marker + .git must sit in the same directory, the walk is bounded at 64
ancestors, and portable_seed raises instead of returning a path to nothing.
Cells 6 -> 14, lane gate 587 -> 595 tests, and wizard-work/volt/CHECK-q90
(7 legs) grades each done-mean with a mutant that must red it.
The three refactor harnesses (probe, dump, pending) each carried the same
_IO_CALLS name list plus a builtins.open spy. Measured at bb4a85e in a clean
clone: Path(__file__).read_text(), os.open(__file__, O_RDONLY), io.open(__file__)
and with Path(__file__).open() at module scope each left the probe harness at
14/14 rc 0 printing '0 module-scope io calls; 0 runtime open calls' (pending
13/13 rc 0; dump red at 13/14 on its dead-import check while its io line still
printed 0). The name-list walk resolves Path(p).read_text() to None because its
func is an Attribute over a Call, and the spy cannot see io.open/pathlib.
Now: wizard-work/forge/import_io_detector.py (one modelled set -- 13 dotted + 4
attribute spellings -- a module-scope AST walk that names the line, and a mutant
matrix) and wizard-work/forge/import_audit_probe.py (child interpreter importing
under CPython's open audit event, so a spelling nobody modelled is still seen).
The three harnesses dropped their local copy (+244/-327) and call the shared
module; check counts unchanged, OK line states the model instead of claiming
absence.
Evidence: 8 spawnings x both instruments killed in all three harnesses
(14/14, 14/14, 13/13 rc 0). Blinding the static walk leaves the audit hook reding
check 12 on a real open event of the seed; blinding the hook leaves the walk
reding on [(107, 'pathlib.read_text')]; blinding both leaves check 12 green and
check 13's battery reding the harness. _F = open / _F(DEFAULT_PATH) -- a spelling
no list names -- is caught by the hook alone.
Instrument wizard-work/volt/CHECK-q89: 24 legs, 30 s, '0 fault -- OK', check_lint
SOUND; it copies the lane + seed to a temp root so the graded tree is never
mutated. Fourth copy (verify_dump_seed_refactor.py) untouched at 16/16 and used
as an independent oracle: agrees 12/12. Q90's beam guard untouched.
verify.py --fast: 10 legs, 9 pass, 0 fault, 1 skipped, gate OK.
Q115: the monitor's failure branch printed 'folder unreadable: <folder>' and
skipped the folder, so every path in it left the listing and the next diff read
as deletions (417 on 2026-10-28, 413 before). Format v1.4 keeps a versioned
last-good listing per folder and carries it forward on failure, with a token of
its own: UNREADABLE <folder> attempts=.. last=.. carried=.. from=.., and
NO-BASELINE <folder> when there is nothing to carry.
Q131: the harness that certifies the monitor was 0/7 at HEAD (2m51s/run): it
parsed lines[0] as 'head' after v1.3 made it 'branch-head', and it stubbed get
but not get_folder, so it read the live forge for folder contents and wrote its
synthetic attributions into the deployed cache. It now stubs all three
boundaries, isolates both caches, and carries eight cells for the failure path.
15/15 cells pass; pre-repair module 10/15 with exactly the five failure cells
red; two mutants red the cells that own them.
Q105 pointed beam/CHECK at pytest; pytest is not installed on this
interpreter, so the gate exited 2 and ran zero cells. run_lane_tests.py
collects TestCase classes (TestLoader) and bare module-level def test_*()
(FunctionTestCase) itself, treats an unimportable module and a printed
FAIL transcript as faults, and exits 0/1/2. Four test files that imported
pytest now use beam_assert.raises/fail and unittest.mock; no cell dropped.
Measured: unittest discover 353 tests; runner 570 (353 + 217 bare);
bash wizard-work/beam/CHECK rc 0; test_run_lane_tests.py 10 cells OK;
7-mutant battery in scratch copies all as expected (HEAD CHECK rc 2,
broken bare rc 1, pytest import rc 1, failing TestCase rc 1, script FAIL
rc 1, empty lane rc 2, control rc 0).
Record: WORK-QUEUE.md Q128; report wizard-outputs/volt/2026-10-30-q128.md
Q80 (spark lane by authorship, unclaimed and taken). Pre-repair blob at e8a916f:
sha256 49f0f3e2, md5 67c34c9c, 60 lines -- two opens per input (digest of the
second, validated document A, printed hash of B), NaN and Infinity rc 0 VALID,
duplicate members silently collapsed, and a missing path / directory / syntax
error all rc 1.
Repaired: 185 lines, sha256 26cb270c. One read serves both halves
(Path.read_bytes once, same bytes hashed and parsed), one decode (utf-8-sig;
BOM tolerated and documented, other encodings rc 1), parse_constant refuses
NaN/Infinity (-Infinity) with the RFC 8259 s6 citation, object_pairs_hook
refuses duplicate member names unless --allow-duplicates, rc 0 valid / 1 not
JSON / 2 could not grade with no verdict and no digest printed for any input,
and --results writes the invocation plus each input's blob sha.
Cells: wizard-work/spark/test_json_sha256_validator.py (new), 15 cells,
sha256 0d2038ea -- "Ran 15 tests ... OK", rc 0. Five mutants, control green in
the same run: M1 parse_constant removed 2 failures; M2 pre-repair blob 11
failures + 2 errors; M2b a second read put back 1 failure ("subject read 2
times: {'read_bytes': 2, 'open': 0}"); M3 ungradable as rc 1 4 failures; M4
duplicates accepted with the flag off 1 failure.
Wiring: wizard-work/spark/CHECK leg 13. bash CHECK in this tree -> VERIFIED,
rc 0; the same gate in a same-depth scratch tree with the pre-repair module
restored -> rc 13.
Gate: python3 tools/verify.py --repo . before landing reads 9 legs, 8 pass,
1 fault -- path-claims names this commit's own new file as untracked, which
the commit clears; re-read after landing is in the tick report.
CHECK: python3 wizard-work/spark/test_json_sha256_validator.py
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