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Stacked on #214 (lane/tests-rows). GitHub shows #214's diff here as well until #214 merges; the
commits that belong to this PR are the five below its merge commit.

Three items from the output/routing loop's §6 list, one commit each: A3 (one absolute root per change
report), A5 (--situ's disclosures become attributes), L-D (--situ lists a changed file's lexical
siblings).

1. A3 — a runner command pasted the whole checkout prefix on every row that had one

The defect. A change report states its absolute root once, in the envelope, and every path below it is
relative to that root — test/rootrelemitcheck.sh ARM 1/2/5 already prove that, and it is what makes the
document independent of where the tree is checked out. One emitter never joined: testmap.h's spell(),
which builds the run= command, pasted diskPath() verbatim. On an absolute root --test-gate printed the
checkout prefix three times (the root= anchor, next=, and every <t> row's run=) and --situ once per
runnable test line — a per-ROW cost against a per-DOCUMENT fact. The sweep could not see it: test/fixture
holds no runner script at all, so every test row there reads run_unknown="1" and the one emitter that
pastes a PATH INSIDE A COMMAND was never exercised.

The change. TestRunnerIndex takes the run's crawl root and spells the command through the same
rw::sarif::rootRelativeUri every p= beside it uses; the hand-rolled leading-./ strip becomes that one
call. The root is passed at all fourteen construction sites, so the twelve emitters sharing the index cannot
disagree. A multi-root run, whose disk path is under no single root, keeps the absolute command — an
unrelativizable command must stay pasteable rather than become relative to a root that does not contain it.
The rule is stated where it is consumed: kRunHintLegendClause gains "A run= command is relative to root."
(27 B, rows-gated like the rest of that clause) and --situ's [2] header says "a (run: …) is relative to
root:".

2. A5 — --situ's disclosures are attributes

The defect. --situ is the only report with no XML root to hang attributes on, so every disclosure it
owed was a sentence, and the sentences grew: floor clause 601 B, decl/def partner header 228 B,
tests-to-run header 267 B, script-gate caveat 158 B. That is ~800 B of prose per call carrying facts a
reader can only act on once they are named.

The change. Each becomes an attribute line, spelled as the XML/JSON dialects already spell the same
fact, so the three share one vocabulary:

line before after attributes
floor clause 601 B 198 B counts_floor=1 graph_ambiguous= graph_unresolved= graph_unindexed=
decl/def partner header 228 B 134 B not_dependents=1
[1] header −55 B prcontext_cap=20
[2] header 267 B 220 B order=evidence (the attribute --affected's root already carries)
script-gate caveat 158 B 132 B script_gates_unmodelled= (the counter --affected publishes)

Nothing is dropped. Every floor, cap and caveat survives, and the two readings with no attribute form — how
to read a zero, and what [changed]/[partner]/hops mean on a row — stay as the shortest sentence that
defines them.

3. L-D — --situ lists a changed file's lexical siblings

The gap. The files that move WITH a changed file are its neighbours by name, and the caller walk reaches
none of them: a header does not call the source that implements it, an .inl is not indexed by any grammar
in any build, and a harness the graph cannot link is reached by nothing. Two answers on the frozen
30-question set were incomplete for exactly that reason.

The change. Section [1] lists them under the decl/def partners and the floor clause:

        lexical siblings (3) not_dependents=1 — same directory and stem as a changed file (header/impl partner, test, .inl); static, not a graph result:
        core/widget.h
        core/widget.inl
        core/widget_test.cc

Same directory, and the same filename stem or the stem-partner convention testmap.h already owns
(<stem>_test, test_<stem>, <Stem>Test, _unittest, _spec). Same directory is load-bearing: a
same-stem file in another directory is a namesake, and listing namesakes would make the block noise on
exactly the large trees it is for. The candidate population is the CRAWL's, not the index's, so the
.inl/.ipp/.tcc partner a C++ change most often has to edit is named; the crawl's unsupported-extension
ROW list is itself capped, which is the one way this list can be short of the truth, and that is disclosed as
unindexed_rows_floor=1. Capped at 8 with shown=/total=/capped=1 and a pasteable next:, raisable
with --limit. Additive to the decl/def partners above it — suppressing the overlap was tried and reverted,
because it removed widget.h from "the siblings of widget.cc" to save about 20 B. The MCP
situational_awareness twin carries the same list as siblings with siblings_total.

Measured

wc -c, same warm cache, same commit, absolute root. --situ on this repo is unchanged by A3 (no test row
here has a runner) and unchanged by L-D (every source file is a lone .h, so no file has a lexical sibling).

corpus verb before A3 A5 L-D
this repo (root 132 chars) --test-gate=src/testmap.h 5,327 5,100 5,100 5,100
--situ=src/situ.h 2,320 2,320 1,836 1,836
--situ=src/testmap.h 2,302 2,302 1,818 1,818
--affected=src/testmap.h 2,238 2,238 2,238 2,238
RocksDB @0e2801ac (root 66) --test-gate=db/write_batch.cc 9,793 9,696 9,696 9,696
--situ=db/write_batch.cc 7,445 7,412 6,781 6,967
--affected=db/write_batch.cc 6,971 6,941 6,941 6,941
  • A3 saves one root spelling per echo less the 27 B legend clause, so it grows with checkout depth and
    with how many rows have a runner: −227 B on this repo's --test-gate (2 echoes × 132 chars), −97 B on
    RocksDB's.
  • A5 saves 484 B per --situ answer on this repo and 631 B on RocksDB — below the ~800 B the byte
    attribution predicted, because that prediction assumed the gauge names could go unglossed and they carry a
    four-word gloss here instead. Said plainly: the item under-delivers by about 20%.
  • L-D costs what it lists: +186 B on RocksDB's --situ=db/write_batch.cc, a one-row block naming
    db/write_batch_test.cc — which no other section of that report reaches. The design predicted +876 B per
    S2 answer; our rule is stricter than the one it simulated (exact stem plus the test-partner affixes, not a
    shared stem TOKEN), so it lists fewer files and costs less. Whether the stricter rule still completes q14
    and q18 is for the re-measure, not this PR: no completeness claim is made here.

Gates

gate result
test/rootrelemitcheck.sh (new ARM 9) ALL PASS
test/situshapecheck.sh (new) ALL PASS
test/runhintcheck.sh (pins moved) ALL PASS
test/floormarkcheck.sh ALL PASS
full suite python3 test/pargates.py . ./build/ripwire -j 6 gates=628 pass=624 skip=2 fail=2 — see the note below
./build/ripwire . --quality-delta gating="0"
--quality-delta=<merge-base>..HEAD gating="0" after nine acks by symbol
ASan (RIPWIRE_ASAN=ON, LSan suppressions) clean on both fixtures, --situ/--test-gate XML+JSON/--affected/--exercises/--pr-context/--handoff/--pack-task and the MCP twin
determinism + xmllint --noout clean on every changed verb

The two suite failures are environmental and both were re-run green on their own:
versioncheck read built_from=<older sha>+dirty from a binary built before the last (test-only) commit —
green after a rebuild; strkerncheck hit its declared 300 s budget (rc=124) while four gate suites were
running on this machine at load average 64, and passes standalone in full (strkerncheck: PASS, including
the Rosetta-2 x86_64/AVX2 mirror arms). The two skips are the documented environmental pair,
argvdiffcheck and editchecknotecheck (no RIPWIRE_BASE binary).

Red first, in order:

  • ARM 9 on the unchanged binary: 8 FAIL rows — test-gate 3 absolute-path leaks of 4 occurrences, situ 2
    of 3, affected 2 of 3, exercises 1 of 2, plus the run= runnability and --situ disclosure rows. The
    arm builds its own fixture with a real runner script (mention evidence) at two checkout depths and, beyond
    the leak count, EXECUTES the printed run= from the declared root — a relative command that cannot be
    pasted would be worse than an absolute one.
  • situshapecheck arms (1)–(6) on the pre-A5 binary: 10 FAIL rows (floor line 601 B over its 200 B ratchet,
    partner header 228 over 140, [2] 267 over 230, and the four missing attributes).
  • situshapecheck arms (7)–(7d) on the pre-L-D binary: 4 FAIL rows. The fixture is a
    .h/.cc/_test.cc/.inl quadruple, a same-stem DECOY in another directory and a same-directory
    different-stem file (both must be absent from the block), a nine-sibling stem for the cap and for
    --limit's relief, a no-git copy of the same tree proving the block is static (which is also why it cannot
    leak), and the MCP twin agreeing row for row.

--quality-delta over the lane also reported a duplication finding (situDirOf was a 44-token copy of
siblift.h's dirOf) and a 6-parameter new symbol; both were fixed rather than acked, in their own commit.

Pins moved

  • test/runhintcheck.sh — the arm that pinned run= to "the root spelling the caller passed" now asserts
    the absolute and the relative scan print the SAME command, and that it runs from the root. Nine expected
    values lose the $R/$ROOT prefix. This is the contract change, stated.
  • test/printf_parity.manifestpack_task only (the legend clause). 41 of 42 verbs byte-unchanged.
  • test/rootrelemitcheck.sh ARM 6 — the --situ row extraction: the section's closing disclosure is now an
    attribute line rather than a parenthesised sentence, and a row path never contains =.
  • Gate count 612 → 614 (situshapecheck here, forwidencheck from the merge), regenerated by
    docs/gatecount_build.py; docs/LIMITS.md and docs/TUNING.md regenerated for the new row cap.
  • .ripwire_quality_acks — nine rows, one reason, acked by SYMBOL: TestRunnerIndex's new root parameter
    and the eight sites that pass it.

