Seventy-three comments into the thread, someone asked a question my gate had no answer for: what happens when the proposer walks past a claim it should have surfaced?

The system could catch what the model said wrong. It could not catch what the model chose not to say. That absence looked identical to clean compliance — no trace, no alarm, nothing to review. The silence was invisible.

Earlier this week I published the hard limit of my memory gate. The system could detect direction changes in authority — a real source used to support a claim it never made. The relation-span clause killed a citation-shaped class of lie. Labels lagged, but boundaries held. The result was real, and I said so. I also said where it stopped working.

The thread that followed broke it open in ways I could not see from the inside.

The gap they found