Gap Scan — 2026-10-23

Scanned

Recent window: 5 dev-log files (2026-10-21 05:12 → 2026-10-23 05:09) plus bin/primary-doc-scan.py --days 3 over 7 digests (2026-10-20 → 2026-10-23); 0 wiki pages with last_updated in the last 48h. Rotation slice: 1 — concepts/ A–F (198 pages; 18 met the thin-anchor screen of in-degree ≥6 with <350 words, confidence: low or sources_count: 1). bin/lint-scan.py re-run: 194 distinct broken wikilinks, 0 referenced 2+ times, so the broken-link lane produced no candidates and no alias fixes.

Gaps actioned (9 of 31 found)

New pages created (live)

• Executive Order 14434 — Inaugurating the Era of Super Intelligence — Executive Order 14434 (Sept. 29, 2026; 91 FR 63129), which directs agencies to use "Super Intelligence"/"SI" in place of "AI". Named on 4 content pages and in digests from 2026-09-29 through the State Department implementing cable (2026-10-21 15:14) and Anthropic's Q3 lobbying disclosure (2026-10-23 05:09), with no page. Built from the order's text on whitehouse.gov and federalregister.gov plus coverage; confidence: medium. Depends on queued source: the order itself.
• Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) — Linux Foundation body hosting MCP, goose, AGENTS.md, A2A, agentgateway and now Agent Skills. Mentioned on 9 content pages with no page; live thread via Anthropic's Agent Skills donation (2026-10-23 05:09). Built from the Linux Foundation formation release, aaif.io, AAIF's A2A post, Forbes and Anthropic's donation post; confidence: medium.

Pages expanded (live)

• AI Consciousness — slice-1 thin anchor: in-degree 13, 554 body words, confidence: low, 3 sources, no account of the scientific literature. Added a ## Scientific approaches section (Butlin, Long et al. 2023 indicator-properties report; Chalmers 2023 credence argument; Long, Sebo et al. 2024 "Taking AI Welfare Seriously" and its three recommendations), linked the existing The Abstraction Fallacy — Alexander Lerchner page where Lerchner was named without a link, and added typed relationships to Model Welfare, AI Welfare, David Chalmers and Anil Seth. 3 new (Source: URL) cites (arXiv 2308.08708, arXiv 2411.00986, Boston Review). sources_count 3 → 6; confidence low → contested (the page presents opposing positions and its lead already says so). Backup: _revision-backups/ai-consciousness.2026-10-23-gap-scan.md.

Link aliases fixed

• None — the referenced-2+ list is empty.

Queued — foundational sources (all URL-only; trails in queue/gap-scan/proposed-sources/)

• Executive Order 14434, "Inaugurating the Era of Super Intelligence" — dependency of the new legislation page. Verified: whitehouse.gov + federalregister.gov (91 FR 63129). Queued: INGEST-eo-14434-super-intelligence.md.
• METR, "Red-Teaming OpenAI's Internal Agent Monitoring Systems" (2026-10-22) — primary behind the 10-23 05:09 METR/Redwood item; digest cited Reuters only. Verified: metr.org. Queued: INGEST-metr-red-teaming-openai-agent-monitoring-2026.md.
• METR, review of the "Misalignment in high-stakes settings" section of Anthropic's August 2026 Risk Report (2026-10-20) — cited in the 10-21 15:14 digest, no raw file. Verified: metr.org. Queued: INGEST-metr-review-anthropic-risk-report-aug-2026.md.
• DHS FASCSA order excluding and removing DeepSeek products (91 FR 66346, 2026-10-20) — the one precise-lane hit from primary-doc-scan.py (cited URL, no raw file). Verified: federalregister.gov, govinfo PDF, docket DHS-2026-0628. The signed order is printed as page images; the ingest must transcribe it. Queued: INGEST-dhs-fascsa-order-deepseek-exclusion-2026.md.
• OpenAI letter to Gov. Newsom on strengthening SB 53 (2026-10-20) — the 10-22 15:17 digest read only The Information's abstract. Verified: cdn.openai.com PDF; corroborated by StateScoop (signed by Chan Park). Queued: INGEST-openai-letter-newsom-sb53-2026-10-20.md.
• Sen. Cantwell's frontier AI governance framework (2026-10-07) — top deferred item from 2026-10-08 (score 8). Verified: commerce.senate.gov. Queued: INGEST-cantwell-frontier-ai-governance-framework-2026.md.