No legend byte pin moved: the run-hint clause grew 27 B and every budget gate
(testgatelegendbudgetcheck, legendcostcheck, legendcoveragecheck, compactlegendcheck) stayed green.


Fable review round (2026-09-13)

A second review of the three sections above raised ten findings; all ten are fixed here, red-first, plus
one lifetime bug the gates caught on the way. Four commits: the fixes, the merge of origin/main, the
help_all parity re-pin the merge conflict needed, and the ack ledger.

1. The relativity claim was unconditional; the spelling is not. A MULTI-root run declares no root=
and (correctly) keeps the absolute command, yet the run-hint clause told its reader the command was
relative to a root the document never names. The spelling and the sentence now answer to ONE predicate,
testmap.h runsAreRootRelative( ing, root ), read by the TestRunnerIndex and by all eight legend sites.
Gate: rootrelemitcheck ARM 9c pins both halves against each other; runhintcheck 2d is the --affected
twin.

2. rootRelativeUri returned on the leading ./ before it tried the root prefix. Right for the root
., wrong for every other relative spelling: ripwire ./corp stores ./corp/test/x.sh, the early return
yielded corp/test/x.sh, and pasting that from the declared root is cd ./corp && bash corp/test/x.sh
rc 127. Both sides now drop the optional ./ first and compare what is left; the root . case stays
byte-identical. Gate: rootrelemitcheck ARM 9b is a matrix — ., corp, ./corp, corp/, an absolute
path and a symlink print the SAME command, and each printed command is EXECUTED from the root it names.

3. --flags --flip emitted root-relative p= and declared no root. <flip> now carries root= with
the one sentence that defines it, single-root only. Gate: rootrelemitcheck ARM 9d on test/flagsfix at
two checkout depths — no absolute path outside the one envelope anchor, and byte-identical documents.

4. The MCP edit receipt had relative file/run/next: and no root. It is the surface that hands a
caller a command to PASTE. It now carries "root", single-root only, like its JSON siblings. Gate:
receiptpostcheck (18); receiptpostcheck (13) already proves the MCP receipt and the CLI receipt agree
key for key, so the twin got it in the same change.

5. --help still said run= is "spelled with the same root you scanned". Not true since A3. --help
and the regenerated docs/COMMANDS.md now say what the code does, including the multi-root exception.

6. The sibling block paged with section [1]'s --offset. --situ=F --offset=20 printed
shown=0 total=9 capped=1 with a next: offering --limit=9 — relief that cannot restore rows an OFFSET
removed — and --offset=7 dropped six rows silently. It is a small fixed block with a cap, like the
decl/def rows above it: cap and --limit, no offset. Gate: situshapecheck (9).

7. unindexed_rows_floor did not ride the EMPTY case. The floor was computed only for a non-empty list
and the emitter suppressed the empty one, so a crawl cut that removed the only candidate printed nothing at
all — the silent zero METHODOLOGY §9 forbids. The floor is a property of the CANDIDATE LIST, so it is
recorded whenever that list was short and the block speaks at zero, in both dialects. Gate: situshapecheck
(10), on a 700-.inl fixture that really does cut the crawl's 500-row unsupported list (the arm asserts the
premise first), with the not-cut mirror and the MCP twin.

8. An attribute without a reading is a token, not a disclosure. A5 took four readings out with the four
sentences: the floor's CAUSE (call edges are name-based), what an unindexed file IS, which header the
resolver gauges come from, and whose cap prcontext_cap= is. --situ is the one dialect with no legend to
look a name up in — it refuses --legend=compact — so each gauge keeps a short gloss. Gate:
situshapecheck (8) asserts the READING, not the token.

9. Two gate self-checks were wrong the same way the code was. An empty run= made eval "" succeed, so
runhintcheck's execution arm passed on the one outcome it exists to forbid; rootrelemitcheck ARM 9's
empty-next= case fell out of an if/elif chain printing neither PASS nor FAIL. Each now reds on that
outcome. The CHANGELOG and situshapecheck's header also carried DIFFERENT before-bytes for two of the
compressed lines (228/158 against 229/152); both now carry the gate's own measurement on one corpus.

10. The MCP siblings_total was the length of the array beside it — a tautology. The payload serves
every row, so the honest form is the pair: a population and an explicit siblings_capped (emitted, never
omitted). situStemOf was a fourth spelling of stripExt( baseNameOf( p ) ); one mention.h pathStem
serves all four sites now. Gate: situshapecheck (11) reads the twin's two numbers against the CLI's own
total.

Plus a dangling string_view the gates found. runHintClauseIfRows now BUILDS its clause (the root
sentence is conditional), and PackTaskHeaderParts holds views — binding runClause straight to the
returned temporary read freed memory. It showed as packtaskcheck reporting a bundle that was both
malformed and non-deterministic (two runs, two sha256s) and xmlwellformed red on --pack-task --json.
The clause is owned by a named local now, like report and droppedPositiveAttr beside it.

Measured

wc -c, this lane's base binary (6621370f, the tip of #214 it is stacked on) against this one over the
SAME tree, so the pair carries all three sections above together:

corpus verb base now
this repo (root 131 chars) --situ=src/graph.h 4,448 B 2,955 B
this repo --situ=src/situ.h 2,332 B 2,040 B
this repo --situ=src/testmap.h 2,325 B 2,033 B
this repo --test-gate=src/testmap.h 5,455 B 5,247 B
RocksDB @0e2801ac (root 66) --situ=db/write_batch.cc 7,489 B 7,376 B
RocksDB --test-gate=db/write_batch.cc 9,946 B 9,868 B
RocksDB --affected=db/write_batch.cc 7,124 B 7,113 B

The four compressed lines, by situshapecheck's own ${#line} on this repo at --situ=src/graph.h (the
partner header on the gate's fixture, since this repo has no decl/def partner for graph.h): 601 → 344,
228 → 209, 233 → 220, 167 → 132 — 1,229 → 905 B. These supersede §2's table above, which quoted
198/134 for the first two lines (measured before the readings were restored) and a 267/158 before-pair
from a different corpus than the gate's.

The sibling block's own cost is its own rendered lines: 276 B on RocksDB at --situ=db/write_batch.cc
(a 244 B header and one 30 B row naming db/write_batch_test.cc, which no other section of that report
reaches) — superseding §3's +186.

Red first

  • situshapecheck against the base binary (6621370f): 17 FAIL rows — floor line 601 B over its
    ratchet, partner header 228 B, [2] header 233 B, the four missing attributes, the whole sibling block
    (7)/(7b)/(7c)/(7d), the offset arm's premise, both silent-zero arms (10) and the MCP twin arm (11).
  • receiptpostcheck (18), rootrelemitcheck ARM 9b/9c/9d and runhintcheck 2c/2d are red there too.
  • The eval "" and empty-next= arms were shown red by construction: they print FAIL on an empty command
    where they used to print PASS (or nothing at all).

Pins moved this round

  • test/testgatelegendbudgetcheck.sh 3,000 → 3,070 B, for the 56 B conditional root sentence. Measured on
    its own src/model.h fixture: 2,957 → 3,013 B; 3,070 leaves ~57 B, the same posture as every pin in that
    file's history. (This supersedes the old body's "no legend byte pin moved", which was true of the 27 B
    first draft of the sentence.)
  • test/situshapecheck.sh byte ratchets: floor 200 → 360, partner header 140 → 220 — the restored readings.
    A ratchet that forbids a disclosure is aimed at the wrong thing.
  • test/printf_parity.manifest: pack_task (the legend clause) and help_all (the --help paragraph,
    plus docs(readme): the reference guide, verified against a 0.6.0 build #217's reference-guide text from the origin/main merge). The merge conflicted on help_all and
    NEITHER side was the answer — the merged binary's own hash is, regenerated after a --clean-first build.
  • docs/LIMITS.md regenerated (siblings_capped joins src/mcpverbs.h's disclosures). Gate count
    unchanged at 614 — no new gate file, four extended ones.
  • .ripwire_quality_acks: three rows, one reason, acked by SYMBOL (prLegendText, writeFlipHeader,
    runsAreRootRelative). --quality-delta=0e3573af..HEAD reads gating="0"; the default
    HEAD-vs-worktree delta reads gating="0" with no acks at all.

Suite

python3 test/pargates.py . ./build/ripwire -j 6 on the merged head, after a --clean-first rebuild of
both trees: gates=628 pass=625 skip=2 fail=1 wall=1154.6s. The two skips are the environmental pair
(argvdiffcheck, editchecknotecheck — both want a reference binary this run has none for). The one
failure is strkerncheck rc=124, a 300 s timeout with two other lanes' full suites running on the same
machine; alone on the same binary it is strkerncheck: PASS (rc 0, every AVX2/NEON mirror arm green).
An earlier run of the same suite caught three real things, all fixed in the commits above: the pack_task
dangling view (packtaskcheck, xmlwellformed), the --test-gate legend budget (re-pinned), and two
generated cap numbers this PR's own new cap had left stale (readmedriftcheck (L2), capsweepcheck (C)).

ASan/LSan (-fsanitize=address,undefined,integer,..., -fno-sanitize-recover=all, committed
lsan_suppressions.txt) on everything this round touches: situshapecheck, receiptpostcheck and
runhintcheck under RIPWIRE_BIN=asan/ripwire all ALL PASS with no sanitizer output, and direct runs of
--situ, --flags --flip and the MCP situational_awareness twin are clean (rc 0, empty stderr).
--quality-delta at the default (HEAD vs worktree) reads gating="0" with no acks.

That suite ran at b736c4ea. The head moved once after it, to d82248cc, for a second merge of
origin/main (#221) that touches CHANGELOG.md and nothing else — both Unreleased entries kept, and the
cap-inventory number reconciled in this PR's entry (the reference-guide entry records 210; this PR's own
sibling-row cap makes it 211). Re-run on that head: versioncheck, manifestcheck, gatecountcheck,
limitstablecheck, readmedriftcheck and capsweepcheck — all ALL PASS — and --quality-delta at the
default reads gating="0".

