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+# Corrections for `mermaid/TestAutomationV2.mmd`
+
+Written 2026-08-06 against the diagram as it stood that morning. The diagram
+is not edited here on purpose: it is being maintained in parallel, so this is
+the change list rather than a patch.
+
+The structure holds. The trust boundary, the gate chain, the action registry
+and the output taxonomy are all still accurate. What follows is what tonight's
+work invalidated.
+
+## Nodes that are now factually wrong
+
+**`collector`** says *"Keeps the head and tail"* and *"Keeps the earliest
+useful failure regions"*. Earliest-first selection was the defect: on a long
+pipeline the byte budget was consumed entirely by successful tool output, and
+the enforced failure never reached Hermes. Replace with:
+
+```
+Ariadne evidence collector
+Reads the full console up to 2 MB
+Ranks failure regions by evidence strength
+A definite failure outranks a tool that merely ran
+Ignores passing test lines that quote failures
+Merges repeats and overlapping context
+```
+
+**`repair_fixture`** says *"Creates one scoped Job"*. It no longer does. The
+repair is an in-process ConfigMap patch; no pod is created.
+
+**`candidate_files`** says *"Ranks the earliest hints first"*. It now also
+reads the failing test and follows its imports to the module under test, which
+is what made a pull request on a real service repository possible at all:
+
+```
+Candidate file selection
+Uses path and line hints from failure regions
+Reads the failing test as context
+Follows its imports to the module under test
+Reading is wider than writing: a test is readable, never patchable
+```
+
+**`action_scope`** says *"No real service classification maps to a mutation"*.
+No longer true. `retry_transient_infra` is allowlisted for every allowlisted
+job, so a real service can now receive an action - a Jenkins rebuild.
+
+**`timings`** - the fixture loop is not four minutes. Measure from the red
+build, not from arming, because arming depends on the agent pool:
+
+```
+Red -> fixture patched healthy: 25s
+Red -> rebuild green and incident resolved: 1m04s
+```
+
+**`examples`** - supersede with the stronger 2026-08-06 results, including
+`ariadne/409` opening a real pull request with the correct one-line fix.
+
+## Structurally misleading
+
+**The `route` decision reads as three exclusive branches.** It is not. An
+escalating incident attempts a code proposal *and* files an issue *and* stays
+`human_required`. A pull request rides along on the escalation; it never
+replaces the issue. As drawn, a reader concludes one substitutes for the
+other.
+
+**`branch_build` overstates coverage.** `hermes-code-demo-branches` only
+builds branches in the demo repository. A pull request opened against a real
+service repository gets no automatic branch build. Mark it `limited`.
+
+**`alert_output` is stale.** Alerting no longer fires on every escalation.
+Two narrow rules remain: a repair that ran and failed, and an escalation
+untouched for six hours. The issue is the durable artifact; email is the
+exception.
+
+## Missing, and worth adding
+
+- The demo classification and `repair_demo_fixture` are now forbidden on any
+  job other than `hermes-triage-demo`. Hermes misapplied that label to real
+  services twice at 0.96 and 0.99 confidence; the gates refused it both times,
+  and it can no longer be produced at all.
+- **A build that never finishes** is escalated once it passes the time cap,
+  with no model call, because its console is still being written. Before this
+  existed such a build produced nothing anywhere while holding an agent slot.
+- **A failure superseded by a newer build can be skipped entirely.** Detection
+  reads `lastBuild`, so a red build replaced quickly is never triaged.
+
+## Conditional on work that was blocked
+
+`model_gate` should now read `anthropic/claude-opus-5` primary, with
+`openai-codex/gpt-5.6-terra` first fallback and local `gpt-oss:20b` second.
+
+`jenkins_limit` and *"Per-test evidence waits on Jenkins plugins"* come out
+once the `junit` plugin is live. Note the plugin was never blocked on a core
+upgrade as previously recorded: `junit 1369.v15da_00283f06` runs on core
+2.528.3, only the latest release requires 2.533.
