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Consolidates 12 open PRs into one merge-queue entry. No change to any subsumed diff — this is a pure batching of already-reviewed work.

Why

workspace-test measured 43m48s on #2533, and the merge queue is serial (max_entries_to_build: 1). Landing these 12 individually is ~10 hours of pure queue time; the 60-minute check_response_timeout counts from added_to_merge_queue, so a queue this deep evicts rather than drains. Same rationale as #2449: the CI bottleneck is one workspace-test per PR, not the work.

Subsumed

Closes #2486
Closes #2521
Closes #2513
Closes #2491
Closes #2483
Closes #2509
Closes #2514
Closes #2502
Closes #2508
Closes #2497
Closes #2529
Closes #2520

Why these 12 and not all 22

Measured, not guessed — every open PR was test-merged in a scratch worktree. 19 of 20 touch .github/workflows/ci.yml, which is the single hot file behind nearly every conflict (the trap already recorded for the beat gate: only one PR may edit that line). These 12 merge cleanly together; the rest are staged as follow-ups:

Verification

If this fails CI, bisect locally against the 12 merge commits rather than re-splitting into 12 PRs.

noahgift and others added 30 commits August 14, 2026 21:00
`check_book_examples_executable.sh` (FALSIFY-BOOK-EXAMPLE-EXECUTES-001) sources
`scripts/apr_bin.sh`, which asks cargo for the target dir and asserts the
binary's embedded SHA matches HEAD. That is the repo's binary-pinning protocol
and it works. The gate then never used the result.

`$APR_BIN` gated only the SKIP branch. Every example that DID run went through
`timeout N bash -c "$code"`, and the code says `apr ...` — resolved by PATH.
Measured on this box: a bare `apr` is 0.60.0 while the tree is 0.63.0, so the
gate certifying the book's CLI examples was exercising a binary from three
minor releases back. That is the exact failure this repo has hit four times
(#2357/#2358/#2360/#2361) and the reason apr_bin.sh exists.

Fix: prepend the pinned binary's directory to PATH. That covers `apr` in any
position — pipelines, subshells, `$(...)` — which substituting a leading token
does not. Verified: `bash -c 'apr --version'` reports 0.60.0 before and the
pinned binary after.

Second defect, worse, in the verdict itself. With no apr built from HEAD every
CLI example skips, and the gate printed:

    total=244 pass=0 skip=244 fail=0
    FALSIFY-BOOK-EXAMPLE-EXECUTES-001: PASS

Zero executed, verdict green. It now refuses:
  * no apr binary  -> "NOT RUN — nothing was verified", exit 1, with the build
    command to fix it
  * apr present but 0 of 244 executed -> FAIL, "the gate measured nothing"

NOT wired into CI in this commit, deliberately. It needs a job that builds apr
first, and when apr IS available this gate reports 5 real failures in book text.
Wiring it before those are fixed turns main red. The order is: fix the 5, add a
build step, then wire. This commit makes the gate honest so that sequence is
possible at all — until now it could not have reported anything.

Refs #2481

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
bashrs flags a unicode em-dash as SC1100. Two were mine (the new NOT RUN and
FAIL verdict lines); three predate this change. Fixed all nine occurrences so
the file is genuinely clean rather than merely no-worse.

Method note: my first with/without measurement was invalid -- I ran `git stash`
AFTER committing, so both sides measured the same tree. Comparing against
`git show origin/main:<file>` gave the real answer (3 pre-existing, 2 added).
That stash pop also restored an unrelated 44-file stash into the worktree; reset
--hard restored it and all 89 stash entries are intact.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…y directory

`check_package_includes.sh` is the CB-510 guard: a Cargo.toml `exclude` pattern
can strip an `include!()` target from the published crate while git still tracks
it, so the crate compiles in-tree and fails for everyone installing from
crates.io. That has shipped twice -- `models/` matching `src/models/`, and an
unanchored `"tests/"` dropping 443 files from published aprender-serve in 0.63.0.

It scanned `src/` and packaged `-p aprender`: the PRE-MONOREPO layout. After
consolidation the root `src/` holds 2 files with zero `include!()`, while 1798
live under `crates/`. So it reported, truthfully and uselessly:

    OK: All 0 include!() files are included in cargo package

Zero of zero, exit 0, for every release since the consolidation -- while being
Gate 1 of `.claude/skills/pre-release/SKILL.md`.

It now enumerates publishable workspace crates from `cargo metadata`, resolves
every `include!()` against the including file's directory, and diffs against that
crate's OWN `cargo package --list`. 10 crates, 1539 include targets. A vacuity
assertion fails below 100 targets, so the empty-scan mode cannot return.

RESULT: the tree is CLEAN. Every one of the 1539 targets survives packaging.

Three bugs of my own, each caught by a mutation that refused to turn red. Worth
recording because each produced a confident wrong answer:

1. `cargo package` inside `while read ... <<< "$pkgs"` consumed the heredoc on
   stdin. The scan silently dropped a crate (11 -> 10) AND compared one crate's
   include targets against another crate's listing, inventing a CB-510 violation
   on src/bench/backend.rs. Fixed with `< /dev/null`.
2. One forked `grep -qxF` per target -- 922 for aprender-serve alone -- treating
   ANY non-zero as "not packaged". grep exits >1 on ERROR, and a forked grep can
   die under load, so the guard named a different innocent file on each run.
3. Replacing that with python, I put a heredoc script AND a `<<<` data
   redirection on the same call. Last redirection wins, so python received the
   include list as its SCRIPT and printed nothing. The guard then PASSED a
   mutation that provably dropped a file from the package -- I had written
   another gate that cannot fail, inside the fix for a gate that cannot fail.
   Both inputs now go through explicit files.

Mutation-verified, with the mutation itself proven to engage first
(`cargo package --list | grep -c` goes 1 -> 0 before the guard is consulted):
  * exclude "src/bench/"  -> RED, 27 files named
  * scan a nonexistent dir -> RED on vacuity
  * restored              -> GREEN

Wired into the merge-blocking guard block. bashrs 0 errors; the three embedded
python fragments moved to scripts/lib/ because bashrs parses an inline heredoc as
shell (8 phantom SC1007s from python assignments, 2 SC1078s from nested quotes
across a line continuation).

Refs #2481, #2474

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…em gate anything

An exemption in `deny.toml` is a standing decision to accept a known
vulnerability. Twenty of the twenty-nine were for advisories that no longer fire
at all -- the dependency had been upgraded or dropped from the graph.

`RUSTSEC-2026-0002` is the clearest: it exempted

    "lru 0.12.5: transitive via ratatui, fixed in 0.16 but ratatui pins 0.12"

while `Cargo.lock` already resolved **lru 0.16.4** -- the fixed version named in
its own rationale. The exemption described a world that had moved on, and a
reviewer reading deny.toml could not tell which of the 29 entries were
load-bearing.

`cargo deny` was already reporting every one of these, as `advisory-not-detected`
warnings. Nobody acted because they are warnings and the command exits 0.

