hive-chip-flow (Hive-RSI-Lab)VerificationConfidence: Medium

After an undeclared RTL edit, harden goes stale, but timing, DRC, LVS, glsim and precheck hash harden output, which has not changed yet, so the router and score report them fresh on a GDS that no longer derives from the RTL. The release step still refuses, but the freshness report undercounts what has to re-run.

Impact Analysis

Persona

Hardware Engineer

Team Size Impact

5x Multiplier

Prototype Delay

3 Days

Est. Annual Cost

$30,000

1 user · 1 month240 min
Rest of team960 min
Rest of year13,200 min

monthly_minutes × 12 × team_multiplier ÷ 60 × $75/hr = $30k/yr

$75/hr assumed rate.

Annual team-minutes decomposed from the reported monthly inputs.

Evidence & Sources

1 Sources

Hive-RSI-Lab/hive-chip-flow Issue #147: Freshness propagates through derived artifacts: a gate downstream of a stale gate reads stale, not fresh, until the upstream gate re-runs

github.com

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Analyst Notes

From the Grok pain-radar digests, Oct 31-Nov 1 2026 (Oct 31 9:41 PM ET through Nov 1 7:41 AM ET digests plus the Haitch overnight edition). Verified live 2026-11-01: issue/PR read; title and state confirmed.