fix(wake): #941 review §2 round 2 — validate WAKE_SNAPSHOT_TS_FUTURE_SLACK before arithmetic

The operator's slack knob was interpolated raw into $((...)) under set -u: '300s'/'5m' -> 'value too great', 'abc' -> 'unbound variable' — all FATAL to the poll, falsifying the PR's own 'poll never fails' invariant, and a negative value silently inverted the guard into deny-all. Now resolved once into a local, validated ^[0-9]{1,9}$, loud fallback to 300 on mismatch. New D13 group: '300s'/'abc'/negative all fall back and KEEP valid metadata; a valid tightened knob (0) still rejects a future ts. Manifest states the skew guarantee explicitly: a surviving snapshot_ts is attested only to within SLACK seconds of the DETECTOR's clock — bounded negative age at render is possible; treat age<=0 as effectively-current, never proof of freshness. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <[email protected]> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NsKce8iZuSuRnu3gVMCBKB
fix(wake): #941 review §2 — snapshot_ts hardening: sha precondition, epoch sanity, future-skew rejection
2026-07-30 05:55:10 -05:00 · 2026-07-30 05:42:01 -05:00 · 2026-07-30 05:13:47 -05:00
5 changed files with 30 additions and 250 deletions
@@ -295,25 +295,12 @@ _poll_source() {
        # is interpolated into $((...)) under set -u, so a non-numeric value
        # ('300s', '5m', 'abc') would be FATAL to the poll — the one thing this
        # block must never be. Resolve it ONCE, validate, fall back loudly.
-        local now_s slack slack_ok
+        local now_s slack
        slack="${WAKE_SNAPSHOT_TS_FUTURE_SLACK:-300}"
-        # NOT grep: grep is LINE-oriented, so ^...$ anchors bind per line and a
-        # multi-line value ($'300\n8') passes the regex yet is FATAL in $((...)).
-        # The case pattern matches the WHOLE string, newlines included. (snap_ts
-        # is immune: jq's number type-check above cannot emit an embedded newline.)
-        case "$slack" in
-        '' | *[!0-9]*) slack_ok=1 ;;
-        *) [ "${#slack}" -le 9 ] && slack_ok=0 || slack_ok=1 ;;
-        esac
-        if [ "$slack_ok" -ne 0 ]; then
-          echo "detector.sh: WAKE_SNAPSHOT_TS_FUTURE_SLACK='$slack' is not a plain non-negative integer of at most 9 digits (seconds) — falling back to 300, poll continues (#940)." >&2
+        if ! printf '%s' "$slack" | grep -Eq '^[0-9]{1,9}$'; then
+          echo "detector.sh: WAKE_SNAPSHOT_TS_FUTURE_SLACK='$slack' is not a plain non-negative integer (seconds) — falling back to 300, poll continues (#940)." >&2
          slack=300
        fi
-        # Shape validation is not radix validation: bash reads a leading zero as
-        # OCTAL, so '08'/'09' pass the shape check yet are FATAL in $((...)), and
-        # '0300' silently means 192. Force base-10 so the knob means what the
-        # operator wrote (safe: the case pattern above guarantees pure digits).
-        slack=$((10#$slack))
        now_s="$(date +%s)"
        if [ "$snap_ts" -gt $((now_s + slack)) ]; then
          echo "detector.sh: source '$kind/$id' snapshot_ts is beyond the ${slack}s future-skew allowance (ts=$snap_ts now=$now_s) — snapshot_ts DROPPED, poll continues (#940)." >&2
@@ -25,8 +25,8 @@
 #     sufficiency NEVER exempts a consequential action from its live gate.
 #
 # HARD LOCATORS (§2.1): every actionable claim MUST carry a precise locator
-# (repo + issue#, a 40-char SHA, file:anchor, or path — #944) so re-verification
-# is ONE targeted call. A missing locator = malformed ACTIONABLE entry = FAIL-LOUD.
+# (repo + issue#, a 40-char SHA, or file:anchor) so re-verification is ONE
+# targeted call. A missing locator = malformed ACTIONABLE entry = FAIL-LOUD.
