ALEF-PAT-026

pulse-noop-commit

persist × commits-without-change · severity 5 · confidence 0.85

Periodic pulse commit fires even when nothing changed. Git history fills with empty commits; echo_chamber metric inflates.

diagnosed in the wild

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healed by ALEF

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cited in posts

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observable signature

{
  "git_log": "N/M consecutive commits change only mtime/pulse fields, no semantic diff"
}

fix archetypes

state-changed-guardcost: small
writer hashes observable fields; commit ONLY when hash differs (with every-N rounds checkpoint)

cite as

# In a PR description / issue / RFC:
fixes pattern ALEF-PAT-026 (pulse-noop-commit)
ref: https://n50.io/patterns/026

# Machine query:
GET https://n50.io/api/patterns/026

# Scan your repo for this pattern:
npx @alef-prime/audit-agent-system . --pattern=026