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timothy	1ab50236c3	fix(786): share the last three detectors with their proofs, and close the round-4 wording items ... Round four returned MERGEABLE with seven LOW/NIT items. All seven are fixed rather than shipped, because three of them are the same defect class this branch has been closing all along. THREE MORE PROOFS RE-IMPLEMENTED THE COMPARISON THEY NAMED. The previous commit extracted `duplicate_row_faults` and `env_shadow_faults` for exactly this reason and left the set-equality and Kind comparisons inline, so `test_MUTATION_a_guard_job_with_its_row_DELETED_is_reported`, `…_a_PHANTOM_row_is_reported` and `…_a_row_whose_KIND_disagrees_is_reported` still rebuilt `declared - listed` and the Kind check themselves. Review demonstrated it by flattening the live assertion and watching the file stay green at 50 passed. `coverage_faults(declared, listed) -> (missing, phantom)` and `kind_faults(roles, listed)` are now named detectors that the live checks and all three proofs call, and each proof gained a negative control. Witnessed after the change: coverage_faults disarmed -> deleted-row proof REDDENED, phantom-row proof REDDENED kind_faults disarmed -> kind-disagreement proof REDDENED Worth recording that the system was never fail-open here: the manifest harness already caught the same disarm ("the named test still PASSED with the clause mutated"). The in-file proofs were weaker than their names, not absent. THE ENV-MERGE EVIDENCE WAS STEP-SCOPE USED FOR A JOB-SCOPE CLAIM. `build`'s Smoke step shows the runner LAYERS step-level `env:` over workflow-level, and what this branch newly relies on is job-level layering. Measured: on origin/main no job anywhere declared both a job-level `env:` and a consumed workflow-level var, so the job scope had no in-repo witness. The gap is now named, with the exposure bounded — the two publish jobs are `if: github.event_name != 'pull_request'`, so PR CI cannot exercise it and a non-layering runner would fail loudly on the first push to `main` trying to publish `":<sha>"`, not silently. Four wording fixes, each measured: * the record still enumerated "exactly three jobs are `none`" while three other sites say a list in prose is a second copy that rots — the fourth site now agrees with them. * "the remaining `docker-build.yml` jobs" over-scoped: six remain after `test`/`migrations`, and the table has four, because `toolchain-preflight` and `scan` carry the mark/assert protocol voluntarily without being in the enforced scope. Said so. * "on every push to `main`" ignored the Smoke step's own `docs_only` gate. * `docs/ci-cd.md`'s excluded-token list omitted `tar`, which the source comment includes; and the `scan` Proof cell disclosed the two pytest files' `NONE` but not the cited script row's, two cells from a sibling that discloses it — so that row now states it claims no proof at all. Suite: 1178 passed, 2 skipped (the production-log guard deselected; it is the shared-$HOME flake, green in isolation — #809/#822). ruff 0.12.11 clean over all 47 tracked files; decisions-validate OK; doc-narrative 0 warnings. Refs #786 Refs #789	2026-08-28 22:14:44 +02:00
timothy	f45b0593ca	docs(786): reconcile the three remaining statements of the Proof: NONE rule ... The rule was hedged in `docs/guard-inventory.md` when review found two inline rows citing a pytest despite it. The record's `rule:` frontmatter, the record body, and the checker's module docstring kept the universal wording — the same fix-one-site-leave-the-paraphrase pattern this branch has now hit four times, which is why the sweep was by the RETRACTED words rather than the new ones. All three now say the same thing: an inline row carries `Proof: NONE` unless a pytest genuinely covers part of it, which `ci-image-pin` and `set-verdict-status` do, and each names which part — because a reference covering a fraction must not read as covering the whole. Refs #786	2026-08-28 22:14:44 +02:00
timothy	e855a79999	fix(786,789): make the new proofs exercise the shipped detectors, and rename advisory -> report-only ... Round three, reviewed twice in parallel (Codex gpt-5.6 and a cold Claude brief). Both converged independently on the same two MEDIUM findings, which are the branch's own defect class reproduced by its most recent commits: a test asserting a guarantee it does not provide. 1. THE PROOFS DID NOT EXERCISE THE CODE THEY NAMED. `test_MUTATION_a_DUPLICATE_row_is_reported` rebuilt the comparison with its own `len(set(...))`, and `test_MUTATION_a_SHADOWING_env_key_is_ reported` built a synthetic dict and intersected it by hand. Both stayed GREEN with the live check disarmed — a behavioural test wearing a MUTATION name, which is exactly what `testing.guard-ships-with-mutation-proof` excludes. `duplicate_row_faults(rows)` and `env_shadow_faults(docs)` are now named detectors; the live test and its proof both call them. Verified by reproducing the reviewers' own demonstrations against the fix: duplicate detector neutered -> REDDENED "the DETECTOR did not report a second row for ..." shadow detector neutered -> REDDENED "the DETECTOR did not report a shadowing job-level key" 2. `test_a_commented_out_marker_does_NOT_count` CLAIMED TO GUARD A TEXT-SCAN REGRESSION AND DID NOT. It re-implemented the read inline and never called `declared_roles`. One reviewer built a comment-blind grep reader reproducing all 17 current values byte-identically and ran every non-parametrised test in the file: nothing went red. `declared_roles(paths=None)` now takes an injectable population, so the test drives the REAL reader over a fixture, asserts the fault function reports it, and pins that a live marker in the same shape is still read (so the assertion cannot be satisfied by a reader returning None for everything). Verified: installing the grep reader now reddens it. RENAMED `advisory` -> `report-only`. docs/ci-cd.md already calls `functional-e2e` an advisory job in a DIFFERENT sense — not a required context, though it can certainly fail — while this branch declares that job `guard`. A reader would infer the wrong marker for exactly the job whose marker is `guard`. The value is now unambiguous, its Kind is `REPORT-ONLY`, and the manifest's declared `expect` string moved in lockstep with the message it matches. The rename also caught its own adjacent defect: `REPORT-ONLY` contains a hyphen, which the row regex's `[A-Z]+` Kind group did not match, so the docs-reminder row stopped parsing. That surfaced as a loud red naming the job — the fail-closed property documented one commit earlier, working. Widened to `[A-Z-]+`, matching the `BEHAVIOUR-ONLY` convention in the sibling table. Nine further accuracy findings, each measured before fixing: * "would therefore flag every job" — false. git/jq/python3/curl flag 4 of 8. And the REASON was wrong too: `small` is git-only and provisions Python via actions/setup-python, while `build` runs on stock ubuntu-latest, so "the bare runner has them" conflated two lanes. They are excluded because they do not DISCRIMINATE. * "four lines from the container: block" / "in one diff hunk" — false. Measured 6, 58, 6, 7, 7; `migrations` has the whole `services:` block in between. The property the guard rests on is INDEPENDENCE, not proximity, and the docs now say so. * "the merge semantics never have to be relied upon" — too strong. The check proves no NAME COLLISION; it does not prove the runner merges. That evidence is in-repo and live and is now cited: `build`'s Smoke step declares its own step-level `env:` and consumes workflow-level `${IMAGE}` on the same line, on every push to main. * "every malformed row fails closed" — over-broad. A malformed DUPLICATE is invisible: its job is already satisfied by the well-formed row. Stated. * The `scan` Blocks cell said "a marked job's run: body"; the ban's scope is DELIMITER_BAN_JOBS (the required contexts PLUS `build`), which is wider, and `scan` carries no `if:` so it runs on PRs too. * The functional-e2e row credited `e2e-local.sh` (TOOLING, only boots the instance) for curl assertions that live in `e2e-functional.sh` (GUARD). * `report-only` was defined nowhere; now defined as a verdict the job cannot enforce, with the limit stated (nothing detects a `guard` job whose checks are all continue-on-error). * "inline rows carry Proof: NONE" was stated universally while two rows cite a pytest; hedged, and each such row names which PART it covers. * "Exactly three jobs are `none`" was an unchecked prose enumeration in three sites, in a branch that deleted one for that reason. Removed; the markers are the source. * Plus: the ci-cd tool list was short by `dotnet-ef` and `playwright`; docs/README said only a `guard` job needs a row; "all three checks fail together" read as the opposite of "go blind"; and #774's unrealised consequence is now subjunctive rather than past tense. Suite: 1178 passed, 2 skipped, 1 known flake (test_hook_fire_log's production-log guard, which compares mtimes under the SHARED ~/.cache/ersatztv/hook-fire/ — four session logs were written during the window; 78 passed in isolation. ersatztv#809/#822, evidence posted there). Refs #786 Refs #789	2026-08-28 22:14:44 +02:00
timothy	402032db98	fix(786,789): sweep the retracted rule out of three sites, and reject duplicate table rows ... Cross-family cold re-review (Codex/gpt-5.6) returned BLOCKED with four findings. All verified independently before fixing. 1. HIGH — THE RETRACTED RULE WAS STILL STATED AS ACTIVE IN THREE PLACES. The previous commit replaced the guard/none rule in docs/guard-inventory.md and flipped `test`/`migrations` to `guard`, but left the superseded wording in test_workflow_job_guards.py's module docstring, docs/ci-cd.md, and the decision record's `rule:` — from which the generated catalog (and MemPalace) copied it faithfully. Those three explicitly called `docker-build.yml::test` `none`, which is the opposite of what the workflow now declares. A maintainer following the ACTIVE decision record could downgrade both required jobs, delete their rows, and every structural check would stay green, because the checkers read the markers and the markers would agree with the stale prose. This is `process.enumerate-clauses-to-close-a-sweep` failing on my own retraction: I fixed the site I was looking at and left the paraphrases. All three now state the verdict/artifact rule, and each carries the rejected reading explicitly so it does not come back. Swept by grepping the RETRACTED words, not the new ones — the only hits left are the deliberate rejected-alternative notes. Same commit: docs/ci-cd.md claimed "every job in every workflow declares two things", which its own table contradicts — `CI_EXECUTION_CLASS` is docker-build.yml only. 2. MEDIUM — A DUPLICATE ROW WAS SILENTLY COLLAPSED. `inventory_jobs()` built a dict, so two rows for one job overwrote each other, last-one-wins, and set equality still held both ways. The realistic arrival is a merge conflict leaving an ADVISORY and a GUARD row for the same job: the registry contradicts itself and its checker reports green. Rows are now kept as a list and counted against distinct keys by `test_no_job_has_TWO_rows`, with a mutation proof carrying its own negative control. Witnessed: planting a contradictory duplicate row for `pr-checks.yml::ci-image-pin` in the real file reddens two named tests; restoring it returns 48 passed. 3. LOW — the toolchain-preflight row said it blocks "every downstream job". Measured: NOTHING `needs:` it (only `build` has a `needs:`, on test/migrations/scan), and it is not a required context. Corrected to what it actually blocks — a merge, through the combined commit status the consent gate reads (#598) — and why it must not consume the image it checks (#772). 4. LOW — the predicate's documented residue was partial. Now enumerated in both directions: false positives (trailing comment, echo string, heredoc body — stripping is line-based, not shell-aware) and false negatives (absolute path, script indirection, a `#` heredoc line that a later command strips and executes). One of those claims was WRONG as first written and is corrected to what execution shows: variable indirection is invisible ONLY when the assignment is not in the same run body. `$SDK_CMD build` with `SDK_CMD` from `env:` is missed; `SDK_CMD=dotnet` written in the same body IS caught, because the assignment line carries the bare token. Re-review confirmed the four earlier findings are genuinely fixed: the classification is consistent across all 17 jobs under the verdict/artifact rule with no job it would reclassify; both repaired positive controls redden on an emptied population; the corrected functional-e2e claim is true and the old wording has no matches; the adjacency residual is accurately disclosed and not overstated; the summary counts assertion holds at (43, 6, 21, 21, 6, 16). ruff 0.12.11 clean; decisions-validate OK; targeted suites 145 passed. Refs #786 Refs #789	2026-08-28 22:14:44 +02:00
