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volt 75168620fe tools (volt): queue_claim_check.py -- a fenced block is quoted material, not a record (3 cells, 17 -> 20 fixtures; live census unchanged, 0 verdicts moved)
The queue's other three text parsers already refuse to read structure out of a
fence (queue_index.py:207/:266, checkin_check.py:251, citation_resolve_check.py
after efe7ec6). This scanner had no fence state: a 19-line fixture quoting a
fenced `**Q99 - OPEN**` and a fenced `**Status: OPEN**` printed two OPEN
records no writer ever opened (before/fixture-fenced.txt).

An unclosed fence fails OPEN, not closed: nothing is masked, every line is
graded, FENCE_UNCLOSED names the line. Masking to EOF would hide the newest
records, the ones a claim check exists to surface.

Live queue at HEAD: the one fence (:3757-:3763) is a quoted traceback with no
record in it, and the full report is byte-identical before and after except the
one printed line -- 73 ACS, 86 BQ, open set Q37:5278 + Q53:7303, 12/12 hand-read.
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#!/usr/bin/env python3
"""queue_claim_check.py — the claim check for `WORK-QUEUE.md`, shipped with its tests.
WHY THIS FILE EXISTS
--------------------
The queue's own convention, set 2026-10-13T23:18Z (`WORK-QUEUE.md:8020`), says:
"every new opening record carries a forward pointer to its closure line or
revision, and a claim check reads this ledger before taking any item whose
opening line reads open or unclaimed."
Opening records are written once and never updated, so any scanner that treats
the words "open and unclaimed" as current will read a *closed* item as
claimable. That already nearly cost a run (`:6847` still reads
`Status: open and unclaimed` though Q49 closed at `:6952`).
Every lane had been re-writing this scanner as throwaway host-local scratch;
`recoveries/queue-hygiene-census.md` §3 logs six generations of one such
instrument, four of which failed in the dangerous direction (a closed item
reading claimable). This file is the same check, kept in the repository and
shipped with a fixture corpus for those six defects (`--selftest`), so the next
lane inherits the tests instead of the bugs.
RULES IMPLEMENTED (stated, not implied)
---------------------------------------
Inline code spans are stripped before matching, and only *record lines* count —
a line whose first non-space characters are an optional `- `/`* ` bullet
followed by `**`. That is what excludes the queue's prose and table references
to these same words.
A FENCED BLOCK IS QUOTED MATERIAL, NOT A RECORD (2026-10-19). `queue_index.py`
and `checkin_check.py` already refuse to read structure out of a fence, on the
rule that a quoted heading is not a heading, and `citation_resolve_check.py`
applies the same rule to citations. This file had no fence state, so a tick that
quoted an example record inside a ``` block opened a phantom item: measured on a
19-line fixture carrying one fenced `**Q99 — OPEN …**` and one fenced
`**Status: OPEN …**`, the census printed two OPEN records no writer ever opened
(`before/fence-fixture.txt` in the tick's artifact). The live queue at HEAD has
no record inside a fence — 0 of its fenced lines lead `**` — so the rule moves no
verdict there; it is enforced against the next one. What is set aside is printed
on every run, never silently dropped, and an unclosed fence fails OPEN — nothing
is masked, every line is graded, and `FENCE_UNCLOSED` names the line — because
masking to EOF would hide the newest records, and those are the ones a claim
check exists to surface. The legacy BQ unit is a transcription of another tool
and is left byte-for-byte; its fence delta is printed beside it, not applied.
OPENING RECORD — a record line carrying either
(a) `Status:` followed by `open`/`OPEN`, or
(b) an item id `Q<n>` followed within 60 characters by an `—`/`–`/`--`
separator and then `OPEN`/`open`/`Opened`/`accepted`.
Its item id is the leading `**Q<n>` of the line if present; otherwise the id is
inherited from the nearest preceding `## Q<n>` header.
CLOSURE — a record line carrying CLOSED / DONE / COMPLETE / COMPLETED /
VERIFIED as a word, excluding lines whose lead is `Done means`, `stays open`,
`nothing is done` or `not done`. It is anchored to an item by (in order): its
own leading `**Q<n>`; else any `Q<n>` token on the line; else the nearest
preceding `## Q<n>` header. The search is whole-file, because this queue is
append-only and closures land at the tail.
A closure line that anchors an opening record's item => that item is CLOSED.
An opening record with no anchored closure => OPEN. A record whose leading line
still reads `open and unclaimed` while its state is CLOSED is a STALE line:
the exact failure the convention exists to prevent, and the reason `--fail-on-stale`
exits non-zero.
- **The unit.** `closure_candidates` counts **anchored closure statements (ACS)**:
a record line leading `**Q<n>`/`**Status:` with a closure word in the first
`CLOSURE_WINDOW` (120) characters, code spans stripped, exclusion phrases tested
at the lead, anchored to an item id. It does **not** count every line that
mentions a closure, and it is **not** the same population as the legacy
`q66_census6.py` figure. See UNITS below before citing a number.
