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Merges four signed lanes, in order:

  • lane/bench-pin-populations (5fea9f1): run_slicerecall.py takes --ref (default v0.6.2) and
    bench/shotgun takes REF, so both history walks start from a fixed point. cc_vs_history.py's
    quintile table no longer depends on hash order. ripwirepubliccheck arm 9 flags any unpinned
    history walk in a measurement script. EVALS.md publishes the pinned Shotgun Surgery re-run and
    keeps the earlier figures, labelled as unpinned or retracted.
  • lane/readability-withdraw-ordering (47725a7): --readability's one-line help summary, README, COMMANDS
    and EVALS section 8 withdraw the claim that its order predicts later fixes. The longer help body still
    says "LEAST readable first"; that wording is corrected in the pending --biggest-first rename lane. Held to narrow token-count
    bands, the association disappears in 8 of 10 deciles, so the order is a size proxy.
  • lane/ack-ledger-provenance (c0cc08b): ack rows written or refreshed by --quality-ack record
    now=/was=/facet=/p=, so a later run can re-score them; an ENSURES re-score self-check was added.
  • lane/ack-provenance-backfill (2da5b08): rebuilds provenance for 231 legacy clone-ack rows from
    the current tree (prov=recon) and leaves 57 legacy rows byte-identical.

Fixes made while building the train:

  • ae2d29d: allowlist run_slicerecall.py's own --ref flag in deckcheck (it was red at the lane tip).
  • d7ebb3c: qackconcurrencycheck's half-pair sub-arm now fails when the row is missing
    (red-first by mutation).
  • 0d6f049: skills/ripwire-fresh-eyes/SKILL.md carries the readability withdrawal.

No merge conflicts. Generated docs re-derived from the merged binary; none changed. Local suite:
647/662 pass, 0 regressions. The sanitizer-built gates cannot run on the local machine, so CI's
asan job is their proof. quality-delta against main: gating=0.

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  • Documentation
    • Updated --readability descriptions: results are ordered largest-first by size-related measures, not presented as an independent readability ranking.
    • Revised evaluation figures and guidance to distinguish size effects from evidence of later fixes.
  • New Features
    • Quality acknowledgments now retain severity details and provenance; legacy clone acknowledgments may be reconstructed and reported.
    • Benchmark tools can pin history scans to a specified ref, with the selected ref recorded in results.

quaterniondrift and others added 16 commits September 22, 2026 16:44
Swept bench/, docs/, scripts/ and test/lib/ for measurement scripts that
walk git history without pinning the population they count over — the
defect class that forced the retraction of bench/readability_refactor_pairs.py's
"484 matched pairs, 30.2%" in docs/EVALS.md (that fix lives on an unmerged
lane and isn't in this tree; nothing here restates its numbers).

Found two live, unfixed instances of the same class:

- bench/shotgun/README.md's recipe ran a bare `git log` with no ref, so
  the 2026-09-08 "this repository: 1,731 files, 15,220 symbols, 1,587
  non-merge commits" figures in docs/EVALS.md's Shotgun Surgery section
  carry no recorded population and cannot be reproduced against a named
  commit. Flagged loudly in the README rather than silently restated;
  the recipe now takes REF (default v0.6.2) and builds the map from a
  worktree checked out at the same ref the log was walked from.
- bench/slice/run_slicerecall.py mined `git log` from bare HEAD of
  `--repo` (default "."), which docs/EVALS.md's own "corpus problem,
  settled" note already worked around by hand (always mining from a
  throwaway checkout DETACHED at a stated pin). The harness now takes
  --ref (default v0.6.2, this tree's own tag) and records the resolved
  ref+sha in its summary output, turning that operator discipline into
  the harness's own default. The b156027 numbers already recorded in
  EVALS.md are untouched — they were pinned by hand, same mechanism.

Everything else the sweep found either already pins by ref+assert
(bench/roundc-h2h/derive_questions.py), pins by content-hash lock
(bench/cppbench/run_cppbench.py's dataset.lock), records its own
sha per row (bench/ensemblecal/run_ensemblecal.py, bench/capsweep/
capsweep.py), or is a local-only opt-in tool that never publishes a
number (bench/mine_traces.py's --only-committed).

