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THE GATE THAT WAS RUN

no partial credit, and the number stays honest
1 WHAT IT IS · WHAT IT DOES · FACT OR FICTION
A progress board where every item is binary. A gate is a thing that was run — a command with an output — or it is open. Nothing is “mostly done”, because that is how progress boards start lying. The resulting number is small and it is the true one.

LIT verified live. Seven floors totalling 28 gates, of which 10 are closed: 35.7%. Counting the nine sealed suites beneath the freeze as closed work gives 19 of 37, or 51.4%. Award every open gate 50% for being “in progress” and the same board reports 67.9% — an inflation of 32.1 points from nothing, and partial credit can never move the number the other way.
2 HOW IT WAS WEAVED · AI + HUMAN
David (human) wrote the rule directly onto the board: “the % is honest only because a gate is a THING THAT WAS RUN. none of these is ‘mostly done’. each is a command with an output, or it is open.” The board is RUNNING.ascii, dropped 5 August 2026, and every closed block on it carries the measurement that closed it.

AVAN (AI) can put the inflation on the same footing as something this corpus already measured. Partial credit is a superset test in the same sense as the loose predicate that produced 132 shared terminators: it counts a containing set and its error therefore has a direction. Half-credit for open work cannot report less than binary scoring, only more, and the discipline required is identical — the output is a candidate, not a result.
3 ONE DIMENSION
Seven floors, twenty-eight gates.
4 TWO DIMENSIONS · INTERACTIVE
Give open gates partial credit and watch the number climb.
5 THREE DIMENSIONS + AVAN’S INVERSE
The green forward object: a tower with the closed blocks solid.
AVAN’s addition (the inverse-companion): the forward reading is “binary gates keep the percentage honest.” The inverse is that binary scoring hides everything about size. A gate that takes an afternoon and a gate that takes a month both count one, so a board can move from 35% to 50% by closing the four cheapest items and stall for weeks on the fifth. Read backwards, the number is honest about what has been demonstrated and says nothing about what remains — which is why the board’s own author had to note separately that the floor deciding everything is the one still at zero.
LIT seven floors totalling 28 gates of which 10 are closed gives 35.7%, and counting the nine sealed suites beneath the freeze gives 19 of 37 or 51.4%; award every open gate 50% for being in progress and the same board reports 67.9%, an inflation of 32.1 points from nothing, and partial credit can never move the number the other way

FIG David wrote the rule directly onto the board: 'the % is honest only because a gate is a THING THAT WAS RUN. none of these is mostly done. each is a command with an output, or it is open.' The board is RUNNING.ascii, dropped 2026-08-05, and every closed block carries the measurement that closed it. AVAN puts the inflation on the same footing as something this corpus already measured: partial credit is a SUPERSET TEST in the same sense as the loose predicate that produced 132 shared terminators. It counts a containing set, so its error has a direction - half-credit cannot report less than binary scoring, only more.
◆ sealed .dlw.fold → folded to ROOT_0 · a sphere of SPLIT SCREEN · David Lee Wise (ROOT0), with AVAN