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fix(849): round 9 — sentinel TEXT is not sentinel STATE, and an unreadable neighbour is not noise
The round-8 cross-family review found two more Blockers. Both are cases where a principle
this branch had already established was applied in one place and not the adjacent one.

## Sentinel text is not sentinel state

`ex_repair` and `ex_unverified` were set from the DESCRIPTION alone. A `success` carrying
`$REPAIR_DESC` verbatim — from a machine or an off-list account — therefore read as a
sentinel: the mid-run guard exited on it, and the mark's already-there test matched it and
returned without POSTing. A green stood on an unreviewed head, on a first-push event with no
successor guaranteed.

This is the same reasoning that removed the "this job's own output" exclusion one round
earlier: a description is not provenance. It is not state either. Both sentinels this job
writes are `pending` by construction, so requiring it costs nothing.

## An unreadable neighbour cannot be shown to be unrelated

Round 8 refused only when NO readable target row was found, reasoning that a malformed row
beside a good one is noise. An element whose `.context` cannot be read cannot be shown to be
a DIFFERENT context — so it may be a mangled rendering of this head's own rejection, and the
one-row-per-context invariant that would rule that out is exactly what a schema-corrupt
response has already broken. The branch's own POSITIVE CONTROL encoded the failing case: a
scalar beside an off-list `success`, which this branch re-derived and greened where
`origin/main` errored on the scalar and posted nothing. That test is inverted, not adjusted.

The cost is a stall on any head carrying a malformed element — the correct direction for a
required check, since it withholds a green rather than granting one.

## Two clauses deleted rather than proved

Chasing a proof for the mark's repair promotion showed its three clauses were MUTUALLY
REDUNDANT: each alone produces the outcome, so no single-clause mutation could show harm.
Tracing why revealed that two are unreachable as a sole cause — a repair sentinel at the
first read sets `ex_repair`, which forces `desc="$REPAIR_DESC"`, and one arriving mid-run is
caught by the sentinel guard unless this run is itself writing that string. So they are
redundant rather than unprovable, and they are gone. One clause, one mechanism, one proof.

refs #849

Refs: #849
Decisions-Edit: yes
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_019T79beF1Ufid3dXju4yqkF
2026-08-30 06:05:02 +02:00
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