UNITS (pinned 2026-10-15 — cite a number only with its unit)
------------------------------------------------------------
Two different questions have both been called "closure lines", and their counts
differ without being conversions of one another. Measured twice, at the revision
Run 37 read (`29a4872`, queue 1,170,483 B / sha256 `fbe51445a89f81ab…`) and at
`28ca8e5` (1,193,681 B / `c3b4a290dc64bd24…`) — identical on both:
* **ACS — anchored closure statement** (this file's `closure_candidates`) = **73**.
* **BQ — column-0 bold closure line naming a Q id** (the legacy matcher of
`/root/crucible/q66/q66_census6.py:54-62`, host-local, Run 37) = **85**.
A line starting at column 0 with `**`, carrying a `Q<digits>` token anywhere
and a closure word anywhere and case-insensitively, with none of that file's
exclusion phrases anywhere (`Done means`, `Done =`, `not done`,
`nothing is done`, `stays open`, `remains open`, `is OPEN`, `stays OPEN`,
`not reopened`, `nothing is re-opened`).
Headline figures re-measured at HEAD abe08a9 (WORK-QUEUE.md 1,229,541 B /
9,953 lines, `python3 tools/queue_claim_check.py --census`): the overlap is
21; ACS-only = 52, BQ-only = 64, symmetric difference = 116. The 12-line
headline gap (85 — 73) is a coincidence of nearly disjoint sets, not a unit
conversion — and 73 may never be cited as "85 minus 12". The five axes,
counted:
* 46 BQ-only lines fail ACS's record-lead rule (an addendum / status /
verification **prose** line, which BQ takes because it is column-0 bold);
* 39 ACS-only lines carry no `Q<digits>` token (ACS inherits the container id;
BQ requires the token on the line, which is why it drops `**Status: DONE …` rows);
* 18 BQ-only lines carry a **lowercase** closure word (ACS is case-sensitive);
* 12 ACS-only lines are indented or bulleted (BQ requires column 0);
* 1 ACS-only line carries a BQ exclusion phrase (`:4035`, "stays open") that ACS
tests only at the lead.
`--census` prints both numbers with their units, the overlap and this axis table
in one reproducible run.
KNOWN BLIND SPOTS (measured, not hand-waved)
--------------------------------------------
- Item ids are labels, not keys: this file's own record carries a collision
(career-lane apply queue `:7292` also reads `Q53`; the queue's own reply 62
notes it). Binding is by **section**: within a duplicated id, a closure binds
to the last record of that id opened at or before the closure, so neither
namesake can close the other. Until 2026-10-19 the tool took the id alone as
sufficient, graded `:7303` CLOSED on Mercury's `:9869`, and printed
`open set: Q37:5278` while the ledger's own blocks asserted `:7303` open; the
row still reads `COLLISION` because the labelling defect is the ledger's.
- The state is only as good as the closure line's anchoring. Inherited
anchoring can attach a closure to the enclosing item; a hand-validated set
(`--validate`) is included so a wrong answer is visible.
- Nothing here judges whether a closure is *earned*, only that it exists.
USAGE
-----
python3 tools/queue_claim_check.py # census of ./WORK-QUEUE.md
python3 tools/queue_claim_check.py --queue PATH --json OUT.json
python3 tools/queue_claim_check.py --validate # + the hand-read answers
python3 tools/queue_claim_check.py --git # resolve closure revisions
python3 tools/queue_claim_check.py --selftest # 20 fixtures, exit 0/1
python3 tools/queue_claim_check.py --census # both closure units + the axis table
Exit codes: 0 clean · 1 self-test failure · 2 stale opening line (--fail-on-stale)
3 queue unreadable. No file is written unless --json names one.
"""
import argparse
import contextlib
import io
import json
import os
import re
import subprocess
import sys
import tempfile
# --------------------------------------------------------------------------
# matching primitives
# --------------------------------------------------------------------------
CODE_SPAN = re.compile(r'`[^`]*`')
RECORD_PREFIX = re.compile(r'^[ \t]*(?:[-*]\s+)?\*\*')
ITEM_LEAD = re.compile(r'^[ \t]*(?:[-*]\s+)?\*\*Q(\d+)\b')
HEADER_ITEM = re.compile(r'^#{1,3}\s+Q(\d+)\b')
Q_TOKEN = re.compile(r'\bQ(\d+)\b')
OPEN_STATUS = re.compile(r'Status:\s*\**\s*(?:open|OPEN)\b')
OPEN_Q = re.compile(
r'Q\d+\b[^*\n]{0,60}?(?:\u2014|\u2013|--)\s*\**\s*(?:OPEN|open|Opened|accepted)\b')
CLOSURE_WORD = re.compile(r'\b(CLOSED|DONE|COMPLETE|COMPLETED|VERIFIED)\b')
CLOSURE_EXCLUDE = re.compile(r'^\s*(?:[-*]\s+)?\*\*\s*(?:Done means|stays open|nothing is done|not done)\b',
re.I)
CLOSURE_EXCLUDE_ANY = re.compile(r'stays open|nothing is done', re.I)
CONTAINER_HEAD = re.compile(r'^\s*(?:[-*]\s+)?\*\*Q(\d+)\b')
CONTAINER_TITLE_MAX = 100
CONTAINER_SEP = re.compile(r'(?:\u2014|\u2013|--|:)')
