fix(review): preserve semantic leaf from retry regressions

[seonghobae]

Current exact authority — 2026-10-09

• Exact head: e293e065385d9ce59819eee614c7e469d2993a1c; exact tree: 16c1d55b757cdb65e66441bfc5af74fdaa17eb11; lifecycle remains Draft / Proposed / merge HOLD.
• RCA / RED: predecessor 8f19d547125935849f0f99a340fb8136a801090a published the byte-identical normalizer blob under mode 100644, while the tested tree and shebang contract used 100755. Direct executable-mode assertion failed and the claimed remote/tested tree identity was false.
• Smallest GREEN: mode-only parent d703efc5985c24e160c2c9498e89a3b63a160b74 restored 100755 without changing blob fedb097409eeedee1b3a640923d1d5d88f60a473; this child updates only CHANGELOG and the Gap baseline.
• Verification: focused normalizer 175 passed with warnings fatal; Python compilation, executable-mode assertion, and diff checks GREEN. .github#2565 was also checked and its published tree already equals its verified tree.
• Fresh executable hosted Checks and a qualifying independent APPROVED review remain required. No Force Push, destructive rebase, bypass, close, auto-merge, or paid/model fallback was used.

Current exact authority — 2026-10-07

• Exact head: 4a66f579b645bd80280fa8a73ac700f9e7cf4a33.
• Exact tree: 9c507339ec6253dfb60ebad5725aa8403a4fffd2, identical to the independently reviewed local tree.
• Canonical stacked base: fix/full-suite-parser-locks-20260930@e4fcd3ad277930b02a734302d7a6d0fd9315ec14.
• RCA: Python's default JSON decoder silently retains the last repeated object member. A model artifact containing a stale first head_sha and a later current head_sha could therefore replace review identity before exact-run validation.
• RED → GREEN: RED on predecessor 3ecb54b896fbf4c9b7fea1bf8749c28cc558c0cd proves direct duplicate-object admission and CLI identity replacement with exit 0. The minimal GREEN routes both pure-JSON and mixed-prose candidates through the standard decoder's recursive object_pairs_hook, rejects the first repeated name at any depth, and preserves the artifact on failure.
• Exact blobs: normalizer 1a38c4a2a5af08add6eabd47b8f15c3853d1d063; regressions a826a4e0917e704fca7b7079e12bf1c703ebc7fe; CHANGELOG 172566ecd7756473dbeff64f6171166c3d5d0b5c; Gap baseline bfb056ed10cfbe8c8a384f2f132a0d572d996c06.
• Local verification: focused normalizer 174/174; target module 863/863 statements and 432/432 branches with zero partials; public-doc 100%; warning-fatal repository suite 5,375 passed, 10 skipped, 40 subtests; compileall and diff checks pass.
• Independent review: no Critical, Important, or Minor finding. Additional escaped-equivalent-key, nested-array, mixed-prose, Diagnostic-recovery, and nested-promotion probes pass.
• Hosted exact-head evidence: SAST run 37592701515 failed job 112697755335; Security run 37592701558 failed jobs 112697755933 and 112697756263 while downstream jobs skipped; CodeQL run 37592701548 skipped all jobs. All three failed jobs expose zero steps and their log endpoints return 404 BlobNotFound; no source failure or hosted pass is claimed.
• Lifecycle: Draft / Proposed / merge HOLD. Fresh successful exact-head hosted Checks and a qualifying independent APPROVED review remain mandatory. No bypass, auto-merge, Force Push, destructive rebase, wake commit, predecessor closure, or source-neutral rerun is authorized.

