Dream Cycle 2026-10-01: brain-currency reconciliation — no new finding, backlog now 36 days

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Hypothesis

Not frozen — no candidate was produced tonight. Natural slot 20261001 % 5 == 1 →
brain-currency / SCAN dark-stores,corpus-freshness. This PR documents a bounded
reconciliation pass, not a new fix.

Candidate

None. Two files only: this report, and one appended docs/dream-cycle/LEDGER.md row.

Rotation override

main's LEDGER.md is stale (stuck 2026-08-31, 9 rows) and literally shows brain-currency
repeated ≥3 times, which the compiled instructions would read as "rotate to the next slot."
I did not rotate: real GitHub history (label:dream-cycle, 18 PRs 2026-09-07..09-30) shows
brain-currency is actually the least-mined surface (1 night + 2 reconciliations) versus
3-4 each for cross-host-conformance / memory-durability / grounding-quality /
enforcement-integrity. Rotating on the stale signal would have worsened the real imbalance.

Deep Dive / Ledger Check

• main's ledger stuck 36 days; zero dream/* PRs merged since fix(store-root): rootNeverMaterialized() distinguishes ENOTDIR/EACCES too, not just ENOENT #178 (2026-08-26); 18 open,
  oldest 24 days.
• Issue [Dream Cycle 2026-09-06] brain-currency: forge-currency's brainKnownSet() still reads SOURCE.json from this checkout, not root + dark-stores,corpus-freshness scan #260 (forge-currency.mjs SOURCE_PATH): still open, still live on main, and now
  has two duplicate draft PRs proposing the identical fix — fix(forge-currency): brainKnownSet() reads SOURCE.json from root, not this checkout #280 (refreshed 09-26) and Dream Cycle 2026-09-26: brain-currency — revives #260's stale-closed forge-currency SOURCE.json fix #328
  (opened same night) — confirmed by diff, not assumed.
• Issue [Dream Cycle 2026-09-06] brain-currency: panelStrict freshness reads checkout mtime, not the panel's own recorded time + dark-stores,corpus-freshness scan #258 (brain-score.mjs panel-freshness write side): was incorrectly closed by
  PR Dream Cycle 2026-09-26: brain-currency — revives #260's stale-closed forge-currency SOURCE.json fix #328 the same night (citing commit 12f8bf1, which git show --stat proves never touched
  the relevant files) and correctly reopened by a concurrent firing of this same routine. Its fix,
  PR Dream Cycle 2026-09-16: brain-currency — panelStrict generatedAt write-side completion (#258) #292, has a real (non-mechanical) Vercel-redirect-regex conflict that needs a human call —
  already flagged twice.
• Searched for a new, non-duplicate defect: traced the one corpus-coverage code path merged
  since the last brain-currency night (e76a182, ADR-0091 D5, 2026-09-28 — storeOutcomes
  threaded from corpus-reconcile.mjs into source-coverage.mjs's classifyRepository()) for
  the alias/case-mismatch bug class that has recurred ≥6 times on this surface. Both sides key off
  the identical storeName(repo.storeName || repo.name) derivation — no independent map to drift.
  Clean, no defect.

Evaluation Receipt

No candidate to evaluate. Every claim above verified directly (git show --stat, grep, source
reads, GitHub MCP pull_request_read/issue_read) against tonight's real main tip, not inferred
from prior PR descriptions.

Baseline

main@94bd932f8c6fbd01e66c09191b5cb575d8e8353a.

Darwin Lineage

Not run — no candidate.

Evidence

OBSERVATION (stale ledger; 18 open dream-cycle PRs; #260 duplicated; #258 wrongly closed and
self-corrected) → MEASUREMENT (direct GitHub-state + source checks, not assumed) → DECISION
(INCONCLUSIVE for a new finding; no new issue; recommend human triage).

Reward-Hack Check

Not applicable — no test, benchmark, or threshold touched.

Security Review

Not applicable — no candidate code.

Regression Analysis

None — doc-only change. node scripts/doc-currency.mjs --check run; all failures are pre-existing
ADR-staleness findings unrelated to docs/dream-cycle/LEDGER.md or this report (no ADR governing
this file appears in the failure list).

ADR

None — no architectural decision tonight.

Gist

LOCAL — no gh CLI or gist-creation tool available this session; not fabricated. Full report:
docs/dream-cycle/2026-10-01-brain-currency-reconciliation-report.md.

Issue

NONE — ISSUE DISPOSITION OVERRIDE: both tracked defects (#258, #260) are already open, already
fixed, and blocked on human review, not on more research.

Witness

SESSION_COMMIT = 94bd932f8c6fbd01e66c09191b5cb575d8e8353a
REPORT_HASH    = ef8f7706e4df96dc2550431605b710a9f96adc1f7356c49f2fab4a8809198685
WITNESS        = ad6a57ddb8e8d291c8145d75adfda88f5932c50c4cd6f70e5b625f82219481be

Recommendation (for the repo owner, priority order)

1. Triage fix(forge-currency): brainKnownSet() reads SOURCE.json from root, not this checkout #280 vs Dream Cycle 2026-09-26: brain-currency — revives #260's stale-closed forge-currency SOURCE.json fix #328 — both fix issue [Dream Cycle 2026-09-06] brain-currency: forge-currency's brainKnownSet() still reads SOURCE.json from this checkout, not root + dark-stores,corpus-freshness scan #260 identically. Close Dream Cycle 2026-09-26: brain-currency — revives #260's stale-closed forge-currency SOURCE.json fix #328 as duplicate, review/merge
   fix(forge-currency): brainKnownSet() reads SOURCE.json from root, not this checkout #280.
2. Resolve PR Dream Cycle 2026-09-16: brain-currency — panelStrict generatedAt write-side completion (#258) #292's Vercel redirect-regex conflict — a genuine human judgment call blocking
   issue [Dream Cycle 2026-09-06] brain-currency: panelStrict freshness reads checkout mtime, not the panel's own recorded time + dark-stores,corpus-freshness scan #258; dream-cycle nights have correctly declined to guess at it twice now.
3. Bulk-triage the remaining ~15 open dream-cycle drafts (oldest 24+ days). This is the fourth
   consecutive brain-currency-surface night to flag this; tonight adds concrete evidence the cost is
   now active duplication and at least one factual bookkeeping error, not just idle inventory.

Merge Policy

Human review required. This session never self-merges and never autonomously promotes candidate
state — draft PR, autoMerge: false.

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