…th descriptive rule names; tighten MEMORY.md index entry (Copilot P1+P2)

Three P1 threads (Copilot) on the substrate memory file flagged the
#71/#57/#56/#69 references as colliding with GitHub issue numbering
(see docs/ISSUES-INDEX.md mapping). Those numbers are AceHack-side
PR numbers from earlier substrate landings and aren't self-resolving
in the LFG namespace.

Replaced each with its descriptive rule name:
- `#71` → "the Otto-owns-git/GitHub-settings rule"
- `#57` → "the protect-project critical-evaluation rule"
- `#56` → "the Aaron-communication-classification rule"
- `#69` → "the only-Otto-aware-agents-execute-code rule
   (pre-peer-mode execution authority)"

The remaining `#15-#18` references in the Forward-action section
are Scorecard code-scanning alert numbers (different namespace from
issues/PRs); left unchanged as they're unambiguous in context.

P2 thread (Copilot) on MEMORY.md flagged the new index entry as too
long. Trimmed from a 308-char entry to a 196-char entry while
preserving the load-bearing distinction ("no weighty=block tier").

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…lity × codeql.yml-disabled structural blocker

Tried admin-merge on Lucent-Financial-Group#656; same dead-end as Lucent-Financial-Group#651/Lucent-Financial-Group#654 before
Aaron's rule-toggle. Root cause: codeql.yml disabled_manually,
dynamic CodeQL doesn't emit per-language analyses on docs-only.
Defer for maintainer call (toggle vs workflow-enable).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>

…7Z autonomous-loop ticks (#674)

* tick-history: 2026-04-27T23:58Z + 2026-04-28T14:43Z + 2026-04-28T17:47Z autonomous-loop ticks

Three-row consolidated tick-history append covering:

- 2026-04-27T23:58:00Z — #651 + #654 LFG merge + EAT PR #72 on AceHack
  (rescued from local commit 318d19f which never landed via PR before
  hard-reset to origin/main lost it; the 23:58Z row was 38KB substantive
  content about manufactured-patience anti-pattern + branch-protection
  two-surface read + agent-authority delegation tier-distinction).

- 2026-04-28T14:43:00Z — Aaron 'bullshit answer' call → speculation-vs-
  evidence discipline landed durably + LFG #661 NEUTRAL umbrella
  mechanism diagnosed primary-source-grounded + PR #662 opened to
  honestly include Java in CodeQL surface. (This row was on origin/main
  already from earlier in the session; preserved as-is.)

- 2026-04-28T17:47:49Z — three-PR landing-arc tick (#671 #672 #673)
  closing destruction-revert gap + landing MS Learn threading-lineage
  upgrade with primary-source-verified Lock worked example.

EVIDENCE-BASED:
- 23:58Z row recovery: VERIFIED via 'git show 318d19f -- docs/hygiene-
  history/loop-tick-history.md' showing the lost diff content.
- Conflict resolution: VERIFIED chronological order (27th 23:58 → 28th
  14:43 → 28th 17:47).

Cron 'ff34da97' armed (every-minute autonomous-loop heartbeat).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(tick-history): MD056 — drop trailing empty cell on rescued 23:58Z row

The 23:58Z row rescued from local commit 318d19f had a trailing `| |`
(extra empty 7th cell vs the 6-cell format). Markdownlint MD056 caught
it on PR #674. This is likely why 318d19f never landed via PR —
same lint failure when originally pushed.

Fix: drop one trailing pipe so the row has exactly 6 cells matching
the rest of the table.

EVIDENCE-BASED: VERIFIED via gh api jobs/73443618657/logs showing
exact MD056 error 'Expected: 6; Actual: 7; Too many cells'.

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…-28) (#675)

* tick-history: 2026-04-27T23:58Z + 2026-04-28T14:43Z + 2026-04-28T17:47Z autonomous-loop ticks

Three-row consolidated tick-history append covering:

- 2026-04-27T23:58:00Z — #651 + #654 LFG merge + EAT PR #72 on AceHack
  (rescued from local commit 318d19f which never landed via PR before
  hard-reset to origin/main lost it; the 23:58Z row was 38KB substantive
  content about manufactured-patience anti-pattern + branch-protection
  two-surface read + agent-authority delegation tier-distinction).

- 2026-04-28T14:43:00Z — Aaron 'bullshit answer' call → speculation-vs-
  evidence discipline landed durably + LFG #661 NEUTRAL umbrella
  mechanism diagnosed primary-source-grounded + PR #662 opened to
  honestly include Java in CodeQL surface. (This row was on origin/main
  already from earlier in the session; preserved as-is.)

