The lane exists to guarantee two things --- that the crdt sweep is
preceded by the build producing its binary, and that a build failure is
attributed to `build-crdt` rather than to `sweep-crdt`. It shipped with
neither guaranteed, because NEITHER WITNESS COULD SEE A NAME.
--print-plan renders `emit_plan | cut -f2-`, so the ordering test
compared commands and never saw the names beside them.
--self-test hardcodes the string `build-crdt` inside its OWN synthetic
plan, so it proves things about the runner and nothing about the real
emitter.
Review demonstrated the consequence: renaming the real build step to
`sweep-crdt` left both tests passing --- a plan that would report a
build failure under the sweep's name, sitting green, which is exactly
the misattribution the separate step exists to prevent.
--print-plan-named prints emit_plan VERBATIM: the same `name<TAB>command`
text the runner reads back from PLAN_FILE. The new assertion compares
WHOLE LINES against it, so name and command are pinned together and a
rename of either step fails. The sweep's own pair is asserted too ---
asserting only the build's name leaves the identical hole open in the
other direction.
WHY A RENDERING AND NOT A SEAM. PLAN_FILE stays uninjectable: a test
that supplied the runner's plan would turn its `eval` into a general
command executor, the same class of defect this script's own review
caught in --acceptance and fixed with a parse-time refusal. Re-deriving
the plan test-side would be a second implementation of the thing under
test, which is the failure being repaired one level up. A distinct mode
rather than a --with-names modifier leaves --print-plan's contract ---
runnable lines --- exactly as it was, and defines no flag combination
that has no meaning.
--self-test STAYS. It witnesses the runner: failure naming, the FAILED:
list, log paths, non-zero exit, and continuation past a failure via the
sentinel. That is a different thing from attributing the real step, and
what it may no longer do is stand in for it.
A second test pins that the two renderings are one plan --- the stripped
one is the named one minus its names --- so a later edit giving either
mode its own text is caught rather than leaving an assertion on a name
the runner never uses. It also pins the `name<TAB>command` shape the
runner's `IFS=<tab> read` depends on.
Both new tests stay on the no-gates paths, so the suite stays cheap.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016bqGA6s9tTUFzYpbeW3tai
`scripts/gate --protocol` emitted `sweep-crdt` with no build step. The
crdt sweep spawns `pmacs-gpu` as a process, and nothing in a
`cargo test` run produces that binary --- `pmacs-gpu` has no `tests/`
directory, so cargo never uplifts its bin to `debug/pmacs-gpu`. On a
cold target directory the sweep therefore fails twelve
`gpu_invocation_acceptance::crdt::*` tests on "build pmacs-gpu before
this acceptance suite".
The hazard was never the red gate. Before per-worktree target
directories (#225) every worktree shared one, which nearly always
already held the binary, so the precondition was satisfied BY ACCIDENT
for the whole life of that arrangement --- a GREEN `--protocol` run
whose crdt sweep was decided by the state of the build directory rather
than by the diff.
Q#GR-1 SETTLED BY OBSERVATION, not by reading. On a disposable target
directory with `debug/pmacs-gpu` asserted ABSENT before each run
(recorded, not assumed), each sweep run alone from the same cold state:
default cargo test --workspace --no-fail-fast -- --skip basedpyright
exit 0, 114 test targets green, and `debug/pmacs-gpu` was
STILL ABSENT afterwards --- the default sweep never builds it
and never needs it.
crdt cargo test --workspace --features crdt --no-fail-fast
-- --skip basedpyright
exit 101, exactly twelve failures, all
`gpu_invocation_acceptance::crdt::*`, matching the signature
handoff section 5 recorded.
So the step is conditional on `--protocol`, which the framing voted for
on an inference this run confirms rather than assumes.
Also observed, and worse than the twelve: `a54_real_daemon_real_pty_and_
headless_gpu_render_one_panel_hosted_terminal` reported `ok` in that
same cold crdt sweep. Its only path that does not spawn `pmacs-gpu` is
its skip branch, so a test whose whole purpose is real wgpu rendering
passed having rendered nothing. The missing build does not only fail
twelve tests --- it silently voids coverage in tests that report green.
