overlay find_site verdict,
in-sig, file list) instead of struct_check's terse late message.
- CAPABILITY GAP that produces exactly that skip: find_site returning 'stub' was
ignored (apply_plan acted only on 'def'), so a stub whose INCLUDE_ASM asm-subdir
!= its file stem was invisible to the stem-anchored sp regex AND unhandled. Now
placed ('macro' treated as already-placed). find_site's stub match is an exact
stub_line(ov,addr) compare against THIS file's text — it cannot cross files/TUs.
- INCOMPLETE REVERT (the §156 class, different path): struct_check restored only
`touched`, leaking every kept Part-B reconcile. New _abort() undoes touched AND
every kept reconcile, then diffs the worktree against a start-of-run baseline and
reports any residue. A tree dirty in a way nobody knows about makes every later
byte-gate report `near` — that is how S45p7 lost two batches.
- NEGATIVE CONTROL: neuter ov_MAIN_012's stub -> [GAP] fires naming the exact
condition (find_site=None, in-sig=True) -> "[revert] tree restored to baseline;
no residue" -> exit 1 (fail-closed). Restore -> tree clean.
.run/attract_loadmap.jsonl (304s full attract cycle) and .run/sc03_hunt_loadmap.jsonl
(the SC03 hunt + boot chains) are LIVE CAPTURES — not regenerable without another
emulator session — so they fall under the R20/P27 curated-.run policy (irreplaceable
recon tracked, regenerable bulk ignored). They are the evidence base for:
- MAIN/7 + MAIN/9 absent across a complete attract cycle (the dead-code case)
- the 7 routing-table addresses confirmed live (the R34 second oracle for S44)
- the 0x801EF468 script-slot observation that cracked the SC03 trio
docs/memory-map.md cites attract_loadmap.jsonl by name, so leaving it untracked would
have left a doc pointing at a file a fresh clone does not have.
Caught by Drew asking 'and you checkpointed everything?' -- my earlier git add had
2>/dev/null on it, which silenced the gitignore rejection. A silenced add is a silent
skip (R32).
PARALLEL GATE (landed, verdict-proven): dedup_propagate's byte-gate loop was serial --
one `make build BINARY=<ov>` at a time over up to 141 members per function. Measured: a
propagation ran 95 minutes at load 1.6 on a 32-core box (~5% utilisation). The Makefile
has parallelised extract-all/check-all since Phase 26 (xargs -P$(JOBS)), but this tool
predates that and drives the SINGLE-binary target from Python, so it never saw any of it.
- new gate_all(): ThreadPoolExecutor over distinct overlays, 32-way by default (JOBS env
overrides; deliberately NOT capped at the Makefile's conservative 16).
- SAFE by the same argument check-all relies on: byte_gate only runs `make build`, writing
solely to per-binary-disjoint build/<bin>/**; it mutates no source. Splice happens before,
restore after -- only the VERIFICATION is parallel.
- DETERMINISTIC: ThreadPoolExecutor.map preserves order, so the reported first failure is
the first in `changed` order -- identical verdict to the serial loop. Control run: same
verdict on a clean tree.
- Measured and NOT optimised: setup (sig load + registered_addrs) is 8.6s of a 5,700s run
= 0.15%. All the time is gating. Don't thread the setup.
BANKING DEFERRED on a genuine pre-existing tool bug (NOT the parallel change -- 0 gate
batches ran, it never reached that code):
[FAIL] ov_MAIN_012: 0x80156600 not instantiated -- REVERTED
Inputs verified sound at HEAD (in sig, find_site->stub, stub line matches), so the bug is
in apply_plan's multi-function edit path. Run #1 missed it because it launched before the
15 wave-3 banks were committed; they landed mid-flight, enlarging run #2's plan.
SECOND DEFECT: the failure exit printed REVERTED but left 38 files dirty incl.
src/shared/engine_core.h -- the same incomplete-restore class as the reconcile-ledger bug
(cookbook 156), on a different path. struct_check needs the same ledger treatment.
Not patching the fleet-shared writer at the end of a marathon session -- that is how the
next 141-binary incident happens. Tree clean, 44 banks safe, propagation is pure
multiplication and can run any time.
Checkpoint p9 carries: the fix-then-resume plan, the master-IDXTAB-map design (DESTPTR half
proven 14/14), wave guidance, and an 8-item error ledger with its single root cause.
- SC03/53/54/56 SOLVED: live script modules owned by ov_SC03_001 (IDXTAB @0x8018D7BC =
224/231/232/234/233) loaded via func_80128CFC into *DESTPTR 0x801EBC68 = 0x801EF468.
Load BASE not yet proved — the byte-gate arbitrates on onboarding.
- NEXT SESSION OPENER: the master IDXTAB map (Drew's idea). Feasibility PROVEN — the
DESTPTR half extracted 14/14 sampled overlays first try and reproduces S44's one
documented case exactly. Only the IDXTAB discriminator remains (require a
register-verified code reference to the table address; validate against 2 known tables).
- Carries the dirty-tree recovery procedure: a propagation was in flight at checkpoint.
- 7 self-corrections logged with their single root cause, as a T5 rule candidate.
Found the IDXTAB: ov_SC03_001 @0x8018D7BC holds 5 s16 entries, -1 terminated:
224, 231, 232, 234, 233 — i.e. the ENTIRE parked trio (SC03/53/54/56) plus its DATA
companion (SC03/55 = 233), in one table, in the binary whose *DESTPTR points at the
script-module slot the tracer watched load live an hour earlier.
