pane-census, pipe-exit-scan: refuse a flag alongside --self-test, so the control counts - #607
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…the control counts
Both matched `--self-test` and DISCARDED the rest of argv. The gate said why
that is not a control:
⚠ UNVERIFIABLE — `--self-test --zzz-not-a-flag` exits 0.
⛔ The flag is matched and the rest DISCARDED, so a control result here
describes an invocation that was only half read.
⇒ MEASURED, and the gain is larger than the bucket move:
BEFORE 41 control(s) passed · 3 UNESTABLISHED · 5 UNVERIFIABLE
AFTER 43 control(s) passed · 3 UNESTABLISHED · 3 UNVERIFIABLE
Both had REAL self-tests all along. They were not counted because the gate could
not establish the flag had been read. ⇒ The repair did not add a control; it made
two existing ones legible.
pane-census bare=1 garbage=1 self-test=0 self-test+garbage=2
pipe-exit-scan bare=1 garbage=1 self-test=0 self-test+garbage=2
⚠ EXIT 2 IS CORRECT AND UNAMBIGUOUS FOR THESE TWO, and I checked before using it.
Both contracts already read `2 established nothing`, and a half-read invocation
establishes nothing. That check mattered — see below.
⛔ WHAT I DID NOT TOUCH, AND WHY EACH IS DIFFERENT:
discriminates.py ITS EXIT SPACE IS FULL. 0 discriminated · 2 non-discriminating
· 3 control failed · 4 uninterpretable. A refusal needs a code
that is not a verdict, and there is none free. Its own header
already records the hazard (#58, the exit-2 collision) and
intercepts `--self-test` BEFORE parse_args for exactly that
reason. Choosing a new code changes a reasoned contract on
another role's tool — a decision, not a repair.
fleet-identity.py Shape A: bare, garbage and `--self-test` ALL exit 0. It needs
an argv surface built, not a refusal added.
pretooluse-guard A LIVE PreToolUse hook. Its header: an addition "changes a
running mechanism". Harness configuration is the operator's.
It stays UNVERIFIABLE BY CHOICE, and that is worth recording
rather than fixing.
gate --self-test 0 · exit-code-gate 0 · check-tools-index 0 ·
test_pane_census 0 · test_pipe_exit_scan 0.
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughBoth tools now reject extra arguments on ChangesSelf-test validation
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In `@tools/pane-census.py`:
- Around line 328-329: Update the self-test argument validation in
tools/pane-census.py lines 328-329 and tools/pipe-exit-scan.py lines 471-472 to
count recognized aliases (“--self-test” and “--selftest”) and accept them only
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Require exactly one self-test alias in both entry points.
Both filters treat every occurrence of either alias as valid. A duplicated alias therefore bypasses the new refusal gate.
tools/pane-census.py#L328-L329: count recognized self-test flags and reject when the count is not exactly one.tools/pipe-exit-scan.py#L471-L472: apply the same exact-one validation.
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- _extra = [a for a in sys.argv[1:] if a not in ("--self-test", "--selftest")]
- if _extra:
+ allowed = ("--self-test", "--selftest")
+ args = sys.argv[1:]
+ flags = [a for a in args if a in allowed]
+ _extra = [a for a in args if a not in allowed]
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| _extra = [a for a in sys.argv[1:] if a not in ("--self-test", "--selftest")] | |
| if _extra: | |
| allowed = ("--self-test", "--selftest") | |
| args = sys.argv[1:] | |
| flags = [a for a in args if a in allowed] | |
| _extra = [a for a in args if a not in allowed] | |
| if len(flags) != 1 or _extra: |
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| _extra = [a for a in sys.argv[1:] if a not in ("--self-test", "--selftest")] | |
| if _extra: | |
| allowed = ("--self-test", "--selftest") | |
| args = sys.argv[1:] | |
| flags = [a for a in args if a in allowed] | |
| _extra = [a for a in args if a not in allowed] | |
| if len(flags) != 1 or _extra: |
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In `@tools/pane-census.py` around lines 328 - 329, Update the self-test argument
validation in tools/pane-census.py lines 328-329 and tools/pipe-exit-scan.py
lines 471-472 to count recognized aliases (“--self-test” and “--selftest”) and