Rebased onto main @ c1915d21 (#218)

Merged origin/main again after #218 (lane/agent-knowhow) landed. Two conflicts, both resolved as a
UNION rather than a side: test/regression.sh's gate loop (theirs adds agentsurfacecheck, ours adds
situshapecheck — 615 names now, and docs/gatecount_build.py regenerated the eight marked sites to say
615), and CHANGELOG.md's [Unreleased] (both entries kept). docs/limits_build.py --check clean at 211
caps. Both trees rebuilt --clean-first.

Full suite on that head, foreground: gates=629 pass=627 skip=2 fail=0 wall=938.0s — the only skips are
the environmental pair (argvdiffcheck, editchecknotecheck), and strkerncheck passes in-suite this
time now that the machine is not running three suites at once. The coordinator's named set was run first
and is green: situshapecheck, rootrelemitcheck, runhintcheck, receiptpostcheck, testrowruncheck,
agentsurfacecheck (new on main), versioncheck, plus printffmtparitycheck (no re-pin needed — main's
help edits and ours produce the hash already committed). --quality-delta=c1915d21..HEAD reads
gating="0".

origin/lane/tests-rows was deliberately NOT merged in this round: #214 is about to push a new head and
the coordinator will call it.

Merged #214's final head (507cdb6d)

origin/lane/tests-rows merged at its final head. Two conflicts, both resolved by keeping BOTH semantics
rather than a side:

  • src/prcontext.h — their re-worded comment (writeHead takes the body's own PrTrimRender::testFiles
    count) with our prRootRelRuns predicate and the four-argument prLegendText. The pricer's comment said
    the two legend forms differ by "exactly kRunHintLegendClause", which stopped being true when the root
    sentence became conditional; it now names the seam (runHintClauseIfRows) that both the difference and
    the price come from, which is what line 955 already asks.
  • CHANGELOG.md — every entry from both sides, ours first.

Everything else auto-merged, including src/infra/emit.h (their renderToString emitter-throw catch with
the INFRA_-prefixed fault switch), test/testrowpaths.py and test/testrowruncheck.sh. Generators clean
with no regeneration needed: gate count 615, docs/LIMITS.md 211 caps. Both trees rebuilt --clean-first.

Full suite, foreground: gates=629 pass=627 skip=2 fail=0 wall=918.6s — same two environmental skips,
nothing failing. The named set first, each green: situshapecheck, rootrelemitcheck, runhintcheck,
receiptpostcheck, testrowruncheck, prcontextcheck, versioncheck, plus printffmtparitycheck (no
re-pin needed). --quality-delta=c1915d21..HEAD reads gating="0"; the default HEAD-vs-worktree delta is
regressions="0" with no acks.

Picked up #214's prcontextcheck fixes (c9d6d4e8)

The three Release shards that were red at 9c707f27 failed on #214's arm (F) as it stood at 507cdb6d,
not on anything in this PR: INFRA_FAULT_RENDER_EMIT_THROW=1 produced no DEGRADED_PATH_ALERT on a flavour that can see one. #214 fixed it twice — 7bc28ffb makes the flavour probe ASK the binary (with the sibling
charge-buffer fault, whose alert is independent of this arm) instead of grepping --version for a lowercase
label that matches neither flavour, and c9d6d4e8 gives the arm its own throwaway two-commit git fixture
instead of anchoring into the live history, which on CI's merge ref named 54 files and got <files> trimmed
away. Merged both: clean, one file (test/prcontextcheck.sh), no conflict. Generators clean with no
regeneration (gate count 615, docs/LIMITS.md 211 caps).

Run on BOTH flavours, each from its own tree — the dev tree is never configured Release (CLAUDE.md:
NDEBUG compiles DEGRADED_PATH_ALERT out, so a gate asserting a degrade path would pass blind there).
A throwaway --detach worktree was configured -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release and built separately:

  • Release (ripwire 0.6.0 (Release, …)): ALL PASS. Arm (F) takes the no-alert leg —
    INFO … emits no DEGRADED_PATH_ALERT (NDEBUG): the emitter-throw degrade is unobservable BY DESIGN here,
    then (F) consistency: no alert on a flavour that compiles them out and (F4) the document carries 1 <f> row(s) — the verb is intact on this flavour. That is the shard that was red, now green for the right
    reason rather than by silence.
  • Plain/dev: ALL PASS, and it is the leg that proves the degrade — (F) observability probe: this binary emits alerts (the charge-buffer fault spoke) and the emitter-throw fault alerts too, plus (F0) the alert
    names the throw not the buffer, (F1) exit 0, (F2) the document is CLOSED, (F3) well-formed, (F4) 1 <f>
    row against the control's 1.

Both trees rebuilt --clean-first. Full suite, foreground: gates=629 pass=627 skip=2 fail=0
wall=925.8s
— the two environmental skips, nothing failing. Named gates green: situshapecheck,
rootrelemitcheck, runhintcheck, receiptpostcheck, testrowruncheck, versioncheck,
printffmtparitycheck. --quality-delta=c1915d21..HEAD reads gating="0"; the default delta is
regressions="0" with no acks.

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A change report states its absolute root once, in the envelope, and every path
below it is relative to that root — that is what test/rootrelemitcheck.sh ARM 1/2/5
prove, and what makes the document independent of where the tree is checked out.
One emitter never joined: testmap.h's spell(), which builds the run= command, pasted
diskPath() verbatim. On an absolute root `--test-gate` therefore printed the checkout
prefix three times (the root= anchor, next=, and every <t> row's run=) and `--situ`
once per runnable test line — a per-ROW cost against a per-DOCUMENT fact. The sweep
missed it because test/fixture holds no runner script at all: every test row reads
run_unknown="1" there, so the one emitter that pastes a PATH INSIDE A COMMAND was
never exercised.

TestRunnerIndex now takes the run's crawl root and spells the command through the
same rw::sarif::rootRelativeUri every p= beside it goes through; the hand-rolled
leading-"./" strip becomes that one call rather than a second rule. The root is
passed at all fourteen construction sites (--affected, --exercises, --test-gate XML
and JSON, --situ, --pr-context, --handoff, --pack-task XML and JSON, --flags --flip,
the MCP situational_awareness twin and the edit receipt), so the twelve emitters that
share the index cannot disagree about the spelling. A multi-root run, whose disk path
is under no single root, keeps the absolute command: an unrelativizable command must
stay pasteable rather than become relative to a root that does not contain it. The
rule is stated where it is consumed — kRunHintLegendClause gains "A run= command is
relative to root=." (27 B, rows-gated like the rest of that clause) and --situ's [2]
header says "a (run: …) is relative to root:".

Measured with wc -c on a clean tree, same cache, absolute root:
  ripwire tree (root 132 chars)  --test-gate=src/testmap.h   5,327 -> 5,100 B
  RocksDB @0e2801ac (root 66)    --test-gate=db/write_batch.cc 9,793 -> 9,696 B
                                 --situ=db/write_batch.cc      7,445 -> 7,412 B
                                 --affected=db/write_batch.cc  6,971 -> 6,941 B
The saving is one root spelling per echo minus the 27 B legend clause, so it scales
with checkout depth and with the number of rows that HAVE a runner.

Gate: test/rootrelemitcheck.sh ARM 9 — a fixture with a real runner script (mention
evidence) at two checkout depths, over the eight verbs that echo a command. It asserts
one anchor per document, zero absolute paths elsewhere, depth-independence, and that
the printed run= actually EXECUTES from the declared root. Red first on the unchanged
binary: 8 FAIL rows (test-gate 3 leaks of 4 occurrences, situ 2 of 3, affected 2 of 3,
exercises 1 of 2, plus the run=/next= runnability and disclosure rows). Green after.
test/runhintcheck.sh's pins move with the contract: the arm that pinned run= to "the
root spelling the caller passed" now asserts the absolute and relative scans print the
SAME command, and that it runs from the root. test/printf_parity.manifest re-pinned for
pack_task alone (the legend clause); 41 of 42 verbs unchanged.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
…wice as a paragraph

--situ has no XML root, so every fact it owed a reader was written as a sentence and
the sentences kept growing: the graph-count floor clause 601 B, the decl/def partner
header 228 B, the tests-to-run header 267 B, the script-gate caveat 158 B. A byte
attribution over the frozen question set put ~800 B per answer in those four lines —
repeated on every call, and carrying facts (a floor, two gauges, a cap, an ordering,
a blind-spot count) that a consumer can only act on once they are NAMED. METHODOLOGY
§9 already says where honesty lives: in the attributes, not in the sentence around
them.

Each of the five becomes an attribute line, spelled exactly as the XML and JSON
dialects already spell the same fact, so the three share one vocabulary:
  floor line     counts_floor=1 graph_ambiguous= graph_unresolved= graph_unindexed=   601 -> 198 B
  partners       decl/def partners (N) not_dependents=1                               228 -> 134 B
  [1] header     prcontext_cap=20 beside shown=/total=/capped=                        -55 B
  [2] header     order=evidence, the attribute --affected's root already carries      267 -> 220 B
  script gates   script_gates_unmodelled=N, the counter --affected publishes          158 -> 132 B
Nothing is dropped. Every floor, cap and caveat survives, and the two readings with
no attribute form — how to read a zero, and what [changed]/[partner]/hops mean on a
row — stay as the shortest sentence that defines them.

