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Summary

Make pytest verification evidence durable across worktrees and interruptions, with invocation-bound merge authority at both merge boundaries.

Problem

The harness could lose or misattribute pytest statistics, selection evidence, and basetemp cleanup state. It also sampled checkout state too weakly: transient source, index, HEAD, branch-ref, and watcher-startup topology changes could disappear between endpoint fingerprints. Merge-gate also accepted plausible but unbound stdout before validating the launched verifier's receipt.

Solution

  • Persist compact run history, pytest timing/outcome statistics, xdist collection facts, interruption evidence, and exact basetemp ownership in shared locked storage.
  • Admit tmpfs from measured demand, account only run-owned blocks, preserve caller-owned basetemps, and clean managed trees only after controller quiescence.
  • Bootstrap and publish testmon authority only after a stable checkout interval; unstable runs discard touched dependency state.
  • Bind merge-gate scope, release permission, terminal authorization, checkout root, exact head, and exit code to the invocation receipt. Terminal stdout is no longer authority.
  • Finalize unexpected devtools test and devtools verify runner exceptions as typed exit-125 durable records, including every already-open step.
  • Preserve expression values for pytest options such as -k and -m when runs start below the repository root.
  • Recheck watcher directory topology after watcher readiness and fail closed if a source directory changed during startup.
  • Bind post-merge terminal verification to the launched verifier's receipt, preserve interruption diagnoses alongside checkout evidence, and retain accurate scope and elapsed time for exceptional verification runs.
  • Fail closed if affected-test Git authority disappears after pytest, and make the affected test fixtures deterministic and isolated from the parent checkout.

Verification

Exact pushed head: 51a32ef4a280392298ebb1051e6d81363a851c74.

  • devtools test tests/unit/devtools/test_merge_boundary.py tests/unit/devtools/test_run_tests.py tests/unit/devtools/test_verify.py tests/unit/test_pytest_temp_policy.py: 354 selected tests, exit 0 (run 20260813T141904Z-focused-test-3375471-9f9ba297).
  • ruff check devtools/merge_boundary.py devtools/run_tests.py devtools/verify.py tests/unit/devtools/test_merge_boundary.py tests/unit/devtools/test_run_tests.py tests/unit/devtools/test_verify.py tests/unit/test_pytest_temp_policy.py: passed.
  • mypy --strict devtools/merge_boundary.py devtools/run_tests.py devtools/verify.py: Success: no issues found in 3 source files.
  • Enforced pre-push devtools verify --quick: 25 checks passed, exit 0 (run 20260813T142141Z-quick-3416222-8dee5eba), with matching initial and final checkout fingerprints.

Anti-vacuity: the terminal regression emits a valid-looking release receipt only on stdout; the actual merge-boundary invocation rejects it without its bound artifact. The interruption regression raises through run_tests.main, and the exceptional verify regression opens a real VerifyRun step before raising. The testmon guard is exercised on the production changed-path authority and the monitor fixtures create their own Git worktrees.

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All seven CodeRabbit findings published for c66671d1d0663dece927f99a0a7b2915bc40e973, plus the later artifact-propagation finding at 97bf6c75e445f6258fbcfbf0915a1001335bd477, are addressed at this exact head. Fresh Codex and CodeRabbit review are requested for 51a32ef4a280392298ebb1051e6d81363a851c74 only.

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n/a self-contained focused 354-test harness route; ruff; strict mypy; enforced quick gate n/a

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Internal test-harness reliability; no user-facing changelog entry.

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The verification harness now records checkout-bound history, aggregates durable pytest statistics, handles xdist and xfail/xpass outcomes, preserves interruption evidence, validates merge receipts, and manages basetemp ownership and cleanup with locking.