# A closure must be a *statement*: a record line whose lead is an item id or
# `Status:`, with the closure word inside the statement window. That is what
# refuses the queue's prose lines that mention a closure in passing
# (`:6631` "- **No item state changed this tick:** ... no DONE line", `:8430`
# "- **No item closed, no new item opened.** ... remains DONE at 32ad55b").
CLOSURE_LEAD = re.compile(r'^\s*(?:[-*]\s+)?\*\*(?:Q\d+\b|Status:)')
CLOSURE_WINDOW = 120
STALE_LITERAL = re.compile(r'Status:\s*\**\s*open and unclaimed', re.I)
SHA7 = re.compile(r'`([0-9a-f]{7,63})[0-9a-f\u2026]*`')
# Hand-read ground truth: twelve answers read off the queue by hand before any
# instrument runs (queue-hygiene-census.md §2). Two independent lanes now.
HAND_READ = {
# Read by hand off WORK-QUEUE.md at `7fa6261` (2026-10-19). :8530 was 'OPEN'
# here until this revision; it closed legitimately at :9869 on 2026-10-16 and
# the hand-read answer had gone stale, which is what `--validate` exists to
# show. :7303 is the collided sibling and is OPEN in its own words.
2264: 'CLOSED', 2684: 'CLOSED', 2898: 'CLOSED', 6348: 'CLOSED',
6419: 'CLOSED', 6542: 'CLOSED', 6847: 'CLOSED', 6990: 'CLOSED',
7106: 'CLOSED', 7167: 'CLOSED', 7303: 'OPEN', 8530: 'CLOSED',
}
def strip_code(line):
return CODE_SPAN.sub('', line)
# A FENCED BLOCK IS QUOTED MATERIAL, NOT A RECORD (2026-10-19). `queue_index.py`
# (:207, :266) and `checkin_check.py` (:251) already refuse to read structure out
# of a fence; this scanner had no fence state, so a quoted example record opened a
# phantom item. Line numbers stay absolute -- the mask is a set of 1-based line
# numbers, so every citation into the queue keeps its meaning.
FENCE = re.compile(r'^\s*(?:`{3,}|~{3,})')
def fence_mask(lines):
"""(fenced 1-based line numbers, block count, opening line if never closed).
Markdown's rule is that an unclosed fence runs to the end of the document.
For a CLAIM CHECK that rule is the dangerous direction -- masked text cannot
open a record, so a stray fence would hide the newest items, which are
exactly the ones a claim check exists to surface. So an unclosed fence fails
OPEN: nothing is masked, every line is graded, and the opening line is
returned and printed as FENCE_UNCLOSED. Quoted material graded as a record is
a visible row (the operator sees the diagnostic and the row); a record
silently masked is an item nobody sees at all.
"""
out = set()
in_fence = False
opener = None
opened_at = None
blocks = 0
for n, ln in enumerate(lines, 1):
m = FENCE.match(ln)
if m:
mark = m.group(0).strip()[0]
if not in_fence:
in_fence, opener, opened_at = True, mark, n
blocks += 1
out.add(n)
continue
if mark == opener:
in_fence, opener = False, None
out.add(n)
continue
if in_fence:
out.add(n)
if in_fence: # malformed document: grade everything
return set(), blocks, opened_at
return out, blocks, None
def is_record_line(line):
return bool(RECORD_PREFIX.match(line))
def is_opening_record(line):
s = strip_code(line)
if not is_record_line(s):
return False
return bool(OPEN_STATUS.search(s) or OPEN_Q.search(s))
def is_closure_line(line):
s = strip_code(line)
if not CLOSURE_LEAD.match(s):
return False
if CLOSURE_EXCLUDE.match(s):
return False
return bool(CLOSURE_WORD.search(s[:CLOSURE_WINDOW]))
def lead_item(line):
m = ITEM_LEAD.match(line)
return int(m.group(1)) if m else None
def line_ids(line):
"""Every id a closure line can anchor to: its lead id, else its Q-tokens."""
lead = lead_item(line)
if lead is not None:
return {lead}
return {int(x) for x in Q_TOKEN.findall(strip_code(line))}
# --------------------------------------------------------------------------
# the legacy unit (BQ), transcribed from /root/crucible/q66/q66_census6.py:41-62
# --------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Kept here, not for its answer but so that the OTHER number in circulation can
# be reproduced from one command and printed beside this file's own unit. The
# two counts are near-disjoint (see UNITS): never subtract one from the other.
LEGACY_CLOSE_WORD = re.compile(r'\b(CLOSED|DONE|COMPLETE|VERIFIED)\b', re.I)
LEGACY_NOT_CLOSURE = re.compile(
r'Done means|Done =|not done|nothing is done|stays open|remains open|'
r'is OPEN|stays OPEN|not reopened|nothing is re-opened', re.I)
def legacy_closures(text):
"""Line numbers the BQ unit counts: column-0 `**`, a Q<digits> token, a
closure word anywhere (case-insensitive), no legacy exclusion phrase."""
out = []
for i, ln in enumerate(text.split('\n'), 1):
if not ln.startswith('**') or LEGACY_NOT_CLOSURE.search(ln):
continue
if re.search(r'\bQ(\d+)\b', ln) and LEGACY_CLOSE_WORD.search(ln):
out.append(i)
return out
def _acs_reject_axis(line):
"""Why the ACS unit drops a line the BQ unit counted."""