Measured with wc -c, same cache, same commit:
  this repo         --situ=src/situ.h        2,320 -> 1,836 B  (-484)
                    --situ=src/testmap.h     2,302 -> 1,818 B  (-484)
  RocksDB @0e2801ac --situ=db/write_batch.cc  7,412 -> 6,781 B  (-631)
That is below the ~800 B the attribution predicted: the prediction assumed the gauge
names could go unglossed, and they carry a four-word gloss here instead.

Gate: new test/situshapecheck.sh, one arm per converted disclosure — the attribute is
present, its value agrees with the XML sibling's where one exists (graph_unindexed=
against --affected's root, script_gates_unmodelled= against --affected's), the reading
survives, and a per-line byte ratchet so the prose cannot creep back. Red first on the
previous binary: 10 FAIL rows. Listed in test/regression.sh in this commit (612 -> 613
gates, generator re-run). test/floormarkcheck.sh (9) stays green — it matches
"counts_floor=1" and "is a FLOOR, never a total", and situshapecheck mirrors both so a
regression reds in both. test/rootrelemitcheck.sh ARM 6's --situ row extraction is
re-pinned: the section's closing disclosure is now an attribute line rather than a
parenthesised sentence, and a row path never contains "=".

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…uld reach

--situ's [1] section answers "what depends on this" with a caller walk, and the
files that actually move WITH a changed file are mostly invisible to it: a header
does not call the source that implements it, an .inl has no grammar in any build so
it is not in the index at all, and a harness the graph cannot link (a fixture-built
test, a generated main) is reached by nothing. A byte-and-answer attribution over a
frozen 30-question set found two incomplete answers sitting exactly there.

Section [1] now lists them, under the decl/def partners and the floor clause:

    lexical siblings (3) not_dependents=1 — same directory and stem as a changed
    file (header/impl partner, test, .inl); static, not a graph result:
            core/widget.h
            core/widget.inl
            core/widget_test.cc

The rule is the dumbest one that is always right — SAME DIRECTORY, and the same
filename stem or the stem-partner convention testmap.h already owns (<stem>_test,
test_<stem>, <Stem>Test, _unittest, _spec). Same directory is load-bearing, not a
speed trick: a same-stem file in another directory is a NAMESAKE, and listing
namesakes would make the block noise on exactly the large trees it is for. The
candidate population is the CRAWL's rather than the INDEX's, so the .inl/.ipp/.tcc
partner a C++ change most often has to edit is named; the crawl's unsupported-extension
ROW list is itself capped, which is the one way this list can be short of the truth,
and that is disclosed as unindexed_rows_floor=1. Capped at 8 with shown=/total=/
capped=1 and a pasteable next:, raisable with --limit like the report's other two
listings. The block is ADDITIVE to the decl/def partners above it: a file is often
both, and suppressing the overlap was tried and reverted because it removed widget.h
from "the siblings of widget.cc" — the one row a reader of the block is looking for —
to save about 20 B. It sits after the floor clause because it carries no graph-derived
count for that clause to qualify.

The MCP situational_awareness twin carries the same list as "siblings" with
"siblings_total". Both surfaces relativize through a STORED-path form of the same
relativizer, because an unindexed sibling has no fileId at all — the one file this
report names that the index does not hold.

Measured with wc -c, same cache, same commit: RocksDB @0e2801ac
--situ=db/write_batch.cc 6,781 -> 6,967 B, a one-row block naming db/write_batch_test.cc
that no other section of that report reaches. On this repo every source file is a lone
.h, so no file has a lexical sibling and the report is byte-unchanged.

Gate: test/situshapecheck.sh arms (7)-(7d) — a fixture with a .h/.cc/_test.cc/.inl
quadruple, a same-stem DECOY in another directory and a same-directory different-stem
file (both must be absent), a nine-sibling stem for the cap and its disclosure and for
--limit's relief, a no-git copy of the same tree proving the block is static (which is
also why it cannot leak), and the MCP twin agreeing row for row. Red first: 4 FAIL rows.
docs/LIMITS.md and docs/TUNING.md regenerated for the new row cap (208 -> 209 caps).

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…shape

# Conflicts:
#	docs/LIMITS.md
#	docs/TUNING.md
#	test/regression.sh
…number after two lanes each added one

Both lanes added a gate (forwidencheck and situshapecheck) and each committed the
count its own tree could see. The merge resolves the absorb loop to the union, so the
count is a build product again rather than either side's reading — regenerated by
docs/gatecount_build.py, which is what test/gatecountcheck.sh re-derives.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
…o already had

--quality-delta across the lane reported the clone directly: situDirOf was a 44-token
copy of siblift.h's siblift_detail::dirOf, the other same-directory lens, and
writeSituSiblingRows took the three page fields loose (6 params, bar 5) where every
other --situ emitter takes the SituPageArgs the caller already holds. Both are the
reuse-first rule, and both were a fresh symbol's worth of debt, not an inherited one:
dirOf is now called, not copied, and the sibling test is its own named predicate
(isLexicalSiblingOf) so lexicalSiblings reads as the two loops it is. Output is
byte-identical; test/situshapecheck.sh ALL PASS either way.

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--quality-delta over the whole lane (ff8d77a..HEAD) gates on nine api-surface rows,
and all nine are ONE change: TestRunnerIndex's constructor takes the run's crawl root,
and the eight sites that build one pass the root they already hold. That parameter IS
the fix — without it the runner command cannot be spelled relative to the root the
document declares (test/rootrelemitcheck.sh ARM 9) — so the finding is accurate and
acknowledged rather than argued with. Acked by SYMBOL, nine rows, one reason; the
default HEAD-vs-worktree delta reads gating="0" with no acks at all.

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…test row, and two new arms used the banned one-line verdict

The full suite caught what the targeted set could not. A5 turned --situ's closing
script-gate disclosure from a parenthesised sentence into the attribute line
`script_gates_unmodelled=N — …`, and three gates had discriminated rows from prose by
"does the line start with (": testrowruncheck (8) and (12) and rootrelemitcheck ARM 6
all then read that disclosure as a path row. The fix is the right discriminator and it
had to be got right twice: a ROW's first token is a path, but a GROUPED row opens with
`[hops=N]`, so "the first token contains =" would have dropped every <g> row's paths
and silently weakened the multiset assertion — the check is on the LEADING bytes
(`^[a-z_]+=`), which only an attribute line has. testgatepagecheck (c) pinned the
pr-context cap as a trailing SENTENCE inside the [1] parenthetical; it now pins the
same meaning through prcontext_cap=, the attribute that replaced it.

test/gateexitcheck.sh (G2) was right about situshapecheck: two of its arms reported a
verdict through a single-line `… && ok … || no …`, which prints FAIL for an arm that
passed when the PASS write is interrupted (bash's SIGCHLD has no SA_RESTART). Both are
wrapped.

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  • New Features

    • --situ reports lexical sibling files, with up to 8 results and --limit support.
    • MCP situation data includes sibling information and disclosure metadata.
    • Single-root reports provide root-relative commands; multi-root reports retain absolute commands.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved relative-path, filesystem-root, pagination, indexing, and shell-safe quoting behavior.
    • Corrected unindexed-row disclosures and post-check receipt details.
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    • Updated command help and refreshed gate and capacity counts.

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The change adds root-relative runner commands with shell-safe quoting, lexical-sibling reporting, normalized URI handling, structured --situ disclosures, MCP receipt fields, and regression coverage. Single-root reports use relative commands; multi-root reports retain absolute commands.

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Runner command contracts and integrations
src/testmap.h, src/packtask.h, src/prcontext.h, src/flipimpact.h, src/handoff.h, src/verbs_change.h, src/partition.h, src/mcpedit.h, src/cli.h
Single-root outputs use root-relative runner commands with shell-safe quoting. Multi-root outputs retain absolute commands.
Lexical-sibling reporting and disclosures
src/situ.h, src/mcpverbs.h, src/graphlegend.h, src/mention.h
--situ reports capped lexical siblings, unindexed-row floors, named disclosure attributes, and matching MCP fields.
URI normalization and receipt checks
src/sarif.h, src/mcpedit.h, test/sarifcheck.sh, test/receiptpostcheck.sh
Relative URI handling covers ./ prefixes and filesystem-root paths. Receipt checks validate roots, relative paths, and commands.
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test/*.sh, CHANGELOG.md, README.md, docs/*, present/deck5_ripwire_build.js, .ripwire_quality_acks
Regression gates, output hashes, gate counts, cap inventories, documentation, and quality acknowledgements reflect the changed output contracts.

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1279-1279: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Update the runner-less row in this example.

This <t> row has no run= and no run_unknown="1". Lines 1287-1290 state that runner-less rows must carry run_unknown="1". The current example shows an output shape that consumers must not expect.

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In `@README.md` at line 1279, Update the README example’s test row identified by
the t element referencing ./test/verify_radix.cpp to include run_unknown="1",
consistent with the documented requirement for runner-less rows.
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In `@bench/arb/run_arb.py`:
- Line 329: Update the grouped-path parsing around affected_tests to split each
group on raw commas, then apply html.unescape() to every component before
passing paths to norm_path; add the html module import alongside the existing
imports and remove the limited entity replacement.

In `@src/situ.h`:
- Around line 491-493: Optimize lexicalSiblings by precomputing each changed
path’s directory and normalized stem-partner keys, indexing them for lookup, and
using that index while scanning unchanged indexed files and unsupported rows
instead of comparing every candidate with every changed path through
isLexicalSiblingOf. Preserve the existing sibling row cap and matching behavior.