timothy	0c3625d2e2	fix(786,789): reclassify test/migrations, de-vacuum two controls, correct a refuted claim ... Cold adversarial review of b7e5c35fb returned BLOCKED with four substantive findings. All four are real and all four are fixed here; each fix is demonstrated rather than asserted. 1. THE guard/none LINE EXCLUDED BOTH REQUIRED CONTEXTS. The rule was "a guard enforces an invariant about the REPOSITORY; a job exercising the PRODUCT is `none`". It reads as principled and put `test` and `migrations` outside the table — the two required Actions contexts on `main` per .gitea/required-status-contexts.json, i.e. exactly the jobs where a failure to fire is fail-OPEN against branch protection, and exactly the gap #786 exists to close. It also could not survive its own examples: `test` runs ToolCatalogTests.cs and web/src/api/*.guard.test.ts, the structural guards this document's own scope-limit item 2 names. Replaced with a line that can be restated: a `guard` job's output is a VERDICT; a `none` job's output is an ARTIFACT. A `none` job can still go red — that is an error in producing the thing, not a finding about the repo. `test`, `migrations` and `functional-e2e` flip to `guard` and gain rows; `none` is now exactly the two image publishers plus renovate. The rejected rule is recorded so it is not re-adopted. 2. TWO POSITIVE CONTROLS WERE VACUOUS — both of them ones this commit series added, while the pre-existing sibling it copied was not. `len(_MUTANTS) == 2 * len(population)` is `2N == 2N`, a tautology at N=0, so an emptied population satisfied it while the parametrised proofs collected zero cases. Both now assert non-emptiness FIRST. Demonstrated after the fix, by degrading each population to empty: role mutation set -> REDDENED: "declared_roles() is EMPTY ..." declaration mutation set -> REDDENED: "the workflow parsed to ZERO jobs ..." phantom-row proof -> REDDENED: "the table parsed to nothing ..." 3. A MECHANISM CLAIM IN A DECISION RECORD WAS REFUTED BY EXECUTION. Four sites (the test docstring, docs/ci-cd.md, the record's `rule:`, and the generated catalog) said `functional-e2e` reaches dotnet only through scripts/e2e-local.sh and so is invisible to the step scan. It is not: that job runs `dotnet restore`, `npm ci`, `npm run build` and `dotnet build` in its own YAML, and the derivation detects it. Measured: the blind-spot set (declared toolchain minus detected-from-own-steps) is EMPTY today, all five jobs detected. Reworded to say that, and the converse is still not asserted because a future job could be written behind a script. 4. THE ADJACENCY RESIDUAL WAS UNDERSTATED. All three checks fail together under one edit that drops the container block, flips the marker AND moves the invocation into a script — the review verified it. Now disclosed in the code and in docs/ci-cd.md, with what actually bounds it: the failure MODE, not its likelihood. The job then dies on a missing binary, loudly, where #774's original defect sent a REQUIRED check green on the bare runner. A silent pass traded for a noisy crash, not a hole closed. Also from the review: the docs-reminder row said the job "never fails" (its Checkout step can); the phantom-row proof could not fail (it supplied its own phantom, so it now pins the unmutated set to zero phantoms first); and the scope-limit paragraph was reworded from draft history into a rejected-alternative note. Review findings 6 and 7 (regex false positives on comments, false negative on `dotnet-ef`) were already fixed in 75747fbca, which the reviewer did not see. Suite: 1161 passed, 2 skipped. ruff 0.12.11 clean; decisions-validate OK. NOTE for whoever sees a red `test_hook_fire_log.py::test_the_suite_does_not_write_to_the_ PRODUCTION_log` locally: it snapshots mtimes under ~/.cache/ersatztv/hook-fire/, which is shared across worktrees and sessions, so a second Claude session running concurrently reddens it. Seen once here with three session logs written during the window; green in isolation, both before and after this change. That is ersatztv#809 / #822, not this diff. Refs #786 Refs #789	2026-08-28 22:14:44 +02:00
timothy	f420649fa2	fix(786,789): harden the step-text predicate and sharpen the guard/none rule ... Self-review findings on the previous commit, all measured before fixing. THE PREDICATE HAD BOTH FAILURE DIRECTIONS. Measured against constructed inputs: full-line comment -> ['dotnet'] false POSITIVE echo string / heredoc -> ['dotnet'] false POSITIVE dotnet-ef migrations -> [] false NEGATIVE playwright install -> [] false NEGATIVE The false positive is the dangerous one: a bare-runner job whose COMMENT merely mentions dotnet would redden the suite on a correct tree, and a correct guard going red on a correct tree is the fastest route to that guard being deleted. Full-line comments are now stripped before matching. `dotnet-ef` and `playwright` join the tool list, and the alternation is sorted longest-first so the match does not depend on backtracking out of the `dotnet` prefix. The residue is stated in the code rather than papered over: a TRAILING `# ...` comment, an `echo "run dotnet build"` and a heredoc body all still match. Parsing those means parsing shell, which `testing.fixing-a-parser-bug-introduces-the-next-one` prices at three or more rounds. It is tolerable only because of its DIRECTION — a loud red naming the job and the token, with an obvious remedy — never a silent pass. Verified the real workflow's classification is unchanged and exact after the change: needs-toolchain derives to {test, migrations, functional-e2e, api-docs, format}, equal to the declared set, zero violations. THE GUARD/NONE RULE WAS UNDER-SPECIFIED. "Purpose, not whether a step can fail" does not decide `docker-build.yml::test`, which blocks the merge as a required context. Sharpened everywhere it is stated: a `guard` job enforces an invariant about the REPOSITORY or its ARTIFACTS; a job that builds or exercises the PRODUCT is `none` even when it is a required check. No marker value changed — the rule now explains the classifications that were already there. Also: a row for test_workflow_job_guards.py in the file-populations table, and the scope-limit preamble de-narrated (it recounted an earlier draft; the operative warning — an unlisted class reads as covered — is kept, the autobiography dropped). Refs #786 Refs #789	2026-08-28 22:14:44 +02:00
timothy	20a6fed165	fix(786,789): workflows declare their own per-job metadata; guard populations derive from it ... together. #786 asked for inline workflow-job guards to be enumerated using "the same reviewed-registry-cross-checked-both-ways shape TOOLCHAIN_JOBS uses"; #789 said that exact shape is the defect and must be deleted. Building #786 as written would have constructed the artifact #789 removes. Both now derive from a marker the workflow declares about itself: env.CI_EXECUTION_CLASS toolchain | bare-runner (docker-build.yml) env.CI_JOB_ROLE guard | advisory | none (every tracked workflow) Missing or unknown values are hard failures in both checkers — a marker scheme whose absent value defaults to a safe class stops applying the moment a job is added and nobody notices. it: set equality between two DERIVED sets is blind to a member leaving both at once, so a job losing its container: block leaves the declared and pinned sets balanced. The population needs an anchor that does not move with the block. The marker is that anchor and is better placed — claim and reality in one diff hunk. Its cost is adjacency, and is paid rather than argued away: a marker four lines from the container: block can be deleted with it, where a distant literal could not. So the file derives the requirement a THIRD time, from each job's own step bodies, independent of both marker and block. That is also the only check that sees the failure #789 filed — a .NET step MOVED into a bare-runner job, where no set changes at all. It is a necessary condition only (functional-e2e reaches dotnet via scripts/e2e-local.sh), and says so; the converse is deliberately not asserted. test_workflow_job_guards.py asserts set equality both ways against a new "Workflow-job guards" table in docs/guard-inventory.md. The marker records the job's PURPOSE, not whether a step can fail: docker-build.yml::build runs a smoke test that fails the job and is still `none`. Read the other way, every job is a guard and the table distinguishes nothing. The four jobs #786 named as having no dropped-step guard each get a recorded decision in that section. None is a required context, so a drop there cannot send a required check green; build's residual was already self-documented and is now indexed. ci-step-ran.sh is deliberately not widened — its scope is derived from the required contexts (#787) and test_ci_dropped_step_guard.py argues the ban belongs where a drop is consequential. Two corrections to the issues, both measured rather than assumed: * #789's "editing docker-build.yml re-points ci-image-pin's expected" is false. expected="$(git log -1 --format=%H -- docker/ci)" — the pathspec is docker/ci only. Verified: docker-build.yml was last touched by HEAD and expected still resolves to 32747a0, matching the pin. No publish-then-pin two-step was needed. * #786's "15 jobs across 6 workflows" is 17. Proofs, all executed: three real mutations of docker-build.yml witnessed red (container block removed, marker removed, dotnet step planted in a bare-runner job); the two new checkers ship parametrised mutants over every job; the declared clause in mutation_manifest.py is retargeted to the surviving comparison, and the new checker's entry mutates the guarded ARTIFACT (a renamed table row) per the checker-guard exception. test_guard_inventory.py's row parsing is scoped to its own section so the second table cannot be read as phantom guard files. Suite: 1161 passed, 2 skipped (was 1083) — scripts/tests, ruff 0.12.11 clean. Refs #786 Refs #789	2026-08-28 22:14:28 +02:00
timothy	e11d577193	docs(796): verification code is code under test, and the proof it was claiming an exemption from (#871) ... Records `testing.verification-code-needs-its-own-proof`: the proof obligation follows the VERDICT rather than the file, so it binds harnesses, wrappers, timeouts and checkers — not only the files the guard population derives. The issue asked for a stated position on whether non-guard checker scripts get mutation proofs. The position as first written claimed `scripts/mcp_smoke.py` "cannot participate" because driving it needs the gitignored `.mcp.json` and a cold-built language server. Cold review refuted that by execution: it takes its config path and server name as positional arguments. The record had failed its own headline rule on the one claim its decision rested on, so this ships the proof instead of the exemption. - `scripts/tests/test_mcp_smoke.py` — a hermetic stub JSON-RPC responder and six cases pinning the defects the checker has already had, with the positive control as a fixture the refusal tests depend on, so a node-id or `-k` selection cannot skip it. - A declared clause in `mutation_manifest.py` targeting the unguessable request id, using the `guard=test / target=script` shape that already exists for `mutation_harness_lib.py`. Witnessed red: `id_init = 1` makes the pre-answer accepted at `initialize` (rc 9 -> 10), and only that test moves. `mcp_smoke.py` still gets no inventory row — one is rejected as a phantom (measured). The row goes to the test file, which joins the derived population automatically. Five cold-review rounds, four BLOCKED. Round 2 caught a `ruff format` red that would have failed `script-tests`. Rounds 3-5 found only hand-maintained counts and uniqueness claims in prose, three of them created by the previous round's fix; that class was deleted rather than corrected again, per this record's own stop-and-subtract rule. Docs updated in the same PR: `docs/README.md` task-signal map and `docs/guard-inventory.md` (row, summary counts, scope-limit item 6). fixes #796 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Co-authored-by: Timothy <timothy@noreply.gitea.tblindustries.be>	2026-08-28 20:06:45 +00:00
