The version tag could not be recorded where the ruling said, because the
stored value is validated to a bare sha256 shape by a pinned dependency in
another repository. Hands implemented an equivalent implicit version read,
flagged the divergence, and asked whether proceeding was right. It was: the
ruling named a mechanism, the hazard was live, and halting would have left the
fleet exposed.
Five tests prove it by failing without the fallback, which is the point, since
the whole finding was that nothing had ever exercised the stored path.
The frozen-source digest turned out to have the same exposure through a
narrower window, and this cut's own sixth and seventh batches crossed it
twice. Same answer applied, with the prior shapes reproduced from git history
rather than from memory.
Hands also spotted a third instance and declined to chase it: the systemd
actuator compares a raw content-only digest read through procfs against a
stored value now carrying mode, gid and xattr terms. Two different algorithms
compared to each other, which is the same defect a third time. Flagged for its
own look rather than guessed at.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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