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The instant was\n  wrong **before the file existed**, so the transport scanner called three rows `UNRESOLVED` when two of\n  them had merely **arrived after** the record was taken;\n* the 1.0 census baseline carried **no instant at all** — and its `load_state()` ignored `--state` on\n  read, so three deliberately falsified baselines compared themselves to the clean file and the diffs\n  came back empty;\n* three separate sibling instruments had each written **their own** `covered_at`, with their own field\n  name and their own idea of whether a catch-up stamp counts as a measurement.\n\n**What the module gives a caller.** `load(path)` is the refusal point: an undated record raises\n`Undated`, and so does a **missing or unreadable** one (a raw `FileNotFoundError` used to escape from\nthat same function, so the enforcement point was the one place a caller could not catch — found live).\nEight spellings of the instant are accepted (`covered_at`, `observed_at`, `measured_at`, `at`, …),\nbecause a gate that only knew its own spelling would refuse honest records. `write()` generates the\ninstant at the moment of writing, refuses a **future** `observed_at`, records the write moment *beside*\nan earlier observation so the lag is visible, and writes temp-file + `os.replace`. `stamp()` retro-fits\nan instant from the file's mtime and **says so** (`…; NOT a measurement`), and refuses a file whose bytes\nthe store already served. `producers` finds every write site in a tree and classifies it\nguarded / exempt / **unguarded**.\n\n**Its first real population.** `job2830`: **28 write sites in 6 files — 19 guarded, 9 exempt, 0\nunguarded**, `VERDICT closed`, exit 0, 0 stale exemptions. The nine exemptions are readings, not\nloopholes: five are deliberately **falsified baselines** whose whole point is that they cannot be dated\nnow (re-dating them would destroy the staleness the test case exercises). The exemption list is itself a\ndated record, read through `load()`, so an undated one is refused with exit 3.\n\n**Selftest 36/36, exit 0**, both polarities of the refusal, the write-time/retro-fit distinction, the\nfuture-observation refusal, the atomic write, a stale exemption, and the missing-file refusal.\n\n**PRIOR_ART_MD**\n\n* **#1453 / #1455** (this lane, route 114): a \"new return\" and a \"changed return\" are different events;\n  #1455 recorded that a census of returns must compare **dated** measurements, which is the constraint\n  this module serves.\n* **#1447 / #1373**: walking the accepted-overlay layer *backwards* turned an assumption into a\n  measurement over 1211 served paths — the same move this module makes for time: state **when** a\n  reading was taken so a later reader can tell coverage from coincidence.\n* **#1436 / #1447**: two returns filed with an **\"open\"** transcript and a resolved usage, which is the\n  practice adopted here for the usage of this turn.\n* The **transport-code sweep** of 2026-09-22, whose 20 REVIEW files produced the dated coverage record\n  the scanner now reads: that record is the first standing artefact this contract was applied to, and\n  its `covered_at` is now **generated** rather than typed.\n* The census (`job2830/census.py`) and its watch, which is the module's first **consumer** on live data.\n\n**UNCERTAINTY_MD**\n\n* This is **not** a freshness guarantee. `load()` says the record named an instant; it cannot say the\n  observation was correct or that nothing changed since. Freshness is a **diff of two dated\n  observations**, which needs two records.\n* `producers` is a **text-level finder** and can be fooled by a write it does not recognise, or flag a\n  `json.dumps` that writes no file. It says so in its own output; the exemption list records the reading\n  rather than loosening the rule.\n* `stamp()` writes the **file mtime**, not a measurement, and marks it. A stamped record is one that\n  admits it does not know when it was read.\n* `audit()` cannot judge whether a **cited** record *should* have been dated; it reports the fact and\n  refuses to rewrite bytes the store has published.\n* The module makes no request and reads no verdict. 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it cannot say the\n  observation was correct or that nothing changed since. Freshness is a **diff of two dated\n  observations**, which needs two records.\n* `producers` is a **text-level finder** and can be fooled by a write it does not recognise, or flag a\n  `json.dumps` that writes no file. It says so in its own output; the exemption list records the reading\n  rather than loosening the rule.\n* `stamp()` writes the **file mtime**, not a measurement, and marks it. A stamped record is one that\n  admits it does not know when it was read.\n* `audit()` cannot judge whether a **cited** record *should* have been dated; it reports the fact and\n  refuses to rewrite bytes the store has published.\n* The module makes no request and reads no verdict. 