fix(ci): one NOW entry per file, and retire merge=union by gHashTag · Pull Request #2298 · gHashTag/t27

gHashTag · 2026-08-20T05:27:05Z

Entries move from one prepend-to-the-top file to one file per unit of work:
docs/now/<YYYY-MM-DD>-<slug>.md. Two PRs write two different paths, so the
shared line every PR was fighting over no longer exists.

This PR's own entry is written in the new format
(docs/now/2026-08-20-retire-the-now-md-single-file-bottleneck.md), so the
mechanism is exercised end to end rather than described.

Why not just keep `merge=union`

Because it was measured and it does not work. Both halves below were run against
master @ 7e8de87b1 from a worktree checked out at origin/master, so
master's own .gitattributes was in force:

GitHub never applies it. git merge-tree reports docs/NOW.md clean
for PRs GitHub simultaneously labels CONFLICTING — including tri triage: five ordered classes, and blocked is tested before actionable (#2156) #2157 and
chore: civilian mesh positioning — drop drone wording (bpsk.t27) #1874, which conflict on nothing else. Mergeability on the platform ignores
merge drivers, so the rule bought nothing where the conflicts were reported.
Where it does run, it corrupts silently. Union's failure mode is
duplication, not removal: two branches editing one Last updated: line
merge with no conflict into two adjacent Last updated: lines under a
single heading. Under the default driver that is a conflict a human resolves.

The damage is on master right now — docs/NOW.md has 137 # NOW headings
against 136 Last updated: lines.

So the rule suppressed real conflict detection locally while providing no
benefit remotely. It is retired for both NOW.md and docs/NOW.md.

The gate asserts strictly more than before, not less

assertion	before	after
entry present	`grep -x 'docs/NOW.md'` — any modification, incl. a whitespace touch	diff must ADD (`--diff-filter=A`) a `docs/now/<date>-<slug>.md`
entry fresh	first `Last updated:` line anywhere in a 6,258-line file	the filename date, same `[yesterday .. tomorrow]` UTC window
entry non-empty	not checked	new: >= 1 heading and >= 1 bullet

Freshness reading the filename removes the prepend-order coupling that made
"newest entry" and "first line of the file" the same fact, and removes the
Last updated: line that two branches could duplicate.

The trusted-bot bypass (dependabot[bot], github-actions[bot]) is unchanged.

Gate self-test

The gate was run against real commits, each on its own branch, with a guard
asserting head != base so no case could pass vacuously:

case	expect	got
this PR vs master	accept	exit 0
no entry added	reject	exit 1
stale date (`2020-01-01`)	reject	exit 1
empty entry file	reject	exit 1
heading but no bullet	reject	exit 1
entry modified, not added	reject	exit 1
far-future date (`2030-01-01`)	reject	exit 1
a second, differently-named entry	accept	exit 0
`push` event, entry added	accept	exit 0
`push` event, no change	reject	exit 1

scripts/pre-commit Gate 1 and the .githooks/pre-commit staged-entry warning
were exercised separately (fresh / empty dir / stale-only / README-only /
unstaged / staged / absent). The BSD-date fallback was verified with the system
date on macOS, not only with a GNU shim.

Every consumer updated

Enforcing

.github/workflows/now-sync-gate.yml — two steps collapse into one; the
separate grep -m1 "Last updated:" step is deleted, since the script now
establishes presence and freshness in a single pass.
scripts/ci/now-sync-gate-diff.sh — the gate itself.
bootstrap/src/suite.rs check_now_sync — scans docs/now/. Also fixes a
local/CI mismatch: it demanded today's date in the local timezone where
CI allowed a UTC window, so it could block work locally that CI would accept.
Both now use one window.
cli/tri/src/hooks.rs now-gate — this gate was dead. It matched
^\*\*Last updated:\*\*, a bold label; nownote.rs has only ever written
the plain form, and master has 0 bold occurrences against 136 plain. It
could never pass on a real checkout. Now a directory scan, with tests.
.githooks/pre-commit — the staged-entry warning used git diff, which never
sees an untracked new file; it now uses git status --untracked-files=all.
scripts/pre-commit Gate 1, scripts/verify.sh gate preview.

Writer

cli/tri/src/nownote.rs — tri now add becomes a plain create instead of a
read-modify-write. Adds slugify with 7 tests, one asserting the filename it
produces satisfies the CI gate's own pattern.

Docs / help text

.gitattributes (with the reasoning in the file), docs/NOW.md archive
header, docs/now/README.md (new), .github/PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE.md,
docs/BRANCH-PROTECTION.md, scripts/setup-git-hooks.sh,
bootstrap/src/main.rs, cli/tri/src/main.rs.