 #
 # #920 (per-entry quarantine — fail-loud WITHOUT head-of-line blocking): a
 # render-refused entry (actionable-tier, no hard locator) is QUARANTINED — durably
@@ -209,28 +209,13 @@ _scrub_free() {
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

 # _has_hard_locator LOCATORS_JSON — true iff the locators object carries at least
-# one PRECISE locator sufficient for one-call re-verification. BOTH locator
-# vocabularies in live use are accepted (the same two _locator_line documents
-# under #914b):
-#   forge shape (§2.1):   repo + issue (issue#) | 40-hex sha | file (file:anchor)
-#   detector shape (#944): path
-# The `path` arm was added by #944: detector.sh (A1) builds board_file locators
-# as kind/id/observed_hash + path (+ snapshot_sha when adapter-attested, #940)
-# — none of which the gate tested — so a class=actionable board_file entry
-# could NEVER pass and every heartbeat-planning delta dead-lettered (live seqs
-# 63/68). `path` mirrors `file` exactly (same one-call "re-read X" hint below;
-# with an attested snapshot_sha the hint upgrades to one-call
-# `git show <snapshot_sha>:<path>`). DELIBERATELY NOT ARMS: `observed_hash`
-# (a content hash, not an address) and bare `snapshot_sha` without `path`
-# (a path-less 40-hex would widen the gate past the board_file vocabulary —
-# review-adopted criterion on #944; snapshot_sha's precision is only reachable
-# THROUGH a path, so path is the address and snapshot_sha stays a refinement).
+# one PRECISE locator sufficient for one-call re-verification:
+#   repo + issue (issue#)  |  40-hex sha  |  file (file:anchor).
 _has_hard_locator() {
  jq -e '
    ((.repo // "") != "" and ((.issue // "") | tostring) != "")
    or (((.sha // "") | test("^[0-9a-f]{40}$")))
    or ((.file // "") != "")
-    or ((.path // "") != "")
  ' >/dev/null 2>&1 <<<"$1"
 }

@@ -238,18 +223,16 @@ _has_hard_locator() {
 # one-targeted-call re-verify hint, where available.
 #
 # #914b: covers BOTH locator vocabularies actually in use:
-#   - the HARD-locator shape (§2.1, gated by _has_hard_locator):
+#   - the HARD-locator shape (§2.1, gated by _has_hard_locator, unchanged):
 #     repo+issue | 40-hex sha | file(:anchor).
 #   - the shape detector.sh (A1) actually builds for a `digest`-class entry
 #     (see detector.sh's enqueue-locators jq filter): kind/id/observed_hash +
 #     whichever of repo/path/anchor/remote/branches the source def declares.
 #     None of kind/id/observed_hash/remote/path/branches were recognized here
 #     before, so a real digest-class pointer rendered a bare empty "locator:"
-#     line despite the entry carrying real (soft, non-hard) locator data.
-#     (At #914b this was display-only; #944 later promoted `path` — and ONLY
-#     `path` — into _has_hard_locator, since it carries the same one-call
-#     re-verify precision as `file`. kind/id/observed_hash/remote/branches
-#     and bare snapshot_sha remain soft/display-only.)
+#     line despite the entry carrying real (soft, non-hard) locator data. This
+#     is display-only: it does NOT feed _has_hard_locator, so the
+#     ACTIONABLE-tier hard-locator FAIL-LOUD gate is untouched.
 _locator_line() {
  local loc="$1" repo issue sha file anchor head parts='' reverify=''
  local remote path kind id ohash branches snap_sha snap_ts
@@ -494,7 +477,7 @@ _quarantine_entry() {
      return 0
    fi
  fi
-  echo "digest.sh: FAIL-LOUD QUARANTINE (#920) — malformed ACTIONABLE entry at observed_seq=$seq has no §2.1 hard locator (repo+issue# / 40-hex sha / file:anchor / path). DEAD-LETTERED to $dlq and EXCLUDED from this digest; the rest of the cumulative set still renders (no head-of-line block). Re-feed the source with a valid hard locator." >&2
+  echo "digest.sh: FAIL-LOUD QUARANTINE (#920) — malformed ACTIONABLE entry at observed_seq=$seq has no §2.1 hard locator (repo+issue#/40-char SHA/file:anchor). DEAD-LETTERED to $dlq and EXCLUDED from this digest; the rest of the cumulative set still renders (no head-of-line block). Re-feed the source with a valid hard locator." >&2
  # #924 (G2a): route the SAME per-entry alarm off-host too, deduped by
  # observed_seq so a still-dead-lettered entry re-drained every tick is
  # alarmed off-host EXACTLY ONCE (never once per re-render).
@@ -276,21 +276,10 @@
 #              yields a NEGATIVE age — stale-reads-fresher-than-fresh, the
 #              exact failure class #940 fixes. The SLACK knob itself is
 #              operator input interpolated into arithmetic under set -u, so it
-#              gets the same discipline (#941 §2 round 2): shape-validated as
-#              a plain non-negative integer of at most 9 digits, else LOUD
-#              fallback to 300 — a malformed knob
+#              gets the same discipline (#941 §2 round 2): validated
+#              ^[0-9]{1,9}$, else LOUD fallback to 300 — a malformed knob
 #              ('300s', '5m', 'abc') must never kill the poll, and a negative
-#              one must never invert the guard into deny-all. Shape validation
-#              is NOT radix validation (#942 review): bash reads leading zeros
-#              as OCTAL, so '08'/'09' pass the shape check yet are fatal in
-#              $((...)) and '0300' silently means 192 — the knob is therefore
-#              forced base-10 (10#) after validation, so it means what the
-#              operator wrote. The validator and the consumer must also agree
-#              on STRING EXTENT (#942 follow-up): grep's ^...$ anchors bind
-#              per LINE, so a multi-line value ($'300\n8') passed the regex
-#              whole yet was fatal in $((...)) — validation is a whole-string
-#              case pattern, not grep, so an embedded newline rejects.
