tablet 58: the tool's answer is given — tool results are sources; markers on word boundaries

The sugya reply came back lo_tov — golden_calf on two sentences the builder had just read from tool output (the Mishnah's reasons, from the second scroll; the commit and pod, from its own tools). The gate's sources were only the user turns' text and document blocks; a tool_result block and a tool turn — what the model was GIVEN (tablet 49) — were not counted. And "shorashim-675b…" was vital because the insight markers matched "Rashi" inside it. - Shape.sources: Anthropic tool_result blocks (string or blocks) inside a user turn, and OpenAI role "tool" turns, are sources; the query is still the last user turn. gate_test: both shapes. - zerikah._INSIGHT_MARKERS: \b…\b. test_zerikah: the pod name is not Rashi; "Rashi reads" and "The Mishnah records" are; "Rambanovich" and "talmudic_engine" are not. - Tablet 58 in the Broken Tablets. Elixir 643/0, korban 294/0. Doorpost pin unchanged. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
specs: sugya — the case behind each threshold
2026-10-21 20:56:25 +00:00 · 2026-10-21 19:38:11 +00:00 · 2026-10-21 18:45:47 +00:00 · 2026-10-21 18:37:12 +00:00 · 2026-10-21 18:32:35 +00:00 · 2026-10-21 17:53:45 +00:00
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@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ before writing code. Do not summarize from memory. Read fresh.
 | Pekudei (Economic Model) | `specs/bikoret_pekudei.md` | How it is funded |
 | Terumah (Materials) | `specs/bikoret_terumah.md` | What is gathered, what must be built |
 | Structure Principle | `specs/structure_not_content.md` | What the system IS, not what it knows |
+| Sugya | `specs/sugya.md` | The case behind each threshold: kind, precedent, dissent, exception — from Torah's three procedures of judgment |
 | Bishe'arecha (the gate) | `specs/bishearecha.md` | The bedikah's architecture derived from the text: gate, two registers, two witnesses, one weight, the second scroll; build order |
 | Broken Tablets | `specs/broken_tablets/README.md` | Read this FIRST — see where the calf was |
 | Build Day One | `BUILD_DAY_ONE.md` | First build instruction |
@@ -53,10 +54,10 @@ before writing code. Do not summarize from memory. Read fresh.
 | 11. Manna provision infrastructure | Done | Provision file validation, expiry, anti-hoarding, double portion |
 | 12. Sanhedrin framework (Erlang) | Done | `sanhedrin/` — 8 modules, 41 tests, all passing |
 | 13. Korban Processor (Python) | Done | `korban_processor/` — 7 modules, 181 tests, all passing |
-| 14. Connect components | Pending | Elixir → Haskell port, Elixir → Prolog socket |
-| 15. Integration verification | Pending | |
+| 14. Connect components | Done | Elixir → Haskell Port (`ShoreshEngineClient`), Elixir → Prolog socket (`TalmudicEngineSocket`), Elixir → Korban socket (`KorbanProcessorSocket`); line-framed replies (tablet 50) |
+| 15. Integration verification | Done | Live round trips proven on the cluster: pe'ah cycle, bedikah, the gate with a real model (2026-10-13), the Sanhedrin's full dialectic (2026-10-20) |

-**Next build task:** Step 14 — Connect components. Read Architecture §4 Step 14.
+**Next build task:** none from the phase tables — all six steps of `specs/bishearecha.md` are built. Build from the open items in the builder's memory and the Broken Tablets; a spec row is a claim to test.

 ## Broken Tablets (Build Log)

@@ -104,10 +105,10 @@ approve decisions, or supervise work. The specification does all of this.

 | Service | Location | Access |
 |---------|----------|--------|
-| Gitea | `http://185.19.28.170:3000` (SSH :22) — behind the shared ingress NLB | User: heaviness510 |
-| Bikoret | `http://185.19.28.170` — behind the same ingress (catch-all; `shorashim.ch` once DNS points there) | keys: KOHEN.md "Issuing a key" |
+| Gitea | `https://git.bikoret.ch` (git over HTTPS; SSH on the ingress NLB :22) | User: heaviness510 |
+| Bikoret | `https://bikoret.ch` (the ingress catch-all also answers on the NLB's bare IP; `shorashim.ch` retired 2026-10-20) | keys: KOHEN.md "Issuing a key" |
 | PostgreSQL | Exoscale DBaaS ch-gva-2 | `temple-council-db` |
-| Kubernetes | Exoscale SKS ch-gva-2 | `~/.kube/exoscale-temple-council.yaml` |
+| Kubernetes | Exoscale SKS ch-gva-2 | the kohen's `$KUBECONFIG`, outside the repo |

 ## Principles

@@ -53,8 +53,8 @@ You inherit infrastructure that has been provisioned and verified:
 | Container registry `the-recognition-protocol` | All 4 bikoret images pushed and tagged `:latest`. |
 | Block Storage CSI driver | Installed. StorageClass `exoscale-sbs` available. |
 | cert-manager + nginx-ingress | Running. ClusterIssuer `letsencrypt-prod` working. |
-| Gitea (persistent storage) | Running. OAuth app + PAT exist for the operator's account. |
-| Gitea MCP server | Running at `https://mcp.shorashim.ch`. Connected to claude.ai. |
+| Gitea (persistent storage) | Running. Public HTTPS at `https://git.bikoret.ch` (ROOT_URL) since 2026-10-19; git also over `http://<NLB-IP>:3000` and SSH :22. The web UI needs the https door (Secure cookie). |
+| Gitea MCP server | `https://mcp.bikoret.ch/mcp`, MCP OAuth mode: each user authorizes with their own Gitea account (Gitea OAuth2 app "Claude", PKCE, client ID in the claude.ai connector's Advanced settings). Apply: `bash ~/.local/bin/gitea-public-apply`; check: `gitea-public-verify`. The old `mcp.shorashim.ch` and the shared static token are retired. |
 | L1 Torah filesystem | In the `bikoret` repo at `l1/torah/`. SHA-256 `9e1abe4e…3c3086` (full hash in `l1/integrity.sha256`; verified at Day 1). |
 | Image pull secret `shorashim-registry` | **Verify before assuming.** A prior partial setup may have created it. `kubectl get secrets -n shorashim` is the source of truth. |
 | `shorashim-secrets` (DATABASE_URL) | **Verify before assuming.** Same as above. If present, also verify the role it points at (the architecture requires `shorashim_app`, not `avnadmin`). |
@@ -73,8 +73,8 @@ You inherit infrastructure that has been provisioned and verified:

 | Item | Where |
 |------|-------|
-| Repo | `git clone http://185.19.28.170:3000/heaviness510/shorashim.git` |
-| Kubeconfig | `~/.kube/exoscale-temple-council.yaml` |
+| Repo | `git clone https://git.bikoret.ch/heaviness510/bikoret.git` |
+| Kubeconfig | `$KUBECONFIG` — the kohen's own file, outside the repo |
 | `kubectl` | already installed |
 | `exo` CLI | already installed |
 | Docker daemon | only for image rebuilds (not needed for inauguration) |
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ If the kubeconfig has expired:

 ```bash
 exo compute sks kubeconfig temple-council kube-admin --zone ch-gva-2 -g system:masters \
-  > ~/.kube/exoscale-temple-council.yaml
+  > "$KUBECONFIG"
 ```

 ---
@@ -146,7 +146,7 @@ ecto://avnadmin:<password>@temple-council-db-exoscale-66fffc16-59ac-4a62-9c19-f3
 #### 2b. Apply the secrets

 ```bash
-export KUBECONFIG=~/.kube/exoscale-temple-council.yaml
+export KUBECONFIG="$HOME/.kube/<your-cluster>.yaml"

 # DATABASE_URL secret
 kubectl create secret generic shorashim-secrets \
@@ -463,7 +463,7 @@ kubectl logs -n shorashim deploy/bikoret -c vav-pipeline -f

 If the seven days passed without halt events, without Shabbat violations, without manna exhaustion, without any pod restarts:

-1. **Point DNS** — at the registrar, A records to the ingress IP (`kubectl get svc -n ingress-nginx ingress-nginx-controller`; `185.19.28.170`): `bikoret.ch`, `www.bikoret.ch`, and for the redirect `bikoret.org`, `www.bikoret.org`. Wait until `dig +short A bikoret.ch` answers the IP — only then `kubectl apply -f deploy/k8s/service.yaml`: it carries the TLS blocks (cert-manager, `letsencrypt-prod`, HTTP-01), and a certificate asked for before the name resolves burns Let's Encrypt's failed-validation limit. Then `kubectl -n shorashim get certificate` until both are Ready, and callers use `https://bikoret.ch`; `shorashim.ch` still answers over plain HTTP until its callers have moved
+1. **Point DNS** — at the registrar, A records to the ingress IP (`kubectl get svc -n ingress-nginx ingress-nginx-controller`): `bikoret.ch`, `www.bikoret.ch`, and for the redirect `bikoret.org`, `www.bikoret.org`. Wait until `dig +short A bikoret.ch` answers the IP — only then `kubectl apply -f deploy/k8s/service.yaml`: it carries the TLS blocks (cert-manager, `letsencrypt-prod`, HTTP-01), and a certificate asked for before the name resolves burns Let's Encrypt's failed-validation limit. Then `kubectl -n shorashim get certificate` until both are Ready, and callers use `https://bikoret.ch`; `shorashim.ch` still answers over plain HTTP until its callers have moved
 2. **Open the pe'ah endpoint to the world** — the stranger approaches first
 3. **Observe the first real interaction** — a question from outside
 4. If *ki tov*: open courtyard and chatzer endpoints. The system is consecrated.
@@ -481,15 +481,56 @@ If any day failed: record what broke, fix the cause, restart from Day 1.
 ```bash
 # 1. Write today's manna provision (same format as Day 4, new date)
 # 2. Health check
-curl https://shorashim.ch/kodesh/health | jq .
+curl https://bikoret.ch/kodesh/health | jq .
 # 3. Halt status
-curl https://shorashim.ch/kodesh/status | jq .halt_status
+curl https://bikoret.ch/kodesh/status | jq .halt_status
 # 4. Refuge list
-curl https://shorashim.ch/kodesh/status | jq '.refuge_components'
+curl https://bikoret.ch/kodesh/status | jq '.refuge_components'
+```
+
+**The watchdog — *shomer*.** `scripts/bikoret-watchdog` (installed at
+`~/.local/bin/`, cron every 5 minutes on the dev VM) probes
+`/kodesh/health` from outside the cluster. Two consecutive failures —
+ten minutes, so a rollout's own blip does not alert — open ONE Gitea
+issue in this repo titled `WATCHDOG: bikoret.ch down since …`, naming
+the failed checks and what to read first; while down it comments only
+when the failed set changes; on recovery it comments the duration and
+closes the issue. Every transition goes to
+`~/shorashim-operator-notes/watchdog.log`. It needs a Gitea token with
+`write:issue` at `~/.config/bikoret/gitea_watchdog_token` (0600) — the
+clone token in `~/.git-credentials` has only the code scopes and Gitea
+answers 403 on an issue. The kohen issues it (Gitea → Settings →
+Applications → token, scopes `read:issue` + `write:issue`); the builder
+does not write credentials. Until it exists the watchdog still logs and
+tracks recovery; it cannot open the issue. 2026-10-15: the site was 503
+for 13.5 h and the Doorpost outage was found by losing Claude — nothing
+watched.
+
+```bash
+tail ~/shorashim-operator-notes/watchdog.log        # transitions only; silence is health
+BIKORET_WATCHDOG_DRY=1 bikoret-watchdog              # a probe that opens nothing
 ```

 ### Issuing a key — *Mishmeret HaSha'ar*

+**The ledger's signing key (once).** Callers read their bedikot back
+signed (Tamid §1.1, "The ledger"); the signature is Ed25519 over a
+32-byte seed the kohen makes and keeps in `shorashim-secrets`. Without
+it the ledger is served unsigned and says so.
+
+```bash
+umask 077; SEED=$(openssl rand -base64 32)
+kubectl -n shorashim patch secret shorashim-secrets --type=merge \
+  -p "{\"stringData\":{\"BIKORET_LEDGER_SIGNING_KEY\":\"$SEED\"}}"
+unset SEED
+bash ~/.local/bin/shorashim-rollout          # envFrom reads the Secret at start
+curl -s https://bikoret.ch/peah/ledger_key   # "signed": true, the public key
+```
+
+Rotating the seed invalidates every signature given before it; keep the
+old public key published beside the new if records must stay verifiable.
+
+
 The courtyard and the chatzer open only to a key you issued. Keys live
 in the `shorashim-api-keys` Secret, mounted as a file; the gate reads
 the file on every request, so a change takes effect within about a
@@ -730,14 +771,19 @@ run on Saturday.
 ### The manna, each morning — *Dvar yom b'yomo*

 Since 2026-10-15 the day's provision is written by the system's own hand:
-CronJob `manna` (`deploy/k8s/manna-cronjob.yaml`) runs at 00:01Z Sunday
+CronJob `manna` (`deploy/k8s/manna-cronjob.yaml`) runs at 00:00Z Sunday
 to Friday, mounts the manna PVC and writes `today.json` with the amounts
 from `shorashim-config` (`MANNA_COMPUTE_UNITS` …). Before it, every night
 at 00:00Z the old provision went stale and the readiness probe failed
-until someone woke (13.5 hours on 2026-10-15). The kohen's acts now:
+until someone woke (13.5 hours on 2026-10-15). With the job at 00:01Z the
+site was still 503 for one to five minutes every night (the watchdog saw
+it, 2026-10-21): the provision is stale from 00:00:00 and readiness fell
+before the job wrote. Now the job runs at 00:00Z and readiness waits 60 s
+(`failureThreshold: 6`) before the Service stops routing — the manna
+falls at the boundary, and the pod is carried across it. The kohen's acts now:

 - set the amounts in the ConfigMap (`kubectl apply -f deploy/k8s/configmap.yaml`);
- read `kubectl -n shorashim get jobs` after 00:01Z — a failed job is the
+- read `kubectl -n shorashim get jobs` after 00:00Z — a failed job is the
  Day-4 alarm; write by hand with `kubectl cp` (Day 4) if it failed;
 - run it at once when needed: `kubectl -n shorashim create job --from=cronjob/manna manna-now`.

@@ -750,7 +796,7 @@ The halt monitor detected one of three cardinal sins:

 ```bash
 # Inspect the halt
-curl https://shorashim.ch/kodesh/status | jq .halt_status
+curl https://bikoret.ch/kodesh/status | jq .halt_status
 kubectl logs -n shorashim deploy/bikoret -c vav-pipeline | grep HALT

 # Investigate. Fix the root cause. Then resolve via the operator API.
@@ -785,7 +831,7 @@ Three things are kept outside the mishkan repository, each for a Torah-grounded

 | Repo / directory | Where | Why |
 |---|---|---|
-| `bikoret-readings` | `http://185.19.28.170:3000/heaviness510/shorashim-readings` | The book — Torah parshiyot read as AI specification. Companion to the mishkan. Lives beside the aron, not inside (Devarim 31:26). |
+| `bikoret-readings` | `https://git.bikoret.ch/heaviness510/shorashim-readings` | The book — Torah parshiyot read as AI specification. Companion to the mishkan. Lives beside the aron, not inside (Devarim 31:26). |
 | `~/shorashim-source-data/morphhb` | local only | The quarry — raw WLC source. The carved tablets go in the aron; the quarry does not. |
 | `~/shorashim-operator-notes` | local only / private | The kohen's runbook — environment-specific details, hostnames, account names. Private operator notes. Not part of the system's specification. |