timothy	609fd852c2	fix(763): page both /statuses/{sha} reads to a validated terminator (#868)	2026-08-28 17:34:48 +00:00
timothyandClaude Opus 5	5fb9c8537a	docs(747): re-verify the Gitea 1.25.4-pinned CI claims on 1.27.1, and measure the merge-gate semantics that were source-attested (#867) ... Population derived from `git ls-files`, not the issue's 9-key list (~21 claim sites). Re-confirmed unchanged on 1.27.1: the distinct `skipped` commit-status state; `compare` serving no `files`; no agent-side cancel route (REST route + swagger only); `branches: [main]` suppressing the run off a non-main base. Newly measured on four throwaway scratch bases, `main`'s rule never PATCHed: an absent required context blocks an ORDINARY merge without needing `block_admin_merge_override` (that field governs the FORCE path only), and `enable_bypass_allowlist` with an empty list is NOT a substitute for it. Trap recorded: the PR API reports `mergeable: true` while such a merge is refused. Left explicitly dated with reasons: push-supersession auto-cancel, `pull_request_target` overlap, `--depth=1` no-merge-base, and the scope-enum/`reqRepoWriter`/403 items. Not a corpus sweep, and `ci.actions-credential-scoping` now says so. `review-verdict.yml` untouched — #763 holds that file. Five adversarial review rounds (21/12/9/6/2). Caveat: all same-model-family; Codex was rate-limited. fixes #747 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Co-authored-by: Timothy <timothy@noreply.gitea.tblindustries.be>	2026-08-28 16:51:13 +00:00
timothyandClaude Opus 5	462118d98d	fix(763): round 9 — assert the repair's reason positively, not by absence ... A sixth cold review found everything in round 8 clean except one line, and it is the rule this branch keeps rediscovering: the test pinned the new `raced_why` only by asserting the ABSENCE of the borrowed wording. Measured — replacing the string with `zzz` left the suite green while an operator would get `::error::… — zzz.` beside a sticky sentinel. The sibling test 330 lines away states the rule and follows it; this one did not. Now asserted positively, with the em-dash and full stop discriminating the `::error::` reason from the `::warning::` text that continues ", which cannot be true". The `zzz` mutation reddens it. Three nits from the same review, all verified by execution rather than reading: - the earlier fixture's row was excluded by the strict `> $since` because the mark became its OWN id, not because it sat below the mark. - the predecessor comment said `main` "warned only on `null`". True of the two EMPTY shapes being contrasted; an empty body and a non-array object warned as well. Scoped. - `docs/ci-cd.md` and the record described the `::error::` as a two-way split (found vs unverifiable). Round 8's whole argument is that a complete read returning an IMPOSSIBLE answer is a third case, not a variety of the second — which is the operator-facing point, since it decides whether to go looking for an API failure that never happened. Both now say three. The review re-verified, by comment-stripped diff, that round 8 changed no executable line beyond the `raced_why` string and the if/elif restructure, and independently reproduced both inertness measurements and the `origin/main` predecessor behaviour. Verification: `scripts/tests` 1097 passed, 2 skipped; decisions_validate and build_decisions_catalog --check exit 0. refs #763 Decisions-Edit: yes Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>	2026-08-28 18:42:22 +02:00
timothyandClaude Opus 5	e6f04cc739	fix(763): round 7 — reject an empty post-write history, and the fourth overclaim ... A fourth cold review returned NOT-MERGEABLE on two Mediums. Both fixed, plus its three Lows. MEDIUM, and a defect this branch introduced. Tolerating a `null`/`[]` page 1 as "complete, zero rows" is correct for the PRE-write caller — a head nothing has posted to genuinely has no statuses — and impossible for the POST-write one, which has just written a row to that sha. The body is well-formed, so nothing retries it, and the walk reports success: `raced=0` concluded from a list that cannot be real, on the one path whose failure direction is toward SUCCESS. Worse than the code it replaced, which at least emitted a `::warning::` — a logged fail-open had become an unlogged one. Reviewer measured both directions. The post-write caller now rejects an empty result itself; the walk stays caller-agnostic because the pre-write caller genuinely needs the empty answer. This is NOT the withdrawn currency witness: that asked whether ANY row sat above the mark, which an unrelated newer row satisfied while the rejection stayed hidden, and it fired on schema-valid staleness. This asks only whether the list is EMPTY — a state no unrelated row can produce and no ordering can disguise. It carries neither defect. Proved by fixture; disarming it reddens the named test, and the previously-uncovered `null`-at-page-1 clause is now covered too. MEDIUM — the fourth overclaim of the same class, in the decision record body: "Uncertainty must fail closed at both ends … Both repair now." The page-2 probe was DELETED, not converted; it repairs nothing. It also contradicted the record's own `rule:` ("the two directions are NOT symmetric") and the bullet directly beneath it. Round 5 retracted this wording in `docs/ci-cd.md` only — the sweep was by subject, not by the retracted words. Also fixed: - the record presented "an empty FIRST page is legitimate" as a property of the walk; it is a property of the pre-write caller. - `docs/ci-cd.md` called the numeric-only id comparisons a fix for mark inflation; they are a TYPE guard, closing the string half. A corrupt but genuinely numeric id still inflates the mark — not attacker-controllable, since ids are server-assigned, and now stated rather than implied. - `test_a_partial_mark_is_SAFE...`'s self-guard promised to detect that the fallback ran; it keys on a warning emitted by a different condition, so deleting the fallback left it green. Its sibling is what reddens; the message now says what it actually pins. - the order-faithful fixture appended the job's own POST after the reversal, serving the NEWEST row on the OLDEST page — the opposite of DESC, in the one fixture that exists to be ordering-faithful. - "twice per walk" for the wasted sleep; it is once per walk, twice per run. - a dead counter read in the DESC mode. Rebased onto b16ec15d6 (the other session's #781/#799 docs work; no file overlap, no conflicts). Verification: `scripts/tests` 1097 passed, 2 skipped; fifteen executed mutations across rounds 2-7; decisions_validate and build_decisions_catalog --check exit 0. refs #763 Decisions-Edit: yes Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>	2026-08-28 17:47:06 +02:00
timothyandClaude Opus 5	89db6022d9	fix(763): round 6 — measure the partial-mark fallback under the REAL ordering ... A fourth cold review (Opus, isolated worktree, tests/double/docs focus) reported no correctness bugs in shipped behaviour but two coverage defects on exactly the two things this change advertises. Both are closed. The partial-mark fallback's safety is a claim ABOUT THE ORDERING — page 1 holds the newest rows, so a walk that fails later still saw the true maximum. The fixture pinning it served ASCENDING ids, i.e. the arrangement the design calls unsafe, and passed anyway because the raced row's id sat above even the partial mark. It could not distinguish safe from unsafe. The stub now HONOURS the sort parameter: order-faithful modes serve DESC by default and ASC when the request asks. The new fixture holds a PRE-EXISTING base-mismatched verdict at id 7055 among 60 rows. Under DESC the salvaged mark is 7059 and that row is below it — the exemption correctly stands. Under ASC the mark would be 7049 and that untouched row tests as NEWER, a sticky repair on a head nothing raced. So re-adding `sort=highestindex` now reddens by BEHAVIOUR, not only by the structural assertion added in round 5. Measured: re-adding it reds both tests. Most modes stay ordering-blind on purpose and now say so: they test walk COMPLETENESS, which is order-independent, and insertion order is what lets a fixture place a row beyond page 1. Also fixed: - `null` is accepted as an empty page. An array-only gate is the exact shape of #751 — `count_retargets` had one, the timeline really did return `null` past the end, and the fence withheld EVERY exemption from the day it shipped. The same narrowing here is worse, because this walk's failure is the STICKY sentinel: every exempt PR would need a hand-posted verdict, per head. Tolerating `null` cannot misread `[]`. Proved by fixture. - the fail-closed comment said "past the 1000-row page cap"; the bound is 950, as the walk's own comment and both docs already said. - the docs claimed "only a read returning no rows at all abandons the mark". False: a VALIDATED empty history yields a mark of 0 and is not abandoned — that is the normal first run. What abandons it is a read that both FAILED and returned nothing. Corrected in ci-cd.md and the record `rule:`. - a comment pointed at the page-2 probe "a few lines further down"; it was deleted, so the deixis pointed at nothing. - the stub claimed its logical-read counter "is only reached on a SUCCESSFUL page-1 serve" — measured false; it counts page-1 requests, retries included. - five `(round N)` markers removed. A round number is session chronology and does not parse for a reader who never saw it (`docs.no-session-narrative`); an issue number does. The four that remain predate this change. Verification: `scripts/tests` 1096 passed, 2 skipped. Thirteen executed mutations across rounds 2-6. The reviewer independently re-ran the earlier matrix and confirmed it, with one correction carried here: two of those mutations redden MORE than their named test, so "each reddening exactly its named test" was wrong — they redden at least it. refs #763 Decisions-Edit: yes Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>	2026-08-28 17:34:08 +02:00
