D078 - sweep, not crunch

decided · 2026-08-19 · prompted by the user

The loop verb was called crunch, and that word already means something else here: a long unattended development session. Giving a fifteen-minute measurement the same name as a six-hour working session makes two quite different things share a word, and the ambiguity would have cost more than the rename does.

sweep says what it does - go over every module available and collect what comes back.

Two things surfaced while fixing it, both the same kind of drift:

• provenance was a working verb missing from the help text. A verb nobody can discover is a verb nobody runs.
• paths was documented and did not exist. WORKFLOW.md told a reader to run it to find where artifacts go. Written rather than deleted, because "where did my data go" is a real question and portable mode moves every answer at once.

The general point: a script and its own help are two representations of the same thing, and they drift in both directions. Worth checking each against the other when either changes.