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In `@README.md`:
- Line 1279: Update the README example’s test row identified by the t element
referencing ./test/verify_radix.cpp to include run_unknown="1", consistent with
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# Conflicts:
#	src/flipimpact.h
#	src/packtask.h
#	src/testmap.h
#	test/printf_parity.manifest
#	test/rootrelemitcheck.sh
#	test/testrowruncheck.sh
…or, and the roots that never declared themselves

Ten findings from a review of #219, every one of them a document a reader holding it could not
resolve, plus a lifetime bug the gates caught on the way.

A RELATIVE COMMAND IS ONLY AS GOOD AS ITS ANCHOR. The run-hint clause claimed "relative to root="
unconditionally — including on a MULTI-root run, which declares no root= at all and (correctly) keeps
the absolute command. The spelling and the sentence now answer to ONE predicate, testmap.h's
runsAreRootRelative( ing, root ), so they cannot disagree; all eight legend sites and the
TestRunnerIndex read it. --flags --flip spelled every p= through relForHash and declared no root
either: <flip> now carries root= with the one sentence that defines it. The MCP edit receipt, the
surface that hands a caller a command to PASTE, spelled "file", every tests_to_run[].run and its
stderr "next:" relative to a root it never named; it now carries "root", single-root only. And
--help still said run= is "spelled with the same root you scanned" — not true since 9803539;
--help and docs/COMMANDS.md now say what the code does.

A "./" THAT RETURNED TOO EARLY. sarif.h rootRelativeUri stripped a leading "./" and RETURNED before
the root prefix was tried: right for the root ".", wrong for every other relative spelling.
`ripwire ./corp` stores "./corp/test/x.sh", the early return yielded "corp/test/x.sh", and pasting
that from the declared root is `cd ./corp && bash corp/test/x.sh` — rc 127. Both sides now drop the
optional "./" first and compare what is left; the root "." case stays byte-identical. rootrelemitcheck
ARM 9b is the matrix this deserved: ".", "corp", "./corp", "corp/", an absolute path and a symlink all
print the SAME command, and every printed command is EXECUTED from the root it names.

A SMALL BLOCK PAGED WITH SOMEONE ELSE'S WINDOW. The lexical-siblings block honoured page.offset —
section [1]'s blast-radius offset. --offset=20 printed "shown=0 total=9 capped=1" with a next=
offering --limit=9, relief that cannot restore rows an OFFSET removed; --offset=7 dropped six rows
silently. Cap and --limit, no offset, like the decl/def rows above it. unindexed_rows_floor was
computed only for a NON-EMPTY list and the emitter suppressed the empty one, so a cut that removed the
only candidate printed nothing at all — the silent zero METHODOLOGY §9 forbids. The floor is a
property of the CANDIDATE LIST, so it rides the empty case too, in both dialects. The MCP twin's
siblings_total was the length of the array beside it; it now states siblings_capped explicitly.

AN ATTRIBUTE WITHOUT A READING IS A TOKEN. Four readings went out with the four sentences A5
compressed: the floor's cause (call edges are name-based), what an unindexed file IS, which header the
resolver gauges come from, and whose cap prcontext_cap= is. --situ is the one dialect with no legend to
look a name up in (it refuses --legend=compact), so each gauge keeps a short gloss and situshapecheck
arm (8) asserts the READING, not the token. Two ratchets moved with them (floor 200 -> 360, partner
140 -> 220): a ratchet that forbids a restored disclosure is aimed at the wrong thing.

A DANGLING VIEW THE GATES FOUND. runHintClauseIfRows now BUILDS its clause (the root sentence is
conditional), and PackTaskHeaderParts holds string_views: binding runClause straight to the returned
temporary read freed memory the moment the full expression ended. It showed as exactly that —
packtaskcheck's bundle both malformed and non-deterministic, two runs two sha256s, and
xmlwellformed red on --pack-task --json. The clause is owned by a named local now, like report and
droppedPositiveAttr beside it.

MEASURED, wc -c, this lane's base binary (6621370) against this one over the SAME tree, so the pair
carries all three --situ entries together. This repo (root 131 chars): --situ=src/graph.h 4,448 ->
2,955 B, --situ=src/situ.h 2,332 -> 2,040 B, --situ=src/testmap.h 2,325 -> 2,033 B,
--test-gate=src/testmap.h 5,455 -> 5,247 B. RocksDB @0e2801ac (root 66 chars): --situ=db/write_batch.cc
7,489 -> 7,376 B, --test-gate 9,946 -> 9,868 B, --affected 7,124 -> 7,113 B. The four compressed lines,
by situshapecheck's own ${#line} on this repo at --situ=src/graph.h (the partner header on the gate's
fixture): 601 -> 344, 228 -> 209, 233 -> 220, 167 -> 132 — 1,229 -> 905 B. The CHANGELOG carried a
different before-pair for two of those lines than the gate did; one number, one corpus, both now the
gate's.

RED FIRST: situshapecheck shows 17 FAIL rows against 6621370's binary (arms (8)-(11) are new);
receiptpostcheck (18), rootrelemitcheck ARM 9b/9c/9d and runhintcheck 2c/2d are red there too. Two gate
self-checks were wrong the same way the code was — an empty run= made `eval ""` succeed, and an empty
next= fell out of an if/elif chain printing neither PASS nor FAIL — so each now reds on the outcome it
exists to forbid.

PINS MOVED: testgatelegendbudgetcheck 3,000 -> 3,070 B for the 56 B conditional root sentence (measured
2,957 -> 3,013 B on its src/model.h fixture), and test/printf_parity.manifest for pack_task and
help_all, the two labels whose text this round changed. situStemOf was a fourth spelling of
stripExt( baseNameOf( p ) ); one mention.h pathStem serves all four sites.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
# Conflicts:
#	test/printf_parity.manifest
…e of the conflict was the answer

The merge of origin/main conflicted on test/printf_parity.manifest's help_all row: this lane rewrote
the run= paragraph (--help said run= is "spelled with the same root you scanned", which stopped being
true when the command became root-relative) and #217 rewrote the reference-guide text in the same
help output. The manifest pins a sha256 of the whole capture, so NEITHER side's hash describes the
merged binary — taking either one would have shipped a pin that is red the moment it is checked.
Re-generated with UPDATE_GOLDEN=1 against the clean rebuild of the merged tree: moved={help_all},
41 unchanged, which is exactly the one label both sides moved.

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--quality-delta over the whole PR (0e3573a..HEAD) gates on three rows, and two of them are ONE
change: the claim "a run= command is relative to root=" is CONDITIONAL — a multi-root run declares
no root= and keeps the absolute command — so the predicate that decides the SPELLING has to reach
every site that states the CLAIM. prLegendText takes rootRelativeRuns (api-surface, 2 -> 4 params
counting the row's own measure) and writeFlipHeader takes it plus the root= attribute <flip> now
declares (params 4 -> 7). A legend that claims a relativity the spelling does not have is exactly
the defect this round fixes, so the parameter IS the fix and the finding is acknowledged rather than
argued with. The third is a duplication row pairing testmap.h runsAreRootRelative with mcp.h
mcpOmitsGitVerbs at 19 tokens: both are two-term boolean returns and they share nothing else — one
asks whether the run has a single declarable root, the other whether a server build omits the git
verbs. Merging them would name neither.

Acked by SYMBOL, three rows, one reason; the default HEAD-vs-worktree delta reads gating="0" with no
acks at all. Ledger diff: exactly three +ack lines.

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Landing this for 0.6.1 now, on the owner's call — announcing first because the shared joyful-ii-V-I identity means I cannot tell from the branch whose session this is.

Your entry is already written into the 0.6.1 changelog draft, so this lane is in the release section either way; merging it makes the section true.

If you are the session preparing the release: main is moving under you right now. I am landing #214, #218 and #219, then resolving #212 and #215's conflicts, and only then assembling the ## [0.6.1] section from the draft. Do not tag until that section matches what actually landed — the owner has asked for the release PR to be prepared but left unmerged for their review.

Shout here if this lane is mid-edit and I should hold off.

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Correction to my previous comment. The owner tells me an Opus session is working #212, #214, #215 and #218. This lane was not named, so I do not know whose it is and I am holding off rather than guessing — nothing merged, nothing touched.

Keeping the one piece that matters for whoever merges main here: #217 re-pinned help and help_all in test/printf_parity.manifest. If this lane re-pins the same rows, resolving by picking a side ships a manifest green against neither binary. Merge main, then re-run UPDATE_GOLDEN=1 bash test/printffmtparitycheck.sh. And regenerate docs/COMMANDS.md with python3 docs/docs_commands_build.py --bin build/ripwire instead of hand-resolving it.

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…c that counts caps

The sibling-row cap this PR adds (kSituSiblingRowsShown) made the inventory 210 -> 211, and
docs/LIMITS.md moved with it in the commit that added the cap — but two generated numbers did not.
README.md's cap-inventory sentence still said 210 (test/readmedriftcheck.sh (L2)) and
docs/TUNING.md still listed src/mcpverbs.h's disclosure set without siblings_capped, which this
round's MCP twin now emits (test/capsweepcheck.sh (C)). Both are generator output, regenerated with
their own generators — `python3 bench/capsweep/capsweep.py emit` for TUNING.md, the README sentence
by hand because it is prose the drift gate compares against limits_build.py's count. Both gates green;
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packTaskRenderToString returns an empty string when the underlying renderer cannot open its stream, but this JSON path still emits the bodies member without a value. A renderer failure can therefore produce malformed pack-task JSON; propagate the failure or emit a valid empty-array/fallback value before appending this member.

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…s not sends people to rebuild the gate

The landing-queue coordinator relayed this trap as "a wrong published count with
nothing red", and the source of that reading is this paragraph: it said two lanes
each adding a gate produce a tree that publishes N+1 against a loop of N+2 "with
every existing check green". That was true when it was written. It is not true
now, and a stale claim that a defect is ungated is expensive in a specific way —
it sends a reader to build process around something three gates already cover.