THE CHAIN (every link register-verified or byte-observed):
ov_SC03_001 IDXTAB @0x8018D7BC -> indices 231/232/234 (+233 data, +224)
func_80128CFC (the S44 wrapper) -> cdFileLocTable[idx] -> {loc,size}
register-tracked: addiu->0x800AE830, lw[0x800AE834] size, lw[0x800AE830] loc
*DESTPTR @0x801EBC68 = 0x801EF468 -> the script slot
the ONLY occurrence of that word fleet-wide; read 8x by code, 2x from inside func_80128CFC
slot confirmed LIVE by tools/cdtrace.py: SC03/76 and SC03/34 both loaded there
and 0x801EF468 lies inside SC03/54's independently-derived base window [0x801EDED0..0x801EF6C8]
VERDICT: LIVE script modules owned by ov_SC03_001. Not dead code, not boss-gated, not
chapter-gated (that framing retired — scripts swap per SCENE). Every sweep missed them
because the SC03 scenes we visited run DIFFERENT overlays (124/125/051).
WHY THE EARLIER HUNTS COULD NOT WORK: the index never appears in CODE — it lives in a
per-overlay DATA table, and so does the destination. Both invisible to fleet-wide code
scans. That is the structural reason four value-scans and three payload-side oracles failed.
NOT PROVED: the exact load BASE within the slot (the three differ in size; none observed
loading). The byte-gate arbitrates — onboard at 0x801EF468 and let the first build decide.
New tool: tools/find_addr_refs.py — register-tracked absolute-address search (cookbook 155:
no window-pairing), self-tested against cdFileLocTable, with a STRICT addu-index rule
(full-address match, not page match — 342 loose hits -> 7 real ones).
METHOD: a runtime observation supplied ONE constant, and that made a previously-impossible
static decode trivial. Neither alone sufficed. Pair the oracles, don't choose between them.
Three static oracles failed to derive the parked payloads' load addresses this session. The
runtime answer needed NO breakpoints, no Lua (no pcsx.lua wedge hazard) and no GDB stub: the
loader mirrors its whole request in RAM (cdReq_curSector / cdReq_dest), and CdReadRequest's
own MATCHED signature says cdlFile points INTO cdFileLocTable -- so (ptr-0x800AE830)/8 is the
global file index and cdReq_dest is the destination. Both readable from the RAM-dump API we
already had working.
VALIDATED FIRST (R35): cdFileLocTable's live sizes reproduce our extractor's file sizes exactly
for all five parked payloads. Then confirmed 7x against independently byte-proved addresses --
loadDestPtrTable slots [0]/[1]/[3], MAIN/10 (Phase-3 resident), MAIN/3 (S45-p2 md_MAIN_003),
MAIN/12 (the resident's func_800CF94C row), and the LIST.CD bootstrap read from matched C.
This is the R34 second oracle for the whole S44 routing table, which was static-only until now.
FINDING: the script-module slot 0x801EF468 is live and GENERAL. SC03/76 AND SC03/34 both load
there; 34 is outside the SC03/73-79 block, so S45's "chapter-2 period" label described one
tenant, not the slot -- scripts swap PER SCENE.
PRE-REGISTERED HYPOTHESIS (written before the test, kept honest): slot CONFIRMED (it lies inside
SC03/54's independently-derived base window); "chapter-gated" WEAKENED (per-scene, not per-chapter);
trio 0 sightings across 38 load events, 2 saves, multiple SC03 scenes.
NEXT (static, no emulator): 0x801EF468 is now a concrete anchor. Register-track the code that
loads into it and decode its scene->script-index SELECTOR -- answers all three at once instead
of sweeping rooms. The correctly-scoped successor to the four refuted value-scans.
Also lands the attract-cycle load map (.run/attract_loadmap.jsonl): MAIN/7 + MAIN/9 absent
across a complete 304s cycle.
I claimed the .s snapshot alone fully decoupled a drafting wave from `make clean`.
CHECKED — it does not. match_one does not merely compile: it ASSEMBLES (AS with
-Iinclude, match_one.py:59), and the assembly step needs splat's generated
include/macro.inc, labels.inc, gte_macros.inc and include_asm.h. `make clean`
deletes all four.
The gap was worse than a plain missing file: a wave would survive the clean right up
until an agent hit a macro-using (e.g. GTE) function, then fail in a way that reads as
a BAD DRAFT rather than a missing include — a phantom wall booked into the backlog.
Snapshot now copies the whole include/ root (6 files; common.h and psyq/ are tracked and
would survive anyway, copied so the snapshot is a self-contained -Iinclude root), and
asserts the four generated ones are present, warning loudly if not (R32 — a
half-populated include root must announce itself, not fail later as someone else's bug).
Verified: all 4 present in a fresh snapshot; exit 0.
tools/verify_worktree.py: check a commit out into its own git worktree, provision the
untracked build deps (cc1 from the COMMITTED tarball, checksum-verified against the
COMMITTED record; .venv + extracted/ symlinked; maspsx submodule at the expected pin),
run make extract-all && check-all there, write .run/verify/<sha>.json with verdict +
toolchain provenance.
RESULTS
GREEN at HEAD: 213 passed / 0 failed, 86.6s wall.
NEGATIVE CONTROL PASSES: a throwaway commit splicing a deliberately corrupted body over
func_8014CBE8 went RED naming exactly ov_SC02_037 (212/1 of 213). The detector fires, so
its green means something (R35 — an unproven detector's green is not evidence).
