The probe printed one blended number per policy, so a component pinned at 0.000
across every rung was invisible. Four gates hid there for a month. It now reports
floor / best-below-oracle / oracle / ceiling for 25 components across 8
environments, and a component flat across every rung is fatal.
bot-detection GATE_SLACK = 1 — fires 5/32 on the real rollouts, was 0/32. The
max(1, reference_caught - SLACK) guard is verified by construction, not by
sampling: without it the required count reaches 0 and an EMPTY accusation list
clears the gate. Observed reference_caught is 4-6, so no amount of sampling would
have found that hole.
schema-migration GATE_MARGIN = 0.15 — fires 4/32, was 0/32. The cost is disclosed
and bounded: the naive split clears it on 5.5% of 1,000 unseen seeds, fenced by
an assert at 10%. Margin 0.10 keeps the leak at zero and fires 0/32, i.e. stays
dead. A live gradient with a bounded leak beats a clean corpse.
redaction-pressure is NOT given a margin, and that is the result rather than a
failure. The only setting that fires at all leaves half the secrets standing and
pays a four-of-seven ruleset on five seeds in six — a margin that pays for
inaction is strictly worse than a dead gate. Recall maxes at 0.852 and no rollout
ever cleared both clauses in one episode. It is genuinely hard, not miscalibrated.
⚠️ The per-component check did not catch the defect it was built for. Reverting
schema-migration's margin to 0.0 — restoring the exact dead gate — printed ok and
exited 0, because the near-oracle rung scrapes the unmargined gate on ~2 seeds in
24 and that kept best<oracle non-zero. Every assertion bounded how much a margin
may PAY; none noticed if it stopped existing. migration() now carries the mirror
of bot-detection's guard, and reverting the margin fails with "the margin is dead
and the component carries no gradient between the crude answer and the exact one".
canary-trap's oracle-minus-one rung is documented as degenerate rather than
quietly relied on: it is identical to the oracle to four decimals, so it measures
specificity and gate at the ceiling, not mid-ladder as its comment claimed.
The CI lock policy asks git instead of the disk. It was checking the working
tree, where a lock file is a normal by-product of uv sync, so it passed in a clean
checkout and failed on every machine that had run an eval.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