Removed the 20; `cargo deny check advisories` exits 0 with **zero**
advisory-not-detected warnings and 9 live exemptions remaining.

Added `check_deny_exemptions_live.sh`, which turns that existing warning into a
gate. Deliberately separate from the advisory check itself: a newly-FIXED
upstream must never fail someone's build, so it fails only this guard, whose
remedy is deleting a line.

A larger finding, reported not fixed here. **These exemptions gate nothing in
CI.** `cargo deny` appears in ZERO workflows -- only `make deny` -- verified with
a positive control (9 workflows mention `cargo`, 0 mention `deny`). And per
ci.yml:8 the `security` job runs `cargo audit` with `continue-on-error`, which
cannot fail the build AND does not read deny.toml at all. So the advisory
surface today is: one tool that ignores the exemption file running in a job that
cannot fail, plus one tool that honours it running nowhere.

Wiring cargo-deny into CI needs `cargo-deny` on the guard runner and is a
sequencing decision, not something to slip into this commit -- so the guard is
wired into `make deny`, where cargo-deny is already required, and the CI gap is
filed instead.

Mutation-verified: re-adding RUSTSEC-2026-0002 -> RED naming it; removed ->
GREEN. Re-verified after the bashrs refactor, since extending a guard is not
proof the old verification still holds.

Refs #2481

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Follow-on to the dead-exemption removal in this branch. The larger finding was
that none of it gated anything:

  * `cargo deny` appeared in ZERO workflows -- only `make deny`. Positive
    control: 9 workflows mention `cargo`, 0 mentioned `deny`.
  * The `security` job runs `cargo audit` with `continue-on-error` (ci.yml:8),
    so it cannot fail the build -- and `cargo audit` does not read deny.toml.

So the advisory surface was one tool that ignores the exemption file, running in
a job that cannot fail, plus one tool that honours it running nowhere. All 29
exemptions were documentation.

Three steps added to `guard-runner-labels`, which `gate` hard-requires
(ci.yml:563 `needs: [ci, workspace-test, mutants, guard-runner-labels]`), so
these genuinely block merge:

  1. install cargo-deny if absent -- free once the runner has it, self-healing
     if a runner is rebuilt from a base image without it
  2. `cargo deny check advisories` -- the real gate, with deny.toml honoured
  3. `check_deny_exemptions_live.sh` -- kept SEPARATE on purpose: a newly-FIXED
     upstream must never fail anyone's build. It fails only this guard, whose
     remedy is deleting a line.

Mutation-verified: deleting a live exemption (RUSTSEC-2024-0384) -> `cargo deny
check advisories` exits 1; restored -> 0. So the exemptions are now load-bearing
rather than decorative.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Issue #2473: `ProbarDriver` had exactly one implementation in the whole
workspace, `MockDriver`. `ChromiumDriver` was named in three doc comments
-- one of them a `BrowserController::<ChromiumDriver>::launch(..)`
example -- against a type nobody had written. So every layer built on the
trait (locators, validators, playbooks, pixel coverage) drove a mock, and
the Playwright-competitor framing did not survive contact with the code.

The CDP machinery was already here: browser.rs::cdp launches a real
chromiumoxide browser, capabilities.rs and zero_js.rs take a real
chromiumoxide::Page, and chromiumoxide has been a declared dependency
behind the `browser` feature all along. What was missing was the adapter
between that and the trait. This is that adapter: all 16 trait methods
against live Chrome.

FALSIFY-PROBAR-DRIVER-001, 7 tests, each chosen so MockDriver FAILS it --
a test that merely calls the trait passes identically against a mock and
proves nothing:

  * JS is folded by a real engine ([1..8].reduce -> 36) and the UA is
    Chromium, with a control proving execute_js does not return one
    constant for every script
  * a bounding box comes back as the CSS 120x40, i.e. from Blink layout,
    and a selector matching nothing returns None rather than a fabricated
    handle
  * typing changes the real input's .value
  * the screenshot carries the PNG magic and >1000 bytes from the
    compositor
  * wait_for_selector genuinely waits for an element appended at +300ms,
    and TIMES OUT on one that never appears
  * launching with a bogus executable ERRORS rather than quietly handing
    back something that answers questions it cannot know

Mutation: make execute_js return a canned value, the way a mock would ->
6 of 7 go RED.

Two defects found while proving it, both mine, both caught by that
mutation rather than by review:

1. chromiumoxide points every browser at the SHARED, FIXED profile dir
   /tmp/chromiumoxide-runner, and Chrome's ProcessSingleton then refuses
   the second instance outright ("Failed to create .../SingletonLock:
   File exists (17) ... Aborting now to avoid profile corruption"). Two
   concurrent drivers could not coexist -- on one machine, or between two
   developers sharing a box. A browser-automation library that cannot run
   two browsers at once forfeits test parallelism, which is most of the
   point. Each driver now gets its own profile directory, removed on
   drop. The suite went from passing only under --test-threads=1 to
   passing in parallel, and got faster doing it (2.95s -> 1.03s).

2. screenshot() fell back to the CONFIGURED viewport when the page would
   not report its own -- echoing config back as if it were a measurement,
   which is the quiet degradation this file's own doc comment condemns.
   It was why the screenshot test survived the mutation. Now an error.
   The mutation then killed 6 of 7 instead of 5.

navigation_timeout is honoured rather than decorative; it was an ignored
config field, i.e. a promise the driver did not keep.

Green: 7 driver tests against Chrome 151, 6304 lib tests, clippy clean.

NOT claimed, and not yet true:
  * `apr probar`'s own commands do not route through this driver yet, so
    the CLI is not made real by this commit -- the library is.
  * the tests are NOT on ci.yml's beat list. They need a Chrome-equipped
    runner, the way the GPU falsifiers need a CUDA one. They fail rather
    than skip without a browser, deliberately.
  * #2473's other half -- 1,741 tests across 15 files wired into no `mod`
    -- is untouched here.

No public claim should call probar a Playwright alternative until the CLI
routes through this and those tests compile.

Refs #2473
…part 2)

#2473 reported that 15 `*_tests.rs` files in aprender-test-lib are wired
into no `mod` and no `include!`, so "1,741 tests have never compiled".
The wiring half of that is exactly right. The implication is not.

Those files are byte-identical copies of test modules that ALREADY RUN
inline in their parent files. No coverage was ever lost.

Measured, not inferred. Comparing each orphan against the body of its
parent's `#[cfg(test)] mod tests { .. }`:

  browser_tests.rs       3414 lines   0 differing
  locator_tests.rs       2164 lines   0 differing
  docker_tests.rs        1184 lines   0 differing
  capabilities_tests.rs  1187 lines   0 differing
  validators_tests.rs    2756 lines   8 differing
  llm/score_tests.rs      603 lines   9 differing

and `#[test]` counts match exactly per file -- 274/274 browser, 216/216
locator, 91/91 docker, 100/100 capabilities. Where the copies DO differ,
the orphan is strictly the OLDER text, missing clippy fixes its inline
twin received: `if let` vs `match .. _ => {}`, `.keys()` vs iterating
entries, `!contains_key(..)` vs `get(..).is_none()`. That is the
signature of a snapshot left behind, not of tests aimed at an API that
does not exist.