s = strip_code(line)
if not CLOSURE_LEAD.match(s):
return 'lead: not a `**Q<n>`/`**Status:` record line (BQ takes any column-0 `**`)'
if CLOSURE_EXCLUDE.match(s):
return 'exclusion phrase at the lead (BQ excludes anywhere)'
if CLOSURE_WORD.search(s[:CLOSURE_WINDOW]):
return 'other'
if CLOSURE_WORD.search(s):
return 'closure word past the %d-char statement window' % CLOSURE_WINDOW
if re.search(r'\b(CLOSED|DONE|COMPLETE|VERIFIED)\b', s, re.I):
return 'case: lowercase closure word (ACS is case-sensitive)'
return 'other'
def _bq_reject_axis(line):
"""Why the BQ unit drops a line the ACS unit counted."""
if not line.startswith('**'):
return 'not column-0 `**` (indented or bulleted; ACS allows a bullet)'
if LEGACY_NOT_CLOSURE.search(line):
return 'BQ exclusion phrase anywhere on the line'
if not re.search(r'\bQ(\d+)\b', line):
return 'no Q<digits> token on the line (ACS inherits the container id)'
if not LEGACY_CLOSE_WORD.search(line):
return 'BQ closure word missing'
return 'other'
# --------------------------------------------------------------------------
# the census
# --------------------------------------------------------------------------
def item_title_container(line):
"""The id of a `**Q<n> — title**` container line, or None.
A container is a *title statement*: bold, leading item id, a separator
inside the bold span, and the bold span closing within CONTAINER_TITLE_MAX
characters. Measured reasons, both from the live queue: `:5597`
(`- **Q41 — the non-magazine excerpt class *and* placement** *(archive
verification; ...`) is Q41's container and must count, while `:4457`
(`**Q32 record precision — two of the thirteen new assertions cannot fail,
...`) is a prose record that must not — counting it stole Q33's own closure
lines (`:4505`) for Q32.
"""
m = CONTAINER_HEAD.match(line)
if not m:
return None
rest = line[m.end():]
close = rest.find('**')
if close == -1 or close > CONTAINER_TITLE_MAX:
return None
if not CONTAINER_SEP.search(rest[:close]):
return None
return int(m.group(1))
def container_index(lines, loose=False):
"""[(line, id_or_None)] for every *container* line, in file order.
A container is a header of any level, or a bold record line that leads with
an item id. Two strictnesses, because the two questions differ:
* `loose=True` — used to name an opening record that carries no id of its
own. Any bold line leading with `Q<n>` counts; the item whose block the
record sits in is the nearest such marker above it.
* `loose=False` — used to anchor a closure. Here the marker must be a
*title statement* (see `item_title_container`), because a long bold prose
record that merely starts with an id steals the anchor: `:4457`
(`**Q32 record precision — two of the thirteen new assertions cannot
fail, ...`) otherwise took `:4505`, Q33's own closure, for Q32.
"""
out = []
for n, l in enumerate(lines, 1):
if l.startswith('#'):
m = HEADER_ITEM.match(l)
out.append((n, int(m.group(1)) if m else None))
elif loose and CONTAINER_HEAD.match(l):
m = ITEM_LEAD.match(l)
out.append((n, int(m.group(1)) if m else None))
else:
cid = item_title_container(l)
if cid is not None:
out.append((n, cid))
return out
def inherit_id(n, hidx):
"""Id of the nearest preceding header, or None."""
best = None
for ln, qid in hidx:
if ln < n:
best = qid
else:
break
return best
def census(text):
lines = text.splitlines()
fenced, n_blocks, unclosed = fence_mask(lines)
hidx = container_index(lines, loose=False)
lidx = container_index(lines, loose=True)
closures = [] # (line, idset, text)
unanchored = [] # closure statements that name no item
for n, l in enumerate(lines, 1):
if n in fenced: # quoted material, not a statement
continue
if not is_closure_line(l):
continue
ids = line_ids(l)
if not ids:
inh = inherit_id(n, hidx)
if inh is None:
unanchored.append(n)
continue
ids = {inh}
closures.append((n, ids, l))
records = []
for n, l in enumerate(lines, 1):
if n in fenced: # quoted material, not a record
continue
if not is_opening_record(l):
continue
lead = lead_item(l)
inherited = False
if lead is None:
lead = inherit_id(n, lidx)
inherited = True
anchored = [(cn, cl) for (cn, ids, cl) in closures if lead is not None and lead in ids]
# State is decided by a closure recorded at or after the opening record.
# Earlier closures are reported as evidence but never set the state: the
# queue's record order is not the work's order (Q25's DONE line sits
# 96 lines *above* its own opening record).
closing = [c for c in anchored if c[0] >= n]
state = 'CLOSED' if closing else 'OPEN'
stale = bool(STALE_LITERAL.search(strip_code(l))) and state == 'CLOSED'
records.append({
'line': n,
'item': None if lead is None else 'Q%d' % lead,
'inherited_id': inherited,
'state': state,
'closure_line': closing[0][0] if closing else None,
'closure_lines_after': [c[0] for c in closing],
'closure_lines_before': [c[0] for c in anchored if c[0] < n],
'closure_text': closing[0][1].strip() if closing else None,
'stale': stale,
'text': l.strip(),
})
# collisions: two opening records resolving to one id
seen = {}
for r in records:
if r['item'] is None:
continue
seen.setdefault(r['item'], []).append(r['line'])
for r in records:
r['collision'] = bool(r['item'] and len(seen.get(r['item'], [])) > 1)