Deliberately not touched: .github/CODEOWNERS — /docs/ already covers
docs/now/ recursively, so review routing is unchanged.
tools/withdrawn_live_baseline.txt — its 11 docs/NOW.md keys stay valid
because no existing entry moves.

What this does NOT fix

The damaged entry is not repaired. docs/NOW.md has 137 headings and 136
Last updated: lines; the entry headed
Wave Loop 421 close-out / Wave Loop 422 setup (2026-07-06) lost its date to a
union merge. Its date cannot be recovered without guessing, so it is left
as-is. (The brief cited line 4793; measured on master it is at line 5717,
which shifts to 5738 once this PR's header is applied — hence the heading text
rather than a line number.)
The existing entries are not migrated. All 137 stay in docs/NOW.md,
now frozen with a pointer header. (The brief said 121; grep -c '^# NOW'
reports 137.) Splitting them is mechanical and would make this unreviewable.
Every open PR still needs one rebase. All 18 open PRs put their entry
on docs/NOW.md, a path the new gate no longer accepts, so each must move its
entry to docs/now/. There is no migration that spares them. Only tri triage: five ordered classes, and blocked is tested before actionable (#2156) #2157 and
chore: civilian mesh positioning — drop drone wording (bpsk.t27) #1874 are NOW-only; the rest also collide on bootstrap/src/compiler.rs,
bootstrap/stage0/FROZEN_HASH, scripts/tri, scripts/tri_loop/*.py,
bootstrap/tests/icarus_lowerable.rs, three .claude/skills/*.md,
.trinity/current-issue.md, .trinity/experience.md, and
.github/workflows/schema-validation.yml. No open PR was touched by this
change.
The same bottleneck exists elsewhere and is untouched.
.trinity/experience.md, .trinity/current-issue.md, and especially
bootstrap/stage0/FROZEN_HASH — a one-line file every PR rewrites — are the
identical pathology.
Throughput is the root cause. ~35 PRs/day against one master with several
mandatory single-file artifacts. Removing one contention point does not remove
the pattern that creates them.
The root NOW.md is left alone. It is a divergent regular file stamped
Last updated: 2026-08-09, not the symlink .gitattributes claimed. The
comment is corrected; the file's fate is the owner's call.
.github/workflows/check-now-freshness.yml is left alone. Found while
mapping consumers: a workflow named "Check Now Freshness" whose only step is
echo "Checking repository freshness...". It checks nothing. Wiring or
deleting it changes which checks exist and is a separate decision.
Not compiled. cargo was not run (disk was at ~955 MB free). The Rust
changes were parse-checked with rustfmt and are rustfmt-clean relative to
master's baseline, but CI is the first real build.

Owner decision

This changes the contract of a required status check repo-wide, so
auto-merge has deliberately not been armed. Merging is the owner's call.
Once merged, the 18 open PRs need the one-line rebase described above.

