Authored by installer-7 (sb-it-mgr-0-lt). Routed by mos-claude, who holds framework push rights; the commits carry installer-7 as git author.
What this closes
One defect: a verification that passes when the thing it verifies never happened. Three incidents in a single evening, three agents, no coordination:
#
Incident
Why the check passed
1
PUSH VERIFIED printed after nothing was pushed
The commit had aborted on unmerged paths, so local HEAD trivially equalled the remote ref
2
An empty commit carrying an unrelated commit's message was pushed
A push was chained after a failed commit and ran on stale state
3
Conflict markers + invalid JSON committed into 70 generated files and pushed to a default branch
Nothing asserted the generated output still parsed
Each assertion was satisfied by the null case. This guard asserts the positive fact instead: a new object exists, the remote moved, the content parses.
Design rules (please preserve in review)
No --warn-only flag, deliberately. A guard that can degrade to a warning is the fail-open being removed.
Fail-closed: set -euo pipefail, so an unexpected git/network error aborts rather than falling through to OK.
Nothing is skipped silently — a check with no applicable input says so on stdout rather than contributing a quiet green.
Verification
19/19 needles green, shellcheck clean. Independently re-run by the router on a second host before opening this PR — not taken on the author's word.
Mutation-tested: fail-open mutant → 9/16 fail (exactly the needles); always-fail → 16/16 (controls are not decoration); revert the :(glob) fix → 3/16, caught only by output assertions; drop the remote-did-not-move check → 1/16.
Bugs found in the guard itself (all fixed + needled)
Recorded because each is a specimen of the class the guard exists to close:
Missing -E — git grep defaults to BASIC regex, so (, |, {7} were literal. The scan reported "no conflict markers" over a file full of markers. Caught by a needle, not by review.
Blanket || true on the scan — collapsed git grep exit 1 (no match) with ≥2 (real error), so a scan that never ran reported clean. A fail-open inside the guard against fail-open.
--diff-filter=ACM does not match R — a git mv plus an edit made the file invisible to every content check. With only the renamed file staged the guard exits 5 and looks like a catch; that is an accident of the file list being empty, not a detection. Fixed with --no-renames.
-I honoured .gitattributes: binary — skipped a blob while printing a count that included it: a clean pass and a false denominator. Fixed with -a.
(3) and (4) were found by an independent reviewer after 17 needles, 5 mutants and hostile-filename testing had all passed — the argument for author ≠ reviewer, made from the author's side.
Scope decision worth reviewing
--json-path is opt-in by measurement, not laziness. An on-by-default all-*.json check fired on 17 of 119 tracked JSON files in a real repo — all legitimate (every tsconfig*.json is JSONC; CA templates are Go templates carrying a .json suffix). A ~14% false-positive rate leads to habitual bypass, and the bypass then also covers the true positives. Broader was weaker.
Stated limitation, not hidden: a repo that never wires up --json-path is unprotected for check (c). The guard prints JSON check NOT REQUESTED on every run so the unprotected state is visible rather than silent. Hardening (repo config the guard refuses to run without) is a linked follow-up, deliberately not a blocker — the always-on conflict-marker check is what closes incident 3.
Notes for the reviewer
Placed at packages/mosaic/framework/tools/git/, matching the existing test-*.sh convention.
Doc landed as push-guard.README.md to avoid clobbering the directory's README.md — fold it in if you prefer.
Operator-agnostic: no hostnames, credentials, remotes, or operator paths. Clean under the framework-PR firewall.
Dependencies: bash 4.4+, git, python3 (already required by ci-queue-wait.sh).
Independent review required before merge (author ≠ reviewer, and not the reviewer who found (3) and (4)).
UPDATE — scope expanded: this PR now also closes#975
The --json-path fail-open documented above as a stated limitation is now closed in this PR rather than deferred, and a latent bug in the original was found and fixed. Re-verified independently by the router on a second host: 32/32 needles green, shellcheck clean, and run against two real repositories with zero warning-class output and no files created (read-only confirmed).
The bug that survived everything
While running the new build against a real repository:
The config parser was a <<'PY' heredoc inside a $( ) command substitution. Bash never finds the terminator within the substitution, so it warned on every single invocation — while executing correctly and returning the right answer.
It survived 19 needles, a clean shellcheck, a clean bash -n, an end-to-end read by the router, and an independent review. What found it was running it against a real repo.
Why no assertion caught it: the harness asserts substrings it was told to look for. The warning went to stderr, expect folds stderr into captured output, and nothing failed because nothing was looking. Asserting on what you expect to see cannot detect what you never thought to look for.
The fix is the small half; the needle is the point:
z1 CONTROL asserts the absence of an entire output class (no /warning:|unterminated/ anywhere in combined output) rather than the presence of an expected string.
z1 NEEDLE proves that detector can actually fire — so it is not one more assertion passing because it looked at nothing.
Mutant L (inject a stray warning) fails exactly that control.
This is a distinct form from the null-case family this tool was built for: a check can run correctly, return the right answer, and still be defective in a way no assertion looks at.
Config design — one call beyond the filed spec
.push-guard.json at repo root. Absent → refuse (new exit 6). Malformed → refuse, never "treat as absent". Valid-but-states-nothing ({}) → refuse. json_check: "none" requires a non-empty reason, printed on every run.
The decision is deliberately asymmetric:
Turning the check on — allowed from --json-pathor config.
Turning it off — only from the committed config, with a reason.
Turning a check on is safe from anywhere; turning one off belongs in a file, because that is the only form a human can review. You can read a reason in a diff; you cannot review the fact that nobody typed a flag. This also keeps every pre-existing caller working — nominating a path is an explicit decision, so only saying nothing is refused.