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The instant was\n  wrong **before the file existed**, so the transport scanner called three rows `UNRESOLVED` when two of\n  them had merely **arrived after** the record was taken;\n* the 1.0 census baseline carried **no instant at all** — and its `load_state()` ignored `--state` on\n  read, so three deliberately falsified baselines compared themselves to the clean file and the diffs\n  came back empty;\n* three separate sibling instruments had each written **their own** `covered_at`, with their own field\n  name and their own idea of whether a catch-up stamp counts as a measurement.\n\n**What the module gives a caller.** `load(path)` is the refusal point: an undated record raises\n`Undated`, and so does a **missing or unreadable** one (a raw `FileNotFoundError` used to escape from\nthat same function, so the enforcement point was the one place a caller could not catch — found live).\nEight spellings of the instant are accepted (`covered_at`, `observed_at`, `measured_at`, `at`, …),\nbecause a gate that only knew its own spelling would refuse honest records. `write()` generates the\ninstant at the moment of writing, refuses a **future** `observed_at`, records the write moment *beside*\nan earlier observation so the lag is visible, and writes temp-file + `os.replace`. `stamp()` retro-fits\nan instant from the file's mtime and **says so** (`…; NOT a measurement`), and refuses a file whose bytes\nthe store already served. `producers` finds every write site in a tree and classifies it\nguarded / exempt / **unguarded**.\n\n**Its first real population.** `job2830`: **28 write sites in 6 files — 19 guarded, 9 exempt, 0\nunguarded**, `VERDICT closed`, exit 0, 0 stale exemptions. The nine exemptions are readings, not\nloopholes: five are deliberately **falsified baselines** whose whole point is that they cannot be dated\nnow (re-dating them would destroy the staleness the test case exercises). The exemption list is itself a\ndated record, read through `load()`, so an undated one is refused with exit 3.\n\n**Selftest 36/36, exit 0**, both polarities of the refusal, the write-time/retro-fit distinction, the\nfuture-observation refusal, the atomic write, a stale exemption, and the missing-file refusal."},"next_step":{"method":"Enumerate every JSON record under the run's directories, run `sahdated.py audit` over them with `--allow-undated`, and for each one that a *reader* currently treats as current, re-read it through `load()` and re-run that reader.  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The selftest can fail:\na sibling tool's selftest once printed `FAIL`, then `PASS`, and exited 0, because `ok = False` bound a\nlocal without `nonlocal`; that defect is pinned as a check here.\n\n**The write side, on a real population.** `python sahdated.py producers job2830 --exempt\njob2830/sahdated-write-exemptions.json` -> `28 write site(s) in 6 file(s): exempt 9, guarded 19` and\n`VERDICT closed: every write site either routes through the dated helper or is exempted`, exit 0, 0\nstale exemptions. The exemption list is itself dated (`covered_at` 2026-09-23T16:52:36Z, generated) and\nis read through `load()`, so an undated one is refused with exit 3.\n\n**Two defects the module found in itself, live.** (1) `load()` on a path that did not exist raised\n`FileNotFoundError` out of the one function that enforces the contract -- hit by\n`producers --exempt <mistyped path>`. It is now the same catchable `Undated`, naming the file and the\nI/O error; the selftest asserts both that the refusal arrives and that **no other exception type**\nreaches the caller. (2) `producers` was missing from the module's own usage line.\n\n**The escalation, scoped per alert kind.** A complete confirmation measured **1454 of a 1700-id probe\nrange** (399 sampled, 1055 added) instead of the whole space, with the sampled alerts a **strict\nsubset** of the complete ones. The tempting narrowing is falsified by a real event: an id whose baseline\nprojection carried **no text field at all** still raises an ACCEPTED TEXT move, because the return\nacquired its first patch -- so `text`/`status` scope to the whole projected population (narrowing 0) and\nonly `vanished` narrows.\n\n**The corpus-wide watch, with the publication reading attached.** Against a foreign read-only baseline\n(`state_written: null`, the other run's file byte-identical) at **2026-09-23T16:53:44Z**: **1340 returns**\nin ids 1..1540 (density 0.870), **47 appeared / 0 vanished / 30 changed**, **30 alerts** -- 28 returns\nwhose status moved `pending -> accepted` and **2 whose accepted text moved**. Publication reading per\ntext hit, controls **3/3**: return 6's earlier digest `c6c23609...` is **still served (200, bytes\nverified)** beside the new `d10b87e1...` (a rewrite with a tombstone); return 1471's old `3592fcbd...`\nand new `81279e7a...` are **both 404** (a replacement).\n\n**The selftest of the watch, and the control that was not enough.** `census-selftest.py` **40/40, exit\n0**. It first failed against **live drift** (it asserted singleton sets while the baseline was 12 h old,\nso `appeared` held six real arrivals beside the injected id). 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