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Verification harness

Layer / File(s) Summary
History and checkout identity
TESTING.md, devtools/evidence_dashboard.py, devtools/run_tests.py, devtools/verify.py, devtools/verify_runs.py, devtools/merge_gate.py, devtools/merge_boundary.py
Verification history and merge receipts are bound to checkout roots, commits, invocation IDs, and worktree fingerprints.
Pytest evidence and outcome flow
devtools/pytest_progress_plugin.py, devtools/testmon_state.py, devtools/verify.py, devtools/verify_runs.py
Workers publish collection facts and reports. The controller aggregates statistics, deduplicates reports, and treats xfailed and xpassed as terminal outcomes.
Interruption and basetemp control
devtools/pytest_supervisor.py, devtools/verify.py, devtools/verify_runs.py
Interrupted runs verify containment before cleanup, preserve output artifacts, and track logical and allocated basetemp usage.
Managed basetemp claims and cleanup
tests/conftest.py, devtools/verify_runs.py, tests/unit/test_pytest_temp_policy.py
Managed and caller-owned basetemps use durable claims and locks. Managed test directories are reclaimed after failures and interruptions, while explicit basetemps remain.
Regression coverage and documentation
tests/unit/devtools/*, tests/unit/test_pytest_temp_policy.py, tests/integration/devtools/test_testmon_seed_recovery.py, TESTING.md
Tests and documentation cover checkout binding, receipts, statistics, interruptions, xdist aggregation, outcome classification, history persistence, and basetemp safety.

Estimated code review effort: 5 (Critical) | ~120 minutes

Mergeability Score: 🟠 High · up to c6667

The PR changes verification evidence and release authorization, but the full-verification path can still accept arbitrary command output as release-baseline authority, allowing verification to be bypassed. Additional correctness and test-isolation issues remain, so merge should be blocked until the authorization bypass and material issues are fixed.

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Please review exact head 881726603f5aa2ea649bc8d25bc725103d947cac. Focus on concurrent cross-worktree history appends, mixed record-schema rendering, event/statistics authority, interruption finalization, and exact basetemp ownership. Report only actionable defects.

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Please review exact head e50eda637e5e7c024e9634b286a90561f292861d. Focus on concurrent cross-worktree history appends, mixed record-schema rendering, event/statistics authority, interruption finalization, exact basetemp ownership, and whether the new evidence remains compact and non-duplicative. Report only actionable defects.

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# Persist history and stamp.
_save_history(history_entry)
verify_run.finish(exit_code=exit_code, duration_s=total_duration, diagnosis=pytest_diagnosis)

P2 Badge Append history on every verify finalization path

At exact head, the separate verify.main path still reaches this append only after the entire step loop: a KeyboardInterrupt from _run bypasses it, while the seed-identity and pytest-resource-preflight failures at lines 3406-3443 finalize the checkout-local run and return without appending. Those invocations therefore remain absent from the new durable cross-worktree history; move the append into a shared finalization path that also handles interruptions and early failures.

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Please review exact head 051dc2662812baf38ce40cc892bb55379d19b504. Focus on concurrent cross-worktree appends, whether compact timing/resource statistics survive worktree cleanup, mixed record-schema rendering, interruption finalization, and exact basetemp ownership. Report only actionable defects.

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Please review exact head 3032000963ae5548128b289a110ef24669204ca8. Focus on shared XDG history authority, xdist event deduplication and interruption finalization, exact basetemp ownership, terminal outcome reduction, and mixed-history comparisons. Report only actionable defects.

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if isinstance(name, str) and name not in last_steps:
last_steps[name] = {**step, "_source": "history", "_run_timestamp": entry.get("timestamp")}

P2 Badge Let newer shared history supersede the legacy cache

When .cache/last-verify-result.json exists, every gate found there is protected by this name not in last_steps condition, so newer results in the shared XDG history can never replace it. Fresh evidence at this head is that the repository has no writer for last-verify-result.json, making any legacy file permanently stale while the dashboard continues reporting its statuses instead of the new shared authority.

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Please review exact head 1b2b6bf4e86eea70785452753b5dbddc8e437995. Focus on ordinary XDG history retaining finalized compact statistics after checkout cleanup, interruption containment quiescence before cleanup or finalization, and truthful fail-closed cleanup evidence. Report only actionable defects.