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…age bare too (#613) * #598: the short-circuit names its own remedy, and says it is a SKIP `--force` exists and is documented in --help — "run the subject even if main has not moved" — and the ONLY output a reader sees when the legs did not run never mentioned it. Measured: 0 occurrences of "--force" in a short-circuit run. ⚠ WHAT THAT COST, from the field. A pane probing whether index-watch invokes verdict-census planted a recording stub and watched it fire on run 1 and NOT on runs 2-4. It nearly reported a FALSE NEGATIVE — "this caller does not exist" — because nothing here said the legs could be MADE to run. ⇒ The prose was true and complete about what HAPPENED, and silent about what to DO. That is #73's shape: an absence report that does not name its remedy converts a gap into a wall. Two-poled on an unchanged tree: run 2 (short-circuit) exit 0, now names --force and declares itself a SKIP --force, same tree exit 1, legs actually run ⛔ EXIT 0 IS DELIBERATELY UNCHANGED, and this is a ruling, not a deferral. This file's contract already reads "0 main unchanged, OR checked and the subject reported clean" — two-valued BY DECLARATION, not by accident — and twelve files reference this tool. #598 argues that declaring it does not make it safe; that argument stands and is recorded there. What is settled here: a reader who sees this line now knows the next move, which is the harm the issue actually recorded. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01DTMf4EvaTEnDKXY47efRZZ * #607 was half a fix: the gate probes garbage BARE too, and both tools ignored it ⛔ I FOUND THIS BY MY OWN CHANGE APPEARING TO REGRESS SOMETHING IT DID NOT. pane-census read UNVERIFIABLE on my branch; the CONTROL — three runs at origin/main, my change absent — read IDENTICALLY. ⇒ Not a regression. The state had FLIPPED under both. ★ AND THE MECHANISM IS THE FINDING. #607 refused an unknown flag only ALONGSIDE `--self-test`. The gate also runs `--zzz-not-a-flag` BARE, and a bare unknown flag fell straight through to the main path — so each tool returned its own CENSUS/SCAN verdict, and the gate read that as "it accepts garbage". ⇒ That verdict depends on LIVE STATE, so the gate's reading of an UNCHANGED FILE moved on its own. Measured, same tree, one hour apart: pane-census --zzz-not-a-flag -> 1 (a divergence was live) gate satisfied pane-census --zzz-not-a-flag -> 0 (sources agreed) gate UNVERIFIABLE ⛔ SO #607 PASSED CI ONLY BECAUSE THE FLEET HAPPENED TO DIVERGE THAT HOUR. A control that holds for an environmental reason is not a control — which is the proposition the gate exists to enforce, and my fix was an instance of violating it. ⚠ pipe-exit-scan had the SAME latent hole and was passing for the SAME kind of accident: bare and garbage both exited 1 because it happens to have findings. If those ever cleared it would exit 0 and go UNVERIFIABLE with nothing changed. ⇒ Both now refuse ANY unrecognised argument. Known flags derived, not assumed: pane-census --self-test/--selftest pipe-exit-scan --self-test/--selftest, --transcripts, --project <value> ⚠ `--project` consumes the NEXT token as its value; the guard skips it, and `--transcripts` is re-run above and still reaches the main path. ⚠ Exit 2 is each file's own documented "established nothing". pane-census bare=0 garbage=2 self=0 self+garbage=2 pipe-exit-scan bare=1 garbage=2 self=0 self+garbage=2 MEASURED, three consecutive runs, now STABLE for a structural reason: 44 control(s) passed · 0 FAILED · 0 UNESTABLISHED · 1 UNVERIFIABLE test_pane_census 0 · test_pipe_exit_scan 0 · test_index_watch 0 · exit-code-gate 0 · check-tools-index 0. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01DTMf4EvaTEnDKXY47efRZZ --------- Co-authored-by: Jonathan Borduas <jonathan.borduas@toolkit3d.com> Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Both matched
--self-testand discarded the rest of argv. The gate said why that is not acontrol:
⇒ The gain is larger than a bucket move
★ Both had real self-tests all along. They were not counted because the gate could not
establish the flag had been read. ⇒ This repair did not add a control; it made two existing ones
legible.
⚠ Exit 2 is correct and unambiguous for these two, and I checked before using it. Both contracts
already read
2 established nothing, and a half-read invocation establishes nothing. That checkturned out to matter — see
discriminatesbelow.⛔ What I did not touch, and why each is a different reason
discriminates.py0discriminated ·2non-discriminating ·3control failed ·4uninterpretable. A refusal needs a code that is not a verdict and none is free. Its own header records the hazard (#58, the exit-2 collision) and intercepts--self-testbeforeparse_argsfor exactly that reason. Choosing a new code changes a reasoned contract on another role's tool — a decision, not a repair.fleet-identity.py--self-testall exit 0. It needs an argv surface built, not a refusal added.pretooluse-guard.pyPreToolUsehook. Its header: an addition "changes a running mechanism". Harness configuration is the operator's. It stays UNVERIFIABLE by choice, which is worth recording rather than fixing.Verification
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