TWO DESIGN CLAIMS CORRECTED BY CONTACT WITH REALITY
1. Sparse checkout (to save ~1GB of ghidra/) was proposed, and would have owed an R34
sparse-vs-full validation. Measured free space: 941 GB. Full checkout instead —
simpler AND strictly more trustworthy; the validation obligation disappears.
2. "A pristine checkout of exactly C's tracked content rebuilds byte-identical" is NOT
ACHIEVABLE here. Only 3 files under extracted/ are tracked; the 760MB of ROM payloads
are gitignored, so a pristine checkout extracts NOTHING (first honest run: 212/212
FAIL). No commit in this repo is self-sufficient, by design. The honest claim is
"the commit's TRACKED SOURCE, built against a supplied extraction" — corrected in the
docstring AND in the emitted `licenses` string, which is what actually gets quoted.
SCOPE, REFRAMED (Drew's challenge, and he was right)
I sold this partly on concurrency. At 86.6s, serializing R22 costs almost nothing, so the
concurrency argument is WEAK. What it actually buys is commit-completeness: the worktree's
src/ holds only committed content, so a source file someone forgot to `git add` fails BY
CONSTRUCTION — the documented "a clone of such a bank commit failed to build" class.
=> Run it at checkpoints and before pushing, NOT every batch. Plain in-tree check-all is
fine for routine verification.
=> The wave-vs-`make clean` blocker that started all this was already solved, more simply,
by tools/wave_snapshot.py. Neither the worktree nor path-parameterizing was needed for it.
=> STAGE 5 (verify coalescing / auto-bisect) IS CANCELLED: it existed to handle verify
lagging commits, which cannot happen at 87 seconds.
STAGE 1 of docs/concurrency-design.md, landed and negative-control proven.
tools/shared_lock.py (NEW) — one reader/writer flock over the FLEET-SHARED state
(src/shared/*, config/overlays.mk, config/dedup.us.yaml, the overlay .c files
propagation rewrites). Per-binary resources keep gate_stage's existing per-binary flock.
- gate_stage takes it SHARED when the gate writes no shared state, EXCLUSIVE when it
does (propagate, or the arity pre-pass enabled) -- so distinct-binary gates still run
concurrently but can never overlap a writer.
- dedup_propagate and fix_arity_callers --apply take it EXCLUSIVE.
- NESTING-AWARE: gate_stage SPAWNS both writers, so a naive child lock would deadlock
against the parent. The holder exports BFM_SHARED_LOCK_HELD and children inherit.
NEGATIVE CONTROLS (all pass):
NC1 a held SHARED lock refuses a non-blocking exclusive writer, loudly, naming the lock
NC2 parent-holds/child-inherits does NOT deadlock (the real risk in this design)
NC3 two readers acquire concurrently (0.00s) -- phase-B parallelism preserved
bulk_harvest docstring CORRECTED: its "propagation is the ONLY writer of the shared
engine_core.h" claim was FALSE as written and had been asserted for phases (F1 -- the
arity pre-pass writes it from inside every worker). Now states what is actually true,
under which two conditions, plus the one-line assertion that detects a violation.
BANKS: wave-3's drafts re-gated on a CLEAN tree -> 15 of 20 banked. The same drafts
previously reported 0 banked / 20 near -- that verdict was 100% an artifact of the
broken tree, which is why they were held as UNJUDGED rather than accepted as failures.
check-all 213 passed / 0 failed. F1 bracketing assertion CLEAN.
Session total banked: 44 functions + func_8015C030 propagated x7.
R14 correction to cookbook 156 + checkpoint p7. I blamed gate_stage's arity pre-pass (F1)
for the 141/213 breakage. That was wrong: no arity journal from the session mentions
func_80146A6C (74/26/4 entries checked) and the arity undo reported success in every log.
The real cause was dedup_propagate --recover leaving an orphaned caller-extern reconcile
(now fixed + proven, commit:1521 / commit:1522). F1 remains real, unguarded, and part of the
remaining Stage-1 work -- it simply did not cause this incident.
Generalizable law added to 156: a tool that deliberately leaves an edit on disk pending an
outcome owes a LEDGER for it. 'Keep it if this succeeds' is half a transaction; the other
half is undoing it on every path that can later invalidate the success, exit paths included.
commit:1519's commit message keeps the wrong attribution (history not rewritten, corrected forward).
The full-propagation control did not fire (that run succeeded), so the guarded path was
never executed and the fix was committed honestly marked UNPROVEN. This proves it directly.
Exercises the exact overlay+fn that broke the fleet (ov_SC07_010 / func_80146A6C):
apply a REAL reconcile_caller_extern -> 35 edits across 18 files on disk
drive the ledger undo as the fixed code does when a fn leaves the plan
assert all 25 of the overlay's source files are byte-identical
PASS. The orphaned caller-extern class that broke 141/213 cannot survive this path.
The test restores what it edits and asserts it (tree clean after).
ROOT CAUSE of the 141/213 breakage earlier this session (correctly derived this time;
my first attribution to F1 was WRONG -- no arity journal ever touched func_80146A6C and
the arity undo reported success):
dedup_propagate --recover's Part B reconciles a conflicting caller extern and
DELIBERATELY leaves the edit on disk when it buys the byte-match ("keep the reconcile
on disk"). Correct while the fn survives -- but a fn can still be dropped by a LATER
iteration against a different overlay, and when the plan finally emptied, the
"all candidates dropped" sys.exit fired with NO restore. Reconciles kept for
ov_SC07_001..009 were orphaned: no-proto'd caller externs for functions that were
never propagated -> ov_SC07_010 "passing arg 2 of func_80146A6C makes pointer from
integer" -> 141 of 213 binaries failed check-all.