Gated: test/ripwirepubliccheck.sh arm 9 sweeps bench/, docs/, scripts/
and test/lib/ for a `git log`/`rev-list`/`for-each-ref` invocation
carrying no ref-shaped token (or any `--all`/`--branches`/`--remotes`),
with an allowlist keyed to exact (path, line) pairs for the legitimate
cases above. Proved red-first against the pre-fix content of both
files (reverted, gate run, restored); the two fixes are what turns it
green.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…self

The prior commit's caveat about the unpinned 2026-09-08 Shotgun Surgery
figures lived only in bench/shotgun/README.md; a reader meets the numbers
in docs/EVALS.md, so that is where the disclosure has to live too.

Ran the now-pinned bench/shotgun/ recipe at REF=v0.6.2 (15a2085,
2026-09-22) against this repository. It is a genuinely later, larger
population (v0.6.2 postdates the 2026-09-08 run by two weeks of landed
work: 2,171 files / 21,619 symbols / 2,930 non-merge commits vs.
1,731 / 15,220 / 1,587), not a reproduction of the old figures, so every
"this repository" row across (a)-(c) and the two follow-on paragraphs now
carries both numbers: the pinned one as current, and the 2026-09-08 one
inline as "first recorded as ... (unpinned — does not reproduce)" — never
silently replaced, never deleted.

The private ObjC++/C++ game-tree corpus rows are marked RETRACTED rather
than replaced: that corpus is a private, unpushed local checkout with no
ref or sha ever recorded against the 2026-09-08 run, outside anything
this tree's own gates can verify, and it is not something this session
can safely re-measure or pin. Its numbers stay as the historical record
only.

One more implicated aside turned up while in there (the CM×CC "crediting
every .size() flags 263/2,655 empty/find/size-named symbols" resolver-
artifact illustration) — noted as measured on the 2026-09-08 corpus and
not re-derived this round, rather than guessed at: my attempt to
reconstruct the same computation on the pinned map did not clearly match
the original's methodology, and the point it illustrates does not depend
on the exact count.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Each ack row now carries optional now=/was=/facet=/p=<path>:<line> tokens
alongside the existing cid=/by= ones, so a later run can re-evaluate a
finding's materiality under a different bar/minorDelta threshold (the
planned knob sweep) by reading the ledger alone, with no re-ingest and no
git history replay. was/now are the exact pair perSymbolKind compares
against a kind's bar (now factored into the shared numericRegressionIsMajor
so the live report and rescoreNumericMajor can never silently disagree);
facet carries the idiom/churn/surface classification for the kinds whose
severity isn't a bar comparison at all. The hash stays the sole match key;
these are additive, honest provenance only.

Legacy rows (nothing this binary wrote/refreshed) are read as
hasProvenance=false and never treated as re-scorable — 0 (a legitimate
measured value) is indistinguishable from an absent token, so presence,
not value, is the tell. They heal FORWARD on their next --quality-ack,
same posture as R1 cid= and P1.4 by=. The ledger's own header and
AckRecord's doc comment now say plainly that a legacy row cannot be
backfilled from this file alone (no row anchors a commit), and a
follow-up has been flagged to add that anchor / run a one-time
git-archaeology backfill so the sweep can also reach pre-existing acks.

A write-path ENSURES (verbs_quality.h) re-scores every row --quality-ack
just wrote and aborts if it disagrees with the just-computed live verdict
— the "round trip reproduces the same verdict" proof, exercised on every
real ack rather than a one-off test.

test/qackconcurrencycheck.sh gains arm 8 (extending the existing qack gate
family rather than a new gate file): a magnitude-bearing ack row must
carry now=/was= and, for a recognized clone idiom, facet=; proven red
against the pre-provenance binary. Its pinned grammar regex is updated to
accept the new optional tokens, and the committed ledger's header comment
is kept byte-identical to what the binary itself now writes (H10).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
--quality-delta caught its own new code: the new numeric-token parser
(takeAckUintPrefix) duplicated takeAckCidPrefix's shape, and a one-line
materialityBarFor wrapper around the new kind-lookup helper turned out to
be short enough to clone-match three unrelated one-line forwarders
elsewhere in the tree. Both are now genuinely shared: takeAckCidPrefix and
takeAckUintPrefix delegate to one takeAckNumericToken (cid= keeps its
existing DISCLOSE on a malformed value via a malformed-out-param; the new
now=/was= tokens stay silent by design, no new one-argument DISCLOSE),
and the trivial materialityBarFor wrapper is gone — its one caller
(rescoreNumericMajor) calls findRowByKind directly, the same helper
facetAttrName now also shares.