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fix(ci): one NOW entry per file, and retire merge=union #2298 fix(ci): one NOW entry per file, and retire merge=union | Created: 2026-08-20 | Updated: 2026-08-20 | 16 failing / 25 total
ci: eleven merge-critical gates were silent on stacked PRs #2169 ci: eleven merge-critical gates were silent on stacked PRs | Created: 2026-08-14 | Updated: 2026-08-14 | 5 failing / 30 total
corpus: freeze the damage, patch one class at a time, and say where one rule stops #2161 corpus: freeze the damage, patch one class at a time, and say where one rule stops | Created: 2026-08-14 | Updated: 2026-08-20 | 0 failing / 9 total
tri triage: five ordered classes, and blocked is tested before actionable (#2156) #2157 tri triage: five ordered classes, and blocked is tested before actionable (#2156) | Created: 2026-08-14 | Updated: 2026-08-14 | 0 failing / 17 total
parser: nesting decides the separator, never the terminator (#2127) #2151 parser: nesting decides the separator, never the terminator (#2127) | Created: 2026-08-14 | Updated: 2026-08-14 | 2 failing / 26 total
Unbreak FPGA CI and correct two unbacked hardware claims #2081 Unbreak FPGA CI and correct two unbacked hardware claims | Created: 2026-08-11 | Updated: 2026-08-20 | 5 failing / 27 total
feat(igla): Wave Loop 898 — module-scope [615][2]^6 Pt non-power-of-two outer-dimension array-of-struct variable from call with indexed signed writes #1900 feat(igla): Wave Loop 898 — module-scope [615][2]^6 Pt non-power-of-two outer-dimension array-of-struct variable from call with indexed signed writes | Created: 2026-08-07 | Updated: 2026-08-07 | 1 failing / 3 total
chore: civilian mesh positioning — drop drone wording (bpsk.t27) #1874 chore: civilian mesh positioning — drop drone wording (bpsk.t27) | Created: 2026-08-07 | Updated: 2026-08-07 | 2 failing / 25 total
feat(igla): Wave Loop 897 — module-scope [613][2]^6 Pt non-power-of-two outer-dimension array-of-struct variable from call with indexed signed writes #1858 feat(igla): Wave Loop 897 — module-scope [613][2]^6 Pt non-power-of-two outer-dimension array-of-struct variable from call with indexed signed writes | Created: 2026-08-07 | Updated: 2026-08-07 | 1 failing / 3 total
feat(igla): Wave Loop 896 — module-scope [611][2]^6 Pt non-power-of-two outer-dimension array-of-struct variable from call with indexed signed writes #1856 feat(igla): Wave Loop 896 — module-scope [611][2]^6 Pt non-power-of-two outer-dimension array-of-struct variable from call with indexed signed writes | Created: 2026-08-07 | Updated: 2026-08-07 | 1 failing / 3 total
feat(igla): Wave Loop 895 — module-scope [609][2]^6 Pt non-power-of-two outer-dimension array-of-struct variable from call with indexed signed writes #1854 feat(igla): Wave Loop 895 — module-scope [609][2]^6 Pt non-power-of-two outer-dimension array-of-struct variable from call with indexed signed writes | Created: 2026-08-07 | Updated: 2026-08-07 | 1 failing / 3 total
feat(igla): Wave Loop 894 — module-scope [607][2]^6 Pt non-power-of-two outer-dimension array-of-struct variable from call with indexed signed writes #1852 feat(igla): Wave Loop 894 — module-scope [607][2]^6 Pt non-power-of-two outer-dimension array-of-struct variable from call with indexed signed writes | Created: 2026-08-07 | Updated: 2026-08-07 | 1 failing / 3 total
feat(igla): Wave Loop 893 — module-scope [605][2]^6 Pt non-power-of-two outer-dimension array-of-struct variable from call with indexed signed writes #1850 feat(igla): Wave Loop 893 — module-scope [605][2]^6 Pt non-power-of-two outer-dimension array-of-struct variable from call with indexed signed writes | Created: 2026-08-07 | Updated: 2026-08-07 | 1 failing / 3 total
feat(igla): Wave Loop 892 — module-scope [603][2]^6 Pt non-power-of-two outer-dimension array-of-struct variable from call with indexed signed writes #1847 feat(igla): Wave Loop 892 — module-scope [603][2]^6 Pt non-power-of-two outer-dimension array-of-struct variable from call with indexed signed writes | Created: 2026-08-07 | Updated: 2026-08-07 | 1 failing / 3 total
feat(igla): Wave Loop 891 — module-scope [601][2]^6 Pt non-power-of-two outer-dimension array-of-struct variable from call with indexed signed writes #1844 feat(igla): Wave Loop 891 — module-scope [601][2]^6 Pt non-power-of-two outer-dimension array-of-struct variable from call with indexed signed writes | Created: 2026-08-07 | Updated: 2026-08-07 | 0 failing / 4 total
feat(igla): Wave Loop 890 — module-scope [599][2]^6 Pt non-power-of-two outer-dimension array-of-struct variable from call with indexed signed writes #1842 feat(igla): Wave Loop 890 — module-scope [599][2]^6 Pt non-power-of-two outer-dimension array-of-struct variable from call with indexed signed writes | Created: 2026-08-07 | Updated: 2026-08-07 | 0 failing / 4 total
feat(igla): Wave Loop 883 — module-scope [585][2]^6 Pt non-power-of-two outer-dimension array-of-struct variable from call with indexed signed writes #1815 feat(igla): Wave Loop 883 — module-scope [585][2]^6 Pt non-power-of-two outer-dimension array-of-struct variable from call with indexed signed writes | Created: 2026-08-06 | Updated: 2026-08-06 | 0 failing / 1 total
feat(igla): Wave Loop 882 — module-scope [583][2]^6 Pt non-power-of-two outer-dimension array-of-struct variable from call with indexed signed writes #1813 feat(igla): Wave Loop 882 — module-scope [583][2]^6 Pt non-power-of-two outer-dimension array-of-struct variable from call with indexed signed writes | Created: 2026-08-06 | Updated: 2026-08-06 | 0 failing / 12 total
feat(igla): Wave Loop 881 — module-scope [581][2]^6 Pt non-power-of-two outer-dimension array-of-struct variable from call with indexed signed writes #1810 feat(igla): Wave Loop 881 — module-scope [581][2]^6 Pt non-power-of-two outer-dimension array-of-struct variable from call with indexed signed writes | Created: 2026-08-06 | Updated: 2026-08-06 | 0 failing / 12 total

