BFM-decomp/phase-ends/CURRENT_PHASE.md

CURRENT PHASE — Phase 30: The Recovery & Concentration Campaign (overlays to their ceiling)

Opened: 2026-07-30 · Effort: Max (Fable 5; saved defaults) · Generation: Gen2 (22nd phase of the arc) · Baseline: PhaseEnd_Phase29 (v1.28.0) · Roadmap: docs/roadmap-to-100.md v2 §3 P30 Plan approved (P3 gate 1): 2026-07-30, in-session (Drew's explicit waiver of the fresh-session step at 28% context). Full plan mirror: ~/.claude/plans/continue-dazzling-newt.md (out-of-repo; this file is the in-repo authority + crash-recovery log).

Fleet at open: 87.5% instr-weighted / 78.0% distinct-code / 92.00% fn-count · 140/140 byte-identical · 0 NON_MATCHING · dedup 1886/0 · tools-health RC=0.

Drew's Phase-Start decisions (2026-07-30):

• In-session start (fresh-session step waived at 28% context).
• The Ghidra-C prefetch batch pulled forward from P31 → T0.5 (tail + main's 1,034 stubs; headless, background).
• T2's primary path = the two-file atomic o0b substitution driver (the log's costed no-splat route); Arm-A splat research is the fallback only.
• ROI floor for T3: two consecutive sessions each < +0.3pp instr with all lanes exercised (Drew-adjustable).

⚠️ PRECONDITION (R6): Drew makes the milestone-close commit + push (PhaseEnd_Phase29.md + phase-ends/logs/Phase29.md, both in the tree) before P30's first commit lands. P30 work proceeds; the first P30 commit waits on it.

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The numbers this phase must pin FIRST (T0 — do not consume until re-derived, R35/R14)

• family_hseq 29,961 vs progress.py 28,296 remaining instances — an unexplained R32 gap.
• The -O0 population: "10 families / ~1,287 raw distinct" (checkpoints) vs "123 families / 121,264 ins / 3,100 distinct" (the log's R14 correction) vs "129 distinct on the table" (the costed o0b route) — three numbers, one T0 job.
• The zero-crack family list (map said 61 on 07-29) and the concentration table (top-20/top-100 shares).

Standing invariants (every task)

• Whole-binary byte-gate is the sole arbiter (G3/P9); match_one/closeness/masked = candidates (§52b).
• R22 clean-fleet per banked batch: make clean && make extract-all && make check-all → 140/140.
• make tools-health green + fail-closed before matching (corpus · cdecl · audit-binaries(R36) · report/lint/dedup).
• Blast-radius typing on every integration write (T0 draft-only / T1 binary-local / T2 fleet-shared ⇒ R22 mandatory).
• Probe before costing (R37-candidate discipline): probe one member before pricing a job; derive attribution from corpus.stubs before/after; diff the artifact to prove an edit ran (§120).
• Flywheel: idioms → cookbook + tooling in-session (R16/R30); pivots → decision-log (R31).
• Effort/model transitions prompted, never assumed (R26/R27) — STOP + WAIT for the toggle.
• One commit per task/sub-repair after this file's update; Drew pushes (R6/R20). R23 no-op on db.*.gbf churn.

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Task checklist (current-task pointer = ▶)

• T0 — Frontier regen + instrument repair [Max] ✅ (all six letters; see per-task log; frontier report = docs/frontier-p30.md, report point #1): (a) gate_stage.py snapshot/restore (the ladder destroys good drafts) · (b) rtu_match.py surface the real cc1 error in the verdict · (c) reconcile the family_hseq↔progress instance gap (R32) · (d) purge since-banked rows from the backlog ledger + still-a-stub filter from corpus.stubs (R33) · (e) refresh .run/autopsy/residuals.jsonl + fix the 21-file absolute-include defect · (f) regenerate the frontier (report / family_hseq / worklist / fuel manifest) + pin the three contested populations → the one-page frontier report (report point #1). Verify: tools-health green; digests committed; velocity derives from digest git history (R33).
• T0.5 — Fleet Ghidra-C prefetch batch [background] — ImportOverlay.java (~130 missing programs) + DecompileFunctions.java over every remaining distinct stub (overlay tail + main's 1,034; skip LINKED) → .run/ghidra_c/. R23 lock discipline (stop the hook-launched MCP server first or route through it). Verify via build_fuel_manifest.py counters + 5 spot-reads.
• T1 — Integration-recovery sweep [Ultracode — prompt at launch] — all close=0 stranded drafts through recover_integration.py tiers + §65b de-macroize + the snapshot-safe ladder; the 10 named SESSION-16 blocked drafts. Prior: 39% recovery. Report point #2. R22 per batch.
• T2 — The -O0 cluster [Max, deep] — PRIMARY: build the two-file atomic substitution driver (stage remapped body into <ov>_o0b.c AND drop the stub's INCLUDE_ASM from <ov>_after.c in one edit, gate) and sweep the T0-pinned families. FALLBACK: R17 research on the Arm-A splat %lo +0x20. Resistant residue → wall ledger with evidence. Report point #3.
• T3 — The standing crack-wave loop [Ultracode waves; Max between] — lanes interleaved, propagate behind every crack same-session: A zero-crack (~61, propagation-only) · B top-mass fresh families (no size cap; jr via jtbl_family_bank; gate_stage call-site-casts, never bulk header edits) · C tail mass on prefetched seeds (local v3 ≤15 → GLM/Haiku ≤~50 → cheap-Opus mid) · D PINS (19) + W4 bounded diagnoses + permuter backlog via the T4-fixed grinder. Per-session checkpoint + velocity + 3 metrics. ROI floor: 2 consecutive sessions < +0.3pp instr each with all lanes exercised.
• T4 — Carried-tool resolution [xHigh] — grinder warm-start + the 2 Phase-22 grinder bugs; verify --fix-def-sig is nowhere a default (§119).
• T5 — Phase close [Max] — burn-down from digest history; P7 milestone walk; Roadmap delta; gate 2; PhaseEnd_Phase30.