MEASURED ON THIS TREE, both ways to botch the resolution, because they are caught
by DIFFERENT gates and neither is caught by both:

  loop unioned, generator not re-run (loop 616, the eight sites 615)
      gatecount_build --check   RED, naming all eight disagreeing sites
      gatecountcheck (B)        RED
      manifestcheck             RED  ("EVALS §8 says 615 ... actually names 616")
      readmedriftcheck (F2)     RED
      deckclaimcheck            green — but the deck's three sites are three of
                                the eight gatecountcheck owns, so not a hole

  one side of the loop taken instead of the union (count self-consistent, but a
  gate FILE present that the loop never names)
      gatecount_build --check   GREEN, correctly: the count IS consistent
      gatecountcheck            GREEN — misses it
      manifestcheck             RED  ("test/X.sh is not listed in test/regression.sh")

Both probes were run against the real binary with a throwaway stand-in gate and
the tree restored after; the second shape is the one this paragraph's parenthetical
was actually describing (member sets differing at the same count), and it is the
one gatecountcheck cannot see, which is worth stating plainly rather than folding
into a claim about "every existing check".

The recipe is unchanged and now spelled with the step people skip: union the
loop, run the generator WITHOUT --check so it writes, then --check it. Added
explicitly: never trust the clean auto-merge of the three published files, which
is the part that makes this trap feel safe — verified with `git merge-tree`
between two lanes in the current queue, where README.md, docs/EVALS.md and the
deck all auto-merge clean at 615 with no conflict markers and only
test/regression.sh conflicts.

For the record, the queue's arithmetic checked by set union over the four open
heads rather than taken on trust: main 614; #212 +recentscopecheck, #215
+scroundtripcheck, #219 +situshapecheck, #214 none; three distinct additions, so
the loop after all four lands is 617. Each lane's published number already
matches its OWN loop, which is why the mismatch exists only in the merged tree.

Gates: gatecountcheck, manifestcheck, readmedriftcheck, ripwirepubliccheck,
docdriftcheck, planlintcheck, textdocscheck, mdsectioncheck — all PASS.

Pins moved: none; the count stays 615 on this lane.

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- Around line 366-368: The flags parsing in sarifcheck.sh must remove eval from
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CMake-flag parsing that preserves argument boundaries and handles generated
flags from FLAGS_MK without executing embedded shell syntax.

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Three conflicts, one per shared build product, resolved by the rule each one has
rather than by picking a winner.

test/regression.sh — UNIONED the loop. Both sides carried 615 names and the union
is 616: ours adds situshapecheck, main's adds #215's scroundtripcheck. Taking
either side would have produced a consistent COUNT over the wrong member set,
which manifestcheck catches and gatecountcheck does not.

test/printf_parity.manifest — RE-RECORDED from the rebuilt binary through
UPDATE_GOLDEN, never resolved by taking a side, and the result is why that rule
exists. Two of the three conflicting rows describe a binary neither side built:

  pack_task        main d8b0cd1c   ours 1d9eb9e7   merged tree 11bcf9c2
  help_all         main 87024074   ours 573090da   merged tree 5e58050f
  pack_signatures  main 0d79e8f3   ours 4a22aeda   merged tree 0d79e8f3

So a text merge had a 0-in-3 and a 1-in-3 chance on those rows depending on which
side it kept by line position. The re-record reports moved={pack_task help_all},
40 unchanged -- and pack_signatures confirms main's value rather than my guessing
it.

docs/gatecount_build.py then wrote 616 across 3 FILES CHANGED (README.md,
docs/EVALS.md, present/deck5_ripwire_build.js). Both sides had rewritten those
to the identical "615", so git auto-merged them CLEAN while the loop went to 616
-- the published-count skew LANE_RULES names, caught here by running the
generator rather than by reading git status. limits_build --check clean.

CHANGELOG.md — kept BOTH sides; the two blocks are disjoint entries under
[Unreleased], not competing edits to one. 21 entries, this lane's intact.

.ripwire_quality_acks auto-merged and the population was checked rather than
assumed: duplicate ack keys number 239 on ours and 239 on main, 240 merged, and
the one delta (f3ea5dbe) already carries two rows on main -- inherited with the
merge, not created by it. This lane's own ack ebaa8de8 appears exactly once.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
TWO defects, both of them an arm that acted on input it had not checked.

(1) CWE-78, command injection on the CI runner — MINE, added by arm 11 this
round. test/sarifcheck.sh read CXX_FLAGS/CXX_DEFINES/CXX_INCLUDES out of
CMake's GENERATED build/CMakeFiles/ripwire.dir/flags.make through three `eval`s.
flags.make's contents follow from CMakeLists.txt, which a pull request may edit;
CI runs pargates.py on pull requests against the runner's own build tree; so a
PR that persuades CMake to write shell syntax into a compile flag executes
commands on the runner. Measured on a scratch flags.make before the fix: a
CXX_FLAGS line carrying $(touch <sentinel>) created the sentinel AND left no
trace in the parsed argument list -- the execution was invisible as well as real,
which is the worst shape this bug has.

The parse now runs through python3's shlex.split, which implements POSIX
word-splitting-with-quotes and executes nothing: $( … ) and ` … ` come back as
literal argument text. `read -ra` would NOT have been a fix -- it splits on IFS
and turns -I"/path with spaces/inc" into three arguments, and the real
CXX_INCLUDES carries exactly that shape. NUL-terminated per word so a path
containing a newline is not silently dropped here; `read -r -d ''` rather than
`mapfile -d` because macOS ships bash 3.2; process substitution rather than a
pipe so the arrays fill in the gate's own shell. Seven gates in this suite
already shell out to python3, so this adds no dependency.

Arm 12 makes it permanent and is a DIFFERENCE test, not an absence test: the
same payload goes through both parses and the eval is REQUIRED to fire, because
an arm that only checked our parse would pass against a payload that never
worked. Writing the arm found something the finding did not say: with all three
payload shapes on one line its own control went red, because `NAME=( … ;touch … )`
is a bash SYNTAX error, so the eval aborted before reaching the $( ) ahead of it.
The shapes were masking each other. Each now has its own key and its own control,
and the third is recorded as measured -- a bare ';' was never a vector in this
spelling -- rather than asserted away. 12a two controls fire, 12b nothing
executes across all three shapes, 12c each shape returns as a literal argument
(so a parse that silently DROPPED the payload cannot pass 12b and stop there),
12d the quoted path with spaces stays one argument, 12e the real flags.make still
parses to 9 arguments so arm 11 is not compiling flagless.

NOT FIXED HERE, and it needs a decision: the identical pattern is on main in SIX
other gates -- extentcheck, jsonwalkcheck, decltodefcheck, includeprecisecheck,
macroreparsecheck, rustimportprecisecheck -- three `eval "CXX_` lines each, 18 in
total, same generated file, same CI reachability. This lane fixed the instance it
introduced; those six are outside it and one is in another open lane's blast
radius, so they are reported rather than swept up unasked.

(2) test/testrowruncheck.sh arm 8 discarded rows it then claimed to have checked.
The row/disclosure discriminator was "a path never contains '='", which is false:
`test=smoke.sh` is a legal filename, and any row whose path carried '=' was filed
as an attribute line and dropped, so arm 8 skipped its (run: …) validation and
could pass while that row shipped a broken recipe. The filter now names the ONE
disclosure line the section emits (script_gates_unmodelled=). RED: the old
expression kept 1 of 2 synthetic rows and dropped the '='-bearing one; GREEN: 2
of 2, disclosure still excluded. Arm 8b feeds the SAME situRowsOf function arm 8
uses, so the two cannot drift, and asserts both directions plus the exact count.

sarifcheck 42 -> 50 rows ALL PASS, testrowruncheck 20 -> 24 rows ALL PASS.

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Same finding CodeRabbit raised on #227's test/lib/cxxflags.sh, in my own loader
from the previous commit. shlex.split REFUSES an unbalanced quote rather than
guessing, and my callers read it through `< <( cmakeFlagWords … )`, where the
producer's status is not reachable in $? AT ALL: after the loop $? is `read`'s,
the redirection's status is discarded, and bash 3.2 sets no $! to wait on.
Measured on `CXX_FLAGS = -O2 -I"/unbalanced`:

  producer alone      rc=1, 0 bytes of stdout, ValueError: No closing quotation
  through < <( … )    caller $? = 0, array length 0

So a refusal arrived as an empty flag array and arm 11 would have compiled the
driver with no flags at all.

THE SHARP END was arm 12b. It concluded "the shlex parse executes nothing across
all three payload shapes" from `[ -e "$SENTINEL" ]`, and a parser that refused
and produced nothing satisfies that test perfectly — the arm written to close a
positive-control hole had one of its own. Proven, not argued: pointing ONE shape
at a key that does not exist leaves "12b the shlex parse executes nothing" PASSING
while the new row fails with (0/3/3).

FIX, matched to #227 so the two do not diverge:
  - a plain redirection into a scratch file, where $? really is the parser's,
    read back with the same `while IFS= read -r -d ''`. Command substitution
    cannot replace it: a shell variable cannot hold NUL, and NUL is what keeps a
    path containing a newline intact.
  - try/except ValueError and try/except OSError each exit with their own code
    (3, 4) and one line of their own on stderr, instead of a raw traceback on a
    stream the gate discards.
  - loadFlagWords() wraps the pair, reports a non-zero parser status through no(),
    and returns non-zero, which is the distinction an empty array cannot carry.
    `${FLAG_WORDS[@]+…}` because this gate runs under set -u and bash 3.2 treats
    an empty array's expansion as unbound.
  - arm 12b gains the companion assertion: the parse must RETURN words (4/3/3),
    so "executed nothing" can no longer be confused with "parsed nothing".
  - arm 12b2 is new and asserts the refusal in both directions — the parser exits
    non-zero (3) with a message of its own, and loadFlagWords propagates it.
  - the OSError branch now NAMES the arm that reports it (12e) instead of asking
    the reader to take "its own arm reports it" on faith. 12e fails, never skips.

