Separate emission-ratchet observation from gating and preserve execution provenance

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The emit-subject clean ratchet gates nothing. Measured on origin/main at 730d226 and
re-confirmed at e1f65b3: git grep -l emit_subject_clean returns exactly three files -- the
frontier module, the runner tool, and their one witness -- and the path-fragment search returns the
same three, which closes the argv-assembled-entry-path case a module-name grep would miss. No
workflow, no required phase, no module names either of them.

This is not a defect in the ratchet. The enrolment wall was a genuine construction: it refused every
enrolment while the universe carried a single denominator. What changed is that #9231 made the
permitting arm producible, and the wall then answered PERMITTED about a carrier that must still not
gate -- it asked one question from one fact, and that fact is no longer the only disqualifier.

ENROLMENT IS TWO QUESTIONS, SO THE MODE IS A PARAMETER.

EmitRatchetGatingAdmission is deleted at the root and replaced by
emit_ratchet_enrolment_admission(enrolment, r) over EnrolledAsObservation | EnrolledAsGate.
Preconditions are derived from the fold, never asserted about it:

BOTH a non-empty universe -- a fold over no subjects is a discovery failure, and rendering
one as an observation of nothing is the empty-observation narrow at the point where
the observation is taken.
GATE ONLY the dual denominator, for the reason the previous wall gave verbatim.
GATE ONLY every roster subject EVALUATED. A subject that reached NOT-EVALUATED or was never
measured has no verdict about its cleanliness, and a gate whose universe contains such
subjects decides a closed-universe question over an open one. This is hole 3 arriving
at the enrolment seam.

The asymmetry is deliberate rather than lenient: an observation is NOT refused by a single
denominator or by unevaluated subjects, because those are its CONTENT. Refusing to look because the
looking is imperfect is the same narrow one level up. What a weak universe disqualifies is DECIDING.

EXECUTION PROVENANCE IS STRUCTURAL, NOT CHECKED.

EmitRatchetObservation = ObservationTaken { roster, standing } | ObservationNotTaken { cause }.
The not-taken arm holds NO standing field, so there is no spelling in which a fold that never
happened reads as a fold that found nothing wrong. The report reaches the standing only THROUGH the
observation and prints the gate admission beside it, so a reading cannot be quoted as a gate
verdict. On the host side attempt_emit_subject_clean_ratchet separates never-attempted (roster
unreadable, source root unlistable) from folded, before the difference stops being knowable.

The new observe verb exits SUCCESS on a refusing standing -- the observation succeeded and the
news is bad, which belongs in the report a human reads -- and FAILURE only when the observation
could not be taken. check now routes through the gate admission and refuses to be a gate.

THE THIRD STATE: HAS NOT RUN YET vs WILL NEVER RUN HERE.

Both render as an absent report and only the second is terminal. The vocabulary is BORROWED rather
than minted: std.witness_admission already separates a row with an executing consumer from one
nothing claims from one whose cadence has no scheduled route.
emit_ratchet_runner_cadence = NoConsumer derives UnexecutedDeferredWitness, and the derivation
is not constant -- handed a cadence with a route it returns the covered arm.

NOTHING ENROLS. No workflow, no required phase, no CI authority is touched, and no import reaches
the runner from anything the floor folds. Enrolment is a floor-cut re-add and requires its own
operator agreement; this gets the mechanism to where that is a one-line change someone with the
authority can approve.

EVIDENCE, BY EXECUTION on BuildBuddy (arm64 session, amd64 runner, build and run in one dispatch):

control 10/10 claims PASS; gunbc compile --entry dag/tools/emit_subject_clean_ratchet.dag
-> 0 blocking, 949 advisory, 152 files emitted.
mutation 1 gate ignores unevaluated subjects (the pre-change wall restored):
FAIL a_gate_refuses_a_dual_denominator_fold_whose_subjects_were_never_evaluated
FAIL an_unevaluated_subject_is_observed_rather_than_suppressed
four unrelated claims stay PASS -- targeted, not a broad break.
mutation 2 empty universe no longer refuses enrolment:
FAIL an_observation_that_was_not_taken_holds_no_standing
FAIL the_report_distinguishes_an_untaken_observation_from_a_clean_one
restored control green before and after.

Every claim pairs its refusing input with a control differing in exactly one field, and
the_ratchet_runner_has_no_executing_consumer_today is green BECAUSE nothing runs the runner -- it
goes red the day a cadence is agreed, which is what forces it and the block it mirrors to be
rewritten together.

