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Summary

Why this PR is batched (glossary + tick row in one)

Per Amara's just-arrived "do not let the fix for the flywheel become another turn of the flywheel" rule, this PR batches the glossary entry + tick-history row into one PR (cuts friction in half vs separate PRs).

Test plan

  • Glossary entry placed alphabetically before "Harmonious Division"
  • Plain + Technical structure matching surrounding entries
  • Authoritative source pointer to memory file
  • Composes-with note for the Aurora bridge (Translation 1)
  • Tick-history row appended in same commit

…w (durable-home work for already-named rule)

Lands the formal glossary definition for Candidate-count
Goodhart per Claude.ai's session-close step-3 (durable-home
verification). The rule was already named in
memory/feedback_candidate_count_goodhart_*.md; this PR places
the canonical pointer-plus-gist where future contributors look.

Per Amara's just-arrived "do not let the fix for the flywheel
become another turn" rule, batched the glossary entry + tick
row into one PR (cuts friction in half vs separate PRs).

Composes with PR #707 (minimal Aurora bridge) where Candidate-
count Goodhart is Translation 1 of the three immune
translations.

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

Adds a canonical glossary entry for “Candidate-count Goodhart” and records the corresponding autonomous-loop tick-history row to provide a durable home + audit trail for the already-named rule.

Changes:

  • Add “Candidate-count Goodhart” entry to docs/GLOSSARY.md under “Meta-algorithms and factory-native coinages,” including an authoritative pointer to the memory source.
  • Append a new tick-history row documenting the durable-home work being landed in this PR.

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Copilot reviewed 2 out of 2 changed files in this pull request and generated 1 comment.

File Description
docs/GLOSSARY.md Adds the glossary definition (plain + technical) and points to the authoritative memory file.
docs/hygiene-history/loop-tick-history.md Appends a tick-history row capturing the material state change (glossary entry landed).

Comment thread docs/GLOSSARY.md
Comment on lines +865 to +870
located 12 candidates; only context classification (rule-
definition / sample / live-code / disclosure / etc.) determines
how many — if any — actually need rewriting. Treating the
candidate count as the violation count is a Goodhart-class
failure: it optimizes for the visible metric (count) at the
expense of the intended target (real risk).
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P2: The manual line wrap splits the hyphenated term across lines ((rule- + newline + definition ...)), which will render as rule- definition (extra space) in Markdown. Rewrap this sentence so the hyphenated term isn’t broken across a newline (or remove the hyphen).

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located 12 candidates; only context classification (rule-
definition / sample / live-code / disclosure / etc.) determines
how many — if any — actually need rewriting. Treating the
candidate count as the violation count is a Goodhart-class
failure: it optimizes for the visible metric (count) at the
expense of the intended target (real risk).
located 12 candidates; only context classification
(rule-definition / sample / live-code / disclosure / etc.)
determines how many — if any — actually need rewriting.
Treating the candidate count as the violation count is a
Goodhart-class failure: it optimizes for the visible metric
(count) at the expense of the intended target (real risk).

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AceHack added a commit that referenced this pull request Apr 29, 2026
…transport eliminates EOF collision (#726)

Second concrete use of the new shard-file transport. Independent
file from PR #725's 0230Z shard - no EOF-append collision
possible because each shard is a different file.

The cascading-conflict failure mode that produced the Liveness-
Mechanism Flywheel is now structurally impossible under shard-
file transport. Diagnosis-to-fix loop took 6 ticks;
validation takes 1.

Legacy DIRTY chain (PRs #718-#723) awaits separate resolution;
not in scope this tick per restraint discipline.

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
AceHack added a commit that referenced this pull request Apr 29, 2026
…acket) (#738)

* research(tick-history-shards): DBSP/Z-set math note (Amara via Aaron 2026-04-29)

Amara's substantial math packet anchoring the shard transport
landed as a research note under docs/research/. Bounded shape:

- Core claim: shard files = write model / event store; tables =
  read model / projection; DBSP/Z-set = correction algebra
- Carrier types + write/read model decomposition
- Seven laws to test (commutativity, idempotency, retraction,
  supersession, projection-rebuild equivalence, write-read
  separation, chronology)
- Retraction model with two implementation options
- Anti-hotspot law (formal reason Option B works)
- F# implementation sketch for future projector script
- §33 archive header with non-fusion disclaimer (this note
  does NOT claim implementation IS DBSP; it claims the math is
  isomorphic enough that the laws should hold)

Operator-authority criterion applied (4 conditions all hold):
prior review converged + failure mode live + action reversible
+ more review = flywheel turn. Authorized landing.

Glossary entry "Git-native CQRS / Event Sourcing" DEFERRED
because it depends on PR #723 (Candidate-count Goodhart entry)
merging first to avoid overlapping diff regions.

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

* review-thread fixes on PR #738: schema compliance + filename-convention drift

Three threads from Codex P2 + Copilot P1 (2 distinct findings):

1. **Filename convention drift** (lines 56 + 188): the research
   note recommended `HHMMSSZ-<short-content-hash>.md` but the
   currently landed convention is `HHMMZ.md`. Reframed as
   "future-migration recommended path (NOT the current landed
   convention)" with explicit pointer to the README's actual
   current convention. Math below uses content-hash form
   because it makes idempotency law cleanest to state, but
   operational form is HHMMZ.md.

2. **Shard schema mismatch** (line 1 of 0335Z.md): the row
   started with parenthetical narrative inside the timestamp
   cell, which doesn't match the README's strict 6-column
   schema (`| <ISO 8601 timestamp> | <model id> | <cron> |
   <body> | <PR ref> | <observation> |`). Fixed: timestamp
   cell now contains only the ISO 8601 timestamp; narrative
   moved to the body cell.

Aaron's diagnostic catch was load-bearing: BLOCKED was caused
by unresolved threads (= conversation-resolution requirement
in branch protection), NOT Aaron-side approval. I had
misdiagnosed `reviewDecision=NONE` as "human review required";
the actual blocker was these 4 unresolved threads. Stopped
making new shard PRs while diagnosing.

The pithy diagnosis (Amara): "BLOCKED is a state, not a cause."
Resolved into actual causes; fixing now.

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

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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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