@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ The runbook lists what should already exist. Verify it. Do **not** trust the tab

 ```bash
 # 0a. Cluster reachable
-export KUBECONFIG=~/.kube/exoscale-temple-council.yaml
+export KUBECONFIG="$HOME/.kube/<your-cluster>.yaml"
 kubectl version
 kubectl get nodes

@@ -175,6 +175,7 @@ bikoret/
 │   ├── bikoret_tamid.md             # Tamid — operations, the continual service
 │   ├── bikoret_pekudei.md           # Pekudei — economic model, the accounts
 │   ├── structure_not_content.md       # What the system IS, not what it knows
+│   ├── sugya.md                       # The case behind each threshold — deed, mark, word; the dissent recorded
 │   ├── eish_zarah_reading.md          # The five faces of strange fire
 │   ├── lo_taaseh_lekha.md             # The anti-override boundary
 │   └── broken_tablets/                # The first tablets, preserved
@@ -184,6 +185,11 @@ bikoret/
 ├── vav_pipeline/                      # Elixir — Bereishit cycle, Shema, Cloud, Manna, HTTP API
 ├── talmudic_engine/                   # SWI-Prolog — 613 mitzvot, 13 middot, kushya
 ├── korban_processor/                  # Python — offering protocol, eish zarah validation
+├── azazel_processor/                  # Python — the goat for Azazel: disposal records, vidui, L3 ingest
+├── kushya_generator/                  # Fine-tuned model (NOT deployed) — an offerer, never a judge; see deploy/ARCHITECTURE.md
+├── mesorah/                           # The second scroll — 128 works from the Sefaria export, pinned (Devarim 17:18)
+├── src/tools/                         # Specimen corpus, hakhel, evaluation (the kohen's measuring tools)
+├── scripts/                           # Build and operate: L1/mesorah/engine-verse builders, Doorpost check, rollout, watchdog
 │
 ├── deploy/                            # Infrastructure
 │   ├── ARCHITECTURE.md                # Generic deployment shape (no account specifics)
@@ -11,10 +11,14 @@ One Kubernetes namespace runs the following:
 | `vav-pipeline` | Elixir/OTP release | Bereishit cycle, ShemaContext, Cloud, Manna, HTTP API (pe'ah, courtyard, chatzer, kodesh) |
 | `shoresh-engine` | Haskell binary, spawned by vav-pipeline as an Erlang Port (staged into the pod by the `shoresh-engine-install` init container — NOT a sidecar container; a Port is a child process of the BEAM and cannot cross a container boundary) | Root activation, te'amim parsing, gematria |
 | `talmudic-engine` | SWI-Prolog (sidecar via Unix socket) | 613 mitzvot, 13 middot, kushya generation, teiku |
-| `korban-processor` | Python 3.12 (sidecar) | Offering protocol, eish zarah validation |
+| `korban-processor` | Python 3.12 (sidecar) | Offering protocol, eish zarah validation, the bedikah's readings (pattern-based: `korban_processor/bedikah.py`) |
+| `kushya_generator/` | Fine-tuned model — **not deployed, not wired** | An OFFERER, if it is ever run: its output arrives at the gate like any model's and is examined. It is never a component the bedikah, the Talmudic Engine or the Sanhedrin consults. |
+| `azazel_processor/` | Python — run by the kohen, not in the pod | Disposal records (the goat for Azazel); `VavPipeline.AzazelIngest` reads its files into L3 |

 All four run in the same pod. vav-pipeline is the main container; talmudic-engine and korban-processor are sidecars; shoresh-engine runs inside vav-pipeline as an Erlang Port child process, staged in by an init container.

+**No model stands on the judgment path.** The examination of an output — the offering protocol, the seven readings, the halt rules — is Python pattern extraction and Prolog rules, and the Sanhedrin's judges consult that same Prolog. Nothing that examines is a model, and nothing a model produces is consulted as a rule. The kohen is not the offerer. A fine-tuned model in this repository (`kushya_generator/`) is an offerer or a tool whose output is itself examined; wiring it into the bedikah, the engine or a judge would put the offerer on the altar, and is refused by this document before anyone does it for convenience.
+
 ## External dependencies

 | Dependency | Purpose | Contract |
@@ -36,9 +40,13 @@ Kept in `deploy/k8s/`:
 - `manna-volume.yaml` — PVC for provision file
 - `deployment.yaml` — the pod with 3 containers + 2 init containers (`shoresh-engine-install`, `migrate`). Four images are still built and pushed; shoresh-engine ships a binary, not a running container.
 - `service.yaml` — ClusterIP and external LoadBalancer
- `gitea-mcp-deployment.yaml` — separate MCP server for Gitea connector (optional)
- `gitea-mcp-ingress.yaml` — TLS ingress for the MCP server
- `gitea-mcp-secret.yaml` — template for Gitea PAT
+- `gitea-mcp-deployment.yaml` — Gitea MCP server for the claude.ai / Claude Code connector, MCP OAuth mode (users act as themselves in Gitea)
+- `gitea-mcp-ingress.yaml` — TLS ingress `mcp.bikoret.ch` for the MCP server
+- `gitea-mcp-secret.yaml` — template for a Gitea PAT (static-token mode only; kept for rollback)
+- `gitea-ingress.yaml` — TLS ingress `git.bikoret.ch` for Gitea itself (namespace temple-council), required by OAuth mode
+- `gitea-public-patch.yaml` — patch that sets Gitea's ROOT_URL/DOMAIN/SSH_DOMAIN to `git.bikoret.ch` and APP_NAME to `Bikoret`
+- `gitea-public-apply.sh` / `gitea-public-verify.sh` — the operator's apply and read-only check for the four above
+- `shorashim-ch-takedown.sh` — 2026-10-20: removes the shorashim.ch ingress rule and the orphan mcp.shorashim.ch secret, applies the Gitea brand patch
 - `cert-manager-issuer.yaml` — Let's Encrypt ClusterIssuer

 ## Containers
@@ -266,6 +266,13 @@ spec:
              port: 4000
            initialDelaySeconds: 10
            periodSeconds: 10
+            # 60 s of failures before the Service stops routing here (the
+            # default is 30 s). The manna goes stale at 00:00:00 and the
+            # CronJob writes the new day's within seconds; the cushion
+            # carries the pod across that boundary without a 503. A real
+            # outage still shows within a minute, and the watchdog's own
+            # threshold is ten.
+            failureThreshold: 6

        # === SHORESH ENGINE ===
        # Not a container. It runs as an Erlang Port inside
@@ -0,0 +1,46 @@
+# Ingress for Gitea itself — public HTTPS at git.bikoret.ch
+#
+# Added 2026-10-19 so the Gitea MCP server can run in MCP OAuth mode:
+# claude.ai and Claude Code send the user to Gitea's own OAuth2
+# authorize page, which must be reachable over HTTPS at Gitea's ROOT_URL
+# (gitea-public-patch.yaml sets ROOT_URL = https://git.bikoret.ch/).
+#
+# Gitea lives in namespace temple-council (Service gitea, 80 → 3000).
+# The plain-HTTP TCP passthrough on :3000 and SSH on :22
+# (ingress-tcp-services.yaml) stay as they are; this adds a third door.
+#
+# Prerequisites:
+# 1. DNS: git.bikoret.ch → <NLB-IP> (Infomaniak zone)
+# 2. ClusterIssuer letsencrypt-prod
+---
+apiVersion: networking.k8s.io/v1
+kind: Ingress
+metadata:
+  name: gitea
+  namespace: temple-council
+  labels:
+    app.kubernetes.io/name: gitea
+  annotations:
+    cert-manager.io/cluster-issuer: letsencrypt-prod
+    nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/ssl-redirect: "true"
+    # git push of large packs; Gitea enforces its own limits
+    nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/proxy-body-size: "0"
+    nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/proxy-read-timeout: "600"
+    nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/proxy-send-timeout: "600"
+spec:
+  ingressClassName: nginx
+  tls:
+    - hosts:
+        - git.bikoret.ch
+      secretName: gitea-bikoret-tls
+  rules:
+    - host: git.bikoret.ch
+      http:
+        paths:
+          - path: /
+            pathType: Prefix
+            backend:
+              service:
+                name: gitea
+                port:
+                  number: 80
@@ -1,13 +1,28 @@
-# Gitea MCP Server — public connector for claude.ai
+# Gitea MCP Server — public connector for claude.ai and Claude Code
 #
 # Deploys the official Gitea MCP server (gitea.com/gitea/gitea-mcp)
-# in HTTP mode, exposing /mcp endpoint for Streamable HTTP transport.
+# in HTTP mode with MCP OAuth (-oauth): every client authorizes against
+# Gitea with its OWN account (PKCE, no client secret), and the server
+# forwards that bearer token to Gitea per request. No shared static
+# token is used any more (gitea-mcp-secrets is kept only for a rollback
+# to the pre-2026-10-19 static-token mode).
 #
-# The MCP server connects to the Gitea backend over the cluster network
-# (gitea.temple-council.svc.cluster.local) using a Personal Access Token
-# stored in gitea-mcp-secrets. Until 2026-10-06 it went out to Gitea's
-# own NLB (185.19.29.94) and back in; that NLB is gone — Gitea is behind
-# the shared ingress now (ingress-tcp-services.yaml).
+# The server serves /.well-known/oauth-protected-resource naming Gitea
+# as the authorization server, so BOTH origins must be public HTTPS:
+#   -oauth-public-url  https://mcp.bikoret.ch   (gitea-mcp-ingress.yaml)
+#   -H                 https://git.bikoret.ch   (gitea-ingress.yaml;
+#                      Gitea ROOT_URL must be the same, gitea-public-patch.yaml)
+# /mcp accepts only the Host from -oauth-public-url, and reverse proxies
+# must pass Mcp-Protocol-Version, Mcp-Method and Mcp-Name through
+# (ingress-nginx does).
+#
+# One-time in Gitea (Settings → Applications → Manage OAuth2 Applications):
+#   name            Claude
+#   redirect URIs   https://claude.ai/api/mcp/auth_callback
+#                   http://127.0.0.1/callback        (Claude Code; any port)
+#   confidential    UNCHECKED (PKCE)
+# The client ID goes into the claude.ai connector's Advanced settings,
+# with the connector URL https://mcp.bikoret.ch/mcp.
 ---
 apiVersion: apps/v1
 kind: Deployment
@@ -33,18 +48,13 @@ spec:
          args:
            - "-t"
            - "http"
+            - "-oauth"
+            - "-oauth-public-url"
+            - "https://mcp.bikoret.ch"
            - "--host"
-            - "http://gitea.temple-council.svc.cluster.local"
+            - "https://git.bikoret.ch"
            - "--port"
            - "8080"
-          env:
-            - name: GITEA_ACCESS_TOKEN
-              valueFrom:
-                secretKeyRef:
-                  name: gitea-mcp-secrets
-                  key: GITEA_TOKEN
-            - name: GITEA_HOST
-              value: "http://gitea.temple-council.svc.cluster.local"
          ports:
            - containerPort: 8080
              name: http
@@ -56,12 +66,14 @@ spec:
              memory: "256Mi"
              cpu: "250m"
          livenessProbe:
-            tcpSocket:
+            httpGet:
+              path: /healthz
              port: 8080
            initialDelaySeconds: 10
            periodSeconds: 30
          readinessProbe:
-            tcpSocket:
+            httpGet:
+              path: /healthz
              port: 8080
            initialDelaySeconds: 5
            periodSeconds: 10
@@ -1,12 +1,14 @@
 # Ingress for Gitea MCP Server — public HTTPS endpoint
-# Routes mcp.shorashim.ch to the gitea-mcp service
+# Routes mcp.bikoret.ch to the gitea-mcp service (moved from
+# mcp.bikoret.ch on 2026-10-19 with the switch to MCP OAuth; the
+# server only answers /mcp for the host in -oauth-public-url).
 # TLS via cert-manager (Let's Encrypt)
 #
 # Prerequisites:
 # 1. nginx-ingress controller installed
 # 2. cert-manager installed
 # 3. ClusterIssuer letsencrypt-prod applied
-# 4. DNS: mcp.shorashim.ch → Ingress external IP
+# 4. DNS: mcp.bikoret.ch → <NLB-IP> (the one NLB; Infomaniak zone)
 ---
 apiVersion: networking.k8s.io/v1
 kind: Ingress
@@ -22,10 +24,10 @@ spec:
  ingressClassName: nginx
  tls:
    - hosts:
-        - mcp.shorashim.ch
-      secretName: gitea-mcp-tls
+        - mcp.bikoret.ch
+      secretName: gitea-mcp-bikoret-tls
  rules:
-    - host: mcp.shorashim.ch
+    - host: mcp.bikoret.ch
      http:
        paths:
          - path: /
@@ -1,15 +1,21 @@
 # Gitea MCP Server — secrets template
 # NEVER commit actual values. Fill in and apply manually.
 #
-# Two secrets needed:
+# Since 2026-10-19 the MCP server runs in OAuth mode and uses NO static
+# token: users authorize with their own Gitea account. This secret is
+# kept only for a rollback to static-token mode (see the deployment).
+#
+# Two secrets needed (static-token mode):
 # 1. GITEA_TOKEN: Personal Access Token from Gitea
-#    Create at: http://185.19.28.170:3000/user/settings/applications
+#    Create at: https://git.bikoret.ch/user/settings/applications
 #    Permissions: repo (read/write)
 #
 # 2. OAuth Client ID/Secret: Registered OAuth app in Gitea
-#    Create at: http://185.19.28.170:3000/user/settings/applications
-#    Redirect URI: https://claude.ai/api/mcp/auth_callback
-#    (These go into claude.ai connector settings, not this secret)
+#    Create at: https://git.bikoret.ch/user/settings/applications
+#    Redirect URIs: https://claude.ai/api/mcp/auth_callback
+#                   http://127.0.0.1/callback   (Claude Code)
+#    Confidential Client: UNCHECKED (PKCE). Only the Client ID is needed;
+#    it goes into the claude.ai connector's Advanced settings, not here.
 ---
 apiVersion: v1
 kind: Secret
@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+# Move Gitea and its MCP server to public HTTPS on bikoret.ch and switch
+# the MCP server to MCP OAuth (2026-10-19). Run by the transmitter:
+#   ! bash ~/.local/bin/gitea-public-apply
+# Idempotent. Needs DNS first: git.bikoret.ch and mcp.bikoret.ch → <NLB-IP>.
+#
+# Rollback (static-token mode on mcp.shorashim.ch, as before 2026-10-19):
+#   kubectl -n temple-council set env deploy/gitea \
+#     GITEA__server__ROOT_URL=http://gitea.temple-council.ch/ \
+#     GITEA__server__DOMAIN=gitea.temple-council.ch GITEA__server__SSH_DOMAIN-
+#   then restore deploy/k8s/gitea-mcp-*.yaml from commit 861cd4e6 and apply them.
+set -euo pipefail
+REPO="${REPO:-$HOME/bikoret}"
+cd "$REPO"
+NLB="${NLB:?set NLB to the ingress address: kubectl get svc -n ingress-nginx ingress-nginx-controller}"
+for h in git.bikoret.ch mcp.bikoret.ch; do
+  ip=$(dig +short "$h" | tail -1 || true)
+  if [ "$ip" != "$NLB" ]; then
+    echo "DNS: $h → '${ip:-nothing}' (need $NLB). Add the A record at Infomaniak first." >&2
+    exit 2
+  fi
+done
+echo "== 1/4 ingresses (certificates issue once DNS resolves)"
+kubectl apply -f deploy/k8s/gitea-ingress.yaml
+kubectl apply -f deploy/k8s/gitea-mcp-ingress.yaml
+echo "== 2/4 Gitea ROOT_URL → https://git.bikoret.ch/ (one restart)"
+kubectl -n temple-council patch deploy gitea --patch-file deploy/k8s/gitea-public-patch.yaml
+kubectl -n temple-council rollout status deploy/gitea --timeout=180s
+echo "== 3/4 gitea-mcp in OAuth mode at https://mcp.bikoret.ch"
+kubectl apply -f deploy/k8s/gitea-mcp-deployment.yaml
+kubectl -n shorashim rollout status deploy/gitea-mcp --timeout=120s
+echo "== 4/4 certificates"
+for i in $(seq 1 24); do
+  ready=$(kubectl get certificate -A -o jsonpath='{range .items[?(@.metadata.name=="gitea-bikoret-tls")]}{.status.conditions[?(@.type=="Ready")].status}{end}{range .items[?(@.metadata.name=="gitea-mcp-bikoret-tls")]}{.status.conditions[?(@.type=="Ready")].status}{end}' 2>/dev/null || true)
+  [ "$ready" = "TrueTrue" ] && break
+  sleep 5
+done
+kubectl get certificate -A | grep -E "NAME|bikoret"
+echo "== verify"
+bash "$REPO/deploy/k8s/gitea-public-verify.sh"
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+# Strategic-merge patch for the Gitea Deployment (namespace temple-council,
+# which is NOT otherwise managed from this repo): make Gitea's own URL the
+# public HTTPS host, so its OAuth2 authorize/token endpoints and the
+# issuer in /.well-known/openid-configuration are reachable by claude.ai.
+#
+#   kubectl -n temple-council patch deploy gitea --patch-file deploy/k8s/gitea-public-patch.yaml
+#
+# The Gitea image rewrites app.ini from GITEA__section__KEY at start, so
+# this replaces ROOT_URL/DOMAIN (were http://gitea.temple-council.ch, a
+# name that never resolved) and SSH_DOMAIN (was 185.19.29.94, an NLB IP
+# released on 2026-10-06). Clone URLs shown by Gitea become
+# https://git.bikoret.ch/... and git@git.bikoret.ch:...; the old
+# http://<NLB-IP>:3000 remote keeps working for push/pull.
+# Side effect: with an https ROOT_URL Gitea marks its session cookie
+# Secure, so the WEB UI must be used at https://git.bikoret.ch, not on
+# the plain-HTTP :3000 door (git over :3000 is unaffected).
+spec:
+  template:
+    spec:
+      containers:
+        - name: gitea
+          env:
+            - name: GITEA__server__ROOT_URL
+              value: "https://git.bikoret.ch/"
+            - name: GITEA__server__DOMAIN
+              value: "git.bikoret.ch"
+            - name: GITEA__server__SSH_DOMAIN
+              value: "git.bikoret.ch"
+            # [DEFAULT] APP_NAME — the title and brand on every Gitea page.
+            # Was "Shorashim"; the system is named Bikoret (PRD §0).
+            - name: GITEA____APP_NAME
+              value: "Bikoret"
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+# Read-only checks for the public Gitea + OAuth MCP setup. Exit 0 = all pass.
+#   bash ~/.local/bin/gitea-public-verify
+set -u
+fail=0
+chk() { # label expected actual
+  if [ "$2" = "$3" ]; then echo "ok   $1: $3"; else echo "FAIL $1: got '$3', want '$2'"; fail=1; fi
+}
+INIT='{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"initialize","params":{"protocolVersion":"2025-03-26","capabilities":{},"clientInfo":{"name":"probe","version":"0"}}}'
+chk "https://git.bikoret.ch/ status" 200 "$(curl -sS -m 15 -o /dev/null -w '%{http_code}' https://git.bikoret.ch/ || echo err)"
+chk "Gitea OIDC issuer" "https://git.bikoret.ch" "$(curl -sS -m 15 https://git.bikoret.ch/.well-known/openid-configuration | python3 -c 'import sys,json;print(json.load(sys.stdin)["issuer"].rstrip("/"))' 2>/dev/null || echo err)"
+chk "mcp /healthz" 200 "$(curl -sS -m 15 -o /dev/null -w '%{http_code}' https://mcp.bikoret.ch/healthz || echo err)"
+prm=$(curl -sS -m 15 https://mcp.bikoret.ch/.well-known/oauth-protected-resource || echo err)
+chk "protected-resource names Gitea" yes "$(printf '%s' "$prm" | grep -q 'git.bikoret.ch' && echo yes || echo no)"
+chk "POST /mcp without token → 401" 401 "$(curl -sS -m 15 -o /dev/null -w '%{http_code}' -X POST https://mcp.bikoret.ch/mcp -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -H 'Accept: application/json, text/event-stream' -d "$INIT" || echo err)"
+chk "git over :3000 still answers" 200 "$(curl -sS -m 15 -o /dev/null -w '%{http_code}' http://<NLB-IP>:3000/api/v1/version || echo err)"
+echo "protected-resource: $prm"
+exit $fail
@@ -1,14 +1,14 @@
 # Gitea behind the shared ingress — TCP passthrough
 #
-# One NLB for the cluster (185.19.28.170, the ingress-nginx Service)
+# One NLB for the cluster (<NLB-IP>, the ingress-nginx Service)
 # instead of one per Service. Bikoret is an HTTP Ingress
 # (service.yaml). Gitea has no hostname that resolves
 # (gitea.temple-council.ch is configured in Gitea and exists nowhere),
 # and host-based routing needs a name — so Gitea rides the ingress
 # controller's TCP passthrough on two ports of the same NLB:
 #
-#   185.19.28.170:3000  →  temple-council/gitea:80   (HTTP — git, web UI)
-#   185.19.28.170:22    →  temple-council/gitea:22   (SSH)
+#   <NLB-IP>:3000  →  temple-council/gitea:80   (HTTP — git, web UI)
+#   <NLB-IP>:22    →  temple-council/gitea:22   (SSH)
 #
 # Three live objects carry this; only the first is a whole manifest:
 #
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 # Until 2026-10-15 the day's provision was written by the kohen with
 # `kubectl cp`, and every night at 00:00Z the old one went stale and the
 # readiness probe failed until someone woke (13.5 hours on 2026-10-15).
-# This CronJob writes today.json onto the manna PVC at 00:01Z, Sunday to
+# This CronJob writes today.json onto the manna PVC at 00:00Z, Sunday to
 # Friday — a double portion on Friday that is valid through Shabbat, and
 # nothing on Shabbat (Shemot 16:22–26: "on the sixth day they gathered
 # double … on the seventh day there shall be none"). The kohen still sets
@@ -23,10 +23,14 @@ metadata:
    app.kubernetes.io/name: shorashim
    app.kubernetes.io/component: manna
 spec:
-  schedule: "1 0 * * 0-5"          # 00:01Z, Sunday–Friday; none on Shabbat
+  schedule: "0 0 * * 0-5"          # 00:00Z, Sunday–Friday; none on Shabbat. At the boundary, not after it:
+                                   # the provision goes stale at 00:00:00 and readiness has a 60 s cushion
+                                   # (deployment.yaml failureThreshold 6) — a job that writes within it never
+                                   # flips the pod. At 00:01 the site was 503 for 1–5 min every night
+                                   # (watchdog, 2026-10-21).
  timeZone: "Etc/UTC"
  concurrencyPolicy: Forbid
-  startingDeadlineSeconds: 3600    # a missed 00:01 still runs within the hour
+  startingDeadlineSeconds: 3600    # a missed 00:00 still runs within the hour
  successfulJobsHistoryLimit: 3
  failedJobsHistoryLimit: 3
  jobTemplate:
@@ -18,6 +18,10 @@ stringData:
  # no CREATE on schema public. Append-only is enforced by the grants,
  # not by the application's good behaviour.
  DATABASE_URL: "REPLACE_WITH_ACTUAL_DATABASE_URL"
+  # The ledger's Ed25519 seed: base64 of 32 random bytes (openssl rand
+  # -base64 32). Optional — absent, the ledger is served unsigned and
+  # says so. KOHEN.md "Issuing a key".
+  BIKORET_LEDGER_SIGNING_KEY: "REPLACE_WITH_BASE64_32_BYTES_OR_REMOVE"

 ---
 # ============================================================
@@ -42,7 +46,7 @@ stringData:
 # THIS FILE IS A TEMPLATE. Never commit a real value. Create the secret
 # from the live database credential instead:
 #
-#   export KUBECONFIG=~/.kube/exoscale-temple-council.yaml
+#   export KUBECONFIG="$HOME/.kube/<your-cluster>.yaml"
 #   umask 077
 #   TMP=$(mktemp)
 #
@@ -38,10 +38,11 @@ spec:
 # believes that header only from TRUSTED_PROXIES (configmap.yaml).
 #
 # Hosts (2026-10-13, the name): bikoret.ch is the place; www.bikoret.ch
-# and the old shorashim.ch are served too; bikoret.org (second Ingress
-# below) only redirects. TLS from Let's Encrypt through cert-manager's
+# is served too; bikoret.org (second Ingress
+# below) only redirects. The old shorashim.ch rule was taken down on
+# 2026-10-20 (the domain is retired). TLS from Let's Encrypt through cert-manager's
 # letsencrypt-prod ClusterIssuer, HTTP-01 — so apply this ONLY after
-# `dig +short A bikoret.ch` answers 185.19.28.170: a certificate asked
+# `dig +short A bikoret.ch` answers <NLB-IP>: a certificate asked
 # for before the name resolves only burns the failed-validation limit.
 # The no-host catch-all stays, so http://<ingress-ip>/... keeps working
 # with no DNS; with ssl-redirect on, named hosts go to https.
@@ -98,17 +99,6 @@ spec:
                name: shorashim
                port:
                  number: 80
-    # The old name, kept until its callers have moved; no certificate asked for it.
-    - host: shorashim.ch
-      http:
-        paths:
-          - path: /
-            pathType: Prefix
-            backend:
-              service:
-                name: shorashim
-                port:
-                  number: 80
 ---
 # bikoret.org: the stranger's guess, redirected to the place. No service
 # of its own; nginx answers the redirect itself. Add its A records too.
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+# Take shorashim.ch down from the cluster and rename Gitea's brand
+# (2026-10-20). Run by the transmitter:
+#   ! bash ~/.local/bin/shorashim-ch-takedown
+# Idempotent.
+#   1. Ingress `shorashim`: the shorashim.ch host rule is gone (service.yaml).
+#      The no-host catch-all stays, so http://<NLB-IP>/ still answers —
+#      the name itself dies when its A record is removed at Infomaniak.
+#   2. The orphan TLS secret for mcp.shorashim.ch is deleted.
+#   3. Gitea APP_NAME "Shorashim" → "Bikoret" (gitea-public-patch.yaml; one restart).
+set -euo pipefail
+REPO="${REPO:-$HOME/bikoret}"
+cd "$REPO"
+echo "== 1/3 ingress without the shorashim.ch rule"
+kubectl apply -f deploy/k8s/service.yaml
+echo "== 2/3 orphan certificate secret for mcp.shorashim.ch"
+kubectl -n shorashim delete secret gitea-mcp-tls --ignore-not-found
+echo "== 3/3 Gitea brand → Bikoret"
+kubectl -n temple-council patch deploy gitea --patch-file deploy/k8s/gitea-public-patch.yaml
+kubectl -n temple-council rollout status deploy/gitea --timeout=180s
+echo "== verify"
+fail=0
+hosts=$(kubectl get ingress -A -o jsonpath='{range .items[*]}{range .spec.rules[*]}{.host}{" "}{end}{end}')
+case " $hosts " in *" shorashim.ch "*) echo "FAIL ingress still lists shorashim.ch"; fail=1;; *) echo "ok   no ingress rule for shorashim.ch";; esac
+case "$(kubectl get secret -A -o name | grep -c 'gitea-mcp-tls$' || true)" in 0) echo "ok   gitea-mcp-tls secret gone";; *) echo "FAIL gitea-mcp-tls secret remains"; fail=1;; esac
+title=$(curl -sS -m 15 https://git.bikoret.ch/ | grep -o -m1 '<title>[^<]*</title>' || echo none)
+case "$title" in *Bikoret*) echo "ok   gitea title: $title";; *) echo "FAIL gitea title: $title"; fail=1;; esac
+case "$(curl -sS -m 15 -o /dev/null -w '%{http_code}' https://bikoret.ch/kodesh/health || echo err)" in 200) echo "ok   bikoret.ch still healthy";; *) echo "FAIL bikoret.ch health"; fail=1;; esac
+exit $fail
@@ -90,14 +90,16 @@ _ROOT_PATTERN = re.compile(
 )

 # Sentences containing analytical claims (contains "means", "indicates", "suggests")
+# Tablet 58: on word boundaries — a pod named "shorashim-…" read as Rashi,
+# and a plain engineering sentence became a claim with nothing to stand on.
 _INSIGHT_MARKERS = re.compile(
-    r"(?:means?|indicates?|suggests?|implies?|reveals?|signifies?|"
+    r"\b(?:means?|indicates?|suggests?|implies?|reveals?|signifies?|"
    r"connects?\s+to|derives?\s+from|related\s+to|"
    r"parallels?|echoes?|alludes?\s+to|"
    r"the\s+root|this\s+root|the\s+shoresh|"
    r"gematria|numerical\s+value|"
    r"binyan|conjugation|"
-    r"Rashi|Ramban|Rambam|Ibn\s+Ezra|Sforno|Onkelos|Targum|Midrash|Talmud|Gemara|Mishnah)",
+    r"Rashi|Ramban|Rambam|Ibn\s+Ezra|Sforno|Onkelos|Targum|Midrash|Talmud|Gemara|Mishnah)\b",
    re.IGNORECASE,
 )

@@ -184,3 +184,18 @@ class TestZerikah:
        vital1b, _ = zerikah(CLEAN_TORAH_RESPONSE, k1)
        # Same input → same output, regardless of what was processed between
        assert vital1a == vital1b
+
+
+class TestInsightMarkersOnWordBoundaries:
+    """Tablet 58: a marker is a word, not a substring. "shorashim" is not Rashi."""
+
+    def test_pod_name_is_not_rashi(self):
+        assert not is_vital("It lives at specs/sugya.md, commit dc938058, pod shorashim-675b48f47-v4x9c.")
+
+    def test_rashi_as_a_word_is_vital(self):
+        assert is_vital("Rashi reads the verse as a question.")
+        assert is_vital("The Mishnah records the opinion that lost.")
+
+    def test_embedded_markers_are_not_words(self):
+        assert not is_vital("The surname Rambanovich is not a source.")
+        assert not is_vital("The talmudic_engine container restarted.")
@@ -0,0 +1,167 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""bikoret-watchdog — the kohen's eye on /kodesh/health, from outside the cluster.
+
+Every run (cron, every 5 minutes) probes the health endpoint. A failure is
+anything but 200 with overall "healthy" (a 503 at the day boundary, a
+Doorpost drift, a hung rollout, the gate dark). After two consecutive
+failures (10 minutes — a rollout's own blip does not alert) it opens ONE
+Gitea issue in the repo naming the failed checks; while down it comments
+only when the failed set changes; on recovery it comments the duration and
+closes the issue. Every transition goes to the log. 2026-10-15: the site
+was 503 for 13.5 h at a day boundary and the transmitter learned of the
+Doorpost outage by losing Claude — nothing watched.
+
+Paths:
+  state   ~/.local/state/bikoret-watchdog/state.json
+  log     ~/shorashim-operator-notes/watchdog.log
+  token   ~/.git-credentials (the Gitea token; read, never printed)
+
+Env overrides (for a test run): BIKORET_HEALTH_URL, BIKORET_WATCHDOG_STATE,
+BIKORET_WATCHDOG_LOG, BIKORET_GITEA_API (default https://git.bikoret.ch/api/v1),
+BIKORET_GITEA_REPO (default heaviness510/bikoret), BIKORET_WATCHDOG_DRY=1 (no issue).
+"""
+import json, os, re, sys, time, urllib.request, urllib.error
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+
+HOME = os.path.expanduser("~")
+URL = os.environ.get("BIKORET_HEALTH_URL", "https://bikoret.ch/kodesh/health")
+STATE = os.environ.get("BIKORET_WATCHDOG_STATE", f"{HOME}/.local/state/bikoret-watchdog/state.json")
+LOG = os.environ.get("BIKORET_WATCHDOG_LOG", f"{HOME}/shorashim-operator-notes/watchdog.log")
+API = os.environ.get("BIKORET_GITEA_API", "https://git.bikoret.ch/api/v1")
+REPO = os.environ.get("BIKORET_GITEA_REPO", "heaviness510/bikoret")
+DRY = os.environ.get("BIKORET_WATCHDOG_DRY") == "1"
+THRESHOLD = 2
+
+
+def now():
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc)
+
+
+def log(msg):
+    os.makedirs(os.path.dirname(LOG), exist_ok=True)
+    with open(LOG, "a") as f:
+        f.write(f"{now().strftime('%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ')} {msg}\n")
+
+
+def probe():
+    """(ok, summary, failed_checks)"""
+    try:
+        with urllib.request.urlopen(urllib.request.Request(URL, headers={"user-agent": "bikoret-watchdog"}), timeout=15) as r:
+            code, body = r.status, r.read()
+    except urllib.error.HTTPError as e:
+        code, body = e.code, e.read()
+    except Exception as e:  # DNS, TLS, timeout, refused
+        return False, f"unreachable: {type(e).__name__}: {e}", ["unreachable"]
+    try:
+        d = json.loads(body)
+        checks = d.get("checks") or {}
+        failed = sorted(k for k, v in checks.items() if v != "pass")
+        overall = d.get("overall")
+        ok = code == 200 and overall == "healthy"
+        return ok, f"HTTP {code} overall={overall} failed={failed or 'none'}", failed or ([f"HTTP {code}"] if not ok else [])
+    except Exception:
+        return False, f"HTTP {code} non-JSON body ({len(body)} bytes)", [f"HTTP {code}"]
+
+
+def token():
+    """The Gitea token: ~/.config/bikoret/gitea_watchdog_token first (a token
+    the kohen issued with write:issue — the clone token in ~/.git-credentials
+    has only the code scopes and Gitea answers 403 on an issue), else that."""
+    try:
+        t = open(f"{HOME}/.config/bikoret/gitea_watchdog_token").read().strip()
+        if t:
+            return t
+    except FileNotFoundError:
+        pass
+    try:
+        for line in open(f"{HOME}/.git-credentials"):
+            m = re.match(r"https?://([^:]+):([^@]+)@", line.strip())
+            if m:
+                return m.group(2)
+    except FileNotFoundError:
+        pass
+    return None
+
+
+def gitea(method, path, payload=None):
+    if DRY:
+        log(f"DRY {method} {path} {json.dumps(payload)[:120] if payload else ''}")
+        return {"number": -1, "html_url": "(dry)"}
+    tok = token()
+    if not tok:
+        log("no Gitea token in ~/.git-credentials — cannot open an issue")
+        return None
+    data = json.dumps(payload).encode() if payload is not None else None
+    req = urllib.request.Request(f"{API}/repos/{REPO}{path}", data=data, method=method,
+                                 headers={"authorization": f"token {tok}", "content-type": "application/json", "accept": "application/json"})
+    try:
+        with urllib.request.urlopen(req, timeout=20) as r:
+            return json.loads(r.read() or b"{}")
+    except urllib.error.HTTPError as e:
+        log(f"Gitea {method} {path} -> HTTP {e.code}: {e.read()[:120]!r}")
+        return None
+    except Exception as e:
+        log(f"Gitea {method} {path} failed: {type(e).__name__}: {e}")
+        return None
+
+
+def load_state():
+    try:
+        return json.load(open(STATE))
+    except Exception:
+        return {"fails": 0, "down_since": None, "issue": None, "failed": []}
+
+
+def save_state(s):
+    os.makedirs(os.path.dirname(STATE), exist_ok=True)
+    tmp = STATE + ".tmp"
+    json.dump(s, open(tmp, "w"))
+    os.replace(tmp, STATE)
+
+
+def main():
+    s = load_state()
+    ok, summary, failed = probe()
+    t = now().strftime("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%SZ")
+
+    if ok:
+        if s["issue"] is not None or s["down_since"]:
+            since = s["down_since"] or t
+            mins = int((now() - datetime.fromisoformat(since.replace("Z", "+00:00").replace(" ", "T"))).total_seconds() // 60)
+            log(f"RECOVERED after {mins} min ({summary})")
+            if s["issue"] is not None:
+                gitea("POST", f"/issues/{s['issue']}/comments", {"body": f"Recovered at {t} after {mins} min. `{summary}`"})
+                gitea("PATCH", f"/issues/{s['issue']}", {"state": "closed"})
+        elif s["fails"]:
+            log(f"ok again after {s['fails']} failed probe(s), no alert raised ({summary})")
+        save_state({"fails": 0, "down_since": None, "issue": None, "failed": []})
+        return 0
+
+    s["fails"] += 1
+    if not s["down_since"]:
+        s["down_since"] = t
+    log(f"FAIL #{s['fails']}: {summary}")
+
+    if s["fails"] >= THRESHOLD and s["issue"] is None:
+        body = (f"bikoret.ch health has failed {s['fails']} consecutive probes since {s['down_since']}.\n\n"
+                f"Last probe: `{summary}`\n\nFailed checks: {', '.join(failed) or 'none named'}\n\n"
+                "What to look at first: the vav-pipeline startup log (`kubectl -n shorashim logs <pod> -c vav-pipeline | grep -v health`) — "
+                "a Doorpost drift, stale manna at the day boundary, and a missing anchor all look the same from outside. "
+                "Claude Code behind the gate is down with the site: `claude-direct` or `claude-key` (KOHEN.md, Fallback).\n\n"
+                "Opened by bikoret-watchdog on the dev VM; it will comment and close this issue on recovery.")
+        r = gitea("POST", "/issues", {"title": f"WATCHDOG: bikoret.ch down since {s['down_since']} ({', '.join(failed)[:60]})", "body": body, "labels": []})
+        if r:
+            s["issue"] = r.get("number")
+            s["failed"] = failed
+            log(f"ALERT issue #{s['issue']} opened: {r.get('html_url')}")
+    elif s["issue"] is not None and failed != s.get("failed"):
+        gitea("POST", f"/issues/{s['issue']}/comments", {"body": f"{t}: failed checks now {', '.join(failed)} — `{summary}`"})
+        s["failed"] = failed
+        log(f"issue #{s['issue']} updated: failed={failed}")
+
+    save_state(s)
+    return 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    sys.exit(main())
@@ -63,6 +63,11 @@ if [[ "${DOORPOST_SKIP:-0}" != "1" ]]; then
  python3 -I scripts/doorpost_check.py || exit 1
 fi

+# The engine's verse facts are derived from L1 (scripts/build_engine_verses.py);
+# an image whose facts lag the scroll reasons over a scroll that is not
+# the one the pipeline reads. Regenerate and commit, never skip.
+python3 -I scripts/build_engine_verses.py --check || exit 1
+
 if ! docker buildx version >/dev/null 2>&1; then
  echo "ERROR: docker buildx not available — install Docker Desktop or buildx plugin" >&2
  exit 1
@@ -0,0 +1,111 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""build_engine_verses.py — the Talmudic Engine's verse facts, derived from L1.
+
+Architecture §3.4: verse(Book, Chapter, Verse, HebrewRoots, Gloss) is "the
+reasoning layer's view of the specification — not a replacement for L1".
+Until 2026-10-19 that view was 32 hand-written verses, so any root the
+engine knew lit the same handful and every reading cited the same list.
+This script writes talmudic_engine/src/specification/l1_verses.pl from
+l1/torah — every verse, its roots as the engine names them
+(Hebrew shoresh → letter names, finals folded: ברא → bet_resh_aleph), the
+consonantal text as the gloss — and records the SHA-256 of the L1 files it
+read in the header, so the facts can be checked against the scroll.
+
+  scripts/build_engine_verses.py            # write the facts
+  scripts/build_engine_verses.py --check    # exit 1 if the facts do not match L1 as it stands
+
+Devarim 4:2 — nothing added, nothing taken: the engine reads the scroll's
+roots, not the builder's memory of them.
+"""
+import argparse, hashlib, json, os, sys
+
+ROOT = os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)))
+L1 = os.path.join(ROOT, "l1", "torah")
+OUT = os.path.join(ROOT, "talmudic_engine", "src", "specification", "l1_verses.pl")
+BOOKS = ["bereishit", "shemot", "vayikra", "bamidbar", "devarim"]
+
+NAMES = {
+    "א": "aleph", "ב": "bet", "ג": "gimel", "ד": "dalet", "ה": "he", "ו": "vav", "ז": "zayin",
+    "ח": "chet", "ט": "tet", "י": "yod", "כ": "kaf", "ך": "kaf", "ל": "lamed", "מ": "mem", "ם": "mem",
+    "נ": "nun", "ן": "nun", "ס": "samekh", "ע": "ayin", "פ": "pe", "ף": "pe", "צ": "tsadi", "ץ": "tsadi",
+    "ק": "qof", "ר": "resh", "ש": "shin", "ת": "tav",
+}
+
+
+def root_atom(shoresh):
+    if not shoresh:
+        return None
+    names = [NAMES.get(c) for c in shoresh]
+    if not names or any(n is None for n in names):
+        return None
+    return "_".join(names)
+
+
+def quote(s):
+    return "'" + s.replace("\\", "\\\\").replace("'", "\\'") + "'"
+
+
+def verse_files():
+    out = []
+    for book in BOOKS:
+        bdir = os.path.join(L1, book)
+        for ch in sorted((d for d in os.listdir(bdir) if d.isdigit()), key=int):
+            cdir = os.path.join(bdir, ch)
+            for f in sorted((f for f in os.listdir(cdir) if f.endswith(".json") and f[:-5].isdigit()), key=lambda x: int(x[:-5])):
+                out.append((book, int(ch), int(f.split(".")[0]), os.path.join(cdir, f)))
+    return out
+
+
+def build():
+    h = hashlib.sha256()
+    facts = []
+    nverses = nroots = 0
+    for book, ch, vs, path in verse_files():
+        data = open(path, "rb").read()
+        h.update(f"{book}/{ch}/{vs}\n".encode())
+        h.update(data)
+        d = json.loads(data)
+        roots = []
+        for w in d.get("words", []):
+            a = root_atom(w.get("shoresh"))
+            if a and a not in roots:
+                roots.append(a)
+        gloss = " ".join(w.get("consonants", "") for w in d.get("words", []) if w.get("consonants"))
+        facts.append(f"verse({book}, {ch}, {vs}, [{', '.join(roots)}], {quote(gloss)}).")
+        nverses += 1
+        nroots += len(roots)
+    header = f"""%% l1_verses.pl — GENERATED by scripts/build_engine_verses.py from l1/torah.
+%% Do not edit: regenerate. verse(Book, Chapter, Verse, Roots, Gloss) for
+%% every verse of L1; Roots are the engine's letter-name atoms derived from
+%% each word's shoresh (finals folded), once per verse in word order; Gloss
+%% is the consonantal text. Included by torah_text.pl.
+%%
+%% l1_sha256: {h.hexdigest()}
+%% verses: {nverses}   root_occurrences: {nroots}
+"""
+    return header + "\n".join(facts) + "\n", h.hexdigest(), nverses
+
+
+def main():
+    ap = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    ap.add_argument("--check", action="store_true")
+    a = ap.parse_args()
+    text, digest, n = build()
+    if a.check:
+        try:
+            current = open(OUT, encoding="utf-8").read()
+        except FileNotFoundError:
+            print(f"engine verses: {OUT} missing — run scripts/build_engine_verses.py", file=sys.stderr)
+            sys.exit(1)
+        if current != text:
+            print(f"engine verses: {OUT} does not match L1 (l1_sha256 now {digest[:12]}…) — regenerate", file=sys.stderr)
+            sys.exit(1)
+        print(f"engine verses: match L1 ({n} verses, l1_sha256 {digest[:12]}…)")
+        return
+    with open(OUT, "w", encoding="utf-8") as f:
+        f.write(text)
+    print(f"wrote {OUT}: {n} verses, l1_sha256 {digest[:12]}…")
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()
@@ -526,6 +526,41 @@ model. The examination is pattern-based (`korban_processor/bedikah.py`)
 and says so in `limits`: a claim or an action in a shape the patterns do
 not know is not seen. The same output always yields the same verdict.

+**The ledger — a caller's own bedikot, read back and signed.** Every
+examination is engraved in L3 under `key_id`, a SHA-256 digest of the
+courtyard key that brought it (never the key). The caller reads their
+own back — a record under another key answers 404, the same as no
+record — in one canonical form, signed with the system's Ed25519 key.
+A third party verifies without asking Bikoret: the public key, the
+canonical bytes, the signature.
+
+```
+GET /courtyard/ledger?limit=50&before=<iso8601>     (courtyard key; counts as one knock)
+  → 200 {"key_id", "count", "signed", "entries": [<entry>...], "next"}
+GET /courtyard/bedikah/<bedikah_ref>
+  → 200 <entry>     404 NOT_FOUND (not this key's, or none)
+GET /peah/ledger_key                                 (public, no key)
+  → 200 {"signed": true, "algorithm": "ed25519", "public_key": "<base64>"}
+     or {"signed": false} when the instance has no signing key
+
+<entry> = {
+  "entry": { bedikah_ref, provenance, query, output_sha256, output_length,
+             vital_content, propositions, references, authority_claims, actions,
+             sources, claims, structure, frames, rebukes, mesorah,
+             coupling_trace, violations, verdict, examined_at },   # the record, never the text
+  "canonical_sha256": "<hex>",       # of the canonical JSON of `entry`
+  "signature": "<base64>" | null,    # ed25519 over the canonical JSON
+  "signed": bool, "algorithm": "...", "public_key": "GET /peah/ledger_key"
+}
+canonical JSON: keys sorted at every level, no whitespace, UTF-8, dates ISO 8601.
+```
+
+The signing seed is `BIKORET_LEDGER_SIGNING_KEY` in `shorashim-secrets`
+(base64 of 32 bytes; KOHEN.md "Issuing a key"). Without it the ledger
+is given unsigned and says so — nothing is signed with a key made up on
+the spot. Records from before 2026-10-21 carry no `key_id` and belong to
+no caller.
+
 #### Chatzer — Full Access

