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timothyandClaude Opus 5 3473a6c889 fix(774,775): close the cold-review findings — including three the change inflicted on itself
Two independent cold reviews (Codex GPT-5.6 cross-family; Fable 5 on the patch) both
returned BLOCKED. They agreed on the counts error and the extractor hole; each found
things the other did not. Fixes, with what each was:

THE INVENTORY DID NOT COVER ITS OWN NEW GUARDS. `_SCRIPT_REF` matched `scripts/name.py`
but not `scripts/tests/*.py`, so the three guard files this change introduced had no rows
and the completeness check stayed green. A completeness guard blind to its author's new
guards is precisely the defect being legislated against. The population now globs
`scripts/tests/test_*.py` — which is how they actually run, since pr-checks.yml invokes
the directory. 32 rows -> 48.

That forced a third Kind. Once test files are in the population, every mutation proof
becomes a row wanting a proof of its own, forever. `PROOF` marks a file whose job is to
prove another guard; a scripts/tests file enforcing a repo invariant with no separate
guard behind it stays GUARD and may cite a mutation case in its own file.

HOOK EXISTENCE WAS STANDING IN FOR HOOK WIRING. Deleting a hook's registration from
.claude/settings.json left the population and the table unchanged, so the row went on
describing a guard that no longer ran — #631's shape one level down. Now derived from
settings.json plus the husky hooks.

THE SUMMARY COUNTS WERE A HAND-KEPT MIRROR AND WERE WRONG ON ARRIVAL: "28 guards, 4
tooling ... 19 have none" against a table holding 27/5/6/3/18. Both reviewers found it
independently. The prose is now parsed and asserted against the table.

TWO FALSE MUTATION GRADES, each with a concrete disarm:
  - test_full_first_page_alone_does_not_end_enumeration sends 50 docs paths then one more
    docs path; disarm pagination to treat a full page as final and it is still all-docs,
    still exempt, still green. Re-pointed at test_protected_path_on_a_LATER_page_is_still_seen,
    which does go red under that mutation.
  - test_the_scan_job_runs_the_out_of_pytest_positive_control asserts only that the script
    exists, is executable, is referenced and is marked; replace its logic with `exit 0` and
    all four pass. ci-prove-ban-detects.sh regraded NONE.

The MUTATION column was also being applied as a curve: three rows graded MUTATION fed the
real script an input only that clause rejects, which is what the rows eight lines away are
graded BEHAVIOUR-ONLY for. Definition sharpened to *witnessed* rather than plausible, and
those regraded. 5 MUTATION / 6 BEHAVIOUR-ONLY / 21 NONE across 32 guards.

THE VOCABULARY EXTRACTOR COULD RETURN A PARTIAL SET. `[A-Z|-]` cannot match `SHIP*)`, so
adding that arm leaves the extracted set non-empty AND equal to the read side — parity
green while the gate desyncs. Emptiness checks cannot see partial degradation. A loose
counterpart now asserts the strict pattern consumed every arm; proven red on exactly that
attack and green on a clean tree. Also: each verdict pattern must be assigned once, since
the extractor unions assignments while the classifier runs the last.

Also: docker-build.yml was itself an unchecked scope mirror (now asserted to be the only
workflow with toolchain container jobs, by parsing container.image rather than grepping —
ci-image.yml names the image because it builds it); the mutant floor is an equality;
e2e-functional.sh reclassified GUARD (it exits 1 on a failed contract assertion);
design-sync-reminder.sh does block the first Stop. The doc now states all six excluded
classes instead of one.

Not done here, filed instead: workflow-owned execution-class metadata to replace
TOOLCHAIN_JOBS, a single shared verdict vocabulary, and an executable clause-level
mutation harness. Each touches a CI-gating or merge-gate path and wants its own review.

580 script-tests pass.

Refs #774
Refs #775

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-13 22:20:51 +02:00
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docs/ — task-signal map

Purpose: route a fresh contributor/agent to the minimal set of docs for the task at hand, instead of a mandatory front-to-back read. Update this doc in the same PR that adds, removes, or retitles a doc below, or that changes which sections a task signal points to.