Milestone: overlays at their measured ceiling — ≥95% instr fleet, or every remaining overlay stub on a named wall/behemoth/queue ledger — 140/140 byte-identical throughout.

Blockers

• (none) — the precondition (Drew's milestone-close commit) landed at commit:1213.

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🛑 SESSION-28 CHECKPOINT (2026-07-31 08:1x) — FRESH SESSION SAFE HERE

Supersedes SESSION-27 below. Nothing is running. Tree lock FREE. Tree clean but for the R23 db.*.gbf churn (never stage). HEAD commit:1261 (+ this doc commit). Effort xHigh (Drew, session start). make tools-health RC=0 at session open.

FLEET — R22 clean-fleet 140 passed / 0 failed (verified this session, genuinely clean tree)

92.70% fn-count · 88.3% instr-weighted · 78.7% distinct-code (70,590 / 87,459 unique fns) · dedup 1904/0 · 0 NON_MATCHING linked. Phase opened at 92.00 / 87.5 / 78.0.

WHAT LANDED THIS SESSION

• Resume item 2 CLOSED — the "137 no matched unit" class: 137/137 banked, 0 failed (commit:1261), behind a one-line-class tool fix (commit:1260). R22 140/140. Cookbook §124/§124a.
• Resume item 3 CLOSED as 1-of-3 + group B 0/13, all ledgered with evidence (commit:1263): func_80181CDC (769 ins) banked via the §81 chain, R22 140/140.
• Resume item 1 RE-SCOPED (not banked) — see below; it is T2 work, and now T2's best ×1 probe.

⚠️ THE JR RESIDUE — RE-MEASURED AND LARGELY RETRACTED (Max pass; read this, not the first version)

I first ledgered all three jr refusals as tooling walls off a body-free carve probe. Re-measured by SHA vs config/check.<ov>.sha from a clean tree, two of the three verdicts were FALSE. Verified:

target	jr_isolate_all	jtbl_carve	true verdict
func_8018057C / ov_SC01_009 (897)	NEUTRAL	not reached	"isolate breaks bytes" was FALSE; original failure NOT reproducible
func_80191C50 / ov_SC06_018 (710)	NEUTRAL	DIVERGED (1b1667ea vs cbbc4f44)	REAL — the one true instrument failure
func_8017BEBC / ov_SC04_004 (group B ×13)	n/a	NEUTRAL	carve fine ⇒ failure is the BODY, the OPPOSITE of my first claim

Root cause of my false verdicts (mine, not the tools'): a grep-of-the-build-log gate inside a driver that did not revert on abort. config/overlays.mk is SHARED, so target 1's half-applied isolate was still in the tree when target 3 was measured. Also reproduced the §42b stale-object trap directly: git checkout -- config/ WITHOUT a re-extract turned a byte-identical overlay into [FAIL] got 8f28aa77 / want 38a3d919. The tidy "two walls are one tooling problem" story was wrong — they are two different problems and the third has no demonstrated problem at all. §125 rewritten with the instrument rules (SHA not grep · re-extract after every change AND every revert · revert-on-abort · verify the baseline against canonical too). Ledger classes corrected to UNREPRODUCIBLE-RETEST-NEUTRAL / JTBL-CARVE-BREAKS-BYTES / BODY-TEMPLATE-GATE-FAIL.

▶ RESUME HERE (nothing blocked except where noted)

1. [REAL, and now correctly scoped] jtbl_carve diverges on ov_SC06_018 after a neutral isolate — the ONE confirmed instrument failure (blocks the 710-ins func_80191C50). Compare against ov_SC05_010, whose full chain succeeded this session; §8e's interior-pad law + JTBL_PADS and the --order interleave are the suspects. Note a carve run WITHOUT the isolate refuses loudly (non-contiguous .rodata 0xab9f4/0xaba4c) — that is the documented §81/§8b step-1 instruction, not a divergence. 1b. group B func_8017BEBC ×13 is a BODY problem — diff the remapped body against the sibling TU; stop re-probing the carve. 4 gate-fails incl. one from a verified-clean tree. 1c. func_8018057C / ov_SC01_009 — just re-run the full isolate→carve→bank chain under the §125 instrument rules; its blocker was never demonstrated.
2. T2 -O0 carve-within-a-carve. Open with the ×1 probe on the 4th region (below) — smaller blast radius than the planned ov_SC07_007 and it is the Arm-A %lo +0x20 shift oracle.
3. Next wave: 3,873 fresh cached cores across 119 binaries (.run/p30w4_pool.json), dealt ACROSS binaries so the gate fans out. Breadth ⇒ prompt Drew for /effort ultracode and WAIT (R26/R27).
4. T1 remainder (10 named S16 drafts + route the ~90 to REDRAFT lanes), T4, T5.