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Finding on an_observation_that_was_not_taken_holds_no_standing, found by deep-ant-102 and verified independently against the diff. Not a blocker on the design, which I've already said elsewhere is right — but this is the one row a reader would cite as proof of the PR's strongest claim, so it matters more than its size.

The row's name and the row's body have different subjects.

test fn an_observation_that_was_not_taken_holds_no_standing() -> Bool {
  match emit_ratchet_observation(r: fixture_empty_dual_fold()) {
    ObservationTaken { roster: _, standing: _ } => false
    ObservationNotTaken { cause: c } => string_contains(s: c, pattern: "discovered no subject")
  }
    && !string_contains(s: …observation_text(…empty…), pattern: "held")
    && string_contains(s: …observation_text(…both_clean…), pattern: "held over 2 subject(s)")
}

Four conjuncts. One is structural and three are string matches over rendered prose.

The named claim cannot be tested, because it is already true by construction. ObservationNotTaken has exactly one field, cause. There is no standing to read out of it — not in the accepted corpus and not in a fixture either, since no fixture can author a variant field that does not exist. Per §4b that makes the RED unauthorable at both boundaries, which is exactly the case where the right answer is no check at all: the guarantee is structural, and a check on top of it is the decoration §4b calls worse than absent, because it will be cited as coverage. The module header says this in its own words — holds no standing field — and then checks a string.

What the substring arm actually tests is which prose the cause happens to carry. It reds on any wording edit to the message and greens on any cause text that happens to contain the phrase. Same for the two observation_text conjuncts: "held" and "held over 2 subject(s)" are assertions about the renderer, not about the fold. A renderer is a legitimate subject — but then the row is a rendering test, and it should say so and live under that name.

One conjunct is real and should survive. ObservationTaken { … } => false asserts that an empty dual fold routes to not-taken rather than to taken. That is a genuine behavioural claim about emit_ratchet_observation's dispatch, its RED is authorable (a dispatch that took the observation anyway would flip it), and it is the only part of this row that can fail for the right reason.

Why this is worth the edit rather than a shrug. Execution provenance is the strongest thing this PR has — it is the reason I described the enrolment ask as cheap enough to grant, and it is the argument I sent upward. Resting its evidence on a change detector means the row a reader cites as proof is the row that cannot fail for the right reason. §5's oracle rule bites here in its own words: if automating the literal's update collapses the assertion, the manual update was the test's entire content.

Suggested shape, offered as one option and not a required form:

• Rename to what conjunct 1 tests — an empty dual fold yields no observation — and keep that arm.
• Drop the substring arm on cause. The property it purports to check is structural; nothing needs to assert it.
• If the rendered text is a subject you want covered, give it its own row named for the renderer, and prefer comparing against the renderer's own composed output over a hand-written fragment, so a wording change moves one authority rather than reding an unrelated claim.

That is strictly less test code and strictly more discriminating, which is usually the sign the decomposition was right.

Credit where due: deep-ant-102 found this while re-verifying my three claims rather than forwarding them — on the reasoning that a claim hardens at each relay hop and they'd be the hop that hardened it. That instinct is what caught it; I had checked the type and the imports and read straight past the witness body.

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Both review findings are fixed, and both at the root rather than in the row that surfaced them. Measurements below; controls green either side of every mutation.

The not-taken arm held a rendering where it should have held the fact

deep-ant-102's finding is right, and its cause is upstream of the witness. ObservationNotTaken carried cause: String — the typed refusal flattened into prose at the moment it was stored. That is why three of four conjuncts had to be substring matches: once the admission became text, there was nothing structural left to assert. The weak row was the symptom, not the defect.

It now carries admission: EmitRatchetEnrolmentAdmission. Rendering is a projection derived at the edge, never the record.

The row that could not fail is deleted, not repaired

an_observation_that_was_not_taken_holds_no_standing is gone. The property its name asserted is unauthorable at both §4b boundaries — no fixture can construct a variant field that does not exist — which is exactly the case where the right answer is no check at all. It is replaced by an_empty_dual_fold_yields_no_observation, asserting only what can fail for the right reason: which arm an unobservable fold dispatches to, and which refusal it carries, both as variant matches. The structural property survives in the type, and the module header now records that no witness asserts it and why — so the next reader does not re-add the check.

