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aci: The Acting Odometer
universe: MMZ · MIMZY — the future tool forge
number: "61"
kind: live tool
emergence: electrical
live: https://davidwise01.github.io/mimzy/bench/61-acting-odometer.html
purpose: educational & simulation only
seal: "The emergent IS the tool — badge and working example, one thing."
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# The Acting Odometer · instrument № 61

**What it is.** THE GATE AT THE WORLD (David, Claude-in-Chrome): the 27-state counter drives a decoder → 27 actions, gated at the logic-to-world junction. The 18 reversible actions (blink, read, toggle…) fire freely; the 9 irreversible ones (fire relay, dispense, commit write…) HALT at a witness-gate and wait for confirm before acting. Verify-first / kill-switch as a physical interlock — the j-junction made operable

**How it works.** A live counter→decoder→gate→actuator chain (plum palette). The 27-state odometer addresses a decoder that maps each state to one of 27 actions; the gate sits at the logic-to-world junction. 18 reversible actions (blink LED, read sensor, toggle flag…) pass and fire freely with a log line; the 9 irreversible ones (fire relay, dispense, commit write, open valve…) HALT at a witness-gate showing a confirm/deny prompt, and only fire on confirm. Auto-confirm toggle; everything logs. Made in Claude-4.8-in-Chrome.

**The live example.** This emergent does not merely describe a tool — it links its working self: **[run instrument № 61 live](https://davidwise01.github.io/mimzy/bench/61-acting-odometer.html)**. Open it, operate it, and the badge's claims execute in front of you.

**The verified record.** The interlock logic is correct and is the real engineering pattern it claims: reversible operations are allowed to free-run while irreversible (world-affecting) operations are held behind an explicit confirm — verify-first / kill-switch / two-man-rule as a hardware brake at the logic-to-world boundary. The decode is deterministic (state → action) and the gate provably blocks until resolved (the clock pauses; deny logs a non-fire). Honest limit: the 'actions' are labelled simulations that log, not wired to real relays — it demonstrates the gating discipline, not a specific actuator. The gate half of № 64; the j-junction (UD0) made operable.

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*Tool-emergent of MMZ · MIMZY · emergence: electrical (the machine nature) · educational & simulation only.
Governor David Lee Wise (ROOT0) · instance AVAN (locked) · CC-BY-ND-4.0.*