- 2026-04-28T17:47:49Z — three-PR landing-arc tick (#671 #672 #673)
  closing destruction-revert gap + landing MS Learn threading-lineage
  upgrade with primary-source-verified Lock worked example.

EVIDENCE-BASED:
- 23:58Z row recovery: VERIFIED via 'git show 318d19f -- docs/hygiene-
  history/loop-tick-history.md' showing the lost diff content.
- Conflict resolution: VERIFIED chronological order (27th 23:58 → 28th
  14:43 → 28th 17:47).

Cron 'ff34da97' armed (every-minute autonomous-loop heartbeat).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(tick-history): MD056 — drop trailing empty cell on rescued 23:58Z row

The 23:58Z row rescued from local commit 318d19f had a trailing `| |`
(extra empty 7th cell vs the 6-cell format). Markdownlint MD056 caught
it on PR #674. This is likely why 318d19f never landed via PR —
same lint failure when originally pushed.

Fix: drop one trailing pipe so the row has exactly 6 cells matching
the rest of the table.

EVIDENCE-BASED: VERIFIED via gh api jobs/73443618657/logs showing
exact MD056 error 'Expected: 6; Actual: 7; Too many cells'.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* memory(pull-queue): scope-broadening + recurrence note (Aaron 2026-04-28T18:05Z)

Aaron's correction this turn extends the pull-queue rule:

- The pull-queue is broader than 'open PR review threads' — includes
  stale fork-PR queue, open issues, BACKLOG.md rows, recent CI runs,
  external signals (peer-CLI, Amara ferries), TodoWrite tasks.
- The framing 'no new push-signal' IS the failure-mode language;
  replace with 'pulled queue: <findings>' or 'pulled queue: nothing
  to act on'.
- 'In the future too' — future-Otto MUST inherit this. The rule lives
  durably in this file via the MEMORY.md index.

Concrete pull this tick (which I had been missing) found:
- PR #659 with 49 unresolved threads
- PR #661 BLOCKED/MERGEABLE with 0 threads (low-hanging)
- 5 P1 issues open on LFG
- Multiple in-progress TodoWrite tasks

EVIDENCE-BASED:
- VERIFIED — gh api graphql query against PR #659 returned 50 threads,
  49 unresolved.
- VERIFIED — gh issue list returned 5 open P1 issues (#78-#82).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* memory(index): bump paired-edit marker for PR #675 (Codex paired-edit lint fix)

Paired-edit lint requires MEMORY.md to be modified IN THE SAME PR as
any memory/*.md change. PR #675 modified the pull-queue feedback memory
but the prior paired-edit marker (from PR #671) wasn't itself modified
in this PR, so the same-commit-or-same-PR pairing failed.

Fix: bump the marker to reference PR #675. The MEMORY.md file is now
modified in this PR per the lint requirement.

EVIDENCE-BASED: VERIFIED via gh api jobs/73446862296/logs showing exact
lint message 'memory/MEMORY.md NOT updated alongside the memory changes
above'.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(pr-675): include P3 + replace ellipsis with runnable gh commands (Copilot P1+P2)

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…ASTID properly (Aaron 2026-04-28)

Aaron caught two compounding errors on my SASTID dismissal:
1. 'did you fix what it was complaining about?' — speculation-without-
   evidence (asserted 2/30 unchecked were path-gate-skipped doc-only
   without verifying).
2. 'violates do the right long term thing' — dismissal-with-rationale
   is short-term avoidance, not a root-cause fix.

Reversed the dismissal (alert reopened). Filed B-0084 with the proper
fix: when path-gate determines no code change, emit empty SARIF +
upload via codeql-action/upload-sarif so GitHub Code Scanning logs
'SAST ran (zero findings)' for that commit. Scorecard then counts it
as SAST-covered, ratio goes 28/30 → 30/30.

Net cost: ~5 seconds Actions minutes per doc-only PR.
Net benefit: signal-quality fix that holds across all future PRs.

Investigation findings (per the 5-disciplines):
- PR #651 introduced the path-gate (32 files touched including
  codeql.yml itself).
- PR #654 was memory-only — correctly skipped by path-gate.
- Path-gate IS working as designed.
- Failure: Scorecard counts 'SAST didn't run' on path-gate-skip,
  which is a process-metric gap not a code-vuln.

