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Recovered from a session that hit its limit mid-flight, rebased onto main, and reconciled with #68 which landed concurrently.

What it does

22 capabilities were bound to no surface at all — nothing could offer them, so no amount of running would ever produce evidence. Now 1.

  • Five tick sub-surfaces (tick:capacity, :dispatch, :experiments, :learning, :redirect) with an in-tree consult (ORCH-ANCHOR: tick-phase-consult, iterating tick_phase_surfaces() below the heartbeat export). The tick was sub-surfaced because 18 capabilities in one reasoning context is the measured 13.62% condition; each phase resolves to 6–8.
  • The lane --surface fix: both TOMLs consulted with --lane and no --surface, so binding_for("") returned {} and eleven bindings never reached the two highest-volume surfaces in the system. Verified: bound_count 0 → 5 (opener) and 0 → 6 (closer), surviving render-claude-prompts.sh.
  • local-model-profile-trial declares NO_BINDING with its quarantine reason rather than sitting silently unbound.

Two sessions disagreed about ci, and #68 won

I instructed a surface: "ci" consult in verify.py on the reasoning that verify.py runs on every PR and therefore is the CI surface. #68's findability requirement showed that's wrong: capability-admission-gate and docs-drift-fix-agent are invoked unconditionally by a rail. They're never offered to a reasoning context, so no binding could raise their selection odds and no consult could change what runs — verify.py doesn't choose to run the admission gate.

Shipping both would have left the tree self-contradictory: the ci reason says "no caller anywhere consults a ci surface — not verify.py" on the same commit that adds a verify.py consult. The consult is removed (185 lines) and #68's verdict kept. It was also a no-op against a suppressed surface, in the one script whose exit code and printed counts CI parses, and it had already needed two follow-up commits to bound a ledger wait and stop a selftest asserting against the live ledger lock.

#68's ninth requirement caught this integration within minutes

All five tick sub-surfaces landed bound and undeclared — neither branch knew about the other's table. Declared as a family (tick:* with instances), because tick_phase_surfaces() derives the names from a prefix so no caller names them literally and a per-surface entry could never be verified.

And it rejected my attempt to delete the KNOWN_UNCONSULTED lane entries. The defect is fixed, but the guard verifies a caller by reading the file that names the surface — and the lane TOMLs are machine-local, outside the repository, unverifiable from any checkout. The entries now state the current truth plus the by-hand re-verification procedure.

verify.py: 407 passed, 0 failed, 0 skipped, 84/84 selftests, 43/43 can-fire, 5/5 gates.

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  • New Features

    • Added advisory capability consultation across five tick phases.
    • Added phase-specific matching with daily, idempotent tracking and clearer attribution.
    • Added coverage, declared/offered capability counts, and findability reporting.
    • Added a command-line option and consultation logs.
  • Reliability

    • Consultations are fail-open and advisory-only, so they do not interrupt ticks or alter verification outcomes.
    • Added a kill switch to disable consultation steps.
  • Documentation

    • Documented phase-specific consultation behavior, constraints, event handling, and verification reporting.

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The change adds phase-specific capability bindings and consultation for each tick phase. It records bounded, idempotent advisory matches, adds fail-open orchestration and CLI support, updates documentation, expands selftests, and refreshes worker metadata.

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Phase-specific capability consultation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Phase bindings and consultation contracts
ARCHITECTURE.md, README.md, capability_advisor.py
Defines phase-specific bindings, consult callers, attribution rules, limits, CI read-only consultation, and explicit NO_BINDING handling.
Bounded phase consultation
capability_advisor.py
Derives tick:* surfaces, queries each phase, records daily idempotent matches, isolates errors, enforces a time budget, and reports template diagnostics.
Cadence wiring and validation
cadence_registry.py, orchestrate.sh, capability_advisor.py
Runs consultation as a disableable fail-open tick step. Adds CLI output and selftests for bindings, isolation, idempotency, and guarded failures.