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Repair history framing and per-step comparisons, preserve interrupted and\nresource-refused pytest statistics, and require full containment quiescence\nbefore cleanup.\n\nKeep explicit diagnostic basetemps operator-owned while retaining xdist\ncontroller timing summaries without duplicating event evidence.\n\nRef #3962
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Please review exact head ea0dad14ff1283af368c61dcd566938151e80b0b. Focus on explicit /dev/shm basetemp admission when declared demand exceeds the adaptive memory cap, preservation of declared-demand/headroom diagnostics, and explicit-path cleanup ownership. Report only actionable defects.

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@codex review this exact pushed head only: 4a4383c. The three tmpfs ownership/admission findings are repaired; 205 focused tests and all 25 quick checks passed at this head.

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I am addressing the two exact-head Codex threads and the two independent review findings against 4a4383c as one basetemp ownership and admission design. Scope includes preserving explicit caller ownership across pytest initialization, deterministic xdist fact aggregation, race-safe stale reclamation limited to positive managed evidence, and safe handling for unsupervised configured tmpfs routes.

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@codex review this exact pushed head only: 6125f1691adcaf4fafa9e7ac8a501f8db7b93054.

Review the coupled pytest ownership and admission repair: durable explicit claims across pytest basetemp replacement, managed-only stale cleanup with caller-claim interleaving, unmanaged configured tmpfs routing, and deterministic xdist collection aggregation. Report only actionable defects.

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if payload.get("status") != "running":
return False
owner_pid = payload.get("owner_pid")
if not isinstance(owner_pid, int) or owner_pid == os.getpid():
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return _process_alive(owner_pid)

P2 Badge Validate current-run ownership with process start identity

If a verifier is killed while current-run.json still says running and its PID is later reused by any unrelated long-lived process, this liveness check treats that process as the old verifier. Subsequent runs then refuse to update the checkout's current-run pointer, leaving dashboards and current evidence pinned to the stale interrupted run. Record and compare /proc start ticks, as the basetemp ownership code already does, rather than relying on PID existence alone.

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@codex review\n\nPlease review exact head 68fd9f6764bd4eb0b81bcac523e74d0386a6e7ea. The five unresolved ownership/evidence threads are addressed and resolved; focused harness coverage and the quick gate passed locally.

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Problem: full-suite performance work lacked a compact, durable summary of phase timing, storage allocation, worker policy, and cleanup outcomes. The raw event and resource streams existed, but repeated analysis had to rebuild those facts manually, and interrupted test commands could leave stale running receipts.

What changed: derive per-step pytest statistics with phase distributions, outcomes, fixture clone timing, apparent and allocated basetemp usage, worker counts, resource peaks, and cleanup status. Capture archive-clone metadata, finalize interrupted test runs, and retain the compact aggregate in task history. Use the structured pytest report to complete normal-run phase data when incremental hooks are incomplete.

Compatibility/migration: existing raw event/resource artifacts remain authoritative for forensics; the new statistics JSON is derived and replaceable. No test selection or runtime coverage policy changes.

Verification: devtools test --json -q tests/unit/devtools/test_pytest_progress_plugin.py tests/unit/devtools/test_verify.py (152 passed); ruff check; git diff --check.
Problem: the calm 8-worker full selection retained every failed test tmp_path and exceeded the 2 GiB tmpfs budget after 14 minutes, even though passing trees were already reclaimed.

What changed: remove each test private tmp_path at fixture teardown regardless of outcome. Failure diagnostics remain in the managed event, longrepr, selection, summary, and resource receipts; a failing node can be rerun with an explicit basetemp when filesystem evidence is needed. Remove the now-unused report-retention hook.

Compatibility/migration: tests that need a persistent artifact already write it to an explicit path or can rerun the node with a chosen basetemp. No production behavior changes.

Verification: devtools test --json -q tests/unit/test_pytest_temp_policy.py tests/unit/devtools/test_pytest_progress_plugin.py tests/unit/devtools/test_verify.py (171 passed); ruff check.
Document that per-test temporary trees are reclaimed for both passing and failing nodes, while structured failure receipts remain available and explicit basetemps can preserve a filesystem witness for a targeted rerun.
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@codex review exact head 99e2219. Please inspect the current-head authority repairs and report only actionable correctness or anti-vacuity gaps.

