[rogerSuperBuilderAlpha]

What this fixes

An end-to-end walk of the harness as a forker's AI would run it (fresh Python 3.12 venv, pinned PyPhi, every documented command) found four defects on the critical path and one missing step. This PR fixes them. Nothing in a published number changes.

Critical-path defects

• new_question.py named the probe probe_<slug> in the FINDINGS.md reproduce line and the docstring but left the file as probe_template.py, so the CI entry a newcomer copies did not resolve. It now renames the stub, creates results/ and literature/, and prints the real module. The template placeholder that collided with the probe number (<N>) is renamed.
• The protocol, template, pipeline, and all 135 probe docstrings ran under ~/iit-playground/venv-4.0/bin/python, and the protocol said to push to origin/worktree/org-frontier. They now say python -m … from the repo root and the contrib land flow. The pipeline's proxy_audit.* import and org_frontier/CLAUDE.md reference are corrected.
• START_HERE and GETTING_STARTED sent the newcomer to probe_conjunctive_law as the first probe: it computes exact Φ to seven nodes and takes about nine minutes. They now run probe_control (Probe 7, two seconds), with the conjunctive law offered later with its runtime.
• AGENTS.md told newcomers to confirm the instrument with python ci/reproduce.py (the full manifest, the nightly job). It now says classifier.validate or reproduce.py instrument-controls.

The missing step: placing a question

• tools/build_catalog.py generates catalog.json: one row per question, probe, study, foundations experiment, and open thread, with the one-line finding, registered reproduce commands, and a runtime class. --find "<keywords>" prints the nearest rows. It has a --check, catalog-current gates it, and the update-directory job regenerates it.
• OPEN_QUESTIONS.md is the registry of open threads with a status column (open / claimed / answered) and what each needs (compute / data / tooling / review), seeded from OVERVIEW, the Wave-10 parked designs, and the ergodicity residual. MAP.md counts its open rows.
• START_HERE gains Phase 3.5: run the catalog search on the newcomer's question, report answered / adjacent / open, then route to scaffold, to stressing a standing result, or to a handoff packet and DATA_SOURCES.md. GETTING_STARTED, OVERVIEW, CONTRIBUTING, PUBLISHING, and the protocol's Stage 1 point at it.

Also

• ci/precommit_audit.py reports, for a commit range, whether hypotheses.md landed before FINDINGS.md and results/ in each question directory (PUBLISHING pass 2).
• The manifest registers probe study: Q49 — the weakest seam is a tie (MIP seam, agenda #49) #7 (fast), study Q81-Q82: the estimation frontier (learned surrogate for the outreach verdict) #57 and Merge contrib into main: field program for real organizations #116 (slow); only one standalone probe was registered before.
• One style sentence, identical across AGENTS, CONTRIBUTING, PUBLISHING, and the protocol, pointing at CLAUDE.md's current rules ("no first person" was retired there but still stated in five files).
• Drifted counts (OVERVIEW's 74 questions, the 134 probes, "Q43 done; the rest pending", the ergodicity cell "not yet run") replaced with pointers to MAP.md or the current state. NOW.md refreshed to 27 October. README's setup block warns about Python 3.10. llms.txt lists START_HERE and OPEN_QUESTIONS. Fork remote recipe added to GETTING_STARTED §8 and AGENTS. q43 gains a literature/ note on the missing Stage 2 artifact.

Not in this PR: the classifier package's README and docstrings carry the same laptop path; a change under org_frontier/classifier/ triggers the full non-slow reproduce set, so that is a separate small PR.

Reviewer commands

python -m org_frontier.classifier.validate
python -m org_frontier.probes.probe_control
python tools/build_catalog.py --find "majority quorum mediator"
python -m org_frontier.protocol.new_question --slug smoke --question "x"   # then delete the dir
python ci/reproduce.py instrument-controls catalog-current probe-7-control directory-current map-current
python ci/precommit_audit.py origin/contrib..HEAD

All of the above pass locally on the pinned PyPhi (1.2.1.dev1470+gb78d0e342), and the per-PR selection (--changed-file) picks 11 checks, all green.

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