clay-borg/gates.toml
tegwick d2c3f340f9 CB-WP-0013-T02/T03: retire SH-3 as a gate; correct AM-4a and its target
ADR-0008, tier M (survey and ADR merged).

D1 — SH-3 retired as a gate, kept as a diagnostic. Investigating it
found a third defect, deeper than the two this pass was declared on.
Re-deriving batching from the raw transcripts, independently of cb-cost:

  CB-WP-0011 pass      54 with tools    0 batched    0.0%
    gap -> next decl   16 with tools    6 batched   37.5%
  CB-WP-0012 pass      86 with tools    0 batched    0.0%
    gap -> next decl   10 with tools    1 batched   10.0%
  CB-WP-0013 so far    10 with tools    0 batched    0.0%

Zero batched turns in 150 in-pass responses; 37.5% in one gap, above the
20% floor. Batching needs two calls whose inputs are known at once —
orientation work. Implementation consumes each step's result before the
next. SH-3's window is since the last commit, which during a pass is
always implementation. The metric could not read above ~0% in the window
it was gated on. A floor the window structurally excludes is not a
target.

This pass's own declaration was also wrong: it claimed batching "has got
worse" (7.8-8.6% vs 1.1-6.3%). Differently-placed windows, not different
behaviour. Withdrawn — the same class of error, in the pass written to
correct it.

Not retargeting to match the measurement: the floor was not moved to 6%,
the gate was removed on an argument about what the quantity is worth.
The number is still reported; only the verdict is gone.

D2/D3 — AM-4a counts --edges normal,no-proc-macro: 157,202, not 246,250.
The target moves down with it, 250,000 -> 161,000, so the correction
hands back essentially nothing (headroom 3,750 -> 3,798). Three controls:
the exclusion drops exactly the five expected crates, only removes and
never adds, and is not a no-op.

The DFD gate then caught the follow-on it exists for — three historical
documents carrying live fact tags for a number that had changed. Not
rewritten; untagged, with a supersession banner.

AM-4b is deliberately not corrected: its proc-macro share is unmeasured.

gate-review now reads 0 due, 0 silent, 0 drifted — GATE-REVIEW earns its
first caught entry by forcing SH-3's re-justification, and the registry
has no silent gates left.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-02 07:30:14 +02:00