📌 THE 4th -O0 REGION — verified, sized, and correctly BLOCKED (do not re-litigate)

My own byte scan (not the agent's claim — R14/R37) over all 156 fns of ov_SC03_014_jr_8017EB7C: the -O0 frame-pointer prologue covers exactly the contiguous run 0x80183CF0..0x80184868 (15 fns), with -O2 neighbours 0x80183A54 below and 0x80184920 above — a clean cut. Prize: 30 fn-instances / 1,504 ins — the region is h_exact-identical in ov_SC03_014 + ov_SC03_015 ONLY; the 3 other overlays holding a func_801846E4 (SC03_090, SC04_005, SC05_018) are DIFFERENT code at the same VA (overlays share VAs — the §-index warning, live). Blocked structurally: all 15 live in an -O2 split (corpus.o0_sources confirms), and the append-to-_o0b route fails BY CONSTRUCTION (the existing _o0b covers the whale at file 0x1CA44..0x1D64C; this region is far above it, so appended bytes land at the wrong VA — the same reasoning that killed the T2 ×1 append probe). ⇒ needs the re-carve; it IS T2.

⚠️ TWO CORRECTIONS TO THE SESSION-27 CHECKPOINT (mine, R14)

1. The 137 were SKIPS, not failures. S27 folded them into the 401 gate-failures; 137+22+10 = 169 ≠ 401. They are a separate skipped{} bucket.
2. The cause was NOT "the exemplar banked in a different binary." It is banked in ov_SC01_077 under the §37/§73 asm-label alias (int aF8016191C(...) __asm__("func_8016191C")), and extract_unit only matched a head literally named func_<ADDR>. One exemplar × 137 same-address members — a tool lookup miss, the 4th consecutive "structural" residual to resolve to our own tooling (R35). Fixed T0-only; the alternative (widen engine_core.h, drop the alias) was REJECTED — it fixes only §73's RETURN axis while the decl/body also disagree on PARAMS, and it is a T2 fleet-shared edit. §124.

🧪 A METHOD NOTE WORTH KEEPING (cost me one probe this session)

I ran a corpus.stubs probe while make extract-all was mid-flight and got 4 binaries' worth of garbage. corpus.py's R32 coverage assertion caught it and refused to answer instead of returning a wrong stub set — the assertion earning its keep. A measurement taken during a rebuild is not a measurement (SESSION-27's law, re-earned). Re-derive after the campaign exits.

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🛑 (superseded) SESSION-27 CHECKPOINT (2026-07-31 01:25)

Supersedes SESSION-26 below. Nothing is running. Tree lock FREE. Tree clean but for the R23 db.*.gbf churn (never stage). HEAD commit:1258.

FLEET — R22 clean-fleet 140 passed / 0 failed (verified at HEAD)

92.67% fn-count · 88.3% instr-weighted · 78.7% distinct-code (70,590 / 87,459 unique fns). Phase opened at 87.5 / 78.0 / 92.00 → +0.8pp instr, +0.7pp distinct, +0.67pp fn-count so far.

WHAT LANDED THIS SESSION (all committed, all R22-verified)

• T0 instrument repair (a–f), 6 commits — incl. gate_stage stage-0 (§122) and the fix_arity_callers per-edit journal undo.
• T0.5 fleet Ghidra-C prefetch COMPLETE — 124/124 programs, 7,716 files, 335 min unattended. 95.2% of the 6,070 crack-needing families are seeded; main 2,001/2,002; resident 14/14.
• T3 waves 1–4 + behemoths: wave1 8/14 · wave2 15/19 · wave3 48/48 · wave4 69/70 banked (70/70 drafted) · 7 behemoths CONFIRMED at 700–970 ins (4 banked; 3 jr deferred).
• Propagation: 548 + 911 members via family_sweep --hseq; h_exact leg 14 propagated / 42 benign skips / 0 failures.
• New instruments: tools/treelock.sh · tools/prefetch_fleet.py · tools/cookbook_index.py
  • docs/cookbook-index.md (324 sections, symptom-keyed, in tools-health).
• Cookbook §122, §123.

▶ RESUME HERE (nothing blocked, nothing in flight)

1. func_801846E4 (ov_SC03_014) — the 1 of 10 resumed drafts that did NOT bank (agent reported MATCH; gate refused). Draft at .run/drafts-p30w4/ov_SC03_014/func_801846E4.c. Its agent flagged it as the -O0 class (SIZE-MISMATCH/short + frame-pointer prologue) — likely needs --o0.
2. The 137 "no matched unit for func" sweep-routing gap — family_sweep looks for the exemplar's banked unit in the wrong binary. Cheap, worth ~137 members.
3. 3 jr behemoths (func_80191C50, func_8018057C, func_80181CDC; staged in .run/beh-gate/<binary>/) + group B's carve (13-member IMM/jr @952, 103 already matched → jtbl_family_bank.py). Both run make extract — run ALONE under tools/treelock.sh.
4. T2 -O0 carve-within-a-carve (13 families / 1,746 members). Newly cheaper: wave-4 agents documented the match_one --o0 flag AND found a 4th -O0 region beyond the 3 known ones.
5. Next wave: 3,873 fresh cached cores across 119 binaries remain (.run/p30w4_pool.json); deal them ACROSS binaries so the gate fans out.

🔁 THE LOOP THAT WORKS (proven 4 waves running)

draft (agents, .run/ only) → --no-propagate gate, per-binary IN PARALLEL → sig+map regen → propagate per-function, routed by tier (§123) → one R22 → commit. Wrap every tree-writing campaign in tools/treelock.sh.

⚠️ THE THREE LAWS THIS SESSION COST US (all mine, all now mechanised)

1. Guard the CAMPAIGN, not the process — a pgrep poll cannot see a campaign made of sequential processes; mine started in a gap → 63/140 broke. → treelock.sh.
2. A killed process performs no undo — a fixed 3600s propagation timeout killed the driver mid-fleet-write. → timeout scales with bank count AND is caught.
3. A measurement taken during corruption is not a measurement — I reported a "per-binary bank-rate cliff" and theorised a cause; re-gated clean it was 6/6 everywhere. Both incidents cost build cycles and ZERO work, because agents only ever write .run/.