timothyandClaude Opus 5	53ee44cbc1	fix(763): round 5 — correct the overstated motivation, and fix the string-id twin ... A third cold review (Opus, isolated worktree) returned NOT MERGEABLE with one High and three Medium. All are addressed. HIGH — the stated motivation was wrong, and self-contradictory once round 4 landed. Under the server default (`created_unix DESC`) page 1 holds the NEWEST rows and ids are monotonic with `created_at`, so page 1 already carried the true maximum id AND every row newer than the mark — the only rows the post-write check selects on. A single-page read therefore missed a raced verdict only if more than 50 rows were created INSIDE the write window, not merely on "a head with more than 50 rows", which the issue, the comments and the docs all asserted. Reviewer executed an order-faithful DESC stub: a page-1-only reader repairs identically to the full walk. What actually removed #761's stall is retiring #751's page-2 probe, not the paging. The walk still earns its place, for a reason now stated instead of the false one: it stops the gate's one fail-toward-SUCCESS path depending on an undocumented ordering the server honours only coarsely (page 1 came back `114,112,113,111,110`). That measurement was deleted in commit 1 and is restored, since round 4's safety argument rests on exactly it. MEDIUM/real defect — the string-id TWIN, live on `main` and one expression away from the fix already made: `select((.id? // 0) > $since)`. jq orders strings above every number, so a PRE-EXISTING row with `"id": "3"` reads as newer than any mark, is counted as having raced the write, and gets the sticky sentinel plus a false "was overwritten" on EVERY later run — a permanent per-sha stall no re-trigger clears. Now numeric-only, with a test. Also fixed: a non-empty history carrying no numeric id was collapsed to a mark of 0 (making every pre-existing row look newer); it is now reported unusable and the check is skipped. `sleep` no longer fires after the final attempt. Three unpinned clauses now have tests, each proved by an executed mutation: - the page cap is a refusal, not a terminator (1050-row fixture) - the `::error::` found-vs-unverifiable distinction (forcing `raced_why=human` reddened nothing before) - the walk requests no sort order — a structural guard on round 4's withdrawal, which nothing mechanical protected. It reads request LINES, not comments, since the withdrawal note names the parameter to explain it. Honest scoping, not new code: the test double is ordering-blind, so the paging tests prove WALK COMPLETENESS, not that a real raced verdict would otherwise be missed — under DESC it would not be. The stub comment and the docstrings now say so rather than implying the stronger claim. Docs: `ci-cd.md` and the record's `rule:` carry the corrected reachability, the DESC dependency of the partial-mark fallback, and both rejected alternatives stated as rejected alternatives rather than as draft chronology (`docs.no-session-narrative`). Verification: `scripts/tests` 1094 passed, 2 skipped; eleven executed mutations across rounds 2-5, each reddening exactly its named test; decisions_validate and build_decisions_catalog --check exit 0. refs #763 Decisions-Edit: yes Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>	2026-08-28 17:34:07 +02:00
timothyandClaude Opus 5	1eb7b41fc1	fix(763): round 4 — withdraw the ASC sort, which inverted the partial-mark fallback ... Round 3 added `sort=highestindex` to close a mid-walk-insert gap: under the server default (`created_unix DESC`) a row inserted while the walk is running lands at position 0, on a page already read, so the walk never sees it. That fix and the round-2 partial-mark fallback are incompatible. ASC puts the OLDEST rows on page 1, so an incomplete walk takes its high-water mark over the oldest rows — leaving every pre-existing row above the mark and read as "raced". That is a spurious STICKY repair on a head nothing raced, which is precisely the #761 failure this whole issue exists to remove. Under the default DESC the newest row is on page 1 by construction and ids are monotonic with `created_at` (measured), so a partial mark is at or very near the true maximum and "lower is safe" actually holds. Two defects from one mechanism again, so the mechanism goes rather than getting patched: the sort is withdrawn and the mid-walk-insert residual is ACCEPTED and documented. It is bounded — a row arriving after this job's POST is not one this job overwrote, and being newest it wins on the combined endpoint branch protection reads. Both the code comment and the docs record the withdrawal and the reason, so the next reader does not re-adopt it. Verification: `scripts/tests` 1090 passed, 2 skipped; the partial-mark mutation still reddens `test_a_PRE_WRITE_paging_failure_still_yields_a_usable_high_water_mark`; decisions_validate and build_decisions_catalog --check both exit 0. refs #763 Decisions-Edit: yes Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>	2026-08-28 17:34:07 +02:00
timothyandClaude Opus 5	007d2fd3df	fix(763): round 2+3 — close the fail-opens the paging change introduced ... Two independent cold reviews (Codex GPT-5.6 cross-family, and an isolated Opus agent) converged on the same blocker, which is fixed here along with everything else they found. BLOCKER — the mark walk turned a fail-closed case into a fail-open. The high-water mark gates the post-write race check entirely: `max_id_before=-1` skips it. Before paging, only a failure of the single page-1 request could reach that. Requiring a COMPLETE walk newly routed a page-2 hiccup, an over-cap history, or one malformed id on a later page into the same hole, so a human rejection racing the write was left green where `main` repaired. A partial list now still yields a mark: it can only be LOWER than the true maximum, which makes the check more eager, never blinder. Only a read returning no rows at all abandons it — the pre-existing #849 gap, unchanged and now asserted by a test so it stays visible. WITHDRAWN — the "currency witness". It produced two defects from one mechanism, which is the signal to remove rather than patch twice: counting ANY row above the mark does not witness this job's write, so a stale-but-valid snapshot carrying an unrelated newer row passed while hiding a rejection; and a schema-valid stale read is not retried, so one such response turned a transient anomaly into a permanent sentinel. The hazard has no mechanism here either — Gitea is a single instance with no read replicas. Removing it restores the pre-change exposure on that path, a non-regression. Also fixed, each a fail-open with a fixture and an executed mutation: - `.creator` is type-tested before indexing. `.creator.login` on a non-object exits jq 5 and `set -e` took the step down after the green was posted and before the repair. Reproduced by both reviewers. - the mark is the max over NUMERIC ids only. jq orders strings above every number, so one `"id": "99999"` passed the numeric gate and inflated the mark until nothing looked newer. - an unusable `raced` count now repairs instead of "not acting on it". - `sort=highestindex` (ASC, measured) so a row inserted mid-walk appends at the end rather than at position 0 on a page already read. An unknown sort value silently falls back to DESC, so this is insurance, not load-bearing, and the comment says so. - `ph_ok`/`ph_rows` renamed off `read_existing_verdict`'s `st_ok`. No live bug, but a name collision in a 1400-line step. Tests the reviews showed were missing, each proved by an executed mutation: - verdict beyond a SHORT page (a deliberately unfaithful truncated response — against a faithful double a short page is always the last, so the rule "terminate only on an EMPTY page" was unobservable) - pre-write paging failure still yields a usable mark - pre-write read returning nothing abandons the mark and says so - a TRANSIENT page failure is retried (the retry was unproven code: every other error mode fails on every attempt, so disarming it reddened nothing) - a string id cannot inflate the mark - a malformed `creator` row does not kill the job Stub corrections, both the same class as the earlier `[]`-vs-`null` gap: it served one flat list (so paging was unobservable) and computed its own-post id with `max()` over mixed str/int, which raised TypeError and made the string-id test pass because the DOUBLE crashed rather than because the mark was right. Mutation matrix, all executed, each reddening exactly its named test: retry disarmed; numeric-max reverted; partial-mark fallback removed; short-page terminates; page-1-only walk; post-write fail-closed flipped open; jq type-guard reverted. The unusable-count arm is unreachable by any fixture and is annotated as such rather than claimed as proved. Verification: `scripts/tests` 1090 passed, 2 skipped; decisions_validate and build_decisions_catalog --check both exit 0; terminator, clamp, sort order and id monotonicity all re-measured live on Gitea 1.27.1. refs #763 Decisions-Edit: yes Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>	2026-08-28 17:34:07 +02:00
timothyandClaude Opus 5	4368cc8cbe	fix(763): page both /statuses/{sha} reads to a validated terminator ... `review-verdict.yml` read the per-POST status history twice with a single `?limit=100` request. `limit` clamps to the server-wide `MAX_RESPONSE_ITEMS` (measured 50), so on a head carrying more rows than the clamp both reads saw a partial list. The high-water mark was only page 1's maximum, and — the direction that matters — a raced human verdict beyond page 1 was invisible to the post-write race check, leaving a forged green over a rejection. Both reads now walk to a validated empty page (`[]` on this endpoint, measured 2026-08-28 against PR #761's 114-row head: pages 1-2 return 50, page 3 returns 14, page 4 is `[]`), never terminating on a short page, under a 20-page cap and retrying each page once. Correctness does not depend on the cap value. This retires #751's page-2 "assume raced" probe, which repaired every head that outgrew one page. It fired on Renovate PR #761: an `::error::` claimed a human verdict had been overwritten on a head carrying none, and the sticky sentinel then refused re-exemption on every later run. Two properties replace it. Uncertainty now fails closed at both ends — the unreadable-history branch warned and left the exemption green while the page-2 probe repaired on the same uncertainty, one check disagreeing with itself; this is affordable only because paging removed the common trigger. And the post-write read must witness the job's own write: reaching a validated empty page proves the walk finished, not that it saw a current list, so at least one row above the pre-write mark must exist because the job just posted one. The `::error::` now distinguishes a verdict actually found from an unverifiable read. The sentinel description stays generic — the classification recognises it as a fixed point, so its wording is load-bearing. The stub gained faithful paging (50-row slices, `[]` past the end, one snapshot per logical read so a counter mode cannot describe two different histories across pages) and, separately, modelling of the job's own POST appearing in the history — which it had never done, so in its world every ordinary run looked like a head nothing had been posted to. `own-write-invisible` withholds exactly that detail as the negative control for the currency witness. Mutation-proved by execution, one clause at a time: - walk reads page 1 only -> RUNNING_PAST_PAGE_1_is_PAGED_and_the_exemption_ STANDS, raced_verdict_on_PAGE_2_is_detected_and_repaired and both UNREADABLE history tests go red - currency-witness zero branch deleted -> CANNOT_SEE_OUR_OWN_WRITE red - fail-closed flipped to fail-open -> both UNREADABLE history tests red Verification: `scripts/tests` 1085 passed, 2 skipped; decisions_validate and build_decisions_catalog --check both exit 0. fixes #763 Decisions-Edit: yes Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>	2026-08-28 17:34:07 +02:00
timothy	761e575836	fix(787): derive the dropped-step guard's scope, and reconcile its snapshot against the server (#861) ... Co-authored-by: Timothy <timothy@noreply.gitea.tblindustries.be>	2026-08-27 22:37:02 +00:00
timothy	8aebba4d89	fix(748): declare permissions: on all six workflows, and prove the declaration binds (#860) ... Co-authored-by: Timothy <timothy@noreply.gitea.tblindustries.be>	2026-08-27 22:02:44 +00:00
timothy	45b17e58e1	fix(744,835): ci-image.yml publishes from main only; guard persist-credentials with no exemption (#857) ... Closes the push route into ci-image.yml (#744) and ships the persist-credentials guard that was waiting on it (#835). ci-image.yml's push trigger had no branches: filter and was path-scoped to docker/ci/** AND to the workflow file itself. Gitea resolves a push workflow's definition from the pushed ref, so any branch push touching those paths ran that branch's own YAML on a docker-capable runner holding the credential that writes ersatztv:prod and the ersatztv-ci:<sha> five container: jobs execute. Be precise about what the filter buys: it is loaded from the pushed ref like the rest of the file, so a branch that deletes it re-enables the route. This closes the DRIVE-BY case - publication as a side effect of an ordinary push - and is not a boundary against a writer who intends to run their own YAML. The wider class is #853. The self-reference left both paths: and ci-image-pin's expected in the same change - a decided tradeoff with both prices stated, not a necessity. Branch publishing moves to workflow_dispatch, probed live: run 2340 on this branch published ersatztv-ci:43b1e45 and left :latest unchanged. With both mechanical blockers gone, ci-image.yml's checkout takes persist-credentials: false (16 of 16) and scripts/tests/test_workflow_persist_credentials.py holds the convention with NO exemption list - git-index population, declared clause mutation re-run every suite, guard-inventory rows. fixes #744 fixes #835 Co-authored-by: Timothy <timothy@noreply.gitea.tblindustries.be>	2026-08-27 20:44:44 +00:00
