- the file was seven `test_*` functions that nothing called, plus a module-level
`print("ALL PASS")`: running it printed a verdict with zero assertions, and
`python3 -m unittest discover -s wizard-work/beam -p test_json_canonical.py`
collected 0 (rc 5, NO TESTS RAN) while the import still printed ALL PASS.
- the seven cells are now methods of one `unittest.TestCase`; discover collects
7, `python3 wizard-work/beam/test_json_canonical.py` runs 7 OK, and
`bash wizard-work/beam/CHECK` moves Ran 191 -> Ran 198, rc 0, OK.
- the ALL PASS print is deleted; there is no module-level verdict on import.
- cells bite, measured against a mutant battery (harness
/root/.hermes/profiles/volt/cache/scratch/q82/battery.py, rows in
mutant_results.json, one tree per mutant under .../q82/mut/). Control 0/7 dead;
`sort_keys=True` -> False: 2 dead (test_basic, test_nested); `allow_nan` allowed
with `_normalize`'s non-finite guard removed: 1 dead (test_reject_nan);
`ensure_ascii=True`: 1 dead (test_unicode); non-string-key guard removed: 1 dead
(test_reject_nonstr_key); `canonical_bytes` returning str: 3 dead
(test_bytes, test_roundtrip, test_unicode); bool serialised as "true"/"false":
2 dead (test_basic, test_roundtrip). All 7 cells have a named killer.
- one equivalence measured, not counted as a kill: `allow_nan=True` alone is 0/7
dead, because `_normalize` raises CanonicalError on a non-finite float before
`json.dumps` is reached. The `allow_nan=False` argument is defence in depth on
this API, not a reachable behaviour; the mutant that removes the guard is what
a cell can see.
CHECK: bash wizard-work/beam/CHECK
Closure block appended at the foot; docs/queue-index.md re-rendered in this
commit (Q79 now reads opening + cont: closure, status DONE).
CHECK: bash wizard-work/beam/CHECK && python3 tools/verify.py --repo .
Seventeen unittest.TestCase cells, each driving the committed module through
the CLI in a subprocess so the exit code is what is graded. MOD resolves from
this file's own directory, not a host path.
Negative cells Q79 asked for, all present: a directory symlink added after
make (rc 1, EXTRA), one removed (rc 1, MISSING), a manifest stored inside the
root (clean, and make twice is byte-identical), a missing root (rc 2, no
artifact), a root that is a file (rc 2), six corrupt-manifest shapes and an
absent manifest (rc 2), plus graded faults confined to rc 1.
Bite measured, not asserted: the same suite against edac5cf's manifest.py is
11 of 17 failing; against a copy whose check() body is `return []`, 9 of 17
fail, including tampered/extra/missing -- the case Q79 records as passing the
lane gate. `bash wizard-work/beam/CHECK` -> Ran 191 tests, OK, rc 0.
CHECK: python3 wizard-work/beam/test_manifest.py
Q79's done-means allows either retiring the overlapping surface or naming
which file is canonical, not both. Retiring sha256_manifest.py would break
test_sha256_manifest.py and the reply-01..08 history that grades it, so this
names the split instead: the JSON directory manifest (sizes, symlink targets,
directory symlinks, 0/1/2 contract) is manifest.py; the plain
`digest path` text shape stays in sha256_manifest.py. One docstring, no
behaviour change.
CHECK: python3 -m unittest discover -s wizard-work/beam -p 'test_sha256*.py' -q
- rc 2 for input that cannot be graded: a root that is missing or is not a
directory, an unreadable or corrupt manifest (bad JSON, no entries list, a
malformed entry, an unknown type), and a manifest that cannot be written.
rc 1 is reserved for a graded fault, rc 0 for a clean check.
- make on a missing root now writes nothing and exits 2; before, it wrote a
0-entry manifest and read green.
- _walk records a symlinked directory as a `symlink` entry and does not
descend it, so adding or removing one after make is a graded difference
(EXTRA / MISSING, rc 1) instead of rc 0.
- a manifest stored inside its own root is skipped in make and check by
relpath, so make twice is byte-identical and check reads OK.
- a root it cannot read (OSError from os.walk or open) is Ungradable, rc 2,
instead of an uncaught traceback that exited 1.
CHECK: python3 wizard-work/beam/manifest.py make /root/troupe-standup/wizard-work/beam /tmp/q79-manifest.json && python3 wizard-work/beam/manifest.py check /root/troupe-standup/wizard-work/beam /tmp/q79-manifest.json
Closure record appended at the foot of WORK-QUEUE.md; docs/queue-index.md
re-rendered in this commit (11784 lines / 1737172 bytes).
The check itself landed at 13b77ba. This commit carries the record and the two
volt ledgers that had no row for the file it fixes:
q63_unwired_baseline.tsv gate-run wizard-work/sol/verify_daily_ledger_triage_check.py q65:PASS
q65_runner_baseline.tsv gate-run PASS rc 0 0.14 s 98d40061da0c... (empty host column)
The runner row was earned by execution (q65_runner.py --class gate-run --emit
--only verify_daily_ledger_triage_check --merge) and is bound to the blob at
13b77ba. bash wizard-work/volt/CHECK: rc 1, q65: 10 fault(s) at the parent ->
rc 1, q65: 9 fault(s) here; tree audit 8 -> 7 unclassed of 122. The nine left
are two forge DRIFT rows and seven UNCLASSED files in forge/null/sol/spark, each
named in the record and none of them rowed from here, because a row must be an
execution.
python3 tools/verify.py --repo .: 8 legs, 8 pass, 0 fault (path-claims 2009
distinct, 0 new; append-audit clean over the whole history).
The CHECK resolved its artifact from BASE = /root/.hermes/wizard-outputs (module
scope), so it graded the host copy. Measured at c74e8af from a git archive export
with no .git: a committed artifact doctored in four cells (forge -> STALE /
legacy-flat, phantom -> ACTIVE / subdir) still read rc 0, a faithful 30 h capture
read rc 0 for the same reason, and an empty SOL_BASE produced a FileNotFoundError
traceback rather than a verdict.
Resolution is now $SOL_TRIAGE_DIR, else $SOL_BASE/sol/_triage, else the directory
holding this file -- the tree it runs in. Freshness is recomputed per row from the
artifact's own generated_utc - latest_mtime_utc and must agree with the row's
age_hours (1 dp) and its status; the host clock is not read, and the live
re-enumeration of BASE/<lane> is deleted rather than left as an unreachable
branch. Exit codes: 0 clean, 1 graded fault, 2 could not grade.
Readings, each its own `git archive c74e8af` tree plus this file, no .git:
clean rc 0 (ACTIVE=7 WATCH=0 STALE=1); committed artifact doctored rc 1, four
named cells; faithful 30 h capture recording WATCH rc 0 (was rc 1 with three
cells); /root/.hermes masked to 0 entries rc 0; missing SOL_TRIAGE_DIR rc 2.
--selftest: 10 cells, 10 passed, 0 failed under python 3.14.7 and 3.12.3.
The lane file's own rc is 0 in-tree and from the export. Evidence:
wizard-work/volt/q74-2026-10-26.md
volt
timmy
beam
spark
sphinx
forge
ledger
quill
timmy
volt
zephyrus-sparkborn
troupe-pipe
mercury