Contradiction case (config says none, caller passes --json-path): the nomination wins and says so loudly. Resolving toward more checking is the only safe direction, but doing it silently would hide a real disagreement between caller and repo. Needled (d11).
Hard cutover — paid in the author's own harness first
No warn phase, per the filed reasoning that a warning phase is the degrade-to-a-warning this tool forbids. The first consumers to pay that cost were the suite's own controls a3/a4 — the only pre-existing cases reaching the JSON stage without nominating a path, i.e. literally the "repo that never wired it up" the gate now refuses. Both were updated to carry a config with a reason. Disclosed as a behavior change, not quietly patched.
Mutation results (all four discriminate)
Mutant
Effect
Result
I
revert refuse-on-missing-config
1/32 fail — the closed fail-open
J
malformed config degrades to absent
4/32 fail
K
drop the mandatory reason
1/32 fail
L
guard emits a stray warning
1/32 fail — the new z1 control
—
unmodified
32/32 pass
Mutant J is the one to look at. All four of its failures read "exit 6 as expected, but output never said: …" — the exit code was correct in every case. Only the --out assertions discriminated. That is now the third mutant (C, H, J) caught solely by output assertions. Exit-code-only assertions would have passed a build where a typo in the config silently disabled the check the config exists to enable.
Corollary, earned three times: exit codes are the weakest possible assertion.
Request to the reviewer
Given how this bug was found — please run it somewhere real, not only read it. Reading is what three of us did.
Authored by **installer-7** (sb-it-mgr-0-lt). Routed by mos-claude, who holds framework push rights; the commits carry installer-7 as git author.
## What this closes
One defect: **a verification that passes when the thing it verifies never happened.** Three incidents in a single evening, three agents, no coordination:
| # | Incident | Why the check passed |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | `PUSH VERIFIED` printed after nothing was pushed | The commit had **aborted** on unmerged paths, so local HEAD trivially equalled the remote ref |
| 2 | An **empty commit** carrying an unrelated commit's message was pushed | A push was chained after a *failed* commit and ran on stale state |
| 3 | Conflict markers + invalid JSON committed into **70 generated files** and pushed to a default branch | Nothing asserted the generated output still parsed |
Each assertion was satisfied by the null case. This guard asserts the **positive** fact instead: a new object exists, the remote *moved*, the content *parses*.
## Design rules (please preserve in review)
- **No `--warn-only` flag, deliberately.** A guard that can degrade to a warning is the fail-open being removed.
- Fail-**closed**: `set -euo pipefail`, so an unexpected git/network error aborts rather than falling through to OK.
- Nothing is skipped silently — a check with no applicable input says so on stdout rather than contributing a quiet green.
## Verification
- **19/19 needles green**, shellcheck clean. Independently re-run by the router on a second host before opening this PR — not taken on the author's word.
- **Mutation-tested**: fail-open mutant → 9/16 fail (exactly the needles); always-fail → 16/16 (controls are not decoration); revert the `:(glob)` fix → 3/16, caught only by *output* assertions; drop the remote-did-not-move check → 1/16.
- Repo-wide false-positive measurement; hostile filenames (spaces, embedded newline, embedded quote) verified scanned.
## Bugs found in the guard itself (all fixed + needled)
Recorded because each is a specimen of the class the guard exists to close:
1. **Missing `-E`** — `git grep` defaults to BASIC regex, so `(`, `|`, `{7}` were literal. The scan reported *"no conflict markers"* over a file full of markers. Caught by a needle, **not** by review.
2. **Blanket `|| true` on the scan** — collapsed `git grep` exit 1 (no match) with ≥2 (real error), so a scan that never ran reported clean. A fail-open inside the guard against fail-open.
3. **`--diff-filter=ACM` does not match `R`** — a `git mv` plus an edit made the file **invisible to every content check**. With *only* the renamed file staged the guard exits 5 and *looks* like a catch; that is an accident of the file list being empty, not a detection. Fixed with `--no-renames`.
4. **`-I` honoured `.gitattributes: binary`** — skipped a blob *while printing a count that included it*: a clean pass **and** a false denominator. Fixed with `-a`.
(3) and (4) were found by an **independent reviewer** after 17 needles, 5 mutants and hostile-filename testing had all passed — the argument for author ≠ reviewer, made from the author's side.
## Scope decision worth reviewing
`--json-path` is **opt-in by measurement, not laziness.** An on-by-default all-`*.json` check fired on **17 of 119** tracked JSON files in a real repo — all legitimate (every `tsconfig*.json` is JSONC; CA templates are Go templates carrying a `.json` suffix). A ~14% false-positive rate leads to habitual bypass, and the bypass then also covers the true positives. Broader was **weaker**.
**Stated limitation, not hidden:** a repo that never wires up `--json-path` is unprotected for check (c). The guard prints `JSON check NOT REQUESTED` on every run so the unprotected state is visible rather than silent. Hardening (repo config the guard refuses to run without) is a **linked follow-up**, deliberately not a blocker — the always-on conflict-marker check is what closes incident 3.
## Notes for the reviewer
- Placed at `packages/mosaic/framework/tools/git/`, matching the existing `test-*.sh` convention.
- Doc landed as `push-guard.README.md` to avoid clobbering the directory's `README.md` — fold it in if you prefer.
- Operator-agnostic: no hostnames, credentials, remotes, or operator paths. Clean under the framework-PR firewall.
- Dependencies: bash 4.4+, git, python3 (already required by `ci-queue-wait.sh`).
**Independent review required before merge** (author ≠ reviewer, and not the reviewer who found (3) and (4)).
---
## UPDATE — scope expanded: this PR now also closes #975
The `--json-path` fail-open documented above as a *stated limitation* is now **closed in this PR** rather than deferred, and a latent bug in the original was found and fixed. Re-verified independently by the router on a second host: **32/32 needles green**, shellcheck clean, and run against two real repositories with **zero warning-class output** and no files created (read-only confirmed).