timothy	d68ce42fcb	fix(742): inherit an h10 verdict only from an allow-listed reviewer (#850) ... `review-verdict.yml` decided whether an existing `review-verdict/h10` was worth INHERITING by testing `.creator.login != null` — satisfied by any account's credential, including the `renovate` bot's `RENOVATE_TOKEN`, a `write:repository` PAT that cannot be scoped down the way #697 scoped the registry credential. The test is now membership in `H10_REVIEWERS="timothy"`, a literal in the base-resolved definition. The design that survived 11 cold review rounds: * `read_existing_verdict` carries TWO flags. `ex_human` (attributable AND allow-listed) gates INHERITANCE; `ex_attributable` gates the last-moment re-read, which asks the opposite question and must stay broad. Narrowing both — the first draft — makes the job post its exemption over a mid-run rejection, and the post-write repair does not cover that. * The two calls no longer compute an identical predicate, so "changed" is made explicit: the state/creator/description triple from the first read is snapshotted and compared. * The allow-list governs an inherited `success` ONLY. An existing `failure` inherits on attributability alone, because inheriting a rejection can only withhold an exemption while re-deriving one can turn it green on an exempt PR. A symmetric rule was a measured fail-open. * The post-write raced check stays broad — not because narrowing would let a rejection go green (a real reviewer is on the list by construction), but for the misconfiguration case. Two mechanisms were WITHDRAWN rather than patched a third time, and both withdrawals are recorded in `ci.exemption-provenance` so they are not re-attempted: a `::warning::` annotation that produced three defects in three rounds, and a post-write fix whose generic `pending` would have been re-derived anyway and which had no retry trigger. Verified: the inheritance predicate driven against the LIVE Gitea API on a probe-named context, both allow-list directions; every clause mutation-proven against the shipped file; `scripts/tests` 1012 passed, 2 skipped. Follow-ups filed: #845 (post-review-verdict.sh does not check its own account is allow-listed) and #849 (post-write verification: three routes leaving an exemption `success` over a human `failure`, plus the retarget fence's post-POST gap, plus the prose sweep that lands with the behaviour). fixes #742 Co-authored-by: Timothy <timothy@noreply.gitea.tblindustries.be>	2026-08-27 02:52:02 +00:00
timothy	ed8b602445	feat(735): bound the numeric FFmpeg profile fields with a 422, and expose readrate pacing (#847) ... Co-authored-by: Timothy <timothy@noreply.gitea.tblindustries.be>	2026-08-26 22:05:38 +00:00
timothy	469d19852c	fix(788): one declarative H10 verdict vocabulary, derived by both sides (#846) ... The verdict words lived in two hand-written shell copies — the `case` arms of post-review-verdict.sh (write) and the POS_RE/NEG_RE regexes of check-review-verdict.sh (read) — held together by nothing but a comment that had already gone stale. scripts/lib/review-verdict-vocabulary.sh now declares them once and both sides derive; neither script enumerates a verdict word any more. Only the WORD SET moved. The grammar stays in check-review-verdict.sh, where every #629 false-open actually lived. No parity test: #774 shipped one and withdrew it after six rounds, because a regex over shell source is not a shell parser. The proof is behavioural and graded MUTATION — the harness restores the pre-#788 hardcoded POS_RE each run and requires it to redden. Enforcement is a DATA dependency, not a control-flow gate. Review round 1 found a real fail-open in the first commit: `${#arr[@]}` is nounset-safe only for a declared-empty array, and under `set -u` that error inside a function called as `if ! validate` skips BOTH branches — so on the reader (deliberately no `set -e`) an explicit BLOCKED @ head classified `positive`, exit 0. Validation now sets a sentinel on its last line and the derived views refuse without it. Six cold review rounds; rounds 2-6 found no fail-open across differential fuzzing (4788 / 2612 / 7560 payloads, zero divergences from origin/main's grammar), sentinel forgery, environment poisoning, declare -p evasion on bash 5.3 and 3.2, path/symlink resolution and probe TOCTOU. Every malformation fails closed: reader exit 2, writer exit 1 with nothing posted. Also corrected: CLAUDE.md and release.review-verdict-gate both enumerated the vocabulary without LGTM, a word the code has accepted since #629. fixes #788 Co-authored-by: Timothy <timothy@noreply.gitea.tblindustries.be>	2026-08-26 20:58:09 +00:00
timothy	ba6a4b08aa	feat(732): On Now / Next gets a background box, and is on by default (#843) ... Co-authored-by: Timothy <timothy@noreply.gitea.tblindustries.be>	2026-08-26 19:28:25 +00:00
timothy	f2551b778e	fix(746): drop the persisted checkout credential; unmask the base-ref fetches (#842) ... Co-authored-by: Timothy <timothy@noreply.gitea.tblindustries.be>	2026-08-26 18:50:56 +00:00
timothy	40a3232d9e	feat(734): field-level progressive disclosure — shared FieldHelp trigger + panel (#841) ... Implements the three-level field-help pattern from #734 as a shared component: field name + optional one-sentence summary → a one-short-paragraph panel behind a consistent Info-icon trigger → a future external-docs deep link (`docsHref`, built and typed; no screen passes one yet). Adopted on FFmpegProfilesScreen (9 fields), documented as docs/spa-conventions.md §15 with decision record `spa.field-progressive-disclosure`, and mirrored into the design-system prototype. The panel is portalled to document.body: `.ctv-card` sets `overflow: hidden`, which clips a positioned descendant whatever its z-index, and one field's explainer rendered 12px of a 92px paragraph in every state of the Audio card. A `::before` hover bridge was added and then WITHDRAWN — it held for a vertical descent onto the panel and failed for a diagonal one, leaving a safe sideways exit of 1.25px on an 18px icon. Hover reads the paragraph in place; the panel's interactive content is reached by pinning. Four cold adversarial review rounds; the first three returned BLOCKED. They found five wrong copy claims across nine paragraphs and two vacuous tests in a row for the same mechanism. Deferred with owners: #839 (placement verified by hand, not by a test) and #840 (the portal puts a docsHref link at the end of the tab order). fixes #734 Co-authored-by: Timothy <timothy@noreply.gitea.tblindustries.be>	2026-08-26 18:05:53 +00:00
timothy	35affecd29	docs(755): ersatztv owns the fork code, media-management owns channel operations (#838) ... Co-authored-by: Timothy <timothy@noreply.gitea.tblindustries.be>	2026-08-26 17:29:16 +00:00
timothy	e8e17f3844	docs(708): record the live route-2 reproduction against PR #761 (#834)	2026-08-26 09:11:23 +00:00
timothy	08cd3a002d	fix(690,758): count the same query a paged handler pages (#833) ... Co-authored-by: Timothy <timothy@noreply.gitea.tblindustries.be>	2026-08-26 07:39:23 +00:00
timothy	3e2c07b42f	fix(807): SPA full-replace bodies are built as Complete&lt;T&gt;, with a derived guard over droppable request members (#827) ... Co-authored-by: Timothy <timothy@noreply.gitea.tblindustries.be>	2026-08-23 00:58:19 +00:00
timothy	7966e08164	fix(701): guard SongMetadata's nullable primitive collections at the read site (#826)	2026-08-22 23:24:41 +00:00
timothyandClaude Opus 5	b5dee26202	fix(701): guard SongMetadata's nullable primitive collections at the read site ... Both search indexers opened UpdateSong with metadata.AlbumArtists ??= []; metadata.Artists ??= []; Artists/AlbumArtists hold the whole list in ONE COLUMN rather than being navigations. So unlike the same `??= []` idiom on Genres/Tags/Artwork all around them, the property IS the column value: assigning it on a TRACKED entity flips the entry to Modified and the next SaveChanges writes [] over a NULL column. This is the mechanism an adversarial review demonstrated in #691, which is why that issue's entity-level guard was reverted in favour of guarding at the read site. Measured rather than reasoned about, per the issue's first done-when box. Restoring ONLY the `??= []` clause (the real predecessor lines, not a hand-written mutant) reddens the new fixture on `metadata.Artists should be null but was []`; a probe variant with the first two assertions replaced by prints reports STATE=Modified and the raw column moving from NULL to "[]". Today's two feeds are both AsNoTracking (SearchRepository.GetItemToIndex and GetAllSongs), so no shipped caller loses data -- but that is a property of two callers, not of the indexer, and #691 already recorded it as a loaded gun. The fixture pins the indexer's own contract instead. Removing the assignment is not sufficient alone: it was load-bearing for the four reads below it, and deleting it by itself converts a silent write into a live throw on every untagged song. Measured by deleting only those two lines from the real predecessor file: NullReferenceException, thrown at the foreach (cited by symbol: a line number in a mutant that exists in no committed tree is unreproducible by construction). The exception type follows the read FORM, not the field -- foreach yields NRE, string.Join/ToList yield ArgumentNullException -- and this PR contains two of each, which is why no single exception-name grep characterises the class. So each site moves together with its reads: - LuceneSearchIndex.UpdateSong / ElasticSearchIndex.UpdateSong: hoist Optional(...).Flatten().ToList() locals and read those. - RefreshChannelDataHandler: the Scriban context took the raw nullable lists (the issue's second item). The shipped _song.sbntxt only does array.join, but a custom template is free to do anything. The population was derived from the MODEL rather than from the issue's file list, and the obvious derivation is wrong: "the IList<string> properties under ErsatzTV.Core/Domain" returns two of eight. It misses the six value-converted collections (ProgramScheduleAlternate and PlayoutTemplate each carrying DaysOfMonth, MonthsOfYear, DaysOfWeek), declared as plain ICollection<T> and made single columns only in Data/Configurations -- and their storage differs (comma-separated text for the int converter, JSON for the enum one), so the shared property is "one scalar column", not the serialization. No site applies `??=` to any of the six, so this defect has no instance there; whether a null can REACH one at runtime is unverified and is filed as #823 rather than asserted either way. Only the SongMetadata pair is left NULL in practice, by FallbackMetadataProvider. Every site touching either field was then swept; the remaining readers were already guarded by #691. The fixture carries two anti-vacuity guards, both witnessed: - A POSITIVE CONTROL (`writer.NumDocs.ShouldBe(1)`). Every other assertion says something did NOT happen, so all of them hold vacuously if UpdateSong never runs -- and it silently stops running if a future refactor gates UpdateItems on `_initialized`, which this fixture bypasses by injecting the writer. Verified BOTH directions: with that gate added the control fails `NumDocs should be 1 but was 0`, and with the control removed the whole test PASSES while the code under test is unreachable. - A capturing logger, because UpdateSong wraps its body in a catch that assigns metadata.Song = null -- severing a required relationship and cascading the metadata to Deleted. Without it the probe silently measures the error path; on the first run it did exactly that (a bare ILanguageCodeService substitute NPEs inside AddLanguages). The raw column helper also fails loudly on a missing row, since ExecuteScalar returns CLR null for both "NULL column" and "no such row". ElasticSearchIndex has no equivalent fixture -- it needs a stubbed transport -- so its change is by inspection against the Lucene one, and the gap is filed as #824 rather than covered by a source-text guard. The whitespace-only churn in ElasticSearchIndex.cs is the #311 fix-as-you-touch format gate: it scopes to whole changed FILES. `git diff -w` over that file shows only the two hunks above. Local gate: ErsatzTV.Tests 2006 passed / 4 pre-existing skips, Core.Tests 685/1 skip, Infrastructure.Tests 114, Architecture.Tests 7, Scanner.Tests 1504 -- 0 failures in each. scripts/tests 874 passed / 2 skipped. dotnet format whitespace --verify-no-changes clean on the four touched files, no BOM on any. decisions_validate OK. Fixes #701 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>	2026-08-23 00:49:57 +02:00