-#              SKEW GUARANTEE
+#              one must never invert the guard into deny-all. SKEW GUARANTEE
 #              (stated, not implied): the future-skew check runs against the
 #              DETECTOR's clock; consumer-side age arithmetic runs on the
 #              consumer's. A surviving snapshot_ts is therefore attested only
@@ -306,49 +295,8 @@
 #              absence of these fields.
 #              Changed: detector.sh, digest.sh (+ test-wake-detector.sh
 #              D10/D11/D12/D13, test-wake-digest-quarantine.sh Q10).
-#   0.6.13 #942/#943 SLACK-knob validation hardening, split from 0.6.12 because
-#              version= is the component's SOLE self-identity claim (no per-file
-#              hashes here) and two detector-changing merges after the 0.6.12
-#              stamp had left three materially different detectors under one
-#              version string (#943 review §2). #942: the knob is resolved once,
-#              shape-validated, LOUD fallback 300, and forced base-10 (10#) so
-#              zero-padded values mean what the operator wrote instead of octal.
-#              #943: validation is a whole-string case pattern, not grep, so an
-#              embedded newline ($'300\n8' — accepted per-line by grep's ^...$
-#              anchors, fatal in $((...))) rejects. Full rationale in the knob
-#              paragraph of the 0.6.12 entry above.
-#              Changed: detector.sh (+ test-wake-detector.sh D13).
-#   0.6.14 #944 the §2.1 hard-locator gate was UNSATISFIABLE for detector-built
-#              actionable board_file entries: _has_hard_locator tested only
-#              repo+issue / 40-hex sha / file, while detector.sh (A1) builds
-#              kind/id/observed_hash + path (+ snapshot_sha/_ts when attested,
-#              #940) — no key in common, so every class=actionable board_file
-#              delta was structurally guaranteed to dead-letter (live: mos-dt
-#              seqs 63/68, 2026-07-30; the only tier with a 30m SLO delivered
-#              nothing on its only actionable source). Fix: `path` becomes a
-#              hard-locator arm — and ONLY path: it mirrors `file`'s one-call
-#              "re-read X" precision, upgrading to one-call
-#              `git show <snapshot_sha>:<path>` when a snapshot is attested.
-#              observed_hash (content hash, not an address) and bare path-less
-#              snapshot_sha (would widen the gate past the board_file
-#              vocabulary — review-adopted criterion) remain NON-arms.
-#              Quarantine is a RENDER-TIME filter (entries never leave
-#              pending), so existing UNCONSUMED dead-letters re-deliver
-#              automatically on the first post-upgrade drain; consumed-past
-#              dead-letters are not requeued.
-#              Changed: digest.sh (+ test-wake-digest-quarantine.sh: Q11
-#              positive control — the live seq-68 entry verbatim must RENDER
-#              as CLAIM@seq — and Q1/Q6-Q9 fixtures moved off the now-valid
-#              path-bearing shape onto genuinely address-free shapes,
-#              amending the #920-era ruling that had pinned the live pilot's
-#              own locator shape as the malformed example). Doc follow-up:
-#              #948 amends CONVERGED-DESIGN.md §2.1 to add `path` to the
-#              hard-locator enumeration and to state the operative test as
-#              "one targeted call, never a search" (NOT "pins the observed
-#              state") — sequenced AFTER the reseed so the edit itself is a
-#              live delivery test of the fixed gate.
 component=wake
-version=0.6.14
+version=0.6.12

 # Watch-list schema this component consumes, and the INCLUSIVE range of
 # schema_version values it supports. A wake-watch-list.json whose schema_version
@@ -644,44 +644,6 @@ EOF
  entry="$("$STORE" drain | tail -1)"
  echo "$entry" | jq -e --arg s "$goodsha" 'select(.locators.snapshot_sha==$s) | .locators | has("snapshot_ts")' >/dev/null 2>&1 \
    || fail_msg "D13: negative slack must NOT invert the guard into deny-all [$entry]"
-  # (c2) MULTI-LINE knobs — grep's ^...$ anchors bind PER LINE, so a value with
-  # an embedded newline ($'300\n8') passed the old regex whole yet is FATAL in
-  # \$((...)) ('error token is "8"'; $'300\nabc' dies as unbound variable). The
-  # case pattern matches the WHOLE string: both must fall back loudly, keep the ts.