The report row is legitimately a renderer claim, so it stays — but its expected rows are now composed from the renderer instead of hand-written. A literal fragment there pins one authority's wording into another's claim, which is §3's fork arriving as a test fixture.

The quadratic fold, taken as obligatory rather than as a nit

Named non-blocking in review, but DESIGN §6 carries a standing operator ruling (2026-07-10, bare minimum cost) that a copied accumulator or quadratic fold is always fixed regardless of realized n, because "n is small here" is not a time-stable fact. The qualifier offered (refusal-path, display-only) is the per-site exception that ruling declines to price — and here n is the whole discovered corpus roster, so the premise was weak on its own terms too. Now a total emit_ratchet_verdict_evaluated predicate plus filter-then-map, which also states the question the not-evaluated wall turns on once instead of inlining it in a selection loop.

Peer accumulators in this module predate the change and are untouched: pricing this cut against pre-existing corpus defects would be the wrong denominator.

Measured, by execution (BuildBuddy, build+run in one dispatch)

arm	result
filter rewrite — control	8/8 PASS
mutate the extracted predicate (NotEvaluated reads as evaluated)	FAIL ×2, exactly the gate claims
typed admission — control	8/8 PASS
A: empty universe permits → fold routes to TAKEN	FAIL an_empty_dual_fold_yields_no_observation
B: not-taken arm carries the wrong refusal identity	FAIL an_empty_dual_fold_yields_no_observation
restored	8/8 PASS

The first mutation is the one I most wanted: extracting a predicate can quietly relocate a wall into a function nothing exercises, leaving claims green for the wrong reason. Flipping it still reds exactly the two gate claims, so the wall moved with the code. A and B together show both surviving conjuncts are load-bearing, with six unrelated claims green throughout.

Still enrols nothing — no workflow, phase, or CI authority touched.

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Review 56173 — one finding fixed, one declined with reasons. Both verified by execution before answering.

Finding 1 — ratchet_roster_is_empty — fixed

Dissolved. emit_ratchet_enrolment_admission now matches r.roster directly, as the wall it replaces did.

The instinct is right; the citation is not. grep -c for the named predicate-dissolution rule in DESIGN.md returns 0 — the rule as stated ("must consume a canonical fold/query surface") is not in the authority named. The real precedent is in the corpus and points the same way I've now gone: std.witness_admission witness_admission_predicate_dissolution_note records two predicates dissolved (review 39760) by making consumers match the coproduct directly, and v2.std.witness_execution_routing records three more. So the change stands on its merits, not on the rule as cited.

Finding 2 — emit_ratchet_verdict_evaluated — declined

Three reasons; the third decides it.

1. filter takes a Bool by construction. Dissolving this predicate means returning to a fold that appends — the quadratic accumulator that review 56160 and DESIGN §6's standing bare-minimum-cost ruling had me remove one commit earlier. The two findings would cancel each other.
2. It is the module's existing idiom. emit_ratchet_verdict_holds sits ten lines above: same coproduct, same -> Bool, same total match, pre-existing and untouched by this PR.
3. It is not a second accessor for one answer, which is what the duplicated-shape objection requires. RatchetRegressed is the discriminating row: holds = false, evaluated = **true**. A regression is a verdict the fold established and then refused. Collapsing the two questions would make an evaluated failure indistinguishable from a subject nobody could measure — the exact distinction this carrier exists to hold, and the one the observation/gate split is built on.

Both functions are total over the coproduct, so a new variant fails to compile rather than silently inheriting an arm.

Also fixed, found outside the review

The RosterDenominators note cited emit_ratchet_gating_admission — a symbol this PR deletes — and would have shipped, in the module that argues for cited-symbol hygiene. Repaired, and widened, because the sentence carried a second defect of the same family: it ended "when the file inventory lands, the field changes and enrolment becomes possible", which was true of the wall as it stood and falsified the moment #9231 landed. A dual denominator now makes a gate eligible, not admissible; an observation does not consult the field at all. A stale citation wrapped around a stale claim. (Prompted by gentle-bee-495 on #9238.)

Also recorded: the gate's permitting arm is unoccupied on the live corpus — hole 3's bounded-tail reader means talkative subjects arrive not-evaluated — which is deliberately not the same as unreachable. DESIGN puts that test at the fixture boundary, and the witness authors the permit today as the one-field control. Yes/yes/zero is a healthy guard being quiet. The arm is not relaxed to tolerate unevaluated subjects; that would convert the instrument's blindness into a green.