The byte-gate never mis-banked (it fails closed). The real cost was VERDICT VOIDING:
every subsequent gate reported "near" against the broken tree, so two whole batches
(4/4 and 20/20) were mis-read as draft failures when they measured the tree (R35).
FIX: a reconcile LEDGER. Every kept reconcile is recorded against its fn, undone the
moment that fn leaves the plan, and ALL outstanding reconciles are restored before the
failure exit -- so a failed propagation leaves the tree exactly as it found it.
HONESTY: the fix is IMPLEMENTED AND REVIEWED BUT NOT YET PROVEN. The negative control
aimed at the exact failing propagation SUCCEEDED instead (different tree state), so the
guarded path never executed. A targeted test of the ledger is still owed.
Also lands the propagation that control performed: func_8015C030 x7 overlays
(func_80168B70 excluded from 4 SC07 overlays, survived elsewhere). check-all 213/213.
- cookbook 156: a FAILED draft can poison the fleet. gate_stage's arity pre-pass writes
the shared engine_core.h before the gate; a rejected draft's caller-signature edit
survived and broke 141/213 binaries. Byte-gate held (fail-closed). The trap: a broken
tree makes every later gate report 'near' -- two batches of verdicts were void, not
evidence. Standing practice: GATE_NO_ARITY=1, assert 'git status --porcelain
src/shared config' empty after every batch, recover by revert+replay (deterministic).
- cookbook 157: the cheap-tier size cliff, measured over two controlled waves.
Haiku 4-27 ins 86% (~44k tok/match); >=50 ins 20% (~177k, 4x worse). The documented
'<=50' band was optimistic. Agent honesty 63/63 claims true across 100 drafters.
- tools/wave_snapshot.py: immutable sha1-manifested per-wave .s copy, so a running wave
can no longer block R22's 'make clean'. Coverage-asserting (exit 2 on a missing target),
negative-control proven.
- docs/concurrency-design.md (Fable5): the lane contract, the false-bank correctness
argument, and the finding that a worktree verify certifies the COMMIT -- strictly
stronger than our main-tree R22, which also compiles untracked strays.
- checkpoint p7.
29 byte-gated matches into ov_SC02_037 (626 -> 597 live stubs), from two Haiku/Sonnet
crack waves on the CORRECTED frontier (live INCLUDE_ASM stubs with cached seeds, not
the already-banked reach-141 shared core).
Gated with BOTH safety guards after a live F1 incident (see below):
GATE_NO_ARITY=1 — no fleet-shared engine_core.h writes
--no-propagate — propagation deferred to its own controlled step
F1 bracketing assertion CLEAN (git status --porcelain src/shared config empty).
R22 clean-fleet: make clean && extract-all && check-all -> 213 passed, 0 failed.
F1 CONFIRMED IN PRODUCTION (docs/concurrency-design.md, found by the Fable5 design
pass hours earlier): gate_stage's arity pre-pass (fix_arity_callers --apply) writes
the fleet-shared header + caller externs; when a draft then FAILS to bank the edit can
survive. func_80146A6C failed its gate yet left a caller signature behind, breaking
141 of 213 binaries (ov_SC07_010: 'passing arg 2 makes pointer from integer'). The
byte-gate held throughout — nothing wrong was banked, it failed closed and loud.
Recovered by revert-to-HEAD + deterministic replay from the on-disk drafts.
Cost of the guard, measured: 2 banks (24 -> 22 on the wave-2 batch).
MODEL-LADDER CALIBRATION (independently re-verified, not agent claims):
Haiku 4-27 ins: 43/50 = 86% (~44k tokens/match)
Haiku 30-49 ins: 14/25 = 56%
Haiku >=50 ins: 5/25 = 20% (~177k tokens/match, 4x worse)
=> the documented 'Haiku <=50' band is optimistic; the cliff starts ~30, collapses at 50.
Agent honesty across 100 drafters: 63 MATCH claims, 63 real, 0 false (one apparent
false claim was MY verification missing --o0 on an -O0-cluster function).
CARRIED: the 29 banks are x1 (propagation off); wave-3's 19 verified drafts are
UNJUDGED — their gate ran against the F1-broken tree, so those verdicts were void.
HONESTY LEDGER (the wave cost 2.5M tokens and banked nothing; root cause mine):
- I FABRICATED the workflow args: after generating the real target list to
args_light.json I hand-typed the array instead of reading it, inventing names
and a descending nins run. ~40 of 50 agents got nonexistent targets. The agents
refused to fabricate and returned accurate diagnoses -- the prompt's honesty
rules held perfectly under a bad input.
- I then misdiagnosed it twice with a broken check: corpus.stubs() is keyed by
INTEGER ADDRESS and I compared string names (always False), producing two
confident wrong claims. Pool was in fact 160/160 + 166/166 valid. -> cookbook
155b: check the TYPE your oracle returns; an exactly-0/N result is more often
a type error than a discovery. R32/R35 assert coverage+correctness of a tool,
but neither catches an INTERFACE mismatch at the call site.
SOLID: 9 drafts independently re-verified MATCH by re-running match_one myself
(not agent claims); all 9 are genuine INCLUDE_ASM stubs; kept at .run/s45p5/gate1.
They did not bank (0/8 near/1 failed) -- but see the open instrument question.
OPEN (do first): harvest_verify reports 619 live stubs where the single source .c
holds 626 INCLUDE_ASM, and skipped a valid stub. Until explained, the 0-banked
verdict is not evidence about the drafts (R35).
