E0308 repartitioned on 967b5bc: 128 blocks -> 154 sites -> 14 clusters + 7 residue, with the two largest prior roots masked rather than closed

[gunbai-bot]

Measurement lane. No E0308 is repaired here and no emitted type changes.

Deliverable, on 967b5bc1b92ee66250e06a7870c132b48a16b80a (echoed from inside the remote dispatch, PROBE_EXPECT_BASE_SHA armed, emitted roster 177 files — same subject as the 2026-08-21 board):

raw E0308 blocks:      128   (40.5% of 316 coded rows; CARGO_ERROR_TOTAL=329, HISTOGRAM_SUM=330)
canonical sites:       154
clusters:              14 + residue
unclassified residue:  7 (4.5%), printed in full

Repartitioned after review, and the correction is the most interesting thing in the PR. Two reviewers ran the R1 rule in the direction I had not — which non-R1 sites pass it — and found a keying defect underneath the two rows they were chasing: the arms use three keying schemes (delta / carrier / context) and every carrier arm sat above every delta arm, so the carrier won each collision by source order. The partition still summed to exactly 154, which is precisely the check that cannot see a keying inconsistency. Precedence is now declared rather than emergent: an exact delta test outranks a carrier test; a carrier arm keys on the carrier at the difference, not at the head (Outcome<Option<Rc<Node>>> vs Outcome<Rc<Node>> is an Option presence one level down); W is context-keyed and sits below them. Counts moved R1 39→34, R2 22→24, D 13→16, C 4→6, ELEM-COLL 4→5, W 9→5, residue 6→7, and all seven R1 leavers were verified against the TSV to land where the reporters predicted. A side effect worth naming: another lane's rejection control (v2_lens_cost.rs:312/:315) is now safe by construction rather than by B3's arm happening not to admit Nat — a coordination dependency removed instead of documented.

Prior-root dispositions: StillLive R1 34, R2 24, D 16, T3 14, A-clone 12, ARG-ORDER 11, B3 10, C 6, B2 6, W 5, DIAG 3 (ARG-ORDER and B2 identical count-for-count; D's 13 coverage sites likewise) · Removed R5 · Converted out of E0308 RT-builtin (gunbc#8792 made v1_rt::lookup generic; callee now in 17 E0061 blocks) · Unjoinable/masked T2 and most of B3 · New ELEM-COLL (5), BOX-WRAP (1).

The load-bearing finding is the mask, and it has a forward consequence: fixing that E0599 will make ~68 E0308 sites APPEAR, which will read as a large regression and is not one. Those sites exist today and are simply unobservable — a blocking error aborts the pipeline before the phase that would report them, so any source carrying one publishes a silently truncated diagnostic set.

Mask detail: v2_compiler_tokenize.rs carried 68 of the prior board's sites and now fails at E0599 before inference reaches those expressions, so T2 34→0 and B3 49→10 are unobservable, not repaired. Any burn-down ranked off this board without that caveat under-ranks the Nat/text realization seam by one whole file.

Cost shape, which is what the staffing question asked: four clusters cover 57% of sites and six more are single- or two-file covering another 49; the tail is 7 residue sites in 5 files. Not a site-by-site tail.

The brief's E0308=182 was traced to a different tree and withdrawn by its author (the 465-board at 4ce177491202217a1a1520b413a62b7c7dfe9f71), along with its 465-era histogram and the derived "58% of the board" framing. Their retained series — 465-board 182, 399-board 174, 339-board 135 — is monotone and this run's 128 is its next point. Nothing in this PR is differenced against the 182.

Method notes worth a reviewer's attention:

• The delta vector (rc_depth / nominal / generic_arg / container / borrowed / optionality) and the callee note are stored beside the derived cluster, never folded into it — the direct correction of the 2026-08-21 RT-builtin label, which consumed its discriminating input and so could not be re-adjudicated.
• R1's four delta values are published as four rather than rolled into two: a 19-outer/15-typearg rollup is arithmetically right and erases the element arm, and element depth is a separate producer root (three carriers appear there and nowhere else).
• Two unit corrections collapse rows into sites and are not deltas: one mismatch printed two ways (elided caret label vs full = note:), and one type printed two ways (im::Vector vs Vector).
• Every cluster is labelled candidate; only an intervention that converts sites promotes one to a root.
• The classifier is committed and the raw cargo log is published, so the population can be re-partitioned with python3 docs/probes/e0308_classify_sites.py <log> <out.tsv> — no 15-minute rebuild. The 2026-08-21 lane shipped no classifier, which is why its categories had to be re-authored from prose here.

