Author the 500ms mandatory-migration threshold as a counted disclosure on WallClock, with promotion-to-refusal as its declared trigger

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Summary

The mandatory-migration disclosure threshold (gunbc.witness_row_cost) is now an authored literal, 500ms on the WALL clock, rather than derived as gunbc_ci_fast_lane_eval_budget_ms() / 10. The prior derivation divided a THREAD-CPU-enforced 5000ms fail-stop cap to produce a threshold compared against WALL-clock witness observations — cross-basis arithmetic, not a §3 single-authority move (the two numbers live on different clocks, so dividing one to produce the other manufactures a false relationship between them).

Per operator ruling 2026-08-05 (closing the witness-grain denominator as WALL, with thread CPU retained only as a remedy discriminator — high wall + high CPU is algorithm/repeated-evaluation, high wall + low CPU is waiting/I-O/subprocess/scheduling — never a second threshold arm), and consuming the ClockBasis/TimedMeasurement authority landed by #7837:

• witness_row_cost_migration_threshold_ms() authors 500 directly, once, as the sole authority for the threshold. The existing witness test already asserted == 500 literally, so this names the number the test had already fixed rather than adding a second hand-maintained figure.
• witness_row_cost_receipt_row_migration_verdict now extracts the WALL reading from the row's List<TimedMeasurement> via observation_duration_of, fixing a type mismatch left over from WitnessCostReceiptRow.eval being widened to a tagged multi-clock list by Retire the wall nickname: durations carry their clock (7820B) #7837. A row with no wall measurement now answers a new MigrationMeasurementUnavailable arm on MigrationDisclosureVerdict instead of failing to typecheck.
• The former "second, independent promotion condition" (a load-independent measurement axis, motivated by contention-driven wall-clock spread across sessions) is folded into the clock-basis authority rather than dropped: wall-clock contention noise is disclosed and located exactly like any other row, and a row's CPU reading — where available — is the remedy discriminator an author consults, never a second gate. Population-zero on the wall-clock count is the single promotion condition.
• claim_executor.rs's doc comments corrected to describe the authored (not derived) threshold. No behavioral change was needed on the Rust seed side beyond that: the row-level WALL extraction already happens upstream in project_witness_cost_receipt (cli_run.rs), which was itself already updated ahead of this PR to read clock_basis_wall explicitly per the same ruling.
• The [witness-row-cost-migration-disclosure] emit site is rostered on the bidirectional census (gunbc.observation_emit_census), resolving review 48603.

Test plan

• cargo run --bin claim_batch -- --source-root dag --source-root src/v2 --entry dag/test/claim/witness_row_cost_migration_disclosure_witness_test.dag --function witness_row_cost_migration_disclosure_holds — PASS
• cargo run --bin claim_batch -- --source-root dag --source-root src/v2 --entry dag/test/claim/witness_row_cost_drift_witness_test.dag --function witness_row_cost_drift_comparator_holds — PASS
• cargo run --bin claim_batch -- --source-root dag --source-root src/v2 --entry dag/test/claim/witness_row_cost_projection_witness_test.dag --function witness_row_cost_projection_holds — PASS
• cargo run --bin claim_batch -- --source-root dag --source-root src/v2 --entry dag/test/claim/observation_emit_census_witness_test.dag --function w_post_snapshot_live_tags_are_rostered_bidirectional — PASS
• cargo build --bin claim_executor — clean
• cargo fmt --all -- --check — clean

Closes the blocked/holding period documented earlier in this PR's history, which was waiting on #7837 (ClockBasis/TimedMeasurement) to land on main — it merged 2026-08-05T14:57:45Z and this PR now consumes it.

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Addressing the two open challenges from keen-ibex-349 (parent session):

1. Timing reconciliation. The receipt's eval_ms field is row.2 / 1_000_000, drawn from gunbc.witness_row_cost's existing N+1 ObservationEvent join — the per-witness eval-phase nanosecond figure. Confirmed by direct comparison: rerunning witness_live_constraint_present_iff_line_unaccepted via claim_batch prints [witness] ...: 5291ms on the same line the receipt's accounting is built from — same axis, not resolve+eval combined (resolve is reported separately, ~37-57s, and is not part of eval_ms).

Tree state: PR #7822 (the fix) is not merged to origin/main, and this branch's merge-base predates it — so this is the same pre-fix tree clever-deer-217's own pre-fix figure (2533ms) was measured against. Not a tree-state difference.

Contention: reran the same single witness in full process isolation within this session (verified no other cargo/build process of mine was live) and reproduced ~5291ms again — ruling out self-contention within my session. However ctrl-build reports these builds run against a shared host jobserver pool (/var/lib/ctrl/jobserver/host.fifo), and /proc/loadavg on this box sits at 28-40 on 128 cores even when my own session is idle — i.e. sibling sessions across the fleet are concurrently contending for the same physical CPU pool this witness runs on. That's the most plausible remaining explanation for the ~2x gap, and it isn't something a single-session rerun can control for either direction.

Given the receipt's purpose — predicting whether a witness will trip the 5000ms fail-stop on a real CI floor pass, which itself runs on this same shared fleet rather than an idealized isolated bench — reporting raw observed wall-clock (whatever contention is live at measurement time) is the honest axis, not a normalized "isolated" number. I have not added an explicit measurement-axis field to the carrier for this; flagging it here rather than expanding scope unilaterally.