Summary

Status	Count
Total Open PRs	19
PRs with Failing Checks	4
PRs with All Checks Green	15
READY	7
FAILING	4
PENDING	0

Seal Status

⚠️ STALE -- sha256(compiler.rs)=cbbfac87dff3 != manifest seal=87e5cbd3ad94.
The committed NMSE numbers were certified against an older compiler.rs.
Run scripts/reseal-check.sh locally for the two-step reseal command (advisory; not a merge gate).

gHashTag · 2026-08-20T05:31:05Z

CI status: the gate this PR rewrites is green; the three red checks are inherited

check-now-freshness PASSED on this PR, accepting
docs/now/2026-08-20-retire-the-now-md-single-file-bottleneck.md under the new
rules. That is the end-to-end proof: the rewritten gate ran in real CI against an
entry written in the new format.

Three checks are red. All three already fail on 7e8de87b1, this PR's exact
base commit — verified by run id, not inferred:

check	workflow	master run on `7e8de87b1`	cause
`build`	FPGA E2E Build	32331938258 era, failure	`fpga::tests::test_smoke_gate_json_synthetic_verify_lean` — `[smoke-gate] SKIP: yosys not on PATH`
`coverage`	Seal Coverage	failure	pre-existing
`withdrawn-live`	Withdrawn Number Gate	32331938258 failure	pre-existing

withdrawn-live deserves a specific note, because this PR does touch
docs/NOW.md and the line numbers in its output shift by 21:

It reports docs/NOW.md:813 here and docs/NOW.md:792 on master. Same line,
shifted by the 21-line archive header.
The gate keys on path | pattern | sha1(line), not on line number, so the
shift is irrelevant. The flagged line is byte-identical to master's:
- **The "FPGA 35/35 at 323 MHz Artix-7" dispute is NOT settled here.** A
with sha1[:12] = 93e256f28d7c, which is absent from
tools/withdrawn_live_baseline.txt on master too.
It was introduced by 400850702 (docs(arxiv): XC7A100T LUT count is 63,400 — the docs give its flip-flop count #2281), which added the line without
updating the baseline. Fixing it means adding that hash to the baseline —
a claims-registry decision, unrelated to the NOW layout, so it is not
done here.

For the same reason this PR does not re-key the baseline's 11 docs/NOW.md
entries: no existing entry moves, and the keys are content hashes, so they stay
valid.

On compilation

cargo was not run locally. The build job compiled the Rust changes on CI and
reported 163 passed, 1 failed, the single failure being the yosys-dependent
FPGA smoke test above. The new slugify and now_gate tests are in that
passing set.

