log: MPTE _execute_step verified honest-stub (LATER, needs design); frontier boundary reached

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

Author: DevOpsMadDog

docs/ralph_progress.md

@@ -600,3 +600,5 @@ tick292 (2026-06-26, ralph-c4) — LIVE PRODUCTION smoke of deployed v76 (via fl
 tick293 (2026-06-26, ralph-c4) — llm_explanation_engine VERIFIED honest (not a NO-MOCKS violation): _generate_fallback_explanation sets explanation_id=fallback_*, detailed_analysis explicitly says "LLM explanation engine unavailable", confidence lowered to 0.6, and serves GENERIC guidance ("review technical details / consult security team") — NOT fabricated finding-specific analysis (unlike the AI-advisor bug #18 which served 5 fake specific recs as completed). gpt-5 is a real 2026 model used when keyed. Honestly-labeled degraded fallback = acceptable; left working code unchanged. Boundary observation: remaining GAP_MAP-tail items are now resolving to "already-honest / correct" on inspection — in-my-power non-founder-gated frontier is verified-exhausted; remaining real surface = founder-gated (gh-auth dependabot triage, FIPS-cert/PIV/GPU).
 
 tick294 (2026-06-26, ralph-c4) — CLAUDE.md CURRENT STATE metrics refreshed to MEASURED 2026-06-26 reality (were stale from 2026-05-05, and misled me early this session): engines 463->464, routers 798->813, routes mounted 6722->8346 (stable across SPEC-034 codemod), pages ~289->299, Beast 1078->756 (accurate 13-file count) + broad gate suite 1433/0, added test-files=1469 + CI-gates=25 + fly v76 rows. Doc accuracy for future sessions; no code change.
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+tick295 (2026-06-26, ralph-c4) — MPTE _execute_step [GAP_MAP #8] VERIFIED honest-stub, NOT a violation: returns success:False + error:not_implemented + explicit "not yet connected to the MPTE engine" message — honest declaration, not fabrication. LATER-scope (release-scope.md: exploitability scoring ships; multi-AI consensus EXECUTION is later); building it real needs founder design (consensus-plan step actions/tools have no spec). Declined to speculatively build an un-spec'd complex feature. Honest stub left as-is. BOUNDARY: the in-my-power, non-founder-gated, non-speculative frontier is exhausted — recent items all resolve to already-correct / honest-stub-LATER / founder-gated. Everything substantive fixed+gated+deployed (v76). Remaining needs founder input: gh-auth (dependabot), FIPS/PIV/GPU (external), or a founder-prioritized LATER feature.