The append_only_audit "13 cells" defect (fixed at 580a41c) stood for days because
nothing compared a tool's self-advertised selftest count against its own output.
doc_census_check.py now covers the census blocks but drives every tool against a
revision -- minutes per run. This gate covers the cheap claim in 4.5 s: it runs
each tracked tools/*.py --selftest, parses the "N cells|fixtures, N passed, N
failed" line, and compares it with every claim on a --selftest usage line of the
module docstring (AST-read, so body fixtures are not claims; prose beside the word
selftest is not a claim either).
9 verdict classes, 8 fatal. Untracked tools/*.py are printed as SKIPPED_UNTRACKED
rather than dropped -- the blindness doc_census_check paid for is inherited and
named, not hidden. Falsification: the historical defect is re-injected into a copy
of the real tool text and the gate refuses it rc=1 (COUNT_MISMATCH 13 vs 18) while
the control tree stays rc=0. selftest 18/18; repo sweep at this commit: 8 tracked
tools, 1 OK, 7 NO_CLAIM (advisory), 0 fatal.
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