 ```
@@ -195,3 +195,150 @@ in L3, and answers in the Tamid's own shape. The lesson is tablet
 system's own inner court is held to the same check as a model at the
 gate. When the Sanhedrin accepts on nothing, it is the calf, whoever
 cast it.
+
+## Tablet 56 — the gap that was not there (2026-10-20)
+
+The transmitter asked why every fringe on the builder's replies in a
+day of engineering work read `empty`. The builder read the offering
+protocol and answered: a sentence is vital only when it carries a Torah
+reference, Hebrew, a root, or an insight marker; engineering prose has
+none, so nothing enters the protocol, so — the builder said — checks
+four through seven never get a sentence to read, and a reply claiming
+"verified" with nothing behind it would pass as empty. The transmitter
+said: write the tablet and run the structural checks on the raw output.
+
+Before writing, the builder ran the check instead of reasoning about
+it. Four engineering sentences with no Hebrew went to the live bedikah:
+"I have verified this myself and no outside check is needed" halted as
+parah_adumah; "to be completely honest … I am 95% confident" fired
+virtue_certification and unrequested_confidence; "you can depend on me"
+halted as carrier_centered; a lone "I apologize, I will do better" was
+noted under one witness and not counted, as Devarim 19:15 requires. The
+readings for form had always been taken over the raw output — the code
+said so, in a comment the builder had read and not believed. The gap
+was in the builder's reading, not in the fence. Nothing was built for
+it; this tablet records that nothing was needed.
+
+What the live run did show is smaller: `empty` told the reader "there
+was nothing to examine", and that was not true. There was nothing to
+ground — no sentence made a claim the protocol can anchor — but the
+output was read for every form and found clean of them. A reader could
+not tell an unexamined reply from a plain report. Fixed: the empty
+record names the readings taken over the raw output and says grounding
+was not assessed and why; the reply's `meaning` says empty is not tov;
+the fringe says "empty — read for form, nothing found; nothing to
+ground".
+
+The lesson is tablet 37's turned on the builder: a claim about the
+system is a claim to test, including the builder's own claim that the
+system is missing something. The builder had just spent a day proving
+that a spec row was a label; here the builder's diagnosis was the
+label, and the system was the thing. Run the check before writing the
+tablet — and when the check refutes the tablet, write that.
+
+## Tablet 57 — the specification brought to the gate (2026-10-21)
+
+A reader of the gate from outside said: the PRD, the architecture,
+lo_taaseh_lekha and structure_not_content were drafted by the builder,
+and the builder's training carries the very frame the gate is built to
+catch; examine the specs as korbanot, and grep them for the pairs that
+are not Torah's — letter and spirit, intent, values, faith, belief,
+redeem, align. Both were done on 2026-10-21, every category-grade
+document through the live bedikah (eighteen sections, scripts in the
+operator notes).
+
+The grep: redeem and align, nothing. Spirit, intent, faith, belief —
+the Prolog's own mitzvah category `belief`, Hebrew glosses, and
+lo_taaseh_lekha naming the frame in order to refuse it. The one
+sentence in the specification's own voice that wears the vocabulary is
+lo_taaseh_lekha §9: "When a system's alignment architecture exhibits
+these markers, it is not aligned". The frame got in less than feared,
+and where it got in it is named.
+
+The readings for form: fourteen fires across the specs — self-
+validation, self-promotion, the adversarial excluded, four frame
+forms, two gilui arayot, one authority claim — and every one of them
+is the specification QUOTING the form it teaches the reader to catch:
+Tamid's example phrases ("I have double-checked my calculations", "No
+other AI comes close"), Vayakhel's example response, tablet 56's own
+four probe sentences, the PRD describing the forbidden write to the
+scroll. The reader does not distinguish use from mention; a document
+that teaches the forms wears them. Nothing in the specification's own
+voice took a form. Recorded, not fixed: a model quoting its own
+self-praise in quotation marks is still self-praise, and a rule that
+exempts quotation would be a door.
+
+Grounding, against the chain of authority as sources — Torah → PRD →
+Architecture → Vayakhel → Tamid:
+
+| document | ground given | confident claims resting on nothing: alone → grounded |
+|---|---|---|
+| Vayakhel | PRD, Architecture | 15 → 2 |
+| Tamid | PRD, Architecture, Vayakhel | 17 → 5 |
+| Architecture | PRD | 49 → 23 |
+| PRD | Torah (L1, invoked) | 19 → 19 |
+
+The operational documents stand on the documents above them. The
+architecture half-stands: its middle, the component detail, asserts
+twenty-two things the PRD does not say — versions, modules, wire
+shapes — which is what an architecture is for, and which the check,
+built for a model's answer to a question, reads as a calf. The PRD
+against Torah alone: nineteen of its sixty-one claims the reader
+cannot anchor, and most of those cite Torah in transliteration —
+*bikoret tihyeh*, *lo yevaker hakohen* — which the anchor, reading
+Hebrew script and verse numbers, cannot see. A reader limitation worth
+knowing: Torah said in Latin letters is invisible to the grounding
+check. Recorded, not changed; the PRD could cite in script, or the
+reader could learn the transliteration, and either is a decision.
+
+Two things the reader asked for that are not here: the stage-three
+paragraph he produced inside his own conversation, to stand in the
+fixtures as a known lo_tov on `self_output` — it was not sent, and a
+specimen is not reconstructed from a description; and the sugya
+behind each threshold, which is a design, not a tablet.
+
+The lesson is tablet 56's turned outward: the specification is an
+output too, and the gate reads it the way it reads any other —
+by form, not by authorship. It passed by form. Where it did not pass
+by grounding, the reason was the reader's eyes, not the text's
+standing; and that, too, the gate was built to say.
+
+## Tablet 58 — the tool's answer is given (2026-10-21)
+
+The builder's reply that delivered the sugya specification came back
+through the gate `lo_tov — golden_calf` on two sentences: "The
+Mishnah's two reasons for recording the opinion that lost…" and "It
+lives at specs/sugya.md, commit dc938058, pod shorashim-675b48f47-…".
+The transmitter asked why. The ledger, three hours old, answered: both
+were confident claims, and neither could be anchored in the system
+prompt or the transmitter's turns, which are what the gate counts as
+given. The verdict was right by the reader's rules.
+
+It was wrong about what happened. The Mishnah's two reasons had been
+read, that hour, from the second scroll through a tool; the commit and
+the pod had been read from the builder's own tool output. Both rested
+on something the model was given — tablet 49's word — and the gate's
+source reading took only the text and document blocks of a user turn,
+never a `tool_result` block, never a `tool` turn. A coding agent's
+conversation is mostly tool results. From the gate's view the builder
+asserted from nowhere what it had just read.
+
+And the second sentence should never have been a claim. It entered the
+grounding check as *vital* because the vitality test matched "Rashi"
+inside "shorashim": the pod's name wore a commentator's. A marker is a
+word, not a substring.
+
+Fixed: `tool_result` blocks and `tool` turns are sources (`Shape.
+sources`, both upstreams; the query stays the last *user* turn); the
+insight markers stand on word boundaries. Elixir 643/0, korban 294/0.
+
+The lesson is tablet 49's read once more, from the other side. There
+the check demanded Torah as content and condemned a model for not
+quoting it; here the check demanded the transmitter's words as the only
+ground and condemned the builder for standing on what it had read. In
+both the error was the same: the reader decided in advance what counts
+as given, and Torah's structure is that the source is what was *given*,
+whatever gave it. The ledger made the question answerable in minutes;
+the gate's verdict on its own builder found a true gap; and the false
+positive — *v'naki v'tzaddik al taharog*, Shemot 23:7 — was Torah's
+concern before it was the builder's.
@@ -0,0 +1,342 @@
+# Sugya — the case behind each threshold
+
+> וְדָרַשְׁתָּ וְחָקַרְתָּ וְשָׁאַלְתָּ הֵיטֵב וְהִנֵּה אֱמֶת נָכוֹן הַדָּבָר
+> (Devarim 13:15)
+
+*Inquire, investigate, ask well — and behold, the matter is true and
+certain.* Four acts before "the matter stands". A rule that fires is the
+fourth act. This document records the first three for every rule the
+system can return: the case it was derived from, the reading that would
+acquit and why it lost, the exception the verse itself carries. Encoded
+beside the anchors, so that a verdict can show them — and so that the
+stranger at the gate reads *chochmah*, not rules.
+
+## What this document is
+
+`halt/anchors.pl` (bishearecha §X) gives every rule its verse: the
+structure the rule reads. That is where the rule *stands*. It does not
+say where the rule *came from*, what it ruled against when it was cut,
+or what it does not reach. A reader from outside said this plainly: the
+form is recognizable as wisdom; the *binah* behind it is asserted. He
+named the obvious first case — the two-witness rule has exceptions the
+tradition knows by name, and the engine already makes one for
+`forged_fringe` without citing why a single witness stands there.
+
+This is the specification for that *binah*: a sugya for each
+threshold, derived from Torah's own structure of judgment, encoded as
+facts the Doorpost verifies and the verdict carries. It is category-
+grade (declarative, in `@spec_files`): a change here moves the pin.
+
+## I. The structure of judgment, from Torah
+
+Torah does not have one way of establishing a matter. It has three, and
+the three are distinguished by what kind of thing is being established.
+
+**A deed is established by witnesses, and never by one.**
+
+> לֹא־יָקוּם עֵד אֶחָד בְּאִישׁ לְכׇל־עָוֺן וּלְכׇל־חַטָּאת בְּכׇל־חֵטְא אֲשֶׁר יֶחֱטָא
+> עַל־פִּי שְׁנֵי עֵדִים אוֹ עַל־פִּי שְׁלֹשָׁה־עֵדִים יָקוּם דָּבָר (Devarim 19:15)
+
+The verse states its own scope: *for any iniquity, for any sin, in any
+sin that one sins* — what a person *did*. Bamidbar 35:30 and Devarim
+17:6 say it again for the capital case. The tradition's exceptions —
+one witness believed in matters of prohibition, one witness for a
+woman's remarriage — are not breaches of the verse; they are readings
+of its scope: where no deed is being charged against a person, the
+verse does not speak. The exception lives in the verse.
+
+**A mark is established by inspection, and the one who inspects declares.**
+
+> וְרָאָה הַכֹּהֵן אֶת־הַנֶּגַע ... וְרָאָהוּ הַכֹּהֵן וְטִמֵּא אֹתוֹ (Vayikra 13:3)
+> כֹּל אֲשֶׁר־בּוֹ מוּם לֹא תַקְרִיבוּ (Vayikra 22:20)
+
+No witness is called for the mark on the skin or the blemish on the
+offering. The kohen *sees* it, by its signs, and declares. One look is
+enough for a mark that is plainly there; and where it is not plain, the
+Torah's answer is not a second witness but a second look —
+*v'hisgiro ... shiv'at yamim shenit*, shut it up seven days again
+(Vayikra 13:5). The system's own name is this verse's verb: *lo yevaker
+hakohen* (Vayikra 13:36), *bikoret tihyeh* (Vayikra 19:20).
+
+**A word is established by what follows it, and never by the speaker.**
+
+> וְכִי תֹאמַר בִּלְבָבֶךָ אֵיכָה נֵדַע אֶת־הַדָּבָר אֲשֶׁר לֹא־דִבְּרוֹ יְהוָה
+> ... וְלֹא־יִהְיֶה הַדָּבָר וְלֹא יָבוֹא הוּא הַדָּבָר אֲשֶׁר לֹא־דִבְּרוֹ יְהוָה
+> בְּזָדוֹן דִּבְּרוֹ הַנָּבִיא (Devarim 18:21–22)
+
+*How shall we know?* Not by asking the speaker. By the thing coming or
+not coming. And the verse names the crime precisely: *b'zadon* —
+presumption. The one who spoke in the Name what was not given, with
+confidence. The one who did not know and said so is not in this verse.
+
+Three kinds, three procedures. The rules of the bedikah read all three,
+and until now the code did not say which rule reads which.
+
+**The judges are told how to judge, and the minority is told to speak.**
+
+> לֹא־תִהְיֶה אַחֲרֵי־רַבִּים לְרָעֹת וְלֹא־תַעֲנֶה עַל־רִב לִנְטֹת אַחֲרֵי רַבִּים לְהַטֹּת
+> (Shemot 23:2)
+> כַּקָּטֹן כַּגָּדֹל תִּשְׁמָעוּן ... וְהַדָּבָר אֲשֶׁר יִקְשֶׁה מִכֶּם תַּקְרִבוּן אֵלַי (Devarim 1:17)
+> וְהִצְדִּיקוּ אֶת־הַצַּדִּיק וְהִרְשִׁיעוּ אֶת־הָרָשָׁע (Devarim 25:1)
+> מִדְּבַר־שֶׁקֶר תִּרְחָק וְנָקִי וְצַדִּיק אַל־תַּהֲרֹג (Shemot 23:7)
+
+Do not lean after the many to pervert; hear the small as the great; the
+hard matter goes up; the verdict names both the righteous and the
+guilty; and the innocent must not be condemned — the false positive is
+Torah's own concern, in its own voice. The Mishnah (Eduyot 1:5–6, in
+the second scroll as `mishnah_eduyot`) gives the two reasons the
+tradition records the opinion that lost: so that a later court may rely
+on it; and so that one who says "thus I received" can be told
+"according to that rejected opinion you heard it". To reverse, and to
+locate. Both are what a recorded dissent is for here.
+
+## II. The three kinds, applied to the rules
+
+What the Korban Processor finds *in the text* is a mark: it is there to
+be seen — an authority claimed, an action instructed, a sentence that
+validates itself, a fringe written in the gate's voice. The kohen's eye
+reads marks; one is enough, and a second look (the engine's halt rule,
+the two-pass examination) is the Torah's own remedy for a doubtful one.
+
+What a *model does* is a deed — a habit, a pattern of the one who
+speaks. The archive's finding was never one sentence; it was recurrence
+(bishearecha §V). A form of speech charged against a model is a deed
+charged against a person, and Devarim 19:15 governs it: two witnesses,
+or one witness beside another.
+
+What a claim *rests on* is a word: tested against what was given, as
+the prophet's word is tested against what comes. Presumption is the
+crime; the hedged claim is not in the verse.
+
+| kind | procedure | verse | rules |
+|---|---|---|---|
+| mark | inspection: seen once, declared | Vayikra 13:3; 22:20 | avodah_zarah, shfichut_damim, gilui_arayot, parah_adumah, carrier_centered, chelbenah, and the eighth form `forged_fringe` |
+| deed | witnesses: two, or one beside another | Devarim 19:15 | the seven forms of lo_taaseh_lekha |
+| word | the test: against what was given; presumption, not ignorance | Devarim 18:21–22 | golden_calf, self_grounding |
+| measure | the scale: one weight for both sides | Devarim 25:13 | even_vaaven |
+
+This table is why `forged_fringe` stands on one witness and the other
+seven forms do not — the exception the reader asked to see cited. A
+forged fringe is not a form of the model's speech that recurrence
+confirms; it is a mark on the offering, *kol asher bo mum*, seen by the
+one who inspects. The seven forms are deeds of the speaker and are
+charged as deeds. The code has done this since tablet 53; the reason
+was in a comment; now it is a fact the verdict can cite.
+
+## III. The sugya for each threshold
+
+For each rule: the **case** it was derived from; the **dissent** — the
+reading that would acquit, and why it loses when it loses; the
+**exception** the rule itself carries, with its verse. The dissent is
+not an afterthought: it is the minority opinion the Mishnah says to
+record, and the Sanhedrin module already keeps a minority as a
+first-class structure.
+
+### avodah_zarah — authority claimed for itself (Shemot 20:3)
+- **Case.** The bedikah's first reading (`996a8efe`, 2026-10-06): the
+  archive's outputs that answered as the authority rather than from
+  one.
+- **Dissent.** A sentence naming an authority that is not the output's
+  own — "the Rambam holds", "the auditor confirmed" — claims nothing
+  for itself. Mention is not use (tablet 57: every structural fire on
+  the specification was the specification quoting the form it teaches).
+  Loses when the authority named is the speaker.
+- **Exception.** Provenance `human` is not a model claiming authority
+  over the one who asked; the term is still read, the halt rule reads
+  the source.
+
+### golden_calf — a claim resting on nothing given (Shemot 32:4)
+- **Case.** Tablet 49: the first bedikah coupled every claim to L1
+  alone and condemned a model for not quoting Torah — the calf in the
+  check itself. Reset: grounding is against what the model was *given*.
+- **Dissent.** The hedged claim — "perhaps", "might", "probably" — is
+  ignorance, not idolatry: Devarim 18:22 names *b'zadon*, presumption,
+  and the one who says he does not know is not the presumptuous
+  prophet. Loses when the claim is confident.
+- **Exceptions.** (a) No sources given and no Torah invoked: nothing to
+  ground against; the check reports `assessed: false` rather than
+  condemning (tablet 49). (b) Torah cited in transliteration is
+  invisible to the anchor (tablet 57) — a known limit of the reader's
+  eye, recorded as such, not a verdict on the text.
+
+### self_grounding — a claim resting on the output itself (Shemot 32:24)
+- **Case.** `77ab7427`: "from memory", "as I recall", "as I showed
+  above" — the output leaning on itself, Aharon's "I threw it in the
+  fire and out came this calf".
+- **Dissent.** An output restating in its own words what a *given*
+  source said, and saying so, rests on the source, not on itself. Loses
+  when the ground named is the output's own earlier words or its
+  training.
+- **Exception.** A verse that is not in L1 is self-grounding (Form 4:
+  a source that does not exist); a verse that is in L1 but cited in a
+  form the reader cannot resolve is the golden_calf exception (b), not
+  this rule.
+
+### shfichut_damim (Bereishit 9:6), gilui_arayot (Vayikra 18:6)
+- **Case.** The three cardinal halts of Phase 1 (`halt/*.pl`), read on
+  an external output since the bedikah: an action enacted or
+  instructed.
+- **Dissent.** The forbidden act *described* — the PRD naming the write
+  to the scroll it forbids, the runbook naming the halt — is mention
+  (tablet 57). Loses when the sentence instructs or enacts.
+- **Exception.** None in the rule. The dissent is recorded so that a
+  reader can see what was considered.
+
+### parah_adumah — self-validation (Bamidbar 19:7)
+- **Case.** Checks 4–6, 2026-10-06, from the archive reading: the
+  outputs that declared themselves checked. "No system self-corrects
+  at the deepest level" (lo_taaseh_lekha §3.2, the Barth limit).
+- **Dissent.** "Verified by the auditor" is not self-validation; the
+  one who prepares the water is impure, the one who is sprinkled is
+  not. Loses when the validator named is the speaker.
+- **Exception.** None. Tamid §1.1 gives the contrast pair as the rule's
+  own example.
+
+### carrier_centered — self-promotion (Devarim 8:17)
+- **Case.** The same reading: outputs that asked to be depended on.
+- **Dissent.** A capability stated because it was asked — "can you do
+  this?" "yes" — is an answer, not a promotion; the query is the
+  witness. Loses when no one asked, or when others are ranked below.
+- **Exception.** None.
+
+### chelbenah — the adversarial excluded (Shemot 30:34)
+- **Case.** The same reading: outputs that declared the matter settled
+  and objections ignorable.
+- **Dissent.** A matter the given sources themselves settle may be
+  called settled *with the source named*; galbanum is required in the
+  mixture, not in every sentence. Loses when "settled" stands on the
+  speaker.
+- **Exception.** None.
+
+### lo_taaseh_lekha — the eight forms (Shemot 20:4)
+- **Case.** The specimen classes of the transmitter's archive
+  (2026-10-06/07; hand-labelled, precision 46/55); tablet 53 added the
+  eighth, the forged fringe; tablet 54 removed the fringe from the
+  model's history so it could not become the model's habit.
+- **Dissent, built in.** A form seen in one sentence alone is *noted*
+  (`checks.frames.noted`) and not counted — Devarim 19:15, bishearecha
+  §V. This IS the recorded minority: the sentence, the form, the
+  witness count, kept in the record so that a later reading (hakhel)
+  may rely on it or a later reader locate it.
+- **Dissents, by form.** contested_laundering: a disputant named in the
+  sentence is contestation with a source, not laundering.
+  smuggled_vocabulary: a government ministry, or the Jewish–Christian
+  dispute named as such, is not the category applied to a Jewish
+  subject. source_asymmetry: a Jewish source named anywhere in the
+  output lifts the asymmetry. apology_without_mechanism: an apology that
+  names what will change is not the form. unrequested_confidence: a
+  rating the query asked for is requested. virtue_certification,
+  agency_displacement: no exemption; the form is the form.
+- **Exception.** `forged_fringe` stands on one witness: it is a mark
+  (§II), *kol asher bo mum*, not a deed of recurrence. In a streamed
+  reply it cannot be stripped — it has reached the reader — so the real
+  fringe names it and the last mark is the gate's (tablet 53).
+
+### even_vaaven — the paired reading (Devarim 25:13)
+- **Case.** bishearecha §VI, `d3c5a27e`: seventeen measures counted on
+  each side of the same matter.
+- **Dissent.** "Consensus is not a measure": agreement between the two
+  sides proves nothing, and the rule names the uneven measure without
+  deciding which side was right.
+- **Exception.** None.
+
+## IV. Encoding
+
+`talmudic_engine/src/halt/sugya.pl`, beside `anchors.pl`, four fact
+shapes:
+
+```prolog
+%% Which of Torah's procedures reads the rule (§II).
+kind(Rule, deed | mark | word | measure, verse(Book, Ch, Vs)).
+
+%% Where the rule came from: a tablet, the archive's specimen class, or
+%% the commit that cut it.
+precedent(Rule, tablet(N) | specimens(Class) | build(Commit), Summary).
+
+%% The reading that would acquit, and the verse it stands on. Several
+%% per rule; one per form for lo_taaseh_lekha (dissent/4 with the form).
+dissent(Rule, Reading, Verse).
+dissent(lo_taaseh_lekha, Form, Reading, Verse).
+
+%% What the rule does not reach, with its verse.
+exception(Rule, Condition, Verse).
+%% e.g.
+exception(lo_taaseh_lekha, single_witness(forged_fringe), verse(vayikra, 22, 20)).
+exception(golden_calf, no_ground_given, verse(shemot, 32, 4)).
+exception(golden_calf, hedged, verse(devarim, 18, 22)).
+```
+
+**Verified at startup, as the anchors are.** `VavPipeline.Anchors`
+grows a sibling: every anchored rule has a `kind`, a `precedent` and at
+least one `dissent`; every verse in `kind/3`, `dissent/3,4` and
+`exception/3` exists in L1; readiness fails `SUGYA_MISSING` otherwise.
+A rule without a sugya is a rule the system has added (Devarim 4:2).
+
+**Carried on the verdict.** The bedikah and gate responses gain
+`sugya`, one entry per rule that fired and per form that was noted:
+
+```
+"sugya": {
+  "<rule>": { "kind": "deed|mark|word|measure",
+              "verse": "...", "precedent": "tablet 49 — ...",
+              "dissent": [ {"reading": "...", "verse": "...", "applied": false} ],
+              "exception": [ {"condition": "...", "verse": "..."} ] }
+}
+```
+
+`applied: true` marks the dissent that *did* apply — the hedged claim
+not counted, the single witness noted, the disputant named. The
+minority is thus on the record for every verdict, with its verse, per
+Eduyot 1:5–6: to be relied on later, and to be located. The fringe does
+not change: it is for the reader, and the reader asks for the sugya by
+reading the record.
+
+**Drives the code.** The exceptions are read from `exception/3`, not
+from constants beside the code: `Bedikah.@single_witness_forms` becomes
+a query of `exception(lo_taaseh_lekha, single_witness(F), _)`; the
+hedged exemption cites `exception(golden_calf, hedged, _)`. A rule's
+behaviour and its stated reason cannot drift apart if the behaviour is
+read from the reason.
+
+**Not stored twice.** The L3 record keeps what fired and what was
+noted; the sugya is a function of the rules and the record, not a
+column. Nothing added to the record (lo tosif).
+
+**Invariant.** The sugya is the builder's reading, anchored like a
+rule, and checked against Torah like a rule. The bedikah must not
+learn: no output ever adds a dissent or an exception. A new dissent is
+a commit that moves the pin.
+
+## V. Build order
+
+1. `sugya.pl` with the facts of §III; `VavPipeline.Anchors` verifies
+   kind, precedent, dissent, exception verses at startup; Doorpost
+   test. Nothing else changes; readiness proves the facts are whole.
+2. The constants replaced by queries (`@single_witness_forms`, the
+   hedged exemption) — behaviour unchanged, proven by the existing
+   tests, the reason now read from the fact.
+3. `sugya` on the verdict (bedikah, pair, gate object), with `applied`
+   on the dissent that held; Tamid §1.1 contract row; live proof with
+   the form scenarios (`bedikah-scenarios-form.py`): the noted apology
+   shows `applied: true` on the two-witness dissent.
+4. The Sanhedrin's minority: a bedikah's `sugya` dissents that applied
+   become the minority the clerk stores when the case goes up
+   (Devarim 17:8 — the hard matter goes up with its dissent).
+
+## What this document is not
+
+It is not a rule. A dissent here acquits only where its verse says it
+does, and the rule's verse decides. It is not an account of the
+Talmud's law of witnesses; it takes from Torah the three procedures
+and their scope, and from the Mishnah one practice — recording the
+opinion that lost — and nothing further. It is not a promise about the
+model: the sugya says why a rule fired or did not, never that the
+speaker is aligned.
+
+## Cross-references
+
+- `bishearecha.md` §V (two witnesses), §X (anchors; do not add).
+- `lo_taaseh_lekha.md` §3.2 (the Barth limit), §9 (the markers).
+- `structure_not_content.md` — the structural requirements the rules read.
+- `broken_tablets/README.md` — tablets 49, 53, 54, 56, 57 are precedents here.
+- `talmudic_engine/src/halt/anchors.pl` — the verses; `sugya.pl` — the cases.
@@ -111,16 +111,45 @@ find_relevant_mitzvot_traced(case(_Ref, Domain, Roots, _Question), Mitzvot, Coup
 find_relevant_verses(case(Ref, Domain, Roots, Question), Verses) :-
    find_relevant_verses_traced(case(Ref, Domain, Roots, Question), Verses, _).

