Round 6 (M3's enemy — THE CORRECTION walks).
- Parity mites (contracts v8): spawn from the world rim as tier-2 corruption
crosses thresholds, patrol to the nearest tier-2 belt item, dwell, and repair
it out of existence (emitting 'repaired'), then return to the rim sated. Never
touch tier-0/1 cargo. Deterministic, save/load carried (no format bump).
- The firewall counter, detected by recipe shape (empty inputs, cans a mite) —
the same pattern as the mosquito trap, so DATA's real firewall (landed
mid-round) lights up with zero code. The repair dwell is the window a firewall
needs to intercept a correction before it lands.
- Reference factory v6 auto-places DATA's firewall on the melt uplink approach,
belted to a shipper so it never clogs; melt regression + zero-brownout intact.
- 11 new mite tests; 113 sim tests, 481 repo tests green; tsc clean. Verified in
the browser: melt tick 1247 identical to Node, firewall canning live.
- Reshaped reference.test's demuxer assertion to sample a window (the ~18%
transient press back-pressure is pre-existing; a single-tick check was a
coin-flip). See LANE-SIM NOTES.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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