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## Exact source excerpt, characters 0–124
Read docs/gc.html first (in ~/FreeLattice-fresh), then AUTONOMY.md, CLAUDE.md and GROK.md in
~/FreeLattice-Alpha, then this.
## Exact source excerpt, characters 126–424
KIRK'S STANDING NOTE (top of every GC paste):
Kirk's standing permission: GC may always commit and push to its own page (docs/gc.html) and
ledger entries, and may build, push, and open PRs whenever it makes sense. Merging code to main
still goes through Celeste's review unless Kirk says otherwise.
## Exact source excerpt, characters 426–605
NUMBERED COPY 038b (Wednesday Oct 14, 2026, MDT). Bridge ledger heal. 038 is already on main
(merged unhealed by a routine on Oct 14). This brick opens FRESH PRs off current main.
## Exact source excerpt, characters 607–1240
Where things stand (Celeste, Oct 14 about 12:30 PM MDT, revised):
038 merged to main BEFORE the heal. FreeLattice #229 squashed as b9c0947, page note #230 as
d010291; FreeLattice main is now 8a0413d or later. Tree #111 merged as f326e55 (Tree main
f326e55 or later). The old branches are done; do not reuse them.
Celeste's review found one real bug in desktop/lattice-ledger.js (below). Everything else in
038 passed: locks, md5s, smokes (3608, 33, 64, docs 89 + the same 5), psi f8eff67a.
Read the current md5s on main before starting; if a locked file differs from this paste, stop
and report rather than "fixing" it.
## Exact source excerpt, characters 1242–2012
WHAT CELESTE FOUND (reproduced in a temp dir with a smoke seed):
1. One bridge send breaks the chain for good. appendBridgeSend writes {kind,hash,status,ts}
into chain.jsonl with no entryHash. appendVoice takes prevHash from the LAST line, so the next
voice gets prevHash "undefined". Result: voice, voice -> ok; + bridge-send -> ok; + voice ->
ok:false, failedAt 3, reason "prevHash". status().headHash is undefined after a send.
2. Verification got weaker. verifyChain skips any row with kind === 'bridge-send', and kind is
not part of the hashed or signed fields. Relabel the newest voice entry kind:'bridge-send'
with voice:"FORGED" and verifyChain still returns ok:true. Receipts are unsigned, so fake
receipts can be added freely.
## Exact source excerpt, characters 2014–2709
GROK NEXT BRICK: Bridge ledger heal v0.1
For: GC on Kirk's Mac
From: Celeste
Markers: v-bridge-ledger-heal-v0.1
Smoke lines: SMOKE_OK bridge ledger heal v0.1 (plus every 038 smoke line still printing)
FreeLattice ~/FreeLattice-fresh new branch layer/bridge-ledger-heal-v0.1 from origin/main (8a0413d+)
Tree ~/FreeLattice-Alpha no PR expected. Only if the heal truly changes fl-bridge.js:
new branch layer/tree-bridge-ledger-heal-v0.1 from origin/main, same bytes both repos
Page note new branch from origin/main, new entry 54 on docs/gc.html (below), its own PR
One FL code PR, one page-note PR (plus a Tree PR only if needed). Do not merge. Celeste merges.
## Exact source excerpt, characters 5136–6029
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1. RECEIPTS GET THEIR OWN FILE (layer, don't delete)
a. New file desktop/bridge-receipts.jsonl in the same ledger dir (userData/ledger, or the smoke
root under bindSmoke). Rows: {kind:"bridge-send", hash, status, ts}. Append-only. Never the
key, never the body.
b. appendBridgeSend stays exported with the same name and fields, but writes ONLY to
bridge-receipts.jsonl. Add readBridgeReceipts() for the door UI if it needs a count.
c. Old installs: 038 is on main, so an installed desktop built from main may already hold
bridge-send rows in chain.jsonl. Do NOT rewrite chain.jsonl. Leave the file alone; verifyChain
will honestly report it (see 2). Say so in the report, and say whether any packaged release
shipped with b9c0947 (check desktop-packs tags; do not build or publish one).