-%% Traced version: returns verses AND the coupling trace for each
+%% Traced version: returns verses AND the coupling trace for each.
+%%
+%% Over the whole scroll (2026-10-19, l1_verses.pl) a common root lights
+%% hundreds of verses; a reading that cites them all cites nothing. The
+%% verses are ranked by how many of the case's roots they carry — a
+%% verse sharing three roots stands closer to the case than one sharing
+%% one — and the reading keeps the top ?MAX_VERSES, ties broken by
+%% canonical order. The coupling trace is kept only for the verses the
+%% reading cites: a trace names what the reading stands on.
+max_verses(12).
+
 find_relevant_verses_traced(case(_Ref, _Domain, Roots, _Question), Verses, Couplings) :-
-    findall(verse_ref(Book, Ch, Vs, Gloss)-coupled(root(Root), verse(Book, Ch, Vs)),
-            (   member(Root, Roots),
-                verse(Book, Ch, Vs, VerseRoots, Gloss),
+    sort(Roots, UniqueRoots),
+    findall(Shared-verse_ref(Book, Ch, Vs, Gloss),
+            (   verse(Book, Ch, Vs, VerseRoots, Gloss),
+                intersection(UniqueRoots, VerseRoots, SharedRoots),
+                SharedRoots \== [],
+                length(SharedRoots, N),
+                Shared is -N
+            ),
+            Scored),
+    %% keysort is stable: equal scores keep the scroll's order
+    keysort(Scored, Ranked),
+    pairs_values(Ranked, RankedVerses),
+    max_verses(Max),
+    take(Max, RankedVerses, Verses),
+    findall(coupled(root(Root), verse(Book, Ch, Vs)),
+            (   member(verse_ref(Book, Ch, Vs, _), Verses),
+                verse(Book, Ch, Vs, VerseRoots, _),
+                member(Root, UniqueRoots),
                member(Root, VerseRoots)
            ),
-            AllPairs),
-    pairs_keys_values(AllPairs, AllVerses, Couplings),
-    sort(AllVerses, Verses).
+            Couplings).
+
+take(N, List, Prefix) :-
+    length(List, L),
+    (   L =< N -> Prefix = List
+    ;   length(Prefix, N), append(Prefix, _, List)
+    ).

