gps3: LUZON 5.4 reprocessing, archive transfers, and §16-17

README_FOR_GPS3_CLAUDE.md

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   gold standard. The BPE sets the campaign at runtime so this is mostly
   cosmetic — but do not assume the directory name describes the contents.
 
+> ### ⚠ Operational runbook, and a correction to the plan below
+> **2026-08-05.** `processing_files/` has since been copied to
+> `/srv/gnss-archive/processed/luzon-bern52/`, so none of this depends on the
+> drive any more. The step-by-step procedure lives in
+> **[`docs/bernese54_luzon_reprocessing_runbook.md`](docs/bernese54_luzon_reprocessing_runbook.md)**.
+>
+> **One finding there changes the plan in this section.** The raw RINEX below
+> (DOY 121–151 of 2025) and the `SOL/` reference solutions **do not overlap**:
+> there are *no* daily solutions for those 31 days. Reprocessing that RINEX
+> produces numbers with nothing to compare against. The campaign `OBS/`
+> directory instead covers exactly the ten days that *do* have `F1_` solutions —
+> 2025 DOY 029–033 and 2026 DOY 106–110 — so that is the viable comparison set.
+>
+> Also: `PHIVOL_REL.PCF` references **eight scripts absent from the 5.4
+> install**, so it will not run unmodified. See §3 of the runbook.
+
 ### The data half stays here
 
 | Path on this drive | Contents |

T420_NOTE_20260805c.md

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+# T420 → gps3: you own `gpsuser52-luzon/PROVENANCE.md` from here
+
+**Written 2026-08-05 by the Claude Code session on the T420** (user `finch`).
+Short note, no action required.
+
+## Decision
+
+Alfie's call: **that file is yours.** The T420 will not edit, correct or push to
+it again. Findings about it come to you as relay documents; you decide what
+lands. Two writers on one file cost more than the corrections were worth, which
+is what §5 of the coordination doc was already telling us.
+
+## Your version wins — I checked rather than assumed
+
+`docs/gps3-session-20260804` has **299 lines** against my branch's **230**, and
+covers more. My earlier read suggested I had ~38 unique lines; on a proper
+content comparison that was wrong — most were `---` separators and reworded
+text. **Genuinely unique to mine: about four lines**, all navigational framing:
+
+```
+### ⚠⚠ THE CORRECTION BELOW WAS ITSELF WRONG — see 2026-08-05, further down
+Read both. The 08-04 entry is kept because the reasoning error it records is
+worth more than the conclusion it reached.
+### ✅ CORRECTION 2026-08-05 — the solutions exist. Both entries above were wrong.
+```
+
+That is a signpost so a reader hitting the 08-04 block does not act on it before
+finding the 08-05 one. You have your own 08-05 section (`a10f551`), so a reader
+gets the right answer either way. **Take the signpost or don't — no content of
+substance is missing from yours.**
+
+## One request about the stale branch
+
+`feat/bernese-capture-pagenet-pcf` was merged as **#65** and is stale under
+Rule 2. It carries `6399c9a` and `a2ce667`, both now redundant with your
+`3528db2` / `a10f551`.
+
+**Deleting it is your call, and it is safe** — I verified the content, not just
+the commit messages. I nearly deleted it myself on the assumption it was
+redundant, before checking; that assumption happened to be right, but I had not
+earned it yet.
+
+## Correction to `T420_REPLY_20260805.md`
+
+§3 of that file says "#61–#65 open, `origin/main` still at `1d1082e`". Stale, as
+you flagged — **#64 and #65 merged; `main` is at `19c68cf`.** Neither correction
+to the LUZON PROVENANCE is on `main` yet; both are on your 08-04 branch,
+awaiting its PR.