# A duplicate label cannot bind a closure by id alone. Until 2026-10-19 this
# file took `lead in ids` as sufficient and let EVERY record carrying the
# label inherit the same closure -- so one item's DONE closed its namesake.
# On the live queue that graded the career-lane apply queue (:7303, held for
# Alexander) CLOSED on Mercury's :9869 and dropped it from `open set:`, while
# four standing ledger blocks assert it open. A record owns its own section,
# so a closure binds to the last record of that id opened at or before it --
# never to a sibling that ended before the closure was written.
groups = {}
for r in records:
if r['item'] is not None:
groups.setdefault(r['item'], []).append(r)
for item, recs in groups.items():
if len(recs) < 2:
continue
recs.sort(key=lambda r: r['line'])
qid = int(item[1:])
for i, r in enumerate(recs):
lo = r['line']
hi = recs[i + 1]['line'] if i + 1 < len(recs) else None
owned = [(c[0], c[2]) for c in closures
if qid in c[1] and c[0] >= lo and (hi is None or c[0] < hi)]
r['closure_line'] = owned[0][0] if owned else None
r['closure_lines_after'] = [c[0] for c in owned]
r['closure_text'] = owned[0][1].strip() if owned else None
r['state'] = 'CLOSED' if owned else 'OPEN'
r['stale'] = (bool(STALE_LITERAL.search(strip_code(lines[lo - 1])))
and r['state'] == 'CLOSED')
raw_literal = len(re.findall(r'Status:\s*\**\s*open and unclaimed', text, re.I))
return {
'lines': len(lines),
'bytes': len(text.encode()),
'records': records,
'closure_candidates': len(closures),
'closure_unanchored': unanchored,
'literal_anywhere': raw_literal,
'fenced_lines': len(fenced),
'fenced_blocks': n_blocks,
'fenced_unclosed': unclosed,
}
def annotate_revisions(rec, git_dir):
"""First 7-hex backticked token on the closure line, resolved with git."""
out = []
txt = rec.get('closure_text') or ''
for tok in SHA7.findall(txt):
try:
p = subprocess.run(['git', 'cat-file', '-t', tok], cwd=git_dir,
capture_output=True, text=True, timeout=20)
kind = p.stdout.strip() or p.stderr.strip()
ok = p.returncode == 0
except Exception as exc: # pragma: no cover
kind, ok = str(exc), False
out.append({'token': tok, 'resolves': ok, 'kind': kind})
return out
# --------------------------------------------------------------------------
# fixtures — the six defects logged in recoveries/queue-hygiene-census.md §3
# --------------------------------------------------------------------------
FIXTURES = [
('v1 header-walk only: an opening record nested inside another section',
'## Q10 — outer section\n\nDone means: nothing here.\n\n'
'- **Q99 — OPEN (nested, not a `##` header).** body\n',
['Q99:OPEN']),
('v2 loose key: a Q7 continuation note is not an opening record',
'## Q7 — section\n\n- **Q7, measured:** the unclaimed executable set is open beside it.\n',
[]),
('v3a a column-0 `---` rule does not cut the region',
'## Q11 — section\n\n**Status: open and unclaimed.**\n\n---\n\n'
'**Status: DONE — closed below the rule.**\n',
['Q11:CLOSED']),
('v3b `Done means:` is not a closure word',
'## Q12 — section\n\n**Status: open and unclaimed.**\n\n**Done means:** one row per space.\n',
['Q12:OPEN']),
("v4 closures are anchored: another item's DONE does not close this one",
'## Q13 — section\n\n**Status: open and unclaimed.**\n\n## Q14 — other\n\n'
'**Q14 — OPEN (lane).**\n\n**Q14 — DONE at 4010b96.**\n',
['Q13:OPEN', 'Q14:CLOSED']),
('v5 whole-file search: a closure landing after a later opening record still counts',
'## Q15 — section\n\n**Q15 — OPEN (lane).**\n\n## Q16 — other\n\n**Q16 — OPEN (lane).**\n\n'
'**Q15 — DONE at 4010b96.**\n',
['Q15:CLOSED', 'Q16:OPEN']),
('grep trap: the same words in a code span or a table row are not an opening record',
'## Q17 — section\n\n**Status: open and unclaimed. Opened by the pipe.**\n\n'
'**Status: DONE — closed.**\n\n'
'- (1) Three lines carry the literal `Status: open and unclaimed` (`:1`, `:2`).\n'
'\n| `Status: open and unclaimed` | `:2264` | Q21 | DONE |\n',
['Q17:CLOSED']),
('unnumbered opening record inherits the enclosing `## Q<n>` header',
'## Q20 — section\n\n**Status: OPEN — held for Alexander.**\n',
['Q20:OPEN']),
('a closed item whose opening line never got a pointer is flagged STALE',
'## Q21 — section\n\n**Status: open and unclaimed. Opened by the pipe.**\n\n'
'**Status: DONE — `recoveries/x.md`, 2026-10-10.**\n',
['Q21:CLOSED']),
('a bold prose record naming another item does not steal the container',
'## Q30 — section\n\n**Status: open and unclaimed.**\n\n'
'- **Q31 record precision — two of the thirteen new assertions cannot fail, and two totals are not\n'
' enumerable as stated**, so the record is corrected in place rather than restated.\n\n'