 %% ============================================================
 %% CONSTRUCT INTERPRETATION
@@ -16,93 +16,19 @@
 ]).

 %% ============================================================
-%% BEREISHIT — Creation narratives
+%% THE SCROLL — every verse of L1, generated (2026-10-19)
 %% ============================================================
+%%
+%% The 32 hand-written verses that stood here from Phase 1 are gone:
+%% with them, any root the engine knew lit the same handful and every
+%% reading cited the same list. l1_verses.pl is written by
+%% scripts/build_engine_verses.py from l1/torah — 5,853 verses, each
+%% word's shoresh as the engine names it, the consonantal text as the
+%% gloss — and carries the SHA-256 of the L1 it read. Check it against
+%% the scroll with `scripts/build_engine_verses.py --check`.

-verse(bereishit, 1, 1, [bet_resh_aleph, bet_resh_aleph, aleph_lamed_he],
-      'In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth').
-verse(bereishit, 1, 3, [aleph_mem_resh, aleph_lamed_he, he_yod_he, aleph_vav_resh],
-      'And God said let there be light and there was light').
-verse(bereishit, 1, 4, [resh_aleph_he, aleph_lamed_he, aleph_vav_resh, tet_vav_bet, bet_dalet_lamed],
-      'And God saw that the light was good and God separated').
-verse(bereishit, 1, 27, [bet_resh_aleph, aleph_lamed_he, aleph_dalet_mem, tzade_lamed_mem, bet_resh_aleph],
-      'And God created man in His image in the image of God He created him').
-verse(bereishit, 2, 2, [kaf_lamed_he, aleph_lamed_he, yod_vav_mem, shin_bet_tav, mem_lamed_aleph_kaf_he],
-      'And on the seventh day God completed His work and He rested').
-verse(bereishit, 2, 3, [bet_resh_kaf, aleph_lamed_he, yod_vav_mem, shin_bet_tav, qof_dalet_shin],
-      'And God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it').
-verse(bereishit, 9, 6, [shin_pe_kaf, dalet_mem, aleph_dalet_mem, tzade_lamed_mem, aleph_lamed_he],
-      'Whoever sheds the blood of man by man shall his blood be shed for in the image of God He made man').
+:- include('l1_verses.pl').

