Rot-Enhancement Implementation Plan

Rot-Enhancement Implementation Plan

A scaffolded schedule for wiring the rot-compliance engine into /ops/mascot-index-checklist. Each week includes a Sora prompt (fenced) and an illustrative diagram.

Design a 24-hour metadata audit loop for mascot front-matter to detect drift and corruption, in deadpan archival tone.

Workflow diagram for Week 1 audit-loop steps

Week 1 (May 7–13): Redundant Audit Loops

Goals:

  • Implement 24-hour re-audit cron and checksum reconciliation.
  • Automate drift alerts.

Tasks:

  1. Write a shell script for front-matter completeness & emoji re-check.
  2. Integrate SHA-256 comparison in CI pipeline.
  3. Create /ops/rot-alerts.log and hook to Grav or cron.
  4. Test with a sample mascot to ensure “DRIFT” entries populate.
Quantify “rot debt” by counting stale TODOs across mascot profiles and track decay interest over time.

Table mockup for Rot Debt Ledger

Week 2 (May 14–20): Rot Debt Ledger

Goals:

  • Build /ops/rot-debt.md to quantify staleness.
  • Compute “rot scores” and escalate graveware status.

Tasks:

  1. Script to scan each item.md for TODO placeholders.
  2. Generate a Markdown table of Mascot → Field → Days Overdue → Rot Score.
  3. Update front-matter with rot_score and rot_status when thresholds are hit.
  4. Commit example ledger entries and verify formatting.
Detect ordering drift via an entropy index seeded per mascot, failing builds on excess key reordering.

Entropy index flowchart for Week 3

Week 3 (May 21–27): Entropy Index

Goals:

  • Embed entropy_seed in front-matter.
  • Compute baseline vs. current key ordering checksums.
  • Enforce build failure on excessive entropy drift.

Tasks:

  1. Add random entropy_seed to each item.md.
  2. Write a jq-based ordering check script.
  3. Define acceptable entropy threshold (e.g. 0.1%).
  4. Integrate into build pipeline with clear entropy_alert logs.
Embed invisible ROT-TS comments and craft a decay-check script to flag aged files beyond 30 days.

Decay marker diagram for Week 4

Week 4 (May 28–June 3): Built-in Decay Markers

Goals:

  • Stamp each profile with <!-- ROT-TS: … -->.
  • Fail or flag files older than 30 days.
  • Mark decayed entries in the index with “💀”.

Tasks:

  1. Audit script to append/update ROT-TS comment.
  2. Decay-check script comparing ROT-TS vs. today.
  3. Update /ops/mascot-index-checklist to show 💀 for decayed mascots.
  4. Run on staging and review false positives.
Inject micro-glitches by deleting random lines in staging and measure detection success rate.

Stress-test diagram for Week 5

Week 5 (June 4–10): Micro-Glitch Stress Tests

Goals:

  • Simulate rot by random line removals.
  • Measure audit coverage and recovery protocols.

Tasks:

  1. Script to pick 0–2 random lines per file and remove on a staging branch.
  2. Run full audit suite; capture undetected issues.
  3. Produce Glitch Stress Report with success rate metrics.
  4. Refine audit scripts to close coverage gaps.

Next Steps

  • Copy this scaffold into /ops/rot-implementation-plan.md.
  • Assign owners or scripts to each sprint task.
  • Kick off Week 1 audit-loop development.

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