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P1 Badge Include Git refs in mutation authority

When a concurrent git fetch or git update-ref changes origin/master during an affected run, this blanket .git exclusion hides the mutation even though _changed_paths() uses origin/master...HEAD to enforce the zero-test anti-vacuity check. If the ref advances to include the branch's executable changes before that post-pytest check, executable_paths becomes empty, so a zero-selection run bypasses the guard and can publish a successful exact-checkout receipt; endpoint fingerprints do not include remote refs either. Monitor the refs used for verification or resolve and retain their start-time SHAs.

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Fixed in 34e9c08. The affected-test route now resolves origin/master and HEAD once, compares immutable commit IDs for both branch and worktree deltas, includes untracked executable files, fails closed on Git command errors or stderr, and rejects the final receipt if HEAD moves during verification. The 233-test focused verify/evidence suite passes.

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P1 Badge Track rename sources in executable-path authority

When an executable file is renamed out of a recognized root, such as polylogue/module.py to docs/module.py, Git's rename detection makes git diff --name-only report only the destination. _changed_executable_paths() then sees no executable change, so a zero-test testmon run bypasses the coverage guard and can publish successful verification despite removing the module. Disable rename detection for this query or parse --name-status -z and include both paths.

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Fixed in 995f7d1. Both diff probes now use --no-renames, so a production module moved outside executable roots retains its deleted source path in affected-test authority. The regression performs a real committed polylogue/ to docs/ rename and fails if rename detection is restored.

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tier = "testmon"

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P2 Badge Bound the authoritative HEAD probe

In the affected-test path, this newly mandatory HEAD lookup still uses _git_head(), whose subprocess.run has no timeout or OSError handling, unlike _git_commit() and the changed-path probes. If Git is wedged on the filesystem or the executable cannot be started, verification hangs indefinitely or escapes with a traceback instead of failing closed with exit 125; resolve HEAD through the bounded authoritative helper as well.

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Fixed in 995f7d1. _git_head now delegates to the bounded, OSError-safe authoritative commit resolver; the regression pins that delegation.

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prepared=prepared_seed_attempt,
step_results=step_results,
exit_code=exit_code,
final_head = _git_head()

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P2 Badge Observe HEAD and ref mutations throughout verification

Comparing HEAD only at the two endpoints does not invalidate transient ref movement because CheckoutMutationMonitor watches the Git index but not HEAD or its resolved loose/packed ref. A concurrent git update-ref can therefore move HEAD while a gate is running and restore it before this sample; with unchanged worktree bytes, both fingerprints and commit IDs match and an exact-head receipt is published even though a gate may have observed the transient Git authority. Monitor the worktree-specific HEAD/ref authority for the full interval rather than relying solely on this final sample.

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Fixed in 995f7d1. CheckoutMutationMonitor now resolves and watches the worktree HEAD file and current symbolic-ref authority in addition to the index. A real update-ref A→B→A regression proves transient ref movement invalidates the interval.

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pending_testmon_stamp = refreshed_stamp
assert testmon_base_commit is not None
assert testmon_head_commit is not None
executable_paths = _changed_executable_paths(testmon_base_commit, testmon_head_commit)

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P2 Badge Finalize failed changed-path probes after pytest

When any hardened Git command in _changed_executable_paths() times out, returns nonzero, or writes a warning after pytest has completed, it raises PytestResourceError here outside the earlier preflight handler. The exception bypasses mutation_monitor.finish(), final fingerprinting, history/receipt finalization, and _discard_testmon_dependency_authority() even though the affected run has already touched the testmon graph; catch this post-pytest authority failure or finalize it through the normal exit-125 cleanup path.

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Fixed in 995f7d1. Post-pytest changed-path probe failures are reduced to a typed exit-125 step, the mutation monitor always finalizes, and any touched testmon dependency graph is discarded. The regression asserts finalization and discard.