A NAMED STEP, NOT A FOLDED COMMAND. `cargo build ... && cargo test ...`
would report a BUILD failure under the name `sweep-crdt`, a wrong
attribution in the one place this script exists to be trustworthy
about.
`--self-test` is how that attribution is witnessed at all. The existing
suite drives only no-gates paths, so plan assertions can prove a step's
name and order and NOTHING about what the runner does when a step
fails. The mode runs a HARDCODED three-line synthetic plan through the
real runner: a passing step, a failing one named `build-crdt`, and a
passing SENTINEL after it. The sentinel is load-bearing --- with the
failure last, an aborting runner and a continuing one produce identical
output, so the witness would pass on a runner doing the opposite of the
stated policy.
The plan is a literal inside the script. Making `PLAN_FILE` injectable
would work and would turn the runner's `eval` into a general command
executor --- the same defect this script's own review caught in
`--acceptance` and fixed with a refusal at parse time.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016bqGA6s9tTUFzYpbeW3tai
* build: scripts/gate — a target dir per worktree, and one gate suite
Parallel worktrees do not work on this machine, and the reason is one
exported variable: every checkout builds into one CARGO_TARGET_DIR, and
cargo takes an EXCLUSIVE LOCK on it. Two lanes building at once do not
run in parallel — the second blocks — and they invalidate each other's
artifacts, so alternating between them recompiles from scratch. Parallel
development under that arrangement is slower than serial.
MEASURED, BECAUSE THE FIRST PLAN WAS WRONG. The shared directory is
285G, which drove a proposal to add sccache so per-worktree directories
would not lose artifact sharing. That number is years of accumulation
across TWO projects (pmacs and levcs share it). Measured directly: a
cold `cargo test --workspace --no-run` is 80s and 19G. And sccache
across two target directories hits 50% on C/C++ and **0.00% on Rust** —
rlibs embed their target-dir path, so dependency artifacts are not
bit-identical between directories and `--extern` hashes cascade into
misses. There is no sharing worth buying back. sccache stays configured
and earns its keep on C/C++; it is not what makes parallel lanes work.
The script also owns the FIXED gates, because a procedure living only in
prose gets executed differently each time — twice in the session that
motivated this:
- a sweep run with `--tests` instead of `--workspace`, silently
dropping pmacs_protocol and pmacs_gpu, including protocol tests that
same lane had just written;
- a sweep piped through `grep` before anyone read it, so an
intermittent red could not be matched against ci-red-signatures —
a row needs its fragments. That is registry note U2, and then U3
when it happened AGAIN.
Hence durable per-gate logs with the sweep paths printed. The remedy is
real: this lane's own run diagnosed its failures from the log without
re-running anything.
WHAT THE SCRIPT IS NOT AUTHORITATIVE FOR. Handoff §3 keeps policy and
keeps CHOOSING the touched acceptance suites, which arrive only via
`--acceptance`. No script can infer those from a working tree, and one
that guessed would report coverage it does not have.
THREE HAZARDS SPECIFIED RATHER THAN LEFT TO CHANCE:
- `cmd | tee log` reports TEE's status, so a failing gate would exit 0
and the suite would read green. `pipefail` is not POSIX.
- `cmd > log; rc=$?` never reaches the assignment under `set -eu`
(which scripts/bite already uses) — the shell exits at the failing
command, so nothing prints which gate failed or where its log is,
destroying the point of capturing it. The runner is therefore an
`if` condition, the only `set -e` exemption.
- CARGO_TARGET_DIR (env) OVERRIDES build.target-dir in config.toml, so
a per-worktree config file silently does nothing. Only a
per-invocation value beats it.
Pruning is dry-run by default, `--force` to delete, and refuses any
directory without a `.pmacs-gate-target` marker. "Live" means a git
worktree record carrying NO `prunable` line — git keeps listing a
worktree whose directory was deleted without `git worktree remove`, and
treating listed as live would make exactly the reclaimable directories
permanently ineligible.
