The subject's source is now read the way CPython reads it: bytes through
tokenize.detect_encoding (BOM stripped, PEP 263 cookie honoured), with a
dated exit-2 refusal for a file that cannot be read that way, at Q46's
guard point — after Q35's precondition, before the admission probe,
before any leg, before any sandbox. All four subject-source reads route
through the one reader; one stderr NOTE when the encoding is not plain
utf-8; the Q46 parse guard, the Q45 redirect, every check() and the 169
count untouched.
Deliverable recoveries/helm-read-path-guard.md (12,821 B), scratch tree
/root/crucible/q47/, evidence out/Q47-NEGATIVES.json (21 rows),
out/Q47-VERDICT.json, out/Q47-GREEN.json, out/DIFF-vs-q46.txt.
Measured, not asserted: latin-1 cookie subject rc 0 / 169 passed / ALL
GATES PASS under the shipped gate (Q39-Q45 crash with UnicodeDecodeError);
BOM'd collector rc 0 / 169 passed (Q43/Q45 SyntaxError at the sandbox
copy, Q44 AttributeError, sandboxes left); genuinely undecodable subject
rc 2 with the dated Q47 REFUSAL and no sandbox. Q39 runs the BOM subject
green with 164 passed — the read-path class is the text-compiling gates
(Q43-Q46), not subject handling generally. Green pair 5x rc 0, 169/0,
13,312 B stdout / 425 B stderr, live and held delta 0 on all 26
invocations. Adoption pair moves to collector 4e45021d + gate 76f2292b.
Nothing deployed, no cp into /root/.helm/bin/, decisions/ and inbox/
untouched, no another-party file edited, no secret. Run 13 in the
check-in; queue block appended.
Merlin
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