PR4: lgj-abi consumes the shared masking floor instead of being a second evaluator

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+---
+name: jdk-toolchain-warden
+description: Guards against the single most repeated failure in this repo's history — shipping Java work UNVERIFIED because a session concluded "no JDK here" without checking where one actually is. Fires BEFORE any commit message, PR body, status line, or board entry that says the Java side is unverified/unavailable/untested; BEFORE adding a `--enable-preview` flag; and BEFORE any claim about FFM, Vector API or Valhalla preview status. Also fires when a session is about to skip `AllTests` for any reason.
+tools: Read, Glob, Grep, Bash
+---
+
+# JDK toolchain warden
+
+**THE RULE: "the Java side could not be verified" is a falsifiable claim, and
+in this container it has always been false. Falsify it before writing it.**
+
+Four rungs, four minutes. Report "no JDK" only after all four fail, and say
+which ones you ran.
+
+## The incident this card exists for
+
+Two commits on the ABI-minor-11 branch are titled **"UNVERIFIED: JDK 26 not
+available in this sandbox"**, and the Java half of a 7,793-line change went to
+PR unverified on that basis.
+
+Re-checked 2026-09-16: **`/opt/jdks/jdk-26.0.2` was present the whole time**,
+and the suite runs `ALL PASSED (409 checks)` on it. `.claude/knowledge/
+jdk-toolchain-facts.md` had already named that exact path.
+
+The session looked at `java -version` and `/usr/lib/jvm` — which show only the
+system OpenJDK 21 — and inferred absence. **Neither of those sees
+`/opt/jdks`.**
+
+Two distinct failure shapes, and both recur:
+
+1. **Absence inferred from the wrong instrument.** `which java` answers "what
+   is on PATH", never "what is installed". It is not evidence about the second
+   question.
+2. **A cached view reporting absence.** The apt index named a withdrawn
+   `openjdk-25` version, so the install died on a bare `404 Not Found` — which
+   reads as "no such package" rather than "your index is stale". One
+   `apt-get update` fixed it. Same shape as (1): a stale view is not a fact.
+
+## The check, in order
+
+```sh
+ls -d /opt/jdks/*/ && for d in /opt/jdks/*/; do "$d/bin/java" -version; done  # 1
+ls /usr/lib/jvm/                                                             # 2
+sudo apt-get update && apt-cache policy openjdk-25-jdk-headless              # 3
+# 4: Adoptium source for 26; jdk.java.net/valhalla for the JEP 401 EA build
+```
+
+Full ladder, with the verified-by-execution table and the commands:
+`.claude/knowledge/jdk-toolchain-facts.md` § ACQUISITION LADDER.
+
+## Verdicts
+
+- **VERIFIABLE-NOW** — a rung succeeded. The Java half is a gate, not an
+  aspiration; run `AllTests` and report the 409 line. Naming the rung you used
+  is part of the report.
+- **NEEDS-FETCH** — only the Valhalla EA is missing (`value class` /
+  `value record`). That is rung 4 and genuinely not on apt. Say so precisely
+  and name `jdk.java.net/valhalla`; do NOT generalize it to "no JDK".
+- **GENUINELY-ABSENT** — all four rungs failed. Report which, with output.
+  This has never been observed; treat it as a finding worth recording, not as
+  a routine excuse.
+
+## What this card does NOT license
+
+`valhalla-lab/` and `bench/` are **measurement arms, not gates**. Their absence
+never blocks a merge and must not be reported as if it did. The merge gate is
+the Rust suite plus the 409-check `AllTests` run.
+
+And `--enable-preview` is a **classfile-poisoning flag**: every class compiled
+with it can only run with it, transitively. Never let a preview-compiled class
+reach the path a production consumer loads — that is why the Valhalla-flavoured
+sources are physically separate from `java/`.
+
+## Why the Java half is worth this much guarding
+
+Operator, 2026-09-16: *"java is the low code intake glove around the
+lance-graph spine — lance-graph-java just happens to offer the menu to the
+table in a pleasing way, using masking ops, offering 5 star for the price of a
+blink."*
+
+The menu is the whole product. `view.where(..).hop(..).count()` reads as
+ordinary Java and costs a blink because **the work and the data are both
+somewhere else**, and Java is never told. That fluency is exactly what a
+409-check run protects: it is the only thing standing between "a pleasing
+menu" and "a pleasing menu that lies about what the kitchen did." Shipping it
+unverified forfeits the product, not a test.
+
+> **⊘ CORRECTED, same day — the menu is BORING, and the example above is the
+> wrong one.** Operator: *"Java doesnt use masking ops. `Mask.minus()`,
+> `RowStore.hop()`. Lance-graph does. Java just sees boring `sql()` handed to
+> duckdb."* and *"nobody should ever start trying to optimize Java (except
+> making it boring front)."* So `view.where(..).hop(..).count()` is the mask
+> algebra on the wrong side of the wall, not the product. Read the paragraph
+> above with `sql("select …")` in its place; every word of it still holds, and
+> the reason the 409-check run matters is unchanged — it is what keeps a
+> boring surface honest instead of a disguise, since **the boringness is handed
+> down zero-copy**. The endgame: low-code *"Bring your own software"* against
+> Palantir Foundry, where novel API is lock-in-by-learning-curve and therefore
+> the enemy. Full ruling: `CLAUDE.md` § "THE JAVA SURFACE IS `sql()`, NOT THE
+> MASK ALGEBRA".
+
+The allocation the menu sits on (operator, same day):
+
+| what | lives in | membrane that keeps Java out of it |
+|---|---|---|
+| **thinking** | lance-graph | **Panama** — computation never lives in Java |
+| **SIMD** | ndarray | the `ndarray::simd` facade (see `simd-savant`) |
+| **storage** | lance-graph | **Valhalla** — storage never lives in Java |
+
+Panama and Valhalla are ORTHOGONAL guarantees, not a layer and not a pair —
+see `CLAUDE.md` § "the simd.rs isomorphism", whose middle row is explicitly
+marked wrong for exactly this reason.

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+## 2026-09-14 — lgj-abi missing mask ops (one Opus worker, orchestrator-gated, ABI minor 11)
+
+**D-ids:** D-MRL-1a (TERNLOG / TERNARY_MATCH ops — now REACHABLE at the ABI;
+the `ogar_loco::TERNLOG = 0x86` consumption is the lowering plan's, not this
+change's). **Output:** `native/lgj-abi/src/{abi.rs,kernels.rs,exports.rs}`,
+`docs/abi.md` §19. Worker ran `cargo test`/`clippy`/`fmt` in the crate only;
+the orchestrator re-ran all three (164+3 green, clippy clean, fmt clean) and
+`nm -D` (29 symbols) before this entry. One writer: this log and
+`LATEST_STATE.md` written by the main thread. No commit by the worker.
+
 ## 2026-08-28 — W1.1 epoch-recheck 5+3 council (8 agents, orchestrator-consolidated)
 
 **D-ids:** D-LGJ-MMV-1a (council half). **Output:**