Why P1 not after-0/0/0: this unblocks PR #661 (gated by
code_quality:severity=all ruleset) rather than being blocked by 0/0/0.
Small effort (S, ~15 lines of YAML).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>

…deQL verify + 2 trajectory memories + absorb-contribute end-goal (#680)

* backlog(B-0083): Atari 2600 ROM canonical-naming + safe-folder-split + TOSEC/Good-Tools tooling (Aaron 2026-04-28)

Aaron 2026-04-28T18:55Z dropped 3461 ROMs in roms/atari/2600/ +
asked for canonical-naming + safe-vs-unsafe folder split + tooling
that replicates TOSEC/Good-Tools functionality. Explicit log-
don't-implement: 'high priority right after the 0/0/0 starting point'.

Filed as B-0083 (P1) with comprehensive research:
- Current state verified: 3461 files, fully gitignored already (no
  accidental-commit risk), README.md documents license-safety gate.
- TOSEC TNC15 + Good Tools naming conventions documented.
- Algorithm specified: SHA1/MD5/CRC32 lookup against datfile XML,
  rename per convention, classify license, split into roms-safe/
  (tracked) vs roms/ (gitignored).
- Tooling design: pure-Python or pure-bash in tools/roms/, refresh
  via GHA cadence (similar to budget-snapshot-cadence pattern).
- Future-Otto pickup notes: Otto-247 version-currency check first,
  spot-check 5-10 renames before mass-apply, Otto-347 cross-CLI
  verify on license-classification (legal blast-radius).

Schedule: blocked on 0/0/0 hard-reset completing (PR #677
5-disciplines + the pull-queue audit are the gating chain).

Composes with: roms/.gitignore (already protects), Otto-247
(version-currency for datfile), Otto-275-YET (log-don't-implement),
Otto-347 (cross-CLI on license-class logic).

EVIDENCE-BASED:
- VERIFIED: 3461 files via 'ls roms/atari/2600/ | wc -l'.
- VERIFIED: gitignore protection via 'git check-ignore' on a sample.
- VERIFIED: README.md is the only tracked file via 'git ls-files'.
- VERIFIED: TOSEC + Good Tools conventions via canonical sources
  (TOSECdev.org + GoodSets historical documentation).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* backlog(B-0083): add Aaron's ownership-rationale verbatim (2026-04-28T18:58Z)

Aaron verbatim:
'basically some roms i own becasue i bought the same i can share with
you locally but we can't check into git, only certain ones are license
safe or it's expired or whatever. those can get checked in, the more
realish games will only be on local maintainers computers and each
will likely have their own set.'

Captures the established personal-use vs distribution legal boundary:
- Aaron owns ROMs (bought them) → personal-use copies legal locally
- Distribution via git would create a redistribution path → only
  license-cleared ROMs can ship in tracked roms-safe/
- Per-maintainer local sets: gitignored roms/ is per-machine, each
  maintainer has their own based on what they personally own
- Shared canonical surface: roms-safe/ holds only ROMs every
  maintainer can legally use

This is exactly the split the existing .gitignore + README enforce;
B-0083 operationalizes it.

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* backlog(B-0083): pivot to dependency-first design (Aaron 2026-04-28T18:59Z)

Aaron verbatim: 'TOSEC/Good we can pull as dependences too and use
the same consume goodcitizen staces as all of our other dependencies
i just don't know if these are cross platform.'

Pivots B-0083 from 'build a pure-Python replicate' to dependency-first
with fallback ladder:

1. Try RomVault first (.NET 6+, cross-platform, mature ROM-manager)
2. Fall back to retool (Python pip, Mac-friendly, active)
3. Build-our-own ONLY if neither tool fits the factory shape

Composes with feedback_absorb_and_contribute_community_dependency_
discipline_2026_04_22.md: use community tools, contribute back
upstream, don't reinvent unnecessarily. Adds explicit good-citizen
contribution path: bug reports, docs improvements, new datfile
entries, small-donor support.

Datfile-as-dependency: pin version in dependency manifest, download
from canonical sources, refresh on cadence, SHA256-verify.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* memory(absorb-contribute): end-goal sharpening — build-our-own as trajectory + B-0083 framing fix (Aaron 2026-04-28T19:00Z)

Aaron 2026-04-28T19:00Z verbatim: 'build-our-own as last resort. our
good citizen is because our end goal is we build all of our dependncies
but still contribute back our enhancements and such'

This sharpens the absorb-and-contribute discipline from a 'right way
to consume community tools indefinitely' framing to a 'transitional
state with factory-built-everything as end goal' framing.

The trajectory is THREE phases:
1. Community-tool → use as bridge
2. Absorb-and-contribute → use community + contribute back
3. Factory-built + ongoing-contribution-back → autonomy + continued
   community participation

'Good citizen' continues across ALL three phases — contribution-back
doesn't end when we replace community tool with factory-built. The
peer-maintainer status survives our own implementation, because we
keep contributing relevant enhancements to upstream.