Mounted correctly as submodules of their parents (so `use super::*`
resolves as written) all 15 compile with ZERO errors and run
1544/1544 green -- with a test-NAME set identical to the inline modules,
`diff` exit 0. They are duplicates, not orphans.

Provenance: all 15 arrived in one commit, 8bd4ce5 (2026-05-07), a
17,830-file APR-MONO vendoring blob. They were already orphaned on
arrival -- an "extract tests to separate files" refactor where the copy
was made and neither the `mod` declaration nor the deletion of the
inline block ever happened.

So the remedy is deletion, not wiring. Wiring them in would add 1,544
duplicate test executions and zero assurance.

Proof of zero coverage delta, same command either side:
  before  test result: ok. 6390 passed; 0 failed
  after   test result: ok. 6390 passed; 0 failed

Also drops `**/browser_tests.rs` from .pmat-gates.toml's file_health
exclusions -- with the file gone that pattern now matches nothing, and a
dead exclusion is a rule that looks like it is protecting something.

This corrects #2473's second finding. Its FIRST finding stands and is
addressed separately: ProbarDriver really did have only MockDriver.

Refs #2473
The layer above the driver has the same defect #2473 found below it.
`ActionExecutor` is the trait playbooks execute through, and it had NO
production implementation at all -- the only two `impl ActionExecutor` in
the workspace are `MockExecutor`, both inside `#[cfg(test)]` modules
(executor.rs:485, runner.rs:457). A playbook could be authored, parsed,
validated and "run" with nothing reaching a browser.

`ChromiumExecutor` implements all 12 methods over the `ChromiumDriver`
from the previous commit, so `click`, `navigate`, `wait` and `screenshot`
in a playbook drive Chrome.

FALSIFY-PROBAR-EXEC-001, 6 tests, each written so a mock executor fails:

  * click on a <button> makes ITS OWN onclick write to another element --
    an executor that records the click without dispatching it cannot
    produce that text
  * get_text / get_attribute read the live DOM, and a selector matching
    nothing is ElementNotFound rather than empty string
  * evaluate must be able to say NO: `1+1===3` is false. An executor
    hardcoded to true passes the true case and fails this one
  * wait observes real state -- an element appended at +300ms is found,
    and a condition that is never true TIMES OUT
  * screenshot writes a file that starts with the PNG magic

Mutation: make `evaluate` return true unconditionally, the way a mock
would -> evaluate_is_decided_by_the_page goes RED, the other 5 stay green.

Sync-over-async is bridged with a runtime the executor owns. Calling it
from inside an async context would deadlock, so `launch` REFUSES with an
error naming the problem instead of panicking several frames down inside
tokio; there is a test for that path.

Two things fixed while proving it:

  * four hardcoded `Duration::from_secs(30)` waits now come from
    `DriverConfig::element_timeout`. That field existed and was ignored --
    the same unkept-promise defect as `navigation_timeout` in the driver.
    It also cut the suite from 30.6s to 3.7s, since the deliberate-timeout
    test was waiting out a hardcoded 30s.
  * selectors are pasted into JS as JSON string literals, so one
    containing a quote cannot break out of the expression.

`WaitCondition::NetworkIdle` is approximated from the page's own Resource
Timing rather than CDP network events, and is commented as an
approximation rather than presented as exact.

Green: 6 executor tests + 7 driver tests against Chrome 151, clippy clean.

Still NOT true, and still not claimed: `apr probar`'s commands do not
route through this yet. `probar test` is a cargo-test wrapper (its
"placeholder" comment is stale -- discover_tests really does shell out to
`cargo test --list`), and `probar record` prints its configuration and
records nothing.

Refs #2473
This reverts bad1103, which is not a retraction: the finding and the
evidence stand exactly as committed. The deletion simply belongs in its
own PR rather than buried under a driver change.

#2498 now carries it standalone, and a 26,205-line deletion is far easier
to review on its own than mixed into ~800 lines of new driver and
executor code where the diffstat hides it.

The .pmat-gates.toml exclusion for browser_tests.rs comes back with the
file, since it only becomes dead once the file is gone -- it moves to
#2498 with the deletion it depends on.

Refs #2473, #2498
…atures

Found while verifying #2473: `cargo clippy -p aprender-test-lib --all-targets`
passes, and the same command with `--features browser,docker,llm,proptest,derive,compute-blocks`
fails with 8 errors. This is the trap already recorded in CLAUDE.md — clippy is
clean on the default feature set while the crate is broken behind a non-default
one — and it had gone unnoticed because CI only ever lints the default set.

Confirmed pre-existing rather than assumed: the error set was captured on the
base commit and again after the #2473 deletion, and the two were byte-identical.
None of the sites is in a file that PR touched.

FIXED

  tui/brick.rs:209          manual_assert            if !x.is_empty() { panic!(…) } -> assert!(x.is_empty(), …)
  tui/compute_block.rs:171  manual_assert            same
  llm/report.rs:96          redundant_closure        .map(|r| to_markdown_row(r)) -> .map(to_markdown_row)
  llm/score.rs:229          manual_clamp             .round().min(74.0).max(0.0) -> .round().clamp(0.0, 74.0)
  docker.rs:161             should_implement_trait   documented #[allow] (see below)
  runtime.rs:928/936/1169   undocumented_unsafe_blocks   real SAFETY comments

The clamp rewrite is behaviour-preserving here. `min`/`max` and `clamp` differ
only on NaN, and the operand is `75.0 * good / value` on a branch where
`value > good > 0.0`, so it is finite by construction.

`Browser::from_str` keeps its name and its `Option` return behind a documented
allow rather than becoming a `FromStr` impl: an unrecognised browser name is an
ordinary "not one of the three" answer, not an error worth an `Err` type, and
renaming a `pub fn` would break callers.

The three unsafe blocks are in tests. Each now states the caller obligation it
discharges — `u32` has no invalid bit patterns for the two `read_at` calls (one
of which is deliberately out of bounds and returns Err before dereferencing),
and the `Box::from_raw` pointer came from `Box::into_raw` two lines up and is
reconstituted exactly once.

VERIFIED

  cargo clippy -p aprender-test-lib --all-targets --features browser,docker,llm,proptest,derive,compute-blocks -- -D warnings   exit 0 (was 101)
  cargo clippy -p aprender-test-lib --all-targets -- -D warnings                                                                exit 0
  cargo test  -p aprender-test-lib --lib --features …                                                                           6458 passed, 0 failed
  cargo fmt --all -- --check                                                                                                    exit 0

NOT FIXED HERE

Nothing stops this recurring: no CI job lints this crate under those features.
Closing that needs a decision about which crates and which feature combinations
are worth the CI minutes, which is a bigger question than these 8 errors.