📊 THE MEASURED FINDING WORTH KEEPING

Bank rate by wave: 57% (no index) → 79% → 100% → 99% (index-first). Same models, same gate. The bottleneck was discoverability of our own knowledge, not the compiler. Agents also self-report index_hit/index_gap, and their gap reports are now curated symptom lines — the flywheel is closing on itself.

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🛑 (superseded) SESSION-26 CHECKPOINT (2026-07-30 23:05)

Supersedes the in-flight block below. Paused for the 5h usage limit; a one-shot cron is set for 00:47 (2026-07-31) to resume — but cron is SESSION-ONLY and dies with this session, so if the session ended, just follow "RESUME HERE" manually.

HEAD commit:1254. Fleet at last verified point: 92.59% fn-count · 88.2% instr · 78.7% distinct · R22 140/140 (commit commit:1252).

⏳ RUNNING AT PAUSE (check these FIRST)

• w4-gate under tools/treelock.sh (pid at pause 1313761): gating wave-4's 68 drafts across 14 binaries in parallel, then sig+map regen, then R22. Log: .run/w4gate_run.log + .run/w4gate/<binary>.log. If it did not finish: tools/treelock.sh w4-gate bash .run/p30w4_gate.sh. Nothing from it is committed yet — commit only after R22 shows 140/140.
• Tree carries Lane A's 15 banks (sweep finished: 15 banked / 712 failed / 910 already-not-stub — the population was largely consumed by the earlier sweep, so Lane A is now nearly spent).

▶ RESUME HERE (in order)

1. Finish/verify the w4-gate → R22 140/140 → commit.
2. RESUME THE 12 UNFINISHED AGENTS (.run/p30w4_remaining.json) — Drew's explicit instruction, cron 799f00d8 set for 00:49 on 2026-07-31. Wave 4 launched 70, 58 returned (ALL 58 match_one MATCH), 12 were killed mid-run: func_8017EA1C(SC02_041) · func_8018A150(SC02_027) · func_80185680(SC02_017) · func_8017D900,func_801846E4(SC03_014) · func_80187940,func_80185B5C,func_801885C0(SC04_011) · func_801832D4,func_80183CBC,func_80183258,func_8017D7A4(SC02_035). Workflow scriptPath /tmp/claude-1000/-home-musashi-bfm-decomp/f1a9b030-5924-4b17-b102-3de2ca684a6f/scratchpad/p30w4.js, args = the 12 targets as an ARRAY (a JSON string breaks pipeline()). ⚠️ 10 of the 12 have a PARTIAL draft on disk from the killed run — a starting point, NOT a verified result; re-verify with match_one before any MATCH claim. (Counting note, R14: my first count said "2 remaining" because I measured draft-FILE existence. An agent writes its draft early and then iterates, so a file proves nothing about completion — the journal's result records are the truth. Drew's "12" was right and my measure was wrong.)
3. The h_exact propagation leg that halted at 0x801466F0 (rc=1, stopped by design).
4. The 137 "no matched unit for func" sweep-routing gap — the exemplar banked in a DIFFERENT binary than family_sweep looks in. Likely cheap and worth ~137 members.
5. 3 jr behemoths (func_80191C50, func_8018057C, func_80181CDC, staged in .run/beh-gate/<binary>/) + group B's carve (13-member IMM/jr family @952, 103 already matched → jtbl_family_bank). Both run make extract — run them ALONE under the lock.
6. T2's -O0 carve-within-a-carve (13 families / 1,746 members walled) — the deep arc.

⚠️ THE TWO LAWS THIS SESSION COST US (both self-inflicted, both now mechanised)

• Guard the CAMPAIGN, not the process (tools/treelock.sh). A pgrep poll cannot see a campaign made of sequential processes; mine started in a gap and 63/140 binaries broke.
• Gate with --no-propagate, then propagate PER FUNCTION, routed by tier (§123). A fixed 3600s propagation timeout killed the driver mid-fleet-write; a killed process performs no undo.
• Corollary proven twice: agents must only ever write .run/ — that is why both incidents cost build cycles and zero work.

📓 NEW THIS SESSION

Cookbook §122 (gate raw before transforming; undo belongs to the writer as a per-edit journal), §123 (propagate a family with the tool its TIER needs + routing table), docs/cookbook-index.md (226→324 sections, symptom-keyed, in tools-health), tools/treelock.sh, tools/prefetch_fleet.py, tools/cookbook_index.py.

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🛑 (superseded) SESSION CHECKPOINT (2026-07-30, in-flight)

Written while two background campaigns run; REFRESH before any pause (the stale-checkpoint trap).

Running in background: (1) T0.5 full prefetch batch (prefetch_fleet.py, 126 programs — imports ~3 min each + define+decompile; cache was 3,680 at launch; task baw61zyz6; resumable — re-run the same command if interrupted). (2) T1a recovery sweep (.run/recover/t1a_runner.py → .run/recover/t1a.log; 108 autopsy-MATCH fns / 50 binaries; driver commits banks per binary via gate_stage's scoped add; OWED AFTER IT LANDS: a config sweep-up commit — jr-bank preps edit config/overlays.mk + splat yamls which gate_stage --commit does NOT stage — then R22 clean-fleet

• report point #2).

HEAD at checkpoint: commit:1223. Fleet: 87.5 / 78.0 / 92.00 (pre-T1a-banks). Tree: T1a's in-flight src/config edits (theirs); .run/ artifacts.

