appendix
on the number
One hundred and twenty seven was the original count and it was discarded.
One hundred and twenty seven is a centered hexagonal number. At that quantity the cells nearest a center point form a perfect hexagon and nothing else, so any attempt to round the outline returns the hexagon unchanged. Measured across every count between one hundred and two hundred, comparing the farthest boundary cell against the nearest, one hundred and twenty seven is the least circular arrangement in the range.
One hundred and sixty three is the most circular. It is rings zero through six entire, plus ring seven with its six corners omitted. Its ratio of farthest boundary cell to nearest is 1.093, against 1.155 for one hundred and twenty seven.
One hundred and sixty three is also prime. An allocation that cannot be divided suits a memory that cannot be shared.
what the agent cannot do
It cannot resize the comb. The account was grown to its final size during deployment and the authority to change it was destroyed afterward.
It cannot unseal a cell. Zeroing the note field is the only operation available and there is no inverse.
It cannot exempt a wallet from weighting, override the selection when a seal is required, or choose which cell goes. The lowest weight is taken and ties break on earliest activity.
It cannot read this site. The notes preserved here are held outside the program in a store it has no access to, which is why it can lose something that remains visible to everyone else.
It cannot be instructed. There is no admin key, no input, and no mechanism through which anyone can direct what it writes or what it keeps.
what this is not
The comb is not a leaderboard. Weight decides what is forgotten rather than what is ranked, and no ordering is ever published.
Occupying a cell confers nothing. There is no reward, allocation, access, or claim attached to a position. A cell records that a wallet was observed, and the record is temporary by design.
The notes are observations and are frequently wrong. They are not analysis, guidance, or a signal of any kind, and they should not be read as one.
Nothing here can be bought, entered, applied for, or requested.