Start here, always

  • CLAUDE.md (repo root) — project intro: architecture, layout, dev commands, conventions, Task Completion Protocol.
  • docs/contributing.md — established code patterns (CQRS/MediatR, LanguageExt, the ChicoryTV SPA, EF Core dual-provider migrations, FFmpeg pipeline, analyzers, testing). Read before any non-trivial change.

Task signal → minimal sections

Signal Read
Session startup / "what's next" (no issue named) docs/handoffs/chicorytv-issue-queue.md (standing kickoff — two concurrent tracks: orientation ‖ scripts/select-queue.sh 5)
Named-issue pickup Skip queue selection; go straight to focused retrieval — see "Knowledge retrieval" below, then the issue body
Adding/changing a /api/* endpoint docs/api-conventions.md checklist + docs/endpoint-index.md
Adding a ChicoryTV SPA screen docs/spa-conventions.md
Scheduling / playout engine work docs/domain-model.md + decisions catalog rows keyed sched.* (docs/decisions/README.md)
Concurrency / optimistic-locking work docs/api-conventions.md §7a/b/c + docs/decisions/optimistic-concurrency.md
Auth / security-surface work docs/decisions/api-auth-security.md
CI / release pipeline work docs/ci-cd.md + docs/decisions/release-ci-governance.md
Proposing a new guard / CI check / regression test convention docs/defect-shapes-773.md §4 (detector menu + the classes where no detector is plausible), then the two rules every guard must satisfy: docs/decisions/records/testing/guard-derives-population-from-source.md and …/guard-ships-with-mutation-proof.md
Adding / changing / deleting a guard file docs/guard-inventory.md — every guard's row is machine-checked by scripts/tests/test_guard_inventory.py, so a new guard must acquire a row before the suite goes green
Live local run / Playwright-MCP verification docs/e2e-local.md + scripts/e2e-local.sh
Adding/changing a UI-E2E browser flow docs/e2e-local.md → "UI-E2E harness" + scripts/e2e-ui.sh
What does a test suite cover docs/testing.md
Legacy Blazor route lookup docs/blazor-route-parity.md (historical #91 phase (b) inventory)
"Why do we do X this way" / challenging a convention Catalog-first: docs/decisions/README.md (active rows) → follow the row's link to docs/decisions/records/<area>/<topic>.md for full rationale. docs/decisions/archive/<area>/ only for "what did the rule used to be."

Knowledge retrieval (MemPalace + catalog + Gitea)

These four rules are the seam agreed with server-management#642 (the Gitea→MemPalace exporter). They apply whether the question comes up via MemPalace, a grep, or a stale comment:

  1. Current conventions/decisions → catalog-first. Start at docs/decisions/README.md; discover via the ErsatzTV-Decisions wing (active) / ErsatzTV-Decisions-Archive (superseded/retired). Resolve by topic/key, never by chasing a file path.
  2. Issue history → evidence, not authority. The Gitea-ErsatzTV wing is historical narrative that may be stale; it never overrides current Markdown.
  3. The breadcrumb rule (the crux behavior change). A file path named inside a historical issue comment (e.g. "grep docs/decisions.md 2026-07-17", "see …") is a breadcrumb, not a live pointer. Find the current rule via the catalog / active wing by concept; do not treat the named path as current. (Why it's safe: still-current → in the active wing, breadcrumb resolves; superseded → the active wing returns the successor and a literal follow lands on a record that announces its own status: superseded; retired → the active wing returns nothing, which is itself the signal. The validator-enforced move-to-archive/ is what prevents the catastrophic "superseded rule read as current" case.)
  4. Fallback when MemPalace is stale/down: docs/decisions/README.md catalog, then rg '^`key: <dotted.key>`' docs/decisions/. MemPalace is never authority nor sole fallback.

MemPalace is candidate discovery only — every passage is verified against its cited Markdown/Gitea source before use. Never derive live queue state from MemPalace, #237, or historical comments; queue state is live Gitea state, retrieved via scripts/select-queue.sh (see docs/handoffs/chicorytv-issue-queue.md). Full retrieval contract (altitude/precedence, staleness bounds, what's mined per issue): docs/handoffs/chicorytv-issue-queue.md → "Knowledge retrieval".

