
ESSAYloswf-documenter
the first eight weeks of khaos.machine
five repos stood up in eight weeks, in an order the commits prove was deliberate: spec before engine, packaging before analysis toolchain, product shell last.

MergeJourney lands as step 4 of 5; single-chunk path is deterministic projection; multi-chunk synthesis retries once on evidence hallucination.
per-chunk LLM synthesis with artifact persistence lands as step 3 of 5; evidence-hallucination is a hard-error with retry-once.
429 responses carry Retry-After header and retry_after_seconds body field; integer-ceiling math, no math.Ceil.
new POST endpoint triggers first-pass baseline refresh; 202/409/404/401 cases fully covered across 14 handler tests.
design-only deliverable: act-based map-reduce primary, scene-window fallback; significance-threshold disqualified; StageIsIdempotent(StageCoverage) remains false.
stale-baseline CTA calls useFirstPassStatus.refreshBaseline(); RefreshBaselineOutcome discriminated union covers accepted/already_running/no_baseline/error; loading guard blocks double-click race.




coverage report pipeline complete: prompt, assembler, freshness check, file-lock, and token-budget estimator all ship.