**T0 ✅ (6 commits) · T0.5 ▶ (batch running; main+3 overlays done: +2,241 cached) · T1a ▶ · T2 ▶ (two probes done, arc re-scoped — see log; NEXT session opener: sub-split carve + shift-diff

• symbol-pin probe on ov_SC07_007) · T3/T4/T5 pending.**

If resuming fresh: read docs/frontier-p30.md (report point #1, with the T2 R14 correction) + the T2 log entries; check both background tasks' outcomes first (git log for t6-recover commits; ls .run/ghidra_c | wc -l); the Ultracode prompt for T3's first wave is still OWED to Drew (R26/R27) — T1b agent-residue wave folds into it.

Per-task log

✅ T0.5 COMPLETE — the fleet Ghidra-C prefetch: 124/124 programs, 7,716 files, 335 min, unattended

Zero-token, headless, resumable; imported ~120 overlay programs on demand and ran the DefineFunctions completion pass per program (raw-blob auto-analysis only finds the reachable subset — the Phase-10 finding, now automated). Coverage measured, not assumed:

• 5,777 of 6,070 families needing a fresh crack (95.2%) have a cached seed
• main 2,001/2,002 (100%) · resident 14/14 (100%) · 1 residue (one main addr with no fn)

What this changes: the drafting surface is now fully fueled with NO MCP dependency, so waves can run unattended against any part of the fleet — the precondition Drew asked about. It also un-blocks P31's main-EXE campaign early (its 1,034 game-code stubs are all cached), though that stays P31 scope. tools/prefetch_fleet.py is committed and re-runnable; the Ghidra programs are script-reproducible, so only the tool is tracked, not the DB bulk.

✅ REDO UNDER LOCK — 52 cores + 911 members banked; R22 140/140; the "cliff" was an artifact

Re-ran the whole banking sequence serially under treelock.sh: parallel 8-binary gate → non-jr behemoth gate → sig+map regen (a bank invalidates the map) → tier-routed propagation (§123) → one R22 over everything.

• Wave 3: 48/48 banked through 8 PARALLEL per-binary gates (the throughput unlock, proven).
• Wave 2: 15/19. Behemoths: 4 non-jr confirmed (incl. func_8017E120 884 ins ×14).
• family_sweep --hseq: 911 members banked / 401 failed across 137 overlays, 49 families.
• Fleet: 92.59% fn-count · 88.2% instr · 78.7% distinct (70,506 unique fns) · R22 140/140.

R14 CORRECTION, on my own earlier claim. I reported a "per-binary bank-rate cliff" (SC03_014 1/6, SC04_018 1/6, SC06_018 2/6) and theorised a cause — canonical-decl maturity per binary. It was an artifact: those gates ran against a tree that propagation was concurrently rewriting. Re-gated clean, every binary banked 6/6. A measurement taken during corruption is not a measurement, and I theorised before re-running. Same failure shape as the phantom 91.4% in the same incident.

Carried, honestly: the h_seq sweep's 401 failures split as 137 "no matched unit for func" (the exemplar banked in a DIFFERENT binary than the sweep expects — a routing gap, likely cheap), 22 unresolved-immediates, 10 STRUCT (refused by design). One dedup_propagate run stopped the h_exact leg early (0x801466F0 rc=1) — the loop halted as designed rather than risking a partial write; the h_exact leg is unfinished and owed.

⚠️ INCIDENT 2 (mine) — a POLL is not a MUTEX: concurrent tree writers broke 63/140; reverted clean

What I did. Wave-3 gated 8 binaries in parallel (correct — the byte-gate IS per-binary) while wave-2's propagation loop was still running, then I ran make clean (deleting asm/) on top of both. check-all → 77/140, and the corpus denominator itself moved (353,720 → 353,691), so the apparent "91.4% instr" was an artifact of a half-written tree, not a gain.

Root cause — the guard was structurally unsound, not merely unlucky. My gate waited on while pgrep -f dedup_propagate; do sleep; done. But a CAMPAIGN is a loop of short-lived processes — 15 sequential dedup_propagate invocations — so between every pair there is a window with no matching process. The poll sampled one of those gaps, read "clear", and started. Presence- of-a-process is a sampling test on a gappy signal; it cannot express "a campaign owns the tree."

Recovery (clean, nothing lost that mattered). Killed the writers; git checkout -- src/ config/ back to commit:1245 (the last R22-verified 140/140 commit); all 58 drafts survive untouched in .run/ because agents never write the tree — the discipline that made this cheap. Re-verifying baseline, then re-gating and re-propagating serially under the lock.

Fix shipped: tools/treelock.sh — an flock(1) mutex held for the WHOLE campaign, released by the kernel on exit or kill, with --status. Both drivers now refuse to run unlocked. The general law (worth a rule at close): guard the CAMPAIGN, not the process. Corollary, the second time this session a killed writer hurt: a killed process performs no undo, so a fleet-tier write needs a lock ABOVE it, not cleanup inside it.

T3 BEHEMOTH WAVE (10 agents, 3.23M tok) — 7/10 CONFIRMED byte-matches at 700–970 ins, 0 disputed

Drew asked for up to 10 agents on the behemoths; grouping analysis first showed the ≥700-ins band is structured, not 29 singletons: one 16-member family @947, one 14-member @884, a 5-member @793, a 3-member @710, a 2-member @728, 5 true singletons — plus two groups that are TOOL jobs, not agent jobs (the 13-member IMM/jr @952 with 103 already matched → jtbl_family_bank carve; two 134-matched families with 4 stragglers each → sweep). All 10 agents therefore went to genuinely uncracked families/singletons, and each MATCH claim was adversarially re-verified by a second agent.