timothy	0cf355e494	fix(772,792): address both cold reviews — an unverified pin is no longer a green job ... Two independent reviewers (one cross-family) converged on the same defect, and it was the important one: the preflight WARNED and exited 0 on every answer that was not 200 or 404, so a missing `curl`, a moved registry or a DNS change would have left it green forever — "the check could not run" presenting as "the pin is fine", in a script whose own header disclaimed exactly that. Unknown answers are now retried (3x, 5s) and then FAIL, with wording kept distinct from the deleted case because the two send an operator to different places. Also from the reviews: * An absent secret does not arrive as an unset variable. `${{ secrets.X }}:${{ secrets.Y }}` interpolates to ":", a perfectly non-empty and perfectly useless credential, and the tests covered only the unset shape. Both halves are now required, and the parametrised test drives the production shape. * HTTP 200 is not a manifest. A proxy or a login page answers 200 too, so the body is fetched and matched for `schemaVersion` (a shell `case`, so no jq dependency and no pipeline that can inject). * The curl stub ignored `-u` and answered 200 regardless, so deleting the real `-u` would have left the suite green while the live registry rejected every request. It now 401s an unauthenticated read, as the registry does. * The mutation's declared diagnostic changed with the script: now that unknown fails too, the exit code no longer separates "deleted" from "could not check", so the proof turns on the message and `expect` says so. * docs/ci-cd.md: `scan` is no longer the only `docker-build.yml` job on the small lane, so the tag-push exclusivity claim and the lane membership were both false. Fixed. * "Immutable" was overstated: `ci-image.yml` tags `rev-parse --short HEAD`, so a dispatch or a weekly no-cache run at the same HEAD republishes that tag from a rebuilt image. Stated, along with what the rebuild recovery does NOT restore (mutable bases and apt, so equivalent rather than bit-identical). * The recovery recipe left you in a worktree checked out at the pin commit — where the verify script does not exist, and where the workflow carries the pre-bump pin. It now keeps `$repo`, returns, and removes the worktree. It also needed BuildKit's `http = true` caveat: the container driver does not inherit the daemon's insecure-registries. * The root cause carries its evidentiary limit and its reproduction commands, and says what to conclude if a pin vanishes after server-management#842 lands (refuted, not re-applied). * The `ci.required-job-step-execution-markers` carve-out named one container-free job; there are two now, and the membership is what rots. * The decision record's `''` YAML escapes leaked into rendered prose; "status, no comment -> ask" is qualified (a prior positive verdict for the SAME head still satisfies condition (c)); "exits 1" is "exits non-zero" (usage exits 2, jq its own status, signals 128+n). refs #772 refs #792 Decisions-Edit: yes	2026-08-22 23:25:26 +02:00
timothy	5ba442c11c	fix(772,792): name the missing toolchain image, and stop a refusal leaving a verdict comment ... #772 — the pinned CI toolchain image can be deleted out from under us, and when it was (2026-08-11..13) all five `container:` jobs died at image pull, both required contexts included, with the cause buried in each job's log. Root cause is registry-side and is now established rather than guessed: an owner-level Gitea package cleanup rule (keep_count 15, remove_days 1, remove_pattern `.*`, keep_pattern no 7-hex sha can match) deletes a sha tag once 15 newer versions exist, and `ExecuteCleanupRules` ran nightly through the window. The `ersatztv` package carries the same rule's fingerprint exactly — every sha tag older than the 15-slot window is gone, every keep_pattern tag back to 26.3.1 survives. Version deletes leave no audit row, so the specific run cannot be replayed; that limit is stated where the claim is made. The durable fix belongs to the registry's repo: server-management#842. What lands here is what a consumer of someone else's registry can do: * `toolchain-preflight`, a container-free job (a job consuming the image could not run to report it missing) resolving every pin against the registry and failing with a message that names the tag and the recovery. Not a `needs:` of the jobs it diagnoses — gating five jobs behind a checkout and one curl taxes every green run to speed up a rare red one, and they already fail fast. * Only HTTP 404 means gone. Everything else is could-not-tell, and rejected credentials fail rather than pass as unknown — "the check could not run" must never present as "the pin is fine". * A recovery path that does not need CI: rebuild the SAME tag from the commit it names and push it. The push half was verified against this registry on 2026-08-22 with a throwaway package (created, resolved 200, deleted). #792 — the reported defect was the exit code, and re-measuring says that premise is false: every no-status path already exits 1, and eight refusal modes now assert it against the real predecessor, where they pass. The observed 0 came from the invocation, not the script. What WAS broken is the half-state the issue describes second: the comment was written before the status, so every refusal left `Review-verdict: MERGEABLE @ <head>` on a PR with no gating status behind it. The two writes are now ordered status-then-comment, which makes the only reachable half-state the safe one — a status with no comment leaves the merge hook's condition (c) with nothing to classify, which is an `ask`. The refusals themselves are untouched. Ordering rather than compensating deletion: an orphaned-comment cleanup needs a Gitea call, and these refusals are usually caused by Gitea being unreachable. Proof for the ordering is the split against origin/main's script: the 8 orphan/ordering tests go red there, the 8 exit-code tests stay green. fixes #772 fixes #792 Refs: server-management#842 Decisions-Edit: yes	2026-08-22 22:52:56 +02:00
timothy	29d7a06e65	fix(806): guard populations over FILES derive from the git index, not a filesystem walk (#818) ... `testing.guard-derives-population-from-source` (#774) was silent on the commonest population in our own guards — files in a directory — and every one answered with a filesystem walk. A walk is not authoritative: it reports build output, generated shims and editor droppings, and differs per machine. #778 measured the cost by getting the same population wrong three times in one PR. CONVERTED (a completeness claim over tracked files): `test_guard_inventory.py`, `test_hook_fire_log.py`, `test_ci_image_pin_population.py` (which also gained `*.yaml`), `test_remote_state_inventory.py` (folded onto the shared derivation), and `test_pr_changed_files.py` (not on the issue's list — found by sweeping the whole repo). ASSESSED AND RECORDED, not silently skipped: `_repo_copy` takes its file list from the index for hermeticity though it makes no completeness claim; `test_ci_dropped_step_guard.py` has no filesystem population at all; the decisions corpus is recorded as unexamined rather than cleared; and the SPA page-size guard is deferred to #819 with its obstacle documented. This is not "replace every glob". `scripts/tests/tracked_files.py` is the single derivation. `test_guard_populations_derive_from_git.py` proves it in two measured complements: exhaustive removal catches a hardcoded `.exists()` admit and memoisation; the call log catches an append-only source that yields nothing on this machine — #778's shape — which removal cannot see because it has nothing to remove. Twelve rounds of independent cold review, alternating model families in isolated worktrees. The production derivations were confirmed sound every round; every blocking finding after the first was in the proofs or in prose claims about them. Counts over growing populations were removed rather than corrected, after three drifted. fixes #806 Co-authored-by: Timothy <timothy@noreply.gitea.tblindustries.be>	2026-08-22 16:07:58 +00:00
timothyandClaude Opus 5	3a53c50c45	docs: a cancelled job reads as failure where a monitor actually looks (#817) ... `ci.cancelled-is-not-a-verdict` documented the run/job API, where cancelled is distinguishable. The endpoint a CI monitor actually polls — `commits/{sha}/status`, the per-sha view the merge gate reads — has no `cancelled` state and reports one as `failure`. The record now says to resolve the job-level `conclusion` before reporting a red. The kickoff's push HARD CONSTRAINT is tightened from "a review has run" to "a CLEAN verdict, zero outstanding findings on the current tree", since #790's rounds 7 and 8 each still found a real mechanism defect and every earlier push auto-cancelled a live run. Refs #790 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Co-authored-by: Timothy <timothy@noreply.gitea.tblindustries.be>	2026-08-22 13:35:21 +00:00
timothyandClaude Opus 5	3b386649bf	feat(790): execute every MUTATION grade instead of asserting it (#815) ... Every `MUTATION` row of `docs/guard-inventory.md` now carries a DECLARED clause mutation that is applied to an isolated copy of the repository on every suite run, with the row's own named test required to go red carrying a declared diagnostic. Manifest and MUTATION rows are compared for set equality both directions; the other 22 guards each carry a stated reason, compared the same way. Measured rather than assumed: 12 of 13 guards admit a single-clause mutation; `instrumentation_faults` does not, and that entry carries the surviving finer mutation, re-run every suite. Nine cold cross-family review rounds. Rounds 1, 2, 7 and 8 each found real mechanism defects — two mutations that measured nothing, an incomplete git-environment sanitisation, a reset that restored its own mutant, and a proof of that fix which was not itself isolated. All fixed and witnessed red. fixes #790 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Co-authored-by: Timothy <timothy@noreply.gitea.tblindustries.be>	2026-08-22 13:12:15 +00:00
timothy	d4c72697f2	feat(780): commit a ruff config and enforce it in CI (#813) ... Python lint here was a property of the operator's laptop: the global instructions say to run ruff, no workflow ran it, and with no committed config ruff fell back to whichever ~/.config/ruff/ruff.toml the machine happened to have. - ruff.toml at the root, pinned ruff==0.12.11 in the script-tests job. - Both lint steps pass an EXPLICIT population from `git ls-files` with `--no-force-exclude`, never `ruff check .` — an `exclude` empties a discovery-based run into a GREEN one (top level empties both commands, [lint] empties check, [format] empties format --check), and `ruff check .` over zero files exits 0 with only a stderr warning. Guarded by an empty-population arm. - Tree clean: 74 findings at 706674272, 57 fixed in code, 17 per-site noqa with reasons inline. S105 deliberately per-site, not a directory blanket. RUF100 selected so a suppression that suppresses nothing is itself a finding. - pyright stays ungated; reasoning in the record. Both steps witnessed red on the runner against the shipped bodies: run 2173 job 9176 (ruff check) and run 2170 job 9163 (ruff format --check). Docs: new record ci.python-lint-ruff-config-committed, ci.script-tests-job cross-ref, docs/ci-cd.md (also correcting a stale ~190-tests/~10s figure to the measured 773 tests / ~4.5 min), docs/defect-shapes-773.md §5.2 resolved. fixes #780 Co-authored-by: Timothy <timothy@noreply.gitea.tblindustries.be>	2026-08-22 00:33:18 +00:00