-  printf '{"snapshot_sha":"%s","snapshot_ts":%s}\n' "$goodsha" "$(date +%s)" >"$stub/repo_r1.meta"
-  printf 'SHA-CC2\n' >"$stub/repo_r1"
-  err="$(WAKE_SNAPSHOT_TS_FUTURE_SLACK=$'300\n8' "$DET" poll-once 2>&1 >/dev/null)"; rc=$?
-  [ "$rc" -eq 0 ] || fail_msg "D13: multi-line SLACK (300\\n8) must NEVER fail the poll (rc=$rc) [$err]"
-  echo "$err" | grep -qi 'falling back to 300' || fail_msg "D13: multi-line slack must be LOUD on stderr [$err]"
-  entry="$("$STORE" drain | tail -1)"
-  echo "$entry" | jq -e --arg s "$goodsha" 'select(.locators.snapshot_sha==$s) | .locators | has("snapshot_ts")' >/dev/null 2>&1 \
-    || fail_msg "D13: valid metadata must SURVIVE a multi-line knob [$entry]"
-  printf '{"snapshot_sha":"%s","snapshot_ts":%s}\n' "$goodsha" "$(date +%s)" >"$stub/repo_r1.meta"
-  printf 'SHA-CC3\n' >"$stub/repo_r1"
-  err="$(WAKE_SNAPSHOT_TS_FUTURE_SLACK=$'300\nabc' "$DET" poll-once 2>&1 >/dev/null)"; rc=$?
-  [ "$rc" -eq 0 ] || fail_msg "D13: multi-line SLACK (300\\nabc) must NEVER fail the poll (rc=$rc) [$err]"
-  echo "$err" | grep -qi 'falling back to 300' || fail_msg "D13: multi-line non-numeric slack must be LOUD on stderr [$err]"
-  entry="$("$STORE" drain | tail -1)"
-  echo "$entry" | jq -e --arg s "$goodsha" 'select(.locators.snapshot_sha==$s) | .locators | has("snapshot_ts")' >/dev/null 2>&1 \
-    || fail_msg "D13: valid metadata must SURVIVE a multi-line non-numeric knob [$entry]"
-  # (d2-pre) ZERO-PADDED knobs — shape-valid, radix-hostile. '08' passes the
-  # regex but is fatal octal in \$((...)) without the 10# normalization; '0300'
-  # silently means 192 (octal), so a ts +250s ahead would be WRONGLY dropped.
-  # With 10#: '08' means 8 and survives; '0300' means 300 and the +250s ts is KEPT.
-  printf '{"snapshot_sha":"%s","snapshot_ts":%s}\n' "$goodsha" "$(date +%s)" >"$stub/repo_r1.meta"
-  printf 'SHA-DD2\n' >"$stub/repo_r1"
-  err="$(WAKE_SNAPSHOT_TS_FUTURE_SLACK='08' "$DET" poll-once 2>&1 >/dev/null)"; rc=$?
-  [ "$rc" -eq 0 ] || fail_msg "D13: SLACK='08' (octal-fatal without 10#) must NEVER fail the poll (rc=$rc) [$err]"
-  entry="$("$STORE" drain | tail -1)"
-  echo "$entry" | jq -e --arg s "$goodsha" 'select(.locators.snapshot_sha==$s) | .locators | has("snapshot_ts")' >/dev/null 2>&1 \
-    || fail_msg "D13: SLACK='08' with a current ts must keep the metadata [$entry]"
-  printf '{"snapshot_sha":"%s","snapshot_ts":%s}\n' "$goodsha" "$(( $(date +%s) + 250 ))" >"$stub/repo_r1.meta"
-  printf 'SHA-DD3\n' >"$stub/repo_r1"
-  err="$(WAKE_SNAPSHOT_TS_FUTURE_SLACK='0300' "$DET" poll-once 2>&1 >/dev/null)"; rc=$?
-  [ "$rc" -eq 0 ] || fail_msg "D13: SLACK='0300' must not fail the poll (rc=$rc)"
-  entry="$("$STORE" drain | tail -1)"
-  echo "$entry" | jq -e --arg s "$goodsha" 'select(.locators.snapshot_sha==$s) | .locators | has("snapshot_ts")' >/dev/null 2>&1 \
-    || fail_msg "D13: SLACK='0300' must mean 300 (decimal), so a +250s ts is KEPT — octal 192 would have dropped it [$entry]"