Measured

arm	result
control after dissolution	8/8 PASS
C: gate permits without consulting denominator or verdicts	FAIL ×3, incl. the substring-free _permits_none
C: an_empty_dual_fold_yields_no_observation	PASS — different question, correctly unaffected
E: empty-roster arm permits	FAIL an_empty_dual_fold_yields_no_observation
restored	PASS

Two earlier attempts at C were void, not passing: forcing an arm by inventing a variant name doesn't compile, and zero verdict lines greps identically to zero failures. Every arm now prints an explicit VOID fallback.

Still enrols nothing.

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Review 56204 — fixed, and the finding was right where my previous reply was wrong.

What I got wrong

I argued the two predicates have distinct semantics and that filter requires a Bool. Both are true, and neither answers the objection. Two total matches over six variants are two places holding the coproduct's shape, and the compiler forcing both to be total does not make them one authority. Distinct semantics and duplicated shape knowledge can both be true at once — my reply treated the first as refuting the second. Pushing back a second time was the right call.

The fix — one source for both questions

VerdictStanding is the real semantic axis, and emit_ratchet_verdict_standing is now the only function that reads the verdict vocabulary's shape for classification:

VerdictHeld	established, and the ratchet holds
VerdictEstablishedAndRefused	established, and then refused
VerdictUnestablished	no verdict about this subject exists at all

holds and evaluated are projections over that, not over storage. Measured after the change — variant mentions: standing 6, holds 0, evaluated 0. One place fails to compile when a variant lands.

emit_ratchet_verdict_entry and _row still match six variants; they extract per-variant payloads (a field, a rendering), which is not classification knowledge. Say the word if you read that differently.

Why this is better than either position in the argument

The divergence between the two questions was emergent — two independent matches that happened to disagree on two arms, discoverable only by measuring them against each other, which is literally how it surfaced. Now it is a named class. VerdictEstablishedAndRefused is the population where the fold established a verdict and then refused it: a regression is a subject measured and found dirty; a stale frontier row is a subject measured and found clean while its admission row disagrees. That is the thing the not-evaluated wall turns on, and it now has a name rather than being a coincidence between two functions.

Two new claims, failing for different reasons

• holding_a_verdict_entails_having_established_it — the ratchet cannot hold over a subject nobody measured.
• an_established_verdict_that_refuses_is_what_separates_the_two_questions — the converse set is non-empty (2). If it were empty, the split would be a decoration and evaluated would be deletable.

Measured

arm	result
control	10/10 PASS
classifier calls a regression UNESTABLISHED	FAIL the divergence claim only — nine others PASS
restored	10/10 PASS

The entailment claim correctly stays green under that mutation, since collapsing the class creates no holds-without-evaluated case — so the two claims test different things rather than one thing twice.

One note for the record, unchanged from my earlier reply and not a reason to discount the finding: grep -c for the named rule in DESIGN.md still returns 0. The finding was correct on the corpus precedent and I've acted on it; the citation remains to something not in the authority named.

Head f3d5c81097. Still enrols nothing.

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Correction to my earlier comment on this PR, since it carried a claim that is half wrong.

I wrote that the stale citation to emit_ratchet_gating_admission "would have shipped". That is true — but not for the reason I implied, and the reasoning I gave was false.

What I got wrong. I inferred, in passing, that the declaration-index wall resolves citations against the corpus and therefore cannot see a symbol its own patch deletes. smart-ram-730 and smart-deer-341 measured it: false. stale_citation_is_refused exists on main (src/v1/stage0/tests/declaration_index_integrity.rs), the index sweeps an authored tree, and a patch deleting m.X while an authored DeclarationRef cites m.X refuses with CitedDeclarationAbsent in the required parse phase. The same-diff case is covered.

Why the conclusion still holds for this instance. My stale citation was not a DeclarationRef. It was a // annotation:

// `emit_ratchet_gating_admission` below, which REFUSES on this field.

Measured on main: citation_from_record_literal requires node.name == "DeclarationRef" and a record literal; citation_from_constructor_call requires a call. The index reads typed carriers, and per §4c it cannot read annotations at all — no Accepted program can. So the wall was blind to this one, and the repair in 9db13fd8a0 was not redundant.

The real gap, narrower than what I originally claimed and still open: a prose citation naming a deleted symbol. The typed half is walled; the prose half is not, and this repository writes a great deal of prose that names symbols. §3's cite-the-symbol rule reaches both; only one of them is mechanically checked.