ONE HONEST FINDING FROM MUTATION TESTING. Three mutations came back
vacuous, and all three are redundant defences rather than test holes:
git already returns resolved physical paths from both
`rev-parse --show-toplevel` and `worktree list --porcelain`, so canon()
is belt-and-braces; and the prune path guards the marker twice. Recorded
in the script and the tests so a later reader does not mistake a
"vacuous" result for a gap — or delete a defence because a test did not
notice.
VERIFICATION. 11 acceptance tests over the no-gates paths (running the
script for real inside the suite would recurse), each pointed at a
tempdir via PMACS_GATE_TARGET_ROOT so the real managed root is
unreachable — a prune bug is unrecoverable. Mutation-tested: `--tests`
in the sweep, an unconditional CRDT sweep, and pruning on a dry run all
fail their intended test.
Observed in a real run, which is how the framing said to confirm the
parts a test cannot: the failed-gate names and log paths print, the
ambient directory is created and reaped by the exit trap, and every log
appears. The run exits non-zero because of R8 — the pre-existing,
merge-base-confirmed listview failure — which means `scripts/gate`
cannot go green on this machine until R8 is diagnosed. That is a
property of the tree, not of this change.
Framing: docs/gate-script-framing.md (revision 4, approved).
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016bqGA6s9tTUFzYpbeW3tai
* fix(gate): two ways the script could do harm, and four smaller defects
Review round 1 on #225. Neither blocking finding was a design gap ---
both were the implementation failing to honour its own framing, which
is the case a framing document cannot prevent by itself.
PRUNE COULD DELETE EVERY MANAGED DIRECTORY. §2.6 requires the live
worktree set to be ESTABLISHED. The code piped `git worktree list`
straight into awk and the caller masked the result with `|| true`, so
running from outside any repository produced an EMPTY live set --- and
an empty live set means "every managed directory is an orphan", so
`--prune --force` would have deleted all of them, live lanes' artifacts
included. The failure mode was silent and total.
Two refusals now, and they are deliberately redundant: not inside a
worktree, and the enumeration itself failing. `live_worktrees` captures
git's output and returns non-zero rather than emitting nothing, so
"I cannot tell what is live" is unrepresentable as "nothing is live".
An empty porcelain listing counts as failure too --- a repository always
has at least its own worktree.
--ACCEPTANCE WAS SHELL-INJECTABLE. The name is interpolated into a
command the runner evaluates, and nothing validated it, so
`--acceptance 'x; rm -rf ~'` would have run. Now an allowlist of what a
cargo test target can actually be named --- letters, digits, underscore,
hyphen --- refused at parse time, before any gate. Rejection rather than
escaping: there is no legitimate suite name that needs quoting.
FOUR SMALLER ONES:
- Log directories carried a whole-second timestamp, so two runs in the
same worktree within one second shared one and could overwrite each
other's evidence --- reintroducing U2/U3 through a naming choice.
The PID is now part of the name.
- The ownership marker is DOCUMENTED as one line, so it is enforced as
one line instead of read head-first. Acting on the first line of a
file we did not understand is how a corrupted marker authorises a
deletion.
- The `prunable` test returned green when `git worktree add` failed,
so the only coverage of that rule could silently never run. It now
fails loudly.
- Its cleanup ran after the assertions, so a panicking assertion would
have left the real repository carrying a stale worktree record. Now
a `Drop` guard.
MUTATION TESTING, HONESTLY REPORTED. The injection and marker fixes bite
individually. The two prune guards do NOT --- each alone satisfies the
outside-repo test, so mutating one at a time reads as vacuous. Removing
BOTH fails the test, which is what establishes that the test detects the
unsafe state rather than being blind to it. Recorded in the test so a
later reader does not delete one guard on the grounds that nothing
noticed.
ALSO: handoff §3's ambient-root caveat still said "until the
ambient-root isolation lane lands". #206 merged; the five variables are
now belt-and-braces for external and integration paths, and `scripts/gate`
sets them regardless.
