fix(attest): the yank guard — poll-merges never overwrite boxes mid-gesture

Root cause of 'we always flicker to the default' + 'flickering even
affects the slider move': pollTape called goToState() on EVERY newly
merged tape event, overwriting boxes + threshold + repainting from gzip —
a terminal sweep writing dozens of events yanked the page continuously,
and each yank reverted panels to the state baseline until the next rust
render. Fix: events still merge every poll (the tape is never dropped);
the cursor snap DEFERS while the operator has interacted within 3s
(input/pointerdown), landing on the next quiet poll. liveRustRender
already double-buffers (panels only swap on substantial fresh PNGs), so
with the yank gone the remaining render path is stable. Guard same
commit: T2 merges during interaction with boxes untouched; deferred snap
lands when quiet.

Originating-Terminal: 🔨 builder
Relevant-Rooms: 🔨 builder, 🧭 navigator, 🧪 laboratory
Story: Dovetailing the UX and the tape starts with making the causal loop deterministic from the operator's seat — a merge is data, a snap is navigation, and navigation must never race the human hand.

Receipt-Verified: σ=2.54 · cell=A · witness-agreement=GZIP_ONLY · lens=gzip · receipt=a8d30ea5

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01YQxP9rRho3RXPUBTtdvWgZ

commit c25a06983 — 144×144 lattice triptych (on-chip)

◎ the ingest chose A2,B — Strategy·Goal × Tactics — acting on A2,C — Strategy·Goal × Operations (grip 0.750) · the walk starts at the ACTOR's row · 2 file(s)

⏱ ingest 120.8ms (corpus→lattice) · definer walk 802ms (row→transpose→row, ballistic XOR per hop) · total 1043ms
ingest here = commit-scoped SENSING only (this commit's message + changed files → lit anchors) — deep seed authoring lives in the reef-self-loop, off the commit path

rows = ACTOR (lens) · cols = PATIENT (object) · diagonal = self-reference; ◎ at actor-row × patient-col — every panel, same orientation. Heat above the diagonal = actors ranking ShortLex-earlier than their patients (the walk follows definers uphill in rank).
The 12 canonical lanes (rows top→bottom, cols left→right): A·Strategy · B·Tactics · C·Operations · A1·Law · A2·Goal · A3·Fund · B1·Speed · B2·Deal · B3·Signal · C1·Grid · C2·Loop · C3·Flow

PAIR LATTICE (the map we normally see)

PRE-WALK SENSE · INTENT grid — the snapshot, no point of view

the no-point-of-view snapshot — what the sensor lit before any walk; the leaf walk below is what bridges the two grids

	ABC A1A–O A2A–O A3A–O B1A–O B2A–O B3A–O C1A–N C2A–N C3A–N A1–C3
ABC A1–C3 A1A–O A2A–O A3A–O B1A–O B2A–O B3A–O C1A–N C2A–N C3A–N

PRE-WALK SENSE · REALITY grid — the snapshot, no point of view

the no-point-of-view snapshot, reality side — same sensor law

	ABC A1A–O A2A–O A3A–O B1A–O B2A–O B3A–O C1A–N C2A–N C3A–N A1–C3
ABC A1–C3 A1A–O A2A–O A3A–O B1A–O B2A–O B3A–O C1A–N C2A–N C3A–N

PRE-WALK Δ · straight comparison of the two ingested grids (green both · cyan intent-only · amber reality-only) · 3% overlap · ◎ = where the competence pixel sits in the raw overlap

good = green overlap without being a copy — near-100% is self-similarity, not alignment

	ABC A1A–O A2A–O A3A–O B1A–O B2A–O B3A–O C1A–N C2A–N C3A–N A1–C3
ABC A1–C3 A1A–O A2A–O A3A–O B1A–O B2A–O B3A–O C1A–N C2A–N C3A–N

◎ the pixel this commit belongs to

A2,B — Strategy·Goal × Tactics (actor) acting on A2,C — Strategy·Goal × Operations (patient) · grip 0.750

actor seed A2,B — Target positions set quarterly goals that require specific tactics and leverage maneuvers to successfully occupy. The target is the cell coordinate the system MUST occupy by end-of-quarter. Anything that does not drive toward that coordinate is exhaust, and exhaust does not become substrate by being labelled progress. Tactics is the choice of which leverage to pull at which beat. Not what we want, but how the want lands on Tuesday: the sequence of irreversible commitments, each made before the next one's information is available. Vision is the coordinate the lattice rotates around — the fixed bearing every iteration is measured against. Without the fixed point, motion is movement; with the fixed point, motion is convergence. Speed of feedback dominates speed of execution. Tactics that converge fast beat tactics that compute long, because the loop closes around the world's response before the world has moved. Define the goal as a verifiable predicate, not a feeling. The system terminates when the predicate evaluates true, and the predicate is what the next agent inherits when this one hands off. The tactical map is a ranked list of moves where each move carries a cost-of-delay. Pick the move whose cost of doing it tomorrow exceeds the cost of doing it imperfectly today. A goal that cannot be tested is a wish. Wishes have no termination condition, so they consume budget forever; goals have a finish line and therefore a payable price. Execution is a sequence of bets made under uncertainty. Tactics is the discipline of betting the right size on the bet whose information value pays for the loss-if-wrong.

