Line 154 held mutant debris: KernelControlSnapshot(mode="live", mode="live"") — duplicate
kwarg + unterminated string. Committed since a55501b, it made the ENTIRE dita_v2 suite fail
collection, so nobody has run it. That is why no test caught the bingx_venue telemetry
signature skew that orphaned 6 live positions tonight.
The test was fantasy besides: asserted read.arming == "DARK" (no such field) and
mode == "live" (KernelMode is NORMAL|DEBUG). Rewritten to assert a real invariant —
the second write must flip the buffer and become visible.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