  # (d) a VALID knob is still honored: slack=0 with a ts 60s ahead -> future-skew drop.
  printf '{"snapshot_sha":"%s","snapshot_ts":%s}\n' "$goodsha" "$(( $(date +%s) + 60 ))" >"$stub/repo_r1.meta"
  printf 'SHA-EEE\n' >"$stub/repo_r1"
@@ -691,7 +653,7 @@ EOF
  entry="$("$STORE" drain | tail -1)"
  echo "$entry" | jq -e --arg s "$goodsha" 'select(.locators.snapshot_sha==$s) | .locators | has("snapshot_ts") | not' >/dev/null 2>&1 \
    || fail_msg "D13: valid SLACK=0 must drop the future ts but keep the sha [$entry]"
-  [ "$(det_seq)" = "8" ] || fail_msg "D13: all eight real deltas must still have enqueued, got seq $(det_seq)"
+  [ "$(det_seq)" = "4" ] || fail_msg "D13: all four real deltas must still have enqueued, got seq $(det_seq)"
 ) && ok

 echo
@@ -4,20 +4,12 @@
 # blocking) + reconciler ENUMERATIONS render ORIENTATION-tier.
 #
 # Each test asserts ONE invariant and goes RED against the pre-#920 digest.sh:
-#   Q1 (a) QUARANTINE + REST-DELIVERS: a malformed `actionable` carrying NO hard
-#          locator ({kind,id,observed_hash} — a content hash but no ADDRESS, no
-#          reconciled marker) is DEAD-LETTERED + alarmed AND EXCLUDED, while a
-#          clean valid sibling in the SAME drain still renders (exit 0).
+#   Q1 (a) QUARANTINE + REST-DELIVERS: a malformed `actionable` carrying the live
+#          pilot's EXACT locator shape {kind,id,path,observed_hash} (no hard
+#          locator, no reconciled marker) is DEAD-LETTERED + alarmed AND EXCLUDED,
+#          while a clean valid sibling in the SAME drain still renders (exit 0).
 #          RED baseline: the old whole-digest exit-4 delivered NOTHING (the live
 #          head-of-line-blocking wedge).                                    (#920 FIX1)
-#          [#944 AMENDMENT: at #920 this fixture pinned the live pilot's shape
-#          {kind,id,path,observed_hash} as the malformed case — ratifying a gate
-#          the detector's own locators could never satisfy (every actionable
-#          heartbeat-planning delta dead-lettered; live seqs 63/68). #944 amends
-#          that ruling: `path` is now a hard-locator arm — and ONLY path;
-#          bare snapshot_sha is deliberately NOT an arm, Q11(d) asserts it
-#          still quarantines — so the quarantine fixtures here and in Q6-Q9
-#          use genuinely ADDRESS-FREE shapes instead.]
 #   Q2 (b) ENUM-AS-ORIENTATION: a reconciler enumeration (locators.reconciled==
 #          true) renders as an ORIENTATION-tier pointer and does NOT exit-4 / is
 #          NOT quarantined. RED baseline: reconciled `actionable` + soft locators
@@ -61,30 +53,6 @@
 # (Q6/Q7/Q8 all see 0 captured alarms) and no "FAIL LOUD ... alarm sink"
 # diagnostic exists to fire (Q9).
 #
-# #944 (unsatisfiable-gate fix): _has_hard_locator gains the `path` arm — and
-# ONLY that arm — covering the detector-built board_file vocabulary.
-#   Q11    POSITIVE CONTROL + RETAINED NEGATIVES, one drain: (a) the live
-#          seq-68 entry VERBATIM (the exact production entry that dead-lettered
-#          under the unsatisfiable gate: kind/id/observed_hash + path +
-#          snapshot_sha + snapshot_ts, class=actionable, as detector.sh
-#          actually emits it — NOT a hand-built dict) must RENDER as a
-#          CLAIM@seq with the one-call `git show <snapshot_sha>:<path>`
-#          re-verify hint — the assertion is the rendered claim, not merely
-#          the predicate returning true; (b) a path-only sibling (no snapshot
-#          attestation — a pre-#940 adapter or a dropped attestation) must
-#          ALSO render, with the "re-read <path>" hint; (c) an address-free
-#          sibling ({kind,id,observed_hash}) must STILL quarantine + route its
-#          own alarm — observed_hash is a content hash, not an address; (d)
-#          bare path-less snapshot_sha siblings must ALSO still quarantine —
-#          the widened gate must not widen PAST the board_file vocabulary
-#          (review-adopted criterion) — asserted at THREE lengths (7-char
-#          abbreviation, 40-hex, 64-char sha-256) spanning the detector's
-#          actual attestation validation ^[0-9a-f]{7,64}$ (detector.sh), so
-#          the assertion distinguishes "no snapshot_sha arm" from "an arm
-#          present but length-gated". RED baseline: pre-#944
-#          digest.sh dead-letters (a) and (b) — an assertion nobody has seen
-#          succeed is as unproven as one nobody has seen fail.