Prior exact authority — 2026-10-03

• Exact head: 3ecb54b896fbf4c9b7fea1bf8749c28cc558c0cd.
• Exact tree: 774d64261ea72c9128c1e212ca714346bc849b52, byte-identical to the independently tested local tree.
• Canonical stacked base: fix/full-suite-parser-locks-20260930@e4fcd3ad277930b02a734302d7a6d0fd9315ec14.
• RCA: the line-local scanner recognized backtick fence delimiters but not root tilde fences. The first generalization still missed blockquote/list containers; its regex repair then admitted exponential backtracking and missed continuation indentation. Delimiter-line exact-run JSON could therefore acquire approval authority, while hostile prefixes could stall the gate.
• Test-first repair chain: root RED 11c9c5ca2dce8d7ef32b078d76d7cd31101557e2 → GREEN 02f2763ff08d05060c66c8d6531df1aa8e49d035; nested RED 0c226a1587b089a1ab267e48ab00ec9b0b69214c → GREEN 3ddd31841b73c6d5ae8555f6c8a838cb2b5f4e55; continuation/ReDoS RED f2aada37f6aa904442105d653d1217b834d8a18f → final GREEN e5ef765fb523596fdcc683876d80bc1bc644e566; documentation child 3ecb54b896fbf4c9b7fea1bf8749c28cc558c0cd.
• Final boundary: backtick and tilde delimiter lines are non-authoritative under root, blockquote, list-item, and continuation indentation. Prefix admission uses a conservative fail-closed container-marker allowlist, not a full Markdown parser, and evaluates at most one fence candidate per line.
• Exact blobs: normalizer 1a5fef1e82eaf97f596e28615a5e122615a2b6bd; regression tests c6d3cb4b5689134fcff89fe79596d8362aa73b01; CHANGELOG b81dc4e4025286f895ebf9c851786fa44e43cd0c; Gap baseline 71bffa460973c9be33112631d61f6ab7a7377069.
• Verification: focused normalizer 171/171; warning-fatal repository suite 5,372 passed, 10 skipped, 40 subtests; Gap-baseline contracts 7 passed plus 4 subtests; complete Strix quick-gate harness PASS; compileall and diff checks pass. A 100,000-marker failing prefix completes in about 0.03 seconds. No new local coverage percentage is claimed.
• Independent review: three read-only passes found the nested bypass, then the ReDoS/continuation gaps, and finally no remaining approval-evidence bypass or performance regression.
• Review state: zero unresolved threads and zero qualifying approvals. Earlier COMMENT reviews do not transfer approval to this head.
• Hosted exact-head evidence: CodeQL run 37123424136 skipped all three jobs before steps; SAST run 37123424140, job 111203866780, failed before steps; Security run 37123424115 failed Detect changed scope and gitleaks before steps while downstream jobs skipped. Every cited job has steps=null and logs_url=null. No hosted parser, security, CodeQL, model, or coverage pass is claimed; blind rerun is not warranted.
• Lifecycle: Draft / Proposed / merge HOLD. Fresh successful exact-head hosted Checks, hosted coverage, and a qualifying independent APPROVED review remain mandatory. No bypass, auto-merge, Force Push, destructive rebase, wake commit, predecessor closure, or source-neutral rerun is authorized.

Problem

Predecessor #2543 repeatedly received source-changing commits titled as CI retries. Four descendants — ed10aad2, d1ead4ea, 9d7c104b, and 5e36a45a — converged on stale tree d73efe793a59a1ea354e43d62d4da4fa962d1216, twice undoing an exact-tree restoration and removing eleven reviewed owner/leaf paths.

Initial verified successor transfer

This creation-time topology is preserved as lineage evidence; the current authority section above supersedes its head, tree, effective delta, and lifecycle.

Creation status: Draft / Proposed / merge HOLD

• Creation head: 618471110757c74bcf6b7ac3a5783989dd010213
• Creation tree: 173603f8ad3b78866070a2ce756a25102f17c2c9
• First parent: current canonical fix(ci): integrate parser, security, response, and coverage gates #2530 e4fcd3ad277930b02a734302d7a6d0fd9315ec14
• Second parent: live predecessor perf(review): scan backward for the last admissible label #2543 5e36a45aa6d34c6cb547eb32c48f5f81873dab41

The ordinary two-parent integration preserves the complete predecessor lineage while materializing the authoritative reviewed tree. Compared with the last restored #2543 head 8e5c1963547dfa88fb596f8a9c160c4c6eb24ffa, it is three commits ahead with zero effective file differences. Compared with canonical #2530, the creation-time effective delta was exactly four reviewed paths:

• CHANGELOG.md
• docs/product-technical-gap-baseline.md
• scripts/ci/opencode_review_normalize_output.py
• tests/test_opencode_review_normalize_output.py

No predecessor Check or approval transfers. Fresh terminal exact-head Checks, zero unresolved actionable threads, and a qualifying independent APPROVED review remain mandatory. #2543 remains open until this successor transfer is fully accepted; no bypass, auto-merge, Force Push, destructive rebase, source-neutral rerun, or closure is authorized.