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+# Corrections for `mermaid/TestAutomationV2.mmd`
+
+Written 2026-08-06 against the diagram as it stood that morning. The diagram
+is not edited here on purpose: it is being maintained in parallel, so this is
+the change list rather than a patch.
+
+The structure holds. The trust boundary, the gate chain, the action registry
+and the output taxonomy are all still accurate. What follows is what tonight's
+work invalidated.
+
+## Nodes that are now factually wrong
+
+**`collector`** says *"Keeps the head and tail"* and *"Keeps the earliest
+useful failure regions"*. Earliest-first selection was the defect: on a long
+pipeline the byte budget was consumed entirely by successful tool output, and
+the enforced failure never reached Hermes. Replace with:
+
+```
+Ariadne evidence collector
+Reads the full console up to 2 MB
+Ranks failure regions by evidence strength
+A definite failure outranks a tool that merely ran
+Ignores passing test lines that quote failures
+Merges repeats and overlapping context
+```
+
+**`repair_fixture`** says *"Creates one scoped Job"*. It no longer does. The
+repair is an in-process ConfigMap patch; no pod is created.
+
+**`candidate_files`** says *"Ranks the earliest hints first"*. It now also
+reads the failing test and follows its imports to the module under test, which
+is what made a pull request on a real service repository possible at all:
+
+```
+Candidate file selection
+Uses path and line hints from failure regions
+Reads the failing test as context
+Follows its imports to the module under test
+Reading is wider than writing: a test is readable, never patchable
+```
+
+**`action_scope`** says *"No real service classification maps to a mutation"*.
+No longer true. `retry_transient_infra` is allowlisted for every allowlisted
+job, so a real service can now receive an action - a Jenkins rebuild.
+
+**`timings`** - the fixture loop is not four minutes. Measure from the red
+build, not from arming, because arming depends on the agent pool:
+
+```
+Red -> fixture patched healthy: 25s
+Red -> rebuild green and incident resolved: 1m04s
+```
+
+**`examples`** - supersede with the stronger 2026-08-06 results, including
+`ariadne/409` opening a real pull request with the correct one-line fix.
+
+## Structurally misleading
+
+**The `route` decision reads as three exclusive branches.** It is not. An
+escalating incident attempts a code proposal *and* files an issue *and* stays
+`human_required`. A pull request rides along on the escalation; it never
+replaces the issue. As drawn, a reader concludes one substitutes for the
+other.
+
+**`branch_build` overstates coverage.** `hermes-code-demo-branches` only
+builds branches in the demo repository. A pull request opened against a real
+service repository gets no automatic branch build. Mark it `limited`.
+
+**`alert_output` is stale.** Alerting no longer fires on every escalation.
+Two narrow rules remain: a repair that ran and failed, and an escalation
+untouched for six hours. The issue is the durable artifact; email is the
+exception.
+
+## Missing, and worth adding
+
+- The demo classification and `repair_demo_fixture` are now forbidden on any
+  job other than `hermes-triage-demo`. Hermes misapplied that label to real
+  services twice at 0.96 and 0.99 confidence; the gates refused it both times,
+  and it can no longer be produced at all.
+- **A build that never finishes** is escalated once it passes the time cap,
+  with no model call, because its console is still being written. Before this
+  existed such a build produced nothing anywhere while holding an agent slot.
+- **A failure superseded by a newer build can be skipped entirely.** Detection
+  reads `lastBuild`, so a red build replaced quickly is never triaged.
+
+## Conditional on work that was blocked
+
+`model_gate` should now read `anthropic/claude-opus-5` primary, with
+`openai-codex/gpt-5.6-terra` first fallback and local `gpt-oss:20b` second.
+
+`jenkins_limit` and *"Per-test evidence waits on Jenkins plugins"* come out
+once the `junit` plugin is live. Note the plugin was never blocked on a core
+upgrade as previously recorded: `junit 1369.v15da_00283f06` runs on core
+2.528.3, only the latest release requires 2.533.