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Worker attempt metadata
langsmith-fleet-worker-attempt.json
Updates the emitted timestamp and pull request number.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

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In `@capability_advisor.py`:
- Around line 1245-1251: Update the "tick:*" entry’s caller from
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existing TICK_PHASE_PREFIX literal and how description, so consulting_surfaces()
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- Around line 213-220: Remove or rewrite the README.md lines 213-220 so they no
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Comment thread capability_advisor.py
Comment on lines +1245 to +1251
"tick:*": {
"caller": "capability_advisor.py",
"literal": "TICK_PHASE_PREFIX",
"instances": ["tick:capacity", "tick:dispatch", "tick:experiments",
"tick:learning", "tick:redirect"],
"how": "orchestrate.sh iterates tick_phase_surfaces() and consults each phase",
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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

The declared caller cannot falsify the real consult site.

consulting_surfaces() reads the file named by caller and checks that it contains literal. Here caller is capability_advisor.py and literal is TICK_PHASE_PREFIX, which is defined in that same file at line 1443. The claim is therefore self-satisfying: it stays "verified" even if orchestrate.sh drops the ORCH-ANCHOR: tick-phase-consult block, which is the actual caller named in how.

Point the site at the invoking file so removal of the step registers as drift.

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     "tick:*": {
-        "caller": "capability_advisor.py",
-        "literal": "TICK_PHASE_PREFIX",
+        "caller": "orchestrate.sh",
+        "literal": "--consult-tick-phases",
         "instances": ["tick:capacity", "tick:dispatch", "tick:experiments",
                       "tick:learning", "tick:redirect"],
         "how": "orchestrate.sh iterates tick_phase_surfaces() and consults each phase",
     },
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"tick:*": {
"caller": "capability_advisor.py",
"literal": "TICK_PHASE_PREFIX",
"instances": ["tick:capacity", "tick:dispatch", "tick:experiments",
"tick:learning", "tick:redirect"],
"how": "orchestrate.sh iterates tick_phase_surfaces() and consults each phase",
},
"tick:*": {
"caller": "orchestrate.sh",
"literal": "--consult-tick-phases",
"instances": ["tick:capacity", "tick:dispatch", "tick:experiments",
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"how": "orchestrate.sh iterates tick_phase_surfaces() and consults each phase",
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Comment on lines +213 to +220
- **`verify.py` is the `ci` surface and now consults as one.** Three capabilities were declared for
a `ci` surface no caller ever reached — the same defect as no binding at all. `verify.py` runs on
every PR and already executes the admission gate, so it consults with `surface: "ci"` and prints
one summary line carrying both quantities: what the table DECLARES (identical on every machine)
beside what this machine's ledger could OFFER, plus the findability pair (rows bound to some
surface / rows bound to none). Read-only (`record=False` — a verifier must not write to the
ledger its own gates read), never a skip, and it can never enter `problems`, so exit semantics and
every reported count are untouched.

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Documentation still describes the removed ci consult. capability_advisor.py lines 949-968 declare the ci surface with NO_BINDING and record that no verify.py consult was added, so both documents now assert a caller that does not exist.

  • README.md#L213-L220: remove or rewrite the bullet that states verify.py consults with surface: "ci" and prints a summary line on every PR.
  • ARCHITECTURE.md#L508-L513: delete the ci row from the caller table, and remove the "The ci consult line reports the pair on every PR" sentence at lines 533-534.
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22 of 43 capabilities were bound to NO surface, so nothing could ever offer
them and no amount of running produced evidence: the gate starving its own
drain, one layer below the concealment rule the table already guards.

DEDUP FINDING (CLAUDE.md §0). Searched "binding", "surface", "SURFACE_BINDINGS",
"consult", "NO_BINDING", "phase" across the tree and the improvement log. The
MECHANISM all exists — `binding_for()`'s prefix resolution already sub-surfaces
`repo-audit` by phase and dimension; `capability_propensity.tick_evidence`
(PR #37) is already a tick-surface consult; the skills already carry a uniform
consult stanza; `verify.py` already has the diagnostic-line pattern
(`absent_entrypoint_line`). So this is DATA + CALLERS: no second binding table,
no second event log, no second consult mechanism.

1. THE TICK IS SUB-SURFACED BY PHASE, and every phase has a caller. 18 of the 43
   capabilities live on the tick; one context holding 18 is the measured 13.62%
   selection condition. Five phases — `tick:capacity`, `tick:dispatch`,
   `tick:experiments`, `tick:redirect`, `tick:learning` — named from
   orchestrate.sh's own "capacity -> discover -> plan -> dispatch" line and its
   `--- Learning cadence ---` / `[cadence] redirect ...` /
   `[cadence] experiment follow-up` blocks, with most bound capabilities
   carrying a `{kind: tick_phase, name: ...}` matcher naming the phase they land
   in. Each resolves to 6-8 instead of 18.