[seonghobae]

Exact-head linear-framing repair ready for hosted admission

Current authority: d2f1f1530a0e37ac6d17c23fceac8a9a861dbbe1 / tree 5c8298bfaa8736a4151f4315d869e934abab537a.

• Independent review found one Important complexity regression on predecessor a62fe71a…: per-nested-opener prefix-wide rfind() made untrusted transcript parsing approach quadratic time.
• RED e9a080f59ff6d85101c78da8ac1d4eddcd53c7b7 deterministically observes 129 reverse searches for 64 nested openers.
• GREEN 5f5c2dc9b3ad8e7476663ce4d3c32ee49a8de4a4 preclassifies exact line-local Diagnostic: opener positions once and uses O(1) membership during nesting; the same probe observes one decoder-internal search.
• Independent focused re-review of final docs head: Critical 0, Important 0, Minor 0. Reproduced scaling is 16k/32k/64k/128k ≈ 0.0099/0.0197/0.0410/0.0768 seconds.
• Diagnostic array/object and indented CRLF compatibility frames pass. Same-line pending, false labels, unfinished quotes, invalid outer wrappers, and balanced malformed recovery remain fail-closed; closed quoted prose preserves a later independent control.
• CHANGELOG and docs/product-technical-gap-baseline.md bind the exact RED/GREEN evidence.

Ready is review admission, not approval or merge readiness. Merge stays HOLD until terminal exact-head hosted Checks and a qualifying independent APPROVED review exist. No bypass, auto-merge, Force Push, destructive rebase, blind rerun, wake commit, or predecessor closure is authorized.

[seonghobae]

Exact-head COMMENT review for 2974f7a806af50bcc64be627d37182683467b61e / tree 2fd94cfb8b41056dd7c8d3e9dfb37061f8cacd79. RCA→RED→GREEN covers quoted-control false positives, quoted-delimiter false negatives, contraction and quote-adjacency identity, exact mixed backtick runs, Markdown fence compatibility, 10,000-level decoder recursion, and same-line prefix-copy complexity. Independent read-only review required three passes; all reported Critical/Important findings were converted to executable regressions, and the final pass reports none remaining with constant copied width and linear timing. Verification: normalizer 156/156; warning-fatal repository suite 5,357 passed, 10 skipped, 40 subtests; documentation contracts 30 plus 4 subtests; compileall/diff checks pass. Local coverage tools were unavailable, so no new percentage is claimed. Hosted SAST/Security/CodeQL jobs failed before steps (steps=null, logs_url=null). This is a COMMENT, not an approval. Draft / Proposed / merge HOLD remains mandatory pending fresh hosted coverage/check evidence and a qualifying independent APPROVED review.

[seonghobae]

Exact-head COMMENT review for 46229694e20228a1835b57a4f51d72e2f50f574c / tree 2e01ba68ff4d17255c3ffa77c902ec94907abd9f. RED 807fba4b845cba193126c1484b52e803315865a7 proves that controls in opening and closing Markdown fence delimiter lines were promoted as top-level authority. GREEN 705ac4a0a76d8160cc229e2b5e5a0337b7dfb2c9 keeps delimiter-line state through newline; the documentation child records the boundary and lifecycle. Verification: normalizer 158/158; warnings-fatal repository suite 5,359 passed, 10 skipped, 40 subtests; Gap contracts 7 plus 4 subtests; full Strix harness PASS; compileall/diff checks GREEN. Hosted exact-head CodeQL/Security/SAST runs produced no executable steps, and there is no qualifying approval. This is a COMMENT, not an approval. Draft / Proposed / merge HOLD remains mandatory.