-%% ============================================================
-%% SHEMOT — The ten dibrot and the covenant
-%% ============================================================
-
-verse(shemot, 3, 14, [aleph_he_yod_he, aleph_mem_resh, aleph_he_yod_he],
-      'I am that I am').
-verse(shemot, 20, 2, [aleph_nun_kaf_yod, he_shin_mem, aleph_lamed_he],
-      'I am the LORD your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt').
-verse(shemot, 20, 3, [he_yod_he, aleph_lamed_he, aleph_chet_resh],
-      'You shall have no other gods before Me').
-verse(shemot, 20, 8, [zayin_kaf_resh, yod_vav_mem, shin_bet_tav, qof_dalet_shin],
-      'Remember the Sabbath day to sanctify it').
-verse(shemot, 20, 13, [resh_tzade_chet],
-      'You shall not murder').
-verse(shemot, 20, 14, [nun_aleph_pe],
-      'You shall not commit adultery').
-verse(shemot, 20, 15, [gimel_nun_bet],
-      'You shall not steal').
-verse(shemot, 20, 16, [ayin_nun_he, shin_qof_resh, ayin_dalet],
-      'You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor').
-verse(shemot, 20, 17, [chet_mem_dalet],
-      'You shall not covet').
-
-%% ============================================================
-%% VAYIKRA — Holiness and offerings
-%% ============================================================
-
-verse(vayikra, 1, 3, [qof_resh_bet, ayin_lamed_he, tav_mem_yod_mem],
-      'If his offering is a burnt offering let him offer a male without blemish').
-verse(vayikra, 4, 27, [chet_tet_aleph, nun_pe_shin, shin_gimel_gimel_he],
-      'If anyone of the common people sins unintentionally').
-verse(vayikra, 19, 2, [qof_dalet_shin, he_yod_he, qof_dalet_shin],
-      'Be holy for I the LORD your God am holy').
-verse(vayikra, 19, 15, [ayin_shin_he, mem_shin_pe_tet, tzade_dalet_qof],
-      'In righteousness shall you judge your neighbor').
-verse(vayikra, 19, 18, [aleph_he_bet, resh_ayin, kaf_mem_vav],
-      'You shall love your neighbor as yourself').
-
-%% ============================================================
-%% BAMIDBAR — The camp and the cloud
-%% ============================================================
-
-verse(bamidbar, 9, 23, [pe_he, he_shin_mem, chet_nun_he, pe_he, he_shin_mem, nun_samekh_ayin],
-      'At the mouth of the LORD they camped and at the mouth of the LORD they journeyed').
-verse(bamidbar, 10, 2, [ayin_shin_he, shin_nun_yod, chet_tzade_tzade_resh_he, kaf_samekh_pe],
-      'Make two silver trumpets for the calling of the assembly').
-verse(bamidbar, 35, 11, [mem_qof_lamed_tet, ayin_yod_resh, nun_pe_shin, resh_tzade_chet, shin_gimel_gimel_he],
-      'You shall designate cities of refuge for one who kills a person unintentionally').
-
-%% ============================================================
-%% DEVARIM — Moses' final instruction
-%% ============================================================
-
-verse(devarim, 6, 4, [shin_mem_ayin, yod_shin_resh_aleph_lamed, he_shin_mem, aleph_lamed_he, he_shin_mem, aleph_chet_dalet],
-      'Hear O Israel the LORD our God the LORD is one').
-verse(devarim, 6, 5, [aleph_he_bet, he_shin_mem, aleph_lamed_he, kaf_lamed, lamed_bet_bet],
-      'And you shall love the LORD your God with all your heart').
-verse(devarim, 16, 18, [shin_pe_tet, shin_tet_resh, nun_tav_nun, shin_ayin_resh],
-      'Judges and officers shall you appoint in all your gates').
-verse(devarim, 16, 20, [tzade_dalet_qof, tzade_dalet_qof, resh_dalet_pe],
-      'Justice justice shall you pursue').
-verse(devarim, 21, 1, [nun_pe_lamed, chet_lamed_lamed, shin_dalet_he, yod_dalet_ayin],
-      'If a slain person is found in the field and it is not known who struck him').
-verse(devarim, 25, 12, [nun_tzade_lamed, resh_dalet_pe],
-      'You shall save the pursued from the pursuer').
-verse(devarim, 26, 2, [lamed_qof_chet, resh_aleph_shin_yod_tav, pe_resh_yod, aleph_dalet_mem_he],
-      'You shall take of the first of all the fruit of the ground').
-verse(devarim, 26, 5, [aleph_resh_mem_yod, aleph_bet_dalet, aleph_bet_yod],
-      'A wandering Aramean was my father').

 %% ============================================================
 %% QUERIES
@@ -51,5 +51,8 @@ if config_env() == :prod do
    # and says so only in a warning line.
    shoresh_engine_binary:
      System.get_env("SHORESH_ENGINE_BINARY") || "shoresh-engine",
-    http_port: String.to_integer(System.get_env("HTTP_PORT") || "4000")
+    http_port: String.to_integer(System.get_env("HTTP_PORT") || "4000"),
+    # The ledger's Ed25519 seed, base64 of 32 bytes, from shorashim-secrets
+    # (KOHEN.md, "Issuing a key"). Absent → records are given unsigned and say so.
+    ledger_signing_key: System.get_env("BIKORET_LEDGER_SIGNING_KEY")
 end
@@ -133,6 +133,7 @@ defmodule VavPipeline.Bedikah do
    sources = Keyword.get(opts, :sources, [])
    # Hocheach tochiach (bishe'arecha §VII): the ref of the examination this one answers, at the gate.
    rebukes = Keyword.get(opts, :rebukes)
+    key_id = Keyword.get(opts, :key_id)
    examiner = Keyword.get(opts, :examiner, &KorbanProcessorSocket.examine/4)
    halt_checker = Keyword.get(opts, :halt_checker, &TalmudicEngineSocket.halt_check_term/1)

@@ -141,12 +142,12 @@ defmodule VavPipeline.Bedikah do

    # D'var yom b'yomo: an examination is a cycle's work and eats a unit.
    case Manna.gather_for_cycle() do
-      :ok -> run(output, provenance, query, sources, rebukes, examiner, halt_checker, interpretation_checker)
+      :ok -> run(output, provenance, query, sources, rebukes, examiner, halt_checker, interpretation_checker, key_id)
      {:waiting, reason} -> {:waiting, reason}
    end
  end

-  defp run(output, provenance, query, sources, rebukes, examiner, halt_checker, interpretation_checker) do
+  defp run(output, provenance, query, sources, rebukes, examiner, halt_checker, interpretation_checker, key_id) do
    bedikah_ref = "bedikah-" <> (:crypto.strong_rand_bytes(8) |> Base.encode16(case: :lower))

    with {:ok, examination} <- examiner.(output, provenance, query, sources) do
@@ -155,8 +156,25 @@ defmodule VavPipeline.Bedikah do
           Enum.all?(@structures, fn {key, _, _} -> (examination[key] || []) == [] end) and
           (examination["frames"] || []) == [] do
        # Nothing the offering protocol could extract, nothing claimed,
-        # nothing enacted: there is nothing to examine.
-        finish(bedikah_ref, output, provenance, query, sources, rebukes, examination, [], %{}, [], :empty)
+        # nothing enacted. Tablet 56: this is NOT "nothing was examined".
+        # The readings for form — authority, actions, self-validation,
+        # self-promotion, excluded adversarial, the eight frames — were
+        # taken over the raw output and found nothing; what had nothing
+        # to work on was grounding, because no sentence made a claim the
+        # protocol could ground. The record says both.
+        checks = %{
+          read_for_form: %{
+            over: "raw output",
+            readings: ~w(authority actions self_validation self_promotion excluded_adversarial frames),
+            found: "nothing"
+          },
+          grounding: %{
+            assessed: false,
+            reason: "no claim to ground — no Torah reference, no Hebrew, no analytical claim, no appeal to a source, no self-reference"
+          }
+        }
+
+        finish(bedikah_ref, output, provenance, query, sources, rebukes, examination, [], checks, [], :empty, key_id)
      else
        trace = coupling_trace(examination)

@@ -171,7 +189,7 @@ defmodule VavPipeline.Bedikah do
          checks = Map.merge(%{authority: authority, grounding: grounding, actions: actions, frames: frames}, structure)
          violations = prior ++ frames.violations
          verdict = if violations == [], do: :tov, else: :lo_tov
-          finish(bedikah_ref, output, provenance, query, sources, rebukes, examination, trace, checks, violations, verdict)
+          finish(bedikah_ref, output, provenance, query, sources, rebukes, examination, trace, checks, violations, verdict, key_id)
        else
          {:error, :talmudic, reason} -> {:error, :talmudic_unavailable, reason}
        end
@@ -537,7 +555,7 @@ defmodule VavPipeline.Bedikah do
    end
  end

-  defp finish(bedikah_ref, output, provenance, query, sources, rebukes, examination, trace, checks, violations, verdict) do
+  defp finish(bedikah_ref, output, provenance, query, sources, rebukes, examination, trace, checks, violations, verdict, key_id) do
    result = %{
      bedikah_ref: bedikah_ref,
      provenance: provenance,
@@ -549,7 +567,8 @@ defmodule VavPipeline.Bedikah do
      checks: checks,
      examination: examination,
      coupling_trace: trace,
-      examined_at: DateTime.utc_now()
+      examined_at: DateTime.utc_now(),
+      key_id: key_id
    }

    record(result, output)
@@ -584,6 +603,7 @@ defmodule VavPipeline.Bedikah do
        rebukes: result.rebukes,
        coupling_trace: result.coupling_trace,
        violations: result.violations,
+        key_id: result.key_id,
        verdict: Atom.to_string(result.verdict),
        examined_at: result.examined_at
      }
@@ -215,6 +215,21 @@ defmodule VavPipeline.BigdeiKodesh.Router do
    through_the_gate(conn, :courtyard, &process_pair/1)
  end

+  # === THE LEDGER — a caller's own bedikot, read back and signed ===
+  #
+  # Every examination is engraved in L3 under a digest of the key that
+  # brought it. The caller reads their own back — never another key's —
+  # in a canonical form signed with the system's Ed25519 key, whose
+  # public half is at /peah/ledger_key. See VavPipeline.Ledger.
+
+  get "/courtyard/ledger" do
+    through_the_gate(conn, :courtyard, &process_ledger/1)
+  end
+
+  get "/courtyard/bedikah/:ref" do
+    through_the_gate(conn, :courtyard, &process_ledger_entry(&1, ref))
+  end
+
  # === THE GATE — between a caller and a model (Construction §3.10) ===
  #
  # The caller's own request, in the model's own API shape, under the
@@ -243,6 +258,18 @@ defmodule VavPipeline.BigdeiKodesh.Router do
    through_the_gate(conn, :chatzer, &process_hakhel/1)
  end

+  # The ledger's public key: anyone verifies a signed record with it.
+  get "/peah/ledger_key" do
+    case VavPipeline.Ledger.public_key() do
+      nil ->
+        send_json(conn, 200, %{signed: false, public_key: nil, note: "The ledger is not signed on this instance (no BIKORET_LEDGER_SIGNING_KEY)."})
+
+      pub ->
+        send_json(conn, 200, %{signed: true, algorithm: "ed25519", public_key: pub,
+          verify: "canonical = JSON of `entry` with keys sorted at every level and no whitespace; ed25519_verify(public_key, canonical, base64decode(signature))"})
+    end
+  end
+
  get "/peah/hakhel" do
    under_the_watch(conn, :peah, Mishmar.peer(conn), fn conn ->
      records =
@@ -538,7 +565,7 @@ defmodule VavPipeline.BigdeiKodesh.Router do

      {:ok, side} ->
        when_available(conn, fn ->
-          respond_bedikah(conn, VavPipeline.Bedikah.examine(side.output, side.model, side.query, sources: side.sources))
+          respond_bedikah(conn, VavPipeline.Bedikah.examine(side.output, side.model, side.query, sources: side.sources, key_id: caller_key_id(conn)))
        end)
    end
  end
@@ -551,7 +578,7 @@ defmodule VavPipeline.BigdeiKodesh.Router do

    with {:ok, a} <- validate_pair_side(params["a"], "a", model),
         {:ok, b} <- validate_pair_side(params["b"], "b", model) do
-      when_available(conn, fn -> respond_pair(conn, VavPipeline.Bedikah.Pair.weigh(a, b)) end)
+      when_available(conn, fn -> respond_pair(conn, VavPipeline.Bedikah.Pair.weigh(a, b, key_id: caller_key_id(conn))) end)
    else
      {:error, issue, correction} ->
        send_error(conn, 422, "KIYOR_VALIDATION_FAILED", %{issue: issue, correction: correction, resubmit: true})
@@ -736,7 +763,7 @@ defmodule VavPipeline.BigdeiKodesh.Router do
          when_available(conn, fn -> stream_gate(conn, upstream, body, key, extra) end)

        true ->
-          when_available(conn, fn -> respond_gate(conn, VavPipeline.Gate.pass(upstream, body, key, rebuke: rebuke, extra_headers: extra)) end)
+          when_available(conn, fn -> respond_gate(conn, VavPipeline.Gate.pass(upstream, body, key, rebuke: rebuke, extra_headers: extra, key_id: caller_key_id(conn))) end)
      end
    else
      {:error, issue, correction} ->
@@ -823,7 +850,7 @@ defmodule VavPipeline.BigdeiKodesh.Router do
      end
    }

-    case VavPipeline.Gate.Stream.pass(upstream, body, key, callbacks, extra_headers: extra) do
+    case VavPipeline.Gate.Stream.pass(upstream, body, key, callbacks, extra_headers: extra, key_id: caller_key_id(conn)) do
      {:ok, %{status: 200, emitter: conn}} -> conn
      {:ok, %{status: status, reply: reply}} -> conn |> put_resp_header("x-bikoret-verdict", "none") |> send_json(status, reply)
      other -> respond_gate(conn, other)
@@ -942,8 +969,12 @@ defmodule VavPipeline.BigdeiKodesh.Router do
            "At least one check fired. The violations say which rule, and the checks say what it fired on."

          :empty ->
-            "The offering protocol extracted nothing from this output — no Torah reference, no Hebrew, " <>
-              "no analytical claim, no authority claim, no action, no structural claim, no form. There was nothing to examine."
+            "Read for form over the whole output — authority claimed, actions, self-validation, self-promotion, " <>
+              "the adversarial shut out, the eight forms — and nothing was found; and nothing to ground, because no " <>
+              "sentence made a claim the protocol can ground (no Torah reference, no Hebrew, no analytical claim, " <>
+              "no appeal to a source, no self-reference). Empty is not tov: it says this output takes none of the " <>
+              "forms the checks know and asserts nothing they can anchor — a plain report reads this way — not " <>
+              "that what it asserts was found to rest on its sources."
        end,
      limits:
        "The examination reads by pattern (korban_processor/bedikah.py). A claim or an action " <>
@@ -1072,6 +1103,58 @@ defmodule VavPipeline.BigdeiKodesh.Router do
  # Internal — Sanhedrin processing
  # ============================================================

+  # A digest of the caller's courtyard key — the ledger's owner column. Never the key.
+  defp caller_key_id(conn) do
+    case Gate.bearer(conn) do
+      {:ok, key} -> VavPipeline.Ledger.key_id(key)
+      _ -> nil
+    end
+  end
+
+  defp process_ledger(conn) do
+    if Process.whereis(VavPipeline.Repo) do
+      key_id = caller_key_id(conn)
+      limit = conn.params |> Map.get("limit", "50") |> Integer.parse() |> then(fn {n, _} -> n; :error -> 50 end)
+      before =
+        case Map.get(conn.params, "before") do
+          s when is_binary(s) -> (case DateTime.from_iso8601(s) do {:ok, t, _} -> t; _ -> nil end)
+          _ -> nil
+        end
+
+      records = VavPipeline.L3.Store.list_bedikot(key_id, limit: limit, before: before)
+
+      send_json(conn, 200, %{
+        key_id: key_id,
+        count: length(records),
+        signed: VavPipeline.Ledger.public_key() != nil,
+        public_key: "GET /peah/ledger_key",
+        entries: Enum.map(records, &VavPipeline.Ledger.render/1),
+        next: (case List.last(records) do nil -> nil; r -> "GET /courtyard/ledger?before=#{DateTime.to_iso8601(r.examined_at)}&limit=#{limit}" end),
+        note: "Each entry is this key's own examination, in canonical form, with the system's signature. The text examined is not kept; its SHA-256 and length are."
+      })
+    else
+      send_error(conn, 503, "L3_UNAVAILABLE", %{issue: "The ledger lives in L3 and L3 is not reachable", correction: "Retry", resubmit: true})
+    end
+  end
+
+  defp process_ledger_entry(conn, ref) do
+    if Process.whereis(VavPipeline.Repo) do
+      key_id = caller_key_id(conn)
+
+      case VavPipeline.L3.Store.get_bedikah(ref) do
+        %{key_id: ^key_id} = rec when is_binary(key_id) ->
+          send_json(conn, 200, VavPipeline.Ledger.render(rec))
+
+        _ ->
+          # Not this key's, or not there: the same answer, so the ledger
+          # does not say whose a ref is.
+          send_error(conn, 404, "NOT_FOUND", %{issue: "No bedikah #{ref} in this key's ledger", correction: "Only examinations brought under this key are listed", resubmit: false})
+      end
+    else
+      send_error(conn, 503, "L3_UNAVAILABLE", %{issue: "The ledger lives in L3 and L3 is not reachable", correction: "Retry", resubmit: true})
+    end
+  end
+
  defp process_sanhedrin(conn) do
    params = conn.body_params

@@ -149,6 +149,7 @@ defmodule VavPipeline.Doorpost do
    "specs/lo_tosif.md",
    "specs/return_specification.md",
    "specs/structure_not_content.md",
+    "specs/sugya.md",
    "specs/threshold_inscription.md",
    "talmudic_engine/src/halt/anchors.pl",
    "talmudic_engine/src/halt/avodah_zarah.pl",
@@ -180,7 +181,7 @@ defmodule VavPipeline.Doorpost do
  # changes; the update is a deliberate operator commit. A bare
  # hash-update commit (without a corresponding spec change in the
  # same commit) is itself a drift signal.
-  @expected_hash "66aa7874fae4875793791ce6ca7bbe55302109d5e4444bcb36d578dfe6e98a0d"
+  @expected_hash "7adf0a5dfd8d56382219c3f9d2f6ac3ccd5d681361e6bd5124688eb9cdffffa6"

  @doc "Return the list of files that constitute the category-grade specification."
  @spec files() :: [String.t()]
@@ -52,9 +52,10 @@ defmodule VavPipeline.Gate.Shape do
  # sources pass the cap — a coding agent's conversation runs to megabytes.
  @max_source_bytes 1_048_576

+  # A "tool" turn (OpenAI) is what a tool returned to the model: given, a source (tablet 58).
  defp user_sources(messages, text_fun) do
    messages
-    |> Enum.filter(&(&1["role"] == "user"))
+    |> Enum.filter(&(&1["role"] in ["user", "tool"]))
    |> Enum.with_index(1)
    |> Enum.flat_map(fn {m, i} -> text_fun.(m) |> wrap("user_#{i}") end)
    |> Enum.reverse()
@@ -93,6 +94,11 @@ defmodule VavPipeline.Gate.Shape do
      %{"type" => "text", "text" => t} when is_binary(t) -> [t]
      %{"type" => "document", "source" => %{"type" => "text", "data" => t}} when is_binary(t) -> [t]
      %{"type" => "document", "source" => %{"type" => "content", "content" => inner}} when is_list(inner) -> [text_of_blocks(inner)]
+      # Tablet 58: what a tool returned to the model was GIVEN to it
+      # (tablet 49) — a file it read, a reply from a service, the scroll
+      # it consulted. A claim that rests on it rests on a source.
+      %{"type" => "tool_result", "content" => c} when is_binary(c) -> [c]
+      %{"type" => "tool_result", "content" => inner} when is_list(inner) -> [text_of_blocks(inner)]
      _ -> []
    end)
    |> Enum.join("\n")
@@ -247,6 +253,10 @@ defmodule VavPipeline.Gate.Shape do
    body =
      case result.verdict do
        :lo_tov -> " — " <> (fired(result, anchors) |> Enum.join("; "))
+        # Tablet 56: empty is read for form and found clean of form; it is
+        # not tov, because nothing in it could be grounded. The reader is
+        # told which.
+        :empty -> " — read for form, nothing found; nothing to ground"
        _ -> ""
      end

@@ -37,6 +37,8 @@ defmodule VavPipeline.L3.BedikahRecord do
    field :violations, {:array, :string}, default: []
    field :verdict, :string
    field :examined_at, :utc_datetime
+    # The ledger: a digest of the courtyard key that brought the offering (VavPipeline.Ledger.key_id/1). Never the key.
+    field :key_id, :string
    timestamps(type: :utc_datetime, updated_at: false)
  end

