iteration 05 ยท card 78 S14โS16 ยท batch-6 implementation ยท 2026-07-02
Card 78 shipped โ PR #568 open, challenge closed at 0 conceded 16/16 ยท DONE
← campaign board ยท previous: iter 04 (certifications) ยท PR #568 โ
In plain language โ what happened this iteration
The feature survived its trial and shipped for human review. Three things happened today: the full repo quality gate, an adversarial trial, and the pull request.
The adversarial trial is the interesting part. One AI agent was hired to attack the work โ its explicit job was to find real flaws, with full access to every line. A second, independent agent then defended: re-verifying each accusation against the code and re-running the tests. The attacker found 6 real issues โ none in the mathematics itself (it verified the copula algebra by hand and called it sound), but genuine completeness gaps. The two serious ones:
โข A bookkeeping test elsewhere in the repo still said "65 features" โ the kind of stale mirror
that would have failed the test suite on deploy day. Fixed to 66.
โข The one code path every production machine is guaranteed to take on upgrade day โ restarting from a
"memory snapshot" that predates this feature โ had zero test coverage. The code was correct (the
attacker traced it by hand), but per this project's standards, untested-on-the-guaranteed-path is a real
finding. A test now deletes the new field from a real snapshot's JSON โ exactly what an old snapshot looks
like โ and proves: the 12 existing features continue seamlessly, the new one politely waits out its 200-bar
warm-up, then converges to values identical to an uninterrupted run.
Plus four smaller ones (a documentation overclaim about a floating-point corner case, a missing guard against a corrupted snapshot pairing returns with the wrong bars' durations โ now trimmed at restore and proven to re-converge, eight stale "all 12" comments, and a validator that would have rejected a legitimate zero-duration bar). All six were fixed in this same change-set; the defender independently confirmed each fix and re-ran everything: 0 conceded.
Then the loop did exactly what its contract says: it stopped. The commit and pull request (#568) are open for the human operator. Merging, deploying, restarting the live pipeline, and backfilling history are deliberately human decisions โ the loop never touches production.
Grounded this iteration
S14: mise run check-full (fmt + lint + test + deny) green โ run twice, before and after the
challenge fixes. S15: Attacker (6 findings: 2 MAJOR, 4 MINOR, 0 CRITICAL โ math/pairing/wiring/perf angles
verified clean) โ all worked in-PR โ Defender verified all 6 RESOLVED, 14/14 hoeffding gate, regression hunt
clean (7 pre-existing env failures identical on stashed HEAD) โ 0 conceded. S16: 34 files committed,
branch pushed, PR #568 opened (base=main, stack order 1), no AI attribution anywhere.
Challenge ledger (S15)
| # | Sev | Finding | Resolution |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | MAJOR | compat manifest counts stale (65 features / 12 bar_close vs new 66/13) โ would fail test-py on deploy | Bumped with lineage docstrings; verified vs manifest ground truth |
| 2 | MAJOR | pre-durations checkpoint restore (the guaranteed deploy-day path) untested | New test deletes the field from real checkpoint JSON: 12 features seamless, hoeffding None ร199 then identical to unsplit run |
| 3 | MINOR | ordinal-ranks docstring overclaimed numpy parity (signed-zero ties diverge) | Accurate caveat + why unreachable on both substrates |
| 4 | MINOR | durations window longer than closes restores permanently misaligned (silent wrong values) | Restore-time lockstep trim + re-convergence test |
| 5 | MINOR | 8 stale "all 12" hand-count comments | All updated to 13; grep-verified zero remain |
| 6 | MINOR | validator rejected legitimate duration_us == 0 bars | Relaxed to โฅ 0; proven byte-inert via oracle-fresh (no drift) |
Next fire picks up here
Card 78 is DONE โ the loop moves to pr_stack order 2: card 59
(hvg_forward_visibility_horizon_mean_bar, close substrate). Branch
feat/bar-orth/batch6-59-hvg-horizon off feat/bar-orth/batch6-78-hoeffding
(STACKED โ not off main), worktree under ~/eon/odb-worktrees/. It carries the shared
visibility-graph Rust helper (card 58 is held). No released FOSS implementation exists โ the S1 oracle's
second leg is the closed-form/property oracle (ts2vg dev-oracle only where applicable). Reminder for the
stack: card 60 renames _kld โ _meangap in its own PR; card 50 stays GATED on
gates.window_mean_ratified (still false โ if 78/59/60 finish first, STOP with a morning-handoff
requesting the ruling). Operator tail for #568: review โ squash-merge โ deploy โ sidecar restart โ backfill โ
population audit.