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fix(ci): one NOW entry per file, and retire merge=union #2298 fix(ci): one NOW entry per file, and retire merge=union | Created: 2026-08-20 | Updated: 2026-08-20 | 18 failing / 25 total
ci: eleven merge-critical gates were silent on stacked PRs #2169 ci: eleven merge-critical gates were silent on stacked PRs | Created: 2026-08-14 | Updated: 2026-08-14 | 5 failing / 30 total
corpus: freeze the damage, patch one class at a time, and say where one rule stops #2161 corpus: freeze the damage, patch one class at a time, and say where one rule stops | Created: 2026-08-14 | Updated: 2026-08-20 | 0 failing / 9 total
tri triage: five ordered classes, and blocked is tested before actionable (#2156) #2157 tri triage: five ordered classes, and blocked is tested before actionable (#2156) | Created: 2026-08-14 | Updated: 2026-08-14 | 0 failing / 17 total
parser: nesting decides the separator, never the terminator (#2127) #2151 parser: nesting decides the separator, never the terminator (#2127) | Created: 2026-08-14 | Updated: 2026-08-14 | 2 failing / 26 total
Unbreak FPGA CI and correct two unbacked hardware claims #2081 Unbreak FPGA CI and correct two unbacked hardware claims | Created: 2026-08-11 | Updated: 2026-08-20 | 5 failing / 27 total
feat(igla): Wave Loop 898 — module-scope [615][2]^6 Pt non-power-of-two outer-dimension array-of-struct variable from call with indexed signed writes #1900 feat(igla): Wave Loop 898 — module-scope [615][2]^6 Pt non-power-of-two outer-dimension array-of-struct variable from call with indexed signed writes | Created: 2026-08-07 | Updated: 2026-08-07 | 1 failing / 3 total
chore: civilian mesh positioning — drop drone wording (bpsk.t27) #1874 chore: civilian mesh positioning — drop drone wording (bpsk.t27) | Created: 2026-08-07 | Updated: 2026-08-07 | 2 failing / 25 total
feat(igla): Wave Loop 897 — module-scope [613][2]^6 Pt non-power-of-two outer-dimension array-of-struct variable from call with indexed signed writes #1858 feat(igla): Wave Loop 897 — module-scope [613][2]^6 Pt non-power-of-two outer-dimension array-of-struct variable from call with indexed signed writes | Created: 2026-08-07 | Updated: 2026-08-07 | 1 failing / 3 total
feat(igla): Wave Loop 896 — module-scope [611][2]^6 Pt non-power-of-two outer-dimension array-of-struct variable from call with indexed signed writes #1856 feat(igla): Wave Loop 896 — module-scope [611][2]^6 Pt non-power-of-two outer-dimension array-of-struct variable from call with indexed signed writes | Created: 2026-08-07 | Updated: 2026-08-07 | 1 failing / 3 total
feat(igla): Wave Loop 895 — module-scope [609][2]^6 Pt non-power-of-two outer-dimension array-of-struct variable from call with indexed signed writes #1854 feat(igla): Wave Loop 895 — module-scope [609][2]^6 Pt non-power-of-two outer-dimension array-of-struct variable from call with indexed signed writes | Created: 2026-08-07 | Updated: 2026-08-07 | 1 failing / 3 total
feat(igla): Wave Loop 894 — module-scope [607][2]^6 Pt non-power-of-two outer-dimension array-of-struct variable from call with indexed signed writes #1852 feat(igla): Wave Loop 894 — module-scope [607][2]^6 Pt non-power-of-two outer-dimension array-of-struct variable from call with indexed signed writes | Created: 2026-08-07 | Updated: 2026-08-07 | 1 failing / 3 total
feat(igla): Wave Loop 893 — module-scope [605][2]^6 Pt non-power-of-two outer-dimension array-of-struct variable from call with indexed signed writes #1850 feat(igla): Wave Loop 893 — module-scope [605][2]^6 Pt non-power-of-two outer-dimension array-of-struct variable from call with indexed signed writes | Created: 2026-08-07 | Updated: 2026-08-07 | 1 failing / 3 total
feat(igla): Wave Loop 892 — module-scope [603][2]^6 Pt non-power-of-two outer-dimension array-of-struct variable from call with indexed signed writes #1847 feat(igla): Wave Loop 892 — module-scope [603][2]^6 Pt non-power-of-two outer-dimension array-of-struct variable from call with indexed signed writes | Created: 2026-08-07 | Updated: 2026-08-07 | 1 failing / 3 total
feat(igla): Wave Loop 891 — module-scope [601][2]^6 Pt non-power-of-two outer-dimension array-of-struct variable from call with indexed signed writes #1844 feat(igla): Wave Loop 891 — module-scope [601][2]^6 Pt non-power-of-two outer-dimension array-of-struct variable from call with indexed signed writes | Created: 2026-08-07 | Updated: 2026-08-07 | 0 failing / 4 total
feat(igla): Wave Loop 890 — module-scope [599][2]^6 Pt non-power-of-two outer-dimension array-of-struct variable from call with indexed signed writes #1842 feat(igla): Wave Loop 890 — module-scope [599][2]^6 Pt non-power-of-two outer-dimension array-of-struct variable from call with indexed signed writes | Created: 2026-08-07 | Updated: 2026-08-07 | 0 failing / 4 total
feat(igla): Wave Loop 883 — module-scope [585][2]^6 Pt non-power-of-two outer-dimension array-of-struct variable from call with indexed signed writes #1815 feat(igla): Wave Loop 883 — module-scope [585][2]^6 Pt non-power-of-two outer-dimension array-of-struct variable from call with indexed signed writes | Created: 2026-08-06 | Updated: 2026-08-06 | 0 failing / 1 total
feat(igla): Wave Loop 882 — module-scope [583][2]^6 Pt non-power-of-two outer-dimension array-of-struct variable from call with indexed signed writes #1813 feat(igla): Wave Loop 882 — module-scope [583][2]^6 Pt non-power-of-two outer-dimension array-of-struct variable from call with indexed signed writes | Created: 2026-08-06 | Updated: 2026-08-06 | 0 failing / 12 total
feat(igla): Wave Loop 881 — module-scope [581][2]^6 Pt non-power-of-two outer-dimension array-of-struct variable from call with indexed signed writes #1810 feat(igla): Wave Loop 881 — module-scope [581][2]^6 Pt non-power-of-two outer-dimension array-of-struct variable from call with indexed signed writes | Created: 2026-08-06 | Updated: 2026-08-06 | 0 failing / 12 total

Summary

Status	Count
Total Open PRs	19
PRs with Failing Checks	4
PRs with All Checks Green	15
READY	7
FAILING	4
PENDING	0

Seal Status

⚠️ STALE -- sha256(compiler.rs)=cbbfac87dff3 != manifest seal=87e5cbd3ad94.
The committed NMSE numbers were certified against an older compiler.rs.
Run scripts/reseal-check.sh locally for the two-step reseal command (advisory; not a merge gate).

