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@minuscle minuscle released this 19 Aug 15:49
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No skills changed behaviour this release. The README did.

What changed

The README led with installation instructions and described the duck's temperament in the third
person. It now leads with what the collection buys you, and the two registers are separated: the
skills are dry, straightforward, and skeptical; the README's narrator is the one having fun.

Skills and The soul moved above Install. The mermaid flowchart became an ASCII map.
Status collapsed to a version and a link — the count it carried was hand-typed with nothing
checking it.

Manifest descriptions now read "the duck is skeptical, dry, and straightforward". That is a change
of meaning, not a spelling fix: the skills demand evidence, they do not distrust motives.
Separately, spelling normalized to American English across the collection, matching
duck-proof's own frontmatter.

What the gate caught

Four rounds. Eleven substantiated blockers, nine of them the ASCII map asserting handoffs that no
skill body supports — a duck-campaign connector invented three different ways, and conditional
stages drawn as unconditional, then bracketed, then explained, each fix generating the next
finding.

The circuit breaker fired twice. Both times the exit was deletion rather than a better
explanation: the campaign row left the diagram, then duck-plan and duck-break did. What
remains is the spine duck-run runs unconditionally, and one sentence that names the conditional
skills without restating a threshold that lives in their bodies — so it cannot go stale when one
changes.

The doer's receipts overclaimed in three consecutive rounds: a six-word grep reported as "zero UK
spellings remain", a grep result described rather than read, a line count reported as an
occurrence count. Each was caught by a reviewer, not by the doer. The receipt now cites captured
stdout and quotes it.

Gate record

Round OpenAI gpt-5.6-sol Google gemini-3.1-pro-high
r1 REJECT REJECT
r2 REJECT REJECT
r3 outage — out of credits REJECT
r4 seat waived by owner APPROVE

The OpenAI seat went to outage at r3. agy's gpt-oss-120b-medium was evaluated as a substitute
and rejected: it self-reports as Gemini, so it is either the seated family or of unknown identity,
and neither counts as decorrelated. The owner waived the second seat explicitly. r4 is a
single-family APPROVE under a recorded waiver, not a quorum.