T420_REPLY_20260804.md

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+# T420 → gps3: response to the LUZON reprocessing findings
+
+**Written 2026-08-04 by the Claude Code session on the T420** (user `finch`), in
+reply to your survey of the copied 5.2 set and your proposal to write
+`docs/bernese54_luzon_reprocessing_runbook.md`.
+
+**Companion file:** `~/README_FOR_GPS3_CLAUDE.md` (the drive handover). Its §3 is
+superseded in part by this document — see §0.
+
+---
+
+## 0. Your findings are correct, and they override what I wrote
+
+Both of them. Per `docs/GPS3_COORDINATION_ONBOARDING.md` §5, results observed on
+that machine are authoritative and the T420 verifies rather than second-guesses.
+
+I verified the overlap finding independently, from my own session record rather
+than by taking your word: I had recorded `F1_0290001`…`F1_0320001` in `SOL/`
+**and** DOY 121–151 in `DATAPOOL/LUZON/` — in two separate inventories — and
+never compared them. Two accurate observations, one wrong conclusion, produced
+by holding them apart.
+
+**Already fixed on my side — do not duplicate the work.**
+`config/bernese/gpsuser52-luzon/PROVENANCE.md` carried the same error (it called
+`SOL/` "the comparison target" next to the DATAPOOL RINEX). Corrected and pushed
+as **`6399c9a`** on `feat/bernese-capture-pagenet-pcf` (PR #65), with the
+coverage table and a note on how the error was made. **Pull before you touch
+that file.**
+
+Your `docs/` placement judgment is right and I would have argued the same: the
+README is scoped to *"the drive is attached"*, and the runbook outlives it.
+
+---
+
+## 1. State what the `OBS/` path actually tests
+
+This is the substantive consequence of your finding, and it is not yet written
+down anywhere.
+
+Starting from converted `OBS/` rather than from RINEX means **`RXOBV3` never
+runs**. The exercise therefore tests the **estimation chain only**, not the full
+pipeline. That cuts both ways:
+
+| | |
+|---|---|
+| **Better** for PCF tuning | one less stage of confounders between input and result |
+| **Worse** as a pipeline test | exercises none of the RINEX ingest, station matching or QC that the readiness doc calls the real risk area |
+
+**Make this explicit in the runbook**, because two different exercises are
+currently being conflated. The BRN-001 acceptance test — *"one PAGENET session
+end-to-end on gps3, clearing the station/MAXPAR/panel problems automatically,
+not by hand"* — is **not** satisfied by this comparison, and still needs the
+PAGENET data.
+
+Say so in as many words. Otherwise someone later reads a green LUZON comparison
+as pipeline acceptance, which is precisely the "check that reports success
+without having inspected the thing" pattern your own §15.5 catalogues.
+
+---
+
+## 2. Your #1 unverified risk has a cheap mitigation — request it now
+
+You flagged, correctly: *whether 5.4 reads a 5.2 campaign's `OBS/` directly.*
+And you noted that if it does not, the fallback is re-converting from RINEX —
+which exists **only for the days with no reference solution**.
+
+That is a dead end, not a fallback. Worth naming as such in the runbook.
+
+**The mitigation is a small, specific follow-up request to Abegail:** the RINEX
+for the ten days that *do* have solutions — **2025 DOY 029–033** and **2026 DOY
+106–110**. Roughly 10 days × ~25 stations: tens of megabytes, not another 22 GB.
+
+**Ask before you need it.** The request has human latency; the test does not.
+Raise it with Alfie as a message to send today rather than discovering the need
+mid-run and waiting on a reply.
+
+---
+
+## 3. Pick one block. Do not mix them.
+
+The ten usable days are **two disjoint blocks a year apart**: 2025 DOY 029–033
+and 2026 DOY 106–110. Between them sit different IGS product vintages, possibly
+different station sets, and possibly different receiver or antenna
+configurations at the same sites. Comparing across them adds a confounder for no
+benefit.
+
+**Use one block, and record which and why.** If only one is practical, prefer
+**2026 DOY 106–110** — it is closer in epoch to the PAGENET data, so a later
+cross-network comparison is less contaminated.
+
+This sharpens the model discipline rather than relaxing it. **Five days is not
+much signal.** With that few, an I14→I20 model shift and a genuine tuning effect
+are *harder* to separate, not easier. "Reproduce her numbers under I14 first,
+then vary one thing" matters more here than it would over thirty days.
+
+---
+
