The gate had six legs and none of them read a docstring's own command line.
doc_command_check.py existed since 838750c but only as a tool: nothing on the
gate ran it, so a documented flag its parser never learned could land and
nobody read it. This is that leg.
doc-commands tools/doc_command_check.py --rev WORKTREE --fail
WORKTREE, not HEAD: the commit window is where a docstring is
edited. Measured at the worktree this lands in: 67 commands
over 19 oracle tools, 67 OK, rc 0.
doc_command_check.py learns --rev WORKTREE: tracked paths from `git ls-files`
(an untracked tools/x.py is not part of the commit this mode grades), bytes
from disk. Outside a work tree it is rc 2, not an empty clean run. Selftest
15 -> 18 cells: one document edited on disk but not committed is rc 0 at HEAD
and rc 1 at WORKTREE, and the flag it names is the edited one.
Three tools stopped defaulting to a fixed path on this host. verify.py,
selftest_sweep.py, write_probe.py, citation_resolve_check.py,
path_claim_check.py and doc_census_check.py now resolve DEFAULT_REPO from the
file's own location, so a bare run in a clone grades the clone.
Three selftests refuse unreadable input at rc 2 instead of reporting it as
failed content: tool_map (not a work tree), write_probe (no table), and
citation_resolve_check (no corpus). Each cell below them graded `repo`, so an
absent tree read as "your table is wrong".
Evidence, all measured on this tree before the commit:
verify.py --selftest 55 cells, 55 passed (docstring says 55)
doc_command_check.py --selftest 18 cells, 18 passed (baseline pinned 18)
tool_map.py --repo . --rev WORKTREE --check docs/TOOLS.md rc 0
verify.py --repo . 7 legs, 6 pass, 1 fault -- selftest-sweep,
tool_map's drift cell, which renders HEAD
and so cannot pass inside a commit window
tools/selftest_baseline.tsv re-pins doc_command_check.py 15 -> 18 cells.
DEFAULT_REPO was the absolute /root/troupe-standup, so a copy's
`--selftest` -- the invocation selftest_sweep.py uses, no --repo, cwd =
the tree under sweep -- graded the home checkout and reported the copy
clean. Derived from __file__ instead: the default is the checkout the
tool lives in. Measured on a clone at c3058d5 with drifted docs: before,
repo-less --selftest 20/20 rc 0 vs --repo . 19/20 rc 1; after, 19/20
rc 1 both ways.
Also in this commit:
- verify.run_leg: one elapsed-ms clock (_elapsed_ms) and one except arm
for TimeoutExpired/OSError, instead of three copies of the arithmetic;
- write_probe c13: roster read from FLAG_PROBES rather than a hardcoded
three, and selftest_sweep.py --write-baseline added to the table;
- docs/TOOLS.md: the selftest_sweep row grows the flags it now prints.
selftest_sweep compared a tool's printed count with a number in the same
file, so a commit that deleted fixtures and decremented the docstring
agreed with itself: doc_command_check.py cut 15 cells -> 12 read clean
(sweep: 21 tools, 21 OK, 0 fatal, rc 0). tools/selftest_baseline.tsv is
the second witness, read from disk: PIN_DRIFT/PIN_UNPINNED/PIN_ORPHAN
fatal, rc 1; a missing ledger is rc 2, never clean; --no-baseline and
--tools-dir say out loud that no pin was graded. +283/-4; selftest
30 -> 39 cells, 39/39.
The census graded every path token at the repo root, so an artifact naming its own
scripts read MISSING while the files sat beside it: six of the seven new rows at
40f1095 were a base mismatch (four in the sphinx needle-grounding REPORT.md:49-52,
two quoted from the archive digest.md), and the seventh was a real rename.
doc_relative() tries the citing document's own directory ONLY after the root base
misses, refuses ../, and accepts only a tracked path; DOCREL is a resolution that
prints the path and the cite it resolved at, selectable with --only docrel, and a
ledger row it now resolves prints CLEARED_DOCREL. The root base always wins (c24),
a root document gets no second base (c23).
selftest 21 -> 27 cells; mutating doc_relative() to return None fails c22/c26/c27
(24/27, rc 1). Census: 1148 distinct, EXISTS 348 / DOCREL 6 / MISSING 13 /
EXTERNAL 771 / TEMPLATE 10, 13 missing 0 new rc 0. One ledger row added:
replies/2026-10-22-to-null-01.md RENAMED (7a472a4, added d659219).
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