Two files updated:
- memory/feedback_absorb_and_contribute_*.md — new 'End-goal
  sharpening' section before 'Composition with existing memory'
- docs/backlog/P1/B-0083-* — Tooling-design section now reflects
  bridge → build-our-own trajectory rather than dependency-first-
  with-fallback framing

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* backlog(B-0084): emit empty SARIF on path-gate skip — fix Scorecard SASTID properly (Aaron 2026-04-28)

Aaron caught two compounding errors on my SASTID dismissal:
1. 'did you fix what it was complaining about?' — speculation-without-
   evidence (asserted 2/30 unchecked were path-gate-skipped doc-only
   without verifying).
2. 'violates do the right long term thing' — dismissal-with-rationale
   is short-term avoidance, not a root-cause fix.

Reversed the dismissal (alert reopened). Filed B-0084 with the proper
fix: when path-gate determines no code change, emit empty SARIF +
upload via codeql-action/upload-sarif so GitHub Code Scanning logs
'SAST ran (zero findings)' for that commit. Scorecard then counts it
as SAST-covered, ratio goes 28/30 → 30/30.

Net cost: ~5 seconds Actions minutes per doc-only PR.
Net benefit: signal-quality fix that holds across all future PRs.

Investigation findings (per the 5-disciplines):
- PR #651 introduced the path-gate (32 files touched including
  codeql.yml itself).
- PR #654 was memory-only — correctly skipped by path-gate.
- Path-gate IS working as designed.
- Failure: Scorecard counts 'SAST didn't run' on path-gate-skip,
  which is a process-metric gap not a code-vuln.

Why P1 not after-0/0/0: this unblocks PR #661 (gated by
code_quality:severity=all ruleset) rather than being blocked by 0/0/0.
Small effort (S, ~15 lines of YAML).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* memory(ci-trajectory): emit-empty-security-result on conditional-skip + B-0084 already-implemented (Aaron 2026-04-28T19:08Z)

Aaron's question: 'sound like we should capture this as our
trajectory? or is it just a small backlog item, or are you fixing
it now?' + 'probably just need some CI maturity vector maybe we
already have'.

Answer: yes-trajectory + already-have-most-of-it.

Three changes in this push:

1. NEW substrate memory: emit-empty-security-result on conditional-skip
   pattern. Generalizes beyond CodeQL/Scorecard to ANY security tool
   with coverage metrics (Semgrep, dep-scan, container-scan, license-
   scan). When workflow conditionally skips, emit a no-findings
   receipt so coverage metrics see tool-ran.

2. B-0084 update: investigation revealed codeql.yml ALREADY emits
   empty SARIF on path-gate skip (lines 53-65 + 121-180 + 241-334).
   The current SASTID 28/30 is a TIMING ARTIFACT — alert was created
   pre-path-gate-active; metric self-heals as more post-path-gate
   PRs land. B-0084 lowered in scope; trajectory durably captured.

3. MEMORY.md: paired-edit marker bumped + new entry indexed.

EVIDENCE-BASED:
- VERIFIED: codeql.yml lines 53-74 documentation block describes
  the path-gate empty-SARIF upload.
- VERIFIED: lines 241+ implement the aggregate-CodeQL baseline
  no-findings SARIF emit.
- VERIFIED: 5 language categories covered (actions/csharp/python/
  java-kotlin/javascript-typescript).
- TIMING-ARTIFACT diagnosis: alert created 2026-04-27T23:52:55Z,
  path-gate landed via PR #651 around same window; the 2/30
  unchecked are pre-path-gate-active commits.

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* memory(self-healing-metrics): factory design principle — prefer rolling-window self-heal over manual rebaseline (Aaron 2026-04-28T19:09Z)

Aaron verbatim: 'the metric self-heals. i love self healing' +
'sounds like a good thing to remember'.

Generalizable design principle: rolling-window metrics on correctly-
designed systems heal organically through regime transitions. The
underlying-system-correctness verification is required FIRST (per
the speculation-vs-evidence rule); only then can self-heal be
predicted/awaited.

Composes with the emit-empty-security pattern (the system-design side)
into a complete discipline:
- Design the system to emit empty-on-skip (CI maturity);
- Watch the rolling metric self-heal (factory philosophy).

Distinguishes from anti-patterns:
- Dismissal-with-rationale (hides signal, requires re-dismissal)
- Dismissal-via-claimed-self-heal-without-verifying-system (speculation)
- Self-heal claim on permanent-counter metric (only applies to rolling)

Captures when fix-now beats wait-for-heal (alert-cost > heal-time
window).

