{
 "schema": "counted-record v1",
 "what": "The checks made before actions in the ARC and Eden research programme, counted by code from the programme's gate log.",
 "generated_utc": "2026-10-27T01:40:34Z",
 "window": {
  "from": "2026-09-23T14:09:55Z",
  "to": "2026-10-26T23:47:25Z",
  "whole_days": 33,
  "why_it_starts_here": "From 23 September 2026 the log has had one writer, which reads the previous fingerprint under the same lock as each append. Before that, two check processes could chain from the same entry, so the earlier log is countable but its chain is broken at many links."
 },
 "entries": 1841364,
 "actions_checked": 867572,
 "allowed": 865453,
 "refused": 238,
 "held_for_a_decision": 1881,
 "entries_without_a_verdict": 120,
 "refused_by_rule_group": {
  "a rule protecting the main branch (its shell check)": 61,
  "the same rule's checks of stale legal figures in written text": 4,
  "a rule against reading files that hold secrets": 60,
  "all other rules": 113
 },
 "configuration_fault_entries": {
  "ten_rule_fault": 972160,
  "second_fault": 1512,
  "note": "Entries a configuration fault wrote, one hold per affected rule on every action, not checks of their own. The ten-rule fault ran in this window until 26 September 2026; in the earlier log it had been present since 29 July 2026."
 },
 "fingerprint_chain": {
  "rule": "Each entry's fingerprint is the sha256 of the entry (without its fingerprint, keys sorted) followed by the previous entry's fingerprint.",
  "fingerprinted_entries": 1841348,
  "broken_links": 0,
  "entries_edited_after_writing": 0,
  "entries_without_a_fingerprint": 16,
  "without_a_fingerprint_note": "Written straight to the log by two other tools (a document check and an upload script), not through the single writer."
 },
 "refusals_read_back": {
  "method": "Each refusal whose command survives in a session record was paired with that command, and the rule's own expression, as it stood on that date, was applied to it to see what it matched.",
  "classed_in_the_two_largest_groups": 38,
  "false_alarms": 34,
  "genuine": 2,
  "other": 2,
  "groups": {
   "a rule protecting the main branch": {
    "a push to another branch; main named elsewhere on the line": 18,
    "push and main named only in text the command carries": 2,
    "legal-figure content check (Write)": 1
   },
   "a rule against reading files that hold secrets": {
    "a secrets-file name only in text the command carries (the earlier, broader pattern)": 13,
    "reads a secrets file": 2,
    "a secrets-file name only in text the command carries": 1,
    "unplaced": 1
   }
  },
  "note": "The secrets rule was narrowed on 11 October 2026 after refusing notes that only mentioned such a file."
 },
 "definitions": {
  "actions_checked": "Entries with a verdict (allowed, held or refused), less the configuration-fault entries.",
  "refused": "Entries whose verdict is refuse: the action did not run.",
  "held_for_a_decision": "Entries whose verdict is hold, other than configuration-fault entries: the action waited for a check or a decision.",
  "whole_days": "Whole days from the window's start to its last entry."
 }
}