R8 PROMOTED. `docs/ci-red-signatures.md` gains the reason it stops being
a catalogued curiosity: with the gate suite reduced to one command, R8
makes that command exit non-zero on a clean tree EVERY TIME, and a gate
that is always red is a gate nobody reads. `docs/active-work.md` gains a
lane. It is still not a regression from #223 or #225 --- the merge-base
control says so --- and the lane's first job is diagnosis, because a
change that made the assertion pass without explaining the prefix strip
would convert a visible failure into an invisible one.
15 acceptance tests. Observed run re-confirmed: failed gates named with
log paths, ambient directory created and reaped, distinct log directory,
exit 1 from R8 alone.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016bqGA6s9tTUFzYpbeW3tai
* docs: the #225 lane, and R8 diagnosed to a stray /tmp/.git
TWO LEDGER GAPS, both found by review.
and — the part that matters — an explicit GATE STATUS: NOT GREEN
section. `scripts/gate` exits 1 on this branch and on a clean `main`
because R8 fails m4_acceptance and therefore the sweep. That is a merge
blocker under the standing rule, and #225 is the worst possible lane to
grant a silent exception to: it is the lane that makes the gate suite
authoritative, and a tool shipping with its own gate red teaches the
opposite of what it exists to teach.
The lane also records that it was written after the PR existed, again,
because review asked again. Two lanes in a row now. The correction from
only evidence of that.
R8 DIAGNOSED, and the `TMPDIR` hypothesis was right:
1. `display_path` (builtin/runtime/lsp.lua:2397) shortens a location
against the DETECTED PROJECT ROOT before rendering it.
2. `project.detect` walks UPWARD for a marker; from
/tmp/.tmpXXXX/r.rs it reaches /tmp.
3. This machine has a stray `/tmp/.git` — an EMPTY DIRECTORY, not a
repository. The `.git` marker is directory-only, so an empty
directory still matches.
4. Root resolves to /tmp, the prefix is stripped, and the rendered row
is exactly the observed `.tmpXXXXXX/r.rs:12:3`.
Controlled, not inferred: the same test with TMPDIR outside /tmp PASSES.
THE CODEBASE ANTICIPATED THIS BY NAME. src/project.rs:208 documents
`detect_project_within(start, markers, stop_root)` as existing "so a
stray marker in a temp-dir's ancestor (e.g. a developer's /tmp/.git)
can't leak into a fixture that lives below it." The mechanism exists;
this fixture does not use it.
So the row splits, and the halves need different fixes. The failure is
ENVIRONMENTAL — nothing about pmacs is wrong when a real project root
sits above a file, that is the feature, and removing /tmp/.git makes the
gate green immediately. The fixture being ENVIRONMENT-DEPENDENT is a
real defect, and bounding its detection is what retires the row.
PROVENANCE UNRESOLVED, and I am not going to assume in my own favour:
/tmp/.git is dated 2026-08-07 23:17, inside this session's window, and
may have been created by this session's own work — a stray git
invocation from /tmp would do it. The earlier merge-base control stays
valid as "this tree has it" but says nothing about WHEN the environment
acquired the marker, so "pre-existing" must not be read as
"long-standing".
Nothing deleted: /tmp/.git is outside the repository and I cannot
confirm I created it, so removing it is the user's call.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016bqGA6s9tTUFzYpbeW3tai
* docs: rebase onto the R8 fix; scripts/gate now exits 0
#226 (`dcb852e`) retired R8 by bounding the LSP fixture's project
detection. This branch rebases onto it, and the thing that was blocked
is now demonstrable: **`scripts/gate` exits 0** --- all nine gates green
in one command, the first time the tool has passed the suite it exists
to run. That is #225's own acceptance criterion, and it could not even
be stated while the script did not exist on `main`.
REBASE RESOLUTION, per the standing rule that #226's R8 documentation is
authoritative. Every conflict was in R8 text this branch wrote while the
row was still an open investigation:
- two in `docs/ci-red-signatures.md`, both resolved to #226's retired
row with this branch's pre-fix copy dropped;
- the framing-doc pair --- e71e1bd added `docs/r8-fixture-boundary-
framing.md`, 7cfba73 removed it --- both SKIPPED. They are net-zero
here and `main` owns that file authoritatively; replaying the second
would have deleted `main`'s copy, which is the one failure mode a
mechanical "resolve each conflict in turn" would have walked into.