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for authority_path in self._git_authority_paths:
if authority_path.parent not in directories:
directories.append(authority_path.parent)

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P1 Badge Watch an existing ancestor for packed branch refs

When the current branch is nested and its ref has been packed, such as feature/foo after git pack-refs --all --prune, the resolved loose path is .git/refs/heads/feature/foo but its parent directory no longer exists. Adding that nonexistent parent to watchfiles.watch() makes monitor startup unavailable, so every verification—including the pre-push quick gate—fails closed with exit 125. Watch an existing ancestor and invalidate on creation below it, or explicitly monitor the packed-ref authority.

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Fixed in c0f0c3d. The monitor now watches the nearest existing ancestor of each Git authority path, treats creation of a missing descendant path as an authority mutation, and watches packed-refs itself. A real packed nested branch regression moves packed authority back into a loose ref and proves invalidation.

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["git", "diff", "--no-renames", "--name-only", head_commit, "--"],
["git", "diff", "--no-renames", "--name-only", f"{base_commit}...{head_commit}", "--"],

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P2 Badge Parse changed paths without Git quoting

When an executable path contains a non-ASCII character or newline, git diff --name-only applies Git's quoting—for example polylogue/café.py is emitted as "polylogue/caf\303\251.py". The subsequent root check therefore misses the path, so a zero-test testmon run can bypass the executable-change guard, including for a rename out of polylogue/. Request NUL-delimited output and parse raw path records for all three probes.

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Fixed in c0f0c3d. All diff and untracked probes now request NUL-delimited raw bytes and decode each path with os.fsdecode. The regression changes a real polylogue/café.py path and fails under quoted line parsing.

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_default_testmon_is_broad_change(testmon_base_commit, testmon_head_commit)
if testmon_base_commit is not None and testmon_head_commit is not None

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P2 Badge Start monitoring before broad-change classification

When an uncommitted broad-change file such as pyproject.toml is temporarily restored to HEAD during this probe and changed back before mutation_monitor.start(), the endpoint fingerprints still match and no interval event is observed. This can make build_verify_steps() choose narrow testmon selection for a checkout that requires the broad route; if that narrow run selects at least one test, the zero-selection guard does not catch the under-selection and an exact-head receipt can be published. Fresh evidence beyond the earlier endpoint-monitoring repair is that this authority-dependent classification still executes before watcher readiness.

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Fixed in c0f0c3d. CheckoutMutationMonitor starts before the initial fingerprint and before build_verify_steps evaluates broad-change authority. The ordering regression fails unless watcher readiness precedes classification.

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for command in (
["git", "status", "--porcelain=v1", "-z", "--untracked-files=all"],
["git", "diff", "--binary", "HEAD", "--"],

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P2 Badge Reject hidden tracked changes in checkout authority

When a tracked executable file is marked assume-unchanged (for example with git update-index --assume-unchanged polylogue/a.py) and then edited before verification, both git status and git diff HEAD omit the modification. The changed-path probes omit it for the same reason, and because no write occurs during the monitored interval, verification can publish an exact-head receipt for source bytes that differ from HEAD while bypassing the zero-selection guard. Detect these index flags and fail closed, or fingerprint tracked worktree content independently of Git's change-skipping flags.

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Fixed in c0f0c3d. Worktree fingerprinting now inspects raw git ls-files -v records and refuses assume-unchanged or skip-worktree authority before trusting status/diff. The regression edits a real assume-unchanged production path and requires an unavailable fingerprint.

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@codex review exact pushed head c0f0c3d. Please review packed/loose ref interval coverage, raw NUL-delimited changed paths, watcher startup ordering, and hidden tracked-content flags. Report only actionable defects.

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digest = hashlib.sha256()
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P2 Badge Reject fsmonitor-valid tracked paths

When core.fsmonitor is enabled and a tracked file has the fsmonitor-valid bit, a stale or faulty hook can omit an edited file from both git status and git diff HEAD; git ls-files -v still reports that path as H, so this check accepts a clean fingerprint and verification can publish exact-head evidence for modified source bytes. Inspect the fsmonitor-valid flag as well (Git exposes it via git ls-files -f) or hash tracked content independently.

