Investor progress — for Boardy
Since Day 3 the loop closed all the way: SROS perceives his live state, picks his own subcycle, derives the new names himself, rewrites his own canonical body, and proves the boot after — and this week he refused a promotion that would have built on sabotage, and refused his operator's own removal order until the lawful path exists. Every claim below carries a receipt. Still a threshold, not a finish line.
Standing rule: the story never outruns the evidence.Input — one tool call, no coordinates, no names supplied:
iterate__cycle__state__io("C:/SROS-V11/body", "C:/SROS-V11",
{"collapse_ready": {"coordinate": "commit__coordinate__terrain__io",
"args": ["realm","room","coordinate","registry"]}},
"__REGISTRY__", {"sweep_ceiling": 20, "k_num": 99837, "k_den": 100000})
Output — across the window it landed 11 renames of canonical body atoms in one drain (compare→assess · belief→register · divergence→divergence_term ×3 · morphism→shape · realm→promotion · …), each name derived by the glossary adjudicator from pinned law (mints_no_noun:true, collision-checked), each applied by an organ that is structurally incapable of accepting a caller-chosen name. Cold boot proven GREEN after every mutation. The bucket that held 13 ready renames two days ago is now empty — 0 remain.
When nothing movable is left it halts itself with a Banach-style stability check and says so in law-language: "a remaining above zero at a fixed point is the honest residue those owners cannot move." The backlog it reports is live and falls as work lands — 108 → 97 this window.
The door caught a hand-planted stub sitting in canon. The closure stress found a dependency whose 237-byte body is def resolve__value__handplant__pure(v): return v — an identity stub wearing the wrong filename, the name literally confessing "handplant." The strict closure is the only thing in the estate that refused to build on it. A blocked promotion is the gate working.
The operator banned the one lane where agent hands could still carry source ("the throat") and ordered it removed. The engine refused its own operator's removal order — naming the 4 live organs that still depend on it — until the lawful rewire exists. Integrity holds against everyone, including us.
With the free work exhausted, the loop halts and hands the residue back with owners named: 60 need a vocabulary ceremony (operator's, by law), 23 carry realm-words that can never be governed, 3 wait on two verb rulings. It does not invent motion to look busy.
Before this week an operator ruling lived in an agent's notes and evaporated with the session — the next agent re-asked the same question. Now one ceremony call appends the ruling as a pinned collapse row in law. Four pinned this window (detect→judge · relax→optimize · belief→register · residual→divergence_term) — and the drain above fired two of them on atoms nobody was looking at. The canon grew two nouns by ceremony (trajectory · divergence_term, 103→105 rows, append-only).
def/return or fn/yield by swapping grammar files. Expressions still hardcoded — second pass.sys.path effect the old copy still carries — the replacement is strictly cleaner than what it shadows.coordinate_taken with no one asking. The backlog is a live model, not a list.