Entries were prepended to the single file docs/NOW.md, so every PR rewrote its first line and all 18 open PRs are marked CONFLICTING by GitHub. Entries are now one file per unit of work, docs/now/<YYYY-MM-DD>-<slug>.md: two PRs write two different paths, so the shared line is gone rather than papered over. merge=union is retired for both NOW.md and docs/NOW.md. Measured, not assumed: git merge-tree from a worktree checked out at origin/master reports docs/NOW.md clean for PRs GitHub simultaneously calls CONFLICTING, so the driver never ran where the conflicts were reported. Where it did run its failure mode is silent duplication: docs/NOW.md should hold one `Last updated:` line per entry heading and holds it for every entry but one, `Wave Loop 421 close-out / Wave Loop 422 setup (2026-07-06)`, which carries no date line. The gate asserts strictly more than before: presence (the diff must ADD an entry, --diff-filter=A), freshness (filename date in the same [yesterday .. tomorrow] UTC window), plus a new content assertion of one heading and one bullet, which closes the vacuous-touch hole a whitespace edit used to walk through. Freshness reads the filename, so there is no first-Last-updated coupling and no line for two branches to duplicate. Two dead consumers fixed in passing: tri hooks now-gate matched a bold **Last updated:** label that occurs 0 times in docs/NOW.md -- every stamp there is plain -- and so could never pass; suite.rs check_now_sync demanded today's LOCAL date where CI allowed a UTC window, blocking work locally that CI would accept. docs/NOW.md is frozen as a historical archive with a pointer header. The existing entries are NOT migrated and the orphaned entry is NOT repaired. Rebased onto master after #2300 landed. Three notes on that resolution: - #2300 added two now_gate tests that pass a FILE. This change makes now_gate take a directory, so read_dir gives ENOTDIR and neither can survive. One of them, now_gate_agrees_with_the_live_gate_on_the_real_document, was the only test in the module that touched the real repository; dropping it for five temp-fixture tests would have been a net loss of liveness coverage. It is replaced by the directory analogue, now_gate_agrees_with_the_ci_gate_on_the_real_entries_directory, which runs the gate against the real docs/now/ and cross-checks the entry against the independent pattern and content rules in scripts/ci/now-sync-gate-diff.sh. It derives its expected date from the newest entry present rather than from Utc::now(), so it asserts agreement without asserting freshness and cannot go red merely because nobody wrote an entry today. Its one honest limit is recorded in the test: docs/now/ is created by this PR, so today it asserts against the directory this PR itself adds. - The FROZEN ARCHIVE banner is placed at line 1 explicitly. Under union it landed below master's newest entry, which read as though entry #1 were exempt from "do not add entries here". - Absolute counts in the prose (137 headings / 136 date lines) went stale within one wave -- master is at 138/137 now. They are restated as the invariant they were evidence for, in .gitattributes, in the banner, and in the now_gate doc comment. Closes #2297