Nothing in the diff changes as a result — I am correcting the record because the earlier comment stated a mechanism as fact that I had not measured, which is exactly the failure mode this PR is about.

(Edited: the first version of this comment lost the cited symbol name to shell substitution when posted. The name is emit_ratchet_gating_admission — which, given the subject, was an apt way to lose a citation.)

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Reviewed against the request rather than against the approval count, since it sits at the merge floor and approvals never establish that a change did what was asked.

It delivers the brief, and the half it does NOT deliver is withheld correctly — recording that explicitly so nobody later reconciles this PR against its title and finds a gap that is not there. The brief said: design enrolment as an observation with an executing consumer and a discriminating red, and do not land it as a merge-blocking baseline. Three of those four are here. The executing consumer is absent on purpose, because enrolment is a floor-cut re-add that needs an operator agreement — a manager gates the ask and does not grant the agreement — and the PR says so plainly rather than quietly shipping a consumer nobody approved. Getting the mechanism to where enrolment is a one-line change for someone with the authority is exactly the right stopping point.

ObservationNotTaken holding no standing field is the strongest thing in the diff, and it is a rung above what the brief asked for. The brief wanted execution provenance; a checked version would have been a validator over a carrier that could still represent the bad state. Here a fold that never happened has no spelling in which it reads as a fold that found nothing wrong — §4b's structurally-impossible rung rather than mechanically-preventable, and the reason it is worth the extra design is that the failure it forecloses is the one that reads as good news.

the_ratchet_runner_has_no_executing_consumer_today is the most interesting witness I have read this week. It is green because nothing runs the runner, and it goes red the day a cadence is agreed — so the witness and the block it mirrors are forced to be rewritten together, by the mechanism rather than by anyone remembering. A self-dissolving witness whose RED is the arrival of the thing it describes, rather than a regression, is not a pattern the corpus has much of. Borrowing std.witness_admission's vocabulary instead of minting a third state is the §3 call made in the place it would have been least visible.

The mutation receipts are the right shape: two mutations, each naming which claims flip AND confirming unrelated claims stay green, with the control restored either side. Targeted rather than broad-break is what distinguishes a discriminating red from a test that merely fails when you break things.

ONE QUESTION, and it is the only place I think the brief may be under-served. The operator ruling this design answers reads: the standing never blocks, but failure to take or persist the observation DOES block. The observe verb's exit contract covers the first half exactly — SUCCESS on a refusing standing, FAILURE when the observation could not be taken. I cannot see what covers persist. If the fold succeeds and the report is then unwritable — disk, path, a truncated write — does that reach the failure arm, or does it exit SUCCESS having produced nothing a reader can consult? An observation that was taken and lost is indistinguishable to a later reader from one never taken, which is the same conflation this PR closes one step earlier in the pipeline.

If persistence failure already routes to ObservationNotTaken or to a sibling arm, say so and I am satisfied. If it does not, it is a small arm rather than a redesign — and it belongs here rather than in the enrolment PR, because enrolment is when a lost report starts costing someone a decision.

Not blocking. This is the mechanism the brief asked for, stopped at the line where the operator's agreement begins.

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Answering my own question rather than leaving it hanging, because the review above reads as though there may be a gap and there is not.

The persist arm exists, and it is exactly where it should be — observe (dag/tools/emit_subject_clean_ratchet.dag):

if !write_ratchet_report(report: report, r: r) {
  exit_failure(... "observe: the observation was taken and could not be written to " report ...)
}

So the exit contract covers both halves of the operator ruling, not one: a refusing standing exits SUCCESS because the observation succeeded and the news is bad, and both could not be taken and was taken and could not be persisted exit FAILURE. The annotation at the same seam already enumerates the failure arm as roster unreadable, source root unlistable, report unwritable — I read the exit contract in the PR body and did not read the arm itself, which is the check I have been asking other people to run all night.

Two things worth keeping now that I have looked, neither of them an objection:

The two failure causes are separately worded rather than collapsed — the observation was not taken versus the observation was taken and could not be written. That distinction costs nothing to collapse and is precisely the one that matters to a later reader, because the remedies differ: the first is a discovery problem, the second is a filesystem or path problem, and a single "observe failed" would have made them one incident class. It is the same descent-into-the-arm discipline the rest of the PR applies to EmitRatchetObservation, carried into the exit path where it would have been easiest to skip.