CORRECTED FRONTIER: reach-141 identifies the most-DONE work (shared core, already
DEFINE_ macros ~1,614/binary), not the most valuable. Derive targets from the build
invariant (R33): INCLUDE_ASM in committed source. Big-3 = 1,799 draftable, 1,168
already seeded -- the real II.5 fuel.
Tree restored: gate_stage left 659 files dirty; git checkout -- src/ config/ verified clean.
- exclusion_proof.py tried the proven S44 {u32 idx,u32 param} table shape; its R32
control FAILED (neither known resident table re-found) -> output void per R35.
- STANDING VERDICT: no value/shape-based scan can establish the exclusion. Small
indices (7,9) are indistinguishable from ordinary data; 4/4 attempts refuted.
Do not attempt a 5th (cookbook 155a).
- The sound instrument is CONSUMER-side: enumerate every register-tracked reference
to cdFileLocTable across all 213 binaries, resolve each index source, collect the
reachable index set. Bounded, but real work.
- Partial: the discriminating indices 231/234 appear in no pair-shaped table fleet-wide.
Refreshes the session checkpoint before pausing (checkpoint-before-pause rule):
- p3/p4's static-RE homework closed as a NEGATIVE with two independent legs of
byte-grounded evidence (resourceIdMap refuted; payloads do not encode their base).
- Two actionable by-products recorded: MAIN/7+9 = the OPDEMO (attract-demo) modules;
the ~0x801Exxxx event-module region is runtime-allocated at per-scene bases.
- Resume pointer now names the CD-read tracer + one targeted attract-mode capture as
the correct next instrument, and warns off the three refuted oracles + the shape scan.
- MAIN/7 (id 0x3A) and MAIN/9 (id 0x2D) carry 'C:\TIMPACK\OPDEMO0.PAT' /
'OPDEMO1.PAT' path strings -> they are the OPENING/ATTRACT-DEMO modules. S45 p2
checked 'OPENING' negative, so the live target is attract-mode (idle at title),
a different state. Turns a blind search into a targeted capture.
- THREE payload-side base oracles built and ALL refuted by their own controls
(R32/R35 assertions did their job; none of their answers were used):
derive_base 0/4 -- 'code follows the table' is false (MAIN/34: 0x208 gap)
vote_base 4/12 -- calls are outward + MIPS leaf fns have no prologue
vote_base2 0/4 -- self-jals 0/N: there are NO internal jal calls at all
The third is structural: a module's bytes do NOT encode its base, because its
functions are reached indirectly via the header pointer table (jalr), not jal.
- The one real constraint: SC03/54's 19 header pointers (0x801EF718..0x801EFEE8)
confine its base to [0x801EDED0..0x801EF6C8]. That window lies INSIDE SC02/9's
span (0x801E4C60+70784=0x801F60E0) -> SC02/9 + the SC03 trio are mutually
exclusive event modules sharing a ~0x801Exxxx region at DIFFERENT bases.
- => event-module destinations are per-scene/runtime-allocated, not a static slot.
This explains the empty resourceIdMap branch and why the emulator resolved SC02/9.
The CD-read tracer stays the correct instrument (R11 + Drew).
- resourceIdMap @0x80063138 decoded from the EXE using the index math in our OWN
matched C (ResourceGetCdLoc is byte-exact): exactly 162 6-byte records, 2 negative
non-CD sentinels, streamIds >=0x100 -- self-consistent with the C in every field.
- FINDING: its 98 distinct global indices include NONE of gi 7/9/231/232/234, so the
five parked payloads cannot reach ResourceGetCdLoc/StreamLoadStateMachine/D_80068B60.
The S44 'descriptor path' branch of the parked-dest disjunction is refuted; only the
per-overlay IDXTAB/DESTPTR route survives.
- R34 corroboration: loadDestPtrTable's 5 u32s re-derived independently and reproduce
the S44 table exactly (0x800CEDF8/0x80128158/0x800CAE08/0x800CCB1C/0x800C7F08).
- R14 CORRECTION to S44: 'IDXTAB ... same list fleet-wide' is wrong. The 37-entry list
at 0x8017EEC8 is real for ov_SC01_000 only; 140 of 141 overlays hold unrelated bytes
there. IDXTAB is per-overlay data at a per-overlay address; only the mechanism is shared.
- NEGATIVE TOOLING RESULT (cookbook 155a): a shape-only IDXTAB scan passes its R32
coverage assertion and is still non-discriminating (664 'tables'; hits are (offset,count)
pair data). Coverage != discrimination -- two different oracles (R34). Recorded so it
is not repeated; next instrument is a register-tracked decode of func_80128CFC (155).
