nx_compare_rank_gate.nx

nx_compare_rank_gate.nx -- THE LIAR-KILLER ON THE RANKER (operator 2026-08-18: "validate it ... if some stupid shit like your made up magic numbers come into the system or any other stupid blockers happen the team can overcome the blocker ... a liar killer extraordinaire ... not allowing you to build shitty clay and polish it and call it sota"). A ranker that cannot be refused is another authoritative number nobody audits. This gate makes every failure class the operator named UNPASSABLE in silence, and every RED prints the UNBLOCK ACTION so a team member acts without the seat that caused it: T1 NO CHOSEN COEFFICIENTS: nx_law_warden countfile on the ranker's own source must be 0 inline magic. A seat that smuggles a constant back in turns this RED before the ranking is trusted. T2 GRAPHICS VALIDATION: on the REAL graphics board the top critical-path rung must be the referee panel (cjc_panel) -- the pre-declared Phase-0 gate: nothing above it is measurable without it. A wrong first pick means the mathematics regressed. (Runs the live ranker on the live board.) T3 CLAY-POLISH REFUSAL: on the fixture, a rung whose row shows EVERY rival LEADING (the field is lapping us -- catch-up gap) must rank ABOVE an equal-cost rung nobody has (the exceed lane) -- polishing a lead while the field laps you on fundamentals is the clay-polish failure by name. (CoD makes this true: leading/rivals=1 doubles the value.) T4 DERIVATION FIRES: fixture rungs with est=- print UNESTIMATED; two rungs on one organ print cluster=2; enablement counts a dependency root ABOVE its dependents. Anti-vacuity: the derivation is proven to move numbers, not just to print names. T5 SPONSOR BITES BOTH WAYS: a minus2 sponsor row on the fixture domain LOWERS the affected rung's priority versus the run without it, and the run names the row -- a plane write that cannot move the number means the term is dead. neg-control-sponsor-absent = the run without the row. T6 THE RANKER COUNTS ITSELF: done + open == rungs on the summary line (partition sums), else RED. T7 SUMMARY CARRIES THE RULE: the published rule line names WSJF+real-options+dep-graph -- a ranker whose printed rule drifts from its header is a lie with a trusted byline. Fixture is assembled at RUNTIME (never checked in: a detector that scans source would find its own fixture). The ranker reads buildroot/knowledge/compare/<dom>.* by construction, so the fixture domain `rankgatefx` is written THERE and REMOVED at the end -- and it is harmless on any early-exit path: no regen.list row names it, so no page can ever emit it, and the fixture sponsor row is closed. license_tier: ORIGINAL No hw writes (Rule 26).