Three blocking and two major findings, all accepted. Two were verified
by running the thing rather than reading it.
- **Journey isolation had no executable mechanism.** Cargo launches each
integration-test binary with the caller's environment, and a binary
cannot re-point its own roots before its tests run — the `set_var`
prohibition applies to itself. Revision 2's "isolated by its launched
environment" therefore assumed the external wrapper this lane exists
to delete. Now named and pinned: each journey test re-execs
`current_exe()` with `--exact`, a marker, and controlled roots; the
child runs the real body against the ambient `EditorState::open`, so
the production-entry-point ratchet is untouched while the roots are
contained. The same helper serves the hostile-environment check.
- **One self-spawning test is not a ratchet.** It proves the seam works
and cannot notice a raw `EditorState::new()` added to another binary
later. A checked source inventory, falsifiable by adding an ambient
constructor, is now acceptance 12.
- **The root list and the gates disagreed with the audit.** The scope is
now explicit — bootstrap STORAGE roots only (config, data, state,
cache). `HOME`'s non-storage semantics are excluded by decision, not
omission: `expand_tilde` resolves user-entered `~` and
`find_file_acceptance` pins it deliberately, so redirecting `HOME`
would retarget a user-facing feature. `XDG_RUNTIME_DIR` addresses
sockets, not stored data.
- **The gate instruction itself was insufficient**, and this is the
finding with immediate consequences: isolating only `XDG_CONFIG_HOME`
stops the reads and leaves the write path open. Every local gate run
in this repository today had that hole.
- **The count was one high and the ledger overstated it further.** 65
files call the constructor; 66 mention it. The 66th, `m5_6_acceptance`,
mentions it only to say it deliberately does not use it — making it
the third place in the suite documenting the `cfg(test)` gap. The
ledger's "all 96 test files load the real config" was false.
- **The recovery command did not work**, verified by running it:
`git worktree add <path> <remote-only-branch>` fails with `fatal:
invalid reference` after a bare fetch. Replaced with the explicit
tracking-branch form.
Framing only. No code.
Levi Neuwirth
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