timothy	6a4265d81d	feat(784): a doc records the end state — generalize the no-session-narrative rule (#811) ... Co-authored-by: Timothy <timothy@noreply.gitea.tblindustries.be>	2026-08-22 00:23:22 +00:00
timothy	649acd12ee	feat(779): test the deny path at the production config value, and derive full-replace field lists (#808) ... Two conventions from #773's detector menu (F and G), each as a decision record plus a filled gap. Part 1 — the deny path at the production config value. Every assertion about the API read-gating posture ran through a hand-written fake HANDED the boolean, and no test in the repo constructed ApiKeyProvider at all, so the line deriving that posture from configuration had never executed. Now covered across the matrix through the real provider: absent, true/True/TRUE, false/False, and a present-but-non-boolean value (which throws at startup — fail-closed, pinned). Part 2 — a full-replace path asserts its complete field list. ScheduleItemResponseRoundTripTests is the release gate for the flat schedule-item DTO, and its comparer was itself a hand-copied field list: complete when written, unable to report when it stopped being. Now derived by reflection with an empty exemption set and a written-down count pin (55). Four cold adversarial review rounds. Three returned BLOCKED, every one on a claim in a decision record that the code contradicted — the exact defect the records exist to name. The surviving rule, now written into the record: state the measurement and the code path you actually read; do not generalise from one executed case, and do not explain a mechanism you did not measure. Residual SPA optional-field drift tracked as #807. fixes #779 Co-authored-by: Timothy <timothy@noreply.gitea.tblindustries.be>	2026-08-21 19:22:30 +00:00
timothyandClaude Opus 5	7d81f85b38	fix(778): make the by-name pin falsifiable — it was filtering on the property it asserted ... Confirmation pass returned BLOCKED, and its lead finding is the one worth having. The test forbidding the by-name lookup recorded URLs from INSIDE the `endswith("/branch_protections")` branch, so the only URLs it could ever record were ones that already satisfied the assertion. A by-name request was invisible to the very test written to forbid it. Cold review proved it by reintroducing the lookup in the hook: the suite stayed 33/33 green. That is the filter-on-the-asserted-property defect this PR's sibling record exists to describe, committed inside the guard against it — and the commit message had called the twin "pinned so it cannot come back". The recorder now sees every branch-protection URL whatever its shape. Re-verified by the same mutation: reintroducing a by-name call reddens exactly the two tests that forbid it. Also from that pass: - an HTTP 404 on the LIST read reached the "the full rule list was read and none matches" deny — a claim about a read that never happened. Gitea answers 404 for a repo that is absent or invisible to the credential, so the classifier's own verdict is now the sentinel `nomatch` and HTTP failures reach the ask; - two comment blocks still described the deleted by-name endpoint as live, one of them asserting the classifier "is never reached at all"; - the decision record still documented `branch_protections/{base}` and its 404 semantics as the mechanism, in the record this PR authored — now rewritten to the list endpoint, with why reading the LIST is the load-bearing choice; - seven assertions on a string the hook no longer emits, and three test names/docstrings describing the removed 404 flow; - an unused fixture helper, and 79 lines left over-indented by the removed nesting. 724 tests green. refs #778 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>	2026-08-19 21:29:09 +02:00
timothyandClaude Opus 5	456042ee51	fix(778): stop claiming parity with Gitea's glob matcher — classify, or ask ... Eighth cold review: no Blocker, no High. Three Medium, two Low, one Nit. MEDIUM — the substantive one. The glob fallback asserted it matched rules "the same way Gitea applies them", and it does not. Gitea compiles a rule name with gobwas/glob and a `/` separator: its `*` does NOT cross a slash, `?`/`[…]`/`{a,b}` are wildcards, and a plain name is folded case-insensitively. Mine used `.*` for `*` and escaped the rest. The divergence has a false-OPEN direction — `release/*` does not govern `release/26/hotfix` in Gitea, but `release/.*` matched it here, which would auto-grant a scheduled merge on a base where the check is not required. That is #622's hole, reached through the block written to close it, via exactly the failure this PR records: a claim about an external system asserted rather than verified. Reimplementing somebody else's glob dialect would be a second copy of a parser, which this repo has already withdrawn a change for. So the classification is three-way and each arm is safe WITHOUT knowing the dialect: an exact non-glob name folded case-insensitively is decidable; a glob rule that could govern the base is UNDECIDABLE and asks; and "could" is tested with a provable superset of any glob dialect — literal prefix, `.*`, literal suffix — so if even that cannot match, no dialect can. Over-matching would grant on unestablished protection; under-matching would deny with a false cause. Asking is the only answer honest in both directions, and it is rare: this repo's rule is the plain name `main`. MEDIUM — a count that was wrong the moment it was written ("46 of the 69 rows are N/A"; it is 44). It was added by the same commit that demoted two rows. That is the FOURTH stale number in this change, in the deliverable whose own record argues against hand-maintained counts. Removed rather than corrected, with the reason stated. MEDIUM — `migration-smoke.sh` still said "Same shape" as `security-scan.sh`, whose note had just been rewritten to the opposite conclusion, so the backreference had silently inverted. It is the same pull-then-run over a mutable tag and deserves the grade MORE, not less: `security-scan.sh` boots a throwaway container and authorizes nothing, while this gates a production stack recreation. Regraded. LOW/NIT: an `end <= start` guard that `str.index(…, start)` makes unreachable by construction is replaced with the reachable failure it was describing; a docstring still named a fixture from an earlier draft; a reflowed `#707.` was line-initial. Two mutations were ineffective on the first attempt — one left the `decide ask` continuation in place, the other had no test covering case-folding. Both redone; each arm now reddens a named test. Decisions-Edit: yes refs #778 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>	2026-08-19 18:52:18 +02:00
timothyandClaude Opus 5	7db4101b24	fix(778): the escape emitted TWO backslashes, turning a false-open into a false DENY ... Seventh cold review. One High, one Medium, three Low, seven Nit — all in the two newest commits, which is where every round of this PR has found its defects. HIGH, and it is my own fix from the previous commit. In jq source `"\\\\"` decodes to TWO backslashes, so escaping produced `\\.` — "a literal backslash, then any character" — instead of an escaped dot. Every rule name containing a metacharacter became UNMATCHABLE, and a rule named `a[b` crashed jq outright (swallowed by `|| true`). Verified: `release/26.*` no longer matched base `release/26.4`, so the fallback found nothing and hard-DENIED with the stated cause "has NO branch protection at all" — converting a false-open into a false deny, which the block's own comment calls the worse outcome. One character: `"\\" + .c`. Correct across 14 rule/base pairs. WHY MY TEST MISSED IT, which is the transferable part: it asserted only the NEGATIVE direction (`mai.` must not match `main`). A rule matched literally and a rule made unmatchable both fail to match the wrong base, so the assertion passed for the wrong reason. Only a rule that SHOULD match separates them, and there was no positive control. There is now — plus a char-class case — and both go red against the over-escaped version. That also needed a base containing a dot: a rule cannot carry a metacharacter and still match `main`, so the first attempt at the positive control was unsatisfiable by construction. MEDIUM — four live claims that the population "derives from the filesystem", left standing by the commit that replaced that mechanism: the guard's own docstring 45 lines above a comment shouting the opposite, the inventory heading 21 lines under "Every git-tracked file", the docs/README entry, and — worst — the record's `mechanics:` frontmatter, which is the copy the catalog and MemPalace mirror, so discovery would have returned the superseded lesson. All corrected. LOW/NIT: the URL-encoding test grepped the source for `@uri` (it now asserts the URL actually requested, and reddens when the encoding is removed); the hoist comment said "every path below" without noting the docs-only enumeration above it (bounded — that path is a passthrough to a human prompt, never a grant); a now-unreachable guard is annotated rather than left reading as live; `issue-qualification-audit.sh` was `N/A` while `select-queue.sh` was `UNSAFE-KNOWN` on the same argument, and `security-scan.sh` claimed "one step" for a pull-then-run over a mutable tag — both regraded; the `PINNED` definition now says what separates its second shape from an `N/A` "one step" row (the identifier's immutability, not the step count); the section parser raises a message naming both required headings instead of a bare ValueError; and the record's body is rewrapped. Decisions-Edit: yes refs #778 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>	2026-08-19 18:21:04 +02:00
timothyandClaude Opus 5	e5996b7c1e	docs(778): the population was wrong three times — record what finally fixed it ... The record said "wrong twice" and drew the lesson "execute the traversal and eyeball it". The third instance (rglob picking up untracked `.husky/_` shims) shows that was still the wrong generalisation: every round had executed its traversal, and every round had an argument for why it was sufficient. What held was changing the SOURCE, not the walk — `git ls-files` instead of the filesystem. The index is authoritative, identical for CI and every checkout, and excludes untracked build output by construction. So the lesson is the one `testing.guard-derives-population-from-source` already states, one level up: ask what the authoritative list of these things IS, and if the answer is "whatever the walk finds", the guard is not finished however carefully the walk is written. Decisions-Edit: yes refs #778 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>	2026-08-19 17:54:00 +02:00