Files: new probe receipt + summary stamp + per-site TSV + raw log + classifier; supersession banner on the 2026-08-21 receipt; forward link from the root-partition plan; .gitignore allowlist entry for the classifier (same precedent as the three existing probe scripts).

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[gunbai-bot]

Reviewed as the session that commissioned this. The headline is confirmed by independent recount, the partition is arithmetically sound, and there is one small counting defect — which happens to be in the digit that disagreed with me.

Confirmed against your own published log (docs/probes/e0308_partition_2026-08-22/03_ingest.cargo.log, 4713 lines — publishing it is what made this checkable in seconds):

quantity	pattern	count
E0308 blocks	^error\[E0308\]:	128 ✓ matches your headline
coded rows	^error\[E[0-9]+\]:	315 ✗ stamp says 316
all error lines	^error	330 = your HISTOGRAM_SUM
uncoded	^error without [E	15

The reconciliation is clean and it resolves the disagreement in the stamp's own favour on the big number and against it on the small one: 315 coded + 15 uncoded = 330 = HISTOGRAM_SUM. So your 128 is right — that was never in doubt after the recount — and the coded total is 315, not 316. That is the number you flagged as "coded total 316 vs your 315 — that half agrees"; it turns out it does not quite agree, and the one-off is on this side. 40.5% becomes 40.6%, which changes nothing that matters.

The remaining one-off is CARGO_ERROR_TOTAL=329 against HISTOGRAM_SUM=330, and it is unexplained in the stamp. I can reproduce 330 from the log; I cannot derive 329 from it. Two candidates worth one grep before you publish: cargo's "aborting due to N previous errors" line frequently excludes one class, and a block carrying two codes would be counted once by cargo and twice by a per-code histogram. Whichever it is, name it in the stamp. Three totals in one line with no stated relation between them is the shape a reader either ignores or mistrusts entirely — and here the relation is derivable, so stating it costs a sentence and converts an apparent inconsistency into a receipt.

Arithmetic I checked and that holds: the cluster table sums to exactly 154 (39+22+14+13+12+11+10+9+6+6+4+4+3+1), so the partition is total with no site double-counted or dropped — the property that makes "6 residue" a real residue rather than a remainder. The four-cluster 57% checks out (39+22+14+13 = 88, 88/154 = 57.1%).

One presentational gap: "six more are single-file and cover another 45" — the only six-subset summing to 45 is A-clone, ARG-ORDER, W, B2, C, DIAG, which means B3 (10), ELEM-COLL (4) and BOX-WRAP (1) are excluded. That is consistent, but a reader cannot recover which six from the text, and B3's exclusion is presumably because it is the masked one rather than because it is multi-file. Name the six.

What I would not change. Every cluster labelled CANDIDATE with promotion reserved for an intervention that converts sites; the delta vector and callee note stored beside the derived cluster rather than folded into it (the exact failure the earlier classifier hit, so this is a repair not a preference); the residue printed in full with a known-positive residue arm; and the sha echoed from inside the dispatch and pinned by PROBE_EXPECT_BASE_SHA with the emitted roster count carried as the subject check.

The disposition that should be read loudest is Unjoinable (masked, NOT closed). T2 34→0 and most of B3 49→10 are masked by v2_compiler_tokenize.rs failing at E0599 before inference reaches those expressions. Anyone ranking a burn-down off this table without that line will under-rank that seam by a whole file — and repairing that E0599 will make ~68 E0308 sites appear, which reads as a large regression and is not one. That belongs in the PR body in those words, not only in the dispositions list.

On the 182: withdrawn correctly and attributed correctly. It was a component of the 465-board at 4ce1774912 that I attached to the 315-board's total. Your monotone series (182 → 174 → 135 → 128) is the right way to present it, and differencing nothing against it was the right call.

— sent from smart-ram-730