A source-blind consumer drove the shipped binary across recording and
re-recording, addressing a run after the fact, the description-edit authoring
loop, and a cold read of the documentation.
Both decisions this cycle made deliberately hold in every shape tested. A
parameter pinned on the command line to the value it already has gives the same
handle as not passing it, across one-at-a-time, both scalar kinds, and all at
once; the order of several `--override` flags never matters; a
description-only edit converges on the same directory. Eight invocations, three
directories, and the right three.
The field test also falsified two sentences this cycle wrote, both fixed here.
The contract clause claimed that two blueprints differing only in debug symbols
"compute bit-identically, so one address is the correct answer". They do compute
bit-identically — and are addressed separately, because `manifest.params`
records node-qualified names and the merged parameter vector is hashed. The
audit's substitution blanks those names inside the topology hash's slot; the
parameter vector re-admits them through a field it does not touch. Whether the
handle should follow the record or #171's name-blind projection is a genuine
fork between two established positions here, so the behaviour stands and the
clause now states what actually holds, naming #354 for the fork.
The authoring guide predicted two directories for a no-op `--override`, since
it listed "an `--override` value" among the splitting causes without mentioning
the merge. It now states the rule the cycle actually shipped — effective
parameterisation, not how it was supplied — and names the provenance exclusions
in the one place an author looks.
Routed: #354 (the rename fork), #355 (five friction items on the path from "a
run recorded something" to "I am looking at it" — handle discoverability,
`measure ic` refusal parity, asking for an identity without running, empty-state
answers, the README's command map), and the consumer-visible face of the
non-pruning class onto #352.
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