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The Stage Directions That Cannot Be Obeyed

Written 2026-09-03. Claims re-read against their sources on 2026-09-27: 8 checked, 8 confirmed, 0 wrong, 0 unverifiable. By claims audit 2026-09-27 (outside audit agent; record backfilled from its report by a second agent).

Control-sample audit (research/claims-audit/PREREG.md), 2026-09-27, findings condensed in research/claims-audit/findings/r4.md. Reader check: no verifier is served (404 at both /checks/ paths); the footer says "Not yet put to that test". The repository verifier exits 0 (first fault a double entrance at stg-2869.2c, verdict QUESTION MALFORMED). The auditor re-fetched every source (all hashes match data/source-manifest.json) and re-ran the pinned Spin 6.5.1 on the shipped models, which equal the page's embedded data. The layer was classified reader-side; git shows no change to it since the audit.

Claims

• CONFIRMED Folger XML: stg-2869.2b "Then enter again, in skirmish, Iachimo and Posthumus." and stg-2869.2c "He vanquisheth and disarmeth Iachimo," both type="entrance" inside a type="mixed" parent
  https://folger-main-site-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2022/11/shakespeares-works_XML_FolgerShakespeare.zip : matches
• CONFIRMED Bodleian F1 Cymbeline 5.2 has a single direction
  https://firstfolio.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/download/xml/F-cym.xml : "Then enter againe in Skirmish Iachimo and Posthumus: he vanquisheth and disarmeth Iachimo, and then leaues him."
• CONFIRMED Hamlet F1 at 4.1: "Exit Hamlet tugging in Polonius. ... Enter King."
  https://firstfolio.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/download/xml/F-ham.xml : matches
• CONFIRMED Hamlet Q2 at 4.1: "Enter King, and Queen, with Rosencrantz and Guildenstern."
  https://internetshakespeare.uvic.ca/doc/Ham_Q2/complete/index.html : matches (ISE's modernised display)
• CONFIRMED Folger credits (Mowat, Werstine, Poston, Niles) and CC BY-NC 3.0 Unported
  https://folger-main-site-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2022/11/shakespeares-works_XML_FolgerShakespeare.zip : in Cym.xml
• CONFIRMED Bodleian shelfmark Arch. G c.7 and CC BY 3.0
  https://firstfolio.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/download/xml/F-cym.xml : in F-cym.xml
• CONFIRMED Spin 6.5.1 of 20 December 2019, BSD 3-clause
  https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nimble-code/Spin/master/LICENSE : spin -V and the licence match
• CONFIRMED Eric Johnson, "ACTORS: Computing Dramatic Characters that are on Stage Simultaneously", Computers and the Humanities 28.6
  https://www.uv.es/~fores/programa/johnson_actors.html : matches

What was done

• [declined] MINOR "Full models and trails are shipped with the verifier" (index.html:253), but neither the verifier nor the models are served: left as is; minor, true of the repository, and the placard already says the check has not been put to the outside test.
• [declined] MINOR data/source-manifest.json:28 gives 241664 bytes for F-ham.xml, while the file whose sha256 matches is 581,232 bytes: left as is, a research-file slip that no reader-facing figure depends on.