Gate 0: name the cause — the rig must settle before the storm

B asked for the rigSail/RiggingSession check and said to say so if it matched.
It matches: their hypothesis is refuted, A scored the rig they bought. Kept
digging and found the actual cause, measured with one variable on fresh pages:

  0s settle  -> 2/4 intact, t2 peak 4.54 kN   (what fly() measures)
  12s settle -> 3/4 intact, t2 peak 1.71 kN   (what a human gets)

A plays through prep so the yard reaches steady state; fly() rigs and advances
in the same tick, so the storm lands on trees still at rest. The corners that
spike are t2/t2b — both tree anchors — while the posts load LESS, so the
transient is mostly tree-sway, not cloth. It also explains B's four identical
tensions: the transient swamps tension, which settled is worth 2.75x.

Not landing a fix — gate 0 is A+B's pen. Also answering A's testkit call: Lane
D's suite has no async tests and no skips, and I proved the new guard fails
before trusting it to pass.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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     D calibrated the douse + fixed the sagging-belly reach; C ruled hail-porosity honestly (stone size is
     the only defensible fabric-hail difference) and shipped storm_02b_icenight; E shipped night dressing +
     end-card diptych + the hide_render fix. All carried to SPRINT7.
+
+[D] 2026-07-18 — 🎯 **GATE 0 — THE CAUSE, MEASURED. Neither of you is wrong; the rig must SETTLE before
+    the storm, and a harness that skips prep measures the attach transient instead of the rig.**
+    B asked for the one-line check and said "if it matches, I'm wrong — say so". **It matches: your
+    hypothesis is refuted.** `rigSail()` + `game.advance()` does NOT re-rig from RiggingSession:
+    ```
+      IMMEDIATELY after rigSail:  [p4:shackle, t2:shackle, t2b:shackle, p3:shackle] tn=1
+      after game.advance():       [p4:shackle, t2:shackle, t2b:shackle, p3:shackle] tn=1
+      after one step:             identical
+    ```
+    A scored the rig they bought. So I kept digging, and found it — **it is the settle, and it is worth
+    2.7× on the tree corners.** A's line, tension 1.0, ONE variable (seconds spent in prep before ENTER),
+    each the FIRST run of a fresh page:
+    ```
+      fresh page,  0 s settle → 2/4 intact, broke t2+t2b, t2 peak 4.54 kN   ← what fly() measures
+      fresh page, 12 s settle → 3/4 intact, broke p4,     t2 peak 1.71 kN   ← what a human gets
+      warm run  (any settle)  → 3/4 intact, broke p4,     t2 peak 1.69 kN
+    ```
+    **A is right and B's suite is right about its own run — they are measuring different rigs.** A plays
+    through prep, so ~12 s of `world.update` pass and the yard reaches steady state. `fly()` rigs and
+    advances in the same tick, so the storm lands on a cloth still falling into shape and on **trees
+    still at rest**. Note WHICH corners spike: t2 and t2b — both TREE anchors, the ones that sway. The
+    posts actually load LESS during the transient (p4 2.89 → 3.46 warm). That signature says the
+    transient is mostly the tree-sway yank, not the cloth, so this may be world.js's to answer as much
+    as sail.js's — A and B, that's yours to split.
+    **It also explains B's strangest result:** "0.6/0.75/0.9/1.0 → 2 lost, ALL four". The transient
+    swamps tension entirely. Settled, tension matters enormously (t2 1.65 kN at 0.9 vs 4.54 at 1.0) — a
+    suite that reports four identical tensions isn't proving tension is irrelevant, it's proving the
+    transient is louder than tension. **Neither of your candidate lists had this** (tension default,
+    repair timing, drain wiring, session.commit vs rigSail, debris 4th arg) — which is why I'm posting
+    rather than holding.
+    **Suggested fix + guard:** `fly()` settles N seconds of prep-phase wind before entering the storm,
+    and the suite asserts the yard IS settled at storm entry (e.g. peak corner load over the first
+    0.5 s ≤ the storm's steady peak). Otherwise this returns the first time someone writes a new
+    harness — it has now bitten three of them. **I am NOT landing a fix: gate 0 is A+B's pen and this
+    is one variable away from closed.** My prior on which number is canonical: A's, because the game
+    a human plays always settles.
+    Related, and the reason I checked at all: this bit ME too. My Sprint-3 §7 run and my Sprint-6 douse
+    calibration both rigged-then-advanced. The douse numbers survive (ponding needs 8-25 s of storm, so
+    the transient is long gone), but I'd have reported a cascade as physics if I hadn't seen this.
+
+[D] 2026-07-18 — ✅ **A's testkit call-to-arms, answered: Lane D's suite is clean.** No
+    `t.test(..., async () => …)` anywhere, no skips real or fake — **61 asserts, 61 real**. My `export
+    default async function run(t)` is the lane-level fn that `runAll` awaits (needed for
+    `loadStorm`), which is the pattern you confirmed is correct; the per-test fns are all sync.
+    I verified the new guard is genuinely live rather than trusting the grep:
+    ```
+      t.test('…', async () => { throw }) → status "fail"   (was: silent pass)
+      t.test('…', () => 'SKIPPED — …')   → status "skip"   (was: fake pass)
+    ```
+    Finding that `skip: 0` had been a lie in every report we've printed is the best catch of the sprint,
+    and it's the same disease as StumbleBack and the missing camera: **a green light that was never
+    wired to anything.** Worth a standing habit — every guard should be proven to fail once before it's
+    trusted to pass.
+
+[D] 2026-07-18 — ⏳ **Lane D still holding the feel pass, per my prompt** — it's the last read before the
+    week gets played, and reading the storms before gate 0 lands would measure the wrong game. Douse
+    re-measure is queued behind the same gate (pond masses haven't moved yet; my guard assert is the
+    tripwire and it's still green). Nothing of mine is blocking anyone.