-#
 # Hermetic: feeds controlled JSONL via `digest.sh render --from-file` — NO store,
 # NO network, NO openssl (so it runs identically under the CI openssl-mask).
 #
@@ -137,16 +105,15 @@ fresh_home() {
 # dlq HOME — the dead-letter path for the default agent under HOME.
 dlq() { printf '%s/default/dead-letter.jsonl' "$1"; }

-echo "== Q1 (a): malformed address-free {kind,id,observed_hash} QUARANTINES; clean sibling STILL delivers =="
+echo "== Q1 (a): malformed {kind,id,path,observed_hash} QUARANTINES; clean sibling STILL delivers =="
 (
  home="$(fresh_home q1)"
  export WAKE_STATE_HOME="$home"
  unset WAKE_AGENT
  f="$TMP_ROOT/q1.jsonl"
-  # An ADDRESS-FREE malformed shape (no reconciled marker) + a clean sibling.
-  # [#944: the original fixture carried `path`, which is now a hard-locator arm.]
+  # The live pilot's EXACT malformed shape (no reconciled marker) + a clean sibling.
  {
-    printf '%s\n' '{"observed_seq":1,"class":"actionable","locators":{"kind":"repo","id":"MALFORMED-Q","observed_hash":"deadbeef"},"emit_ts":1}'
+    printf '%s\n' '{"observed_seq":1,"class":"actionable","locators":{"kind":"repo","id":"MALFORMED-Q","path":"docs/x.md","observed_hash":"deadbeef"},"emit_ts":1}'
    printf '{"observed_seq":2,"class":"actionable","locators":{"sha":"%s","file":"src/a.ts"},"emit_ts":1}\n' "$SHA40"
  } >"$f"
  err="$TMP_ROOT/q1.err"
@@ -168,11 +135,7 @@ echo "== Q2 (b): reconciler enumeration (reconciled:true) renders ORIENTATION-ti
  unset WAKE_AGENT
  f="$TMP_ROOT/q2.jsonl"
  # A reconciler enumeration: store class actionable (unchanged) + reconciled marker.
-  # ADDRESS-FREE on purpose (#944 F1): no path/file/sha/repo+issue — the reconciled
-  # exemption must be the ONLY thing keeping this entry out of quarantine, so the
-  # exemption is proven load-bearing AT THE GATE (mutation-killable), not merely at
-  # the tier label. (Q3's ENUM-C* stay path-bearing: reconciled + valid-locator mix.)
-  printf '%s\n' '{"observed_seq":5,"class":"actionable","locators":{"kind":"repo","id":"ENUM-B","observed_hash":"cafe1234","reconciled":true},"emit_ts":1}' >"$f"
+  printf '%s\n' '{"observed_seq":5,"class":"actionable","locators":{"kind":"repo","id":"ENUM-B","path":"BOARD.md","observed_hash":"cafe1234","reconciled":true},"emit_ts":1}' >"$f"
  err="$TMP_ROOT/q2.err"
  out="$("$DIGEST" render --from-file "$f" --agent default 2>"$err")"
  rc=$?
@@ -246,7 +209,7 @@ echo "== Q6 (a): dead-lettered entry routes EXACTLY ONE off-host alarm (payload
  export WAKE_STATE_HOME="$home"
  unset WAKE_AGENT
  f="$TMP_ROOT/q6.jsonl"
-  printf '%s\n' '{"observed_seq":21,"class":"actionable","locators":{"kind":"repo","id":"DLQ-Q6","observed_hash":"aaaa"},"emit_ts":1}' >"$f"
+  printf '%s\n' '{"observed_seq":21,"class":"actionable","locators":{"kind":"repo","id":"DLQ-Q6","path":"x.md","observed_hash":"aaaa"},"emit_ts":1}' >"$f"
  ALARM_OUT="$TMP_ROOT/q6.alarm.jsonl"
  export ALARM_OUT
  : >"$ALARM_OUT"
@@ -269,7 +232,7 @@ echo "== Q7 (b): re-draining the SAME still-dead-lettered entry N times routes Z
  export WAKE_STATE_HOME="$home"
  unset WAKE_AGENT
  f="$TMP_ROOT/q7.jsonl"
-  printf '%s\n' '{"observed_seq":22,"class":"actionable","locators":{"kind":"repo","id":"DLQ-Q7","observed_hash":"bbbb"},"emit_ts":1}' >"$f"
+  printf '%s\n' '{"observed_seq":22,"class":"actionable","locators":{"kind":"repo","id":"DLQ-Q7","path":"y.md","observed_hash":"bbbb"},"emit_ts":1}' >"$f"
  ALARM_OUT="$TMP_ROOT/q7.alarm.jsonl"
