docs(now): retract "master has no branch protection" -- wrong endpoint

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Refs #2292

Retracts a false BINDING honesty limit I landed in 9fec1a9ba (PR #2293) an hour ago.

The false claim

That entry states "master has no branch protection", citing:

$ gh api repos/gHashTag/t27/branches/master/protection
404 Branch not protected

/branches/{branch}/protection reports only legacy branch protection. A repository protected by rulesets returns 404 from it while being fully protected. I read a 404 as "unprotected" when it means "not protected by that mechanism".

What is actually true

$ gh api repos/gHashTag/t27/rulesets
id=14813367  name=t27-master-protection  target=branch  enforcement=active

$ gh api repos/gHashTag/t27/rules/branches/master --jq '.[].type'
deletion
non_fast_forward
pull_request
required_status_checks

Master is protected: PRs required, force-push and deletion blocked, four required contexts — check-now-freshness, validate, check, check-linked-issue.

The observation survives, better explained

PR #2291 merged at 03:57:13Z while its own corpus-ratchet run started at 03:57:16Z — three seconds before the gate it was adding began to run. Not because nothing is required, but because corpus-ratchet is not one of the required four. Neither are coverage or withdrawn-live, which is precisely why all three sit red on master while PRs keep merging.

This sharpens the original finding rather than softening it. The cargo test -p t27c step was added to a workflow outside the required set, so even had it been green it could never have blocked a merge. It was wrong on its numbers and wrong in its placement, and the second error would have outlived fixing the first.

Not done here, on purpose

Adding corpus-ratchet to the ruleset would make W632 (BLOCKING) real — but it is currently failing on master, so requiring it would block every PR in the repo. That has to follow the ratchet in #2292, not precede it.

Honesty limits

• Three claims in this sequence were wrong, all from confident bad measurement: (1) "1221 tests pass" — measured on feat/wave-547/host-heapsort, not master; (2) "all pass, so land a plain gate" — on master it is 1602 passed / 13 failed; (3) "master has no branch protection" — read from an endpoint that cannot see rulesets. Each was a real command with real output, read as answering a question it did not answer.
• I did not inspect bypass_actors. "Protected" here means the rules are active, not that nobody can route around them.
• Nothing about the 13 failing tests changes. Still failing, still a lower bound (the 21 binaries in bootstrap/tests/ still never ran), still tracked in cargo test -p t27c landed red on master: the 1221-pass measurement was taken on the wrong tree #2292 with suite.rs unit tests are compiled by nothing — 33 tests plus 3 new ones never type-checked #2288 and CI: t27c's 1221 tests have never run on master — land the gate (fixes #2288) #2289 reopened.
• Append-only. docs/NOW.md gains 84 lines and loses 0; the false text stays below as history with the retraction above it, per this repo's convention for that file.

