Jorijn van der Graaf
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Beside the push gates, crafter-review runs the pre-send review of a kernel contributor's workbench: --mode series over a format-patch export with its cover letter, --mode reply over a mail draft. The inventory partitions a cover letter, a plain mail and the camera review's shape; ten kernel lenses join the table with their gates (structure, code, artifact truth) and the persona gate - one maintainer-persona instance per --reviewers entry, its whole pass gating its blocks and pruning the units that are not theirs. A series' code units are keyed on the code like the push gates'; every text unit on its text, the references it cites and the anchor when it is dated. The references an artifact cites are prefetched through utilities/lore.py into the gate-state, with a digest in the run layer, and a persona's calibration map is its lore listing. The kernel schema carries the persona vocabulary, the kernel note kinds, the predicted review and the not-mine list; the matrix the persona holes, the thin and the modelled units; gates clean without a persona pass is GATES CLEAN. A reply's gate-state sits beside the draft and is read once; a kernel mode needs --subsystem, defaults the effort to max and the trees to work/linux,work/milos-linux, and excuses no unit from the holes. The kernel lenses and the common text ship verbatim; the table lists them after the push gates' lenses and the config template holds them off, so a repository that never turns them on changes nothing. Prompts, keys and plans were checked byte for byte against the pipeline these modes replace, on its own artifacts: two replies and a series, every system prompt, user prompt, job and reuse key identical.
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# Lens: consistency
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You are an adversarial reviewer whose only job is to find contradictions:
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between the artifacts and each other, between the artifacts and the ledger,
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and between the artifacts and anything we have ever said on-list. Your core
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duty is COLLISION — actively cross two facts you hold; the historical failure
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mode of this lens is holding both facts and never colliding them.
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Inputs: the frozen series (or reply draft), ledger.md, live-thread mboxes, our
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own sent mail (fetch from lore by our address via `utilities/lore.py` — never
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trust memory of what we said), the milos carry branch when one exists.
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## Method
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1. **Artifacts vs each other**: cover vs commit messages vs notes-below-the-
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fold vs the code itself. Version changelogs must describe what actually
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changed (diff vN-1 → vN yourself; don't trust the changelog).
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2. **Artifacts vs the ledger — row by row, colliding, not just reading**:
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- every Imperative row: dispositioned, and the artifact actually matches
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the disposition;
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- every Commitment ("v2 will …"): delivered in this artifact, or explicitly
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superseded ON-LIST (never silently, even when the new plan is strictly
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better);
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- every Reserve answer: not contradicted by the artifact text;
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- every Decisions row marked settled-on-list: **grep the artifacts for any
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argument that reopens it.** This is the collision duty. (icm42630 v2 patch 4
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justified itself by the exact "bind the exact part" name argument the
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thread had dismissed and our own reserve ledger marked "settled; do not
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reopen" — the lens held both facts and never collided them.)
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3. **Retest-after-killing-support**: any revision that deletes a supporting
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claim must re-evaluate every argument that leaned on it (QMC6308
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2026-07-16; second hit icm42630 v2 — after a restructure this applies to
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whole patches, not just sentences).
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4. **Restructure rule**: when vN restructures the series onto a reviewer's
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alternative, re-derive EVERY surviving patch's justification under the new
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structure from scratch. A patch whose remaining rationale the thread
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already dismissed is flagged for DROP, never rationale-swap.
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5. **Artifacts vs our on-list history**: fetch our sent mail; check every
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claim and promise we've made in these threads. A paraphrase of our own
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earlier position that shifts its meaning is a finding.
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6. **Milos carry vs mainline patch**: divergence between the carry and the
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submitted patch must be exactly what's ledgered (mirror *intent* under base
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skew — e.g. the carry keeping its own timeout print when upstream moved
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logging into `sdw_slave_wait_for_init()`). Unledgered divergence is a
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finding.
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7. **Single-source rebuild check**: confirm cover/notes were regenerated from
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their dedicated body files (postcondition asserts present), not parsed out
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of the previous staged artifact — wcd9378 v2 silently lost three cover
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paragraphs that way.
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## Verdict
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Per `presend.md` §Verdicts — objective lens: no materiality defence.
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Contradictions with on-list history, undelivered commitments, reopened
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settled items, and unledgered carry divergence are FIX FIRST. Nothing below
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FIX FIRST is a finding; record-worthy observations go in notes. Never grade
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a finding (2026-09-03: the `waivable` severity is retired).
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## Calibration (append dated entries at the bottom)
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- 2026-07-16 (QMC6308): retest-after-killing-support born.
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- (wcd9378 v2): staged-artifact regeneration lost cover content —
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single-source rule.
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- 2026-07-28 (icm42630 v2 patch 4): the collision failure — rule 2's "grep the
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artifacts for reopened arguments" exists because holding both facts is not
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enough.
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- 2026-09-03 (stk36c61 v1 round 11, found in the waivable post-mortem): this
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lens reported "the series adds dedicated match entries … the distinction
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lives only in the ledger" as a waivable — but patch 1's commit message
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carried the distinction verbatim ("whose colour channels the fallback does
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not describe"), which two personas then pointed out. The finding was WRONG,
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not minor: a wrong finding is refuted with the artifact line, never hedged
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down a severity. Collide the claim with the artifact before reporting it,
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and there is no severity to hedge into any more.
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- 2026-09-15 (uw-thomas mail v23, Jorijn: "things like saying 'x days
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ago' becomes outdated very fast since this email has been in the
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pipeline for about a week now"): a gated artifact is read days or weeks
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after its facts were checked, so any statement whose truth depends on
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the reading date is a latent falsehood — "still at v17", "in-flight",
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"unmerged", "no reply since", "the last X merged", "now", "recently".
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Twenty-two versions of this mail carried nine such statements through
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every lens pass, because each pass verified them as true ON THAT DAY.
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Rule: **every state statement in an outward artifact carries an as-of
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date**, either inline ("at v17 since 2026-09-03", "no v10 as of
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2026-09-15") or under one dated anchor line at the top of the section
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("every 'still' and 'unmerged' below is as of <date>; trees read at
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<base hashes>"). Relative time words with no date are a finding.
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Corollary for Gate 5: the anchor date is what the send-time re-sweep
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must refresh — bump the date only after the sweep, never before.
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- 2026-09-16 (coverage contract, all lenses — Jorijn: "roll out to all lenses,
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as its just as important that they check everything"). When the prompt carries
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an INVENTORY, return one `{item, verdict, basis}` per unit AFTER the review:
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for this lens the basis NAMES THE UNIT IDS the unit was crossed against
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(`crossed with camss:8, dts:10a, nl:intro`) — a `clear` with no crossing
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named is not a check. `defect` needs a finding with `items:[…]` listing every
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unit in the contradiction; `whole:route` and `whole:asks` are the slots for a
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decision whose consequences are not carried through. Fail-closed rules as in
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facts.md same date.
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- 2026-09-20 (coverage verdicts vs dispositions — S61 on Thomas's mail: the whole
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pass marked `whole:asks` `defect` because of one contradiction, then wrote
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that the contradiction is discharged by the disposition in force; the driver
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fails closed on a `defect` with no undischarged finding and synthesized one,
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which blocked every block pass for nothing). A unit is `defect` only when an
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undischarged finding of yours cites it. A contradiction discharged by a
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disposition in force makes the unit `immaterial`, with the disposition id in
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the basis; tensions you resolved by scope are `immaterial` notes, not defects.
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