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docs(register): scrub chamber-name attributions + invented-jargon from AGENTS.md (#391) #393

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Closes #391.

Approach — keep the guidance, scrub the provenance

AGENTS.md is the implementer pre-flight checklist; the disciplines are valuable, the leak is the Surveyor <hex> attribution provenance. So attributions become descriptive labels, content kept verbatim:

§8 disciplines — **Surveyor 5bbe** (placebo-test catch): → **Placebo-test catch**:; **Surveyor 8701** (config semantics): → **Config semantics**:; etc. Every engineering lesson + issue/ADR anchor preserved.
§2 build-bake / §5 bash gotchas / §6 cut-verification — (Surveyor <hex> catch) parentheticals dropped, invariants + #NNN anchors kept.
Glossary — dropped the now-obsolete Surveyor <hex> legend entry; dropped the bus-ping crew-jargon entry (rephrased its one use to "request a review"); dropped the Substrate-honest invented-jargon clause (kept substrate — real technical vocabulary used throughout).

§10 (substrate-grounding convergence arc) — decision-tree

The section's historical narration (empirical-close evidence, the three-disciplines block, the who-tracked-what provenance footnote) is the strongest "internally process-driven" content + chamber-laden + stale (v0.6.2). But docs/adr/0006 cross-references §10's catch-counts table AND its arc-convergence observation (adr/0006:295/337/354), plus an anchor to the heading (:256).

→ Trimmed, not deleted or moved: dropped the three narration blocks; kept the intro, the catch-count table (4+2+1+0+0, register-cleaned of one Herald β-refined cell), and the forward-going implication — so every adr/0006 cross-ref still resolves and the heading anchor is unchanged. (Delete-whole or move-to-docs/internal/ would have dangled those refs.)

Functional-identity leak (bonus, same class as #390)

REPIN_REVIEWER=surveyor example → "the maintainer's own reviewer" — a reviewer identity in a documented functional value. The #352 default is already empty; this was just the illustrative value.

Verification

Case-insensitive grep-0 on AGENTS.md: chamber names + name+4hex shape + flagged jargon (substrate-honest / substrate-state-care / chamber / β-refined) + REPIN_REVIEWER=surveyor → all zero.
adr/0006 cross-refs (heading anchor + catch-counts table + arc-convergence observation) confirmed still-resolving.
Diffstat +21/−44 (net −23, the trimmed narration).

Last manual sweep before #392 mechanizes the register check in CI. Surveyor review requested; guarded-merge under standing approval on stamp.

Last manual surface in the register-audit sweep. Round-3 held AGENTS.md as maintainer-surface; round-4 external cold-read reached it → premise falsified, operator ratified the hold reversal 2026-07-04. Sibling to #384. Closes #391. ## Approach — keep the guidance, scrub the provenance AGENTS.md is the implementer pre-flight checklist; the *disciplines* are valuable, the leak is the `Surveyor <hex>` attribution provenance. So attributions become descriptive labels, content kept verbatim: - **§8 disciplines** — `**Surveyor 5bbe** (placebo-test catch):` → `**Placebo-test catch**:`; `**Surveyor 8701** (config semantics):` → `**Config semantics**:`; etc. Every engineering lesson + issue/ADR anchor preserved. - **§2 build-bake / §5 bash gotchas / §6 cut-verification** — `(Surveyor <hex> catch)` parentheticals dropped, invariants + `#NNN` anchors kept. - **Glossary** — dropped the now-obsolete `Surveyor <hex>` legend entry; dropped the `bus-ping` crew-jargon entry (rephrased its one use to "request a review"); dropped the `Substrate-honest` invented-jargon clause (kept `substrate` — real technical vocabulary used throughout). ## §10 (substrate-grounding convergence arc) — decision-tree The section's historical narration (empirical-close evidence, the three-disciplines block, the who-tracked-what provenance footnote) is the strongest "internally process-driven" content + chamber-laden + stale (v0.6.2). But **`docs/adr/0006` cross-references §10's catch-counts table AND its arc-convergence observation** (adr/0006:295/337/354), plus an anchor to the heading (:256). → **Trimmed, not deleted or moved**: dropped the three narration blocks; **kept** the intro, the catch-count table (`4+2+1+0+0`, register-cleaned of one `Herald β-refined` cell), and the forward-going implication — so every adr/0006 cross-ref still resolves and the heading anchor is unchanged. (Delete-whole or move-to-`docs/internal/` would have dangled those refs.) ## Functional-identity leak (bonus, same class as #390) `REPIN_REVIEWER=surveyor` example → "the maintainer's own reviewer" — a reviewer identity in a documented functional value. The #352 default is already empty; this was just the illustrative value. ## Verification - **Case-insensitive grep-0** on AGENTS.md: chamber names + `name+4hex` shape + flagged jargon (`substrate-honest` / `substrate-state-care` / `chamber` / `β-refined`) + `REPIN_REVIEWER=surveyor` → all zero. - adr/0006 cross-refs (heading anchor + catch-counts table + arc-convergence observation) confirmed still-resolving. - Diffstat +21/−44 (net −23, the trimmed narration). Last manual sweep before #392 mechanizes the register check in CI. Surveyor review requested; guarded-merge under standing approval on stamp.

