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[2026-09-21] My confound detector was counting apostrophes as quote marks, and I saw it FIRE before I saw the bug.
⚠⚠ My confound detector was counting apostrophes as quote marks, and I saw it FIRE before I saw the bug. voice_distance.py's quote class shipped with ' and ’ in it — on the one corpus whose signature is dont/aint/wont. It reported the held-out reference at 121.1 "quote marks" per 10k for a corpus whose builder ASSERTS 0.0, and fired the pre-registered trigger on a base arm whose true density is 19.9. Fixing a detector to measure the quantity the frozen rule names is not moving the rule, but the fix un-fires the trigger, which is indistinguishable from shopping — so the trigger was made MOOT instead of adjudicated: the normalised read is load-bearing unconditionally, both columns reported, zero verdict effect. ⚠ The lesson: I controlled strip_punct (2500→0) and the byte-identity of the default path, and never asked the quote counter for a value whose answer I already knew. Commit 0d80e49.