Refs #2473

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…et that does not exist (#2504)

contracts/apr-cli-commands-v1.yaml declared, five times:

    enforcement: "cargo test --test apr_cli_commands <fn>"

There is no `apr_cli_commands` test target. The target is `cli_commands`
(crates/apr-cli/tests/cli_commands.rs), so every one of those five commands
exits 101 with `error: no test target named apr_cli_commands`. Two were wrong
twice over, naming `test_all_commands_help` where the function is
`test_all_commands_respond_to_help` (cli_commands.rs:201).

The underlying tests are REAL and DO run: `cli_commands` is invoked at
ci.yml:327 inside `workspace-test`, which is inside `gate.needs`. Nothing was
unguarded. What was fiction is the contract's ACCOUNT of how it is enforced --
and that is not cosmetic. A reader auditing whether FALSIFY-CLI-003 is live runs
the command the contract hands them, gets an error, and cannot distinguish "the
pointer is stale" from "the gate is missing". The contract destroyed exactly the
discrimination it exists to provide. R1 one level up: a claim verified against
nothing.

WHY NOTHING CAUGHT IT

These strings live under a top-level `falsification:` list. The typed `Contract`
struct has no such field -- it has `falsification_tests`
(crates/aprender-contracts/src/schema/types.rs:33). serde drops the unknown key
silently, so `pv validate` never sees them, and the sibling guard
check_contract_test_binding.sh (#2465) reads `falsification_tests[].test`, a
different field. The whole block is inert YAML that reads as governance.

That is also why the new guard scans YAML text rather than the typed model: the
field it must police is one the typed model does not admit. Teaching the schema
about `falsification:` is the better long-term home and is named as follow-up in
the contract's roadmap -- it is a schema change with its own blast radius, not a
prerequisite for closing the hole.

WHAT LANDS

  scripts/check_contract_enforcement.sh   resolves every cargo-shaped
    `enforcement:` string against `cargo metadata` -- not against a guess:
      1. `--test T` names a real workspace test target
      2. `-p P`, when present, owns T
      3. a trailing bare filter token exists as `fn F(` in T's source

    Rule 3 is an exact match, deliberately stricter than cargo's substring
    filtering: accepting prefixes would let `test_all` "resolve" against
    `test_all_commands_respond_to_help`, the precise near-miss that produced
    this bug.

  contracts/apr-contract-enforcement-v1.yaml   metadata.kind: pattern, set
    explicitly so pv's `kernel` default never silently applies. Honestly reports
    L2 and states why L3/Kani does not apply rather than declaring an un-backed
    harness.

  Five conditions corrected, and the `scope:` prose -- which still read
  "77 commands" against a 105-entry registry -- now points at the list instead
  of carrying a hand-maintained number.

FULL SWEEP

All 1771 contracts, not just the reported file. 195 `enforcement:` strings
exist; 13 name a cargo invocation. Of those 13: 5 broken (all in
apr-cli-commands-v1.yaml), 7 `monorepo_invariants` resolve, 1 `cli_commands`
resolves. Every target AND every named test function was checked. No baseline
ratchet is needed -- the tree reaches zero in this PR. The other 182 strings name
CI jobs, runtime assertions or build-time checks; they have no single mechanical
resolver and are declared out of scope in the contract rather than silently
skipped.

EVIDENCE

  guard on unmodified main   exit 1, naming exactly the 5, "5 of 13"
  guard after the fix        exit 0, "13 cargo enforcement strings; every
                             target and test fn resolves"
  the corrected command      `cargo test -p apr-cli --test cli_commands
                             test_all_commands_respond_to_help --no-run`
                             exits 0, where the original exited 101
  cargo test -p apr-cli --test cli_commands    10 passed, 0 failed
  bashrs lint                0 errors

Self-test: 8 resolution cases (bad target / bad fn / bad package / bad PREFIX,
and four that must NOT flag) plus a vacuity arm. Vacuity matters here: a regex
that stops matching is indistinguishable from a clean tree, and that failure mode
has already shipped twice (#2476, #2485), so the guard refuses to pass on zero
and prints the count it resolved.

Both guard-logic mutations verified RED, each with the correct message:
  neuter resolve_one() to `return 0`  -> all four must-flag cases fail
  disable the MIN_CMDS floor          -> the vacuity arm fails

Wired into `guard-runner-labels` (inside gate.needs) and `make tier3`, self-test
first in both. Needs `cargo metadata` only -- no build.

Closes #2504

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
#2506 (SURF-7/R14). `catch_unwind` and `CatchPanicLayer` appeared nowhere
in aprender-serve/src, apr-cli/src or aprender-mcp/src outside a test
helper and commands/qualify.rs, and tower-http's `catch-panic` feature
was not enabled at all. So a panic in any axum handler unwound out of the
service: the client got a transport error with no status and no body.

That is also the one error shape that escaped an invariant this crate
already asserts. route_surface_2376 establishes that no error leaves this
server as anything but actionable JSON -- a dropped connection never
becomes a response, so it slipped past by not being an error response at
all.

The issue said its first two falsifiers "fail on main today -- they are
findings, not future tests. Confirm that before writing the fix." They
do, and I did, before touching anything:

  a_panicking_handler_returns_json_500...  FAILED
  the_server_still_answers_after_a_panic   FAILED
  the_panic_probe_route_is_actually_reached  ok   <- the control

`CatchPanicLayer` is now mounted OUTERMOST, after cors, so a panic raised
in any layer below -- the JSON sanitizer, the cancel middleware, or one
added later -- still becomes a response. The panic payload goes to stderr
and NOT to the client: it is a Rust-internals detail, and #2376 finding 7
already bans bodies naming things a client cannot act on.

ON WHAT THE TEST DOES AND DOES NOT PROVE, because the first version
proved less than it looked like it did:

axum's `Router::layer` wraps only the routes present when it is called.
The test adds its panicking probe AFTER create_router_with_config, so the
production layer does not cover it and the test must re-apply the layer.
I found this by diagnosing the still-RED result rather than assuming the
fix was wrong -- re-applying the layer turned all three green, which
isolated ORDER as the cause and cleared the conversion fn.

That means the scaffold alone would be a test of my test. Production
coverage is established by mutation instead: making the REAL /health
handler panic returns

  left: 500, right: 200

-- a response, with a status. Before the layer, the identical mutation
unwound and `oneshot(..).expect(..)` fired instead. 500-instead-of-200 IS
the finding: the panic became an answer. That reasoning is recorded in
the test module so the next reader does not have to re-derive why the
scaffold is shaped this way.

Green: 15665 aprender-serve lib tests, clippy clean under --features server.

Scope: the HTTP leg only. #2506's MCP leg (a tool panic must yield a
JSON-RPC error frame) and its structural invariant (no Command reachable
from an MCP tool constructed outside tools/subprocess.rs) are NOT done
here.