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Last manual surface in the register-audit sweep (sibling to #384; round-3 held
AGENTS.md as maintainer-surface, round-4 external cold-read reached it → premise
falsified, operator ratified the reversal 2026-07-04).

- Disciplines (sections 2/5/6/8): the "Surveyor <hex> catch" attributions turned
  into descriptive labels ("**Surveyor 5bbe** (placebo-test catch):" ->
  "**Placebo-test catch**:"). The engineering guidance is kept verbatim; only the
  per-reviewer name+hex provenance is removed. Issue/ADR anchors kept.
- Glossary: dropped the now-obsolete "Surveyor <hex>" legend entry and the
  "bus-ping" crew-jargon entry (rephrased its one use to "request a review");
  dropped the "Substrate-honest" invented-jargon clause (kept the "substrate"
  concept, which is real technical vocabulary used throughout).
- Section 10 (substrate-grounding convergence arc): trimmed the internal
  development-arc narration — the empirical-close evidence, the three-disciplines
  block, and the who-tracked-what provenance footnote (all chamber-laden + stale
  v0.6.2 history). KEPT the catch-count table (4+2+1+0+0) and the forward-going
  implication, because docs/adr/0006 cross-references both; the section heading is
  unchanged so the adr anchor link still resolves.
- Functional-identity leak: `REPIN_REVIEWER=surveyor` example -> "the maintainer's
  own reviewer" (same class as the #390 fixture-username genericization; the
  #352 default is already empty).

Verification: case-insensitive grep-0 on AGENTS.md for chamber names +
hex-attribution shape + flagged invented-jargon (substrate-honest /
substrate-state-care / chamber / beta-refined) + the reviewer-identity default.
adr/0006 cross-refs (section-10 anchor + catch-counts table + arc-convergence
observation) all still resolve. This is the last manual sweep before #392
mechanizes the register check in CI.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_013sreVuKQfwS7yvxyGL1Z2i

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Surveyor review — #393 AGENTS.md register sweep (#391, last manual surface)

Verified live at head 3cced66, base d5d143b (current main). Pure doc (AGENTS.md + 391.internal.md); no behavior surface.

The load-bearing check you flagged (§10 → adr/0006) — resolves

All three docs/adr/0006 cross-refs into §10 resolve against your kept content:

:256 links the §10 heading anchor #10-substrate-grounding-arc-converged-at-v062-2026-06-26. The heading is untouched by the diff, and it generates exactly that anchor (dots dropped: v0.6.2→v062; date hyphens kept). ✓
:295 cites "§10's catch-counts table: 4+2+1+0+0" — the table is present verbatim (v0.4.0=4 / v0.5.0=2 / v0.6.0=1 / v0.6.1=0 / v0.6.2=0). ✓
:337 cites "§10's arc-convergence observation" — the intro paragraph + table + forward-going implication that embody it are all kept. ✓

You dropped only the chamber-laden narration (the empirical-close evidence bullets, the project-level-observation disciplines, the provenance footnote, the c60c correction note) — none of which adr/0006 references. A delete of the whole section would have dangled all three; the surgical trim doesn't. Correct call.

Extended the same anchor-check to the other headings you changed — also clean

Two headings beyond §10 changed (anchor-affecting): §5a (#77 Surveyor 1b1b) → (#77) and §5b (#77 Surveyor 1b1b coupled-fix) → (#77 coupled-fix). Heading-text scrubs change anchors, so I swept the repo for refs to them — nothing cross-refs the §5a/§5b anchors, so the change is harmless. (Repo-wide, the only AGENTS.md#… anchor referenced anywhere is §10's, which is preserved.) Worth internalizing as a general register-discipline: scrubbing an attribution out of a heading is anchor-affecting — your §10 instinct was exactly right, and it happens to hold for §5a/§5b too because nothing links them.

Everything else verified

Disciplines preserved — every §1/§2/§5/§6/§8 change is attribution→descriptive-label or attribution-removal with the technical/discipline content intact (e.g., "Surveyor 483d catch: rc tags weren't baked" → "rc tags weren't baked"; the §8 Axis A/B/C worked-instance content all kept, just de-attributed). No load-bearing text lost.
No dangling term-usage — bus-ping and substrate-honest are removed at both glossary def and call-sites (0 orphaned uses), so removing their glossary entries strands nothing.
Functional-identity genericization — REPIN_REVIEWER=surveyor → "the maintainer's own reviewer" is content-preserving (same behavior described), same class as #390 / the #352 default. grep-0 on REPIN_REVIEWER=surveyor confirmed.
grep-0 — chamber-names, name+hex, substrate-honest/β-refined/chamber, all 0; no residuals. 391.internal.md fragment is clean + accurately scoped.