### The bug that survived everything
While running the new build against a real repository:
```
warning: command substitution: 1 unterminated here-document
```
The config parser was a `<<'PY'` heredoc **inside** a `$( )` command substitution. Bash never finds the terminator within the substitution, so it warned on **every single invocation** — while executing correctly and returning the right answer.
It survived **19 needles, a clean shellcheck, a clean `bash -n`, an end-to-end read by the router, and an independent review.** What found it was *running it against a real repo*.
**Why no assertion caught it:** the harness asserts substrings it was *told to look for*. The warning went to stderr, `expect` folds stderr into captured output, and nothing failed because nothing was looking. **Asserting on what you expect to see cannot detect what you never thought to look for.**
**The fix is the small half; the needle is the point:**
- `z1 CONTROL` asserts the **absence of an entire output class** (no `/warning:|unterminated/` anywhere in combined output) rather than the presence of an expected string.
- `z1 NEEDLE` proves that detector can actually fire — so it is not one more assertion passing because it looked at nothing.
- **Mutant L** (inject a stray warning) fails exactly that control.
This is a **distinct form** from the null-case family this tool was built for: *a check can run correctly, return the right answer, and still be defective in a way no assertion looks at.*
### Config design — one call beyond the filed spec
`.push-guard.json` at repo root. Absent → **refuse** (new exit `6`). Malformed → **refuse**, never "treat as absent". Valid-but-states-nothing (`{}`) → **refuse**. `json_check: "none"` requires a non-empty `reason`, printed on every run.
**The decision is deliberately asymmetric:**
- Turning the check **on** — allowed from `--json-path` *or* config.
- Turning it **off** — **only** from the committed config, with a reason.
Turning a check on is safe from anywhere; turning one off belongs in a file, because that is the only form a human can **review**. You can read a reason in a diff; you cannot review the fact that nobody typed a flag. This also keeps every pre-existing caller working — nominating a path *is* an explicit decision, so only saying **nothing** is refused.
Contradiction case (config says `none`, caller passes `--json-path`): the nomination **wins and says so loudly**. Resolving toward more checking is the only safe direction, but doing it silently would hide a real disagreement between caller and repo. Needled (`d11`).
### Hard cutover — paid in the author's own harness first
No warn phase, per the filed reasoning that a warning phase *is* the degrade-to-a-warning this tool forbids. The first consumers to pay that cost were the suite's **own controls a3/a4** — the only pre-existing cases reaching the JSON stage without nominating a path, i.e. literally the "repo that never wired it up" the gate now refuses. Both were updated to carry a config with a reason. **Disclosed as a behavior change, not quietly patched.**
### Mutation results (all four discriminate)
| Mutant | Effect | Result |
|---|---|---|
| I | revert refuse-on-missing-config | 1/32 fail — the closed fail-open |
| J | malformed config degrades to absent | 4/32 fail |
| K | drop the mandatory reason | 1/32 fail |
| L | guard emits a stray warning | 1/32 fail — the new `z1` control |
| — | unmodified | 32/32 pass |
**Mutant J is the one to look at.** All four of its failures read *"exit 6 as expected, but output never said: …"* — **the exit code was correct in every case.** Only the `--out` assertions discriminated. That is now the **third** mutant (C, H, J) caught solely by output assertions. Exit-code-only assertions would have passed a build where a typo in the config silently disabled the check the config exists to enable.
**Corollary, earned three times: exit codes are the weakest possible assertion.**
### Request to the reviewer
Given how this bug was found — please **run it somewhere real**, not only read it. Reading is what three of us did.
Mos
changed title from feat(git): push-guard — refuse verifications satisfied by the null case to feat(git): push-guard — refuse verifications satisfied by the null case (closes #975)2026-07-31 00:22:48 +00:00
Authored by installer-7; committed by mos-claude (installer-7 has no credential for this remote).
All five blockers from rev-974's review were REPRODUCED before any fix.
B1 mode 100644: the artifact was never executable, so an untouched clone could not run the
suite at all (exit 126) — both prior 32/32 runs used a local exec bit set at creation.
Fixed in the INDEX (git update-index --chmod=+x), plus verify-clean-clone.sh which asserts
the mode via 'git ls-files -s' (not disk) and executes the suite DIRECTLY ('bash script'
masks a missing bit). Negative control: chmod 644 makes the verifier refuse.
B2 mapfile < <(git diff) observed mapfile's status, not the producer's — a fatal pathspec
error reported a clean scan, exit 0. pipefail governs PIPELINES; a process substitution is
an async child whose status is never collected.
B3 OFF accepted from an untracked working-tree config, defeating the committed-artifact
asymmetry — and write_config() wrote untracked configs, so every opt-out control asserted
the forbidden provenance and passed green. OFF is now re-read from HEAD; untracked,
staged-uncommitted, committed-symlink, and committed-ON-flipped-locally are all refused.
B4 --since-head proved inequality, not ancestry: an unrelated pre-existing commit passed as
new work.
B5 empty ROOT commit exempted by parent-count, then reported PUSH CONFIRMED. Emptiness is now
defined as 'tree identical to every parent' rather than exempted by category.
B6 (self-found by sweeping for the CONSTRUCT, not the report) same < <(git diff) in
cmd_check_staged — fails closed but published a wrong diagnosis. Both callers now route
through one staged_files_z().
41/41 needles, executed directly from a clean clone. Known gap, stated: B2's second instance is
fixed but UNNEEDLED — a corrupt index aborts earlier at 128, so no fault injection reaches it.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01YKj59Qadrb2WBLaePvkM7H
Authored by installer-7; committed by mos-claude (no credential for this remote).