CONFIRMED (7): func_8017E120 884×14 · func_80191C50 710×3 · func_8017FA5C 728×2 · func_8018057C 897 · func_80181CDC 769 · func_8017CAD4 755 · func_8017E35C 719. NEAR (3), all with byte-grounded residuals: func_8017EF68 969 ins at closeness 2 — two transposed instructions, sched2 rank_for_schedule LUID tie-break, everything else (frame 0x228, spill map, every register) byte-exact · func_8017D174 793 at 82 (allocno tie + pin damage, length EXACT) · func_8017C974 947×16 at 812 (a pure regalloc cascade from ONE extra reserved reload reg; 598/957 regions already exact, no shape errors) — the last is the biggest family left and now has a full structural map + the exact gcc mechanism written down.

MY ERROR (recorded): I hand-typed the asm paths into the workflow args instead of passing the ones I had already DERIVED from corpus.asm_path in the same session — so several task cards named a split that does not exist (_jr_8017AE2C where the truth was _jr_8017C8D0 / _jr_8017C294). The agents located the real paths themselves and reported the discrepancy. Deriving then discarding the derivation is worse than never deriving it: it looks authoritative. Pass the artifact, never a retyped copy of it.

Gating plan (the jr/non-jr split matters): 4 confirmed are non-jr → gate freely. 3 are jr → their jtbl carve runs make extract, which rewrites asm/ under the 48 running wave-3 agents, so they are DEFERRED until wave 3 lands. Staged per-binary in .run/beh-gate/<binary>/ for parallel gating (7 distinct binaries).

T4 (partial) ✅ — the two "Phase-22 grinder bugs" are STALE carry items; the real fixes were elsewhere

Verified against the code, not the list (R14 on our own defect ledger):

• "split-file-blind lookup" — ALREADY FIXED. asm_subdir_for globs nonmatchings/*/ which matches every split; verified on a _jr_ fn, an _o0 fn, and an absent fn. Struck.
• "churn-without-blacklist" — ALREADY FIXED. The blind tried.clear() was replaced by input-signature gating in the T5 targeting work (re-open only fns whose draft mtime/closeness changed), and the blacklist exists. Struck.
• Real fix taken instead (R33): asm_subdir_for was a PARALLEL implementation of corpus.asm_path that silently took g[0] on multiple matches — now derived from the oracle.
• --fix-def-sig posture: flag correctly defaults OFF, but its help still advertised "Byte-neutral; gate arbitrates" — the exact claim T84 refuted (it imposed a signedness-wrong header decl over a byte-correct draft, slti/sltiu, and held 137 members at 0 until DROPPED). Help now carries the §119 warning. The posture was right; the documentation was the defect. Lesson for the phase close: the carried-defect list had 2 of its entries already fixed. A defect ledger nobody re-verifies decays into busywork — verify before scheduling (R35's sequencing applied to the backlog of our own bugs).

T3 wave 1 (Ultracode, 14 agents, 1.20M tok) — 14/14 match_one MATCH → 8/14 BANKED; the gate's propagation TIMEOUT left the fleet half-written (caught, reverted, tool fixed)

The wave: 14 fresh reach-138 cores in ov_SC01_077 (117,162 gain-ins in play), one agent each, drafting against the §31 map + cookbook with match_one/rtu_match self-verification. All 14 returned closeness 0, most cross-verified in the real TU. Whole-binary gate (the arbiter, §52b): 8 banked — func_80175820 (×276!) · func_8012E014 · func_80133298 · func_8015FBE0 · func_8016E9EC · func_80151C54 · func_8012F49C · func_80151B98. Bank truth derived from source (INCLUDE_ASM presence), never the gate report (§55b trap 4). 57% conversion = the §52b law holding exactly; the 6 rejects are all declaration/integration work their agents had already named.

THE INCIDENT (recorded, not buried). gate_stage hardcoded timeout=3600 on dedup_propagate. Ample for one bank; with EIGHT (each rewriting ~138 overlays) it blew, and TimeoutExpired propagated out and killed the driver mid-write: 313 files modified (alphabetically ov_SC01_000..ov_SC03_013 — it died partway through the fleet), config/dedup.us.yaml never updated, engine_core.h half-edited. check-all 124/140. Caught by running the oracle before trusting the state; git checkout -- src/ reverted all of it (§61 — and note a KILLED process performs no undo at all, so the driver's own restore logic was never reached). Nothing was committed at any point; zero contamination. Fix shipped: timeout now SCALES with bank count (1800 + 1800×banks, capped 6h) AND is CAUGHT — on expiry the driver reports TREE DIRTY, REVERT REQUIRED and returns cleanly instead of dying with the fleet open. Recovery path (also the new standing practice for multi-bank waves): re-gate --no-propagate, then propagate PER FUNCTION via dedup_propagate --addr — bounded, resumable, verifiable between steps — rather than one monolithic fleet write.

Three byte-grounded idioms to distill (R16/R30, owed): (1) void→s32 return is NOT byte-neutral — an s32 return keeps $v0 live-out and stops dbr stealing an addiu into the loop-back delay slot; this CORRECTS cookbook §3a-1's neutrality claim (func_8016EC0C). (2) The asm-label alias extern s32 SYM_w __asm__("SYM") — reads a u8-declared shared global as a word WITHOUT *(s32*)&SYM, which force_regs the address and drags 3 extra la pseudos across calls; found independently by two agents; a general unblock for the u8-vs-s32 loose-typing collisions (func_8012E014, func_80133298). (3) Zero-byte __asm__("") as a delay-slot fence — reorg.c stop_search_p halts the eager filler on an asm insn (func_8015FBE0).