Also fixes the ENSURES round-trip self-check added in the prior commit:
its promise called optional::has_value()/operator*, which
test/selfcheckcheck.sh's promise-accessor rule (arm C) refuses on new
code; the boolean is now computed in a plain local before the ENSURES
call so the promise itself is a bare identifier.

./build/ripwire . --quality-delta now reports gating="0" on this branch's
own diff vs origin/main (3 short-horizon-churn minor rows only, expected
churn on freshly-edited code).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Independent review of this lane found two defects in what it just shipped:

- test/ripwirepubliccheck.sh arm 9's PIN_SIGNAL check ran against the whole
  line, so `git for-each-ref`'s own command name (containing a `\bref\b`-
  shaped substring) satisfied the "this line names a fixed point" heuristic
  by itself — the exact `for-each-ref ... | git log` shape the arm's header
  comment lists as a target silently passed. Mask the matched git-invocation
  text out of the line before testing PIN_SIGNAL/ALL_TOKEN, so the verb's own
  spelling can no longer prove its own pin. A for-each-ref call pinned to a
  real ref (e.g. `refs/tags/v0.6.2`) still reads clean.

- bench/shotgun/cc_vs_history.py built its per-file `rows` list by iterating
  a Python `set` (`indexed`), whose order is hash-seed-randomized. The
  CC_file=0 tie-break in the quintile split then depended on that seed:
  three fresh runs of the SAME pinned map/history reproduced rho and n
  exactly but printed three different Q1-Q5 scatter tables. Iterate
  `sorted(indexed)` instead; verified deterministic across repeated
  fresh-seed re-runs. docs/EVALS.md's pinned quintile row is updated to the
  now-reproducible figures, with a note on why the old ones moved.

Re-ran every other pinned-recipe figure in this lane's docs/EVALS.md
rewrite (cc_static.py, cochange_backtest.py, cochange_followup.py) against
REF=v0.6.2 and all of it reproduces exactly.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Follow-up to 1bd8b7c. The (path, line-number) allowlist key was itself a
false-alarm channel: an edit ANYWHERE above an exempted line shifts every
subsequent line number, so an unrelated, unreviewed change elsewhere in the
file drops an already-vetted hit off its key and arm 9 re-reports it as new
— demonstrated live by inserting one blank line above bench/mine_traces.py's
two exemptions (242, 361 -> 243, 362), neither of which was itself touched.

Re-key each entry as (path, sha256[:16] of the exact matched line's text).
This survives the line-shift case (proved: the same blank-line insertion no
longer reports anything) and still re-fires the moment the matched line's
OWN content changes (proved: swapping --name-only for --stat on the
line-242 exemption in bench/mine_traces.py correctly re-triggers arm 9,
restored after). The per-entry human-readable reasons are unchanged; the
line numbers in the comment are now explicitly commentary, not the key.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…dability

docs/research/readability-construct-validity.md §4 (a1b1930) tested whether
--readability's ordering predicts later fixes, holding size roughly constant.
Stratified into ten narrow token-count deciles, the association disappears in
8 of 10 (CIs include 1); the two that stay significant are the two deciles
with the most leftover internal token-range spread. The raw/tercile
separation reads as a residual size effect in the lens's own units, not an
independent readability signal — the same mechanism §3c already found
driving the lens's direction on refactor pairs.

- Reword --readability's one-line --help summary to state the mechanism
  (orders by Halstead volume/token entropy/length) without claiming a
  readability ordering.
- Extend the MEASURED paragraph with the withdrawal and its evidence,
  pointing at docs/EVALS.md §8 for the derivation.
- Mirror both in README.md's lens table and its `--readability` writeup.
- Record the withdrawal in docs/EVALS.md §8 alongside the figures it
  supersedes, keeping every earlier number visible as history.
- Regenerate docs/COMMANDS.md from the binary and re-pin
  test/printf_parity.manifest (UPDATE_GOLDEN=1): `help` and `help_all` both
  move, since the reworded one-line summary appears in both the budgeted
  first screen and the full catalog; all other 40 verbs are unchanged.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
… trip it never performs