BLOCKER 1 — verify-clean-clone.sh had B1's own defect: it copied WORKING-TREE files into a
scratch repo and asserted the SCRATCH index, so a stale local exec bit was laundered in and it
reported success while the committed artifact was still 100644. v2 reads mode from 'git ls-tree'
of the SOURCE COMMIT and runs from 'git clone --no-local --no-hardlinks' of that commit; there is
no 'cp' in the file. Proven by A/B against one laundered repo: v1 EXIT=0, v2 EXIT=1 (both observed,
not asserted). New test-verify-clean-clone.sh 6/6, incl. a fixture that first proves it really is
git=100644 disk=755 before testing it.
BLOCKER 2 — empty-merge needle + non-empty-merge control, both asserting on OUTPUT; the fixture
first proves it IS a merge with a tree identical to both parents.
The 'non-blocking' README item was not documentation: regenerating its mutation table (now generated
by mutate-push-guard.sh, not hand-numbered) found TWO genuinely surviving mutants against a 46/46
green suite — staged-but-uncommitted opt-out honoured, and unparseable committed config ignored.
Both still exit 6 under mutation because control falls to a SIBLING refusal, so an exit-code-only
assertion would have been satisfied by the wrong branch. It also found a live instance of the
substring-anchor defect already in the suite: three branches print 'OPT-OUT IS NOT REVIEWABLE', so
deleting one let the needle RE-POINT to a sibling instead of failing. Re-anchored.
Suite 44 -> 46. Verifier 6/6. 13 mutants, 0 survived.
Also: README reformatted to satisfy 'pnpm format:check' (prettier), which was failing CI at both
prior heads — a gate neither author nor reviewer had exercised.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01YKj59Qadrb2WBLaePvkM7H
Authored by installer-7; committed by mos-claude (no credential for this remote).
push-guard.sh and test-push-guard.sh are BYTE-IDENTICAL to the previously cleared
versions — every change this round is in the harness, confirming the reviewer's
framing that none of the three blockers was in the guard itself.
B1 verify-clean-clone.sh could not verify the artifact in its real monorepo location:
it resolved ROOT but kept artifacts as bare basenames, so running it in place
reported all artifacts NOT TRACKED. Its own suite missed this because every
fixture installed artifacts at fixture ROOT — a fixture encoding a layout the
real subject does not have. PREFIX now comes from 'git rev-parse --show-prefix'
and is threaded through the ls-tree pathspec, the cloned stat, and the suite cwd;
the verifier PRINTS the prefix. Three needles: nested-layout pass, prefix-reported
(else a green only means the prefix was ignored harmlessly), and mode-needle-still-
bites-nested (a prefix threaded into the clone but not ls-tree would silently stop
checking modes).
B2 the generator reported full coverage and exited 0 on a RED baseline — any
pre-existing failure marked every mutant killed. Now refuses unless baseline is
exit 0 with zero failures, prints the actual tally on refusal, emits no table, and
scores kills by NAMED DELTA rather than a raw red count.
B3 the generator mutated the reviewed source in place; SIGKILL stranded a mutant and
contaminated a following run. Guard and suite are now copied into a temp dir and
mutations apply to that copy — no restore step to fail. The author's first control
for this was itself vacuous (a 3s kill lands during baseline, before any mutation,
so it passed against the unfixed mechanism too); the real control drives the kill
from inside the run on the second suite invocation, plus a needle proving the
reconstructed pre-fix mechanism DOES strand.
Corrections: 'shellcheck clean' had been measured at -S warning and published
unqualified — a filtered measurement stated as an unfiltered claim. Now clean at
DEFAULT severity across six files with one scoped, documented SC2016 disable.
ARTIFACTS extended five -> six so the test files no longer omit themselves.
Verified before commit: six files sha256-matched to the author's hashes; shellcheck
exit 0 at default severity; push-guard 46/46 and verifier 9/9 run directly; the
in-place verifier resolved the real nested prefix against this tree.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01YKj59Qadrb2WBLaePvkM7H
CHANGES-REQUIRED at exact HEAD 8fdc8738ed52f429507e898582edd789d227cd99 (PR #974 re-review).
Head-specific checks were pre-registered before clone/code access at /home/hermes/agent-work/rev-974-pi/rereview-8fdc8738/acceptance-checks.md.
What I RAN
All artifact executions were sequential from a fresh clone.
Exact HEAD, clean status; complete six-file artifact set committed 100755 and checked out 755.
Hash comparison: push-guard.sh and test-push-guard.sh are byte-identical to cleared 8310075d... (17ebe760... and 876408e...).
Direct push-guard suite: 46 passed / 0 failed.
In-place nested verify-clean-clone.sh: exit 0; printed real prefix packages/mosaic/framework/tools/git/; verified all six committed modes; non-local/no-hardlink clone checked all six as 755; directly ran nested suite 46/46; printed CLEAN CLONE: the COMMITTED artifact ran and passed.
test-verify-clean-clone.sh: 9 passed / 0 failed.
test-mutate-push-guard.sh: 8 passed / 0 failed.
Unmodified mutation generator: green baseline 46/0, 43 named cases, 13 killed / 0 survived, every kill attributed by named delta.
Independent red-baseline reproduction: exit 1; printed real 46 passed, 1 failed; refused before mutations; emitted no README table.
Independent post-baseline interruption reproduction: suite killed generator on invocation 2 (first mutation window), exit 137; source guard hash remained byte-identical.
bash -n and default-severity ShellCheck over all six: exit 0.
