Build Log · June 22, 2026
Engine: Reconciliation + Deferral Decay
The OS crossed from recording pain to forcing its resolution — spin reconciliation, deferral decay, and a disposition vocabulary, all enforced as invariants.
- Engine
- OS
- Enforcement
- invariants added
- 3
- files changed
- 6
- validator paths tested
- 7
- proposal written, not built
- 1
invariants added
files changed
validator paths tested
proposal written, not built
Timeline
Start
Engine-health critique
OS records pain but never forces resolution
Mid
Three fixes chosen over the Council
Plumbing before the shiny object
Mid
Count reconciliation rejected
Zeb: counts are fakeable — use IDs
Late
Validator exercised 7 ways
Grandfather, block, escape hatch, decay all verified
Close
Committed; retro miss surfaced
The session that hardened the loop nearly skipped it
What shipped
ID-based spin reconciliation in build-session.mjs — every spin id lands in exactly one disposition bucket, hard-fail with escape hatch, legacy sessions grandfathered
Deferral decay ledger in build-trends.mjs — 3rd deferral of a key blocks unless human_accepted, ledger persisted to public/build-log/deferral-ledger.json
Disposition vocabulary in _SCHEMA.md and gates.md — resolved | converted | accepted | deferred; deferred is no longer terminal
Emergent-behavior watch — read-only instruments for spin-recording avoidance, human_accepted overuse, and thin satisfy-the-validator dispositions
Legacy 'Other' decay key discharged (resolved by existing traps; 2 of 3 deferrals covered zero spins)
docs/forge-journal/crucible-proposal.md — Crucible phase + six-role Council (incl. Steward) written but deliberately not built
“The OS records pain, but does not reliably force pain into resolution. It's a net, not a lock.”