[seonghobae]

Final exact-head COMMENT review for 420f631b3b8bc0bb3c8dae4d69134ce97d932e02 / tree c17f316f03ed99f70b5f85e828a01c81f27e5e49. This fast-forward child restores the complete CHANGELOG blob 04a5719bb1c1120831b731abd0d4b1358f631460 and Gap-baseline blob f041fc429c0db254db9fd8fac4d5fe0e3f9a0859 after the first Git Data publication truncated large command output; the final remote tree is byte-identical to the independently tested local tree. RED 807fba4b845cba193126c1484b52e803315865a7 and GREEN 705ac4a0a76d8160cc229e2b5e5a0337b7dfb2c9 remain unchanged. Fresh final-tree verification: warnings-fatal repository suite 5,359 passed, 10 skipped, 40 subtests; complete Strix harness PASS; diff and compile checks exit 0. Hosted CodeQL/SAST/Security exact-head runs remain zero-step/skipped failures, with no qualifying approval. This is a COMMENT, not an approval. Draft / Proposed / merge HOLD remains mandatory.

[seonghobae]

Exact-head verification review for 3ecb54b896fbf4c9b7fea1bf8749c28cc558c0cd / tree 774d64261ea72c9128c1e212ca714346bc849b52.

RCA and repair evidence:

• Root tilde delimiter controls: RED 11c9c5ca… → GREEN 02f2763f….
• Blockquote/list delimiter controls: RED 0c226a15… → GREEN 3ddd3184….
• Continuation indentation plus regex ReDoS/prefix-copy: RED f2aada37… → final GREEN e5ef765f….
• The final scanner uses a conservative fail-closed marker allowlist, evaluates one fence candidate per line, retains transparent fenced-body controls, and completes a 100,000-marker failing prefix in about 0.03 seconds.

Fresh verification:

• normalizer: 171/171
• warning-fatal repository suite: 5,372 passed, 10 skipped, 40 subtests
• Gap baseline: 7 passed plus 4 subtests
• complete Strix quick-gate: PASS
• compileall and diff check: PASS
• independent final pass: no remaining approval-evidence bypass or performance regression reproduced

Hosted exact-head runs are not passes: CodeQL 37123424136 skipped before steps; SAST 37123424140 and Security 37123424115 failed before steps, with steps=null and logs_url=null. Zero qualifying approvals remain. Keep Draft / Proposed / merge HOLD; no bypass, rerun, wake commit, or merge is justified.

[seonghobae]

Exact-head COMMENT review for 4a66f579b645bd80280fa8a73ac700f9e7cf4a33 / tree 9c507339ec6253dfb60ebad5725aa8403a4fffd2. RED on predecessor 3ecb54b8… proves default last-wins JSON decoding admitted repeated members and let a later duplicate head_sha replace stale identity before validation. GREEN applies one recursive stdlib object_pairs_hook at both pure-JSON and mixed-prose decoder boundaries and preserves the rejected artifact. Verification: normalizer 174/174; target 863 statements and 432 branches at 100% with zero partials; public-doc 100%; warning-fatal repository suite 5,375 passed, 10 skipped, 40 subtests; compileall/diff checks PASS. Independent review reports no Critical/Important/Minor finding and additionally exercises escaped-equivalent keys, nested arrays, mixed prose, Diagnostic recovery, and nested-promotion rejection. Hosted exact-head SAST 37592701515 and Security 37592701558 failed before steps; CodeQL 37592701548 skipped. Failed jobs have steps=[] and logs return 404 BlobNotFound. This is a COMMENT, not an approval. Keep Draft / Proposed / merge HOLD pending successful hosted Checks and a qualifying independent APPROVED review.

[seonghobae]

Exact-head owner repair review (COMMENT, not approval). RCA: a Markdown-backtick-quoted coverage: ... 100% warning was admitted as the last authoritative coverage label and could override an earlier fail-closed section. RED reproduced the false positive; GREEN rejects backtick-prefixed label occurrences in both backward selection and forward section termination. Offline warnings-fatal verification: complete normalizer file 175 passed; Python compilation and git diff --check passed. Exact-head hosted evidence currently contains only CodeQL PR run 37887180843, skipped. PR remains Draft / Proposed / merge HOLD pending fresh terminal required Checks and qualifying independent approval.

[seonghobae]

Exact-head publication-integrity review (COMMENT, not approval): predecessor content was correct, but remote mode 100644 did not match the verified 100755 tree/shebang contract. The mode-only repair preserved blob fedb097409eeedee1b3a640923d1d5d88f60a473; this documentation child records the gate. Focused normalizer suite: 175 passed with warnings fatal; Python compilation, executable-mode assertion, and diff check passed. Draft / Proposed / merge HOLD remains pending executable hosted exact-head Checks and qualifying approval.