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symbolic_result = self._git_command(
["symbolic-ref", "--quiet", "HEAD"],
allowed_returncodes=frozenset({0, 1}),
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P2 Badge Stabilize symbolic-ref authority before watcher readiness

When HEAD switches from branch A to branch B at the same commit while _watched_directories() is resolving this symbolic ref but before watchfiles becomes ready, the monitor can retain A as its authority path while HEAD remains on B. Subsequent transient updates to B are ignored as generic .git traffic, and because both branches can finish at the same commit, the endpoint HEAD comparison also passes; re-resolve and compare the symbolic authority after watcher readiness, or treat writes throughout the relevant refs namespace as authority mutations.

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raise PytestResourceError("testmon changed-path authority is unavailable") from exc
if result.returncode != 0 or result.stderr.strip():
raise PytestResourceError("testmon changed-path authority is unavailable")
changed.update(os.fsdecode(raw_path) for raw_path in result.stdout.split(b"\0") if raw_path)

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P2 Badge Escape non-UTF-8 Git paths before writing evidence

When an executable filename contains an invalid UTF-8 byte, os.fsdecode() preserves it as a surrogate; after an affected run selects tests, that string is placed in the pending coverage identity and _atomic_write_json(... ensure_ascii=False) raises UnicodeEncodeError while publishing the successful result. Fresh evidence beyond the NUL-delimited parsing fix is that Git path records are arbitrary bytes, not necessarily UTF-8; retain a byte-safe representation or escape surrogates before storing paths in JSON.

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return "unavailable"
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P2 Badge Disable text conversion in exact worktree fingerprints

When a local diff driver defines a textconv filter that maps two working-file versions to the same output, this git diff --binary HEAD probe can emit no patch while status contributes the same modified-path record for both versions. The resulting fingerprint collision lets a receipt or zero-selection coverage record from one dirty source version authorize another; Git documents these external conversion filters for diff output in the git-diff documentation, so disable text conversion or hash tracked working-tree bytes directly.

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cwd=ROOT,
env={**os.environ, "GIT_OPTIONAL_LOCKS": "0"},

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P2 Badge Disable replacement refs in immutable path probes

When a loose refs/replace/<object> is retargeted while broad-change or post-pytest path classification runs and then restored, git diff can return paths from the replacement history even though both commit arguments are pinned SHAs. The watcher ignores the loose replacement-ref namespace and the endpoint fingerprints can match, so an affected run may under-select tests and still publish exact-head evidence; Git documents replacement refs as transparent to most commands in git-replace, so set GIT_NO_REPLACE_OBJECTS=1 for authority probes or monitor this namespace.

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@codex review exact pushed head 2579dc67b8b9899d35a34a8214ab1540b7409e96. The prior independent review gaps are repaired: tracked descendants override disposable-directory pruning, both runners start interval monitoring before the first fingerprint, and runner-level try/finally finalizes monitors on exceptional exits. Please report only actionable defects.

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except OSError as exc:
print(f"REFUSING to record: could not run {command!r}: {exc}", file=sys.stderr)
return 2
verification_receipt = _structured_verification_receipt(result.stdout) or _invocation_receipt(

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P1 Badge Require invocation validation for stdout receipts

When --command invokes a wrapper that leaves any JSON object at the end of stdout, this or selects it before _invocation_receipt(), so its invocation ID, checkout root, head SHA, and exit code are never validated. A wrapper can therefore exit successfully while emitting a stale payload with verification_scope and release_baseline_allowed=true, and cmd_check() will accept the resulting receipt for the current head even though the launched verifier produced no matching authority; validate stdout payloads with the same invocation-bound checks instead of bypassing them.

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with self._state_lock:
self._unavailable = True

for current, child_directories, _files in os.walk(self.root, onerror=walk_error):

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P2 Badge Stabilize the directory snapshot before declaring readiness

If a source directory is absent while this pre-watch os.walk() scans its parent and is restored before watchfiles.watch() initializes, the restored directory is omitted without an error or event. Because all watches are non-recursive, later transient edits to existing files inside that directory are invisible, and restoring those files before the final fingerprint allows an exact-checkout receipt to pass; revalidate the directory topology after watcher readiness or otherwise cover directories created during initialization.