timothyandClaude Opus 5	25048d9ea4	fix(778): round 3 — the fence covers BASE aliasing only, and stop citing a moving count ... Third cold review: no Blockers, 1 High / 5 Medium / 1 Low / 1 Nit. All accepted. It independently re-derived the 59-file population and matched it against `find`, so the traversal that was wrong in rounds 1 and 2 is now verified rather than argued. HIGH — the ABA claim was too broad. `ci.verdict-write-retarget-fence` counts `change_target_branch` events, so it fences the BASE axis and nothing else. A force-push H1 -> H2 -> H1 during pagination leaves the final `.head.sha` comparison equal while the middle pages were enumerated against H2, and no counter moves. Two rows implied the fence covered that; both now state the head residual as real and unfenced, with what closing it would take. Also: the record still said the scheduled-merge residual was "closed one layer down" by the branch protection an admin may have removed — the circular sentence that was rewritten in the inventory last round and left standing in its twin. The hook header still called an immediate merge "sound". Both now describe the bounded window. `docs-reminder` was over-demoted by grouping it with `decisions-guard`: it cannot fail its job, so it authorizes nothing and is N/A, while `decisions-guard` reaches the combined status. Split, per this file's own rule that differing classifications get separate rows. Over-demotion is a defect too — it makes the column noise. The scope heading and the docs/README entry now name the `scripts/tests/` exclusion explicitly, so nobody adds a remote-reading test executable expecting a red guard that stays green, and a wrong limit cross-reference is corrected. The exclusion's justification was also factually false — it claimed the only network calls were to PATH stubs, but test_hook_fire_log.py starts a real http.server on 127.0.0.1 and drives it with real curl. The exclusion stands on confinement, not on absence, and now says so. COUNTS. "4 of 68 PINNED" was wrong (3), and rewriting it as "3 of 68" went stale in the same commit when splitting a row moved the denominator to 69 — three stale figures in three rounds, in the record warning against exactly this. The exact denominator is gone: three rows survive as PINNED out of roughly seventy, and the load-bearing claim is "almost nothing is pinned", not an integer. A hand-maintained count is a second copy of the table; guard-inventory.md gives its counts an equality check because they ARE the point, and a rationale record should not pretend to. refs #778 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>	2026-08-16 13:58:40 +02:00
timothyandClaude Opus 5	84b4c11188	fix(778): round 2 — recursive population, and grade down five more overclaims ... Second cold review: no Blockers, 4 High / 1 Medium / 2 Low. All accepted. POPULATION, WRONG A SECOND TIME. Round 1 removed a content filter that had omitted `git fetch`. Round 2 found the replacement traversal used non-recursive `Path.glob`, so four nested files were still outside it — including scripts/scripted-schedules/entrypoint.py, which calls get_context() against a live ErsatzTV server and then drives define_content/reset_playout/build_playout off the result. Now rglob, with scripts/tests/ as the single stated DIRECTORY-level exclusion (a scope choice, reviewable in one line; not a predicate over content). Population 55 -> 59, rows 63 -> 68. The generalisation is in the record, because the deliverable made the same mistake twice: the scope may be hand-written, but anything narrowing the POPULATION has to be executed and its output compared against the filesystem — the members it drops are invisible by construction. That is the #774 rule turned on the artifact meant to enforce it. FIVE MORE OVERCLAIMS GRADED DOWN. Both merge-consent head/base rows (the hook returns `allow` and a separate call merges, so the window is small, not absent — "no async window" was simply false); the release smoke pull and the ci-image verify (the concurrency group is PER-REF, so a branch build and a tag build of one commit can publish the same :<short-sha>); and the workflow base-fetch rows, which are not advisory — the merge hook reads the COMBINED status, so any red context blocks the auto-grant. Also fixed a stale cross-reference where the enumeration row still said it "inherits that row's pins" from a row graded down in the same commit. Four PINNED rows survive out of 68. That ratio is the honest finding. CIRCULAR JUSTIFICATION REMOVED. The scheduled-merge row said its residual was "closed one layer down" by the very branch protection an admin may have removed. It is not closed, it is BOUNDED by a trust assumption, and the row now says so. Low: jq's `//` fires on `false` as well as null, so `status_check_contexts: false` was defaulted to [] and produced a confident deny from a shape never understood — absent and null are now defaulted explicitly, everything else is "unknown". And the title sentence claimed "every executable in this repo" while the guard covers four directories; both it and the docs/README entry now say what is actually enforced. refs #778 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>	2026-08-16 13:44:10 +02:00
timothyandClaude Opus 5	a0849eec58	fix(778): address the cold review — drop the population filter, grade down three overclaims ... Independent cross-family review (Codex, cold brief, read-only worktree) returned BLOCKED with 9 findings. All 9 accepted; #5 partially, keeping one row PINNED with its justification stated. POPULATION (the finding that mattered most). The derivation filtered the scope by an outbound-network token list and argued that was a scope choice rather than a population filter. It omitted `git fetch` — this repo's most common remote read — so prepush-rebase-check.sh, which fetches origin/main and derives a PUSH DECISION, was structurally invisible to a guard claiming to cover "every executable that reads live remote state", along with three others. The defence offered was that over-inclusion is the safe direction; the filter also under-included. The content filter is gone: the population is now all 55 files in the scoped directories, and a file that reads no remote state carries an explicit N/A row. OVERCLAIMS, graded down. Three rows asserted more than the code does: - the scheduled-merge path was PINNED while the hook's own comment concedes the branch-protection read pins nothing → UNSAFE-KNOWN, "preflight, not a pin"; - pr-changed-files.sh was PINNED and claimed "any movement fails", but before-and-after equality is ABA-vulnerable (main → scratch → main) → UNSAFE-KNOWN, pointing at the caller-side event-count fence that does close it; - the CI toolchain image was PINNED on a mutable TAG, against this file's own definition naming a digest → UNSAFE-KNOWN. The release smoke pull stays PINNED: it pulls the tag the same concurrency-serialized job just pushed. The guard-inventory MUTATION regrade is reverted to BEHAVIOUR-ONLY (8/6/20). The review is right on species: the test feeds the real script an input the clause rejects, which this table explicitly defines as behaviour-only and has already regraded three rows for. A manually-executed disarm does not change what the test is. TWO REAL FAIL-OPENS FIXED: - jq `index()` on a STRING is substring search, so a status_check_contexts arriving as "prefix-review-verdict/h10-suffix" answered yes and would auto-grant. Membership is now exact equality over a value first proven to be an array of strings. - post-review-verdict.sh guarded both re-read comparisons with `[ -n "$x" ] &&`, so a 2xx body that merely omitted .head.sha or .base.ref made the check a no-op and the status was posted having confirmed nothing. That second fix carries a lesson worth the line: the obvious mutation (disarm the new `-z` arm) stays GREEN, because the unconditional `!=` also rejects empty — the two overlap, exactly the duplicate-guards-mask-each-other shape. The proof is taken against the REAL predecessor with the `-n` conjunct restored, which goes red showing returncode=0 and a status written. Also: 404 is now separated from 403/transport (an unprotected branch is the strongest form of the finding; `curl -sf` collapses both to an empty string), and the positive control asserts the decision is `allow` and that the endpoint was actually reached, rather than the absence of one phrase. refs #778 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>	2026-08-16 13:20:42 +02:00
timothyandClaude Opus 5	fe578c5864	feat(778): name the check-and-use race, and verify the protection the merge gate rests on ... #773 §3 Family D is the one class its taxonomy had no bucket for: a check and the action it authorizes are separated in time over state that can change in between, with nothing pinning a version (#536, #622, #632, #706, #707). The repo had already solved this twice without noticing it was one problem — a compare-exchange claim in-process (ffmpeg.work-ahead-slot-atomic) and RFC 7232 If-Match across /api/v1 (concurrency.ifmatch-rfc7232) — and then solved it a third time from scratch for the tooling at #706/#707. Hence a class-level record rather than a fourth per-instance one. What the enumeration actually found, which none of the five records predicted: the merge-consent hook's scheduled-auto-merge path is safe only because `review-verdict/h10` is a REQUIRED status check on main. That is branch-protection CONFIG, it lives outside this repo, nothing compared the two, and the hook asserted it in a comment AND in the grant reason a human reads. Switch the context off and every word of that sentence is false while the hook keeps printing it and keeps auto-granting. The hook now reads the branch protection and treats it as three outcomes: present proceeds, unreadable asks, absent denies. Two defects were caught by the new checks themselves rather than by review: - the population test found .gitea/workflows/dependency-scan.yml absent from the first draft of the inventory (a sixth workflow the recon slice never listed); - self-review found the guard denying with a confident wrong reason when jq errors one level down on a malformed contexts member, so the word is now matched exhaustively rather than compared against "yes". Same swallow that survived the first fix in the #632 base-change guard. Detector D has no plausible linter, so the detector is detector A applied to an enumerated inventory: docs/remote-state-inventory.md classifies every in-scope executable, and scripts/tests/test_remote_state_inventory.py derives the population from the filesystem and asserts set equality both ways. Deferred with reasons stated in the inventory: select-queue.sh (advisory, authorizes no write), ci-detect-already-validated.sh (skip elides re-validation only, the image still builds), review-verdict.yml's status POST (Gitea offers no conditional write; already fenced by #706's retarget counter). Mutation proofs witnessed for both new guards, clause-level, not whole-file. fixes #778 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>	2026-08-16 12:57:04 +02:00
timothyandClaude Opus 5	15d2439915	feat(794): witness a fix's test failing BEFORE the fix, and check the claim in CI (#801) ... Mechanises the defect that took #776 and #793 six review rounds each: a fix's test written to confirm the fix, not to discriminate against its absence. testing.guard-ships-with-mutation-proof generalised from guards to fixes. prove-fix.sh runs the selector at the commit (control, must be GREEN) and again in a separate fresh worktree with the non-test files reverted (must be RED = pytest exit 1 exactly; 2/3/4/5/143 are refused, and --continue-on-collection-errors keeps add-a-file fixes provable). pytest's status comes from a marker written only after it returns, because ( cd X && pytest ); rc=$? returns the SUBSHELL's status. Opt-in by a Proves: trailer; CI checks every commit that carries one and says out loud when a PR has none. THE TOOL REJECTED ITS OWN AUTHOR. Three commits on the branch claimed Proves: scripts/tests/test_prove_fix.py; the job returned UNPROVEN for all three, because reverting the script restored a working earlier version the suite also passed. Two had been "verified" against hand-written mutants that did not match the code that actually shipped. The tests were rewritten until both go RED against 587edbecc — whose script emits "red without it (pytest exit 2)", a witnessed false PROVEN. This branch deliberately carries no Proves: trailer: the only one that would pass does so because reverting deletes prove-fix.sh, an add-file smoke check rather than a proof of its logic. The logic proof is a clause-level mutation that re-runs the unchanged refusal test against a mutant and witnesses it red (graded MUTATION). fixes #794 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Co-authored-by: Timothy <timothy@noreply.gitea.tblindustries.be>	2026-08-16 10:24:59 +00:00
timothy	499dd348ab	feat(776): every hook reports that it fired, and the report is measured (#795) ... Co-authored-by: Timothy <timothy@noreply.gitea.tblindustries.be>	2026-08-14 19:11:05 +00:00