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fix(ci): one NOW entry per file, and retire merge=union #2298 fix(ci): one NOW entry per file, and retire merge=union | Created: 2026-08-20 | Updated: 2026-08-21 | 17 failing / 25 total
ci: eleven merge-critical gates were silent on stacked PRs #2169 ci: eleven merge-critical gates were silent on stacked PRs | Created: 2026-08-14 | Updated: 2026-08-14 | 5 failing / 30 total
corpus: freeze the damage, patch one class at a time, and say where one rule stops #2161 corpus: freeze the damage, patch one class at a time, and say where one rule stops | Created: 2026-08-14 | Updated: 2026-08-20 | 0 failing / 9 total
tri triage: five ordered classes, and blocked is tested before actionable (#2156) #2157 tri triage: five ordered classes, and blocked is tested before actionable (#2156) | Created: 2026-08-14 | Updated: 2026-08-14 | 0 failing / 17 total
parser: nesting decides the separator, never the terminator (#2127) #2151 parser: nesting decides the separator, never the terminator (#2127) | Created: 2026-08-14 | Updated: 2026-08-14 | 2 failing / 26 total
Unbreak FPGA CI and correct two unbacked hardware claims #2081 Unbreak FPGA CI and correct two unbacked hardware claims | Created: 2026-08-11 | Updated: 2026-08-20 | 5 failing / 27 total
feat(igla): Wave Loop 898 — module-scope [615][2]^6 Pt non-power-of-two outer-dimension array-of-struct variable from call with indexed signed writes #1900 feat(igla): Wave Loop 898 — module-scope [615][2]^6 Pt non-power-of-two outer-dimension array-of-struct variable from call with indexed signed writes | Created: 2026-08-07 | Updated: 2026-08-07 | 1 failing / 3 total
chore: civilian mesh positioning — drop drone wording (bpsk.t27) #1874 chore: civilian mesh positioning — drop drone wording (bpsk.t27) | Created: 2026-08-07 | Updated: 2026-08-07 | 2 failing / 25 total
feat(igla): Wave Loop 897 — module-scope [613][2]^6 Pt non-power-of-two outer-dimension array-of-struct variable from call with indexed signed writes #1858 feat(igla): Wave Loop 897 — module-scope [613][2]^6 Pt non-power-of-two outer-dimension array-of-struct variable from call with indexed signed writes | Created: 2026-08-07 | Updated: 2026-08-07 | 1 failing / 3 total
feat(igla): Wave Loop 896 — module-scope [611][2]^6 Pt non-power-of-two outer-dimension array-of-struct variable from call with indexed signed writes #1856 feat(igla): Wave Loop 896 — module-scope [611][2]^6 Pt non-power-of-two outer-dimension array-of-struct variable from call with indexed signed writes | Created: 2026-08-07 | Updated: 2026-08-07 | 1 failing / 3 total
feat(igla): Wave Loop 895 — module-scope [609][2]^6 Pt non-power-of-two outer-dimension array-of-struct variable from call with indexed signed writes #1854 feat(igla): Wave Loop 895 — module-scope [609][2]^6 Pt non-power-of-two outer-dimension array-of-struct variable from call with indexed signed writes | Created: 2026-08-07 | Updated: 2026-08-07 | 1 failing / 3 total
feat(igla): Wave Loop 894 — module-scope [607][2]^6 Pt non-power-of-two outer-dimension array-of-struct variable from call with indexed signed writes #1852 feat(igla): Wave Loop 894 — module-scope [607][2]^6 Pt non-power-of-two outer-dimension array-of-struct variable from call with indexed signed writes | Created: 2026-08-07 | Updated: 2026-08-07 | 1 failing / 3 total
feat(igla): Wave Loop 893 — module-scope [605][2]^6 Pt non-power-of-two outer-dimension array-of-struct variable from call with indexed signed writes #1850 feat(igla): Wave Loop 893 — module-scope [605][2]^6 Pt non-power-of-two outer-dimension array-of-struct variable from call with indexed signed writes | Created: 2026-08-07 | Updated: 2026-08-07 | 1 failing / 3 total
feat(igla): Wave Loop 892 — module-scope [603][2]^6 Pt non-power-of-two outer-dimension array-of-struct variable from call with indexed signed writes #1847 feat(igla): Wave Loop 892 — module-scope [603][2]^6 Pt non-power-of-two outer-dimension array-of-struct variable from call with indexed signed writes | Created: 2026-08-07 | Updated: 2026-08-07 | 1 failing / 3 total
feat(igla): Wave Loop 891 — module-scope [601][2]^6 Pt non-power-of-two outer-dimension array-of-struct variable from call with indexed signed writes #1844 feat(igla): Wave Loop 891 — module-scope [601][2]^6 Pt non-power-of-two outer-dimension array-of-struct variable from call with indexed signed writes | Created: 2026-08-07 | Updated: 2026-08-07 | 0 failing / 4 total
feat(igla): Wave Loop 890 — module-scope [599][2]^6 Pt non-power-of-two outer-dimension array-of-struct variable from call with indexed signed writes #1842 feat(igla): Wave Loop 890 — module-scope [599][2]^6 Pt non-power-of-two outer-dimension array-of-struct variable from call with indexed signed writes | Created: 2026-08-07 | Updated: 2026-08-07 | 0 failing / 4 total
feat(igla): Wave Loop 883 — module-scope [585][2]^6 Pt non-power-of-two outer-dimension array-of-struct variable from call with indexed signed writes #1815 feat(igla): Wave Loop 883 — module-scope [585][2]^6 Pt non-power-of-two outer-dimension array-of-struct variable from call with indexed signed writes | Created: 2026-08-06 | Updated: 2026-08-06 | 0 failing / 1 total
feat(igla): Wave Loop 882 — module-scope [583][2]^6 Pt non-power-of-two outer-dimension array-of-struct variable from call with indexed signed writes #1813 feat(igla): Wave Loop 882 — module-scope [583][2]^6 Pt non-power-of-two outer-dimension array-of-struct variable from call with indexed signed writes | Created: 2026-08-06 | Updated: 2026-08-06 | 0 failing / 12 total
feat(igla): Wave Loop 881 — module-scope [581][2]^6 Pt non-power-of-two outer-dimension array-of-struct variable from call with indexed signed writes #1810 feat(igla): Wave Loop 881 — module-scope [581][2]^6 Pt non-power-of-two outer-dimension array-of-struct variable from call with indexed signed writes | Created: 2026-08-06 | Updated: 2026-08-06 | 0 failing / 12 total

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Total Open PRs	19
PRs with Failing Checks	4
PRs with All Checks Green	15
READY	7
FAILING	4
PENDING	0

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⚠️ STALE -- sha256(compiler.rs)=c3ec9fba947b != manifest seal=87e5cbd3ad94.
The committed NMSE numbers were certified against an older compiler.rs.
Run scripts/reseal-check.sh locally for the two-step reseal command (advisory; not a merge gate).