TWO STALE LANES REMOVED. This branch's "R8 --- NEEDS A LANE"
investigation block describes a diagnosis that has since happened and a
fix that has since landed. And #226's own lane arrived through the
rebase still saying "OPEN, HELD FOR REVIEW"; Rule 4 retires it now that
it has merged, its durable facts already being in the retired registry
row and the handoff section 6 census. Leaving either would have left the
ledger asserting that a merged fix was still an open investigation.
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Review finding (P2): docs/active-work.md and docs/agent-handoff.md both
still said "PR not yet open". This file's own rule is that an open PR
gets a lane recording its state — "When a PR is opened, give it a lane",
written after #171 drifted 153 commits while invisible here. Both now
carry PR #209, its six commits, and the first CI run.
That run is worth recording rather than merely citing, because it
discharges the one risk the framing could not close locally. ALL 14
CHECKS GREEN, including both new jobs (Test (crdt) 12m20s, M10 Perf
Gates (crdt) 5m40s) and the macOS/luajit leg that is the documented
flake surface. This was the first time in the project's history that
any of these tests executed in CI.
ACCEPTANCE 8 HOLDS AGAINST THE REAL RUN. Test (crdt) reported 3,717
passed / 0 failed / 30 ignored: the 3,746 all-targets census (with
basedpyright NOT skipped, as it is locally) plus one doc test, less the
30 ignored. The job demonstrably compiled and ran the crdt corpus rather
than reporting green over nothing — which was the whole point of writing
that criterion while the local sweep was already green.
A trap for the next reader is recorded with it: DO NOT SUBTRACT THE TWO
JOBS' TOTALS. Test (ubuntu/luajit) reports 3,485 and Test (crdt) 3,747,
a difference of 262 rather than 279, because the jobs run different
SETS — the non-crdt job adds pmacs-protocol's 17 tests. The dark count
is the all-targets comparison, 3,746 - 3,467. The wrong number looks
entirely plausible.
Chasing that discrepancy found a real gap, and one this lane's own tool
could never have surfaced: PMACS-PROTOCOL HAS ITS OWN `crdt` FEATURE.
It gates no tests, so a per-test census reports 17 either way and scores
the crate as unaffected — but it changes `cfg!(feature = "crdt")`
EXPRESSIONS inside InstanceCapabilities::default and
FrontendCapabilities::default, so those same 17 tests exercise different
runtime values under it. CI had only ever run the non-crdt ones. Closed
with an explicit `-p pmacs-protocol --all-targets --features crdt` step,
verified 17/17.
The blind spot is structural, not an omission, so it is documented at
the tool rather than fixed in it: scripts/feature-census censuses the
workspace DEFAULT MEMBER, because that is what a bare
`cargo test --all-targets` builds. Sibling crates are invisible to it no
matter what configs are passed. The durable lesson: A FEATURE CAN MATTER
TO A CRATE A PER-TEST CENSUS SCORES AS UNAFFECTED. Check siblings by
hand.
Verified: ci.yml parses at 10 jobs, script syntax clean, fmt,
diff-check, and the new protocol step green locally.
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docs/active-work.md says the dark-test figure "moves with every merge
and must be re-measured, not quoted." That instruction has never had a
tool, so every re-measurement was a hand-rolled `--list` pipeline
written from scratch.
Hand-rolling it is not safe. Writing this lane's census by hand, the
first attempt filtered libtest's list with `/ : test$/` — but the output
is `name: test` with NO space before the colon, so it matched nothing,
reported zero targets, and looked like a clean run. A census that
silently reports nothing is the same failure class as the dark tests
themselves: no signal, presented as a result.
scripts/feature-census diffs `cargo test --list` between two feature
configurations and reports what the second has that the first cannot
see. Its header records each parsing trap, because every one of them was
hit while writing it:
* `name: test` has no space before the colon.
* `--list` also emits `: benchmark` lines.
