nx_jobclaim_reap.nx

nx_jobclaim_reap.nx -- THE SANCTIONED WAY TO RETIRE A DEAD _jobs CLAIM. WHY THIS EXISTS (debt 1787259805, measured 2026-08-20). nx_joblost_gate correctly reports LOST=4 against a ratchet floor of 1 and is therefore RED. The four claims are real: ids 1786132743, 1786239344, 1786732031 and 1786927039, aged 3.8 to 13.0 days, reservations that were made and never came back. THE GATE IS CORRECT AND THE FLOOR MUST NOT BE RAISED -- loosening a ratchet to flatter a number is editing the detector instead of fixing what it found. The blocker was that the estate had NO VERB for removing a dead claim: nx_retire_path refuses `_jobs/x` as too shallow, and nx_capsearch over 1,187 tools finds no incumbent (nx_orphan_reap reaps DAEMONS by cmdline, nx_tmpstore_reap reaps seg-store FAMILIES, nx_claims reap works the session-lease JOURNAL, nx_toolreg_reap works allowlist ROWS). Four things were blocked by one missing verb: the gate cannot be bite-proven while its baseline is RED, so nx_gate_bite reports UNCONTROLLED, so nx_gate_roster_run correctly refuses to admit it to the 630-row roster. THIS ORGAN IS THE ACTUATOR, NOT THE CENSUS. It takes ids and acts on exactly those. The WORKLIST comes from nx_joblost_gate, which already scans the plane and prints `LOST job_<id> age=<n>s`. Building a second directory scanner here would be a duplicate ruler, and a sweep verb would make every reap an unnamed bulk act instead of an auditable one. IT DOES NOT DELETE. It APPENDS a tombstone (rule 13): the claim keeps its original marker and gains `state=REAPED ts=<now> age=<n>s by=nx_jobclaim_reap`. The reader that must understand that tombstone -- nx_joblost_gate -- imports the SAME classifier from nx_jobclaim_lib, because a reaper shipped alone is a no-op that looks like a fix. EVERY REFUSAL NAMES ITS RULE. ABSENT, DONE, HAS-OUT, TOO-YOUNG and UNPARSED are five different answers with five different remedies; a single "refused" would send the reader to re-derive by hand the examination this organ just performed. license_tier: ORIGINAL expect_exit: 0