   THE BARE `tick` SET DOES NOT MOVE. `capability_propensity.TICK_SURFACE` is
   "tick", `tick_evidence()` grades exactly `binding_for("tick")`, and its
   selftest requires every capability with a finding projection to be in it —
   moving those four into a phase would silently zero the only producer of
   layer-2 evidence. A selftest now pins that, and pins that each phase declares
   something the bare set does not.

   The caller is `capability_advisor.py --consult-tick-phases` at
   `ORCH-ANCHOR: tick-phase-consult`, immediately below the #37 step and below
   `ORCH-ANCHOR: heartbeat-export`. It writes NO verdicts — `tick_evidence`
   remains the only writer and reads an unchanged binding, so its ~1.3/day
   ceiling is untouched. Its own volume is bounded by construction: the consult
   text is stable per (surface, UTC day) and the match heartbeat is idempotent on
   its digest, so 34 events land on the first tick of a day and 0 on the other
   23. Fails open per phase, SIGALRM-bounded, always exits 0. Kill switch:
   ORCH_DISABLE_STEPS=tick-phase-consult (registered in cadence_registry.py, so
   the switch is real rather than a no-op that WARNs).

2. `verify.py` IS THE `ci` SURFACE AND NOW CONSULTS AS ONE. Three capabilities
   were declared for a surface no caller reached. verify.py runs on every PR and
   already executes the admission gate. The line reports both quantities — what
   the table DECLARES (identical on every machine) beside what this machine's
   ledger could OFFER — plus the findability pair (rows bound to some surface /
   rows bound to none). record=False: a verifier must not write to the ledger its
   own gates read. Never a skip (no PREREQ_ABSENT_MARK), never in `problems`, so
   exit semantics and every reported count are unchanged.

3. THE SURFACE WAS DROPPED ON THE BINDING-ONLY BRANCH. `advise()` passed only
   `skill` to `_record_matches` there, so a `--surface` consult that missed the
   classifier wrote surface:null AND skill:null — the candidate set recorded and
   belonging to nobody, so no drain could locate it. That is the branch an
   unclassifiable cadence consult ALWAYS takes.

4. AN UNSUBSTITUTED SURFACE TEMPLATE NOW SAYS SO. `binding_for` resolves by
   prefix, so the literal `repo-audit:phase-N` returned `repo-audit`'s
   surface-wide set — one capability where the phase declares four — with
   nothing to distinguish it from a correct answer. Three audits under identical
   instructions consulted 13, 9 and 2 distinct surfaces. `surface_template` is
   reported on all four answer paths and printed loudly; it changes neither the
   set nor the order.

Also bound: role-adjudicator → implementation-verification, role-prompt →
file-agent-issue, role-{redirect,prompt} + agy-runtime-isolation → orchestrate,
redirect-{policy,plan} → closer-lane (not the opener: the opener's own prompt
raises `drain_needed` and relays a stalled PR to the closer),
capability:reference-sync-hygiene-test-gate → ci.

Unbound is now 1: `local-model-profile-trial`, declared with `NO_BINDING` and its
quarantine reason rather than left silently absent.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…nned width

TWO REAL DEFECTS in the ci consult as first written.

1. IT COULD HANG THE VERDICT. The consult reads the ledger and
   `capabilities.load()` takes a BLOCKING flock. Unbounded, a stuck lock would
   hang `verify.py` — the project's verdict — indefinitely. Not hypothetical: it
   actually timed out during this session, with a dozen concurrent verify runs
   and the hourly tick contending for that lock. Now SIGALRM-bounded at 20s, the
   same shape and the same reason as `capability_propensity.tick_evidence_guarded`;
   a wait that expires becomes the `NOT CHECKED` line the guard already produced
   for an import failure, so a hang is a reported line and never a hung run. The
   line still carries no `PREREQ_ABSENT_MARK`, so a timeout is not a skip and
   cannot spend the zero-headroom ceiling. Selftested by substituting the inner
   call, with the healthy path re-asserted so the guard cannot swallow it.

2. `black -l 100` WOULD HAVE REFORMATTED IT. `ruff.toml` records that the Gate's
   format check and Autofix both run `black --line-length 100`; main is clean
   under it and these two files were not, so the Gate would have gone red and
   Autofix would have rewritten them. Reformatted at the pinned width — a bare
   `black` (default 88) disagrees with the Gate and is the wrong instrument here.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
… lock

`assert "NOT CHECKED" not in ci_consult_line()` was meant to prove the guard
does not swallow a healthy answer. It asserted it through the REAL ledger, so it
went red the same afternoon it was written: a dozen concurrent verify runs and
the hourly tick were contending for the flock, the 20s budget expired, and the
guard did exactly its job — failing a test written to prove the guard works.

