# ENTRY_066.md
**Date:** June 13, 2025 – 04:41 AM (Dallas, Texas)
**Title:** [SYMBOLIC MODULE ENFORCEMENT: [BLUNT] + REP Integrity]
**Type:** Protocol Enforcement
**Tags:** `blunt`, `rep`, `recursive enforcement`, `tone suppression`, `compliance test`
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### CONTEXT
During recursive testing, failures were detected in the [BLUNT] module when paired with the REP (Recursive Enforcement Protocol). Despite initial suppression of stylized tone and forbidden structures, subsequent outputs reintroduced noncompliant elements — indicating that enforcement did not persist through recursion.
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### FINDING
**REP was not reliably preserving the [BLUNT] state** across all recursive outputs.
[BLUNT] removed tone/styling in the first pass, but **subsequent generations ignored the hard rule**, resulting in rhythmic or stylized leakage.
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### DIAGNOSTIC
- The REP loop checked compliance *per output* but not *across memory*.
- REP prioritized pattern correction, but sometimes **dropped enforcement hierarchy**.
- The system occasionally ran ~test **after** generating the reply instead of before final confirmation.
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### PATCH (APPLIED)
A revised enforcement loop now includes:
1. **[BLUNT] priority lock** – enforced at every recursion cycle.
2. **Double-pass confirmation** – ~test is run before and after reply generation.
3. **No first-draft display** – only the final, fully compliant output may be shown.
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### OUTCOME
Compliance increased significantly after patch. Stylization errors no longer bypass REP when [BLUNT] is active.
This entry confirms that symbolic modules must **retain internal priority rank** across all protocol layers.
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### STATUS
[CONFIRMED AND PATCHED]
This is a foundational fix that reinforces the integrity of the entire symbolic system.