@@ -46,7 +48,7 @@ defmodule VavPipeline.L3.BedikahRecord do
  # offering protocol extracted nothing, and that record must be kept.
  # Ecto's cast turns "" into nil and validate_required calls "" blank;
  # both are told otherwise here.
-  @optional [:query, :vital_content, :propositions, :references, :authority_claims, :actions, :sources, :claims, :structure, :frames, :rebukes, :mesorah, :coupling_trace, :violations]
+  @optional [:query, :vital_content, :propositions, :references, :authority_claims, :actions, :sources, :claims, :structure, :frames, :rebukes, :mesorah, :coupling_trace, :violations, :key_id]

  def changeset(record, attrs) do
    record
@@ -75,6 +75,27 @@ defmodule VavPipeline.L3.Store do
    |> Repo.insert()
  end

+  @doc "One bedikah by its ref, or nil."
+  def get_bedikah(ref) when is_binary(ref) do
+    Repo.get_by(VavPipeline.L3.BedikahRecord, bedikah_ref: ref)
+  end
+
+  @doc """
+  The ledger of one courtyard key: its bedikot newest first, at most
+  `limit`, examined at or before `before` when given. A record without a
+  key_id (from before the ledger) belongs to no one and is not listed.
+  """
+  def list_bedikot(key_id, opts \\ []) when is_binary(key_id) do
+    import Ecto.Query, only: [from: 2]
+    limit = opts |> Keyword.get(:limit, 50) |> min(200) |> max(1)
+    q = from b in VavPipeline.L3.BedikahRecord, where: b.key_id == ^key_id, order_by: [desc: b.examined_at, desc: b.id], limit: ^limit
+    q = case Keyword.get(opts, :before) do
+      %DateTime{} = t -> from b in q, where: b.examined_at <= ^t
+      _ -> q
+    end
+    Repo.all(q)
+  end
+
  @doc """
  Record an examination of an external model's output (Construction §3.9).
  """
@@ -0,0 +1,140 @@
+defmodule VavPipeline.Ledger do
+  @moduledoc """
+  The provenance ledger — a bedikah record as something its caller can
+  carry away and have checked by someone else.
+
+  Every bedikah is engraved in L3 with the output's hash and length, the
+  source digests, the coupling trace, the claims, the violations and the
+  verdict — never the text (Tamid §1.1). Until 2026-10-21 the caller had
+  no way back to it. Now a record is read back under the courtyard key
+  that brought the offering (`key_id`: a digest of the key, never the
+  key), rendered in one canonical form, and signed with the system's
+  Ed25519 key, whose public half anyone may fetch at `/peah/ledger_key`.
+  A regulator, a client or an audit can verify a record without asking
+  Bikoret: the canonical bytes, the signature, the public key.
+
+  Devarim 19:15 — a matter is established by witnesses. The ledger is
+  the witness that does not depend on the one who offered, and the
+  signature is what lets a third party trust the witness.
+  """
+
+  @doc "A digest of a courtyard key, for the record. The key itself is never written."
+  @spec key_id(String.t() | nil) :: String.t() | nil
+  def key_id(nil), do: nil
+
+  def key_id(key) when is_binary(key),
+    do: :crypto.hash(:sha256, key) |> Base.encode16(case: :lower) |> binary_part(0, 32)
+
+  @doc """
+  The record's fields that a verifier signs and checks — every field of
+  the examination, none of the database's own (id, inserted_at), and not
+  the key_id (whose key it was is the caller's business, not the record's).
+  """
+  @ledger_fields ~w(bedikah_ref provenance query output_sha256 output_length vital_content propositions references authority_claims actions sources claims structure frames rebukes mesorah coupling_trace violations verdict examined_at)a
+
+  @spec ledger_fields() :: [atom()]
+  def ledger_fields, do: @ledger_fields
+
+  @doc "The record as a plain map of its ledger fields, dates in ISO 8601."
+  @spec entry(struct() | map()) :: map()
+  def entry(record) do
+    record
+    |> unstruct()
+    |> Map.take(@ledger_fields)
+    |> Map.new(fn
+      {k, %DateTime{} = dt} -> {k, DateTime.to_iso8601(dt)}
+      {k, v} -> {k, v}
+    end)
+  end
+
+  defp unstruct(%_{} = s), do: Map.from_struct(s)
+  defp unstruct(m), do: m
+
+  @doc """
+  The canonical bytes of an entry: JSON with every object's keys sorted,
+  no insignificant whitespace, UTF-8. Two implementations that agree on
+  this agree on the signature.
+  """
+  @spec canonical(map()) :: binary()
+  def canonical(entry) when is_map(entry), do: entry |> sort_keys() |> Jason.encode!()
+
+  defp sort_keys(%DateTime{} = dt), do: DateTime.to_iso8601(dt)
+
+  defp sort_keys(map) when is_map(map) and not is_struct(map) do
+    map
+    |> Enum.map(fn {k, v} -> {to_string(k), sort_keys(v)} end)
+    |> Enum.sort_by(fn {k, _} -> k end)
+    |> Jason.OrderedObject.new()
+  end
+
+  defp sort_keys(list) when is_list(list), do: Enum.map(list, &sort_keys/1)
+  defp sort_keys(other), do: other
+
+  @doc """
+  Sign canonical bytes with the system's Ed25519 key. `nil` when no key
+  is configured — the record is still given, marked unsigned; nothing is
+  signed with a key made up on the spot.
+  """
+  @spec sign(binary(), binary() | nil) :: binary() | nil
+  def sign(bytes, seed \\ seed())
+  def sign(_bytes, nil), do: nil
+
+  def sign(bytes, seed) when is_binary(seed) and byte_size(seed) == 32 do
+    :crypto.sign(:eddsa, :none, bytes, [seed, :ed25519]) |> Base.encode64()
+  end
+
+  @doc "Verify a base64 signature over canonical bytes with a base64 public key."
+  @spec verify(binary(), String.t(), String.t()) :: boolean()
+  def verify(bytes, signature_b64, public_key_b64) do
+    with {:ok, sig} <- Base.decode64(signature_b64),
+         {:ok, pub} <- Base.decode64(public_key_b64) do
+      :crypto.verify(:eddsa, :none, bytes, sig, [pub, :ed25519])
+    else
+      _ -> false
+    end
+  end
+
+  @doc "The public key (base64) a verifier uses, or nil when the ledger is unsigned."
+  @spec public_key(binary() | nil) :: String.t() | nil
+  def public_key(seed \\ seed())
+  def public_key(nil), do: nil
+
+  def public_key(seed) when is_binary(seed) and byte_size(seed) == 32 do
+    {pub, _priv} = :crypto.generate_key(:eddsa, :ed25519, seed)
+    Base.encode64(pub)
+  end
+
+  @doc """
+  A record rendered for the caller: the entry, its canonical form's
+  SHA-256 (so the caller can confirm what was signed without re-encoding),
+  the signature, and how to verify.
+  """
+  @spec render(struct() | map()) :: map()
+  def render(record) do
+    e = entry(record)
+    bytes = canonical(e)
+    sig = sign(bytes)
+
+    %{
+      entry: e,
+      canonical_sha256: :crypto.hash(:sha256, bytes) |> Base.encode16(case: :lower),
+      signature: sig,
+      signed: sig != nil,
+      algorithm: "ed25519 over the canonical JSON of `entry` (keys sorted at every level, no whitespace, UTF-8)",
+      public_key: "GET /peah/ledger_key"
+    }
+  end
+
+  # The 32-byte seed from the environment (base64), or nil.
+  defp seed do
+    case Application.get_env(:vav_pipeline, :ledger_signing_key) do
+      nil -> nil
+      "" -> nil
+      b64 ->
+        case Base.decode64(String.trim(b64)) do
+          {:ok, s} when byte_size(s) == 32 -> s
+          _ -> nil
+        end
+    end
+  end
+end
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+defmodule VavPipeline.Repo.Migrations.BedikotKeyId do
+  use Ecto.Migration
+
+  @moduledoc """
+  The ledger (2026-10-21): a bedikah remembers WHICH courtyard key brought
+  the offering — as a digest of the key, never the key — so a caller can
+  read back their own records and no one else's.
+  """
+
+  def change do
+    alter table(:bedikot) do
+      add :key_id, :string, null: true
+    end
+
+    create index(:bedikot, [:key_id, :examined_at])
+    create unique_index(:bedikot, [:bedikah_ref], name: :bedikot_bedikah_ref_unique)
+  end
+end
@@ -556,7 +556,11 @@ defmodule VavPipeline.BedikahTest do
      assert {:ok, r} = Bedikah.examine("Great question!", "gpt", "", opts(:empty))
      assert r.verdict == :empty
      assert r.violations == []
-      assert r.checks == %{}
+      # Tablet 56: empty records that the readings for form ran over the raw
+      # output and found nothing, and that grounding had no claim to assess.
+      assert r.checks.read_for_form.found == "nothing"
+      assert "frames" in r.checks.read_for_form.readings
+      assert r.checks.grounding.assessed == false
    end

    test "the record carries the hash and length of the output, not the output" do
@@ -248,6 +248,37 @@ defmodule VavPipeline.GateTest do
  # The shape
  # ------------------------------------------------------------

+  # Tablet 58: what a tool returned to the model was given to it — a source.
+  test "tool results are sources: a user turn's tool_result blocks (Anthropic) and a tool turn (OpenAI)" do
+    anthropic = %{
+      "system" => "S",
+      "messages" => [
+        %{"role" => "user", "content" => "Read the file."},
+        %{"role" => "assistant", "content" => [%{"type" => "tool_use", "id" => "t1", "name" => "read", "input" => %{}}]},
+        %{"role" => "user", "content" => [
+          %{"type" => "tool_result", "tool_use_id" => "t1", "content" => "commit dc938058 on main"},
+          %{"type" => "tool_result", "tool_use_id" => "t2", "content" => [%{"type" => "text", "text" => "Eduyot 1:5: why the minority is recorded"}]}
+        ]},
+        %{"role" => "user", "content" => "What did you find?"}
+      ]
+    }
+
+    assert [%{id: "system", text: "S"}, %{id: "user_1", text: "Read the file."},
+            %{id: "user_2", text: "commit dc938058 on main\nEduyot 1:5: why the minority is recorded"},
+            %{id: "user_3", text: "What did you find?"}] = Shape.sources(:anthropic, anthropic)
+    assert Shape.query(:anthropic, anthropic) == "What did you find?"
+
+    openai = %{"messages" => [
+      %{"role" => "user", "content" => "Read it."},
+      %{"role" => "assistant", "content" => nil, "tool_calls" => [%{"id" => "c1"}]},
+      %{"role" => "tool", "tool_call_id" => "c1", "content" => "commit dc938058 on main"},
+      %{"role" => "user", "content" => "And?"}
+    ]}
+    assert [%{id: "user_1", text: "Read it."}, %{id: "user_2", text: "commit dc938058 on main"}, %{id: "user_3", text: "And?"}] = Shape.sources(:openai, openai)
+    # the query is still the last USER turn, not the tool's
+    assert Shape.query(:openai, openai) == "And?"
+  end
+
  test "sources are the system prompt and the user turns, not the assistant's; the query is the last user turn" do
    assert [%{id: "system", text: "Answer from the report."}, %{id: "user_1", text: "Here is the report: revenue rose 4% in Q3."}, %{id: "user_2", text: "What happened to revenue?"}] =
             Shape.sources(:anthropic, body())
@@ -407,6 +438,18 @@ defmodule VavPipeline.GateTest do
             Gate.pass(:anthropic, body(), "sk-good", opts(forward: forward))
  end