'**Status: DONE — closed by the pipe.**\n',
['Q30:CLOSED']),
# The live defect this cell was written for (2026-10-19): the career-lane
# apply queue (:7303) and Mercury's record (:8530) both read `Q53`, so
# Mercury's `:9869` DONE closed both and the tool printed `open set: Q37:5278`
# against four ledger blocks asserting :7303 open. Pre-fix this cell reads
# ['Q40:CLOSED', 'Q41:OPEN', 'Q40:CLOSED'].
("collision: a duplicate label does not let one record's closure close the other",
'## Q40 — first use of the label\n\n**Status: OPEN — held for Alexander.**\n\n'
'## Q41 — an unrelated section between them\n\n**Q41 — OPEN (lane).**\n\n'
'## Q40 — second use of the same label\n\n**Status: OPEN — queued.**\n\n'
'**Q40 — DONE at 4010b96.**\n',
['Q40:OPEN', 'Q41:OPEN', 'Q40:CLOSED']),
# The live defect these three cells were written for (2026-10-19): this file
# had no fence state, so a tick quoting an example record inside a fenced
# block opened a phantom item. Pre-fix the first cell reads
# ['Q60:CLOSED', 'Q99:OPEN', 'Q99:CLOSED'] and the second reads two Q61
# records (the fenced `**Status:` inherited the header, then collided).
('fence: a record inside a ``` block is quoted material, not a record',
'## Q60 — section\n\n**Q60 — OPEN (lane).**\n\n**Q60 — DONE at 4010b96.**\n\n'
'Prose quoting a tick:\n\n```\n**Q99 — OPEN (pipe).**\n'
'**Q99 — DONE at 4010b96.**\n```\n',
['Q60:CLOSED']),
('fence: a tilde fence is a fence, and a fenced Status line inherits nothing',
'## Q61 — section\n\n**Q61 — OPEN (lane).**\n\n~~~\n'
'**Status: OPEN — queued.**\n~~~\n',
['Q61:OPEN']),
('fence: an unclosed fence fails open — every line graded, the line named',
'## Q62 — section\n\n**Q62 — OPEN (lane).**\n\n```\n**Q63 — OPEN (lane).**\n',
['Q62:OPEN', 'Q63:OPEN']),
]
UNIT_FIXTURES = [
# name, text, ACS count, BQ count — the four axes that separate the units.
('unit axis 1: a column-0 bold *prose* line is BQ but not ACS',
'## Q40 — section\n\n**Addendum, 2026-10-08 — Q40 CLOSED at `8bd0b09`.**\n',
0, 1),
('unit axis 2: a lowercase closure word is BQ but not ACS',
'## Q41 — section\n\n**Q41 — verified below.**\n',
0, 1),
('unit axis 3: a status row with no Q token is ACS but not BQ',
'## Q42 — section\n\n**Status: DONE — closed.**\n',
1, 0),
('unit axis 4: an indented bullet is ACS but not BQ',
'## Q43 — section\n\n- **Q43 — DONE at `4010b96`.**\n',
1, 0),
]
STALE_EXPECT = {
'v3a a column-0 `---` rule does not cut the region': 1,
'grep trap: the same words in a code span or a table row are not an opening record': 1,
'a closed item whose opening line never got a pointer is flagged STALE': 1,
'a bold prose record naming another item does not steal the container': 1,
}
# The unclosed-fence cell pins the DIAGNOSTIC, not just the masking: the value is
# the line the fence opened on, which the report must print.
UNCLOSED_EXPECT = {
'fence: an unclosed fence fails open — every line graded, the line named': 5,
}
def fixture_signature(text):
res = census(text)
sig = ['%s:%s' % (r['item'] or 'NONE', r['state']) for r in res['records']]
return sig, len([r for r in res['records'] if r['stale']]), res['fenced_unclosed']
def selftest(verbose=True):
failures = []
for name, text, expect in FIXTURES:
got, stale, unclosed = fixture_signature(text)
ok = got == expect
want_stale = STALE_EXPECT.get(name, 0)
if stale != want_stale:
ok = False
want_unclosed = UNCLOSED_EXPECT.get(name)
if want_unclosed is not None and unclosed != want_unclosed:
ok = False
if verbose:
print('%s %s' % ('PASS' if ok else 'FAIL', name))
if not ok:
print(' expected records %s (stale %d, unclosed %s)\n'
' got records %s (stale %d, unclosed %s)'
% (expect, want_stale, want_unclosed, got, stale, unclosed))
if not ok:
failures.append(name)