Authenticity-verification failures

• None this run. Not attempted: Anthropic's draft federal frontier-AI bill exists only as a leaked text described in press (Washington Post, Transformer, Inside AI Policy); there is no primary host to verify against, so it was not pulled.

Deferred backlog (over the daily cap — re-surfaces next run)

• Warner et al. letter to 25 technology CEOs on AI election misuse (8) — new, located after the cap was set. Oct. 19, 2026 (10-21 05:12). Primary letter not yet searched. Should have outscored the consciousness expansion; queue first next run.
• Microsoft threat-intelligence report on Storm-0940 / ARTEX and the ConnectWise compromise (8) — new, same note. 10-23 05:09 cites Reuters only.
• Anthropic draft federal frontier-AI bill (5) — new. Leaked text, criticism from ARI, Transformer, Sacks; Amodei's Oct. 21 response. No official text; fold into Anthropic via developments-log rather than a page.
• DoD Technology Support Office (5) — new. Feinberg memo of April 14, 2026; Pentagon spokesman disputes the reporting. Contested; wait for a second source.
• Project Agincourt / U.S. Autonomous Warfare Command (5) — new. West–Strasiser memo (10-22 15:17).
• ARCYBER ECHOTRIBBLE (5) — new. Contractor documents not public.
• New Jersey A5711 / S4809 (5) — new. Bill text not yet available.
• Guardrails Action coalition letter (6), OpenAI mathematics results and IAS advisory-group recommendations (6), National Compute Grid consortium paper (6), letter from three fired OpenAI employees on CoT monitorability (6) — carried from 10-08.
• Rep. Trahan's CLAIM Act (5), Kyoto Vision (5) — carried.
• Reflection AI Beam (3), Scott Kupor (3), Internet Watch Foundation (3), Biohub / Virtual Biology Initiative (3), personal agent protocol (3), Conrad Stosz (3), Delaware AI-company draft bill (3) — carried.
• Slice 1 thin anchors (1–2 each): AI as Cultural Technology (443 words, in-degree 9), AI Policy (523 words, confidence: high on 1 source, in-degree 9 — the rating looks inconsistent with the source count), China’s generative AI filing and registration system (in-degree 8, 1 source). The other 14 slice hits are single-source framework pages whose one source is the framework itself, so web expansion would add little.
• Structural, reported once (sixth consecutive deferral): Daybreak placement; Coinbase, Block and Stripe placement — curator decisions, not research gaps.

Observations for the curator

• Git has been blocked for 18 days. .git/index.lock (zero bytes, 2026-10-05 15:00:11 UTC) is still present; the last commit in .git/logs/HEAD is from that afternoon. Every git command on the Mac mini fails while it exists, so the sync loop cannot commit, push or publish this run's lock and release. Remove it by hand (rm -f .git/index.lock in the vault) once no git process is running. Flagged on 2026-10-08 as well.
• No developments-log fold since 2026-09-27. Lint lists 46 unprocessed digests (2026-09-28 → 2026-10-22), and no content page has been edited since then apart from gap-scan runs. Several deferred items above are fold items rather than page gaps and will clear once the fold runs.
• No gap scan ran between 2026-10-08 and today, so the 7-day dedupe window held no reports.
• CourtListener MCP failed to connect this run (not needed for any actioned gap).

One-line summary

Two pages created live (Executive Order 14434 — Inaugurating the Era of Super Intelligence, Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF)), one thin anchor expanded (AI Consciousness), six primary sources verified and queued URL-only; for the curator — remove the stale .git/index.lock (sync blocked since Oct. 5) and restart the developments-log fold (46 digests behind).