Two findings from the fifth review.
The pre-token fallback re-opened the hole
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A reading that has never been edited has no token. The guard fell back
to the gravity check for those, and a comment-only correction leaves the
gravity unchanged - so a late thread's write matched and overwrote the
fresh advice, for exactly the 47 existing readings.
Reproduced live before the fix:
pre-token reading token: None -> stale thread carries ""
fresh write modified: 1
stale write modified: 1 <<< stale advice overwrote the fresh one
final advice: 'STALE ADVICE'
The guard now matches on the ABSENCE of a token, which still tells the
generations apart: an edit writes a token, so a stale thread's "" stops
matching the moment the reading is corrected.
fresh write modified: 1 (must be 1)
stale write modified: 0 (must be 0)
The stripper could empty real advice
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"Actually the drop is fine.\\n\\nWait a couple of days and check again."
is advice, and judging it paragraph by paragraph emptied it - so the
brewer saw nothing at all, with no failure note.
The test is no longer a marker list, which real advice often does not
contain. A reply is all-working when it is LONG and has no instruction
in it: the model's working runs to thousands of characters, while the
advice is two to five sentences.
short reply with no marker -> kept
long reply, no instruction -> dropped
long reply with advice -> advice kept
single-paragraph working -> dropped
Also: the log message named the gravity, but the guard is the token.
182 tests (up from 178).
hermes
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