tools/ci/founder-strings.b64 was the founder check's pattern list base64-encoded: a grep could not read it, any reader of the public host could (git.igneum.network was public from 21:26 UK; read off at 21:36). The list now lives only in a private file (~/.config/igneum/founder-strings on the Mac, /srv/discord-hooks/founder-strings on build-1 for the Discord guard; $IGNEUM_FOUNDER_STRINGS overrides) and site/forbidden-strings.txt carries no encoded copy. Readers: founder-strings-check.sh (skips with a line where the file is absent; the Mac's hook is the guard), site/scrub.mjs and launch-gates-check.mjs (the private file's patterns added where it exists), discord-hooks.mjs (three locations; the test writes a fixture list and loads the module after it), fresh-repo.sh (the private file; drops tools/ci/founder-strings.b64 from every commit; rewrites the base64 of every list regex out of every blob and scans for it).
The check's second pass (main's addition): every base64 literal of 24 characters or more, every hex literal of 24 or more and every *.b64 file is decoded and scanned, so no encoding hides a term again; the self-test plants each fixture sample in plain text, in a .b64 file, as a base64 literal and as a hex literal, each caught and named, and a tree without the list skips with its line.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Ruling 2: every tracked text mention of the login's pre-rename spelling becomes igneum-labs (29 files); the commit identity in the scripts becomes igneum-labs <337424239+igneum-labs@users.noreply.github.com> (the same noreply id); the three scripts that hand the stored gh keyring name to gh (register.sh, fetch-ci-artifacts.sh, ship-app.mjs) read it from ~/.config/igneum/gh-user (never in the repository), default igneum-labs; fresh-repo.sh reads the login to rewrite from the encoded list's row 10; the old spelling joins the founder-strings list, so no tracked file may spell it; CLAUDE.md's GitHub paragraph rewritten. The red watcher's self-test fixtures use a neutral author.
Ruling 4: docs/ledger-public.md, one row per ledger item (id, the claim in one line, status, what was done in one line, the evidence link or the evidence in words), generated by tools/ledger/export-public.mjs from docs/fud-ledger.md: no round or status-update sections, no commit ids, no time of day, no lane, agent or branch names. 190 items. The gate runs its self-test (a fixture with a commit id, a time, a lane and a branch name comes out clean; --check fails on drift) and its --check on every merge; the founder check reads the output like every tracked file.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The sweep (main's item 1): 199 tracked text files, 783 lines. The founder's full name, first name and possessive become "the founder" (sentence starts capitalised); the lowercase operating-system user name in WSL paths and commands becomes <user>; the second owner login becomes "the second owner login"; the three earlier businesses and the two other brands become "the other business", "the earlier entity", "the earlier business" and "another brand"; the Chrome profile rule names the igneum.network profile, not the profile's label. The standing commit login igneum-labs is not a founder term here: the fresh-repository step renames it in the history (docs/plans/history-rewrite.md, tools/repo/fresh-repo.sh).
The patterns never appear in plain text in the tree (a plaintext list would be the hit): tools/ci/founder-strings.b64 (perl regex, tab, a sample per row) is read by tools/ci/founder-strings-check.sh (every tracked text file, perl, known-failed first: the self-test plants each row's sample in a fixture and the hit must name the file), by tools/community/discord-hooks.mjs (the guard's founder and business rows; the test takes its fixtures from the samples) and by tools/repo/fresh-repo.sh (the business names of the rewrite rules). site/forbidden-strings.txt carries the same patterns as b64: lines, decoded case-insensitive by site/scrub.mjs and tools/ci/launch-gates-check.mjs (whose fixture now plants an encoded made-up name). The check runs in the gate's tree checks on every merge.
Not in this commit, by main's word: the 105 commit messages and 40 personal-identity commits that need the history rewrite (listed, not run), and the secrets found by gitleaks over the history (reported with owners).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
