Charles Jones#Gate honesty
4pages on this subject — across the log, the case studies and the documentation.
Entry 006 — Every build minted a review date, and the gate required it
One timestamp file fed both dateModified and lastReviewed across ~61,000 pages, and a pre-build gate refused any build that did not bump it. The estate could not ship without minting the claim.
Entry 005 — One hardcoded state literal, across 14,877 measured pages
Twelve gates came back green while a component told non-Florida consumers their own city was in Florida. A grammatically perfect sentence naming the wrong state is structurally identical to the right one.
A gate that never ran is never clean
Silence from a check and success from a check are indistinguishable unless you make them different.
A control is captured, never authored
Evidence has to come from the run it claims to describe. A well-formed file passes every check that asks whether it is well-formed.