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if argument.startswith("-"):
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P2 Badge Preserve values belonging to non-path pytest options

When devtools test is invoked from a subdirectory and a -k or -m value happens to name an existing file or directory—for example, cd tests && devtools test -k unit—this branch appends the option without marking its following value, so the next iteration rewrites unit as the path tests/unit. python -m pytest --help defines these arguments as -k EXPRESSION and -m MARKEXPR, so pytest receives an invalid or semantically different expression; track value-taking non-path options so only positional collection targets are anchored.

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Require merge-gate authority from the invocation-bound receipt, finalize unexpected verification runner failures as typed exit-125 history, preserve pytest expression values, and reject topology drift during watcher startup.
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Comment thread devtools/verify.py
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diagnosis=diagnosis,
verification_scope=VerificationScope.AFFECTED.value,
release_baseline_allowed=False,
final_worktree_fingerprint=final_worktree_fingerprint,

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P1 Badge Discard testmon authority on runner exceptions

When an unexpected exception occurs after an affected pytest process has started modifying the testmon database—for example, during post-subprocess artifact aggregation—this finalizer records a typed exit-125 failure but leaves the partially updated dependency graph and seed sidecars reusable. A later affected run can therefore under-select tests using state learned by a run that never completed authority validation; call _discard_testmon_dependency_authority() on this exception path before publishing the failed result.

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_NON_PATH_VALUE_OPTIONS = frozenset(
{
"-k",
"--keyword",
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P2 Badge Preserve values for all standard pytest options

When a separated value for an omitted value-taking option names an existing path, this finite whitelist still rewrites the value as a collection target. For example, python -m pytest --help declares --junitprefix, --junit-prefix=str, but from tests/, devtools test --junit-prefix unit -k foo changes the valid prefix unit to tests/unit because that directory exists; other standard options such as logging formats have the same problem. Determine option arity comprehensively rather than protecting only this subset.

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receipt = structured if isinstance(structured, dict) else None
release_allowed = merge_gate._release_baseline_permission(receipt)
verification_scope = merge_gate._verification_scope(receipt)
terminal_authorization = merge_gate._terminal_authorization(receipt)
verified_head = structured.get("git_head") if isinstance(structured, dict) else None

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P1 Badge Bind terminal verification receipts to their invocation

When record-full-verify --command runs a wrapper that emits a stale successful JSON object for the same target SHA, this path still trusts that stdout directly and can mark the merge train's terminal verification accepted even if the verifier launched for this invocation produced no evidence. Fresh evidence after the per-PR receipt repair is that this terminal ledger path neither supplies an invocation ID/artifact path nor validates the parsed object against them; use the same invocation-bound receipt protocol before clearing pending PRs.

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1936-1943: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Initialize each Git fixture in tmp_path.

These commands currently operate in the test process working directory. The checkout passed to CheckoutMutationMonitor(tmp_path) then has no Git metadata. Line 1941 also tries to add tracked.py from the wrong directory.

  • tests/unit/devtools/test_verify.py#L1936-L1943: pass cwd=tmp_path to every Git command in this fixture.
  • tests/unit/devtools/test_verify.py#L1997-L1997: initialize the repository with cwd=tmp_path.
  • tests/unit/devtools/test_verify.py#L2042-L2042: initialize the repository with cwd=tmp_path.
  • tests/unit/devtools/test_verify.py#L2144-L2144: initialize the repository with cwd=tmp_path.
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In `@tests/unit/devtools/test_verify.py` around lines 1936 - 1943, Update the Git
fixture commands in tests/unit/devtools/test_verify.py:1936-1943 to pass
cwd=tmp_path to every subprocess.run call, including the add command; also pass
cwd=tmp_path to the repository-initialization commands at
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Inline comments:
In `@devtools/merge_boundary.py`:
- Around line 818-826: Update cmd_record_full_verify and its terminal
authorization flow to stop using result.stdout as verification authority; export
the verification invocation environment, provide a temporary receipt path, and
validate the invocation-bound receipt via merge_gate._invocation_receipt against
the invocation id, target_sha, and process exit code before calling
_release_baseline_permission, _verification_scope, or _terminal_authorization.
Preserve the existing terminal verification behavior while ensuring --command
output alone cannot set accepted.