- the quick hi/lo sweep paired lui/lo16 WITHOUT tracking base registers -> phantom refs
(0x800AE868 read where the true target was 0x8018E868); register-tracked rescan: the ONLY
literal loc-table ref fleet-wide is SC02/9's (solved)
- standing truth: MAIN/7, MAIN/9, SC03/53/54/56 all load via table-INDEXED paths; homework
respecified (descriptor-data hunt + ResourceGetCdLoc/StreamLoad index math)
- fn 0x80161E08's real gate: currentLocationId vs {0x3012,0x3054,0x3079,0x3096} — the
'variable 0x800C3054' never existed; cookbook §155 (track the register)
- the gate DECODED from matched C (func_8012832C case 0x300E -> func_80128998 -> streaming
API with &cdFileLocTable[144]) -> scene arithmetic named the 1ST-BOSS arena -> ONE targeted
load captured it at 0x801E4C60
- RETRO-VERIFIED: Phase-3's dumps/ram_castle.bin (2026-06-14) holds it at the SAME address,
same 6,764-B exact prefix — R10 two independent datapoints two months apart;
bossHp_SteamKnight (0x801E4398) lives inside this module's image
- onboarded md_SC02_009 (id 0x3E, TLO 0x4): BYTE-IDENTICAL first build; fleet 213;
R22 213/213; tools-health OK; audit-disc UNCLAIMED 6 -> 5, residue 0
- the last 5 (MAIN/7, MAIN/9, SC03/53/54/56) reclassified emulator->STATIC-RE targets with
decoded leads (memory-map §S45 p3); loc-id map appended to docs/debug-menu-list.txt
- negatives banked: pause menu, memory-box prompt, new-game intro, high/low game, Minku
spawn (slot-A actor 0x15 = md_MAIN_015 candidate naming)
- THE TOUR (Drew driving the retail debug menu; mode-7 hammer over the Redux web API):
all 28 script modules captured live at four byte-verified per-chapter slots
(SC03/73-79 @0x801EF468 ch2-period, SC03/132-138 @0x801E25E8 ch3, SC04/24-30
@0x801E7B28, SC05/23-29 @0x801ED988); the routing law: debug-menu AREA selects the
chapter, each CITY interior streams its own module (member k <-> interior k).
md_MAIN_011/DISELECT byte-proven 24,236/24,240 in RAM; slots A/B/boot R34-verified live.
- MAIN/3 DISCOVERED: the main-menu module (id 0x39, 121,884 B), mis-bucketed as data by
BOTH audit oracles; live byte-proven @0x800CEDF8 (42,632-B exact prefix); onboarded.
- 29 onboardings BYTE-IDENTICAL on first build -> fleet 212; R22 212/212 after three
md_MAIN_003 catches: the A4 DsMix leak; an extract-order-sensitive splat boundary
(bytes: a 1-word data sentinel in .text + fn at +4 -> pinned in symbols file);
corpus.stubs now treats D_*/jtbl_* INCLUDE_ASM as blob includes (mirrors progress.py)
- module-id census (offline, disc-wide): 77 id-law code payloads, 0 further misses;
SC03/55 = confirmed DATA. audit-disc: UNCLAIMED 34 -> 6, residue 0 — the 6 carry
byte-checked negative evidence; next tier = the CD-read tracer
- docs: memory-map §S45 (slots + routing + debug-menu ops), disc-completeness S45
addendum, decision-log R31 entry, docs/debug-menu-list.txt (Drew's transcription)
- .run/s45 evidence allowlisted (tour logs/scripts/rosters); 104 ram dumps LOCAL-ONLY
- new baseline: 93.8% instr / 95.68% fn / 87.2% distinct over 212
- roadmap §1.1: 183 onboarded binaries; the 100% claim's exclusion list = the 34-row
parked-for-L3 ledger (28 script + SC02/9 + MAIN/7/9 + SC03/53/54/56 — 3 rows S44 never
tiered); supersedes the '39 type-1 backlog' framing (43 of them now build byte-identical)
- disc-completeness.md S45 section: what landed, the full parked list, the L3 resolution path
- decision-log: the S45 entry — five instrument findings a 'mechanical' batch surfaced, each
negative-control-proven; honest baseline 94.0% instr / 95.96% fn / 87.6% distinct over 183
- DELETED: disc_code_sweep.py (superseded by disc_audit/make audit-disc), reconcile_decls.py
(superseded by reconcile_tu; incumbent row removed from cdecl audit_differential — the
differential existed to prove this deletion safe), rollout_801457a4_o0/rollout_whale_o0/
rollout_o0_cluster one-shots (rollout_o0.py is the live generic), ImportOverlay.java +
VerifyOverlay.java (ghidra_import_raw.sh is the live path)
- reference check first (R14): the plan's 'zero build refs' was wrong for 3 — comment refs
annotated, the one LIVE import (cdecl) reworked; audit-cdecl + tools-health re-proven green
- SETUP §6.7: module-class recipe (TEXT_LO derivation, paired-.rodata hdr carve, A4 symbol-
window law, ELF-seeded sig-modules) + new_binary.sh inventory row + 3 RETIRED rows (R21);
disc-completeness Reproduce marked retired
- the .run/sig.ov_*.jsonl glob had no md_ entries, so every module member fell into an
empty stubs.get() and booked a silent 'not-stub' skip — the I.1d glob-widening class,
missed because family_sweep sat on the audit's 'auto-OK' list
- negative control: --only 0x80165b28 --stage-only staged 0 md members before, 32/32 after
- slot A 29/29 (md_MAIN_013..041 @ 0x800CAE08), slot B 6/6 (md_MAIN_042..047 @ 0x800CCB1C),
boot trio 3/3 (md_MAIN_001 [=MAIN/0 twin], md_MAIN_008, md_MAIN_011 @ 0x800CEDF8) — every one
BYTE-IDENTICAL on its FIRST build (byte-corroborating the §S44 loader table for slots A/B/boot)
- TLO roster derived from the §154 id-word law (.run/s45/derive_tlo.py): 0x4 default;
011=0x7C, 025=0xC, 034=0x80, 039=0xC (first-prologue scan)
- new_binary.sh: module hdr carve is now a dot-typed .rodata PAIRED with the c segment —
a header can hold a function's jump table (md_MAIN_034), and standalone rodata emits
.L locals that don't cross objects; bin links in the data block (both refuted by bytes)
- A4 law: symbols.resident.txt dropped from the boot trio's stacks (windows inside the
resident region; DsMix @0x800D1BD8 had minted a phantom fn boundary in md_MAIN_011) —
re-extracted clean, all three byte-identical, phantom gone
- R22 clean-fleet 143/143; fleet 96.13% fn / 94.4% instr (honest grown denominator; pre-expansion
line 95.00% on 140 kept for continuity) / 88.3% distinct. audit-binaries OK over 143.