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# The gate registry (ADR-0006 D3, CB-WP-0009 T02).
#
# A gate without an expiry is a permanent tax justified once. Every
# standing control mechanism gets an entry here saying what it checks,
# what it has actually **caught**, when its keep-or-kill argument is due,
# and what would retire it.
#
# `make gate-review` reports what is overdue and what has caught nothing.
# It reports; it does not fail the build — CB-RES-0005 §4: a gate that
# blocks the remedy when the metric breaches is a trap, not a gate.
#
# `caught` is the load-bearing field. An empty `caught` is not proof a
# gate is useless — it may be preventing rather than missing — but it
# means the argument has to be made out loud on `review_by`.
# Targets in `make all` that are build or acceptance steps rather than
# *control* gates — they measure the product, not how we work. Listed
# explicitly so a new target has to be classified rather than ignored;
# `loop-lint` fails when a target is in neither list.
not_control_gates = [
"check", "test", "sim", "bench-test", "size-metrics", "runtime-metrics",
"am6", "replay-test", "dep-weight", "self-tests", "env-test",
]
[[gate]]
id = "CB-01/CB-02"
name = "cost budget"
target = "cost-budget"
checks = "spend since the last commit; soft $10, hard $22"
added = "2026-07-30"
review_by = "2026-11-30"
caught = [
"CB-WP-0005: hard breach forced the Phase C re-plan",
"CB-WP-0006 T07: $12.06 in one task, the pass's most expensive",
]
retire_if = "two consecutive passes never approach the soft line, or commits get small enough that the window is always trivial"
[[gate]]
id = "SH-1/SH-2"
name = "session-shape budget"
target = "shape-budget"
checks = "mean and p90 context since the last commit (SH-3 retired as a gate, ADR-0008 D1 — still reported as a diagnostic)"
added = "2026-08-01"
review_by = "2026-11-30"
caught = [
"first run fired HARD at 656,574 against a 300,000 ceiling, which is what prompted the compaction before CB-WP-0008",
"CB-WP-0013: SH-3 retired from this gate. Its window is *since the last commit*, which during a pass is implementation work, and batching needs two calls whose inputs are known at once — which is orientation work. Measured: 0 batched turns in 150 in-pass responses across three passes, against 37.5% in the gap between two of them. A floor the window structurally excludes is not a target (ADR-0008 D1)",
]
retire_if = "context stops correlating with cost, or the model's context handling makes the number unactionable"
[[gate]]
id = "M-D1-MUT"
name = "mutation coverage of acceptance rows"
target = "mutation-check"
checks = "each acceptance row's assertion must go red for a stated reason when mutated"
added = "2026-07-31"
review_by = "2026-12-31"
caught = [
"AM-6 measuring contention, not throughput",
"AM-5's 61% measurement error under load",
"peak RSS over-reported 3x",
"K10's first round trip not reproducing",
"the bench workload existing twice",
"AM-2's expect matching its own passing output (EXPECT-VACUOUS)",
]
retire_if = "a full pass adds rows without finding anything, twice running — the harness costs real money per run"
[[gate]]
id = "DFD"
name = "single source of fact"
target = "facts-check"
checks = "every tagged number in the docs matches the tool that measures it"
added = "2026-07-31"
review_by = "2026-12-31"
caught = [
"gr_scenarios stale at 21 after CB-WP-0008 T03 added three scenarios",
]
retire_if = "the untagged-literal count reaches zero and stays there, meaning the docs stopped restating measured numbers"
[[gate]]
id = "AM-1b"
name = "kernel spec->code link"
target = "coverage"
checks = "every numbered K-rule is named in the source; binds 2026-08-31"
added = "2026-07-31"
review_by = "2026-08-31"
caught = [
"3 unlinked K-rules at introduction (15/18); 18/18 today",
]
retire_if = "it stays at 100% through two passes that add kernel rules — at that point it is measuring a habit, not enforcing one"
[[gate]]
id = "META-25"
name = "meta budget"
target = "status"
checks = "share of the trailing 3 passes spent on the loop itself; soft 25%"
added = "2026-08-01"
review_by = "2026-11-30"
caught = [
"its own cumulative-window defect, reported in CB-EV-0007 §3 and fixed by CB-WP-0009 T01",
]
retire_if = "product and meta stop being separable, or the share sits under the line for four passes without anyone consulting it"
[[gate]]
id = "LOOP-LINT"
name = "executable InnerLoop rules"
target = "loop-lint"
checks = "loadability, unmeasured verdicts, tier and chaos declarations, review trails, self-test entry points, and this registry"
added = "2026-07-30"
review_by = "2026-12-31"
caught = [
"four loadability breaches (401, 427, 406, 409 lines), each fixed structurally rather than by raising the limit",
"a reporting tool with no --self-test entry point (tools/repo.py)",
]
retire_if = "two passes run with no finding while artifacts keep growing — that would mean it is measuring the wrong properties"
[[gate]]
id = "CHAOS"
name = "the chaos roll"
target = ""
checks = "d4 on each tier declaration, 12-declaration calibration window"
added = "2026-07-30"
review_by = "2026-09-30"
caught = [
"CB-WP-0011: first fire in 6 declarations — d4=4 rolled stage 1 from structural L to S; the deleted survey would have opened on 2D toolkits while the existing text renderer was showing 24 of 41 view fields (CB-EV-0009 §1)",
"CB-WP-0012: d4=1, no override — and the contrast is the entry. Tier L at full weight deleted its own structural trigger: adversarial review withdrew the capability port the declaration was made to build (ADR-0007 D2), and corrected the survey's headline claim by 85x (128x -> 1.5x, CB-EV-0010 §2). Two passes on one subject at two tiers, priced: 0.123 $/response at L against 0.099 at S (CB-EV-0010 §5)",
]
retire_if = "the window closes with no overridden tier producing a different outcome than the argued one — the evaluation this window exists to make possible"
[[gate]]
id = "GATE-REVIEW"
name = "this registry"
target = "gate-review"
checks = "gates past their review date, and gates that have caught nothing"
added = "2026-08-01"
review_by = "2026-12-31"
caught = [
"CB-WP-0013: forced SH-3's re-justification and then its retirement. `make gate-review` had reported SH-3 as a standing breach for seven passes with zero actions taken, which is this registry's own ritual test (ADR-0006 D4); asking what it had ever caught is what exposed that the metric could not read above ~0% in the window it was gated on (ADR-0008 D1)",
]
retire_if = "it has retired, tightened, or forced the re-justification of nothing by its review date — then it is a ritual, and ADR-0006 D4 says rituals cash out or go"