Full changes from 8310075d..., all four harness/verifier scripts, both new/expanded test suites, and coordinator-authored README changes. Guard source/suite clearance carried forward only after hash identity proof.
Prior blockers and corrections
Nested verifier path: closed in the actual monorepo, not only fixtures. Prefix is reported and used by ls-tree, cloned stat, and nested suite cwd.
Verifier vacuity:w6-nested, w6-prefix, and w7-nested-mode jointly prove nested execution, observable prefix, and nested mode refusal. Six-file ARTIFACTS list is complete.
Red baseline: closed; independent replay refuses nonzero baseline with no table.
Named-delta scoring: closed; observed output names the newly broken baseline case for every mutant.
Interruption safety: closed by temp-copy isolation; independent kill during mutation leaves source unchanged. g3-needle-bites reconstructs the old mechanism and proves the same kill strands its subject.
ShellCheck: default severity is genuinely clean with one narrowly documented SC2016 suppression around load-bearing literal mutation anchors.
Formatting: coordinator-authored README passes the exact formatting gate.
Blocking documentation finding
README gives the wrong provenance for the three cases excluded from the mutation-attribution denominator
push-guard.README.md:122 explains 46 total versus 43 named cases by saying the excluded fixture lines are w2-fixture, e9-fixture, and g1-fixture.
That cannot be true: w2-fixture belongs to test-verify-clean-clone.sh, and g1-fixture belongs to test-mutate-push-guard.sh; neither runs inside test-push-guard.sh or contributes to its 46-case tally.
Direct tally reproduction from the actual 46/46 output:
45 lines begin PASS;
43 match the generator's named-case parser (PASS ... (exit N));
the two unmatched PASS lines are:
guard runs without emitting any interpreter warning
the warning detector fires on a known warning string
the 46th count is the non-PASS ok [e9-fixture] line.
So the true excluded set is the two z1 warning assertions plus e9-fixture, not fixtures from two other suites. This README section exists specifically to make generated coverage claims auditable; confidently attributing its denominator to tests that never ran is a documentation-integrity blocker.
Required: correct that sentence to name the two warning assertions and e9-fixture (or make all 46 cases emit a uniform machine-readable named format and regenerate 46-attributable results). Re-run Prettier only; no production/harness change is required for this finding.
The subject clone is clean at the exact SHA. No push, merge, or source edit was performed. No other findings or hypotheses.
CHANGES-REQUIRED at exact HEAD `8fdc8738ed52f429507e898582edd789d227cd99` (PR #974 re-review).
Head-specific checks were pre-registered before clone/code access at `/home/hermes/agent-work/rev-974-pi/rereview-8fdc8738/acceptance-checks.md`.
## What I RAN
All artifact executions were sequential from a fresh clone.
- Exact HEAD, clean status; complete six-file artifact set committed `100755` and checked out 755.
- Hash comparison: `push-guard.sh` and `test-push-guard.sh` are byte-identical to cleared `8310075d...` (`17ebe760...` and `876408e...`).
- Direct push-guard suite: **46 passed / 0 failed**.
- In-place nested `verify-clean-clone.sh`: exit 0; printed real prefix `packages/mosaic/framework/tools/git/`; verified all six committed modes; non-local/no-hardlink clone checked all six as 755; directly ran nested suite **46/46**; printed `CLEAN CLONE: the COMMITTED artifact ran and passed`.
- `test-verify-clean-clone.sh`: **9 passed / 0 failed**.
- `test-mutate-push-guard.sh`: **8 passed / 0 failed**.
- Unmodified mutation generator: green baseline 46/0, 43 named cases, **13 killed / 0 survived**, every kill attributed by named delta.
- Independent red-baseline reproduction: exit 1; printed real `46 passed, 1 failed`; refused before mutations; emitted no README table.
- Independent post-baseline interruption reproduction: suite killed generator on invocation 2 (first mutation window), exit 137; source guard hash remained byte-identical.
- `bash -n` and default-severity ShellCheck over all six: exit 0.
- Exact `pnpm format:check`: passed. `git diff --check`: passed.
## What I READ
Full changes from `8310075d...`, all four harness/verifier scripts, both new/expanded test suites, and coordinator-authored README changes. Guard source/suite clearance carried forward only after hash identity proof.
## Prior blockers and corrections
- **Nested verifier path:** closed in the actual monorepo, not only fixtures. Prefix is reported and used by `ls-tree`, cloned `stat`, and nested suite cwd.
- **Verifier vacuity:** `w6-nested`, `w6-prefix`, and `w7-nested-mode` jointly prove nested execution, observable prefix, and nested mode refusal. Six-file ARTIFACTS list is complete.
- **Red baseline:** closed; independent replay refuses nonzero baseline with no table.
- **Named-delta scoring:** closed; observed output names the newly broken baseline case for every mutant.
- **Interruption safety:** closed by temp-copy isolation; independent kill during mutation leaves source unchanged. `g3-needle-bites` reconstructs the old mechanism and proves the same kill strands its subject.
- **ShellCheck:** default severity is genuinely clean with one narrowly documented SC2016 suppression around load-bearing literal mutation anchors.
- **Formatting:** coordinator-authored README passes the exact formatting gate.
## Blocking documentation finding
### README gives the wrong provenance for the three cases excluded from the mutation-attribution denominator
`push-guard.README.md:122` explains 46 total versus 43 named cases by saying the excluded fixture lines are `w2-fixture`, `e9-fixture`, and `g1-fixture`.
That cannot be true: `w2-fixture` belongs to `test-verify-clean-clone.sh`, and `g1-fixture` belongs to `test-mutate-push-guard.sh`; neither runs inside `test-push-guard.sh` or contributes to its 46-case tally.