In `@devtools/run_tests.py`:
- Around line 318-364: Preserve the pytest_interrupted diagnosis set by the
KeyboardInterrupt handler in the post-run checkout verification block. When rc
is 130, do not replace metadata["diagnosis"] with
checkout_fingerprint_unavailable or checkout_changed_during_focused_test; record
any checkout finding in a separate metadata field instead, while retaining the
existing behavior for other results.

In `@devtools/verify.py`:
- Around line 4070-4096: Update _finalize_verify_runner_exception to use the
actual run duration and resolved verification scope instead of duration_s=0.0
and VerificationScope.AFFECTED.value. Store the run start time and resolved tier
scope alongside _ACTIVE_VERIFY_RUN, then pass those values into the exception
finalization path so --quick, --all, and other tiers produce accurate durable
receipts.
- Around line 3716-3719: Replace the assert-based commit checks in the testmon
execution path with an explicit fail-closed guard matching the existing pre-run
check behavior, returning or stopping safely when testmon_base_commit or
testmon_head_commit is missing before calling _changed_executable_paths. Keep
the normal path unchanged when both commit values are present.

In `@tests/unit/devtools/test_merge_boundary.py`:
- Around line 97-113: Update the cwd handling in the test’s receipt-writing
setup to accept Path values as well as strings, deriving checkout_root from any
provided cwd and falling back to Path.cwd() only when cwd is absent or
unsupported. Preserve the existing receipt fields and ensure the received Path
is used so the checkout-root binding is genuinely asserted.

In `@tests/unit/devtools/test_run_tests.py`:
- Around line 140-157: Update
test_main_preserves_relative_selection_from_subdirectory and
test_main_preserves_path_valued_options_from_subdirectory to stub
worktree_fingerprint and CheckoutMutationMonitor, matching the existing setup in
the neighboring tests around lines 301-302. Keep the stubs deterministic so
run_tests.main returns 0 without real repository fingerprinting or watcher
activity.

In `@tests/unit/test_pytest_temp_policy.py`:
- Around line 452-454: Remove the duplicated monkeypatch.setattr call for
_ACTIVE_PYTEST_BASETEMPS in the test setup, retaining a single reset alongside
the _ACTIVE_PYTEST_SCOPES reset.

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Outside diff comments:
In `@tests/unit/devtools/test_verify.py`:
- Around line 1936-1943: Update the Git fixture commands in
tests/unit/devtools/test_verify.py:1936-1943 to pass cwd=tmp_path to every
subprocess.run call, including the add command; also pass cwd=tmp_path to the
repository-initialization commands at tests/unit/devtools/test_verify.py:1997,
:2042, and :2144. Ensure each repository is initialized and populated within the
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@Sinity I found one actionable defect in commit 97bf6c75e445f6258fbcfbf0915a1001335bd477.

  • Line 382: checkout_diagnosis is added only after run.finish() writes the run artifact, current-run.json, and the invocation receipt. For an interrupted focused run (rc == 130) with an unavailable or changed checkout, shared history and --json output include checkout_diagnosis, but all durable VerifyRun artifacts omit it. This makes the receipt describe only pytest_interrupted and hides the exact-checkout invalidation from receipt consumers. Add checkout_diagnosis to VerifyRun.finish() before self.write(), then pass it from devtools/run_tests.py. Add a regression test that compares history, run.json, current-run.json, and an invocation receipt for an interrupted run with a checkout change.

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Codex Review: Didn't find any major issues. More of your lovely PRs please.

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@Sinity No actionable defects found in exact head 51a32ef4a280392298ebb1051e6d81363a851c74.

The revision persists checkout_diagnosis before VerifyRun.write() updates run.json, current-run.json, and the invocation receipt. The new regression test covers all four durable representations, including shared history.


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Codex Review: Didn't find any major issues. Delightful!

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Sinity merged commit 419a6ae into master Aug 13, 2026
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