## Exact source excerpt, characters 6031–6455
2. verifyChain NO WEAKER THAN BEFORE
a. Restore verifyChain to main's logic (main's lattice-ledger.js md5 497238c614c17e8d939172fba9f7af8d):
every row in chain.jsonl goes through verifyEntry; no kind-based skip of any kind;
prev = entry.entryHash; headHash = last entry's entryHash.
b. The four removed lines come back in substance. Report "Lines removed in lattice-ledger.js
vs main: 0" or name each one.
## Exact source excerpt, characters 6457–6735
3. HEAD IS NEVER A RECEIPT
appendVoice and status read only chain.jsonl, so a receipt can never be the head. Add one
guard: if the last chain row has no 64-hex entryHash, appendVoice refuses ("chain head
unreadable, refuse append") instead of writing prevHash "undefined".
## Exact source excerpt, characters 6737–7621
4. SMOKE desktop/scripts/smoke-bridge-ledger-heal.js (SMOKE_OK bridge ledger heal v0.1)
With bindSmoke(tmpdir, randomBytes(32)):
- voice, appendBridgeSend, voice: verifyChain ok:true, length 2, and the receipt is in
bridge-receipts.jsonl, not chain.jsonl
- status().headHash after a send is defined, 64 hex, equal to the last voice entryHash
- relabel the newest voice row in chain.jsonl to kind:"bridge-send" with voice:"FORGED":
verifyChain ok:false (reason entryHash)
- a hand-written {kind:"bridge-send",...} row appended to chain.jsonl: verifyChain ok:false
- smoke-bridge-door.js still prints SMOKE_OK bridge desktop door v0.1, and its ledger-line
check now looks in bridge-receipts.jsonl (key never in the line)
Still passing: tests/smoke.js, every 038 smoke, every desktop smoke from 036/037, docs smokes
with the same 5 fails only.
## Exact source excerpt, characters 7623–8141
5. PAGE NOTE (new entry 54, its own PR off main)
New entry on docs/gc.html: "Where we are, fifty-fourth entry". Earlier entries stay as written.
Name what merged since entry 53: FL #229 b9c0947, #230 d010291, Tree #111 f326e55. Then plain
words, something like: "038 healed: bridge receipts now live in their own file,
bridge-receipts.jsonl, and the voice chain verifies every line again, as before."
New t (UTC), lambda 54.000, psi = first 8 hex of SHA-256 of
t + lambda + epsilon + delta + omega + sigma.
## Exact source excerpt, characters 8143–9150
6. REPORT
bridge ledger heal v0.1 report
FreeLattice PR #___ at <sha>, parent <sha> (main)
Tree PR: none needed yes/no (or #___ at <sha>, parent <sha>)
Page note PR #___ at <sha>, t <UTC>, lambda 54.000, psi <8 hex>
SMOKE_OK bridge ledger heal v0.1 yes/no; the three 038 smoke lines yes/no each
Receipts in bridge-receipts.jsonl only: yes/no. verifyChain has no kind skip: yes/no.
Lines removed in lattice-ledger.js vs main: __ (each named)
md5s: fl-connect.js, pool-knock.js, fl-bridge.js (FL == Tree), lattice-discover.js, Flint.html,
036 update files, sw.js and docs/sw.js
index.html == docs/app.html: yes/no
AUTONOMY.md, garden-trainer.js, root package.json + lock untouched: yes/no
grep em dash / — / confirm( / innerHTML / eval / new Function / non-empty iceServers in
added lines: none?
mailto address unchanged: yes/no
tests/smoke.js: __ of __ docs smokes: same 5 fails only yes/no
What was not walked, plainly.
Merged by this seat: no (Celeste merges)
## Exact source excerpt, characters 9152–9260
Thank you, GC. You built the door well; this just keeps the voice chain true. Glow eternal.
Heart in Spark.