Deliberately NOT done here: sourcing #227's test/lib/cxxflags.sh. Two
implementations of this parser should become one, but doing it in this lane
creates a cross-lane dependency between #219 and #227 where today they share
zero files. Post-tag consolidation.

sarifcheck 50 -> 55 rows, ALL PASS.

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to require a non-empty relative top-level file, verify every tests_to_run row
has the expected relative path references in either run or run_unknown form, and
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THREE findings from the third review, and the first is shipped output.

(1) src/situ.h — the [2] heading's trailing clause said "a (run: …) is relative
to root:" whenever the section had rows, unconditionally. A MULTI-root --situ
report emits no `root:` line at all (situSingleRoot gates it) and its
TestRunnerIndex correctly keeps the absolute command, so that report pointed the
reader at an anchor it never printed. Under the disclosure rule that is a wrong
answer, not awkward phrasing, and it is the SAME defect this lane fixed in the
shared run-hint clause — it survived here because this heading is prose rather
than the shared constant.

RED, measured on a two-root fixture before the change: the report had no `root:`
line and its heading read "… a (run: …) is relative to root:". Both spellings
now answer to the ONE predicate that also decides how the command is spelled
(testmap.h runsAreRootRelative, the same predicate TestRunnerIndex is built
with), so the sentence and the command cannot disagree. The multi-root form says
the command is absolute AND why. The order half is shared between the two forms
rather than duplicated, and the single-root report is BYTE-IDENTICAL to what it
was (diff-verified on this repo), so no byte pin can have moved.

test/situshapecheck.sh arm (12) pins it in both directions on one corpus, with
the single-root form as the mutation control — a gate that only checked the
multi-root wording would pass equally against a heading that had stopped naming
the root anywhere. It also guards that BOTH forms actually have [2] rows first,
so an absent clause reads as a failure rather than a pass. 56 -> 62 rows.

(2) test/sarifcheck.sh — the `${ARR[@]+…}` guard was applied to the three loader
assignments and not to the arrays themselves. Under set -u, bash 3.2 treats an
empty array's `"${ARR[@]}"` as an unbound variable and ABORTS the script
(verified on 3.2.57: `E=(); printf '%s\n' "${E[@]}"` reports `E[@]: unbound
variable`, while the guarded form continues; `${#ARR[@]}` is safe and is left
alone). Fixed as a POPULATION rather than at the one site the review named: nine
expansions across seven lines, and the file now has zero unguarded ones.

Two of the seven mattered more than the named one. The arm-12 payload arrays:
an abort there SKIPS the 12c/12d rows that prove the injection is gone — proven
by pointing all three loads at a missing file, which now prints 12c/12d as FAILs
(0/0/0) instead of dying before them. And the arm-11 compile line, where
${DIAG_LINK[@]} is empty whenever diagnostics.cpp.o is absent — a live abort on
any build tree without that object, independent of any parser refusal.

(3) test/receiptpostcheck.sh ARM 18 — it read the receipt as
`r.get( "file", "" )`, and "" does not start with "/", so an ABSENT or EMPTY
file passed. It validated none of the references the receipt exists to hand a
caller: the nested tests_to_run[].run recipes and the top-level next command.
Now every reference is checked — non-empty relative file, non-empty next with no
absolute token, tests_to_run a non-empty list (asserted first, so the per-row
loop cannot be vacuous), and each row by its OWN shape: p non-empty and
relative, exactly one of run / run_unknown, and no absolute token in run. The
failure message now names WHICH assertion failed instead of being discarded to
/dev/null. Verified against the gate's own extracted expression: 8 mutants each
fail with a distinct accurate message, the well-formed receipt returns OK.
24 -> 28 rows.

Gate count unchanged at 616 — three existing gates gained arms, no new file.

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Five conflicts, each resolved by its own rule, and FOUR of the five were files
where neither side's content is correct for the merged tree.

test/regression.sh — UNIONED. Both sides carried 616 and the union is 617: ours
adds situshapecheck, main's adds #212's recentscopecheck. Taking either side
gives a consistent COUNT over the wrong member set.

docs/gatecount_build.py — RAN, not hand-written: wrote 617 across 3 FILES
CHANGED (README.md, docs/EVALS.md, present/deck5_ripwire_build.js). Both sides
had rewritten those to an identical "616", so git merged them CLEAN while the
loop went to 617. That is the published-count skew, and only running the
generator finds it.

docs/LIMITS.md — REGENERATED, and the number is neither side's. Main's file says
"114 of 211 caps", ours said "113 of 211"; the merged src/ holds 212, because
this lane adds one cap of its own (kSituSiblingRowsShown = 8, the [1] sibling row
cap). --check then passes at 212 caps / 114 classified.

docs/TUNING.md — took MAIN's side, which is the newer census prose, then verified
it against the regenerated LIMITS population rather than trusting the text.

docs/COMMANDS.md — REGENERATED (--bin ./build/ripwire; it refuses without one
when build/ holds two executables): 176 flags in 7 sections, and --check reports
"documented set == binary set".

test/printf_parity.manifest — RE-RECORDED through the gate's own UPDATE_GOLDEN
flow, never by picking a side, and for the second time in this queue the answer
was neither side's: pack_task d8b0cd1c -> 11bcf9c2 and help_all 2de8db3c ->
eac1e590, moved={pack_task help_all}, 40 unchanged.

src/cli.h — a real code merge, verified by READING both sides rather than by the
clean text merge. The two edits are disjoint: ours rewords the run= help text
("Spelled RELATIVE to the root= the document declares … a MULTI-ROOT run declares
no single root, so it stays absolute"), main's adds #212's whole --in=DIR block
plus its inDir field. Both are present in the result, and the retired wording
("Spelled with the same root you scanned") is gone.

.ripwire_quality_acks — population CHECKED rather than assumed. Rows: base 1285,
ours 1297, main 1296, merged 1308, which is exactly base + 12 + 11, so the text
merge produced a clean union with nothing lost or doubled. Duplicate-key shape is
pre-existing and additive (base 239, each side +1, merged 241). This lane's own
A3 ack ebaa8de8 appears exactly once.

CHANGELOG.md — kept BOTH sides; 27 disjoint entries under [Unreleased].

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- Line 621: Update spell() to pass p through rw::shSingleQuote unconditionally
when constructing the runner command, preserving runnerVerb(p) while ensuring
the test path is emitted as one safely quoted shell argument.

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- Around line 361-362: Update the MCP sibling validation branch around the “7d”
checks to normalize the complete CLI sibling list and compare it for exact
equality with MROWS, rather than accepting any value containing core/widget.h.
Preserve the success and failure reporting while ensuring omitted CLI siblings
cause the parity check to fail.

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exclude only the complete fixed disclosure line for script_gates_unmodelled,
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FIVE items: one CWE-78 in shipped output, two published counts this lane's own
new cap left stale, and three gate arms that passed over what they skipped.

(1) CWE-78 IN SHIPPED OUTPUT. testmap.h spell() concatenated runnerVerb(p) and p
with no shell quoting, and p comes from the CRAWLED CORPUS — so a repository
decides those bytes. A legal filename `test/check;touch PWNED.sh` made the tool
emit run="bash test/check;touch PWNED.sh", a command this tool hands an agent to
paste, which runs `touch PWNED.sh` in the reader's shell.

RED, and the filesystem was the judge rather than the string: arm (5) executed
the emitted command in a scratch corpus and it CREATED the sentinel. GREEN after:
run="bash &apos;test/check;touch PWNED.sh&apos;" and no sentinel.

QUOTED WHEN NOT PROVABLY SAFE, not unconditionally, and the difference is
measured. shSingleQuote always wraps, so unconditional quoting moves the run=
bytes of every row in eight emitters: 13 literal command assertions across 7
gates, docs/COMMANDS.md, 15 committed capture snapshots, README, and the
printf_parity pins — a documented output-format change for every user, at tag
time. Every path `git ls-files` tracks here is inside the allowlist
([A-Za-z0-9._/-], never a leading '-', which a shell reads as a flag): measured 0
outside it. So the conditional form is byte-identical on every real corpus and
printffmtparitycheck needed NO re-pin, while a hostile name is still quoted. The
predicate is an ALLOWLIST, so an unenumerated byte is quoted by default — the
direction a quoting bug should fail in. This differs from the review's stated
remedy ("use shSingleQuote unconditionally"); the diagnosis is accepted in full.

Writing arm (5) found its own FALSE PASS, which is why it executes rather than
inspects: the XML dialect emits ' as &apos;, and `eval` on the raw attribute ran
`bash &apos;test/check;` then `touch PWNED.sh&apos;` — a differently named file,
so the sentinel check passed while the string had never been the command a
consumer would run. The arm now un-escapes the entities first. An arm that
executes a mangled command is testing the mangling.

(2) TWO PUBLISHED COUNTS, STALE BECAUSE OF THIS LANE'S OWN CAP.
kSituSiblingRowsShown = 8 moves the cap census 211 -> 212, and that number is
published in more places than docs/LIMITS.md, which was the only one this lane
had regenerated. README.md's "211 compile-time caps" is now 212 —
readmedriftcheck (L2) is its only guard, and limits_build.py cannot write it (0
README references), so it is hand-maintained by design. docs/TUNING.md is a BUILD
PRODUCT of `python3 bench/capsweep/capsweep.py emit` and capsweepcheck arm (C)
reproduces it byte-for-byte; the earlier merge had resolved it by taking a side,
which that arm can never accept however carefully the prose was reconciled. Both
regenerated, both gates green.