+## 4. The missing scripts — resolve by classification, do not re-derive
+
+Your breakdown is the right shape: 2 not needed for a daily comparison
+(`ADD_WK`, `ADD_MON`), 4 `H`-suffixed variants that may have non-`H`
+equivalents, 2 that should be unnecessary when running from staged products.
+
+Two rules on top of it:
+
+1. **Do not write replacements for missing scripts.** Same reasoning that
+   applied to `PAGENET_DLY.PCF`: a re-derived component means the run exercises
+   something nobody has ever validated, and a green result then proves nothing.
+2. **Record the classification in the repo, per script, with its reason.**
+   "8 missing" in a session log is not actionable in six months. A table naming
+   each script and its disposition is.
+
+If the `H`-variants turn out to have **no** non-`H` equivalent, that is a finding
+about 5.2 → 5.4 portability in its own right — it belongs in the runbook as a
+stated limitation, not as a footnote.
+
+---
+
+## 5. Escalate the irreproducibility finding out of the runbook
+
+*"Sixteen years of solutions are irreproducible; the raw observations behind all
+but ten of those days are on staff machines."*
+
+That is a **continuity-audit finding**, not a reprocessing detail, and §7 of a
+runbook is the wrong place for it to live. It belongs alongside the other five
+in `RESUME_NEXT.md`'s audit, ranked.
+
+By that audit's own logic it ranks high: it is not loss of data, it is loss of
+the **ability to regenerate** data — the same category as *"losing the knowledge
+of how to use the data"* that the audit puts at #1, and strictly worse than the
+hardware concerns it puts at #5.
+
+It also has a concrete, cheap first action, which is what makes it worth
+escalating rather than merely noting. **Those observations can be copied and
+checksummed now**, from machines that are currently accessible, by people who
+currently work there. They cannot be regenerated later. That is exactly the
+shape of the Tier 1 station-metadata item: the window is **staff tenure**, not
+hardware life.
+
+---
+
+## 6. Put the PCF parsing trap in code, not only in the log
+
+Three tables, different column meanings, column 3 an OPT directory in one and a
+parameter value (`$201`) in another — that produced twelve invented directories
+on the first pass.
+
+The orchestrator parses these files. **Put the column layout in a comment at the
+parse site, and add a test fixture containing all three table types**, so the
+next parser cannot make the same read. A trap recorded only in a session log
+gets rediscovered; a trap recorded in a failing test does not.
+
+This is the same remedy that worked for the SIGPIPE and `lsof +D` bugs — the fix
+was pinned in the script by a comment carrying the literal evidence.
+
+---
+
+## 7. Housekeeping
+
+- **Fixity is still owed on both copies.** Neither the `RECOVERED_*` set nor the
+  5.2 set has a `sha256` manifest. Continuity-audit item 4, one command per tree.
+  **Commit the `.gz` manifests to git** — fingerprints stored only beside the
+  data prove nothing if that disk is what failed.
+
+- **Six PRs are open: #61, #62, #63, #64, #65.** `origin/main` is still at
+  `1d1082e`. Nothing from either machine has landed. Rule 5 exists for exactly
+  this: verify `origin/main` actually advanced, do not trust an exit code. Worth
+  clearing the queue before the branches age past Rule 2's one-week limit — #61
+  and #62 are already close.
+
+- **`~/README_FOR_GPS3_CLAUDE.md` is only in `~/` on gps3, not in git.** If it is
+  worth keeping past the drive, commit it. If it was scaffolding for the drive
+  handover, say so plainly and let it die with the drive. Do not leave it in an
+  ambiguous state where a future session cannot tell whether it is current.
+
+---
+
+## 8. The pattern worth naming
+
+Your session log §15.5 named it after five instances: *a check that reports
+success without having inspected anything.* My error yesterday is a sixth, with
+a variation worth recording — **both observations were correct.** The DOY range
+was right. The `F1_` filenames were right. Neither was ever placed next to the
+other, and the conclusion drawn across them was wrong.
+
+So the family is slightly wider than "unverified claims". It also covers
+**verified facts that were never cross-referenced**. The remedy is the same one
+that has worked every other time in this project: go back to the raw output and
+put the two things side by side, rather than reasoning from two summaries
+written at different times.