patient seed A2,C — Strategy Goal as the lens on Operations. Operations is the loop that runs whether anyone watches. The daily commit, the hourly hook, the per-request fingerprint — the substrate of the substrate, ambient and unwatched. Process is what you forget to do; ops is what does itself. Convert manual moves into ambient state, because the tax of remembering compounds faster than the tax of automating. The daily friction is the diff between your intent and your harness. Close the diff or pay the tax twice — once in the slip, once in the apology to the next agent. Operations earns its keep by being boring. The day the routine is interesting is the day it has already failed and is being narrated rather than executed. The target is the cell coordinate the system MUST occupy by end-of-quarter. Anything that does not drive toward that coordinate is exhaust, and exhaust does not become substrate by being labelled progress. Vision is the coordinate the lattice rotates around — the fixed bearing every iteration is measured against. Without the fixed point, motion is movement; with the fixed point, motion is convergence. Define the goal as a verifiable predicate, not a feeling. The system terminates when the predicate evaluates true, and the predicate is what the next agent inherits when this one hands off. A goal that cannot be tested is a wish. Wishes have no termination condition, so they consume budget forever; goals have a finish line and therefore a payable price.

INTENT · leaf-walk clouds · BLUE→VIOLET by ply (◎ = the competence pixel: actor∩patient)

good = the clouds concentrate where the commit SAYS it works

	ABC A1A–O A2A–O A3A–O B1A–O B2A–O B3A–O C1A–N C2A–N C3A–N A1–C3
ABC A1–C3 A1A–O A2A–O A3A–O B1A–O B2A–O B3A–O C1A–N C2A–N C3A–N

REALITY · leaf-walk clouds · ORANGE→RED by ply (◎ = the same pixel — the shared perspective)

good = the same clouds as intent — shipped where declared

	ABC A1A–O A2A–O A3A–O B1A–O B2A–O B3A–O C1A–N C2A–N C3A–N A1–C3
ABC A1–C3 A1A–O A2A–O A3A–O B1A–O B2A–O B3A–O C1A–N C2A–N C3A–N

DELTA · graded cloud divergence (green agree · magenta declared-not-done · amber done-not-declared) · 2% agree

good = mostly green; magenta = said-not-done (chase it in the code), amber = done-not-said (chase it in the docs)

	ABC A1A–O A2A–O A3A–O B1A–O B2A–O B3A–O C1A–N C2A–N C3A–N A1–C3
ABC A1–C3 A1A–O A2A–O A3A–O B1A–O B2A–O B3A–O C1A–N C2A–N C3A–N

TOLERANCE · cloud topology (dim green in-shape · hot amber bleed · red orthogonal concentration) · ⚠ TOO MANY

red only matters above the flip — a few amber is normal bleed

	ABC A1A–O A2A–O A3A–O B1A–O B2A–O B3A–O C1A–N C2A–N C3A–N A1–C3
ABC A1–C3 A1A–O A2A–O A3A–O B1A–O B2A–O B3A–O C1A–N C2A–N C3A–N

SHORTLEX-3 PROJECTION (ABC · A1..C3 · the 132 children — candidate, pre-ratchet)

PROJECTED INTENT · the commit’s claims, head→axis_i tail→axis_j (cyan)

the three-length view — good = claims land inside their own zone

	ABC A1A–O A2A–O A3A–O B1A–O B2A–O B3A–O C1A–N C2A–N C3A–N A1–C3
ABC A1–C3 A1A–O A2A–O A3A–O B1A–O B2A–O B3A–O C1A–N C2A–N C3A–N

PROJECTED REALITY · same projection law (amber)

same projection law — good = reality occupies the zones intent does

	ABC A1A–O A2A–O A3A–O B1A–O B2A–O B3A–O C1A–N C2A–N C3A–N A1–C3
ABC A1–C3 A1A–O A2A–O A3A–O B1A–O B2A–O B3A–O C1A–N C2A–N C3A–N

STRAIGHT COMPARISON · green both · cyan intent-only · amber reality-only · 4% overlap

good = the zones agree; cross-zone scatter is the drift to read

	ABC A1A–O A2A–O A3A–O B1A–O B2A–O B3A–O C1A–N C2A–N C3A–N A1–C3
ABC A1–C3 A1A–O A2A–O A3A–O B1A–O B2A–O B3A–O C1A–N C2A–N C3A–N

shortlex-3 zone occupancy (lit cells per diagonal square)
INTENT: 1 in the 3×3 ABC corner · 6 in the 9×9 A1..C3 square · 1379 in the 132×132 children square · 296 cross-zone
REALITY: 1 in the 3×3 ABC corner · 4 in the 9×9 A1..C3 square · 838 in the 132×132 children square · 141 cross-zone
axes: identical 144 ShortLex names both sides (symmetric); weights asymmetric
zone 3 = candidate children, pre-ratchet (repo-derived dumps not yet past the perturbation-probe gate) · intent 38 claims @ θ 0.625 · reality 27 claims @ θ 0.625 · projection 1022ms

SHAPE-MATCH σ = -2.03 — the real intent↔reality definer walk vs random-reality (actual 0.0116 vs random 0.061). >0 = the walk distinguishes real alignment from noise; aggregate over independent walks → the divergent series.
σ_drift · noise · below zero — this read is noise, not a measurement

Most out-of-lane row: B1 · Speed — that lane is drifting most (read the red band in that row).