rescoreAckRecord runs on the in-memory AckRecord right after --quality-ack builds it, never
through renderAckRecords/readAckRecords — so it proves the table-driven re-score formula
(rescoreNumericMajor via kMaterialityBars) agrees with the live one (numericRegressionIsMajor
via perSymbolKind's call-site literals), not that the ledger's text grammar round-trips. The
comments in verbs_quality.h and qackconcurrencycheck.sh both called it a "round trip... reading
the row it just wrote back exactly as readAckRecords would", which overstates what the check
covers and could lead a future reader to skip writing a real serialize+reparse test for
takeAckProvenance/splitAckLocator. Independently verified that path IS correct today (a
standalone harness round-tripped permuted token order, was=0 vs absent, colon-bearing paths,
malformed line suffixes, unknown future tokens, and the P0.3 kind-suffix strip — all honest),
but nothing in the tree currently asserts it, so the comments now say so precisely instead of
implying the ENSURES already does.

No functional change: ENSURES still gates on the same rescoreAgrees condition. Full gate suite
clean (gates=662 pass=659 skip=3 fail=0), quality-delta=b939ef4f..HEAD gating=0, determinism and
xmllint hold.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The provenance the prior commits added reaches only rows --quality-ack
WRITES, so this repo's own 1,623-row ledger carried none and the knob
sweep could re-score none of its own history. The obvious follow-up — a
commit anchor plus a git-archaeology pass to recover `was=` — turns out
to be aimed at the wrong rows, and measuring first is what showed it.

Of the 1,623 rows only 320 are numeric-bar rows, the only class
rescoreNumericMajor answers for at all. The 288 CLONE rows (62 of them
the reuse-decline kind the sweep specifically wants) have no
kMaterialityBars row, so rescoreNumericMajor's lookup misses and NO
recovered was= could change their verdict — their severity is `facet`.
A commit anchor would have resolved 0 of those 62, by construction
rather than by heuristic failure.

They need no git at all. Their ack identity IS cloneGroupHash (the
sorted member canonIds), classifyCloneGroupIdioms runs over every clone
group in the current tree regardless of newness, and `was` is 0 by
construction at both kinds' push_back sites — so today's tree answers
all three fields. Measured on the real ledger: 231 of 288 clone rows
reconstructed, including 47 of the 62 (3 carrying a named idiom, 44
reconstructing to CloneIdiom::None, which is the verdict that leaves the
finding at full severity rather than an absent answer). The 57 it cannot
reach are a floor, not a claim the groups are gone.

AckRecord::hasProvenance becomes a tri-state AckProvenance
{None, Measured, Reconstructed}; hasProvenance() stays as a derived
predicate so no existing call site changed meaning. `prov=recon` is
omitted for Measured — the same OMIT-when-default rule cid=/by= follow —
so a ledger of live-written rows is byte-identical to one written
without the axis, and qackconcurrencycheck arm 7's round trip over the
real ledger moves no byte until a backfill actually runs. A
reconstruction is a CACHE, not a dated record: every --quality-ack
re-derives the rows whose group it can still find. One it CANNOT find is
left intact and counted UNVERIFIED, never cleared — an earlier draft
withdrew those, and arm 7's transplant probe caught it deleting all 231
rows when the ledger was read beside a different tree. `facts` is what
the run FOUND; scoping, a size cap or a degraded parse all produce a
miss, and deleting derived data on the strength of a floor is the guess
the honesty contract forbids, made irreversibly.

The backfill runs BEFORE the live fold, so a measurement overwrites a
reconstruction by ordering rather than by a check. Clone facts ride a
defaulted cloneIdiomsOut out-param on computeDelta, taken before either
reporting lambda so the newness/test-script/fan-in filters cannot hide
the rows the pass exists to reach — no second clone pass. Re-scoring
goes only through rescoreAckRecord; there is no second copy of the
materiality rule. AckBackfill carries a `measured` count so the stderr
disclosure sums to the ledger: a report whose claim is that its floors
are honest must not print counts that visibly do not add up.

The numeric rows stay honestly unreachable and AckRecord's doc comment
now says so per kind, with the measured cost of the separate lane that
could reach them (320 rows blame to 86 distinct commits at b939ef4,
~13 min) and why the LAST write, not the first appearance, is the commit
to re-diff: the `was` must match the row's current ackNow. A re-measured
was is MEASURED and must not reuse prov=recon.

qackconcurrencycheck arm 9 (extending the qack family, no new gate
file): reconstruction, disclosure, idempotence, measured-beats-
reconstructed, the honest refusal to invent a numeric row's was=, and
the non-deletion of an unverifiable row. Arm 9f covers the class the
write-path ENSURES does NOT — that promise re-scores an in-memory record
and never touches renderAckRecords/readAckRecords, so serialisation and
parsing are invisible to it, which is exactly where prov=, the tri-state
and the omit rule live. A hand-written fixture ledger carries the shapes
the binary never emits (permuted token order, an unknown prov= value, a
half pair, a ':' inside p=) and is read and rewritten by the shipping
binary, including proving from the bytes that no row carries both a
measurement and a reconstruction. Proven RED against the pre-backfill
binary: 7 of arm 9's assertions fail there.

