nx_stepsolve_gate.nx

nx_stepsolve_gate.nx -- ES26 (engineshift al_steps): STEPS-TO-SOLVE proven END-TO-END on a planted journal. Forks the SUBJECT ARTIFACT (the built nx_actlog, resolved from the roots the estate serves it from) with a planted action journal and a planted conf and reads the JSON it prints, so the whole path -- indexed miner at gap zero, closed-bigram subsumption, conf join (steps rows AND verbclass rules, a steps row winning), classification, partition, per-rule tallies, ordering, worklist, spine and stamp -- is the subject, not a re-implementation. Every ritual repetition lives in its OWN workstream so no cross-repeat bigram can form (the miner chains successors per workstream). Seat frames are spelled tool:call and fork frames elf:run, the production journal's own vocabulary (the first live beat read explained_permil=0 because a conf spelled :use could match nothing). The stamp is judged through nx_gauge_lib in-process: the same ruler the /compare emitter renders it with. ES27 (operator 2026-09-06: a bad one-step not rigorously evaluated is worse than a rigorous forty-step): a SECOND planted journal with a failing one-step pair and a clean triple proves the QUALITY axis on the same subject -- fail, fail permil, risk = support x failure permil, the risk worklist most dangerous first, the quality gauge stamp. exit: 0 GREEN . 1 RED . 3 SKIP license_tier: ORIGINAL No hw writes.