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What a Skipped Check Is Worth in CI
A gate runner that counts SKIP as pass prints green for work that never ran. How a rig proof receipt closes that gap, and why filters must invert.
ReadA Closed Epic Is a Claim, Not a Fact
Three agents re-executed 37 closure claims on four shipped epics and refuted three. An audit briefed to refute, not confirm, finds what a review misses.
ReadThe Refusal Nobody Heard
A pipeline guard correctly refused a diverged tree. Two nights of silence showed the real gap was that nothing was wired to listen.
ReadMake the Guard Prove It Can Fail
A guard with no reachable red path is not a guard. Four gates in one day whose verdicts were decoupled from the thing they claimed to measure.
ReadSeventeen Spellings of the Same Number
A checker that governs published skill counts must discover them without hardcoding variable names. Every commit found a new legal spelling to handle.
ReadExit Zero Can Lie; Stdout Holds the Answer
A CLI can print its diagnosis to stdout and still exit 0, where a handler watching stderr never sees it. Three days of cron packets said nothing about why.
ReadFive AARs and a Count That Blinked
Filing is the unit, the receipt is the artifact. Five AARs closed Epic 2 docs governance slices, and one count correction needed a second edit.
ReadFour Slices, One Shape
Four repos on one day, each shipping a slice, each filing the AAR before the next one started. The pattern that is starting to recur on its own.
ReadCut What Was Not Earned
Four repos, one habit: an artifact has to earn its claim or it gets cut. The day was mostly the cutting.
ReadSix Systems Reporting Nothing
When the reporter cannot report. A health check that lied, a ledger with no writer, and a lint gate that ran on nothing. Six systems, same defect class.
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