Register 10 P2/P3 SOTA candidates from the 2026-09-26 gap audit (metadata only) - #315

Hot-file commit (docs/lanes.md): manifests/evidence.json starts from
main's copy (with #318's and #315's entries) and re-registers every
changed or new file of this branch (indent 2, ensure_ascii); receipts[]
mirrors the rtk and markitdown receipts' new limitations and keeps every
other entry. component_matrix --write (no change) and
new_host_grand_list --write regenerate the reports.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <[email protected]>

…bootstrap reminder, blind-packet leak, retained markitdown evidence (#314)

* Retain markitdown's installed-byte verifier, run directories and raw checker output

Codex post-merge review of #291, finding 3.

- verify_installed.py is retained byte-identical. Its 2026-09-25 stdout
  was never written to a file, so results.json says so (not_retained)
  and adds a 2026-09-26 read-only re-run on the production prefix
  (45 of 45 identical) plus a per-file listing (installed_files.py) of
  the wheel RECORD, wheel member and installed digests in RECORD form.
- run-candidate/, run-baseline/ and run-postswitch2/ (converted
  documents, PDF stderr with the home directory replaced by ~, package
  listings) are retained; their files hash to the recorded values.
  run_arm.py kept only checker counts, so check_outputs.py is re-run on
  them (out/checker-rerun-20260926.out), and the independent verifier's
  own checker.out, legs logs and integrity check are retained.
- results.json gains corrections, not_retained, steps and files; the
  receipt gains a dated limitation and regenerated provenance.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
(cherry picked from commit 9ec4c33)

* Keep the durable-memory incumbent's build and releases out of blind packets

Codex post-merge review of #269, finding 1 (P2).

The dated durable-memory limitations (the 19b6429/Mac/2.3.2/VelaNext
entry, the open_gaps[0] entry and the 2.4.0/2.4.1 cutover entry), the
older #234 "Production now runs ai-memory 19b6429" entry and the #234
"keeps ai-memory as the production control" sentence named the
incumbent's build, releases and role without a selection word next to a
candidate name, so build_all_packets(..., withhold=True) kept them.
Each sentence carrying those identifiers now calls the component the
incumbent, a choice phrase the prose filter (lane_packets.py
CHOICE_PHRASE, reduce_prose) drops; the ledger keeps every fact.
Verdict fields and checked_at are unchanged. A regression test builds
the real withheld durable-memory packet (default and blind-export
parameters) and asserts that 19b6429, 2.3.2, 2.4.0, 2.4.1 and
"production control" are absent while the ledger still records them.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
(cherry picked from commit 418c0f0)

* Grand list legend: the JSON carries winners' basis and only open-gap counts

Codex post-merge review of #269, finding 2 (P3). The "What a winner
means" legend said the JSON carries the layer's limitations and open
gaps; the generator emits each winner's why_selected and evidence_refs
and only gap counts. The legend now says so and points to the layer
ledgers for the limitations and the open-gap text (without paths: the
page is a new-host document).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
(cherry picked from commit caeaa4d)

* rtk hook exclusions: adopt #318's four-entry recipe and add rtk's own check to its reminder

Reconciles this branch's Codex post-merge fixes for #291 (findings 1-2)
and the #314 P2 with #318, which merged first.

- Recipe: #318's four-entry exclude_commands block stays the one set of
  guidance in recipes/README.md, bootstrap.md step 4a, token-practice.md,
  the rtk pin note and the SOTA refresh record. The single regex this
  branch had tested ('^git(\s+\S+)*\s+show(\s+\S+)*\s+(:\S|[^\s-]\S*:)'
  with "diff") is kept only as dated evidence, labelled as an alternative
  that was tested (mitigation-20260926, readback-20260926). The recipe
  also explains rtk's anchoring (registry.rs:1540-1569, 1599-1604) and
  that explicit `rtk` commands bypass the exclusions (registry.rs:1690).
- Reminder: rtk_config_reminder keeps #318's text check (the exact
  four-entry key, exactly once) and, once it passes, runs the installed
  "$bin_dir/rtk" hook check (timeout 30, stdin closed, the caller's
  environment) on `git show HEAD:x | tail -n 5`, `git -C . show
  --no-color HEAD:x | tail -n 5`, `diff a missing`, `git branch -a` and
  `git -C . branch`. Either check failing prints the reminder; a text
  pass with an rtk failure adds a hint naming the probe, because rtk
  ignores a TOML-valid file that does not deserialize (TrackingConfig,
  src/core/config.rs:152-158 at 1d87b8e7). Print-only.
- Tests: all of #318's reminder tests are kept (the silent ones now run
  against a stub rtk that honours the file); new stub tests cover an
  exact text that rtk rewrites, the [tracking] counterexample, an
  unsupported subcommand, a rewritten branch probe, extra output, the
  #291 comments counterexample, the five probes and XDG_CONFIG_HOME
  reaching rtk. An optional real-binary test (skipped without an
  installed rtk 0.50.0) covers the four-entry block, the [tracking]
  rejection with and without history_days, the old two-entry line, the
  single-regex alternative and a missing file.
- Evidence: combined-reminder-20260926.{sh,out} (hook check and the
  combined reminder on scratch configs; silent on this host's #318
  block). The rtk receipt keeps #318's addenda untouched; its added
  limitation now references #318's recipe and the combined reminder;
  results.json gains a step, files and relabelled corrections; the
  receipt's provenance is regenerated.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <[email protected]>

* Register the post-merge fixes' files and regenerate the grand list

Hot-file commit (docs/lanes.md): manifests/evidence.json starts from
main's copy (with #318's and #315's entries) and re-registers every
changed or new file of this branch (indent 2, ensure_ascii); receipts[]
mirrors the rtk and markitdown receipts' new limitations and keeps every
other entry. component_matrix --write (no change) and
new_host_grand_list --write regenerate the reports.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <[email protected]>

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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <[email protected]>