The blacklist recorded "permuter won, byte-gate rejected => plumbing-bound, never
re-permute" for 22 fns. It was manufactured by a gate that no longer exists.
- R14 ON THE PREMISE, TWICE (before touching anything):
* The roadmap's two named grinder bugs are ALREADY FIXED (commit:0327, commit:0200) — stale line.
* docs/tooling-audit.md:933-937 DOWNGRADED ITS OWN FINDING with three corrections: the
prescribed fix is a NO-OP (deleting the scanner banks zero fns — harvest_verify was
single-TU BY CONSTRUCTION, the defect was mislocalized to it); nothing is being discarded
now (grinder STOPPED since 2026-07-02 — confirmed via .run/auto/STOP); queue magnitude
inflated (1252, not 1298). T2's only real content was the persisted artifact.
- AND THE AUDIT'S SNAPSHOT IS ITSELF STALE (verified in code): harvest_verify is now fully
multi-TU — _stubs derives every stub across every TU from the corpus oracle (:122), render()
splices "each draft into the TU that actually holds its stub", _write() writes multiple
paths, un-stubbed drafts are REPORTED not silently dropped (R32). The gate that manufactured
the blacklist is gone. No harvest_verify change was needed or made.
- THE PROOF IT WAS MANUFACTURED, NOT OBSERVED: of the 22 entries, 8 have since MATCHED anyway
(func_80131D68/80149374/8014FE60/80150528/8016BBE0/80171C64/80174684/8017F290); the other 14
are still stubs and would have been skipped FOREVER on a dead gate's verdict. (16 of 22 were
split-hosted, so harvest_verify never compiled them — the permuter's byte-matches were
discarded UNBUILT. The audit predicted 5 matched-anyway; it is 8.)
- DONE: blacklist -> [] (poisoned copy preserved at grinder_blacklist.json.poisoned-pre-T2);
grinder.py now carries the RULE (R35): a blacklist entry is a verdict from a SPECIFIC GATE
and EXPIRES when that gate changes — purge and re-derive from the fixed gate, never inherit.
A persisted negative verdict is only as good as the instrument that produced it.
- No byte claim (analysis tooling + a scratch artifact only) -> no R22 cycle owed.
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