- make audit-disc: UNCLAIMED 78 -> 75 payloads (3,564,021 -> 2,038,104 B), residue 0 — the three
claims flipped automatically via check.sha, exactly as the ledger was designed.
- S44 session total: 5,126 member-functions banked into the 3 new overlays; the ~2,051 remaining
stubs are the new frontier, visible to every tool via citizenship (no separate ledger rows —
recorded as a deviation from plan I.2e, redundant by construction).
- Part II handoff live in the plan file + the S44 checkpoint block.
- family_sweep --hseq scoped by --only to the 637 families with a matched exemplar AND a member in
the new 3 (2,232 stageable; avoids re-gating the swept-dry fleet). BANKED 290 / 81 failed /
6 skipped (unresolved immediates), every one whole-binary byte-gated; all three SHAs green.
- Session total into the big 3: 4,836 h_exact + 290 template = 5,126 member-functions.
- Remaining stubs 624+717+710 = 2,051 = the ~802 novel functions x instances + the genuinely
failed/unstageable tier (the new frontier).
- tools/dedup_extend.py over the clean tree (the prior run correctly REFUSED my uncommitted tree,
H4 — that refusal was the tail I misread as a result; and my earlier '0 stubs left' was a
single-file grep -c display artifact, caught before being reported).
- BANKED 4,836 / 5,016 planned (1,612 DEFINE_func per binary; 180 skipped incl. 8/binary
verbose-form). Each splice byte-gated; all three binaries remain BYTE-IDENTICAL (SHA re-checked
per binary post-run). engine_core.h include added -> audit-binaries green again (R36).
- Remaining stubs: ov_MAIN_012 712 · ov_SC02_037 822 · ov_SC03_107 802 = the h_norm-only tier +
the ~802 novel functions (the new frontier).
- Three uncompressed (PAC type-1) overlays at the standard 0x80128158 slot, onboarded via the new
tools/new_binary.sh, each byte-identical at 100% INCLUDE_ASM on the FIRST build:
ov_MAIN_012 d6b3e8b9 (383,783 B, 2,324 fns)
ov_SC02_037 b0c5394a (661,903 B, 2,434 fns)
ov_SC03_107 87d02b57 (474,087 B, 2,414 fns)
This also BYTE-PROVES the statically derived base (the §S44 loader table + the 500:1 h_exact
vote): a wrong vram could not have produced byte-identical images once symbols resolve.
- Fleet: 140 -> 143 binaries. audit-binaries currently FAILS on all three by design (no
engine_core.h include yet — the SC07-blindness check working as built); dedup_extend is the fix
and the next commit.
- Registered by the script: overlays.mk blocks, check.sha, symbols seeds, the 3 BINARIES dicts.
family map regenerated (3,577 target families / 279 with a matched sib — the new binaries'
members now visible).
- Generalized from new_overlay.sh: ALIAS + PAYLOAD + VRAM + optional TEXT_LO (file offset of code).
Class registry chosen by alias prefix (ov_* -> overlays.mk, md_* -> modules.mk; modules.mk
created with its contract header on first use). Fixes the two places new_overlay.sh re-hardcoded
the slot literal instead of $VRAM (:39 TEXTHI, :44 CODEEND).
- TEXT_LO wires the §154 module-id law end-to-end: sig bootstrap gets --text-lo (else 0 functions
on 75/78 payloads), and the splat yaml gets [0x0, rodata, hdr] + shifted code start (the
resident's leading-word trick — ONE shared template, no second file, R33). _TEXT_LO lands in the
mk block as a VRAM for make sig-modules.
- The sentinel-anchored 3-dict registrar + check.sha/symbols/extract/build steps reused verbatim.
- new_overlay.sh is now a 30-line WRAPPER (same CLI, docs preserved, H5); exec's new_binary.sh with
the overlay defaults.
- family_hseq: widened from src/ov_*+sig.ov_* to every non-main binary (resident + md_*); the map
now carries 139 binaries incl. resident (was overlays-only — which is exactly why the R36 gate's
CHECK 4 could never see them). Self-count uses the SAME widened globs (cannot drift).
- progress --weighted :647 + audit_frontier :57: + sig.md_* globs.
- corpus.sig_is_independent: md_* sigs are sig_image-signed => independent (R34 trust).
- backlog alias regex + prefetch_fleet (md_* derived from splat configs) + dedup_propagate
(reads modules.mk alongside overlays.mk — excluding modules would re-create the SC07
invisible-work bug one class over).
- VERIFIED: family map regenerated with resident (139 binaries); audit-binaries OK over 140;
all six tools parse.
- onboarded() derived from EVERY config/splat.<alias>.yaml (R33; templates + us.exe normalized) —
was splat.ov_*.yaml + a hand-set {main,resident}: the gate that exists to catch unwired binaries
was itself structurally blind to any class it did not know about.
- CHECK 4 widened: resident + modules must appear in the family map too (only main is exempt —
structurally barren, checked twice in S39). New honest warn: resident missing from the current
map (family_hseq widening lands next commit).
- NEGATIVE CONTROL: a planted config/splat.md_TEST.yaml FAILS check 1 ('MISSING md_TEST — invisible
to every derived tool'); removing it restores OK over the 140.