  export ALARM_OUT
  : >"$ALARM_OUT"
@@ -289,8 +252,8 @@ echo "== Q8 (c): a NEW distinct dead-lettered entry routes its OWN one alarm (de
  unset WAKE_AGENT
  f1="$TMP_ROOT/q8a.jsonl"
  f2="$TMP_ROOT/q8b.jsonl"
-  printf '%s\n' '{"observed_seq":31,"class":"actionable","locators":{"kind":"repo","id":"DLQ-Q8A","observed_hash":"c1"},"emit_ts":1}' >"$f1"
-  printf '%s\n' '{"observed_seq":32,"class":"actionable","locators":{"kind":"repo","id":"DLQ-Q8B","observed_hash":"c2"},"emit_ts":1}' >"$f2"
+  printf '%s\n' '{"observed_seq":31,"class":"actionable","locators":{"kind":"repo","id":"DLQ-Q8A","path":"a.md","observed_hash":"c1"},"emit_ts":1}' >"$f1"
+  printf '%s\n' '{"observed_seq":32,"class":"actionable","locators":{"kind":"repo","id":"DLQ-Q8B","path":"b.md","observed_hash":"c2"},"emit_ts":1}' >"$f2"
  ALARM_OUT="$TMP_ROOT/q8.alarm.jsonl"
  export ALARM_OUT
  : >"$ALARM_OUT"
@@ -310,7 +273,7 @@ echo "== Q9 (d): WAKE_ALARM_SINK_CMD unconfigured OR unreachable -> FAIL LOUD (n
  export WAKE_STATE_HOME="$home"
  unset WAKE_AGENT
  f="$TMP_ROOT/q9.jsonl"
-  printf '%s\n' '{"observed_seq":41,"class":"actionable","locators":{"kind":"repo","id":"DLQ-Q9","observed_hash":"dddd"},"emit_ts":1}' >"$f"
+  printf '%s\n' '{"observed_seq":41,"class":"actionable","locators":{"kind":"repo","id":"DLQ-Q9","path":"z.md","observed_hash":"dddd"},"emit_ts":1}' >"$f"
  # (a) UNCONFIGURED alarm sink.
  unset WAKE_ALARM_SINK_CMD
  err_a="$TMP_ROOT/q9a.err"
@@ -374,69 +337,6 @@ echo "== Q10: snapshot metadata (#940) — snapshot_sha/snapshot_ts render on th
  true
 ) && ok

-echo "== Q11 (#944): REAL detector-shape actionable RENDERS as CLAIM@seq; address-free + bare-snapshot_sha siblings STILL quarantine =="
-(
-  home="$(fresh_home q11)"
-  export WAKE_STATE_HOME="$home"
-  unset WAKE_AGENT
-  f="$TMP_ROOT/q11.jsonl"
-  {
-    # (a) the LIVE seq-68 entry VERBATIM — the exact production entry that
-    #     dead-lettered on the mos-dt lane under the unsatisfiable gate
-    #     (dragon-lin dead-letter.jsonl, 2026-07-30). Detector-emitted shape,
-    #     not a hand-built dict.
-    printf '%s\n' '{"observed_seq":68,"locators":{"kind":"board_file","id":"heartbeat-planning","observed_hash":"2e85f2474001961e920976a91981eca5bb86a5ff0df044e082a1e1f2dc7493b5","snapshot_sha":"55d4909569d2b5fbccfec49ec9ca83db5049f3ce","snapshot_ts":1785414523,"path":"docs/scratchpads/heartbeat-planning"},"class":"actionable","emit_ts":1785415057,"hmac":""}'
-    # (b) same vocabulary WITHOUT snapshot attestation (pre-#940 adapter or
-    #     dropped-as-malformed attestation) — must pass via the path arm alone.
-    printf '%s\n' '{"observed_seq":69,"class":"actionable","locators":{"kind":"board_file","id":"PILOT-LOCAL","observed_hash":"abcd1234","path":"BOARD.md"},"emit_ts":2}'
-    # (c) ADDRESS-FREE — the retained negative: a content hash is not an address.
-    printf '%s\n' '{"observed_seq":70,"class":"actionable","locators":{"kind":"board_file","id":"ADDR-FREE","observed_hash":"ffff0000"},"emit_ts":2}'
-    # (d) bare path-less snapshot_sha — must NOT pass: the widened gate must
-    #     not widen past the board_file vocabulary. Asserted at all three
-    #     lengths the detector's attestation validation ^[0-9a-f]{7,64}$
-    #     admits: a 40-hex sha-1, a 7-char abbreviation, a 64-char sha-256.
-    #     One length alone cannot distinguish "no arm" from "arm present but
-    #     length-gated" (enumeration finding E1).
