The unit separator that joins protocol ids sat in the source as a literal
U+001F: once in `cultmesh-authority.ts` and twice in its test. Every editor,
every diff and every review renders it as nothing, so `join("")` reads as a
join on the empty string and the transcript looks wrong to anyone checking it
against the C# reference, which spells the same separator as an escape.
The bytes were right, which is exactly why nothing caught it.
The three become escapes. The bytes do not move: the C#-written and the
TypeScript-written route vectors both still verify through the shared module,
and the sorted-transcript test still builds the same expected bytes.
A new test reads both files and refuses any byte below 0x20 that is not LF or
CR, so the class recurs loudly rather than silently. It earned its keep on the
first run by catching a literal U+001F in the comment introducing it.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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