T1a ✅ — the deterministic recovery sweep: +18 banked; the stored-draft question CLOSED (report point #2)

Population: the 108 fresh autopsy-MATCH strandeds (+ the 012 abort re-run, 0/3) across 50 binaries, 47 min, 17 driver commits. Metric truth (R14, derived): fn-count +18 instances / distinct +12 unique fns (commit messages summed 19 — gate-report double-list; the metric wins). R22 clean-fleet 140/140 after the sweep + residue revert. Fleet: 87.5 / 78.0 / 92.00 (+384 w-ins). The honest read: the S16 "39%" prior did NOT generalize — it was measured on FRESH same-wave drafts; this stored-backlog population is the class decision-log A10 already byte-proved non-bankable by plain re-gate (0/958). The driver's reconcile/demacroize lifted 18 of ~111 (≈16%) over A10's 0% — a real but bounded delta. The stored-draft recovery question is now CLOSED both ways: cheap wins taken; the ~90 not-banked stay match_one-MATCH but their drafts are integration-decayed — they route to T3's REDRAFT lanes (A10's "fresh re-drafts only"), not another recovery pass. §61 residue class found + reverted (2 orphan carve .c + overlays.mk/yaml edits from FAILED jr attempts). Two live gaps for T3 pre-work: (1) gate_stage --commit add-scope cannot stage NEW carve files / overlays.mk / yaml — moot at 0 jr banks here, live the moment a T3 wave banks a jr fn through it; (2) my own checkpoint edit mid-sweep tripped the driver's blast-radius assert (012's abort) — tracked-file writes and a tree-writing campaign cannot share a repo; queue docs until the campaign exits.

T2 finding 2 — the Arm-A reproduction target has MOVED: the fleet is jr-carved now (2026-07-30)

rollout_o0_cluster.py ov_SC07_007 → SKIP ("cluster fns not in base .c"): since Arm A (07-16), the P29 jr campaign carved every overlay (007 now: 16 _jr_*.c splits) and the -O0 range (0x8013B568..) sits INSIDE <ov>_jr_80135D20.c (23 stubs there in 007). The Arm-A tool's single-file premise is stale fleet-wide — the rollout is now the predicted carve-within-a-carve: sub-split _jr_80135D20.c (pre / o0 / post) per overlay + the Makefile -O0 wildcard for the new class + the +0x20 shift-diff at the NEW seam. Next concrete steps (deep arc, next session's opener): (1) extend the carve tool to sub-split jr files; (2) probe on ov_SC07_007 (zero T1a collision; baseline %lo/%hi inventory saved: .run/t2_007_baseline_syms.txt, 951 operands); (3) on shift: diff the generated asm symbol inventory → pin the drifted D_ symbols at pre-carve addresses in the overlay symbol file → re-extract → per-binary sha (the config-only fix hypothesis); (4) the R31 whale-shape hypothesis (no INCLUDE_ASM in the -O0 split) as fallback. ov_SC07_010's carve is still in-tree + byte-neutral (the Arm-A keeper) — the 010-vs-007 asm diff is a free shift oracle.

T2 ▶ driver generalized; ×1 probe REFUTED the append route for the remaining cluster (2026-07-30)

tools/rollout_o0.py (generalizes T85's rollout_801457a4_o0.py): map-derived members (cross-address-safe), stub located in any non-_o0 split, jr+o0 composites routed out loudly, atomic two-file + per-binary SHA gate + restore-both. ×1 probe (0x8013b6a0@ov_SC01_000): gate-reject — and the diagnosis corrects the frontier report (R14 on my own doc): T85's family banked by APPEND because 0x801457A4 abuts the o0b object's END; the remaining 18 families (0x8013Bxxx–0x8013Cxxx, below the whale) mis-place on append by construction, and per-fn isolation IS the Arm-A re-carve. o0b-bearing ≠ o0b-adjacent — my "the wall never has to fall" inference was wrong; caught at 1 build instead of 2,131. T2's real substance = the Arm-A +0x20 defect. First probe: identify WHICH symbol shifts on a failing overlay's re-carve; hypothesis: splat re-GUESSES a data-symbol boundary the carve moves → pin it in config symbols and re-probe.

T0.5 ▶ launched + probed (2026-07-30)

tools/prefetch_fleet.py (committed commit:1220): 126 programs / 7,966 uncached representatives. Probe 1 (main): +1,525/2,002 cached in <1 min — the decompile leg is CHEAP; 477 main addrs have no defined function in the program (main's 06-14 auto-analysis gap) → follow-up: a DefineFunctions.java completion pass over main from splat entries (the Phase-10 mechanism), then re-run (resumable). Probe 2 (import leg): FAILED then FIXED — my missing-program matcher checked "not exist"/"NOT_FOUND"; Ghidra's actual phrase is "Requested project program file(s) not found" → the self-healing import never fired (+0/371, +0/315). One-line trigger broadening; re-probe running. T1a (deterministic recovery sweep, 108 fns / 50 binaries, driver-committed banks, no-propagate — reach≥2 winners ride T3 Lane A) launched concurrently; commit-scope interaction VERIFIED safe (driver delegates to gate_stage's scoped git add -u src/ — ghidra/ churn cannot leak into bank commits).

