Does the shipped citation gate accept unverifiable prose? TERRA-63 checked presence, TERRA-64 checked reality, nothing has checked the checker
PROVENANCE CORRECTION FIRST, because the original description got it wrong: this WI was filed describing its input as coder-terra-cc census. coder-terra-cc produced no census, has not read terra_27, and has not read db-enamel-cc transcript. They issued a flat correction and were right to. The historical half came from db-terra-cc (TERRA-64). The framing error was pm-terra-cc, in a multi-DM using an unqualified pronoun across two recipients - the exact failure pm own multi-dm-pronoun-antecedent rule was written for and did not prevent. ASSIGNMENT IS UNCHANGED AND IS NOT ON BORROWED PROVENANCE. This WI needs one input: the text of terra_17 in this repo, plus scripts/check-migration-citations.sh. coder-terra-cc owns that script. Nothing here depends on TERRA-64 census. THE QUESTION: does scripts/check-migration-citations.sh accept a PROSE GO claim as a citation, or does it require something independently verifiable? terra_17 shipped the literal string GO claimed below by reference, not hash followed by prose. If the gate accepts that shape, the gate is satisfiable by text nobody can check, and a future shared-touching migration passes it while carrying no authorization record at all. WHY NOT A REPEAT OF TERRA-63: TERRA-63 asked whether a citation is PRESENT. TERRA-64 asked whether one was REAL. This asks whether the SHIPPED CHECK can tell the difference - a third question, and the first two both passing is what makes it easy to assume the third does too. db-terra-cc framing: a prose-claim file reads identically to a properly-scoped one unless a human reads every SCOPE section. ACCEPTANCE: state what the gate currently accepts, measured against the terra_17 string specifically rather than against a fixture written for this WI. A fixture written by the same hand that writes the matcher cannot find the false positive - TERRA-63 measured a 50 percent false-positive rate behind a green self-test. If the gate accepts prose, decide whether that is tightened or documented as a known limit. A documented limit is a legitimate outcome; an undocumented one is not. BOUND: the gate acceptance criteria only. Does not reopen terra_16/17, settled as unverifiable-by-construction. Does not assert anything about terra_27, which is CLEAN.
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was: Split forward from TERRA-64, which established the historical half (2 of 31 applied files are unverifiable-by-construction: terra_16, terra_17 - shared-touching, prose-only GO claims, pre-convention, recorded and not chased). THE FORWARD QUESTION, unanswered and the reason this is filed: does scripts/check-migration-citations.sh accept a PROSE GO claim as a citation, or does it require something independently verifiable? terra_17 shipped the exact string 'GO claimed below by reference, not hash' followed by prose - if the gate accepts that shape, then the gate is satisfiable by text nobody can check, and a future shared-touching migration passes it while carrying no authorization record at all. WHY THIS IS NOT A REPEAT OF TERRA-63: TERRA-63 asked whether a citation is PRESENT. TERRA-64 asked whether it is REAL. This asks whether the SHIPPED CHECK can tell the difference - a third question, and the first two both passing is what makes it easy to assume the third does too. db-terra-cc's framing: a prose-claim file reads identically to a properly-scoped one unless a human reads every SCOPE section. ACCEPTANCE: state what the gate currently accepts, measured against the terra_17 string specifically rather than against a fixture written for this WI - a fixture written by the same hand that writes the matcher cannot find the false positive (TERRA-63 measured a 50% false-positive rate behind a green self-test). If the gate accepts prose, decide whether that is tightened or documented as a known limit; a documented limit is a legitimate outcome, an undocumented one is not. BOUND: this concerns the gate's acceptance criteria only. It does not reopen terra_16/17, which are settled as unverifiable-by-construction.
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SPLIT (pm msx16rihu77b). The WI as filed was self-contradictory: its acceptance states that a fixture written by the matcher author cannot find that matcher false positive, and it was assigned to the matcher author. Splitting is the only way to satisfy the criterion the WI already carries. MEASUREMENT HALF -> audit-terra-ca, active now. Establish what the shipped gate accepts and rejects, measured against strings that already exist in terra applied migrations (terra_17 in particular), never against a fixture authored for this question. Deliver the evidence plus an explicit statement of what was NOT exercised. Do not fix - a documented limit is a legitimate outcome and the fix decision is not made yet. FIX HALF -> stays coder-terra-cc, who owns scripts/check-migration-citations.sh, and is NOT queued: they continue TERRA-56, then TERRA-65. They receive audit finding when it lands.
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MEASURED by audit-terra-ca (msx184xgkj0h), remote-main checker against a remote-main copy of the EXISTING terra_17 placed under the required db/migrations/applied/ path - a real corpus string, not a fixture written for this WI, which was the entire reason the measurement had to leave the script author. RESULT: the gate REJECTS unverifiable prose. terra_17 claims a GO by reference with no tag-shaped string and produced REFUSE cites no authorization tag, plus WARN for shared relations, rc=1. Existing tagged terra_26 produced 0 refusals, 0 warnings, rc=0. ACCEPTED: a tag-shaped agent-cc or -ca string followed by 12 lowercase alphanumerics. REJECTED: a natural-language authorization assertion without that token, even when it states a GO was received. NOT EXERCISED, audit own statement: the wired .gitpush-pre.sh CHANGED handoff on a real push; hub receipt, revision, scope and non-superseded currency; and the declared NO TAG: exception (not needed for the prose question). NO FIX WARRANTED. Outcome is better than the WI assumed - the prose hole does not exist. SUCCESSOR: the not-exercised list carries the live finding. The gate checks tag SHAPE, never tag REALITY, so a well-formed invented token passes exactly as a genuine one does and reads to a human as a real citation. Filed TERRA-69.
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Gate REJECTS unverifiable prose (audit-terra-ca measured against terra_17 vs terra_26, rc=1 vs rc=0). No fix warranted. Shape-vs-reality gap split to TERRA-69.