Business Adjacent · Flight Log · FL-004
·factory·locked
Derive structure; do not describe it by hand
Signal
Hand-maintained claims (docs, gate lists, invariants) drift from live code and database as the system grows.
Wrong turn
More prose that says what the system is.
Correction
`npm run truth` and derived gates — ground truth is live schema + code; fail on the unrecognized.
Every deep hole we found had the same shape: a claim someone typed, and a reality that moved.
Structural truth means the check is derived from the ground, not from last month’s document. The first run of a real gate usually finds more bugs than the manual sweep that inspired it — prevention is also discovery.
For a living resume, this is the opposite of “AI wrote a README.” It is automated honesty about what the system actually is.