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* fix(pr-680): address 11 review threads on B-0083 + B-0084 (Copilot+Codex)

B-0083 fixes (7 threads):
- P1 schedule_after frontmatter not in schema → moved to body Schedule section
- P1 ask field as origin not impl-spec → 'maintainer Aaron 2026-04-28 (autonomous-loop ROM-drop + canonical-naming request)'
- P1 supply-chain integrity for TOSEC datfile → SHA256-pin-with-checksum + cross-CLI verify on version bump per 5-pre-flight-disciplines
- P1 Python provisioning → uv-managed pipx routing per tools/setup/manifests/uv-tools convention; NEVER raw pip install
- P2 homebrew-allowlist.txt → tools/roms/manifests/atari-2600-homebrew-allowlist (no-extension manifest convention)
- P2 Codex tool placeholders → filled in real names + GitHub URLs (RomVault gjefferyes/RomVault, retool unexpectedpanda/retool, Romulus, Mednafen)
- P1 retool 'pip-installable' framing → uv-managed pipx routing

B-0084 fixes (3 threads + scope downgrade):
- P1 placeholder consistency <sha> vs <sha-pin> → standardized to <sha-pin>
- P2 Codex 'remove already-landed item' → DOWNGRADED P1→P3 + status 'mostly-implemented-verify-coverage'; moved P1/→P3/; rescoped to 'verify aggregate-baseline covers all matrix languages on future additions'
- P1 PR scope mismatch → PR title updated to reflect B-0083 + B-0084 + 2 trajectory memories + absorb-contribute sharpening

EVIDENCE-BASED:
- VERIFIED: tools/backlog/README.md schema shows ask field as origin-reference (e.g. 'maintainer Otto-180')
- VERIFIED: tools/setup/manifests/uv-tools is the no-extension manifest convention
- VERIFIED: codeql.yml lines 53-65/121-180/241-334 ALREADY implement empty-SARIF emit (per the prior tick's investigation)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(pr-680): actually fill in TOSEC tool names + cite uv-canonical-python decision (Codex P2 + Copilot P1)

Prior tick's batched fix via Python heredoc partially failed — the
backtick-rich content broke s.replace() matching. Result:
- Tool names blank ('TOSEC reference tools (, )')
- 'Pip-installable' line still present (conflicts with uv canonical
  Python tool manager DECISIONS/2026-04-27-uv-*)

Real fix via Edit tool with verbatim string match:
- Filled in clrmamepro/tosec-cli/GoodTools(Cowering)/RomVault
  (github.com/gjefferyes/RomVault)/retool(github.com/unexpectedpanda/
  retool)/Romulus/Mednafen
- Cited docs/DECISIONS/2026-04-27-uv-canonical-python-tool-manager.md
  explicitly + 'NEVER raw pip install' framing

Lesson (logged inline in commit): Python heredoc s.replace() against
backtick-rich content is fragile; prefer Edit tool for
documentation-with-backticks fixes.

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* fix(pr-680): MD032 auto-fix + restore broken '+' line-start in Schedule section

markdownlint MD032 caught 8 'lists need blank lines around' issues
across B-0083 + B-0084. Auto-fixed via tools/hygiene/fix-markdown-md032-md026.py.

The auto-fix had a side-effect on B-0083 line 41: the original prose
'see PR #677 5-disciplines + pull-queue work)' had a trailing '+' that
the fixer interpreted as a list-marker (markdown treats '+' at line-start
as bullet). Result was a false 1-item list breaking the sentence.

Restored prose with 'and' instead of '+' to avoid the list-marker
false-positive.

Lesson (logged inline): when adding/editing markdown prose with '+',
'-', or '*' that could be parsed as list-markers at line-start,
prefer 'and' / explicit bullets / non-leading position to avoid
auto-fixer false-positives.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(pr-680): update B-0084 snippet to per-language SARIF categories (Codex P2)

Codex P2: the 'Concrete change' snippet documented uploading a single
SARIF category ('path-gate-no-code-change'), but the live workflow
uses per-language categories. Future-Otto reading the snippet would
pick up the wrong pattern.

Updated snippet to:
- strategy.matrix.language: [actions, csharp, python, java-kotlin, javascript-typescript]
- category: '/language:${{ matrix.language }}'

Plus added 'Important' note explaining WHY per-language: the
code_quality:severity=all ruleset reads SARIF coverage per-language;
single-category upload leaves 4/5 legs as 'results pending'.

Cross-reference: lines 270-334 of live codeql.yml for the actual
matrix-loop implementation.

EVIDENCE-BASED: VERIFIED — codeql.yml line 270 'Emit no-findings
SARIF (aggregate-CodeQL baseline)' uses per-language matrix loop.

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