docs(ci): baseline the honesty-limits line the withdrawn-number gate caught (Closes #2311)

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Closes #2311

What is red, and since when

withdrawn-live-gate.yml -> job withdrawn-live -> step No withdrawn number in a live document has failed on every master run since #178 (400850702,
2026-08-20T02:01:08Z). Still red at master head 9068cf49d (run 32354816054):

FAIL: 1 withdrawn number(s) stated in a live document

  docs/NOW.md:1127
      matches /323(\.[0-9]+)?\s*MHz/ -- ring-oscillator toggle rate, not a GF16 path
      see RESEARCH_CLAIMS.md Retraction 2026-08-18

The job's negative control passes in the same run (self-check: planted hit found = True, clean file silent = True), so the gate is working. Last green was #176
(c3eeefc87) and exactly one commit sits between: 400850702 docs(arxiv): the LUT count was the flip-flop count (Closes #2280) (#2281), which added 67 lines to
docs/NOW.md and touched nothing else.

Why a baseline row is the right remedy here

docs/NOW.md:1127 opens a bullet under ## Honesty limits (BINDING) stating that
the number is disputed and unsettled and that "Nothing here should be read as
evidence for either side." (The number is elided from every quotation in this PR and
in the NOW entry, because quoting it would plant a second occurrence.)

That is the category the gate names in its own failure message: "If the line is text
ABOUT the withdrawal, add it to tools/withdrawn_live_baseline.txt."
tools/withdrawn_live_baseline.txt already carries five rows for this same
document and this same pattern, plus rows for two neighbouring frequencies in it.
This is a sixth of the same kind.

Editing the document instead was rejected: docs/NOW.md is append-only, and
rewriting line 1127 to please a gate would rewrite the record of what was written
that day.

The key was recomputed, not transcribed

The gate keys a row on sha1(" ".join(line.split()))[:12] of the line. The row here
came from running that algorithm over docs/NOW.md as fetched from master. The same
pass reproduced all five existing keys for this pattern -- 18f57dc20b45,
700c6d6aca11, ce84017e739b, e01a7fd68109, f81569f4b61c -- character for
character. The computation was checked against five known-good answers before being
used for an unknown one.

--update-baseline was deliberately not used: it rewrites the whole file from the
current scan and would bless anything else that happened to be hitting. This PR adds
exactly one line.

Simulated before merging

Replaying the gate's own scan and baseline comparison over the pre- and post-change
trees:

OLD: 11 hits in docs/NOW.md, 1 NOT baselined
   line 1127: docs/NOW.md | 323(\.[0-9]+)?\s*MHz | 93e256f28d7c
NEW: 11 hits in docs/NOW.md, 0 NOT baselined
stale docs/NOW.md rows after the change: none

The OLD figure reproduces CI exactly, which is the evidence that the simulation is
faithful. Hit count is unchanged at 11 -- nothing was hidden, one occurrence was
classified.

What this does not do

• It does not settle the dispute the line is about. specs/numeric/formats_catalog.t27
  and Unbreak FPGA CI and correct two unbacked hardware claims #2081 are untouched.
• It widens no pattern in tools/withdrawn.txt, relaxes no scan, adds no exclusion
  prefix, and removes no assertion.
• Keying is on line content, so if that sentence is ever edited the gate re-opens.

Diff

file	change
tools/withdrawn_live_baseline.txt	+1 / -0 -- one row
docs/NOW.md	+72 / -0 -- new top entry, pure prepend

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PR Dashboard

Generated at: 2026-08-20 10:02:57 UTC

• docs(ci): baseline the honesty-limits line the withdrawn-number gate caught (Closes #2311) #2313 docs(ci): baseline the honesty-limits line the withdrawn-number gate caught (Closes #2311) | Created: 2026-08-20 | Updated: 2026-08-20 | 14 failing / 22 total
• feat(tri): ci baseline — which PR gates have never run on the branch they gate (Closes #2309) #2312 feat(tri): ci baseline — which PR gates have never run on the branch they gate (Closes #2309) | Created: 2026-08-20 | Updated: 2026-08-20 | 9 failing / 22 total
• fix(ci): one NOW entry per file, and retire merge=union #2298 fix(ci): one NOW entry per file, and retire merge=union | Created: 2026-08-20 | Updated: 2026-08-20 | 6 failing / 34 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	21
PRs with Failing Checks	6
PRs with All Checks Green	15
READY	7
FAILING	6
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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