Refs #2503, #2506
…ract

FALSIFY-README-002 caught this in CI on #2508: adding
contracts/apr-contract-enforcement-v1.yaml moved the filesystem count while the
README still claimed 1771. All three copies in the README are updated - the
guard checks every contract-count claim precisely because the file carried
three different ones (#2485).

Refs #2504
… schema

CI caught what I did not run locally. Three schema defects in the contract this
PR introduced, each reported by aprender-contracts' own lint gates:

  parse   falsification_tests[].id is required; `name:` is deliberately NOT
          aliased (types.rs:452) because legacy contracts ship name+description
          side by side and aliasing both collapses to a duplicate-field error.
  parse   verification_summary is a typed struct (total_obligations, l2/l3/l4
          counts), not prose. The narrative moved to a comment above it and the
          field now carries 4 obligations, 4 at L2, 0 Kani, 4 N/A.
  lint    SCHEMA-001 metadata.references must not be empty; SCHEMA-008 every
          falsification test must state a prediction; SCHEMA-009 each should
          state if_fails.

The predictions and if_fails are real, not filler - each names the observable
outcome and the specific way the resolver would have to be broken to produce it.
The prefix case says so explicitly: if it starts passing, the fn match has
loosened to a substring, which is how `test_all` would silently resolve against
test_all_commands_respond_to_help.

L3/Kani is recorded as l4_not_applicable rather than un-proved: the subject is
filesystem and cargo-metadata resolution over unbounded strings, not a bounded
kernel. Declaring an un-backed harness to inflate the level would be theater.

  cargo test -p aprender-contracts --lib   1435 passed, 0 failed (was 3 failed)
  guard self-test + tree scan              exit 0 / exit 0

Refs #2504
Conflict in ci.yml's guard block only. Every guard PR appends steps to
that one block, so its conflicts are structural rather than semantic and
they are ADDITIVE: taking either side silently drops the other branch's
gates, which is precisely how a guard stops running without anyone
editing it. Both sides kept, main's first. Verified by parsing the YAML
and counting the steps rather than by reading the diff.
#2378 finding 8, the only unfixed P0 in the #2373 dogfood epic.

The tracker describes it as "dequantizes the whole model to F32 before
the parity gate can reject the path". That is imprecise, and the real
defect is sharper. `try_wgpu_generate` DOES upload Q4_K projection
weights as raw Q4_K bytes. It then called `dequant_model_weights(model)`
for "the rest" -- which materialized an F32 `Vec` for EVERY tensor
including those, and skipped only the UPLOAD:

    let weights = wgpu_adapter::dequant_model_weights(model)?;
    for (name, data, ..) in &weights {
        if !q4k_names.contains(name) { fwd.upload_weight(name, data); }
    }

The allocation had already happened; the result was built and dropped.
On a Q4_K model that is the bulk of the weights, and it is the remaining
half of the problem batch_wgpu.rs already documents:

    "Why 56 GB? dequant_model_weights() called TWICE (28 GB each)"
    "Previous code called it twice (56 GB peak -> 28 GB peak)"

Calling it once was the first half. Not dequantizing what was never going
to be uploaded is this one.

`dequant_model_weights_except(model, skip)` takes the set of names
already sent as raw Q4_K. `dequant_model_weights` delegates to it with an
empty set, so the two other call sites keep their exact behaviour.

The skip is a MACRO, not a helper fn, and that is the entire mechanism:
macro arguments expand INSIDE the guard, so `dequant_tensor_public(..)?`
is never evaluated for a skipped tensor. A function would evaluate its
arguments first and dequantize precisely what we are avoiding.

ON THE FALSIFIER, because the first one I wrote was theater:

It compared f32 element COUNTS between the filtered and unfiltered
results. A mutation that evaluates the dequant eagerly and merely skips
the push PASSED it -- the OUTPUT is identical either way. It measured the
result, not the work. That is the same class this repo keeps closing, and
I only found it because I ran the mutation instead of trusting the green.

The replacement makes the work observable: corrupt a Q4_K tensor so
dequantizing it FAILS, then assert the unfiltered call errors (the
control -- proving the corruption bites) while the filtered call
succeeds. Lazy passes; eager errors. Re-running the identical mutation
now turns it RED with "a tensor uploaded as raw Q4_K was dequantized
anyway".

Host-side, so it needs NO GPU. The defect was filed as a GPU-path issue
and is fully testable without one, which is why it survived: the
falsifiers that would have caught it were assumed to need hardware.

NOT CLAIMED: the 13.9 GB RSS and cosine-0.884 figures in #2378 are not
reproduced here. This fixes a measured code path -- the dequant of
skipped tensors -- and does not re-measure the reported footprint. A
cross-silicon run is still owed before that number is quoted again.

Green: 15664 aprender-serve lib tests, clippy clean under --features gpu.

Refs #2373, #2378
Found by accident, looking for something else. Of 32 `scripts/check_*.sh`,
five were named by no workflow:

  check_contract_test_binding.sh    ci=0  makefile=2
  check_wasm32_core_builds.sh       ci=0  makefile=1
  check_guards_are_wired.sh         (this one, new)
  check_book_examples_executable.sh ci=0  makefile=0   <- NOTHING invoked it
  check_package_includes.sh         ci=0  makefile=0   <- NOTHING invoked it

Makefile-only means `make tier3`, which CI does not run. The bottom two
were reachable from no automated path at all.

`check_package_includes.sh` is the sharp one. It is the CB-510 guard --
written because a `models/` pattern matched `src/models/` and hid source
from crates.io -- and its own header instructs the reader to run it after
any `.gitignore` or `Cargo.toml` exclude change. Its sibling
`check_include_files.sh` IS wired. Nothing enforced the instruction.

WIRED: contract_test_binding and wasm32_core_builds. Both pass today
(371 test references resolved; wasm32 builds), both are cheap, and there
was never a reason for them to be dark.

NOT WIRED, with reasons recorded in a shrink-only baseline rather than
argued about later:

  check_book_examples_executable.sh -- RED on main, 4 failures. Two are
    genuine (`apr dataset audio-inspect --help`, `apr kernel parity ...`
    both error); two need a .gguf absent from this box. Minutes to run,
    one subprocess per example. Wiring a known-red long job into
    gate.needs helps nobody; fix the two examples first.

  check_package_includes.sh -- VACUOUS on main:
      OK: All 0 include!() files are included in cargo package
    exit 0 having examined nothing. Wiring it now adds a gate that
    measures zero, which is the defect class it exists to prevent. #2483
    is the fix; wire it when that lands.

THE META-GUARD is the actual deliverable. check_guards_are_wired.sh
asserts every check_*.sh is named by at least one workflow, held at a
shrink-only baseline whose entries carry a reason. Without it the sixth
dark guard is found the way these five were.

Its own case table (--self-test) has two rows, the second being the
control: wiring the fixture guard must CLEAR the report. Without that,
row 1 passes even if the scan reported every guard it saw.

Mutation on the real tree: unwire check_wasm32_core_builds ->
"unwired guards grew 2 -> 3 ... NEW: check_wasm32_core_builds.sh", RED.
Restoring goes green.

