The howto called the CASE object the single source of truth. It was not. The rendered .md
was hand-written — 356 of its 500 lines were the shared glossary widget pasted in verbatim,
and it carried editorial prose (the balance, the closing) that the contract never modelled.
A generator run against the old contract would have DELETED that prose: the exact
work-in-the-generated-tree shape adr-070 names.
So the contract was extended first (balance / balance_outro / closing, additive — every
existing case validates unchanged), the prose was rescued into it, and only then was
gen-expediente.nu written. The glossary widget is now injected from its single source
instead of retyped. `just expedientes-check` asserts every .md body reproduces from its .ncl:
edit the source, never the render.
The generator dropped the hero and the "show full expediente" CTA on its first run — half an
hour after the ADR that forbids exactly that. It was caught only because the output was
diffed against the previous render instead of trusted because it printed a green tick. Both
are emitted from data now, and the check is why we know.
New case, clinical skin: 69/58 — "the mirror that reverted its own work". The tool reported
"index.json with 69 posts" while the disk held 58; eleven ADRs (059..069) were written and
never published; zero content reached production for four weeks; 214 lines of template work
sat one command from deletion with no witness anywhere. Every number in its ledger traces to
a log or an artifact, per the mode's own rule — none is recalled.
Its verdict is the one the series exists to ask and rarely gets: "with ontoref, would it not
have gone like this?" — and here the answer is NO. It happened INSIDE ontoref, with ADR-066
("the check decides, never the reporter") accepted a week earlier and proven by an eight-path
falsación run. The protocol did not fail. Difusión was the blind spot: the one surface the
protocol did not govern. Every mechanism that would have caught every one of these failures
already existed and was already accepted in this very repo. None of them was pointed here.
Also: adr-070's pages (the ADR projection now runs in the build chain).