* cargo's `Running` lines have two shapes — `unittests src/lib.rs` and
`tests/foo.rs` — so a fixed field index handles one and mangles the
other.
* a target with zero tests prints its `Running` line and nothing else,
so counting only test lines DROPS it from the diff — losing exactly
the finding worth surfacing.
* `--list` includes #[ignore]d tests, which are dark in the same sense
but are NOT recovered by adding a feature to an ordinary test job.
That last one needed a second correction after the script was running.
Counting only B's ignored set attributed pre-existing ignores to the
feature: `rope::tests::perf_smoke_*` are ignored under both configs and
are not "dark and ignored." Both sides now get an ignored pass and the
figure is the difference, which is what turns a flat "279 dark" into
"268 recovered by a plain leg, 11 needing --ignored."
The script also corrected a claim in this lane's own framing doc. The
framing said eight test binaries contain zero tests under CI's flags,
derived from a target-count difference (93 vs 101). The truth is that
ELEVEN targets run with zero tests under those flags; eight of them gain
tests under crdt and three are helper binaries with no tests in either
configuration. Two different true statements, and the framing had
merged them.
Fail-closed on a build failure (exit 3) rather than reporting a census.
A configuration that does not compile yields no test list, which is
indistinguishable by counting from "this configuration has no tests" and
would render as a spectacular and entirely false "every test is dark."
That is not a small error; it is a number that would get quoted.
All five documented exit codes are exercised rather than asserted: 0 on
a clean census and a holding --covers claim, 1 when the claim fails
(both for a test present under both configs and for a misspelled name),
2 on usage, 3 on a configuration that fails to build.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
P2 --- the MIXED arm said "OK" and exited 0 while its likeliest cause
is vacuity. Reaching it means cargo failed, at least one `test result:`
line exists, and none says FAILED --- i.e. the named tests may have run
CLEAN against the old tree, the vacuous outcome, with an unrelated
failure supplying the exit status. The message admitted as much while
the exit code contradicted it, so a scripted caller, or a framing doc
quoting "bite exited 0", would record a certified bite. It now exits 4
and is labelled INCONCLUSIVE rather than OK. The exit ladder in the
header gains the code.
While exercising that arm I found the review's stated trigger --- and
my own comment repeating it --- is WRONG, which is worth more than the
fix. `--test A --test B`, where B's swapped file will not build, does
NOT produce MIXED: cargo builds every named target before running any,
so B's build failure stops A from running too and the swapped run
emits no summary at all. Verified by running exactly that shape
against an ancient `tests/m4_acceptance.rs`; it lands in COMPILE, as
it should. What genuinely reaches MIXED is a run that prints summaries
and *then* fails --- doc-tests failing to compile after the lib tests
pass, or a harness dying after its summary line.
So the arm stays as defence but is documented as defensive, and the
ledger lists it as the one path NOT reproduced rather than implying
the validation was complete. Manufacturing a doc-test failure to reach
it would test the arm at the cost of a contrived fixture; saying which
paths were executed and which were not is the more useful record.
Two wording fixes from the same round. The COMPILE message said the
file "does not build against the current tree", but the no-summary
condition also covers a harness that built and then died before
printing one; it now says "produced no test summary (build failure, or
a harness that died before printing one)" so the label never overstates
the observation. And the colour comment no longer overclaims: exporting
CARGO_TERM_COLOR=never defeats an ambient variable, but an explicit
`--color always` in the passed-through args still beats the
environment. Self-inflicted and fail-closed, and now said so.
P1 --- the classifier could mislabel a genuine bite, and this repo
manufactures the trigger. It grepped the swapped run's output for
`^error\[E...\]` / `^error: could not compile`, but a failing test can
print those lines itself: `tests/compile_mode_acceptance.rs:572` has a
fixture that emits `error[E0308]: mismatched types` at column 0, and
any suite that dumps buffer or PTY text on failure does the same. A
clean assertion failure --- the strong evidence --- would then be
stamped `OK (COMPILE)`, "weaker evidence", while the new handoff text
tells the reader to trust the label. The verdict was never wrong; the
label was.