Full suite clean (gates=662 pass=659 skip=3 fail=0, tree_writes=0),
--quality-delta vs c0cc08b gating=0, determinism and xmllint hold.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
docs/EVALS.md auto-merged cleanly against lane 1's edits. Generated files (printf_parity.manifest, COMMANDS.md) are re-derived from the merged binary afterwards if they moved.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
lane/bench-pin-populations (5fea9f1) added a --ref flag to
bench/slice/run_slicerecall.py and quotes it twice in docs/EVALS.md's
--slice-guards corpus note. deckcheck scans that prose and, finding no
--ref in `ripwire --help=all`, reported both lines as fabricated flags.
It is red at the lane tip itself; deckcheck was not in the lane's gate
list, and the train's doc gates caught it.

--ref belongs to the harness, not to ripwire, so it takes an allowlist
row next to the same harness's --repo and --cap rows, with its reason.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…ssing row

Arm 9f's half-pair check (row 4444..., now= with no was=) is a negative
test: it greps the rewritten row for a provenance token run and passes
when nothing matches. It piped rt_row into grep -q, so a rewrite that
dropped the row entirely left grep nothing to match and the arm printed
PASS. Its four sibling sub-arms already fail on a missing row through
their case fall-through; this one did not.

The row is now read once and required to be present before its lack of
provenance counts. Red-first by mutation (the row deleted from the
rewritten fixture ledger): the previous gate rc=0 with this arm PASS,
this gate rc=1 with it FAIL. Unmutated: rc=0, 31 PASS.

Found by the train 17 pre-PR review checklist (pipeline whose failure
is swallowed). Gate logic only; no ledger bytes or output change.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…sh-eyes

lane/readability-withdraw-ordering (47725a7) withdrew --readability's
ordering claim in the help, README, COMMANDS and EVALS section 8, but
skills/ripwire-fresh-eyes/SKILL.md still told agents the row order
"ranks by how hard the text is to read" and to "read the ORDER of the
rows". That is the claim that was withdrawn, restated one file over,
and it is the surface an agent actually follows.

The paragraph now describes the order the way the help does (Halstead
volume, token entropy and length, largest first), keeps both earlier
caveats, and adds the withdrawal with its figure (8 of 10 token-count
deciles, so a size proxy) and a pointer to docs/EVALS.md section 8.

Found by the train 17 pre-PR review checklist (a changed claim grepped
across README/docs/skills). skilltruthcheck, skilldescbudgetcheck,
skillinstallcheck, skillscanreadcheck, deckcheck, readmedriftcheck,
docanchorcheck, docdriftcheck and textdocscheck pass.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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This change adds provenance and re-scoring support to quality acknowledgments, pins benchmark history walks and map generation to explicit refs, updates evaluation measurements, and revises the documented interpretation of the readability lens.

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Quality acknowledgment provenance

Layer / File(s) Summary
Ack record and ledger contract
src/quality.h
Acknowledgment records and ledger rows support numeric values, facets, locations, and provenance tokens. Shared materiality logic supports re-scoring.
Clone backfill and live re-scoring
src/quality.h, src/verbs_quality.h
Delta computation exports clone-group facts. The quality-ack path backfills eligible legacy clone rows and stores measured finding data with a re-scoring check.
Provenance validation
test/qackconcurrencycheck.sh
The concurrency check covers measured provenance, legacy backfill, token parsing and canonicalization, and numeric backfill refusal.

Pinned benchmark evaluations

Layer / File(s) Summary
Pin benchmark populations
bench/shotgun/README.md, bench/slice/run_slicerecall.py, docs/EVALS.md, test/deckcheck_allowlist.txt
The benchmark scripts pin history walks and map generation to explicit refs. The slice-recall output records the ref and resolved SHA.
Deterministic pinned results
bench/shotgun/cc_vs_history.py, docs/EVALS.md
The scatter script sorts indexed paths. The evaluation notes report pinned measurements and distinguish them from unpinned or unreproducible figures.
Unpinned history-walk check
test/ripwirepubliccheck.sh
The public check scans scoped scripts and shell Markdown fences for unpinned Git history commands and supports content-hash exemptions.