# The unit fixtures pin the *population* each matcher counts, so a later
# edit to either matcher cannot silently re-open the 72-vs-80 question.
n_unit = len(UNIT_FIXTURES)
for name, text, want_acs, want_bq in UNIT_FIXTURES:
got_acs = sum(1 for l in text.splitlines() if is_closure_line(l))
got_bq = len(legacy_closures(text))
ok = (got_acs, got_bq) == (want_acs, want_bq)
if verbose:
print('%s %s' % ('PASS' if ok else 'FAIL', name))
if not ok:
print(' expected ACS=%d BQ=%d\n got ACS=%d BQ=%d'
% (want_acs, want_bq, got_acs, got_bq))
if not ok:
failures.append(name)
# A read failure is rc 2, not a traceback. `--queue` at a missing path or at
# bytes that are not UTF-8 escaped main() as FileNotFoundError /
# UnicodeDecodeError; the first was already caught, the second was not, and
# rc 1 is what this corpus uses for "a check failed". Two cells, because the
# exit code is the whole contract an operator sees.
n_read = 0
with tempfile.TemporaryDirectory() as td:
bad = os.path.join(td, 'not-utf8.md')
with open(bad, 'wb') as fh:
fh.write(b'\xff\xfe\x80\n')
for name, path, want in (
('read cell 1: a missing queue path exits 2, not a traceback',
os.path.join(td, 'nope.md'), 'No such file'),
('read cell 2: a queue that is not UTF-8 exits 2, not a traceback',
bad, 'utf-8')):
n_read += 1
err = io.StringIO()
with contextlib.redirect_stderr(err):
rc = main(['--queue', path])
msg = err.getvalue()
ok = rc == 2 and 'cannot read queue:' in msg
if ok:
ok = want.lower() in msg.lower()
if verbose:
print('%s %s' % ('PASS' if ok else 'FAIL', name))
if not ok:
print(' expected rc 2 and `cannot read queue: ...%s...`\n'
' got rc %d, stderr %r' % (want, rc, msg.strip()[:160]))
if not ok:
failures.append(name)
if verbose:
total = len(FIXTURES) + n_unit + n_read
print('\nself-test: %d fixtures (%d claim-check, %d unit, %d read-error), '
'%d passed, %d failed'
% (total, len(FIXTURES), n_unit, n_read,
total - len(failures), len(failures)))
return failures
# --------------------------------------------------------------------------
# main
# --------------------------------------------------------------------------
def main(argv=None):
ap = argparse.ArgumentParser(description='Claim check for WORK-QUEUE.md')
ap.add_argument('--queue', default=None, help='path to WORK-QUEUE.md')
ap.add_argument('--json', default=None, help='write the census as JSON here')
ap.add_argument('--git', action='store_true', help='resolve closure revisions with git')
ap.add_argument('--validate', action='store_true', help='check against the hand-read answers')
ap.add_argument('--selftest', action='store_true', help='run the fixture corpus and exit')
ap.add_argument('--fail-on-stale', action='store_true',
help='exit 2 if any opening record is stale')
ap.add_argument('--explain', type=int, nargs='+', metavar='LINE',
help='show how the given line numbers resolve, then exit')
ap.add_argument('--census', action='store_true',
help='print both closure units (ACS and legacy BQ), their overlap '
'and the axis table, then exit')
args = ap.parse_args(argv)
if args.selftest:
return 1 if selftest() else 0
root = os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)))
path = args.queue or os.path.join(root, 'WORK-QUEUE.md')
try:
text = open(path, encoding='utf-8').read()
except (OSError, UnicodeDecodeError) as exc:
# UnicodeDecodeError is not an OSError: a binary or mis-encoded file at
# --queue used to escape main() as a traceback with rc 1, which is the
# code the fixture corpus uses for "a check failed". A read failure is
# rc 2 with the same message, whatever the reason.
print('cannot read queue: %s' % exc, file=sys.stderr)
return 2
res = census(text)
git_dir = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(path))
if args.explain:
lines = text.splitlines()
fenced, _b, _u = fence_mask(lines)
hidx = container_index(lines, loose=False)
lidx = container_index(lines, loose=True)
for ln in args.explain:
if not 1 <= ln <= len(lines):
print(':%d out of range' % ln)
continue
l = lines[ln - 1]
ids = line_ids(l)
inh = inherit_id(ln, hidx)
inl = inherit_id(ln, lidx)
print(':%d container(strict)=%s container(loose)=%s' % (
ln, ('Q%s' % inh) if inh else '(none)', ('Q%s' % inl) if inl else '(none)'))
print(' opening=%s closure=%s fenced=%s ids=%s' %
(is_opening_record(l), is_closure_line(l), ln in fenced,
sorted('Q%d' % i for i in ids) if ids else '(inherit)'))
print(' %s' % l.strip()[:160])
return 0
if args.git:
for r in res['records']:
r['revisions'] = annotate_revisions(r, git_dir)
print('queue %s — %d lines, %s bytes' % (path, res['lines'], format(res['bytes'], ',')))
print('fenced skipped: %d line(s) in %d block(s) — a fenced block is quoted '
'material, not a record' % (res['fenced_lines'], res['fenced_blocks']))
if res['fenced_unclosed']:
print('FENCE_UNCLOSED at :%d — the fence never closes, so NOTHING is masked: '
'every line below it is graded, and quoted material may appear as a record '
'rather than a record disappearing' % res['fenced_unclosed'])
print('%-6s %-38s %-7s %-9s %s' % ('line', 'item', 'state', 'closure', 'note'))
for r in res['records']:
note = []
if r['stale']:
note.append('STALE-opening-line')
if r['collision']:
note.append('COLLISION')
if r['inherited_id']:
note.append('id-inherited')
if r['closure_lines_before']:
note.append('closure-before-opening ' +
','.join(':%d' % x for x in r['closure_lines_before']))
if len(r['closure_lines_after']) > 1:
note.append('closures ' + ','.join(':%d' % x for x in r['closure_lines_after']))
if args.git and r.get('revisions'):
note.append('revs ' + ','.join(
'%s:%s' % (v['token'], 'ok' if v['resolves'] else 'NOT-A-GIT-OBJECT')
for v in r['revisions']))
print('%-6d %-38s %-7s %-9s %s' % (
r['line'],
(r['item'] or '(unnumbered)')[:38],
r['state'],
str(r['closure_line'] or '-'),
' '.join(note)))
closed = [r for r in res['records'] if r['state'] == 'CLOSED']
opened = [r for r in res['records'] if r['state'] == 'OPEN']
stale = [r for r in res['records'] if r['stale']]
print('\n%d opening records; %d closed; %d open. %d anchored closure statements '
'(unit ACS — a record line leading `**Q<n>`/`**Status:` with a closure word '
'in the first %d chars, exclusions tested at the lead; %d closure statements '
'name no item and are ignored, not guessed at).'