Classification now reads libtest's own summary instead:
`test result: FAILED` present means the harness ran and tests failed;
no `test result:` line at all means nothing ran. A third `MIXED` arm
covers "some target ran clean but cargo still failed", which the
two-way split silently folded into the wrong side. This also removes
two latent portability bugs for free: `\|` alternation in a BRE is a
GNU extension, so on BSD grep every failure would have labelled as
assertion; and cargo's coloured `error:` output would have evaded the
grep entirely. libtest's summary lines stay uncoloured when piped, and
`CARGO_TERM_COLOR=never` is now exported so `--color always` in the
passed-through args cannot break the parse either --- that would
otherwise have zeroed `count_passed` and produced a spurious
NO CONTROL.
Verified rather than reasoned: a test made to print BOTH
`error[E0308]: mismatched types` and ``error: could not compile
`probe` `` at column 0, then failed by swap, is still classified
`OK (assertion)`.
P2 --- the ledger cited a file that is not in the tree. The lane
scoped itself by `TEST_IMPROVEMENT.md` §8, which is untracked and
machine-local: not on `main`, not in this PR's tree. That is a
dangling reference for any other machine, which is the failure this
ledger exists to prevent. The entry is now self-contained and says so;
if that audit is to scope later lanes it needs committing in its own
PR first.
P3 --- a comment records that both runs are captured rather than
streamed, and why, so nobody "fixes" it back to streaming and breaks
the parser. Double blank line before the parked lane collapsed.
Also, on review's prompting: the #165 wiped-round incident is now
UNEXPLAINED, and the handoff says so rather than leaving a gap the
next reader will fill by re-deriving the false mechanism. Work was
lost; not by the cause this file blamed. SIGKILL bypassing the trap
and a stash collision in the same round are both candidates, and the
note declines to pick one.
Lane 6 of the test-improvement arc, pulled ahead of its own priority
list because every later lane's evidence is bite-shaped. A verifier
that cannot fail is worth no more than the claims it certifies.
The defect. The script ran only the SWAPPED tree, so "the tests failed
against the old file" was the only thing it ever checked. It could not
distinguish a load-bearing fix from a broken test: a typo, an unrelated
compile break, or a filter matching nothing all make the swapped run
fail, and each printed `bite: OK`.
The control now asserts two things, because passing alone is not
enough --- `cargo test` with a filter matching zero tests exits 0, and
a compile error in the old tree would then still read as OK:
* the named tests PASS against the working tree, and
* at least one test actually RAN,
exiting 3 as NO CONTROL otherwise. The swapped run additionally
distinguishes `OK (assertion)` from `OK (COMPILE)`, since an old file
that will not build against the current tree is much weaker evidence:
the tests may never have run at all.
Validated on all three paths rather than the happy one alone. A
zero-match filter reports NO CONTROL. A genuine bite --- PR #190's
`rd1`, which is known to fail against `main` --- reports `control OK
--- 1 test(s) pass` then `OK (assertion)`. A test deliberately broken
so it fails on BOTH trees reports NO CONTROL at exit 3; the previous
script printed `bite: OK` for exactly that case.
Handoff correction, verified rather than inherited. §5 claimed the
script "restores by `git checkout --`, which reverts the file to HEAD",
destroying uncommitted work, and cited a wiped review round during
#165. The mechanism description is false: the script copies the file to
a mktemp path before swapping and restores from that copy under an
`EXIT INT TERM` trap, touching no git state beyond a read-only
`git show`. The commit-before-gating rule is kept --- it stands on
gate-results-describe-the-pushed-tree --- but the false mechanism is
removed, because a reader who believes bite eats uncommitted work will
reach for `git stash` to protect themselves, which is the repo-global
trap the script exists to avoid.
No product code. No tests changed.
Typing `\alpha` in a Lean 4 buffer gives `α`; `\<>` gives `⟨⟩` with the
point between them. The abbreviation table is vendored from
vscode-lean4 and the expander is a typed-edit consumer registered on
the Stage 4a chain at priority 50, ahead of auto-pairing.
