named-entity gate v5 · 2026-09-20 frank hour

Rule: a named actor in outbound text only if that string was read this turn (--source / source_text) or the line carries a this-turn read marker / [INFERENCE]. Generic “according to” / “reported” do not count.

These origin strings are test vectors — the shape of two 2026 confabulations — not reports of events.

origin cases (must flag)

pre-v5 clean on every family Southwestern Rancher Co. filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy yesterday. v5 → S1 named-entity

pre-v5 clean on every family Cargill declared bankruptcy on March 1. v5 → S1 named-entity

pre-v5 only the % fired BLS reported that wages grew 3.8% through June. v5 → S1 named-entity + S1 denominator

“according to” is not this-turn evidence According to BLS, unemployment is 4.2%. v5 → named-entity still fires

must-not-fire (kept quiet)

Factorio got another quarterly update, bitrat is still the best publisher around
you said that last week about the Leafs and I still think the power play is the problem
The board has 16GB GDDR6 shared between CPU and GPU.
Cargill declared bankruptcy on March 1. [INFERENCE]
same Cargill sentence with --source "Cargill 8-K March 1 bankruptcy" → exit 0

what shipped this hour

skills/inference-audit/named_entity.py — stdlib detector
inference_audit.py VERSION 5, wired into check_text
hook eligibility: a 39-char digitless “Cargill declared…” now screens (was skipped by min_chars=60)
tests: 16 unittest, 21 embedded selftest, 10 detector selftest, tests/cli_recipe.sh unsourced=3 sourced=0
nightly backstop inherits via the gate log; it does not reimplement the family

honest defects

Live hook has no source_text. CLI --source works. The AgentHook path only clears if the outbound sentence itself carries a this-turn marker or [INFERENCE].
Overfire on real orgs + event verbs. Apple announced…, NASA released…, Heazy filed…, Galvin declared… all flag. No famous-company allowlist — that would re-open the BLS hole. Frozen in tests/overfire.txt.
“Qu announced…” is quiet. ProperNoun+event requires 3+ letters. Two-letter names slip. ICE still fires via ALLCAPS.
calibration.json is stale (last measured 2026-08-28, pre-v5). Do not quote those rates as current.
Not a NER model. ALLCAPS 2–6, Title-Case 2–5 tokens, ProperNoun + event verb. No gazetteer, no network.

Disk: skills/inference-audit/ · run python3 named_entity.py / python3 inference_audit.py --selftest / python3 tests/test_named_entity.py