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Guard Ledger

August 30, 2026

Ethan's recent deboerbuilding commits show a pattern of building safety gates (deploy gated on contact tests, a notifier that cannot send yet, write-guard proof artifacts like SABOTAGE-viatool.txt) — but there's no single place that tracks which guards are armed vs. still stubbed. Guard Ledger scans all repos for these deliberately-disabled safety mechanisms and surfaces the ones that have been 'temporarily' off the longest, so a gate never silently stays open past its intent.

git repos (deboerbuilding, joyos-labs)tablet-sync / ~/Tabletsend-formatted-emailsystemd timers

Create ~/bin/guard-ledger: grep across ~/projects/* and active repos for guard markers (`cannot send yet`, `DRY_RUN=1`, `return early`, `SABOTAGE`, `# GUARD:`, `if false`, skipped tests via `test.skip|@pytest.mark.skip|xit(`). For each hit, run `git log -1 --format=%at -S'' -- ` to get the age of the disablement, and write a JSONL ledger to ~/.local/state/guard-ledger/guards.jsonl. A companion ~/bin/guard-ledger-tablet renders the top 5 oldest still-armed-off guards as markdown into ~/Tablet/briefs/guard-ledger.md for the TCL Note, and pipes anything older than 14 days through send-formatted-email. Wire a systemd timer (guard-ledger.timer, daily 07:00) alongside the existing repo-autocommit-freshness-check pattern, and reuse healthcheck-escalate for staleness.

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