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# Verification: commit 92f614e (Protocol-N reference-integrity guard) — collision check
> Snapshot as of 2026-07-16 — focused verification that the commit which landed during
> a duplicate-session collision is a SINGLE, CLEAN, CORRECT guard.
> Nothing was fixed, committed, or pushed. Verification only.
## VERDICT: CLEAN ✅
`92f614e` is a single, clean, correct guard commit. No duplication, no corruption,
no half-merge from the collision. Nothing to do.
---
## 1. Git state — CLEAN
- `git fetch` run; `HEAD == origin/dev == 92f614e6baae0fa752fc6e79161fd3c0e66eb5ec`.
- Working tree clean (`git status` empty), before and after all verification steps.
- `git log --oneline 09c1e73..HEAD` → exactly ONE commit (`92f614e`).
- No stashes (`git stash list` empty), no untracked leftovers (`git clean -nd` empty).
- `git log --all --grep="Protocol N"` → the guard commit exists exactly once across ALL refs
(no second guard commit lurking on any branch).
## 2. Diff coherent and minimal — CLEAN
`git show --stat 92f614e` — 6 files, +127/−17:
| File | Change | Nature |
| ---- | ------ | ------ |
| `tests/robco-diagnostics.js` | +111/−1 | the 220.9 guard block + Suite-220 header comment (8→9 tests) |
| `CLAUDE.md` | 8 lines | pure 3276→3277 count syncs |
| `README.md` | 4 lines | pure count syncs |
| `ARCHITECTURE.md` | 2 lines | pure count syncs |
| `RULES.md` | 1 line | count sync |
| `CHANGELOG.md` | header + 1 entry | Unreleased header 3277/3277 + one plain-English `### Added` entry describing the guard |
- **No data files, no CSS, no JS-source, no served/precached file** → no CACHE_NAME bump needed (Protocol 1, correct).
- Every changed line accounted for; grep of doc diffs excluding `3276|3277` returned nothing beyond the one changelog entry.
## 3. Guard exists EXACTLY ONCE — CLEAN
- One `220.9` block in `tests/robco-diagnostics.js` (lines ~40731–40835), one `assert`.
- Identifier census (`protoRefRe220`, `danglingRef220`, `REF_ALLOW_220`, `defineParseOk220`):
13 occurrences, all inside the single block (declarations + uses) — no double-added block.
- Repo-wide grep for the guard's signatures (`danglingRef`, `protoRefRe`, "protocol-heading reference")
→ exactly one file: `tests/robco-diagnostics.js`.
## 4. Runner green, counts synced — CLEAN
- `node tests/robco-diagnostics.js` → **ALL 3277 TESTS PASSED** (232 suites), exit 0.
- Protocol 2a sync verified: 3277 present in `RULES.md`, `CLAUDE.md` (gate block, note, P4/P5
checklists, Arch Quick Ref), `README.md` (stack table, file-structure comment, workflow, Current State),
`ARCHITECTURE.md` (file listing + pre-commit checklist), `CHANGELOG.md` Unreleased header
(`Tests: 3277/3277 | Cache: robco-terminal-v2.8.0-r41`).
- All other numeric hits are legitimate: frozen released CHANGELOG entries (intentional per 2a),
per-suite `// N tests` comments, synthetic fixture strings inside tests (2938/2944),
historical prose ("all 3002 tests" in the U-B3 entry — accurate at its landing time),
and `tests/test.html`'s own `Suites: 22` runtime-mirror marker (untouched by this commit).
## 5. Guard BITES — red-then-green PROVEN (done fresh, not trusted from the commit message)
- **Red:** appended `<!-- collision-verification probe: Protocol 999 -->` to `ARCHITECTURE.md`,
ran the runner → exit 1, `1 TEST(S) FAILED (3276 passed)`, failure line:
`✗ 220.9: … — DANGLING: 999 (ARCHITECTURE.md)` — names the token AND the file.
- **Green:** `git checkout -- ARCHITECTURE.md`, reran → exit 0, ALL 3277 PASSED.
- **No false positives:** merged (29/30/31, 32/33/35), retired (15), and forward-ref (47)
numbers all confirmed PRESENT in the scanned corpus (`CLAUDE.md`, `ARCHITECTURE.md`,
`QUEUE.md`, `RULES.md`, `js/services/cloud.js`, `tests/robco-diagnostics.js`) —
so the green run genuinely exercised them and they all resolve.
- Self-integrity clause verified in the code: DEFINED-set parse must be ≥40 numbers and
contain 1, 46, 33 (proving compound-heading split) and UI-1 — guards against a vacuous empty parse.
## 6. Full gate — GREEN
- `npm run gate` end-to-end (lint, format, 3277-test runner, Playwright boot-smoke,
render-check, a11y, test.html headless audit, save-survival paths, offline-first
network-cut check) → **[GATE] All checks passed!**, exit 0.
## Incident during verification (not repo corruption)
- A stale, 0-byte `.git/index.lock` (created 09:47, no `git.exe` process running) briefly
blocked the restore step. Removed the stale lock; git operations resumed normally.
Assessed as transient lock contention (likely from this session's own parallel git commands),
NOT collision damage — the index, refs, and working tree were all intact.
## Actions taken
- None to the repo content. Temporary probe in `ARCHITECTURE.md` (bite test) was fully
reverted; stale `.git/index.lock` removed. Final `git status`: clean at `92f614e`.
- Nothing committed, nothing pushed.
STAMP · generated for RELEASE v2.8.5 commit 06e5180 (06e51801b38a) · archive input-tree hash c07fbfbdd2e1ddeb · 754 files · no wall-clock timestamp (regenerates identically when nothing changed).