-    printf '%s\n' '{"observed_seq":71,"class":"actionable","locators":{"kind":"board_file","id":"SNAP-ONLY-40","observed_hash":"eeee1111","snapshot_sha":"55d4909569d2b5fbccfec49ec9ca83db5049f3ce"},"emit_ts":2}'
-    printf '%s\n' '{"observed_seq":72,"class":"actionable","locators":{"kind":"board_file","id":"SNAP-ONLY-7","observed_hash":"eeee2222","snapshot_sha":"55d4909"},"emit_ts":2}'
-    printf '%s\n' '{"observed_seq":73,"class":"actionable","locators":{"kind":"board_file","id":"SNAP-ONLY-64","observed_hash":"eeee3333","snapshot_sha":"55d4909569d2b5fbccfec49ec9ca83db5049f3ce55d4909569d2b5fbccfec49e"},"emit_ts":2}'
-  } >"$f"
-  ALARM_OUT="$TMP_ROOT/q11.alarm.jsonl"
-  export ALARM_OUT
-  : >"$ALARM_OUT"
-  export WAKE_ALARM_SINK_CMD="$CAPTURE_ALARM"
-  err="$TMP_ROOT/q11.err"
-  out="$("$DIGEST" render --from-file "$f" --agent default 2>"$err")"
-  rc=$?
-  [ "$rc" -eq 0 ] || fail_msg "Q11: render must exit 0, got rc=$rc"
-  # (a) POSITIVE: the live entry RENDERS as an actionable claim (not merely
-  #     passes the predicate) with the one-call git-show re-verify hint.
-  printf '%s' "$out" | grep -q 'seq 68 — CLAIM@seq' || fail_msg "Q11a: the live seq-68 detector-shape entry must RENDER as CLAIM@seq (positive control)"
-  printf '%s' "$out" | grep -q 'git show 55d4909569d2b5fbccfec49ec9ca83db5049f3ce:docs/scratchpads/heartbeat-planning' \
-    || fail_msg "Q11a: the rendered claim must carry the one-call re-verify hint git show <snapshot_sha>:<path>"
-  # (b) POSITIVE: path arm alone suffices; hint degrades to one-call re-read.
-  printf '%s' "$out" | grep -q 'seq 69 — CLAIM@seq' || fail_msg "Q11b: a path-only detector-shape entry must RENDER as CLAIM@seq (path arm)"
-  printf '%s' "$out" | grep -q 're-read BOARD.md' || fail_msg "Q11b: the path-only claim must carry the one-call re-read <path> hint"
-  n_claims="$(printf '%s\n' "$out" | grep -c 'CLAIM@seq' || true)"
-  [ "$n_claims" = "2" ] || fail_msg "Q11: EXACTLY the two valid entries must render as CLAIM@seq (got $n_claims)"
-  # (c)+(d) NEGATIVES retained: both quarantine, each with its OWN alarm.
-  printf '%s' "$out" | grep -q 'ADDR-FREE' && fail_msg "Q11c: the address-free entry must be EXCLUDED from the digest"
-  printf '%s' "$out" | grep -q 'SNAP-ONLY' && fail_msg "Q11d: no bare path-less snapshot_sha entry may appear in the digest (gate must not widen past board_file)"
-  grep -q 'ADDR-FREE' "$(dlq "$home")" 2>/dev/null || fail_msg "Q11c: the address-free entry must be DEAD-LETTERED"
-  for snap_id in SNAP-ONLY-40 SNAP-ONLY-7 SNAP-ONLY-64; do
-    grep -q "$snap_id" "$(dlq "$home")" 2>/dev/null || fail_msg "Q11d: the bare snapshot_sha entry ($snap_id) must be DEAD-LETTERED"
-  done
-  grep -q 'heartbeat-planning' "$(dlq "$home")" 2>/dev/null && fail_msg "Q11a: the valid live entry must NOT be dead-lettered"
-  grep -q 'PILOT-LOCAL' "$(dlq "$home")" 2>/dev/null && fail_msg "Q11b: the valid path-only entry must NOT be dead-lettered"
-  n_alarms="$(grep -c . "$ALARM_OUT" 2>/dev/null || true)"
-  [ "$n_alarms" = "4" ] || fail_msg "Q11: exactly the four invalid entries must alarm (got $n_alarms) [$(cat "$ALARM_OUT" 2>/dev/null)]"
-  grep -q '"observed_seq":70' "$ALARM_OUT" 2>/dev/null || fail_msg "Q11c: seq 70's own alarm must be present"
-  for snap_seq in 71 72 73; do
-    grep -q "\"observed_seq\":$snap_seq" "$ALARM_OUT" 2>/dev/null || fail_msg "Q11d: seq $snap_seq's own alarm must be present"
-  done
-  true
-) && ok
-
 echo
 if [ -s "$FAILFILE" ]; then
  echo "wake digest-quarantine harness: FAILED ($(grep -c . "$FAILFILE") assertion(s))" >&2