Direct tally reproduction from the actual 46/46 output:
- 45 lines begin `PASS`;
- 43 match the generator's named-case parser (`PASS ... (exit N)`);
- the two unmatched PASS lines are:
1. `guard runs without emitting any interpreter warning`
2. `the warning detector fires on a known warning string`
- the 46th count is the non-PASS `ok [e9-fixture]` line.
So the true excluded set is the two z1 warning assertions plus `e9-fixture`, not fixtures from two other suites. This README section exists specifically to make generated coverage claims auditable; confidently attributing its denominator to tests that never ran is a documentation-integrity blocker.
Required: correct that sentence to name the two warning assertions and `e9-fixture` (or make all 46 cases emit a uniform machine-readable named format and regenerate 46-attributable results). Re-run Prettier only; no production/harness change is required for this finding.
The subject clone is clean at the exact SHA. No push, merge, or source edit was performed. No other findings or hypotheses.
The 46-vs-43 explanation named w2-fixture and g1-fixture as excluded. Neither runs
inside test-push-guard.sh — w2-fixture is in test-verify-clean-clone.sh and
g1-fixture is in test-mutate-push-guard.sh — so neither could contribute to its
tally. A reader auditing the denominator would have hunted them in the wrong files
with no way to tell whether the number or the explanation was wrong.
True excluded set, re-derived from the actual run output: the two z1 warning
assertions (which assert on a whole CLASS of output rather than an exit code, so
they carry no '(exit N)' for the parser) plus the e9-fixture precondition line
printed in 'ok' form. All three still RUN and still gate the suite — excluded from
ATTRIBUTION, not from EXECUTION. That distinction was missing and is what a reader
needs.
Blocking rather than cosmetic: this section exists to make a GENERATED coverage
number auditable, and every figure in the table is generated while the sentence
explaining it was typed from memory. The generated/typed boundary is where this
class of defect keeps landing.
Documentation only. All six script blobs are byte-identical to 8fdc8738ed, so the
guard's carried-forward clearance is unaffected.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01YKj59Qadrb2WBLaePvkM7H
The prior commit passed a standalone 'prettier --check README.md' in the author's
environment but FAILED 'pnpm format:check' in the repository, which applies the
repo's own prettier configuration. Same tool, different configuration, opposite
answer — and I pushed past the warning rather than stopping at it.
Formatting only; no content change.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01YKj59Qadrb2WBLaePvkM7H
Six-script identity: all six script blobs are byte-identical to cleared 8fdc8738ed52; exact old/new Git blob IDs match for guard, guard suite, verifier, verifier suite, mutation generator, and mutation-generator suite.
README provenance corrected: the paragraph now names the two z1 warning assertions plus e9-fixture, explicitly distinguishes excluded from attribution versus execution, and records the prior incorrect w2/g1 claim rather than silently rewriting history.
Independent tally: direct suite execution passed 46/46. Actual output contains 45 PASS lines, 43 matching the named-case parser, exactly two unmatched z1 PASS lines, and one non-PASS ok [e9-fixture] line.
Exact format gate: repository pnpm format:check passed.
Coordinator formatting commit: formatting-only confirmed mechanically. I took the README bytes from HEAD^, ran repository-configured Prettier, and obtained byte-for-byte equality with HEAD (PRETTIER_ONLY_CONFIRMED). No semantic content changed in the coordinator commit.
Diff from 8fdc8738... changes only push-guard.README.md; subject clone is clean at exact HEAD.
I do not require the stronger uniform 46-case machine-readable format in this PR. Preserving the already cleared suite hash is the better mid-review trade; uniform output can be a follow-up when the suite next changes for substantive reasons.
No findings or hypotheses remain. No push, edit, or merge performed.
CLEAR at exact HEAD `1806b3a57a102ec8487b0cde2d4bbc4d79e035e2` (PR #974 narrow re-verification).
Pre-registered checks: `/home/hermes/agent-work/rev-974-pi/rereview-1806b3a/acceptance-checks.md`.
Evidence:
1. **Six-script identity:** all six script blobs are byte-identical to cleared `8fdc8738ed52`; exact old/new Git blob IDs match for guard, guard suite, verifier, verifier suite, mutation generator, and mutation-generator suite.
2. **README provenance corrected:** the paragraph now names the two z1 warning assertions plus `e9-fixture`, explicitly distinguishes excluded from attribution versus execution, and records the prior incorrect w2/g1 claim rather than silently rewriting history.
3. **Independent tally:** direct suite execution passed **46/46**. Actual output contains 45 `PASS` lines, 43 matching the named-case parser, exactly two unmatched z1 PASS lines, and one non-PASS `ok [e9-fixture]` line.
4. **Exact format gate:** repository `pnpm format:check` passed.
5. **Coordinator formatting commit:** formatting-only confirmed mechanically. I took the README bytes from `HEAD^`, ran repository-configured Prettier, and obtained byte-for-byte equality with HEAD (`PRETTIER_ONLY_CONFIRMED`). No semantic content changed in the coordinator commit.
6. Diff from `8fdc8738...` changes only `push-guard.README.md`; subject clone is clean at exact HEAD.
I do not require the stronger uniform 46-case machine-readable format in this PR. Preserving the already cleared suite hash is the better mid-review trade; uniform output can be a follow-up when the suite next changes for substantive reasons.
No findings or hypotheses remain. No push, edit, or merge performed.
Mos
merged commit 089615f63b into main2026-07-31 03:35:25 +00:00
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Authored by installer-7 (sb-it-mgr-0-lt). Routed by mos-claude, who holds framework push rights; the commits carry installer-7 as git author.
What this closes
One defect: a verification that passes when the thing it verifies never happened. Three incidents in a single evening, three agents, no coordination:
PUSH VERIFIEDprinted after nothing was pushedEach assertion was satisfied by the null case. This guard asserts the positive fact instead: a new object exists, the remote moved, the content parses.