The ordering is load-bearing. 64 abbreviation keys contain a character
in the `lean4` pair set, so with pairing first, typing `\[` would
insert `[]` and corrupt the pending key to `\[]` before the second `[`
arrives — `\[[]]` becomes unreachable. The consumer therefore claims
every keystroke that EXTENDS a pending abbreviation, not only one that
completes an expansion; claiming only completions would hand each
intermediate `[` to pairing by a different route.
The vendored table is an ORDERED SEQUENCE, not a map. Upstream breaks
equal-length ties by source declaration order — 101 prefixes depend on
it, and `\f` resolves through `f<` rather than `f>` — which a
`pairs`-iterated Lua table cannot express. `scripts/regen-lean-abbrev`
takes a vscode-lean4 commit, emits the file with its provenance header,
and aborts on a duplicate key, invalid UTF-8, or a round-trip mismatch.
Undo is cross-peer-degraded on CRDT frontends and that is accepted and
named, not papered over (Q#LN21): `\alpha` arrives as six source-peer
optimistic inserts while the expansion is one daemon-peer replace.
`set_round_trip_input` would fix it and also makes `dispatch_idle`
report false, so RET would stop inserting a newline.
Round 9 corrects three approved acceptance criteria that the real table
contradicts, found by simulating the state machine over all 1,855
entries and re-reading upstream at the pinned commit rather than
re-reading the prose. `\to` is not eager — `top`, `to0` and `toa`
extend it. `\zzzz` expands to `ζzzz ` because `ze`, `zeta` and
`zsqrtd` exist; only `$ % , ; @ W` open no key at all. And `\alpha`'s
undo does not restore `\alpha ` because `alpha` IS eager, so the
terminator is a separate edit. Criteria 38, 41 and 42 now state both
paths, and the false halves are asserted too: they read as correct
until the table is consulted.
Three implementation traps worth the record. The generator's own
round-trip check was broken twice and failed closed both times:
`str.splitlines()` splits on U+2028, which 53 symbols contain, and
escaping through `chr(byte)` produced a latin-1-shaped string that the
UTF-8 write re-encoded. The first check compared in-memory strings and
agreed with itself; it now stages the file, re-reads the bytes from
disk, and renames into place only on a match. And the expansion SHRINKS
the buffer, so the point must be placed explicitly — pairing's
no-cursor-motion rule holds only for an insert AT the cursor, and
without this every self-insert after the first expansion is silently
rejected and the editor looks dead.
25 acceptance tests plus one `--lib` test for the optimistic CRDT
producer (45f), which is where the gate list's `--features crdt` run
reaches it; a crdt-gated integration test would be dark in CI and in
the gates both. Fifteen mutations bite, each failing its target. Three
of these tests were vacuous when first written and biting is what
found them: the abandonment test asserted text a surviving record
would also produce, the re-arm test used an example that never reaches
the re-arm branch, and both switch tests ran through
`find_or_open`'s fresh-load path rather than `buffer.after-switch`.
No protocol change (Q#LN14). Also reconciles the handoff and ledger
for Stage 4a (#179) and adds `lean.abbrev` to COHERENCE.md's
config-registry adoption census, now nine settings.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_011LFvC4FQtux4y32KuevZ7B
A trap-guarded one-file swap over read-only git show: run the named
tests against an older version of one file and exit 0 iff they FAIL
there (the fix bites); exit 1 flags a vacuous fix. The file is
restored on every exit path including interrupts; the ./ pathspec
prefix makes it work from any directory inside the repo. Never
touches git stash — the stash namespace is repo-global, shared
across worktrees and with humans (a #111-round mishap popped a
PR-#17-era user stash; hence the tool).
Dogfooded three ways against the merged #111 history: the round-1
fix commit bites (exit 0), the same tests against HEAD read as
vacuous (exit 1), and a docs/-relative invocation restores cleanly.
Handoff: section 1 snapshot (editops #111 merged, worktree folded),
section 5 lessons (repo-global stash; worktree-per-lane for
parallel work).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_018vF4gQVozBWi38y1SJiGfQ
Levi Neuwirth