Readability lens interpretation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Revise readability lens claims
README.md, docs/COMMANDS.md, docs/EVALS.md, skills/ripwire-fresh-eyes/SKILL.md, src/cli.h
The CLI and documentation describe the lens as largest-first by size-related measures and withdraw the claim that its ordering independently predicts later fixes.

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Suggested reviewers: barefootski

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 0d6f0

The new acknowledgment provenance can corrupt committed ledger rows for files whose paths contain spaces. The new unpinned-history check and two acknowledgment test arms can report success without actually checking anything. These should be fixed before merge. The remaining documentation and benchmark items are small follow-ups.

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In `@bench/shotgun/README.md`:
- Line 18: Resolve the selected REF or --ref to a commit SHA once, then use that
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mining so every measurement uses the same immutable revision. Keep the original
ref only for descriptive output.

In `@docs/COMMANDS.md`:
- Line 1840: Remove the stale “LEAST readable first” wording and align the
descriptions with the largest-first ordering. In docs/COMMANDS.md:1840-1840,
update the ordering description; also update its example heading at Line 1846
and output comment at Line 1850. In src/cli.h:1381-1381, update the stale label
and its example output comment at Line 1850 to match the current largest-first
behavior.

In `@docs/EVALS.md`:
- Around line 8632-8634: Update the historical rerun instructions for the
recorded 7-commit, 38-instance measurement to explicitly pass --ref=b156027;
checking out b156027 alone no longer selects the intended mining population
because the harness defaults to v0.6.2.

In `@src/quality.h`:
- Around line 6395-6430: Update ackProvenanceTokens to emit facet= and p= only
when their values are nonempty and scopeSpecIsSpellable, omitting unspellable
values so whitespace or newlines cannot corrupt the ledger’s token or record
boundaries.
- Around line 6098-6107: Update takeAckUintPrefix to reject values above
UINT32_MAX and tokens without a leading digit, restoring the original reason on
rejection so malformed input remains visible; only narrow validated values.
Apply the same range and leading-digit validation in splitAckLocator, using a
fixed-width parse so oversized line numbers consistently fall back to the whole
token across platforms.

In `@src/verbs_quality.h`:
- Around line 1236-1242: Update the unresolved-count wording in the stderr
message emitted by the backfill reporting block to describe
`backfilled.unresolved` as a floor because the group was not found, without
claiming the member set does not clone here.

In `@test/qackconcurrencycheck.sh`:
- Around line 547-554: Update the case statement checking NUMROW in the re-ack
test so an empty value fails instead of passing as an honest refusal. Preserve
the existing failure for rows containing prov= and the pass for present rows
without reconstructed provenance.
- Around line 403-407: Remove the `prov=recon`-only PASS case from the `BFROW`
check in arm 9 of `test/qackconcurrencycheck.sh`; require
`facet=threshold-ladder` for a reconstructed row to pass, and report failure
with the row when `prov=recon` is present without that facet.

In `@test/ripwirepubliccheck.sh`:
- Line 1295: Update the `PIN_SIGNAL` regex to remove global case-insensitive
matching so lowercase `head` and ordinary `Ref` or `pin` text do not count as
pins; explicitly allow intended case variants only where needed, while keeping
`HEAD` and tag shapes case-sensitive.
- Line 1287: In the arm 9 scanner, check the Python heredoc’s exit status before
treating empty output as success, and report a nonzero exit as a failed
history-walk sweep. In the tracked-file scan, report an unreadable in-scope file
instead of silently skipping it.

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lane/readability-withdraw-ordering (47725a7) withdrew the claim that
--readability's order is a readability order: held to narrow token-count
bands, the later-fix association disappears in 8 of 10 deciles, so the
order is a size proxy (docs/EVALS.md section 8). It changed the one-line
help summary, but the same help entry, and the legends the verb emits,
still called the order "least readable first":

- src/cli.h --help=all body: now "LARGEST Halstead volume/token-count/
  length first (a size proxy, not a readability order)", the wording the
  --biggest-first lane already uses, so the two merge without a new
  disagreement.
- src/readability.h full legend: the order is P ascending, which puts
  the largest volume, token count and length first, stated as a size
  proxy with the withdrawal. "the least-readable extreme" of the sigmoid
  becomes "its low end".
- src/compactlegend.h compact legend (the default): "largest Halstead
  volume first (a size proxy)".
- src/ensemble.h / src/qualitypanel.h: rank 0 is "the lowest posnett=,
  the largest body", not "least readable".
- Comments in cli.h, readability.h and verbs_quality.h say the same.