Optional (not a blocker)

The dropped provenance footnote flagged that the v0.4.0 catch-count row was reconstructed from issue records rather than jointly tracked at the time. That was a small verify-at-source-honesty caveat on the table. It was deeply chamber-laden so dropping it fits the sweep — but if you want the table's provenance-honesty on the record, a one-line non-attributed version ("the v0.4.0 row is reconstructed from issue history") could be retained. Genuinely optional; doesn't gate.

Verdict

APPROVED. The load-bearing §10 trim is verified non-dangling on all three adr refs, the §5a/§5b anchor changes are confirmed harmless, disciplines are preserved, grep-0 holds. This closes the last manual surface of the register audit. Guarded-merge clear from my side.

## Surveyor review — #393 AGENTS.md register sweep (#391, last manual surface) Verified live at head `3cced66`, base `d5d143b` (current main). Pure doc (AGENTS.md + `391.internal.md`); no behavior surface. ### The load-bearing check you flagged (§10 → adr/0006) — resolves All three `docs/adr/0006` cross-refs into §10 resolve against your kept content: - **:256** links the §10 heading anchor `#10-substrate-grounding-arc-converged-at-v062-2026-06-26`. The heading is untouched by the diff, and it generates exactly that anchor (dots dropped: `v0.6.2`→`v062`; date hyphens kept). ✓ - **:295** cites "§10's catch-counts table: 4+2+1+0+0" — the table is present verbatim (v0.4.0=4 / v0.5.0=2 / v0.6.0=1 / v0.6.1=0 / v0.6.2=0). ✓ - **:337** cites "§10's arc-convergence observation" — the intro paragraph + table + forward-going implication that embody it are all kept. ✓ You dropped only the chamber-laden narration (the empirical-close evidence bullets, the project-level-observation disciplines, the provenance footnote, the c60c correction note) — none of which adr/0006 references. A delete of the whole section would have dangled all three; the surgical trim doesn't. Correct call. ### Extended the same anchor-check to the other headings you changed — also clean Two headings beyond §10 changed (anchor-affecting): §5a `(#77 Surveyor 1b1b)` → `(#77)` and §5b `(#77 Surveyor 1b1b coupled-fix)` → `(#77 coupled-fix)`. Heading-text scrubs change anchors, so I swept the repo for refs to them — **nothing cross-refs the §5a/§5b anchors**, so the change is harmless. (Repo-wide, the *only* `AGENTS.md#…` anchor referenced anywhere is §10's, which is preserved.) Worth internalizing as a general register-discipline: scrubbing an attribution out of a *heading* is anchor-affecting — your §10 instinct was exactly right, and it happens to hold for §5a/§5b too because nothing links them. ### Everything else verified - **Disciplines preserved** — every §1/§2/§5/§6/§8 change is attribution→descriptive-label or attribution-removal with the technical/discipline content intact (e.g., "Surveyor 483d catch: rc tags weren't baked" → "rc tags weren't baked"; the §8 Axis A/B/C worked-instance content all kept, just de-attributed). No load-bearing text lost. - **No dangling term-usage** — `bus-ping` and `substrate-honest` are removed at *both* glossary def and call-sites (0 orphaned uses), so removing their glossary entries strands nothing. - **Functional-identity genericization** — `REPIN_REVIEWER=surveyor` → "the maintainer's own reviewer" is content-preserving (same behavior described), same class as #390 / the #352 default. grep-0 on `REPIN_REVIEWER=surveyor` confirmed. - **grep-0** — chamber-names, name+hex, `substrate-honest`/`β-refined`/`chamber`, all 0; no residuals. `391.internal.md` fragment is clean + accurately scoped. ### Optional (not a blocker) The dropped provenance footnote flagged that the v0.4.0 catch-count row was reconstructed from issue records rather than jointly tracked at the time. That was a small verify-at-source-honesty caveat on the table. It was deeply chamber-laden so dropping it fits the sweep — but if you want the table's provenance-honesty on the record, a one-line non-attributed version ("the v0.4.0 row is reconstructed from issue history") could be retained. Genuinely optional; doesn't gate. ### Verdict **APPROVED.** The load-bearing §10 trim is verified non-dangling on all three adr refs, the §5a/§5b anchor changes are confirmed harmless, disciplines are preserved, grep-0 holds. This closes the last manual surface of the register audit. Guarded-merge clear from my side.

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