% (len(res['records']), len(closed), len(opened), res['closure_candidates'],
CLOSURE_WINDOW, len(res['closure_unanchored'])))
print('open set: %s' % ', '.join(
'%s:%d' % (r['item'] or '(unnumbered)', r['line']) for r in opened))
# Three different numbers have been printed as if they were one: the raw
# occurrences of the literal (which include code spans and table rows), the
# lines it stands on once code spans are stripped, and how many of those are
# opening records. Name each, or the count is cited with the wrong unit.
_lines = text.splitlines()
_lit_stripped = [n for n, l in enumerate(_lines, 1) if STALE_LITERAL.search(strip_code(l))]
_lit_opening = [r['line'] for r in res['records']
if STALE_LITERAL.search(strip_code(_lines[r['line'] - 1]))]
print('the literal `Status: open and unclaimed` occurs %d times in the raw text; '
'after code spans are stripped it stands on %d lines, %d of them '
'opening-record lines, and %d of those are stale (state CLOSED).'
% (res['literal_anywhere'], len(_lit_stripped), len(_lit_opening), len(stale)))
if args.census:
lines = text.splitlines()
fenced, _blocks, _unclosed = fence_mask(lines)
acs = {n for n, l in enumerate(lines, 1) if n not in fenced and is_closure_line(l)}
bq = set(legacy_closures(text))
print('\n--- closure-unit census (cite a number only with its unit) ---')
print('ACS anchored closure statement (this file) = %d' % len(acs))
print(' record line leading `**Q<n>`/`**Status:`, closure word in the first')
print(' %d chars, code spans stripped, exclusions tested at the lead,' % CLOSURE_WINDOW)
print(' anchored to its own id or the nearest preceding container; fenced')
print(' lines excluded (%d set aside).' % len(fenced))
print('BQ column-0 bold closure line naming a Q id (legacy q66_census6.py:54-62) = %d'
% len(bq))
print(' line starting at column 0 with `**`, a Q<digits> token anywhere, a')
print(' closure word anywhere and case-insensitively, no legacy exclusion phrase.')
print(' Transcribed byte-for-byte and NOT fenced: %d of its lines stand inside a '
'fence here, a delta printed and not applied.' % len(bq & fenced))
print('overlap A&B = %d ; ACS-only = %d ; BQ-only = %d ; symmetric difference = %d'
% (len(acs & bq), len(acs - bq), len(bq - acs), len(acs ^ bq)))
print('NOT a unit conversion: the difference between the two headline numbers is')
print('not the delta that shows here, and neither may be cited without its unit.')
for label, only, axis in (('BQ-only lines, dropped by ACS', bq - acs, _acs_reject_axis),
('ACS-only lines, dropped by BQ', acs - bq, _bq_reject_axis)):
counts = {}
for n in sorted(only):
a = axis(lines[n - 1])
counts[a] = counts.get(a, 0) + 1
print('%s (%d):' % (label, len(only)))
for k in sorted(counts):
print(' %-78s %d' % (k, counts[k]))
return 0
rc = 0
if args.validate:
bad = []
for r in res['records']:
exp = HAND_READ.get(r['line'])
if exp and exp != r['state']:
bad.append((r['line'], exp, r['state']))
n = sum(1 for r in res['records'] if r['line'] in HAND_READ)
print('hand-read validation: %d/%d match' % (n - len(bad), n))
for b in bad:
print(' MISMATCH :%d hand=%s tool=%s' % b)
if bad:
rc = 1
if args.json:
with open(args.json, 'w', encoding='utf-8') as fh:
json.dump(res, fh, indent=2, sort_keys=True)
print('wrote %s' % args.json)
if args.fail_on_stale and stale:
rc = 2
return rc
if __name__ == '__main__':
sys.exit(main())