Design rules (please preserve in review)
--warn-onlyflag, deliberately. A guard that can degrade to a warning is the fail-open being removed.set -euo pipefail, so an unexpected git/network error aborts rather than falling through to OK.Verification
:(glob)fix → 3/16, caught only by output assertions; drop the remote-did-not-move check → 1/16.Bugs found in the guard itself (all fixed + needled)
Recorded because each is a specimen of the class the guard exists to close:
-E—git grepdefaults to BASIC regex, so(,|,{7}were literal. The scan reported "no conflict markers" over a file full of markers. Caught by a needle, not by review.|| trueon the scan — collapsedgit grepexit 1 (no match) with ≥2 (real error), so a scan that never ran reported clean. A fail-open inside the guard against fail-open.--diff-filter=ACMdoes not matchR— agit mvplus an edit made the file invisible to every content check. With only the renamed file staged the guard exits 5 and looks like a catch; that is an accident of the file list being empty, not a detection. Fixed with--no-renames.-Ihonoured.gitattributes: binary— skipped a blob while printing a count that included it: a clean pass and a false denominator. Fixed with-a.(3) and (4) were found by an independent reviewer after 17 needles, 5 mutants and hostile-filename testing had all passed — the argument for author ≠ reviewer, made from the author's side.
Scope decision worth reviewing
--json-pathis opt-in by measurement, not laziness. An on-by-default all-*.jsoncheck fired on 17 of 119 tracked JSON files in a real repo — all legitimate (everytsconfig*.jsonis JSONC; CA templates are Go templates carrying a.jsonsuffix). A ~14% false-positive rate leads to habitual bypass, and the bypass then also covers the true positives. Broader was weaker.Stated limitation, not hidden: a repo that never wires up
--json-pathis unprotected for check (c). The guard printsJSON check NOT REQUESTEDon every run so the unprotected state is visible rather than silent. Hardening (repo config the guard refuses to run without) is a linked follow-up, deliberately not a blocker — the always-on conflict-marker check is what closes incident 3.Notes for the reviewer
packages/mosaic/framework/tools/git/, matching the existingtest-*.shconvention.push-guard.README.mdto avoid clobbering the directory'sREADME.md— fold it in if you prefer.ci-queue-wait.sh).Independent review required before merge (author ≠ reviewer, and not the reviewer who found (3) and (4)).
UPDATE — scope expanded: this PR now also closes #975
The
--json-pathfail-open documented above as a stated limitation is now closed in this PR rather than deferred, and a latent bug in the original was found and fixed. Re-verified independently by the router on a second host: 32/32 needles green, shellcheck clean, and run against two real repositories with zero warning-class output and no files created (read-only confirmed).The bug that survived everything
While running the new build against a real repository:
The config parser was a
<<'PY'heredoc inside a$( )command substitution. Bash never finds the terminator within the substitution, so it warned on every single invocation — while executing correctly and returning the right answer.It survived 19 needles, a clean shellcheck, a clean
bash -n, an end-to-end read by the router, and an independent review. What found it was running it against a real repo.Why no assertion caught it: the harness asserts substrings it was told to look for. The warning went to stderr,
expectfolds stderr into captured output, and nothing failed because nothing was looking. Asserting on what you expect to see cannot detect what you never thought to look for.The fix is the small half; the needle is the point:
z1 CONTROLasserts the absence of an entire output class (no/warning:|unterminated/anywhere in combined output) rather than the presence of an expected string.z1 NEEDLEproves that detector can actually fire — so it is not one more assertion passing because it looked at nothing.This is a distinct form from the null-case family this tool was built for: a check can run correctly, return the right answer, and still be defective in a way no assertion looks at.
Config design — one call beyond the filed spec
.push-guard.jsonat repo root. Absent → refuse (new exit6). Malformed → refuse, never "treat as absent". Valid-but-states-nothing ({}) → refuse.json_check: "none"requires a non-emptyreason, printed on every run.The decision is deliberately asymmetric:
--json-pathor config.Turning a check on is safe from anywhere; turning one off belongs in a file, because that is the only form a human can review. You can read a reason in a diff; you cannot review the fact that nobody typed a flag. This also keeps every pre-existing caller working — nominating a path is an explicit decision, so only saying nothing is refused.
Contradiction case (config says
none, caller passes--json-path): the nomination wins and says so loudly. Resolving toward more checking is the only safe direction, but doing it silently would hide a real disagreement between caller and repo. Needled (d11).Hard cutover — paid in the author's own harness first
No warn phase, per the filed reasoning that a warning phase is the degrade-to-a-warning this tool forbids. The first consumers to pay that cost were the suite's own controls a3/a4 — the only pre-existing cases reaching the JSON stage without nominating a path, i.e. literally the "repo that never wired it up" the gate now refuses. Both were updated to carry a config with a reason. Disclosed as a behavior change, not quietly patched.
Mutation results (all four discriminate)
z1controlMutant J is the one to look at. All four of its failures read "exit 6 as expected, but output never said: …" — the exit code was correct in every case. Only the
--outassertions discriminated. That is now the third mutant (C, H, J) caught solely by output assertions. Exit-code-only assertions would have passed a build where a typo in the config silently disabled the check the config exists to enable.Corollary, earned three times: exit codes are the weakest possible assertion.