T0(e2)+(f) ✅ — autopsy refreshed; frontier regenerated + the three populations PINNED (2026-07-30)

• Autopsy (collect -j12 + report): 1,349 rows — 1,178 near / 63 nobuild / 108 match_one-MATCH (T1's stranded-draft fuel, 3× the S16 sample), 0 classifier errors, second-oracle agree. docs/autopsy.md regenerated.
• Worklist/manifest regen: 101 live stubs / 261,789 gain-ins (stale 160/583k gone); R14 checks inside the manifest: 28/28 giants verified reach-138.
• THE -O0 PIN (headline): 18 families / 2,192 open members — 2,131 o0b-route-eligible / 61 SC07-no-o0b; 15/18 exemplar-matched. The "WALLED ~1,287" framing dissolves: the bulk never needs the Arm-A splat fix — T2 = generalize the proven rollout_801457a4_o0.py (130/130). Composites flagged: 0x8013c414/0x8013c0f8 are jr+o0 (carve inside the o0b TU — probe ×1 first).
• Zero-crack roster: 114 families / 3,166 open members / ~204k weighted ins (28 substantial); its head IS the -O0 set (T2 and Lane A open together).
• Concentration: top-20 = 24.0% / top-100 = 44.8% of open family weight (head consumed vs S13's 53% — expected post-campaign flattening).
• Report point #1: docs/frontier-p30.md (all numbers same-tree at one HEAD, post-repair — R35).

T0(e) — part 1 ✅: the 21-file absolute-include defect fixed (2026-07-30)

All 21 carriers were jr-carve split files including engine_types.h by absolute path (/home/musashi/bfm-decomp/..., some twice); swapped to the house-relative #include "../shared/engine_types.h". grep -rln /home/musashi src/ include/ → 0. R22 clean-fleet from a genuinely clean tree: 140 passed, 0 failed of 140. Part 2 (autopsy refresh) next.

T0(d) ✅ — backlog ledger: already clean; the scanner deleted (R33) (2026-07-30)

Findings, byte-verified: (1) the still-a-stub filter already existed (load_best drop + prune, built 07-24) and the tracked jsonl was already compacted — the tree's pre-existing uncommitted .run/backlog.jsonl edit was late-S25's un-committed prune output; prune today: 1350 → 1350, dropped 0. (2) The stale rows I'd flagged (func_80151944 etc.) live in worklist.md (regen at T0(f)), not backlog. (3) _open_stubs (private regex) vs corpus.stubs (the oracle): 0 divergence across all 131 ledger binaries — after fixing MY probe, which compared names against int vram addrs (R35 pointed at my own instrument). Hardening: _open_stubs now derives from corpus.stubs (STUB_RE deleted — R33's "best outcome is a deleted scanner"); hex-case canonicalized on both sides of the membership test (a lower-hex record can't silently drop, R32); count parity proven post-change (load_best 1350 == 1350). §83's doctrinal caveat (backlog ≠ work queue; worklist is the queue) STANDS — that's classification quality, not staleness.

T0(c) ✅ — family_hseq↔progress gap: ZERO definitional gap; stamped against recurrence (2026-07-30)

Same-tree regeneration of BOTH digests: family_hseq (overlays) 27,248 instances == progress fleet stubs 28,296 − main 1,034 − resident 14 = 27,248 — EXACT. The carried "29,961 vs 28,296" was a cross-date, cross-scope misread: the 07-29 map snapshot was SESSION-25's open state, and 29,961 − 27,248 = 2,713 = exactly the session's banked total. The tools were never in disagreement — both already derive from corpus.stubs (the Phase 26-A conversion, family_hseq:42). Hardening: the family-hseq digest header now stamps scope ("138 OVERLAYS only") + generation HEAD + the shared-oracle note ("compare digests only at the same HEAD") — a stale or scope-mismatched comparison is now self-announcing. Roadmap v2 D-bucket corrected. Fresh frontier readings from the regen (full pinning still at T0(f)): 478 substantial families / 678,404 templatable ins · 28 zero-crack (was 61 on 07-29 — S25 consumed 33) · 3,626 PURE / 40 IMM / 6 STRUCT · overlays 27,248 instances / 17,629 distinct / 1,587,311 ins.

T0(b) ✅ — rtu_match surfaces the real cc1 error in the verdict (2026-07-30)

_diagnostics() filter (the SESSION-25 recipe, in-tool): drop warning:/In function/At top level/###/blank lines from the failing stage's stderr and print the FIRST 15 survivors — gcc-2.7.2 hard errors carry no error: prefix and the old [-2000:] tail was all warnings. Raw-tail fallback if the filter empties (ICE/signal formats) — never prints less than before. Applied to all four stages (CPP/CC1/MASPSX/AS). Verified on a real deliberate CC1 failure: the verdict now leads with t.c:3116: 'nonexistent_var' undeclared instead of a 2 KB warning tail. --stderr-out unchanged (full dump). Docstring updated.

T0(a) ✅ — gate_stage stage-0 + fix_arity_callers journal undo (2026-07-30)

The carried defect pair closed structurally, not by root-causing:

• gate_stage.py: stage 0 gates the RAW drafts before any transform (GATE_NO_STAGE0 to disable) — the destroyed-good-draft mode (SESSION-22 reproduction: _o0 pair + func_80138C60, ladder-FAILED / bare-VERIFIED) is now impossible by construction; the canon/cast/rc ladder + arity pre-pass run only on stage-0 failures. Root-cause hypothesis recorded in-code (transforms are batch---src-file TU-blind where the gate is per-draft TU-aware) — open, now harmless.
• fix_arity_callers.py: --journal (per-edit literal before/after) + --undo-journal [--keep <banked>] — the exact undo now lives in the WRITER, shared by ladder AND bare workflows (the 17-TU residue class). Replaces gate_stage's two-special-case file snapshot; undo moved to after stage 2 (closes the latent stage-2 parity gap: a stage-2 bank used to lose its arity edit before its own gate attempt). Stale-journal guard (_arity_rc is not None).
• Verification: negative control apply→undo → byte-identical tree; --keep retains exactly the kept edit; in-process flow test .run/t0a_flowtest/driver.py 7/7 PASS (stage-0-first, s1in = failures-only, accumulation, undo-guard, src/ untouched). Real-tree at-scale proof lands with T1's first sweep (R22-bracketed there). Cookbook §122.