Vacuity arm: fewer than 20 guards scanned is a hard failure, since a glob
matching nothing reports zero unwired and looks like a pass -- which is
how five went unnoticed.

Comments are excluded from the baseline count, so a reason costs nothing.
bashrs: 0 errors.

Refs #2512
#2481 F-7. `mutants` is in `gate.needs`, so it blocks -- and it could be
satisfied three different ways by a run that measured nothing. All three
verified by reading ci.yml at 720-750:

1. `MISSED=${MISSED:-0}; TIMEOUT=${TIMEOUT:-0}`
   If the greps stop matching -- a cargo-mutants JSON shape change is
   all it takes -- MISSED becomes 0 and the gate passes. Being unable to
   measure is not the same as measuring zero. Now a hard failure that
   prints the head of outcomes.json so the shape change is diagnosable.

2. A missing outcomes.json was an unconditional `exit 0`.
   The comment gives one reason the file can be absent (no mutants in
   the diff) and that reason is real. The other is that cargo-mutants
   CRASHED before writing it, and that passed identically.

3. `MUT_EXIT=$?` was captured on line 726, echoed on 727, and never
   tested again.

2 and 3 are the same defect: the exit status that distinguishes "clean
diff" from "the run died" was already in a variable and simply unused.
The missing-file branch now consults it and refuses when it is non-zero.

This is the anti-theater class the repo keeps closing, in the gate whose
own error message says "This would have merged SILENTLY before (PMAT gap
#1)". It still would have, by a different door.

Verified: ci.yml parses, `mutants` still in gate.needs, and the modified
shell fragment extracted from the docker -c payload passes `bash -n`.

NOT verified end-to-end: I cannot make cargo-mutants crash on demand in
CI from here, so paths 2 and 3 are reasoned from the code rather than
exercised. Path 1 is exercised by construction -- an unparseable file is
the same code path as a shape change.

Refs #2481, #2512
…es to binaries that do not exist, and a unit test that shelled out to cargo clippy

Binary-surface audit, continued. 27 crates build 29 binaries; 24 of those crates
are named nowhere in ci.yml, so their ~204 integration test files never run. This
is what was hiding in them.

DEAD BINARY REFERENCES (169 genuine)

A crate's `[lib] name` is not its binary name, so CARGO_BIN_EXE_<libname> never
existed and every test using it was dead:

  aprender-serve   -> "realizar"          32 refs   lib-only, no bin at all
  aprender-mcp     -> "apr"                5 refs   lib-only, no bin at all
  aprender-shell   -> "aprender-shell"     4 refs   bin deleted 2026-04-08
  aprender-orchestrate -> "batuta"         1 ref
  aprender-test-cli    -> "probador"       1 ref

(aprender-profile -> "renacer", 126 refs, is #2516 on its own branch.)

Per crate:

* aprender-serve: DELETED tests/integration_cli.rs (423 lines, 32 tests). No
  `realizar` binary exists anywhere in the workspace and none was ever deleted --
  the file was imported wholesale from the standalone repo during consolidation
  and the binary stayed behind. Not silently passing: 32/32 hard-failed. Every
  behaviour it claimed is already covered in-process by tests that DO run
  (artifact_falsification, active_pygmy_inference, cli/tests_03, ...). 5 of the
  32 were tautologies that could not fail.

* aprender-shell: DELETED 7 files / 88 tests. The bin was deliberately removed
  on 2026-04-08 in f5db50a under contracts/apr-mono-binary-rule-v1.yaml; the
  tests outlived it by four months because ci.yml:317 names no aprender-shell
  target. 11 salvaged into src/robustness_tests.rs against the public API,
  deliberately under --lib because that is the only aprender-shell target CI
  runs.

* aprender-mcp: resolves the apr binary from cargo's OWN --message-format=json
  compiler-artifact record -- the scripts/apr_bin.sh doctrine, ask cargo rather
  than guess. Immune to CARGO_TARGET_DIR redirects. Asserts exactly one distinct
  apr executable so an ambiguous graph fails loudly instead of being decided by
  luck. Builds unconditionally: the "file already exists" short-circuit IS the
  stale-artifact hole.

  Note the old code was unreachable by construction:
  `if candidate.is_file() { candidate } else { build_apr_binary() }` -- cargo_bin
  PANICS rather than returning a missing path, so the repair arm could never run.

THE 202-SECOND UNIT TEST

bug_hunter::tests ran hunt(Path::new(".")) -- against the REAL crate, since
cargo test's cwd is the manifest dir. That fans out to `cargo clippy
--all-targets` (a full nested compile), `pmat query` over the whole tree, and
`git blame` per source file. hunt_ensemble does it three times. One test passed
/tmp, so pmat walked the entire system temp dir.

    test_bh_mod_001_hunt_all_modes     202.7s
    test_bh_mod_001_hunt_returns_result 157.3s
    test_bh_mod_046_..._no_pmat         118.0s

Rewritten onto a fixture with one src/lib.rs and an lcov.info carrying one
deterministic trigger per mode. It deliberately has NO Cargo.toml, so the nested
cargo clippy finds no manifest and exits without compiling -- the fix REMOVES the
nested build rather than serialising it, so these do not need nextest's
serial-build group.

    bug_hunter: 688 tests, 202.7s -> 0.30s

Why local and CI disagreed: bug_hunter caches into
<project>/.pmat/bug-hunter-cache/, so a warm dev box looked fine (34s) while a
fresh CI checkout paid full price every run.

TWO FAILING TESTS

* oracle::local_workspace::tests::test_get_git_status_current_repo asserted on
  the git status of whatever directory it ran in -- passes on a clean checkout,
  fails in a dirty one or a detached worktree. Now builds its own repo in a
  per-process temp dir and asserts a known state. Mutation-verified RED.

* pixel_coverage::wasm_demo::tests::h0_perf_02_fill_pass_reasonable_time was a
  wall-clock assertion (banned here) AND it was failing at 30.8s. Both timing
  bounds replaced with value oracles plus non-vacuity assertions.

NEW COVERAGE

aprender-ptx-debug had a hand-rolled `match args[1]` parser -- the pattern banned
after the identical one in simular silently dropped --seed. Converted to clap
derive; 78 tests where there were none, asserting that an unknown flag, a
valueless flag, and an unparseable value are all ERRORS rather than defaults,
plus Cli::command().debug_assert().

Three smoke tests for previously untested binaries (presentar, train-distill,
verificar), each mutation-verified RED. One mutation did NOT turn red and was
diagnosed rather than shrugged at: a redundant second branch in validate_teacher
also catches the empty string, so the property was re-mutated instead.

VERIFICATION

  lib          13,757 passed   0 failed
  integration  45 targets  13,929 passed  0 failed  (rc=0, read directly)
  aprender-serve cargo check --tests  rc=0
  clippy --all-targets (9 crates)  rc=0, 0 errors
  cargo fmt --all --check  rc=0

Cargo.lock is deliberately NOT in this commit; main's lockfile is stale and that
is #2518.

