RISK-F-0002's fix_tracking now names ZONE-WP-0001 / WARDEN-WP-0032, with
the superseded pair kept beside it — the register had told ops-warden the
path had changed and then left the old ids in the file.
An unresolvable fix_tracking (TEN-IN-0002 is an intake, not a workplan)
printed nothing at all, which reads identically to a finding with no
tracking. It now says so by name. Both ZONE-WP-0001 and WARDEN-WP-0032
read proposed, which is the true state of the successor.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
T01 fix tracking now reads the owner's workplan file and found two
findings the register should have known about. T02 incident and external
report intake, the latter routed since the address is not ours to create.
T03 the production transition defined by what is held rather than what
was announced. T04 the README stops claiming a surface. T05 escalation
carries a delivery state and is raised once when unacknowledged. T06
checked_by and a heartbeat, so a 1q rung cannot silently mean nobody
looked. T07 coverage: 7 of 117 repos have ever appeared in a finding.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
fix_tracker.py resolves fix_tracking against the owning repo's workplan
file — the ADR-001 source of truth — and uses the file's last commit date
as the honest answer to 'has this moved', independent of whether the
register looked. Archived workplans are searched too, so a finished fix
that was filed away does not read as missing.
First run, three findings it should have known about:
RISK-F-0005 — AUDIT-WP-0008-T04 has read done since 2026-08-18. The fix
this finding asked for has landed and the register spent three days not
knowing. Now mitigated, embargo lifted, disclosure public. Not fixed:
that needs a probe, and T05's adversarial evidence artifact still reads
wait.
RISK-F-0002 — both tracked records were closed before the finding was
filed: WARDEN-WP-0007 archived 2026-07-08, FLEX-WP-0007 finished
2026-06-29, against a finding of 2026-08-18 that names FLEX-WP-0007 as
the blocker. Routed as a question, not a conclusion.
Four findings carry no fix tracking at all, which the report now says out
loud rather than leaving as an empty field.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Adopting a rule is nobody's finding; neither is registering a canon kind
or publishing a document. Each obligation that lived outside the
mechanism was invisible to it. RISK-WP-0001 now carries both of its
custodian waits, and the escalation-rule one has the register's most
uncomfortable default pointed inward: unadopted by 2026-09-17 means
recorded as de facto in force but unratified, said on the face of every
escalation sent under it. A draft that quietly governs is exactly what
this register exists to notice.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
RISK-F-0001 is fixed and still owes a publication entry; it fell out of
the waiting list because that list was built from watched findings only.
A closed record with an open obligation is exactly the thing that goes
quiet, since nothing prompts anyone to look at it any more.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The register had nine waits in four days, one four hops deep: F-0003's
embargo waited on F-0009, which waited on railiance-platform, which
waited on live OpenBao verification, which waited on a credential nobody
has. No single link was wrong, which is why it needed a rule.
docs/method/dependencies.md: the register never waits to decide, it
decides and revises. Every wait carries who, what, since, what it would
change, what happens if nobody answers, and the date that default
applies. Depth one — a record never waits on a record that is itself
waiting. Defaults are dates and are pessimistic: silence costs the grade
the evidence supports rather than buying a softer one, and owners are
told the default in advance because a default nobody was warned about is
an ambush.
Applied: F-0009's embargo now lifts on railiance-platform reporting
coverage, with live verification as a refinement rather than a condition,
cutting the F-0003 chain from four hops to two. All eight open waits are
typed with defaults. make check reports them with age, owner and default
date, flags defaults come due, and catches depth-two violations.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Nine records checked. Five clean and climbed to 1h: RISK-F-0003, 0004,
0005, 0006, 0009 and RISK-REG-0001. Three moved and stay at instant —
RISK-F-0002 (RISK-V-0001 found the flex-auth-ops-warden policy admits no
ingress, so the live question there is now availability rather than
attestation), RISK-F-0007 (the on-request path walked for the first time
as RISK-V-0002), RISK-F-0008 (the determination now exists).
The rule: a finding recorded as moved is not clean-checked in the same
sitting. Re-reading your own keystrokes and climbing produces a rung that
says the world held still when what held still was the last five minutes.
The rung carries stability information or it carries nothing.
record_check.py now handles regulatory records as well as findings.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
T02 inbox check, wired into make check and verified against the actual
2026-08-19 failure — replayed at that moment it surfaces all three
messages that were already waiting. T03 sweeps the rest of the
quietly-tolerated class: bad dates, cadence off the ladder, undefined
disclosure states, dangling constraint_on and related refs, embargoes
without conditions, escalations without triggers. T04 requests
verification of user-engine's tenant boundary — the first walk down the
on-request path, chosen as a consumer not already known to fail it. T05
established by trying what this register can verify: cluster yes, OpenBao
403. T06 puts regulatory records on the findings ladder.
T01 stays in progress: the procedure, make due and make checked exist,
but arming something that runs them on schedule is a standing compute
commitment and the operator's to make.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
record_check.py moves a finding along the cadence ladder and writes the
dated line into the finding at the same time — a check that is not
written down did not happen, which is the rule the register applies to
everyone else. make checked ARGS="RISK-F-0002 clean".
make check now also reports duplicate finding ids. The RISK-F-0004
collision was resolved by hand yesterday; the next one gets caught by the
tooling instead of by someone noticing a file listed twice.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Operator ruling 2026-08-20. Severity no longer sets the review interval.
A check that comes back clean climbs one rung — instant, 1h, 8h, 24h,
48h, 96h, 7d, 14d, 1mo, 1q — and anything wrong drops straight back to
instant. A quarter is the ceiling. The operator may defer an instant
finding to a stated date; that is the only other way off the bottom rung.
The rung is the point: it says how stable the estate has been on that
matter, which is information severity does not carry. Volatile things get
attention automatically; quiet things stop consuming it; neither
judgement has to be made by a person who might be busy.
Escalation trigger 5 rebased onto the ladder — fourteen days at the
bottom rung, whether that is failing checks or no checks.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
RISK-F-0007 moved to accepted and dropped out of the production-rescore
list, which contradicts what the finding itself says: an acceptance that
expires at the production transition has to be visible at that
transition. accepted is carried, not closed.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Severity (impact x likelihood, fidelity modifier for controls that lie,
headline-vs-constraint, build-mode double grade, the floor), disclosure
(publish/embargoed/restricted, and the build-mode deferral re-taken and
narrowed with RISK-F-0001 in hand), escalation (the five INTENT triggers
settled plus an ordering-hazard trigger the RISK-F-0002 case forced;
proposed, awaiting the custodian), review (intervals, what a review is,
what missing one produces, the production re-score).
Then applied: RISK-F-0001 critical/embargoed/escalated, RISK-F-0002
medium with a high constraint on RISK-F-0001's remediation, filed as a
peer and escalated only on the ordering, RISK-F-0003 high/embargoed/no
escalation. No unset field remains.
REGISTER.md is generated; make check reports overdue, stalled, ungraded
and unanswered escalations without changing anything.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