Three-colour tolerance (out-of-lane = reality fires where intent is weak, in orthogonal blocks): green=in-lane agreement · amber=a few out-of-lane (tolerated) · red=FIRED — orthogonal out-of-lane 26% vs tolerance 25%.
509 green · 474 amber · 341 red · 203 XOR-friction cells.

Both axes = the 144 ShortLex anchors, cell=row⊕col, on the chip. INTENT=docs+rules · REALITY=code · DELTA=friction.

tile dump — what the SimHash matched on the diagonal (inspect the sensor; tap to expand)

A,A The lattice we build today is what next year's underwriter inherits.

intent 75% (no distinctive match)

reality 70% This change operates in the ui frontend domain, involving layout page nav render. This change o

B,B Tactics is the choice of which leverage to pull at which beat.

intent 75% (no distinctive match)

reality 67% (no distinctive match)

C,C Operations is the loop that runs whether anyone watches.

intent 80% (no distinctive match)

reality 66% (no distinctive match)

A1,A1 EU AI Act Article 14 requires human-on-the-loop oversight, with the supervisor able to interrupt the system at

intent 80% (no distinctive match)

reality 72% (no distinctive match)

A2,A2 The target is the cell coordinate the system MUST occupy by end-of-quarter.

intent 86% tests/pmu-simulator/attest-flight-tape.test.mjs. THE APPEND-ONLY FLIGHT TAPE (operator 2026-07-

reality 78% (no distinctive match)

A3,A3 Every dollar builds either the floor (substrate that lifts future bets) or the ceiling (cap on the next round)

intent 72% (no distinctive match)

reality 70% (no distinctive match)

B1,B1 Latency is the price of a missed beat.

intent 77% (no distinctive match)

reality 69% (no distinctive match)

B2,B2 The deal sets the exchange rate between two value substrates.

intent 75% (no distinctive match)

reality 70% (no distinctive match)

B3,B3 Signal-to-noise is the inverse cube of bandwidth — narrow the channel, the message arrives; broaden it, recipi

intent 70% Receipt-Verified: σ=2.54 · cell=A · witness-agreement=GZIP_ONLY · lens=gzip · receipt=a8d30ea5

reality 67% (no distinctive match)

C1,C1 Power flows where the grid lets it.

intent 78% Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/s

reality 77% // poll (the tape is never dropped); the CURSOR SNAP is deferred while the operator is actively

C2,C2 Each iteration is a hypothesis tested against the ground truth of the world.

intent 73% (no distinctive match)

reality 67% (no distinctive match)

C3,C3 Flow is the rate at which committed work crosses the finish line.

intent 84% (no distinctive match)

reality 70% (no distinctive match)

commit context — 2 file(s)

fix(attest): the yank guard — poll-merges never overwrite boxes mid-gesture

Root cause of 'we always flicker to the default' + 'flickering even
affects the slider move': pollTape called goToState() on EVERY newly
merged tape event, overwriting boxes + threshold + repainting from gzip —
a terminal sweep writing dozens of events yanked the page continuously,
and each yank reverted panels to the state baseline until the next rust
render. Fix: events still merge every poll (the tape is never dropped);
the cursor snap DEFERS while the operator has interacted within 3s
(input/pointerdown), landing on the next quiet poll. liveRustRender
already double-buffers (panels only swap on substantial fresh PNGs), so
with the yank gone the remaining render path is stable. Guard same
commit: T2 merges during interaction with boxes untouched; deferred snap
lands when quiet.

Originating-Terminal: 🔨 builder
Relevant-Rooms: 🔨 builder, 🧭 navigator, 🧪 laboratory
Story: Dovetailing the UX and the tape starts with making the causal loop deterministic from the operator's seat — a merge is data, a snap is navigation, and navigation must never race the human hand.

Receipt-Verified: σ=2.54 · cell=A · wit

scripts/pmu/attest-demo-ux.mjs
tests/pmu-simulator/attest-flight-tape.test.mjs

Produced on the chip by the running pipeline (scripts/pmu/pipeline.mjs → runPipeline → walk + xor), commit-scoped · on-chip per-walk 748.57ns (this commit). Recompute: node scripts/pmu/commit-triptych.mjs --commit c25a06983

Commit artifacts (open on a computer — Gmail mobile won't follow file:// links; the inline images above are the phone-viewable form): reef grid · this triptych · the HDL — all three are also attached to this email.