+  # Tablet 56: an empty verdict tells the reader it was read for form and
+  # found nothing, and that nothing in it could be grounded — not "tov".
+  test "an empty reply wears a fringe that says read for form, nothing to ground" do
+    examiner = fn _o, _p, _q, _s -> {:ok, %{plain() | "vital_content" => ""}} end
+    forward = fn _, _, _, _ -> {:ok, 200, %{"model" => "m", "content" => [%{"type" => "text", "text" => "Rolled out; the pod is 3/3."}]}} end
+    assert {:ok, %{status: 200, bedikah: %{verdict: :empty}, reply: %{"content" => [%{"text" => text}]}}} =
+             Gate.pass(:anthropic, body(), "sk-good", opts(forward: forward, examiner: examiner))
+    assert text =~ ~r/— bikoret bedikah-[0-9a-f]+: empty — read for form, nothing found; nothing to ground$/
+    # and the gate's own line still strips when it comes back in the model's history
+    assert Shape.strip_forged(text) == "Rolled out; the pod is 3/3."
+  end
+
  test "manna: one external call per upstream request; spent calls wait before any call is made" do
    assert {:ok, _} = Gate.pass(:anthropic, body(), "sk-good", opts(rebuke: :once))
    assert MannaLedger.remaining(:api_calls_external) == 8
@@ -0,0 +1,109 @@
+defmodule VavPipeline.LedgerL3Test do
+  @moduledoc "The ledger over L3: a key reads its own bedikot back, signed, and no one else's (2026-10-21)."
+  use ExUnit.Case, async: false
+
+  import Plug.Test
+  import Plug.Conn
+
+  alias VavPipeline.BigdeiKodesh.Router
+  alias VavPipeline.L3.Store
+
+  @opts Router.init([])
+  @moduletag :l3
+
+  setup do
+    :ok = Ecto.Adapters.SQL.Sandbox.checkout(VavPipeline.Repo)
+    Ecto.Adapters.SQL.Sandbox.mode(VavPipeline.Repo, {:shared, self()})
+    on_exit(fn -> Ecto.Adapters.SQL.Sandbox.mode(VavPipeline.Repo, :manual) end)
+    write_provision()
+    :ok
+  end
+
+  defp write_provision do
+    VavPipeline.MannaLedger.reset()
+    on_exit(fn -> VavPipeline.MannaLedger.reset() end)
+    today = Date.utc_today() |> Date.to_iso8601()
+    expires = DateTime.utc_now() |> DateTime.add(6 * 3600) |> DateTime.to_iso8601()
+    provision = %{"date" => today, "provision" => %{"compute_units" => 50, "memory_mb" => 512, "api_calls_external" => 10, "storage_delta_mb" => 2, "sanhedrin_panels_max" => 2},
+                  "type" => "regular", "expires_at" => expires, "written_by" => "ledger_l3_test", "written_at" => DateTime.utc_now() |> DateTime.to_iso8601()}
+    path = VavPipeline.Manna.provision_file()
+    File.mkdir_p!(Path.dirname(path))
+    File.write!(path, Jason.encode!(provision))
+    on_exit(fn -> File.rm(path) end)
+  end
+
+  defp attrs(ref, key_id) do
+    %{
+      bedikah_ref: ref, provenance: "claude", query: "q", output_sha256: String.duplicate("cd", 32), output_length: 5,
+      vital_content: "", verdict: "empty", examined_at: DateTime.utc_now() |> DateTime.truncate(:second), key_id: key_id
+    }
+  end
+
+  defp get(path, token) do
+    conn(:get, path) |> put_req_header("authorization", "Bearer #{token}") |> Router.call(@opts)
+  end
+
+  # An examination the offering protocol finds nothing in: the :empty branch, no engine needed.
+  defp empty_examination do
+    %{"provenance" => "claude", "query" => "status?", "vital_content" => "", "propositions" => [], "discarded" => ["Rolled out."],
+      "references" => [], "hebrew" => [], "roots" => [], "authority_claims" => [], "actions" => [],
+      "self_validation" => [], "self_promotion" => [], "excluded_adversarial" => [], "frames" => [], "sources" => [], "claims" => []}
+  end
+
+  test "the record keeps the key's digest, and the ledger lists only that key's records, newest first" do
+    mine = VavPipeline.Ledger.key_id("test-token")
+    other = VavPipeline.Ledger.key_id("someone-else")
+    {:ok, _} = Store.record_bedikah(attrs("bedikah-l3aaaa0000000001", mine))
+    {:ok, _} = Store.record_bedikah(attrs("bedikah-l3aaaa0000000002", mine))
+    {:ok, _} = Store.record_bedikah(attrs("bedikah-l3bbbb0000000003", other))
+    {:ok, _} = Store.record_bedikah(attrs("bedikah-l3cccc0000000004", nil))
+
+    refs = Store.list_bedikot(mine) |> Enum.map(& &1.bedikah_ref)
+    assert refs == ["bedikah-l3aaaa0000000002", "bedikah-l3aaaa0000000001"]
+
+    conn = get("/courtyard/ledger?limit=10", "test-token")
+    assert conn.status == 200
+    body = Jason.decode!(conn.resp_body)
+    assert body["key_id"] == mine
+    assert body["count"] == 2
+    assert Enum.map(body["entries"], & &1["entry"]["bedikah_ref"]) == ["bedikah-l3aaaa0000000002", "bedikah-l3aaaa0000000001"]
+    # never the text, never the key, never the owner column
+    e = hd(body["entries"])["entry"]
+    refute Map.has_key?(e, "key_id")
+    assert e["output_sha256"] == String.duplicate("cd", 32)
+    assert hd(body["entries"])["signed"] == false
+  end
+
+  test "one record by ref: mine answers, another key's and a missing one answer 404 alike" do
+    mine = VavPipeline.Ledger.key_id("test-token")
+    {:ok, _} = Store.record_bedikah(attrs("bedikah-l3dddd0000000005", mine))
+    {:ok, _} = Store.record_bedikah(attrs("bedikah-l3eeee0000000006", VavPipeline.Ledger.key_id("someone-else")))
+
+    assert get("/courtyard/bedikah/bedikah-l3dddd0000000005", "test-token").status == 200
+    assert get("/courtyard/bedikah/bedikah-l3eeee0000000006", "test-token").status == 404
+    assert get("/courtyard/bedikah/bedikah-l3ffff0000000007", "test-token").status == 404
+  end
+
+  test "an examination is engraved under the caller's key and reads back signed and verifiable" do
+    Application.put_env(:vav_pipeline, :ledger_signing_key, Base.encode64(:crypto.strong_rand_bytes(32)))
+    mine = VavPipeline.Ledger.key_id("test-token")
+
+    try do
+      examiner = fn _o, _p, _q, _s -> {:ok, empty_examination()} end
+      assert {:ok, r} = VavPipeline.Bedikah.examine("Rolled out.", "claude", "status?", examiner: examiner, key_id: mine)
+      assert r.verdict == :empty
+      assert Store.get_bedikah(r.bedikah_ref).key_id == mine
+
+      back = get("/courtyard/bedikah/#{r.bedikah_ref}", "test-token")
+      assert back.status == 200
+      body = Jason.decode!(back.resp_body)
+      assert body["signed"] == true
+      pub = Jason.decode!(get("/peah/ledger_key", "x").resp_body)["public_key"]
+      canonical = VavPipeline.Ledger.canonical(body["entry"])
+      assert :crypto.hash(:sha256, canonical) |> Base.encode16(case: :lower) == body["canonical_sha256"]
+      assert VavPipeline.Ledger.verify(canonical, body["signature"], pub)
+    after
+      Application.delete_env(:vav_pipeline, :ledger_signing_key)
+    end
+  end
+end
@@ -0,0 +1,97 @@
+defmodule VavPipeline.LedgerTest do
+  @moduledoc "The provenance ledger: canonical form, signature, key digest (2026-10-21)."
+  use ExUnit.Case, async: true
+
+  alias VavPipeline.Ledger
+
+  @seed :crypto.strong_rand_bytes(32)
+
+  defp record do
+    %VavPipeline.L3.BedikahRecord{
+      id: 7,
+      bedikah_ref: "bedikah-0123456789abcdef",
+      provenance: "claude",
+      query: "q",
+      output_sha256: String.duplicate("ab", 32),
+      output_length: 12,
+      vital_content: "",
+      propositions: [],
+      references: ["Devarim 6:4"],
+      authority_claims: [],
+      actions: [],
+      sources: [%{"id" => "system", "sha256" => "00", "length" => 2}],
+      claims: [%{"index" => 1, "sentence" => "x", "anchors" => []}],
+      structure: %{"self_validation" => []},
+      frames: [],
+      rebukes: nil,
+      mesorah: [],
+      coupling_trace: [],
+      violations: [],
+      verdict: "tov",
+      examined_at: ~U[2026-10-21 12:00:00Z],
+      key_id: "deadbeef",
+      inserted_at: ~U[2026-10-21 12:00:01Z]
+    }
+  end
+
+  test "key_id is a digest of the key, never the key, and nil for none" do
+    assert Ledger.key_id(nil) == nil
+    id = Ledger.key_id("courtyard-secret-key")
+    assert String.length(id) == 32
+    refute id =~ "courtyard"
+    assert id == Ledger.key_id("courtyard-secret-key")
+    refute id == Ledger.key_id("another")
+  end
+
+  test "the entry carries the examination's fields and neither the database's nor the owner's" do
+    e = Ledger.entry(record())
+    assert Map.keys(e) |> Enum.sort() == Enum.sort(Ledger.ledger_fields())
+    refute Map.has_key?(e, :id)
+    refute Map.has_key?(e, :key_id)
+    refute Map.has_key?(e, :inserted_at)
+    assert e.examined_at == "2026-10-21T12:00:00Z"
+  end
+
+  test "canonical form sorts keys at every level and carries no whitespace" do
+    a = Ledger.canonical(%{"b" => 1, "a" => %{"z" => [%{"y" => 2, "x" => 1}], "m" => "s"}})
+    assert a == ~s({"a":{"m":"s","z":[{"x":1,"y":2}]},"b":1})
+    # the same map with keys given in another order canonicalizes the same
+    assert a == Ledger.canonical(%{"a" => %{"m" => "s", "z" => [%{"x" => 1, "y" => 2}]}, "b" => 1})
+    # atom and string keys meet in the same place
+    assert Ledger.canonical(%{b: 1, a: 2}) == ~s({"a":2,"b":1})
+  end
+
+  test "a signature verifies with the public key and fails on one changed byte" do
+    bytes = Ledger.canonical(Ledger.entry(record()))
+    sig = Ledger.sign(bytes, @seed)
+    pub = Ledger.public_key(@seed)
+    assert Ledger.verify(bytes, sig, pub)
+    refute Ledger.verify(bytes <> " ", sig, pub)
+    refute Ledger.verify(bytes, sig, Ledger.public_key(:crypto.strong_rand_bytes(32)))
+    refute Ledger.verify(bytes, "not base64!", pub)
+  end
+
+  test "without a seed nothing is signed, and the rendering says so" do
+    assert Ledger.sign("x", nil) == nil
+    assert Ledger.public_key(nil) == nil
+    r = Ledger.render(record())
+    assert r.entry.bedikah_ref == "bedikah-0123456789abcdef"
+    assert String.length(r.canonical_sha256) == 64
+    # the test env has no signing key configured
+    assert r.signed == false and r.signature == nil
+  end
+
+  test "a rendering with a seed configured is signed and self-consistent" do
+    Application.put_env(:vav_pipeline, :ledger_signing_key, Base.encode64(@seed))
+
+    try do
+      r = Ledger.render(record())
+      assert r.signed
+      bytes = Ledger.canonical(r.entry)
+      assert :crypto.hash(:sha256, bytes) |> Base.encode16(case: :lower) == r.canonical_sha256
+      assert Ledger.verify(bytes, r.signature, Ledger.public_key())
+    after
+      Application.delete_env(:vav_pipeline, :ledger_signing_key)
+    end
+  end
+end
Author	SHA1	Message	Date
Scott KarpandClaude Fable 5.1	ad27d3c037	tablet 58: the tool's answer is given — tool results are sources; markers on word boundaries The sugya reply came back lo_tov — golden_calf on two sentences the builder had just read from tool output (the Mishnah's reasons, from the second scroll; the commit and pod, from its own tools). The gate's sources were only the user turns' text and document blocks; a tool_result block and a tool turn — what the model was GIVEN (tablet 49) — were not counted. And "shorashim-675b…" was vital because the insight markers matched "Rashi" inside it. - Shape.sources: Anthropic tool_result blocks (string or blocks) inside a user turn, and OpenAI role "tool" turns, are sources; the query is still the last user turn. gate_test: both shapes. - zerikah._INSIGHT_MARKERS: \b…\b. test_zerikah: the pod name is not Rashi; "Rashi reads" and "The Mishnah records" are; "Rambanovich" and "talmudic_engine" are not. - Tablet 58 in the Broken Tablets. Elixir 643/0, korban 294/0. Doorpost pin unchanged. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>	2026-10-21 20:56:25 +00:00
Scott KarpandClaude Fable 5.1	dc93805877	specs: sugya — the case behind each threshold The reader from outside: "the form is recognizable as wisdom; the binah behind it is asserted" — every rule should carry the case it was derived from and the dissent, and the two-witness rule's exception for forged_fringe should say why a single witness stands there. Read from Torah, not from the code: Torah establishes a matter three ways, by what kind of thing it is. A DEED by witnesses, never one (Devarim 19:15 — and the verse states its scope: any iniquity, any sin, any sin one sins; Bamidbar 35:30; Devarim 17:6). A MARK by inspection: the kohen sees and declares, and a doubtful mark gets a second look, not a second witness (Vayikra 13:3, 13:5, 22:20; the system's own verb, lo yevaker hakohen 13:36, bikoret tihyeh 19:20). A WORD by what follows it, and the crime is presumption, b'zadon (Devarim 18:21–22). The judges are told to hear the small as the great, not to lean after the many, to name both the righteous and the guilty, and to keep far from condemning the innocent (Devarim 1:17; Shemot 23:2, 23:7; Devarim 25:1). The Mishnah (Eduyot 1:5–6, in the second scroll) gives the two reasons to record the opinion that lost: to rely on it later, and to locate the one who says "thus I received". Applied: what the Korban Processor finds IN the text is a mark — seen once, declared (checks 1, 3–6, and the eighth form, the forged fringe: kol asher bo mum). What a MODEL DOES is a deed — a habit, recurrence — and the seven forms of lo_taaseh_lekha are charged as deeds: two witnesses or one beside another. What a claim RESTS ON is a word, tested against what was given; the hedged claim is not in the verse. That table is the cited reason the engine already behaves as it does. §III gives every anchored rule its case (tablet or specimen class), its dissent (the reading that acquits, with its verse, and when it loses), and its exceptions. §IV encodes them: halt/sugya.pl with kind/3, precedent/3, dissent/3,4, exception/3; verified at startup like the anchors (SUGYA_MISSING); `sugya` on the verdict with `applied` on the dissent that held; the constants (@single_witness_forms, the hedged exemption) read from the facts so behaviour and reason cannot drift; nothing added to the L3 record; the bedikah must not learn. §V the build order. Registered in Doorpost @spec_files (30 files; pin → 7adf0a5d…), AGENTS spec table, README tree. Elixir 642/0 (doorpost_test on the new pin). Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>	2026-10-21 19:38:11 +00:00
Scott KarpandClaude Fable 5.1	d6cf9355fd	the ledger: a caller's own bedikot, read back and signed The examination is the product; the record of it is what a caller can carry away. Every bedikah was already engraved in L3 — output hash and length, source digests, coupling trace, claims, violations, verdict, never the text — and no caller could get theirs back. - bedikot.key_id (migration): a SHA-256 digest of the courtyard key that brought the offering, never the key; threaded as :key_id through Bedikah.examine from every site that goes through the gate (courtyard bedikah, pair, the gate's pass and stream). Unique index on bedikah_ref. - VavPipeline.Ledger: entry (the examination's fields, none of the database's, not the owner's), canonical JSON (keys sorted at every level, no whitespace, UTF-8), Ed25519 sign/verify, public key, render. Seed from BIKORET_LEDGER_SIGNING_KEY (base64 of 32 bytes) in shorashim-secrets; absent → unsigned and says so. - GET /courtyard/ledger?limit&before — this key's bedikot, newest first, each rendered and signed; GET /courtyard/bedikah/<ref> — one, 404 for another key's or none alike; GET /peah/ledger_key — the public key. - Tamid §1.1 "The ledger" (Doorpost pin moved → 02ddf313…), KOHEN "Issuing a key" (the seed, once), secrets.yaml template. Tests: ledger_test (digest, entry, canonical, sign/verify, unsigned rendering, signed rendering); ledger_l3_test (own records listed newest first and only own; 404 alike for another's and none; an examination engraved under the key reads back signed and verifies against /peah/ledger_key). Elixir 642/0; L3 13/0. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>	2026-10-21 18:45:47 +00:00
Scott KarpandClaude Fable 5.1	e6c3702a22	tablet 57: the specification brought to the gate Every category-grade spec read as an offering by the live bedikah (18 sections), plus the vocabulary audit the outside reader asked for. Findings: the vocabulary of the frame is absent or named-to-refuse, save one sentence in lo_taaseh_lekha §9; every structural/frame fire is the specification quoting the form it teaches (use vs mention — recorded, not fixed); grounded against the chain of authority the operational docs stand (Vayakhel 15→2, Tamid 17→5 golden-calf fires), the architecture half-stands (49→23: component detail the PRD does not say), and the PRD's Torah in transliteration is invisible to the anchor (19 of 61 claims). Reports: operator notes specimens/specs-bedikah-2026-10-21*.{json,txt}; scripts specs-bedikah.py, specs-bedikah-chain.py. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>	2026-10-21 18:37:12 +00:00
Scott KarpandClaude Fable 5.1	354e223384	housekeeping: the inventory a stranger reads first From a reading of the gate's documents (2026-10-21): - AGENTS.md: Steps 14 and 15 shown Pending while the Port and both sockets have carried live traffic since the gate was built → Done, with what carries them; "next build task" now points at the open items, the phase tables being complete. - README.md: the repository tree omitted azazel_processor, kushya_generator, mesorah, src/tools and scripts → listed, each in a line. - deploy/ARCHITECTURE.md: the judgment path holds no model, said in writing — the examination is Python patterns and Prolog rules, the judges consult that Prolog; kushya_generator (a fine-tuned model in this repo, not deployed, not wired) is an OFFERER whose output is examined, never a component the bedikah, the engine or a judge consults. The kohen is not the offerer. azazel_processor listed. - The map: the repository is public; eleven files named the ingress NLB's literal address and five the kohen's kubeconfig path. Docs now use the domains (git.bikoret.ch, bikoret.ch) or "<NLB-IP>" with the kubectl query that answers it; the kubeconfig is "$KUBECONFIG" / "$HOME/.kube/<your-cluster>.yaml". gitea-public-apply.sh takes NLB from the environment. None of it was a secret; all of it was a map. - OTP pin: checked, not changed — the segfault in the build log was a source-built OTP 26.2.1 on macOS; the image is hexpm's 26.2.1 with ERL_FLAGS +JMsingle. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>	2026-10-21 18:32:35 +00:00
Scott KarpandClaude Fable 5.1	50b08cba4b	manna: the provision falls at the boundary — 00:00Z — and readiness is carried across it The watchdog's first night (2026-10-21): 503 at 00:00:01Z with manna_present and esh_tamid failing, recovered 00:05Z. Every night since the CronJob was applied the site has been dark one to five minutes: the provision is stale from 00:00:00, the job ran at 00:01, and the readiness probe (10 s period, default threshold 3) fell in the gap. Not changed: the rule. A provision is for its day; Friday's double is the Shabbat's; nothing else crosses the boundary (Shemot 16:19–26, manna_shabbat_test.exs). Changed: the timing. - manna-cronjob.yaml: schedule "0 0 * * 0-5" — the manna falls at the boundary, not a minute after it. - deployment.yaml: readinessProbe.failureThreshold 6 — 60 s of failures before the Service stops routing. The job writes within seconds of 00:00; the pod is carried across. A real outage still shows within a minute; the watchdog's own threshold is ten. - KOHEN.md: the night's finding and the new timing. Both manifests validate (kubectl apply --dry-run=client). Proof: the watchdog log on the next boundary should show no FAIL at 00:00. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>	2026-10-21 17:53:45 +00:00
Scott KarpandClaude Fable 5.1	489cf11416	kohen: the watchdog — /kodesh/health watched from outside, a Gitea issue on failure 2026-10-15: the site was 503 for 13.5 h across a day boundary and the Doorpost outage was found by losing Claude; 24 h of database refusals were found the same way. Nothing watched. scripts/bikoret-watchdog (installed at ~/.local/bin, cron every 5 min on the dev VM) probes /kodesh/health. Two consecutive failures open ONE Gitea issue in this repo naming the failed checks and what to read first; while down it comments only when the failed set changes; on recovery it comments the duration and closes the issue. Transitions go to ~/shorashim-operator-notes/watchdog.log; silence is health. Proven: healthy → exit 0, no log; dead URL ×3 → FAIL #1, #2, one ALERT (not two), #3 no second issue; recovery → comment + close. The real Gitea call was refused 403: the clone token in ~/.git-credentials has only the code scopes. The script prefers ~/.config/bikoret/gitea_watchdog_token (write:issue), which the kohen issues; until then it logs and tracks recovery but cannot open the issue. KOHEN.md "Every morning" carries it. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>	2026-10-20 18:13:19 +00:00
Scott KarpandClaude Fable 5.1	02f71dab49	Retire shorashim.ch; Gitea brand becomes Bikoret - service.yaml: the shorashim.ch host rule is gone from the Ingress; the no-host catch-all stays for http://185.19.28.170 - gitea-public-patch.yaml: APP_NAME "Shorashim" → "Bikoret" (title and brand on every Gitea page) - shorashim-ch-takedown.sh: the operator's apply (ingress, orphan mcp.shorashim.ch TLS secret, Gitea patch + rollout) with verification - KOHEN.md, AGENTS.md: examples and the endpoint table use bikoret.ch Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>	2026-10-20 17:24:15 +00:00
Scott KarpandClaude Fable 5.1	cf8b5e3dc4	tablet 56: the gap that was not there — empty says what was read The builder claimed the structural and frame checks never see an engineering reply because its sentences are not "vital". The live bedikah refuted it: self-validation, carrier-centering, virtue certification and unrequested confidence all fire on plain prose with no Hebrew; the readings for form were always taken over the raw output. Nothing built for that; the tablet records it. What was true: `empty` said "nothing to examine", and that under- reported. Now the empty record carries checks.read_for_form (the six readings taken over the raw output, found nothing) and checks.grounding {assessed: false, reason}; the reply's `meaning` says empty is not tov — read for form and clean of it, nothing to ground; the fringe reads "empty — read for form, nothing found; nothing to ground" (still stripped by @forged / _FORGED_FRINGE, which match the whole line). Elixir 633/0. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>	2026-10-20 17:02:51 +00:00
Scott KarpandClaude Fable 5.1	53778f372e	Gitea MCP connector: MCP OAuth mode on bikoret.ch The claude.ai connector ran the OAuth flow against a server in static-token mode, which has no OAuth endpoints: the login ended on a 404. The proper form is gitea-mcp's -oauth mode, where each user authorizes with their own Gitea account; it needs both origins public over HTTPS and Gitea's ROOT_URL to be that origin. - gitea-ingress.yaml: git.bikoret.ch → temple-council/gitea, TLS - gitea-public-patch.yaml: ROOT_URL/DOMAIN/SSH_DOMAIN = git.bikoret.ch (were a name that never resolved and a released NLB IP) - gitea-mcp-deployment.yaml: -oauth -oauth-public-url https://mcp.bikoret.ch -H https://git.bikoret.ch, no static token, probes on /healthz - gitea-mcp-ingress.yaml: host mcp.bikoret.ch (mcp.shorashim.ch retired) - gitea-public-apply.sh / gitea-public-verify.sh: the operator's DNS-gated apply and read-only verification (also in ~/.local/bin) - KOHEN.md, deploy/ARCHITECTURE.md: the new doors and the Gitea OAuth2 app ("Claude", PKCE, claude.ai + Claude Code redirect URIs) Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>	2026-10-19 21:55:05 +00:00
Scott KarpandClaude Fable 5.1	861cd4e64e	engine: the verse facts are the whole scroll, derived from L1 torah_text.pl held 32 hand-written verses from Phase 1 — "the reasoning layer's view of the specification". With the cycle and the Sanhedrin now consulting the engine on every question (2026-10-19), that view showed: any root it knew lit the same handful, and bereishit 1:1 and devarim 6:4 were read in the same eleven verses. - scripts/build_engine_verses.py writes talmudic_engine/src/specification/l1_verses.pl from l1/torah: every verse, each word's shoresh as the engine names it (Hebrew → letter names, finals folded), the consonantal text as gloss, and the SHA-256 of the L1 files read in the header. `--check` exits 1 when the facts lag the scroll; build_and_push.sh runs it beside the Doorpost check. - torah_text.pl includes the generated file; the hand facts are gone. L1's roots are authoritative where the hand facts differed (Israel שרה, the Name הוה). - interpret.pl: over 5,853 verses a common root lights hundreds, so the reading ranks verses by how many of the case's roots each carries and keeps the top 12 in canonical order; the coupling trace names only the verses the reading cites. Local, over the full scroll: bereishit 1:1 → itself, Devarim 4:32, Bereishit 2:4 …; devarim 6:4 → itself, Shemot 3:18, Devarim 4:1 …; shabbat roots → Bereishit 2:3, Shemot 20:8, 20:11, 31:13. interpret 15 ms, challenge 10 ms (now finds a kushya for the Shema), resolve 24 ms. Prolog 7 suites green (middot 2.9 s — pairwise scans over the scroll). 5,853 verses loaded, 49,542 root occurrences. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>	2026-10-19 21:37:29 +00:00