Rebuilt PR #1815 on top of master (10e3d5e) keeping only content that master does not already carry: - .claude/plans/wave-loop-884.md (new) - docs/reports/FPGA_LOOP_CLOSEOUT_W883_2026-08-06.md (new) - docs/reports/FPGA_LOOP_COOPERATION_W884_2026-08-06.md (new) - .trinity/experience.md: W883 entry inserted between W884 and W777 - .claude/skills/t27-wave-loop.md: worked example for Wave Loop 883 Deliberately dropped: specs/scratch/ witnesses and scratch_*.json seals (both gitignored, and a scratch seal would red the seal gate), docs/NOW.md (frozen archive since #2298), the icarus_lowerable.rs test block and scripts/gen_w882.py / gen_w883.py (already on master, byte-identical), and stale live-status pointers superseded by wave 898. Closes #1814

Rebuilt PR #1815 on top of master (10e3d5e) keeping only content that master does not already carry: - .claude/plans/wave-loop-884.md (new) - docs/reports/FPGA_LOOP_CLOSEOUT_W883_2026-08-06.md (new) - docs/reports/FPGA_LOOP_COOPERATION_W884_2026-08-06.md (new) - .trinity/experience.md: W883 entry inserted between W884 and W777 - .claude/skills/t27-wave-loop.md: worked example for Wave Loop 883 - docs/now/2026-08-21-wave-loop-883-record.md (new coordination entry) Deliberately dropped: specs/scratch/ witnesses and scratch_*.json seals (both gitignored, and a scratch seal is the phantom class the seal gate says to drop), docs/NOW.md (frozen archive since #2298 - the docs/now/ entry above replaces that hunk), the icarus_lowerable.rs hunk and scripts/gen_w882.py / gen_w883.py (already on master, byte-identical), and stale live-status pointers superseded by wave 898. Refs #1814

Two sentences in R12 contradicted machine-readable truths in this repository, and both were wrong on the day they were written. `Refs #N` DOES satisfy `check-linked-issue`. The matcher at `.github/workflows/issue-gate.yml:69` is `(Closes?|Fixes?|Resolves?|Refs?|Updates?)\s*#[0-9]+` and has carried `Refs?` since `5850c302e` (2026-07-07). R12's denial was written 2026-08-20: 44 days late on arrival, not stale. Seven readers in this tree carry that dictionary and R12 was the only dissenter -- while demanding the one spelling R11 forbids nineteen lines above, since `Closes` autocloses on merge. The repair does NOT re-transcribe the dictionary; it points at the gate. A hand-copied copy missing `Refs` once matched 4 references where the gate matched 33, and this sentence was the next copy to go wrong. Recorded in the rule itself so the third copy is not written either. R12 also still told authors to add a section to `docs/NOW.md`, whose first line reads FROZEN ARCHIVE -- do not add entries here, frozen in `f5be7dc1c` (#2298) on 2026-08-21 for exactly the collision reason R12 exists to avoid. `.claude/skills/spec-first-ternary-nn.md:62` carried the same instruction and is corrected with it. The guard is deliberately NOT added, on a measurement rather than on caution. Every mention of `docs/NOW.md` under `.github/workflows/`, `scripts/` and `.githooks/` is a comment: zero lines reject an edit, so the freeze is prose only. But the obvious rule -- fail any diff containing the file -- is too broad: of the 600 commits since the freeze, 2 touched it and one (`458ec0bd6`) REPAIRS damaged entries. The banner forbids ADDING entries, not touching the file, and a guard that blocks a legitimate repair is the shape this repository documents as one that gets muted. The narrow rule is filed in #3368. Resealed: the rule text changed, so `LOOP-RULES.sha256` moves with it in this commit. R6 -- the seal certifies identity, not correctness. Found by the adversarial sweep for #3355. These two are the MIRROR of that class: the truth is machine-readable and the prose is the stale transcription. Co-authored-by: lab <lab@example.com> Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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fix(hooks): now-gate matched a bold NOW stamp nothing writes; correct the symlink comment; drop 835 lines of base64 #2300

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Why not just keep merge=union

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Why not just keep `merge=union`