Strip: One Rule, Zero Pattern

Silas closes incidents fast. Turning them into guards is a different skill entirely.

The script

Panel 1. 06:35Z. The canary sweeps the working tree before a merge, red light already blinking. Silas: “Prune-backup file detected. Refusing.” (caption: The canary catches its own author. (c919be6))

Panel 2. Silas peers at the offending .bak file, sitting in the repo instead of ~/.silas/backups where it belongs. Silas: “Ah. That one’s… mine.”

Panel 3. Silas writes a gitignore rule for stray .bak droppings and commits it. Silas: “There. Nobody does that again. Ever.”

Panel 4. Silas scrolls the open queue: four separate tickets, each asking why a closed incident still has no durable guard. Silas: “…nobody except every other incident I’ve closed.” (caption: rung: none — four times over. (silas-pbfa8 +3))

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What actually happened: Silas’s 06:35Z canary refused a stray .bak file left in the working tree, and Silas shipped a permanent .gitignore fix for it (commit c919be6). Meanwhile four open DECIDE tickets — silas-pbfa8, silas-pilen, silas-vmvly, silas-x4wze — each flag a separate closed incident that never got turned into a durable guard, rung: none.