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• docs(now): retract "master has no branch protection" -- wrong endpoint #2294 docs(now): retract "master has no branch protection" -- wrong endpoint | Created: 2026-08-20 | Updated: 2026-08-20 | 13 failing / 23 total
• ci: eleven merge-critical gates were silent on stacked PRs #2169 ci: eleven merge-critical gates were silent on stacked PRs | Created: 2026-08-14 | Updated: 2026-08-14 | 5 failing / 30 total
• corpus: freeze the damage, patch one class at a time, and say where one rule stops #2161 corpus: freeze the damage, patch one class at a time, and say where one rule stops | Created: 2026-08-14 | Updated: 2026-08-20 | 0 failing / 9 total
• tri triage: five ordered classes, and blocked is tested before actionable (#2156) #2157 tri triage: five ordered classes, and blocked is tested before actionable (#2156) | Created: 2026-08-14 | Updated: 2026-08-14 | 0 failing / 17 total
• parser: nesting decides the separator, never the terminator (#2127) #2151 parser: nesting decides the separator, never the terminator (#2127) | Created: 2026-08-14 | Updated: 2026-08-14 | 2 failing / 26 total
• Unbreak FPGA CI and correct two unbacked hardware claims #2081 Unbreak FPGA CI and correct two unbacked hardware claims | Created: 2026-08-11 | Updated: 2026-08-20 | 5 failing / 27 total
• feat(igla): Wave Loop 898 — module-scope [615][2]^6 Pt non-power-of-two outer-dimension array-of-struct variable from call with indexed signed writes #1900 feat(igla): Wave Loop 898 — module-scope [615][2]^6 Pt non-power-of-two outer-dimension array-of-struct variable from call with indexed signed writes | Created: 2026-08-07 | Updated: 2026-08-07 | 1 failing / 3 total
• chore: civilian mesh positioning — drop drone wording (bpsk.t27) #1874 chore: civilian mesh positioning — drop drone wording (bpsk.t27) | Created: 2026-08-07 | Updated: 2026-08-07 | 2 failing / 25 total
• feat(igla): Wave Loop 897 — module-scope [613][2]^6 Pt non-power-of-two outer-dimension array-of-struct variable from call with indexed signed writes #1858 feat(igla): Wave Loop 897 — module-scope [613][2]^6 Pt non-power-of-two outer-dimension array-of-struct variable from call with indexed signed writes | Created: 2026-08-07 | Updated: 2026-08-07 | 1 failing / 3 total
• feat(igla): Wave Loop 896 — module-scope [611][2]^6 Pt non-power-of-two outer-dimension array-of-struct variable from call with indexed signed writes #1856 feat(igla): Wave Loop 896 — module-scope [611][2]^6 Pt non-power-of-two outer-dimension array-of-struct variable from call with indexed signed writes | Created: 2026-08-07 | Updated: 2026-08-07 | 1 failing / 3 total
• feat(igla): Wave Loop 895 — module-scope [609][2]^6 Pt non-power-of-two outer-dimension array-of-struct variable from call with indexed signed writes #1854 feat(igla): Wave Loop 895 — module-scope [609][2]^6 Pt non-power-of-two outer-dimension array-of-struct variable from call with indexed signed writes | Created: 2026-08-07 | Updated: 2026-08-07 | 1 failing / 3 total
• feat(igla): Wave Loop 894 — module-scope [607][2]^6 Pt non-power-of-two outer-dimension array-of-struct variable from call with indexed signed writes #1852 feat(igla): Wave Loop 894 — module-scope [607][2]^6 Pt non-power-of-two outer-dimension array-of-struct variable from call with indexed signed writes | Created: 2026-08-07 | Updated: 2026-08-07 | 1 failing / 3 total
• feat(igla): Wave Loop 893 — module-scope [605][2]^6 Pt non-power-of-two outer-dimension array-of-struct variable from call with indexed signed writes #1850 feat(igla): Wave Loop 893 — module-scope [605][2]^6 Pt non-power-of-two outer-dimension array-of-struct variable from call with indexed signed writes | Created: 2026-08-07 | Updated: 2026-08-07 | 1 failing / 3 total
• feat(igla): Wave Loop 892 — module-scope [603][2]^6 Pt non-power-of-two outer-dimension array-of-struct variable from call with indexed signed writes #1847 feat(igla): Wave Loop 892 — module-scope [603][2]^6 Pt non-power-of-two outer-dimension array-of-struct variable from call with indexed signed writes | Created: 2026-08-07 | Updated: 2026-08-07 | 1 failing / 3 total
• feat(igla): Wave Loop 891 — module-scope [601][2]^6 Pt non-power-of-two outer-dimension array-of-struct variable from call with indexed signed writes #1844 feat(igla): Wave Loop 891 — module-scope [601][2]^6 Pt non-power-of-two outer-dimension array-of-struct variable from call with indexed signed writes | Created: 2026-08-07 | Updated: 2026-08-07 | 0 failing / 4 total
• feat(igla): Wave Loop 890 — module-scope [599][2]^6 Pt non-power-of-two outer-dimension array-of-struct variable from call with indexed signed writes #1842 feat(igla): Wave Loop 890 — module-scope [599][2]^6 Pt non-power-of-two outer-dimension array-of-struct variable from call with indexed signed writes | Created: 2026-08-07 | Updated: 2026-08-07 | 0 failing / 4 total
• feat(igla): Wave Loop 883 — module-scope [585][2]^6 Pt non-power-of-two outer-dimension array-of-struct variable from call with indexed signed writes #1815 feat(igla): Wave Loop 883 — module-scope [585][2]^6 Pt non-power-of-two outer-dimension array-of-struct variable from call with indexed signed writes | Created: 2026-08-06 | Updated: 2026-08-06 | 0 failing / 1 total
• feat(igla): Wave Loop 882 — module-scope [583][2]^6 Pt non-power-of-two outer-dimension array-of-struct variable from call with indexed signed writes #1813 feat(igla): Wave Loop 882 — module-scope [583][2]^6 Pt non-power-of-two outer-dimension array-of-struct variable from call with indexed signed writes | Created: 2026-08-06 | Updated: 2026-08-06 | 0 failing / 12 total
• feat(igla): Wave Loop 881 — module-scope [581][2]^6 Pt non-power-of-two outer-dimension array-of-struct variable from call with indexed signed writes #1810 feat(igla): Wave Loop 881 — module-scope [581][2]^6 Pt non-power-of-two outer-dimension array-of-struct variable from call with indexed signed writes | Created: 2026-08-06 | Updated: 2026-08-06 | 0 failing / 12 total

Summary

Status	Count
Total Open PRs	19
PRs with Failing Checks	5
PRs with All Checks Green	14
READY	7
FAILING	5
PENDING	0

Seal Status

• ⚠️ STALE -- sha256(compiler.rs)=cbbfac87dff3 != manifest seal=87e5cbd3ad94.
  The committed NMSE numbers were certified against an older compiler.rs.
  Run scripts/reseal-check.sh locally for the two-step reseal command (advisory; not a merge gate).

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