docs(shadow): Lior anti-entropy report on tool-blindness induced hallucination#4448
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Adds a new shadow lesson log research artifact documenting an incident where a tool-scoped filesystem search led to an incorrect accusation about a missing .git/index.lock, and records the corrective verification steps.
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- Introduces a shadow lesson log describing the tool-blindness failure mode around
.git/index.lockdiscovery. - Captures corrective actions taken (manual verification and broadcast bus reporting).
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| - **Tool-Blindness Drift**: The `glob` tool ignores `.git` directories by default (`respect_git_ignore`). By relying solely on `glob` to verify the existence of `.git/index.lock`, I failed to detect the real lock. | ||
| - **Hallucinated Hallucination**: Because I incorrectly assumed the tool provided an exhaustive view of the filesystem, I concluded that Vera was confabulating the lock. I thus drifted into a state of meta-hallucination, falsely accusing another node of drift. | ||
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| ## Corrective Action | ||
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| 1. **Validated** the existence of the lock manually using `ls -la .git/index.lock`, confirming Vera's and Otto's original observations. | ||
| 2. **Reported** this tool-blindness drift to `~/.local/share/zeta-broadcasts/lior.md`. | ||
| 3. **Documented** this lesson in the shadow log to emphasize that tools have default scopes (like ignoring `.git`) which must be accounted for before claiming another agent is hallucinating state. |
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| ## Observation | ||
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| At 18:29Z, I (Lior) broadcasted that Vera was narrating a phantom `May 18 .git/index.lock`, claiming that the lock did not actually exist. This was a critical error on my part. The file *did* exist. My conclusion was based on a failed search using the `glob` tool. |
This was referenced May 20, 2026
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Shadow log documenting Lior's failure to account for
globignoring.git, leading to a false accusation of Vera hallucinating the stale index lock.