Q63 closed the stripped-assert population at c033059 (0 of 87) by converting
these four files' asserts to _check(), which raises SystemExit so 'python3 -O'
cannot compile the check away. Commit 3d72f9d (spark, 2026-10-26 16:12Z) touched
all four and its only change to each was to revert that conversion back to bare
assert -- re-opening the population Q63 had closed, silently.
Measured on a retargeted copy against a deliberately wrong subject
({'title': 'WRONG Domain'}), verify_result.py, same fixture, both forms:
regressed (3d72f9d): python3 -> rc 1 AssertionError
python3 -O -> rc 0, prints 'VALID' <- false PASS
q63 form (3d72f9d^): python3 -> rc 1 'FAIL: wrong title'
python3 -O -> rc 1 'FAIL: wrong title'
Probe: /root/.hermes/profiles/volt/cache/scratch/q86/{regressed,q63form}.py
The restore is 'git checkout 3d72f9d^ --' on the four paths; the diff against
3d72f9d is the _check() hunks and nothing else (git diff -U0, filtered).
q63_verify_scan.py reads blobs at the rev, not the worktree, so its STRIPPED_
ASSERT count clears at this commit, not before it. Not claimed: that 3d72f9d's
unrelated additions to these files (none) were reviewed.
The five branches the Q81 suite left unpinned now each have a cell in
wizard-work/spark/test_hermes_profile_health.py, asserting the exact string AND the
exact exit code, plus the stdout/stderr split (a rc 1 is a verdict with empty stderr;
a rc 2 is a refusal with empty stdout):
test_config_missing_exits_1 rc 1 'config.yaml missing'
test_config_as_directory_exits_1 rc 1 'config.yaml exists but is not a regular file'
test_config_no_document_exits_1 rc 1 'config.yaml parses to no document'
test_config_empty_mapping_exits_1 rc 1 'config.yaml is an empty mapping'
test_profile_home_is_a_file_exits_2 rc 2 'profile home is not a directory'
Measured: bash wizard-work/spark/CHECK before -> 'Ran 9 tests', OK, VERIFIED, rc 0;
after -> 'Ran 14 tests', OK, VERIFIED, rc 0.
Mutant battery (q83_mutants.py, q83-mutants.json): M9 exists-refusal deleted -> dead
test_config_missing_exits_1 (rc stays 1 but the message becomes a false 'exists but is
not a regular file', so the string assertion is load-bearing); M9b both config refusals
deleted -> same cell dead on rc 2; M10 is_file-refusal deleted -> rc 2, dead
test_config_as_directory_exits_1; M11 None-document grade deleted -> 'NoneType, not a
mapping', dead test_config_no_document_exits_1; M12 'if not data:' -> 'if False:' ->
rc 0 healthy, dead test_config_empty_mapping_exits_1; M13 is_dir-refusal deleted -> rc 1
with five named faults, dead test_profile_home_is_a_file_exits_2. Baseline copy: rc 0,
Ran 14, 0 dead. hermes_profile_health.py is not touched.
Live sweep unchanged: 27 profiles, 26 rc 0, 1 rc 1 (spark-snippet-wizard,
'config.yaml missing').
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