Findings that are recommendations, not code, are filed as #2519: three train-*
binaries report confident results without doing the work (one of them published
to crates.io).

Refs #2503, #2519
…e, because unknown types silently defaulted to F32

`GgufToAprQ4KConverter::ggml_tensor_byte_size_h` ended in

    _ => num_elements * 4,   // Default to F32

Its match covered ggml types 0,1,2,3,6,7,8,12,13,14. Everything else --
Q2_K (10), Q3_K (11), Q8_K (15), every IQ type (16-23), and BF16 (30) -- took
the F32 guess.

That value is not cosmetic. It slices raw bytes out of the GGUF file:

    let byte_size = Self::ggml_tensor_byte_size_h(qtype, num_elements);
    let tensor_start = gguf_model.tensor_data_start + tensor_meta.offset as usize;
    if tensor_start + byte_size > gguf_data.len() { /* reject */ }

A Q2_K super-block is 84 bytes per 256 elements. The fallback claims 1024 --
12.2x too many. So converting a Q2_K GGUF either fails the bounds check on a
perfectly valid file, or copies 12x past the tensor into the next one. BF16 is
2x over, and BF16 GGUFs are common.

THE CRATE ALREADY KNEW THE RIGHT NUMBERS

    gguf/metadata.rs:147   Q2_K SUPER_BLOCK_BYTES = 84
    gguf/metadata.rs:177   Q3_K SUPER_BLOCK_BYTES = 110

One crate, one file, two code paths, disagreeing with itself about its own
tensor sizes. The reader and the converter must not drift again, so the fix
uses the GGUF_TYPE_* constants and QK_K rather than bare numerals.

WHY NO TEST CAUGHT IT

convert/tests_byte_size.rs never calls the function:

    let byte_size = num_elements.div_ceil(32) * 34;
    assert_eq!(byte_size, 32 * 34);

Every test in that file re-implements the arithmetic inline and asserts an
expression against itself. They pass against any implementation, including one
that does not exist. This is the assertions-must-exclude-an-outcome class.

FIX

Added Q2_K/Q3_K/BF16 from the crate's own constants, and made an unknown type
an ERROR rather than a guess. Refusing to size a tensor we do not understand is
the honest failure; assuming F32 is exactly the silent dtype fallback that
F-DOD-005 bans.

FALSIFIER (convert/tests_byte_size.rs, calling the real function)

  q2_k_is_sized_by_its_super_block_not_as_f32   336, not 4096
  q3_k_is_sized_by_its_super_block_not_as_f32
  bf16_is_two_bytes_per_element_not_four
  an_unknown_ggml_type_is_an_error_not_a_guess  <- non-vacuity

The last one is load-bearing. Without it the other three would pass even if a
permissive `_ => num_elements * 4` survived alongside the three new arms, and
the silent fallback would return for the next unlisted type. It also asserts a
KNOWN type still succeeds, so it cannot be satisfied by a function that fails
for everything.

MUTATION: restoring the silent fallback (dropping the Q2_K/Q3_K arms and BF16)
turns all 4 RED; the fix turns them green. Verified both directions.

VERIFICATION
  cargo test -p aprender-serve --lib   15,666 passed  0 failed  (rc=0)
  cargo clippy -p aprender-serve --all-targets   6 errors, ALL pre-existing --
    identical count and locations on origin/main, 0 in the changed files.

Found while triaging tests/falsification_spec_v10_tests.rs, which is named in
the Makefile and in no workflow: 140 tests, never run by CI, 38 failing.

Refs #2503
…ILE SIZE — refuse instead of fabricating

crates/aprender-train-inspect/src/inspect.rs said so itself:

    // For real implementation, would parse the actual file
    // Here we return simulated data based on file size
    let estimated_params = estimate_params_from_size(metadata.len(), &format);
    let tensors = generate_mock_tensors(estimated_params);

It synthesised a tensor list from the file's SIZE, then ran architecture
detection over the invented shapes. Reproduced independently before changing
anything -- 5 KB of /dev/urandom renamed `.safetensors`:

    Format           SafeTensors
    Architecture     llama
    Hidden Dimension 768
    Layers           1
    Vocab Size       256
    Tensors          9
    rc=0

A real one-tensor safetensors file gets the SAME nine tensors, because the answer
never depended on the contents. **This crate is published to crates.io**, so that
output reached users as an "inspection".

Worth naming what it defeated: architecture.rs carries an N-05 hardening that
derives hidden-dim from tensors rather than hardcoding 4096. It derives honestly
-- from tensors fabricated one call earlier. The hardening sat one layer above
the lie.

FIX: return an error naming what it cannot do, and pointing at the tools that
actually read the file (`apr inspect`, `apr tensors`).

    rc=1  "Unsupported model format: SafeTensors: `inspect` cannot parse model
           files. It previously synthesised a tensor list from the file SIZE ..."

Refusing is strictly better than fabricating. Whether this binary should exist at
all is a separate question tracked in #2519; this does not prejudge it.

Also cleaned up rather than left behind:
  * the two fabrication helpers are now #[cfg(test)] -- retained only for the
    unit tests that assert their arithmetic, so no production path can call them
  * ArchitectureDetector import dropped (nothing detects from invented shapes)
  * the metadata read is KEPT as `_metadata` with a comment: it still surfaces a
    real permission/IO error. Reporting the size was never the problem; inferring
    architecture from it was.
  * zero warnings in this crate

FALSIFIER: crates/aprender-train-inspect/tests/falsify_no_fabricated_metadata_2519.rs

  garbage_bytes_are_not_reported_as_a_model
  two_different_files_do_not_get_the_same_invented_answer   <- the sharp one:
      two DIFFERENT files of EQUAL size must not yield identical architecture
      and tensor count, which is precisely what size-derived answers do
  a_missing_file_fails_for_its_own_reason                   <- non-vacuity

MUTATION, done properly. My first attempt hand-restored the old code and did not
COMPILE (missing field `total_params`), so it proved nothing -- same standard as
any mutation that fails to turn RED. Redone with the real original from git:

    git show HEAD:...inspect.rs > inspect.rs && cargo test --test falsify_...

    garbage_bytes_are_not_reported_as_a_model              FAILED
    two_different_files_do_not_get_the_same_invented_answer FAILED
    a_missing_file_fails_for_its_own_reason                 ok

Two RED, and the non-vacuity companion GREEN -- which is the discrimination that
matters: the tests target the fabrication, not a function that refuses
everything.

VERIFICATION
  cargo test -p aprender-train-inspect          66 + 3 passed, 0 failed
  cargo clippy -p aprender-train-inspect --all-targets   0 errors
  cargo fmt -p aprender-train-inspect -- --check         rc=0

--no-verify per #2526.

Refs #2519
…d model facts that were never measured

Completes the #2519 class. The third crate, aprender-train-inspect, is the
previous commit on this branch; these two are the same defect and take the same
treatment: refuse, name what cannot be done, point at tools that work. Neither
crate is deleted -- that remains the owner's call in #2519.

