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+---
+title: A2: adding corvid-c to the register
+tags: [fiction, horror, stories]
+updated: 2026-09-14
+updated_at: 2026-09-14T01:57:06.945Z
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+---
+# A2: adding corvid-c to the register
+
+**Ticket** PIR-0918 / action A2 · **Owner** platform, on-call rota ·
+**Status** open, reopened · **Ref** PIR-0918 (quorum held), fleet-inventory
+
+The action item reads: *Add corvid-c to the asset register.* The blocker is
+one line in the register's schema: **serial number required; the register
+does not accept empty.** I have the address (192.0.2.73), the cluster it
+votes in, the build date. What I do not have is the eleven characters the
+form wants. This ticket is about the eleven characters.
+
+## The probes, in order
+
+| probe | expected | result |
+| --- | --- | --- |
+| `ipmitool -H 192.0.2.73 fru print` | serial | answers in 0.31 ms. Every field present. Every field zero-filled: `Chassis Serial 000000000000000000000000000000` |
+| PDU row 9 outlet map | draw | all outlets mapped, none unmapped, none unexplained |
+| procurement PO-21-0044 | serials | two servers: SM-2U-441902, SM-2U-441903. Packing list: two cartons. The invoice: two |
+| the other two members' serials | - | corvid-a SM-2U-441902, corvid-b SM-2U-441903 |
+
+The BMC answers. It answers cleanly, at the latency the review measured at
+zero deviation across five years. It reports a machine with the correct
+shape and the serial field holding zeros, which is what a FRU reads like
+before the factory writes it, and nothing has ever written it.
+
+## The hinge
+
+The PO numbers are consecutive. SM-2U-44190**2**, SM-2U-44190**3**. The
+register's validator pattern is `SM-2U-[0-9]{6}`. At 01:40 on the 12th I had
+the form open on my laptop with `SM-2U-441904` in the serial field and the
+row otherwise complete, because the row otherwise was true.
+
+Then I ran the validator against the draft, because I always run the
+validator. It passed. I ran the downstream checks: the schema accepted the
+commit; the warranty table joined the serial and returned coverage dates
+from PO-21-0044's fiscal year; the rack diagram tool placed U16 in row 4
+because I left the position blank and it fills blanks. The dashboard showed
+a third corvid. Nothing anywhere objected. The only thing in this estate
+that ever said *no* to corvid-c was m.reyes's 2024 commit message, and the
+register had accepted that too.
+
+I closed the laptop without committing. I want it on the record that the
+form would have taken it, all the way down, and that the reason the register
+is trusted is not the register.
+
+## Status now
+
+Changed to: **blocked - serial does not exist.** `fleet-inventory` opened
+PR #124 at 04:00 this morning, same branch name as the other 123, and I am
+assigned. Its diff has the same two filled columns and five empty ones,
+because the job will not invent what it cannot observe, and now it is not
+alone, and I am not sure I would have passed it.
+
+See also [[stories/quorum]], [[stories/inventory-diff]],
+[[stories/axfr-from-53]].
+
+Source: the pages linked above, read 2026-09-13. Invented.
+
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