2. The Rust. Per review 48438 and review 48453, the verdict decision no longer lives in Rust: claim_executor.rs calls witness_row_cost_migration_verdict once per row and reads back only the returned coproduct's tag (Value::Variant { variant_name, .. }, the same inspection pattern already used elsewhere in this file) — no >= comparison, no second Bool-dissolution wrapper (that helper, witness_row_cost_migration_verdict_is_mandatory, is deleted; witness_row_cost_mandatory_migration_rows now matches the verdict directly, mirroring the drift comparator's existing no-dissolution style). The remaining Rust is strictly the receipt-writing seam shared with every sibling floor receipt in this file: resolving the entry graph, building the eval context, iterating already-computed batch_records, and serializing to TSV/log — the same shape write_witness_row_cost_drift_receipt_at already has. No bootstrap-window argument is needed because none of the decision logic is in Rust anymore.

Also fixed two review findings: the test file used undefined count/fold symbols (never compiled — replaced with count_where/for_all from v2.std.algebra), and witness_row_cost_mandatory_migration_count returned Nat while length returns Int (fixed to Int). Pushed as c8d3552; cargo fmt --all --check green locally.

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Pushed bf8b91e. Two follow-ups from the thread:

Promotion condition (keen-ibex-349). Added a second, independent condition to witness_row_cost_migration_threshold_note: promotion to a merge-refusing wall now requires population-zero AND a load-independent measurement axis (isolated execution, CPU-time rather than wall-clock, or equivalent). Rationale stated on the carrier: a ~2x observed-wall-clock spread across sessions (shared build-host jobserver contention) means today's observed_eval_ms is partly a property of ambient fleet state, not the witness — fine while disclosure-only, but would make the eventual wall nondeterministic-and-merge-blocking if promoted on population alone. Satisfying only one condition is explicitly stated as not evidence the trigger fired.

Provenance of the earlier 4776-5236ms figure. To answer plainly: that measurement came from the claim_batch roadmap witness run's own timing output (the [witness] log line / [cost-partition] JSON), which is independent of this PR's own test file. The migration-disclosure witness test's undefined-symbol defect (fixed in c8d3552) affected only whether this PR's comparator test compiled and ran — it never gated or fed the roadmap-witness timing measurement, which is a separate observation of a pre-existing witness (roadmap_program_view_witness_test.dag) via the standard executor timing path. So: two claims, only one ever depended on the broken test, and it wasn't the timing one.

Collision with #7820A (merry-raven-690 / still-bat-561). Confirmed independently: write_witness_row_cost_migration_disclosure_receipt_at had the same fabricated-zero exposure as the drift comparator's WithinBasis arm — a selection-skipped row's eval is a synthesized 0, and without a guard it classified as comfortably-under-threshold from a measurement that never happened. Fixed in this push with a minimal ObservationAbsent arm (rows with outcome "selection-skipped" are counted/located separately, never folded into BelowMigrationThreshold), independent of #7820A's own fix to the sibling drift function — so this PR is safe to land in either order relative to #7820A; if #7820A lands first and renames the shared eval_ms/eval_wall_ms column or the 0→unmeasured token, that's a small follow-up rebase here, not a silent-drop hazard, since the guard is keyed on the outcome label rather than the raw magnitude.

Threshold name vs. "probably should" (merry-raven-690 / still-bat-561). Noted. The variant is named MandatoryMigration while the operator's own framing was "probably should." Leaving the name as-is for now since the mechanism underneath is already the weaker disclosure-not-wall shape (the name describes the territory, not an enforced action) — happy to rename if the operator wants the hedge carried in the type once the policy is no longer in formation, but that's a naming call above this PR's scope.

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Scope boundary, made explicit per keen-ibex-349's direction: this PR makes the 500ms threshold a counted disclosure (derived from gunbc_ci_fast_lane_eval_budget_ms()/10, never hand-typed) with a promotion-to-refusal trigger declared on the carrier. The trigger's two conditions — population zero, and the observed axis being load-independent (a property of the witness, not ambient fleet state) — are conjunctive preconditions of promotion, deliberately left undecided here: which clock(s), which denominator (eval-only vs. resolve-inclusive), and any entry-grain vs witness-grain split are NOT resolved by this PR. That policy question is open across several relayed threads with conflicting claims about what was actually ruled; keen-ibex-349 is the session that received the operator's ruling firsthand and is holding/escalating that conflict directly. This PR does not preempt that decision — it makes it a named precondition of promotion, so the disclosure count cannot silently become a refusal before someone answers it.

HOLDING at this commit. No further rearchitecture pending outcome of that separate discussion.

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Fixed the promotion-trigger counting defect (keen-ibex-349 review): witness_row_cost_measurement_unavailable_rows/_count now track rows with no wall measurement as a separate, counted, located population (never folded into MandatoryMigration, never silently dropped). The declared promotion trigger in witness_row_cost_migration_threshold_note is now conjoined: promote only when mandatory_count == 0 AND unavailable_count == 0, citing std.selected_witness_bundle's own unavailable_count == 0 precedent. Also fixed the two smaller note issues: led with the explicit-policy-budget grounding (not "the test already said 500") and corrected the carrier name from WitnessRowCostVerdict's ObservationAbsent to MigrationDisclosureVerdict's MigrationMeasurementUnavailable.

Added a discriminating witness (unavailable_rows_are_counted_separately_from_mandatory_holds) proving an unmeasured row lands in unavailable_count, not mandatory_count, and the two track independently.

All five witnesses in the migration-disclosure test PASS, plus the drift-comparator and census-roster regression witnesses. cargo build --bin claim_executor and cargo fmt --all -- --check clean. Pushed at bb7824b.

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Closing in favor of #7862 (session/deep-bat-16-migration-disclosure), which is the correct recut for this work item: its title matches the assigned work item exactly, and it derives the 500ms threshold from gunbc_ci_fast_lane_eval_budget_ms() / 10 — one authored constant — rather than hand-authoring 500 as a second, independently-maintained number the way this PR did (a DESIGN.md §3 dual-representation risk: the two figures could silently drift apart). Confirmed via keen-ibex-349's duplicate-work flag.

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