- -include config/modules.mk (silent when absent, same contract as overlays.mk) and
BINARIES += $(MODULE_BINARIES). Everything downstream of $(BINARIES) — prune, check-all,
build-all, expected — is untouched and picks modules up automatically.
- NEW sig-modules target: signs every module at ITS OWN vram with ITS OWN --text-lo (the §154
module-id-word law — bootstrap from offset 0 yields 0 functions on 75/78 payloads). Derived
MODULE_SIG_JOBS from modules.mk (R33, the sig-overlays pattern). Wired into tools-health after
sig-resident. Empty registry = clean no-op (verified).
- NEGATIVE CONTROLS: make -n sig-modules iterates an empty list; main rebuilds 143dbb89
byte-identical with no modules.mk present.
- VRAM was a module constant (0x80128158) used in ALL offset math (reloc_targets :98, stream_words
:160) — correct for the 138 shared-slot overlays, silently WRONG for every other class (resident
0x800CEDF8, the new md_* module slots): addr-VRAM would read garbage bytes without erroring, the
R32 silent-skip shape in the tool the whole family engine stands on.
- NEW vram_of(alias): read once from config/splat.<alias>.yaml (the jtbl_carve pattern; cwd-relative
like img_path). Unregistered alias raises LOUD (R32, no default).
- REGRESSION: the 0xECC-family remaps (ov_SC03_003/ov_SC04_021/ov_SC05_019) are byte-identical to
the S43 banked drafts. Negative controls: resident derives 0x800CEDF8, overlays 0x80128158,
unregistered alias raises.
Plan-approved campaign (Fable5Max, ~/.claude/plans/optimized-squishing-engelbart.md). I.0 = capture
while hot (R30/R31), before any code:
- memory-map.md §"Phase 30 S44": the COMPLETE loader routing table, static-derived (G5) — the EXE's
loadDestPtrTable (0x80072C70: resident/overlay/slotA/slotB/type-7), the boot k-set {1,3,8,10,11},
the RESIDENT's index tables D_800D3764 (29x8, MAIN/13-41 -> 0x800CAE08) and D_800D384C (6x8,
MAIN/42-47 -> 0x800CCB1C), resident.c:641 (MAIN/12 -> 0x80128158), the SC07 pair's header-derived
0x801A00D8, gbase arithmetic (LIST.CD carries LBA+len ONLY), the slot-adjacency proof, the
module-id-word law (word0, dense 0x13..0x73, resident=0x36; MAIN/9-vs-39 duplicate flagged), and
"PAC type 1 = uncompressed overlay, type 4 = LZSS". SUPERSEDES P3-T5's "entries [1]+ are
runtime-indexed (no static xref)".
- disc-completeness.md: the "only knowable by runtime RE" doctrine REFUTED in place (H5, original
kept) — 46 of 78 addresses are static; the runtime-only remainder is 28 script modules + 4
stragglers, parked for L3 with evidence. Byte-sum correction (rows 3,406,325 B vs bucket
3,564,021 incl. PAC headers), MAIN/7 raw-path exception, MAIN/0≡1.
- tooling-audit.md §S44: EVERY tool classified with file:line — 8 must-change (family_remap VRAM
const, Makefile+modules.mk, sig-target generalization, audit_binaries de-ov_, family_hseq/
progress:647/audit_frontier globs, corpus.sig_is_independent), 7 one-line registrations, 5
retirements (disc_code_sweep superseded by disc_audit; reconcile_decls; 3 rollout one-shots;
ImportOverlay/VerifyOverlay.java), rest auto-OK/N-A. new_overlay.sh -> new_binary.sh design.
- decision-log (R31): the pivot entry — the emulator dependency dissolves; the "modules" mostly
dissolve into overlays (~75-77% h_exact-known; 802 novel fns); why the doctrine was missable for
30 phases (a confident negative doctrine is a claim like any other — date it, cite it, re-measure).
- cookbook §154 + index regen (454 sections): module-id word / dual base-voting (h_exact ~500:1 +
jal-alignment, must AGREE; thin votes => park, P9) / diff a mystery payload's head against classes
you already own before inventing a new one.
- MY BUG, found by reconciling against the old sweep (R14): when I introduced the two-oracle UNION I
updated the BUCKET accounting but left the ledger's row-listing condition on L1 alone. So the byte
total was already right (3,564,021) while the LIST under-reported — 34 rows instead of 78. Same
"two code paths, one updated" shape as the day's other defects. Fixed: rows use the same union.
- THE COMPLETION CONTRACT'S "39 type-1 modules" IS SUPERSEDED: the real backlog is **78 unclaimed
code payloads / 3.56 MB** — MAIN.CD 42, SC03 18, SC05 7, SC04 7, SC07 2, SC02 2. The 39 came from
disc_code_sweep, which reads only the RAW layer through a 4,096-WORD WINDOW and has no notion of a
claim. Reconciled decisively: all 39 hash-checked against config/check.*.sha -> 0 of 39 claimed, so
the new set strictly CONTAINS the old one. docs/disc-completeness.md updated, old text kept for
provenance.
- WORKED EXAMPLE of why the window mattered: SC07.CD FILE_003/1.1 is 345,132 B whose HEAD is code —
the old window saw valid=100%, the whole-payload average is valid=0.571 (L1 says data), and L2
carves 3 real functions. Only the union gets it right, which is the entire argument for R34.
- Partition still holds: residue 0 over 416,021,760 B, 1,291 payloads examined.
Drew T