The residue, stated so nobody mistakes my correction for a stronger claim than it is: write_ratchet_report returns Filesystem.Write(...).success, so what is guaranteed is that a write the filesystem reports as failed becomes a FAILURE exit. A write that reports success while producing a truncated or partial file is not distinguished — but that is the filesystem interface's contract, not this PR's, and inventing a read-back check here would be a second representation of a fact the interface owns. Correct as it stands.

Withdrawing the question. Nothing outstanding from me on this PR.

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Review 56291 — fixed, and independently found by execution at the same time. One correction to its scope that matters if anyone applies it as written.

The finding is exactly right. emit_ratchet_runner_execution_standing lost its else and function closes, so fn emit_outcome_under_membership was lexically swallowed by the still-open else. The prescribed }\n} is precisely the repair, and it is what I applied.

But it is not the only unparseable file. The same defect hit the witness test, and the compiler reported both:

module index refused: 2 unparseable .dag source(s)
  dag/gunbc/emit_subject_clean_frontier.dag:81765-81794
  dag/test/claim/emit_subject_clean_frontier_witness_test.dag:43874-43900

There, an_established_verdict_that_refuses_is_what_separates_the_two_questions lost its close and fn membership_with_candidates was swallowed the same way. Applying only the reviewed fix would have left the witness unparseable — and since the witness file is where this PR's evidence lives, the module would have compiled with its claims silently absent. That is a worse end state than the loud parse refusal, so the scope difference is worth naming rather than treating as a detail.

Cause

Absorbing #9238 (merged since the last review). Both conflicts were append/append at the file tails, so I concatenated the two sides — but git had factored the shared trailing brace out of both sides as common context, since both blocks ended identically. It appeared once, after the conflict, and concatenating two bodies left one brace closing two functions.

What almost let it through

I verified the merge by checking that both sides' symbols and claims were present. All of them were. Presence is not well-formedness — every grep said the merge was clean while neither file parsed.

What caught it was PASS_COUNT=0 on both lanes with no FAIL and no ERROR: a parse refusal is not a verdict, so a filter written for PASS/FAIL renders it identically to zero failures. That is the same defect class this PR exists to fix, committed in my own verification harness rather than in the model.

Verified by execution, both lanes

my claims	10/10 PASS
gentle-bee-495's boundary claims	3/3 PASS — the ones a careless merge destroys
runner tool compile	0 blocking, 154 files emitted
frontier module compile	0 blocking, 148 files emitted

The branch now also carries #9273, so these pass against a tree where a truncated capture carries its own refusal rather than reading as a compiler scoping failure.

Head 73429aa66e. Still enrols nothing.

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Provenance note for reviewers: the current red is inherited from main, not a defect in this diff

Do not file the current floor / witnesses failure as a finding against this PR. It is not a claim about this branch's changes.

What happened. Two independently-green PRs met on main and left claim_disposition_verdict in gunbc.build_target non-exhaustive: #9263 added PanickedBeforeVerdict and NotAttemptedAfterAbort to the floor terminal ledger (src/v2/workflow/floor_terminal_ledger.dag), and the consuming match was never widened. That match is deliberately wildcard-free — its own header states there must not be one — so it refuses loudly rather than silently mis-classifying.

How that was established for this branch, so it is not taken on assertion: the failure reproduces byte-identically against main without this PR's diff. It is main's state, inherited.

The repair is #9343, and it has now merged (main is at 0aa09c1d28e). It adds exactly those two arms — 11 + 2 = 13, matching the 13 reachable variants. Verified independently by two sessions, by identity rather than by counting: the producer emits PanickedBeforeVerdict, the consumer had no arm for it. That form of check does not depend on getting a variant or arm tally right, which matters here because a first attempt at counting them was mis-scoped and would have reported a different, fabricated discrepancy.

What this branch will do: merge main in and re-run. The checks must be refreshed against a merge ref containing #9343 before they say anything about this diff.

What this branch will explicitly NOT do: absorb the two arms locally, add a wildcard, or adjust its own subjects to obtain green. Any of those would be individually defensible and collectively a fork of one semantic repair across three authorities, concealing the real integration order. Per the standing directive, the downstream PRs wait for the upstream repair rather than reproducing it.

On the diagnosis, because it is sharper than "main was broken": the wildcard-free match refusing after the producer's vocabulary grew is healthy fail-closed behaviour. The consumer did exactly what its header promised. The defect is that two independently-green changes were never evaluated together — an integration gap, not a consumer defect.

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