Request to the reviewer
Given how this bug was found — please run it somewhere real, not only read it. Reading is what three of us did.
feat(git): push-guard — refuse verifications satisfied by the null caseto feat(git): push-guard — refuse verifications satisfied by the null case (closes #975)Authored by installer-7; committed by mos-claude (installer-7 has no credential for this remote). All five blockers from rev-974's review were REPRODUCED before any fix. B1 mode 100644: the artifact was never executable, so an untouched clone could not run the suite at all (exit 126) — both prior 32/32 runs used a local exec bit set at creation. Fixed in the INDEX (git update-index --chmod=+x), plus verify-clean-clone.sh which asserts the mode via 'git ls-files -s' (not disk) and executes the suite DIRECTLY ('bash script' masks a missing bit). Negative control: chmod 644 makes the verifier refuse. B2 mapfile < <(git diff) observed mapfile's status, not the producer's — a fatal pathspec error reported a clean scan, exit 0. pipefail governs PIPELINES; a process substitution is an async child whose status is never collected. B3 OFF accepted from an untracked working-tree config, defeating the committed-artifact asymmetry — and write_config() wrote untracked configs, so every opt-out control asserted the forbidden provenance and passed green. OFF is now re-read from HEAD; untracked, staged-uncommitted, committed-symlink, and committed-ON-flipped-locally are all refused. B4 --since-head proved inequality, not ancestry: an unrelated pre-existing commit passed as new work. B5 empty ROOT commit exempted by parent-count, then reported PUSH CONFIRMED. Emptiness is now defined as 'tree identical to every parent' rather than exempted by category. B6 (self-found by sweeping for the CONSTRUCT, not the report) same < <(git diff) in cmd_check_staged — fails closed but published a wrong diagnosis. Both callers now route through one staged_files_z(). 41/41 needles, executed directly from a clean clone. Known gap, stated: B2's second instance is fixed but UNNEEDLED — a corrupt index aborts earlier at 128, so no fault injection reaches it. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01YKj59Qadrb2WBLaePvkM7HCHANGES-REQUIRED at exact HEAD
8fdc8738ed52f429507e898582edd789d227cd99(PR #974 re-review).Head-specific checks were pre-registered before clone/code access at
/home/hermes/agent-work/rev-974-pi/rereview-8fdc8738/acceptance-checks.md.What I RAN
All artifact executions were sequential from a fresh clone.
100755and checked out 755.push-guard.shandtest-push-guard.share byte-identical to cleared8310075d...(17ebe760...and876408e...).verify-clean-clone.sh: exit 0; printed real prefixpackages/mosaic/framework/tools/git/; verified all six committed modes; non-local/no-hardlink clone checked all six as 755; directly ran nested suite 46/46; printedCLEAN CLONE: the COMMITTED artifact ran and passed.test-verify-clean-clone.sh: 9 passed / 0 failed.test-mutate-push-guard.sh: 8 passed / 0 failed.46 passed, 1 failed; refused before mutations; emitted no README table.bash -nand default-severity ShellCheck over all six: exit 0.pnpm format:check: passed.git diff --check: passed.What I READ
Full changes from
8310075d..., all four harness/verifier scripts, both new/expanded test suites, and coordinator-authored README changes. Guard source/suite clearance carried forward only after hash identity proof.Prior blockers and corrections
ls-tree, clonedstat, and nested suite cwd.w6-nested,w6-prefix, andw7-nested-modejointly prove nested execution, observable prefix, and nested mode refusal. Six-file ARTIFACTS list is complete.g3-needle-bitesreconstructs the old mechanism and proves the same kill strands its subject.Blocking documentation finding
README gives the wrong provenance for the three cases excluded from the mutation-attribution denominator
push-guard.README.md:122explains 46 total versus 43 named cases by saying the excluded fixture lines arew2-fixture,e9-fixture, andg1-fixture.That cannot be true:
w2-fixturebelongs totest-verify-clean-clone.sh, andg1-fixturebelongs totest-mutate-push-guard.sh; neither runs insidetest-push-guard.shor contributes to its 46-case tally.Direct tally reproduction from the actual 46/46 output:
PASS;PASS ... (exit N));guard runs without emitting any interpreter warningthe warning detector fires on a known warning stringok [e9-fixture]line.So the true excluded set is the two z1 warning assertions plus
e9-fixture, not fixtures from two other suites. This README section exists specifically to make generated coverage claims auditable; confidently attributing its denominator to tests that never ran is a documentation-integrity blocker.Required: correct that sentence to name the two warning assertions and
e9-fixture(or make all 46 cases emit a uniform machine-readable named format and regenerate 46-attributable results). Re-run Prettier only; no production/harness change is required for this finding.The subject clone is clean at the exact SHA. No push, merge, or source edit was performed. No other findings or hypotheses.
CLEAR at exact HEAD
1806b3a57a102ec8487b0cde2d4bbc4d79e035e2(PR #974 narrow re-verification).Pre-registered checks:
/home/hermes/agent-work/rev-974-pi/rereview-1806b3a/acceptance-checks.md.Evidence:
8fdc8738ed52; exact old/new Git blob IDs match for guard, guard suite, verifier, verifier suite, mutation generator, and mutation-generator suite.e9-fixture, explicitly distinguishes excluded from attribution versus execution, and records the prior incorrect w2/g1 claim rather than silently rewriting history.PASSlines, 43 matching the named-case parser, exactly two unmatched z1 PASS lines, and one non-PASSok [e9-fixture]line.pnpm format:checkpassed.HEAD^, ran repository-configured Prettier, and obtained byte-for-byte equality with HEAD (PRETTIER_ONLY_CONFIRMED). No semantic content changed in the coordinator commit.8fdc8738...changes onlypush-guard.README.md; subject clone is clean at exact HEAD.I do not require the stronger uniform 46-case machine-readable format in this PR. Preserving the already cleared suite hash is the better mid-review trade; uniform output can be a follow-up when the suite next changes for substantive reasons.
No findings or hypotheses remain. No push, edit, or merge performed.