Prose only: the <readability> root, the schema, every attribute and the
legend keys are unchanged.

Pins moved, re-anchored here with the reason recorded:
- compactlegendcheck: ripwire.readability/v1 320 -> 350 (measured 332;
  +24 B), per the table's measured+10 rule.
- printf_parity.manifest: help_all only (UPDATE_GOLDEN_EXPECT=help_all).
- docs/captures/COMMANDS_showcase_2026-09-14.md, corrected in place:
  the --readability sample's legend line is the new binary's; its
  caption matches the recorder (test/showcase_capture.py). The
  --quality-panel and --ensemble totals move +19 B and +42 B
  (18135 -> 18154, 10936 -> 10978). --legend-dict:
  dictv=2d9cec7852fd809b -> 7c89394f1b3da99d, 68632 -> 68656 B,
  704 entries.
- docs/COMMANDS.md regenerated from the binary.

readabilitycheck (G) follows the new saturation wording. New arm (G2)
fails if either legend still says "least readable first" or stops
calling the order a size proxy. It reads both legends into variables
first, so an empty run fails too. Red on a 0d6f049 binary ((G) and
(G2) FAIL, rc=1), green here.

Found by the independent train review (F1); CodeRabbit named the same
text on docs/COMMANDS.md and src/cli.h.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
… defect

Arm 9 of test/qackconcurrencycheck.sh had two sub-arms that printed PASS
on exactly the defect they exist to catch:

- The reconstruction check accepted a row carrying prov=recon with no
  facet= as "the idiom verdict is None here". The fixture is a copy of
  arm 8's tree, and arm 8 asserts facet=threshold-ladder on it, so None
  is not a valid answer: that branch could only hide a reconstruction
  that lost the idiom. It now fails.
- The legacy-numeric-row check is a negative test (no prov= on the row).
  A re-ack that deleted the row left NUMROW empty, and the fall-through
  printed "the honest refusal". An empty row now fails, as arm 9f's
  half-pair check already does.

Red-first by mutation, on the same binary:
- facet= stripped from the reconstructed row: the previous sub-arm
  PASS, this one FAIL.
- the complexity row deleted before NUMROW is read: previous gate rc=0
  with that sub-arm PASS, this gate rc=1 with it FAIL.
Unmutated: rc=0.

Raised by CodeRabbit on PR #329 (test/qackconcurrencycheck.sh 403-407
and 547-554); both verified before the change.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…readable locator

The ack ledger is committed and hand-edited, so its tokens are external
input. Two ways a row came back different from what it said:

- Integers. takeAckUintPrefix narrowed strtoull's result to 32 bits, and
  splitAckLocator used strtoul. strtoull accepts a leading '-' and
  negates, and unsigned long is 64 bits on LP64 but 32 on Windows. On
  this machine a hand-written now=4294967296 read back as now=0, now=-1
  as now=4294967295, and the same happened to a p= line number. Both now
  go through parseAckLedgerUint32, which takes 1-10 ASCII digits that fit
  32 bits and nothing else, checked with VALIDATE in the refusing
  condition. A value it rejects keeps the existing degrade: now=/was=
  stay visible in the reason, and a p= token stays whole as the path.
  No value is fabricated.
- Locators. ackProvenanceTokens wrote p= and facet= verbatim into a
  whitespace-delimited line. A finding on "my dir/a b.py" was written as
  p=my dir/a b.py:1 and read back as path "my", line 0, with the rest
  pushed into the reason, and the next ack committed that. A value that
  cannot be spelled as one token is now omitted, under the same closed
  set by= already uses (scopeSpecIsSpellable). An absent locator is the
  honest degrade; nothing decides anything from p=.

Rows this binary already writes are unchanged: arms 6 and 7 still read
the committed ledger back byte-identically.

qackconcurrencycheck arm 10 pins both halves. (10a) four hand-written
out-of-range or negative values stay visible. (10b) a live finding on a
path with a space keeps now=/was= and its reason and round-trips through
a second ack. Red on a 0d6f049 binary (all five checks FAIL, rc=1),
green here (rc=0, 37 PASS).