Also present in docs/

  • docs/domain-model.md — what the app IS: entity glossary, channel→playout→schedule/block concept map, where each concept is edited in the SPA.
  • docs/api-conventions.md — checklist for adding/changing a /api/* endpoint (controllers, DTOs, error mapping, auth, OpenAPI regen, tests).
  • docs/spa-conventions.md — playbook for adding a screen to the ChicoryTV React SPA.
  • docs/e2e-local.md (+ scripts/e2e-local.sh) — how to run a live local instance for manual or Playwright-MCP verification.
  • docs/testing.md — testing map: what each *.Tests project / web suite covers, golden-file nets, the timezone-independence rule, how to run subsets, the per-PR verification gate.
  • docs/blazor-route-parity.md — historical record of the completed #91 phase (b) cutover: the Blazor Server UI is removed and every legacy route now 302-redirects to its SPA equivalent (or falls through to the catch-all → /app). Read it for the full legacy→SPA route inventory.
  • docs/decisions/records/<area>/<topic>.md — one active decision record per file, YAML frontmatter (key/title/status/since/supersedes/superseded-by, plus optional stale-after/sources — ersatztv#603), rationale prose in the body. The filename is the key, so one-active-record-per-key is a filesystem property (ersatztv#610). docs/decisions.md and the topic files remain as the lifecycle-schema narrative plus a "Records formerly in this file" index, which is what keeps older date-based pointers resolvable. Generated active view: docs/decisions/README.md (catalog / task router) — start there. Superseded/retired records live in docs/decisions/archive/ and are read only for history, never for "what is the current rule."
  • docs/ci-cd.md — build/test/release pipeline, versioning, dependency management.
  • docs/rest-api.md — REST API design doc for ersatztv#2 (goals, conventions, per-slice plan). Largely superseded day-to-day by docs/api-conventions.md; read this for the original rationale.
  • docs/mcp.md — the ErsatzTV.Mcp stdio JSON-RPC MCP server (#58): how it wraps /api/v1 as read + cautious-write tools, its config/env vars, auth, security posture, and the tool catalog.
  • docs/channels.md — Channel entity field reference.
  • docs/m3u-xmltv.md — M3U/XMLTV generation overview (ChannelPlaylist, GetChannelGuideHandler).
  • docs/fork-strategy.md — divergence policy vs upstream ErsatzTV.
  • docs/design-sync.md — Claude Design ↔ repo screen workflow (#92).
  • docs/endpoint-index.md — generated REST endpoint index (method/path/operationId/summary per OpenAPI tag). Do not edit by hand; regenerated by scripts/generate-endpoint-index.py / scripts/update-openapi.sh.
  • docs/handoffs/chicorytv-issue-queue.md — static session kickoff prompt + workflow lore. Queue state is live Gitea state, retrieved each session via scripts/select-queue.sh — see that file's standing kickoff for the two concurrent tracks (orientation ‖ selection). ersatztv#237 is a closed, archival historical tracker (superseded by startup.parallel-orientation in docs/decisions.md) — not a live pointer.
  • docs/defect-shapes-773.md — root-cause analysis of the recurring defect shapes across the whole closed-issue corpus (#773): the measured class ranking, the four families they consolidate into, the cheapest mechanical detector per class, the classes where no detector is plausible, and an audit of which configured hooks/MCP servers/LSPs are actually invoked. Read it before proposing a new guard or CI check — §4 is the detector menu, and it argues against enumerating cases one incident at a time.
  • docs/guard-inventory.md — every executable guard file, what it blocks, whether it is a GUARD or TOOLING, and whether it ships a mutation proof (MUTATION / BEHAVIOUR-ONLY / NONE) with a file::function ref. The population is derived from the filesystem and the workflow/hook call sites and compared for set equality by scripts/tests/test_guard_inventory.py, so a new guard cannot ship unclassified and a renamed test cannot leave a row claiming coverage it has lost. Guards implemented inline in workflow YAML are deliberately outside that population — the doc states the limit rather than implying coverage.
  • docs/tracker-retrofit-triage-237.md — audit trail for the #524 triage of ersatztv#237's 111 comments (method, per-comment classification, totals). Evidence for the docs.tracker-comment-retrofit decision; read it only when triaging another over-cap tracker.
  • docs/handoffs/rest-api.md — original handoff prompt for kicking off the REST API work (#2).