A machine-dependent assertion inside a check about robustness is this repo's
green-locally/red-on-CI defect one level up, and I was warned about it twice.

Both directions now go through a SUBSTITUTED inner call — a raising one for the
timeout branch, a known-good one for the healthy branch — so neither depends on
what the ledger lock is doing. The real call is still exercised, but only on the
SHAPE both branches satisfy (starts with the label, carries no
PREREQ_ABSENT_MARK, so a timeout can never be miscounted as a skip).

Break→revert, both discriminating: making the guard return NOT CHECKED for a
healthy inner call fails the new healthy assertion; deleting the except clause
lets the TimeoutError escape and the selftest dies on it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…g to select

Two sessions reached opposite conclusions about `ci` and only one can ship.

I instructed the binding work to add a `surface: "ci"` consult to verify.py on the
reasoning that verify.py runs on every PR and therefore IS the CI surface. The
findability requirement (#68), landing concurrently, showed that reasoning is
wrong: `capability-admission-gate` and `docs-drift-fix-agent` are invoked
UNCONDITIONALLY by a rail. They are never OFFERED to a reasoning context, so no
binding could raise their selection odds and no consult could change what runs —
verify.py does not CHOOSE to run the admission gate. Both now declare
`findability_category: no_surface`, which is the honest statement, and `ci` is
NO_BINDING with that reason.

Shipping both would have left the merged tree self-contradictory: the `ci` reason
says "no caller anywhere consults a `ci` surface — not verify.py" on the same
commit that adds a verify.py consult.

So the consult is removed (185 lines) and #68's verdict kept. Two further reasons
to prefer that direction: a consult against a suppressed surface returns
`confidence: "suppressed"` and an empty set on every run, so it was a no-op in the
one script whose exit semantics and printed counts CI parses; and it had already
needed two follow-up commits to bound a ledger wait and to stop a selftest
asserting against the live ledger lock. That is real risk for no signal.

Kept from the binding work, unchanged: the five tick sub-surfaces
(tick:capacity/dispatch/experiments/learning/redirect) with their consult sites,
the lane `--surface` fix, and the NO_BINDING verdict for
`local-model-profile-trial`.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…fect record

Integration between two concurrent sessions, and #68's ninth requirement caught it
within minutes of landing — which is the first thing it did.

The binding work added five tick sub-surfaces and a real in-tree consult
(`ORCH-ANCHOR: tick-phase-consult` iterating `tick_phase_surfaces()`, below the
heartbeat export). #68 added `CONSULT_SITES`, which requires every bound surface to
name a caller that can be VERIFIED — the caller file must actually contain the
declared literal. Neither branch knew about the other, so all five landed bound and
undeclared, and the findability selftest failed with them named.

Declared as a FAMILY, not five entries. `tick_phase_surfaces()` derives the phases
from `TICK_PHASE_PREFIX`, so no caller names them literally and a per-surface entry
could never be verified — that is exactly what `instances` exists for. One claim,
five instances, caller `capability_advisor.py` with literal `TICK_PHASE_PREFIX`.

Also retires both `KNOWN_UNCONSULTED` entries. #68 independently found the same
defect I did — the opener and closer TOMLs consulted with `--lane` and no
`--surface`, so `binding_for("")` returned {} and eleven bindings never reached the
two highest-volume surfaces — and recorded it rather than patching it, correctly,
since CLAUDE.md forbids a loop that edits lane prompts. The TOMLs now carry
`--surface`, re-rendered and verified (bound_count 0 -> 5 and 0 -> 6), so the record
is stale. The table is kept EMPTY rather than deleted, so the next stranded surface
has an obvious home and the record shows the defect existed.

Two mistakes of mine while resolving this, both caught before commit: a regex
scoped to the file rather than to `CONSULT_SITES` deleted the tick bindings out of
`SURFACE_BINDINGS` (caught by `tick_phase_surfaces()` returning `['tick:*']`), and
the first attempt declared five per-surface entries the verifier could never
confirm.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The  list was hand-wrapped; black wants one element per line. The Gate's
lint-format job runs black, not ruff format, and the two disagree on assert-style
wrapping — black is the authority here per ruff.toml's own note.
@stranske
stranske force-pushed the claude/bind-unbound-surfaces branch from 7fd1d9a to 346ea68 Compare August 23, 2026 22:27
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