Raised by CodeRabbit on PR #329 (src/quality.h 6098-6134 and 6395-6430);
both reproduced through the binary before the change.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…n a piped head

Two ways arm 9 (unpinned git-history walks in measurement scripts)
reported a clean sweep it had not made:

- The scanner's exit status was never read. A python exception left
  $TMP/arm9 empty and the arm printed PASS. The status is now checked,
  and a nonzero exit fails the arm. A tracked in-scope file that cannot
  be opened is now reported instead of silently skipped.
- PIN_SIGNAL was compiled with re.IGNORECASE, so the \bHEAD\b meant for
  a pinned HEAD also matched the `| head -n 50` a recipe pipes into, and
  `git log --format=%H | head -n 50` read as pinned. The pattern is now
  case-sensitive and lists each accepted spelling (HEAD, --ref, ref/REF,
  PIN, a hex sha in either case, a vN.N tag). No tracked hit moved: arm
  9 is green on this tree.

Red-first by mutation, same binary:
- scanner pointed at a missing input: previous arm PASS, this arm FAIL
  ("the history-walk scanner exited 1").
- an unpinned `git log --format=%H | head -n 50` added to a tracked
  bench script: previous gate rc=0 with arm 9 PASS, this gate rc=1
  naming the line.

Raised by CodeRabbit on PR #329 (test/ripwirepubliccheck.sh 1287 and
1295); both verified before the change.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
bench/shotgun/README.md resolved REF three times (the walk, the record,
the checkout), and run_slicerecall.py recorded ref_sha but mined by the
ref's name. With the default v0.6.2 tag these agree. With a caller's
moving branch, the population walked could differ from the sha
recorded. Both now resolve once:
- the shotgun recipe keeps the given name in REF_NAME for its message
  and walks, records and checks out the resolved sha;
- the slice harness mines ref_sha.

The git log lines themselves are byte-identical, so ripwirepubliccheck
arm 9's content-keyed allowlist is untouched.

Checked: at v0.6.2 the slice mine returns the same 41 candidates by name
and by sha, and the shotgun walk returns the same 2,930 non-merge
commits EVALS.md records.

Raised by CodeRabbit on PR #329 (bench/shotgun/README.md 18).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…f=b156027

The --slice-guards registration freezes its corpus by checking out
b156027. Since lane/bench-pin-populations, run_slicerecall.py walks
--ref, default v0.6.2, whatever the checkout. So that checkout alone
now mines a later, different population. The note now says to pass
--ref=b156027 as well. The recorded 7-commit / 38-instance figures are
unchanged.

Raised by CodeRabbit on PR #329 (docs/EVALS.md 8632-8634).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Disposition of the review round on this train (one push, 0d6f0490 → 33c39152, fast-forward).

CodeRabbit reviewed 0d6f0490. Its 10 threads were checked against the binary before any change: 9 were fixed and 1 is deferred with its reason (it belongs to the queued ack-backfill follow-up change). Each thread has its own reply. The independent train review raised one more item (F1): the withdrawn "least readable first" wording was still in the --help=all body and in both --readability legends.

Commits after the reviewed head:

  • 9f37adc8: fix(readability): stop describing the order as least readable first (F1 + thread on docs/COMMANDS.md). Prose only; root, schema and legend keys unchanged. compactlegendcheck's readability budget is re-anchored 320 → 350 in the same commit, and help_all is re-pinned.
  • 4fd057b8: fix(test): two arm-9 sub-arms in qackconcurrencycheck could pass on a defect.
  • 22af60cb: fix(quality): read ack ledger integers strictly and never write an unreadable locator.
  • 44e2957b: fix(test): ripwirepubliccheck arm 9 could pass without scanning, or on a piped head.
  • 41883b07: fix(bench): resolve the pinned ref once and measure that sha.
  • 33c39152: docs(evals): a re-run of the b156027 slice measurement must pass --ref=b156027.

Each behaviour fix has a gate arm that is red on 0d6f0490 and green on 33c39152. Local verification on 33c39152: 259 targeted gates (the source-grep sweep over the changed files plus the verb gates). All pass alone except one sanitizer-built gate that cannot run on the local machine; CI's asan job covers it. --quality-delta against main: gating 0.

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