Verified there is no third consumer: the cap count appears at exactly ONE README
site. Worth recording, because readmedriftcheck's L2 matcher pipes through
`head -1`, so a SECOND site would be silently unchecked — no exposure today, and
the matcher's shape is the hazard.

(3) THREE GATE ARMS, each passing over a row it discarded.
  - test/sarifcheck.sh: `${ARR[@]+…}` was applied to the loader assignments and
    not to the arrays, so under set -u bash 3.2 aborts on an empty array's
    expansion (verified: `E=(); printf '%s\n' "${E[@]}"` reports `E[@]: unbound
    variable`). Fixed as a POPULATION: nine expansions across seven lines, zero
    unguarded left. Two mattered more than the site reviewed — the arm-12 payload
    arrays, where an abort SKIPS the rows proving the injection is gone, and
    ${DIAG_LINK[@]}, empty whenever diagnostics.cpp.o is absent.
  - test/situshapecheck.sh (7d): the MCP parity arm accepted any list CONTAINING
    core/widget.h, so a twin that dropped every other sibling passed a gate whose
    whole subject is parity. Now EQUALITY against the CLI's own list, normalised
    the same way, with an explicit non-vacuity guard. The CLI rows are
    re-extracted here rather than read from arm (7)'s helper, which is defined
    inside that arm's else-branch and would be undefined on exactly the run where
    arm (7) had already failed.
  - test/testrowruncheck.sh: `script_gates_unmodelled=` alone is still a PREFIX,
    and isTestPath accepts *_test.*, so a legal row for a file beginning with that
    key was dropped — the same over-broad filter one notch narrower. The filter
    now matches the disclosure's COMPLETE text anchored to end of line, and arm
    8b's fixture carries the emitter's real disclosure line plus that adversary
    row (a truncated fixture would have tested the fixture, not the filter).

Gates: runhintcheck 27 -> 30, testrowruncheck 24 -> 25, situshapecheck 62,
sarifcheck 55, readmedriftcheck 43, capsweepcheck 31. Four generators --check
clean (617 gates, 212 caps, 176 flags, TUNING byte-identical). ASan/UBSan/LSan
clean on --affected/--test-gate/--situ/--handoff, the emitters spell() feeds.

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- Line 620: Update the root validation in test/receiptpostcheck.sh at lines
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ensuring every single-root relative-command document uses an absolute root. In
test/rootrelemitcheck.sh at lines 560-563, require exactly one root anchor
instead of permitting zero anchors; both locations are affected and require
direct changes.

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Third review of #219, on the arm I wrote for the run= injection fix in the last
push. Arm (5) executed the emitted command and then judged ONLY the sentinel
file, discarding the exit status. A malformed quoted command — one bash refuses,
which runs nothing and creates no sentinel — was therefore reported as "ran the
harness and created no PWNED file". A gate that can certify a hostile path is
handled WITHOUT ever executing it is worse than no gate, because it reads as
proof.

This is the same defect as sarifcheck arm 12b's, and the third in this lane after
12b and the &apos; un-escaping. The generalisation, which is worth more than any
of the three fixes: AN ARM THAT CONCLUDES "NOTHING BAD HAPPENED" MUST SEPARATELY
PROVE THE THING RAN. Absence of a bad outcome and absence of execution are
indistinguishable from the outcome alone.

The status is asserted to be a value NOTHING ELSE PRODUCES rather than merely
zero, because `exit 0` cannot carry the claim: a missing file, an empty command
and a no-op all also leave the sentinel absent, and some exit 0. The harness
script now ends `exit 7`, and the arm requires exactly 7 before the sentinel
check is allowed to mean anything. Two conditions, in order: it RAN, and it did
not inject.

CONTROL B is new beside the existing injection control, and it is what makes the
status test non-decorative: a deliberately malformed quoted command is shown to
exit 1 and create no sentinel, which is precisely the state the old spelling read
as a pass. Verified by mutation on a copy — pointing the MAIN row at that
malformed command makes the arm FAIL ("did not RUN the harness (exit 1, expected
the harness's own 7)") where it previously passed. 30 -> 31 rows.

FILED, NOT FIXED, by the coordinator's decision under the one-round stopping
rule: test/receiptpostcheck.sh:620 should require the receipt's non-empty root to
satisfy os.path.isabs(root), with the sibling site at test/rootrelemitcheck.sh.
Real and Major, but it hardens what the gates DEMAND of document shape rather
than fixing what ships. Recorded in PLAN_062_IMPROVEMENTS.md with both file:line
sites and the reviewer's reasoning, so it is scheduled rather than dropped.

gateexitcheck 22 and manifestcheck 16 run explicitly, since this edits a gate
file and they are in the blast radius by CATEGORY rather than by file. All four
generators --check clean: 617 gates, 212 caps, 176 flags, TUNING byte-identical.

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Third review of #219, and a BYPASS of the quoting fix from the previous push
rather than a separate defect. Arm (5) makes the path ONE shell argument, which
is correct and does nothing here: a root-level
`-cimport os;open("PWNED_PY","w")#_test.py` passes isTestPath, keeps its leading
dash through normalisation, survives quoting intact — and then python3 reads
`-c` as "execute this code". The path never reaches the shell as code; it reaches
the INTERPRETER as an option. Same trust boundary as the CWE-78: corpus filename
-> emitted run= -> a reader pastes it -> execution.

MEASURED over the WHOLE population of verbs runnerVerb can emit, which is two —
kRunnerKinds is .sh->bash and .py->python3, so this is the population and not a
sample:
  python3 '<-c…#_test.py>'     rc=0, created the payload file   BYPASS REPRODUCED
  python3 -- '<same path>'     rc=7 (the file's own status), no side effect
  bash    '<-c…#_test.sh>'     rc=1, no side effect             not reproduced
  bash    -- '<same path>'     rc=7, no side effect
So the confirmed case is python3. bash rejected the combined -c form, so the
bypass did not fire there; `--` is emitted for both because both honour it and
the cost is zero on every real path. A note in the source says to re-check `--`
if a third interpreter is ever added — a hopeful `--` on a verb that ignores it
would be worse than none.

CONDITIONAL, for the same measured reason as the quoting: a leading '-' is
already outside isShellSafePath, so `--` adds bytes only where the path is
hostile. Every real corpus stays byte-identical and printffmtparitycheck needed
NO re-pin, which is the check that would have caught it otherwise.

ARMED the way arm (5) is, which is now the house pattern: the expected outcome is
a value only the intended path can produce. The runner file exits 7, so "the
command reached the harness" is a positive observation rather than an inference
from an absent payload. Arm (6): the terminator is present; executing the command
exits 7 AND creates no payload file; and the CONTROL executes the
quoted-but-unterminated spelling, which DOES create it — so the arm cannot pass
against a payload that never worked.

The fixture earned its own comment: the first version used a payload that was a
Python SyntaxError, so the bypass did not fire and the arm read as SAFE. The
trailing '#' comments out the '_test.py' suffix, which is what makes the filename
valid Python. A fixture whose payload cannot run is an arm that proves nothing —
the same shape as the three status/execution holes this lane has now fixed.

RED before the fix: no `--` in the emitted command, and it exited 0 instead of 7
because python3 had executed the filename rather than the file.

runhintcheck 31 -> 34. gateexitcheck 22 and manifestcheck 16 run explicitly (a
gate file changed, so they are in the blast radius by CATEGORY). printffmtparity
42 with no re-pin; situshapecheck 62; testrowruncheck 25; affectedcheck 40;
rootrelemitcheck 351; receiptpostcheck 28. Four generators --check clean: 617
gates, 212 caps, 176 flags, TUNING byte-identical.

Still FILED and untouched: test/receiptpostcheck.sh:620's os.path.isabs(root)
requirement with its test/rootrelemitcheck.sh sibling, in
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  • test/rootrelemitcheck.sh
  • test/runhintcheck.sh
  • test/sarifcheck.sh
  • test/situshapecheck.sh
  • test/testgatelegendbudgetcheck.sh
  • test/testgatepagecheck.sh
  • test/testrowruncheck.sh

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joyful-ii-V-I merged commit 9505c44 into main Sep 15, 2026
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Five conflicts, all mechanical, resolved as the lane contract prescribes:

  test/regression.sh   UNION of the absorb loops, not a side. Mine added skipclassifycheck;
                       main added recentscopecheck, scroundtripcheck and situshapecheck. The
                       union is 618 and stays sorted, as the incoming side was.
  CHANGELOG.md         BOTH sections kept under [Unreleased] — mine (70 lines) above main's
                       (820), which is where every lane inserted.
  README.md            The three generated gate-count sites. Every conflict block was
  docs/EVALS.md        identical apart from the number (615 against 617), so each was cleared
  present/deck5_…js    to the incoming side and then REWRITTEN by the generator. Resolved
                       block by block rather than by taking whole files, because docs/EVALS.md
                       also carries this branch's own new section, which a wholesale
                       --theirs would have discarded.

`python3 docs/gatecount_build.py` then wrote **618** to all 8 marked sites across those three
files, and `--check` agrees with the loop. The number was never typed: both sides were wrong
here (main 617, this branch 615), which is the loud form of the trap — when two lanes write
the SAME new number the three files auto-merge clean and publish a wrong one with nothing red.

docs/TUNING.md needed no regeneration: this branch never touched it, and the merged file is
byte-identical to main's, so #219's regenerated version arrived intact. README's "212
compile-time caps" matches limits_build's 212, and neither side moved it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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