Every defect the last repair left behind was a grep it did not run

[wshallwshall]

Nine edits, each a sub-clause, closing what the 34-edit repair opened or left.

A verification pass over the repaired page confirmed all eight defects the repair targeted are closed — rule_fired/reviewed_by/reviewed_at occur nowhere in the repository, the Presence row agrees with the section that settles it, step 6 is gone and the sequence is genuinely first-match-wins, and no printed duration survives. It also found six trailing edges, and they had exactly one shape: a rename that enumerated its sites incompletely, or a deletion whose neighbouring sentence was never reread. Neither needs judgment to avoid. Both need a grep.

Two sweeps stopped short. The verified → re-derived rename changed four sites and missed two; the pair → triple change made three and missed the failure-mode table. Worth noting what a blind sweep would have broken: "re-verification" also appears for a recomputed digest, for anchors re-checked after a move, and for adversarial re-review — three different objects. Only two sites meant a cell against requirement text.

A deletion left a demand with no referent. Removing decision step 6 also removed the only token an implementer could write into rule for a needs-review cell — and the next commit then required that cell to "name the rule that applies after the sequence has run". That rule had no name. It is now assessors-split, and a cell blocked on a decision only its owner can make takes the same grade under blocked-on-owner, so both routes have a value to record.

A correction left a pronoun. f92e32a swapped a noun for a linked section title and did not reread the next sentence, so "Cross it on purpose" lost its antecedent — in a passage that also still called 86% of the file "the half", written by the commit that had just removed "the first half is yours" for making a proportional claim.

Two edits are structural rather than repair:

• The boundary marker now names the cut, not the position. The command hands the agent everything from one heading on, so a rule written above it never reaches the agent. That turns placement from a judgment the next editor must make correctly into a check they can run — and placement is the class that keeps recurring.
• The paste-ready command now tells the agent to ask for the declared scope, target level and posture rather than choosing them. Its own slice requires all three; the command carried none of them.

What was deliberately not done. Five findings are left open on the verifier's own advice. Each is defensible as open, and closing them adds words to a page whose remaining defects are about placement rather than density.

Measured. Long sentences 217 → 217 against a baseline of 219. Fat cells 30 → 30, at baseline. Words 61,768 → 61,815. 146 tests green including the HS-20 sentence cap, Word copy rebuilt with pandoc 3.10, zero non-ASCII bytes.

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