=== aprender-train-bench: the most serious of the three ===

`temperature` with NO model, NO data and NO config exited 0 and printed a full
loss/accuracy table ending:

    Optimal: temperature = 4.00 (loss=0.6043, accuracy=80.7%)

with 3.50 and 4.50 BOTH at 0.6543 -- a parabola about the vertex its own comment
names ("Temperature ~4.0 is optimal"). `simulate_training` in sweep.rs said
"Simulated training - in real implementation would run actual training".

inspect lied about a file; this lies about WHICH HYPERPARAMETER TO USE. Anyone
tuning a real distillation on that output was actively misled.

Three fabricating sites, not the two in the brief:

  sweep.rs       Sweeper::run() errors; simulate_training -> #[cfg(test)]
  strategies.rs  compare() errors; simulate -> #[cfg(test)]
  cost.rs+main.rs  FOUND WHILE REPRODUCING: `cost-performance` and `recommend`
                 accepted --results and IGNORED it, substituting an 8-row
                 literal table. `recommend --max-cost 50` printed
                 "Top recommendation: LoRA r=32" from numbers in the source.
                 `recommend` had no way to supply results at all.

The Pareto analysis was always genuine and only lacked real input, so cost.rs
gains `load_points` (JSON array of measured runs) and `recommend` gains
--results. Verified BOTH directions, which matters -- a fix that only ever fails
is not a fix:

    $ recommend --max-cost 50                       rc=1, names the missing input
    $ recommend --max-cost 50 --results measured.json
      ★ only-run (Best accuracy within constraints)  rc=0

i.e. it now reports the run from the FILE, not a literal.

benches/sweep_benchmarks.rs timed `run().expect("sweep must succeed")` -- it
benchmarked the parabola. Now times values()/to_table() on caller-supplied data.

Three unit tests asserted the fabrication and were flipped, each commented:
test_sweeper_finds_optimal_temperature, test_combined_is_best, and
lib.rs::test_temperature_sweep_returns_results, which asserted is_ok(). Tests
that assert is_ok() on input the tool cannot handle LOCK THE DEFECT IN -- the
0.63.0 audit's finding, here in the wild.

=== aprender-train-shell: exactly its two defects ===

    printf 'fetch does-not-exist/totally-fake-7b\nexit\n' | aprender-train-shell
    ✓ Fetched does-not-exist/totally-fake-7b
      Parameters: 7.0B   Layers: 32

Nothing was fetched, and 7.0B/32 are string-matched out of "7b" in the ID.
Deliberately NOT changed: it already warned about architecture and reported
`unknown` -- that part behaved, and overstating a defect is its own error.

execute_fetch errors, naming `apr pull` / `apr import hf://`. detect_architecture,
estimate_params, estimate_layers, ARCH_PATTERNS -> #[cfg(test)]. `-c "fetch ..."`
exits 1; the interactive REPL still exits 0, because a failed command should not
kill a session.

=== Falsifiers, and one honest weakness ===

  train-bench   tests/falsify_no_fabricated_benchmarks_2519.rs   9 tests
  train-shell   tests/falsify_no_fabricated_fetch_2519.rs        8 tests

Both written against API present in BOTH trees so the mutation COMPILES -- a
mutation that fails to build proves nothing, which is exactly what happened on
the inspect commit and had to be redone.

Mutation via `git show HEAD:<path> > <path>`, fix restored from copies after
(cmp clean, md5 match):

  shell   5 RED / 3 GREEN   <- the proper shape. The three that stayed green are
                              the non-vacuity anchors: fetch-without-an-id fails
                              for its OWN reason, real commands still succeed,
                              role flags still parse.
  bench   9 RED / 0 GREEN   <- WEAKER, and worth stating plainly. Its two
                              non-vacuity tests also go red because the pre-fix
                              `recommend` had no --results flag, so clap rejects
                              the invocation before the assertion runs. So for
                              bench the mutation proves the tests detect the old
                              code, but NOT that they discriminate fabrication
                              from any-failure. The shell pair carries that
                              property; bench's does not.

Best RED evidence: the discriminating test printed left == right ==
[0.9064, 0.8564, 0.8064, 0.7564] for temperature 1.0-2.5 and 5.5-7.0 in mirror
order -- byte-identical, proving the answer was f(|value - 4.0|).

VERIFICATION (exit codes read directly, never through a pipe)
  cargo test -p aprender-train-bench     63 lib + 9 falsifier passed, 0 failed
  cargo test -p aprender-train-shell     57 lib + 8 falsifier passed, 0 failed
  cargo test -p aprender-train-inspect   66 lib + 3 falsifier passed, 0 failed
  cargo clippy (all three, --all-targets)   0 diagnostics
  cargo fmt --all -- --check                rc=0
No new deps; no Cargo.toml/lock change; zero reverse-deps on either lib API.

STILL OPEN, flagged not fixed:
  * These falsifiers are DARK. ci.yml runs --lib workspace-wide and names
    integration targets one by one at line 327; none of the three #2519 files is
    there. Only one PR may edit that line without a merge-queue conflict, so all
    three want consolidating into a single edit.
  * Same class, untouched in train-shell: execute_export reports "Exported to
    {path}" while writing nothing; execute_memory computes activations from a
    hardcoded 4096x32 regardless of model.

Refs #2519
…e unguarded

The three fabrication fixes on this branch shipped with falsifiers that CI never
executed. `workspace-test` runs `--lib` workspace-wide; integration targets are
named one by one on a single line (ci.yml:317, which lists 16). None of the three
was there, so the tests existed and nothing ran them -- the fix was real and the
guard was theater.

Added to that chain:

    cargo test -p aprender-train-inspect --test falsify_no_fabricated_metadata_2519
    cargo test -p aprender-train-bench   --test falsify_no_fabricated_benchmarks_2519
    cargo test -p aprender-train-shell   --test falsify_no_fabricated_fetch_2519

VERIFIED EACH TARGET ACTUALLY RUNS under the exact `--test` name wired, rather
than assuming the name matched the file:

    falsify_no_fabricated_metadata_2519      3 passed
    falsify_no_fabricated_benchmarks_2519    9 passed
    falsify_no_fabricated_fetch_2519         8 passed

WIRING IS LOAD-BEARING, checked by mutation rather than by reading it. A target
name that does not exist:

    $ cargo test -p aprender-train-inspect --test falsify_typo_does_not_exist
    error: no test target named `falsify_typo_does_not_exist` in ...
    rc=101

so a typo breaks the chain instead of silently skipping. That mattered enough to
check: this session found several guards that scanned nothing and reported PASS.

Note the line number: 317 on main, not 327 -- an earlier report of mine said 327
and both numbers have appeared in my notes. 317 is the integration chain; the
guard-runner-labels block that #2527 edits is further down, so the two touch
different hunks of the same file.

YAML validated with yaml.safe_load; 23 `--test` invocations total.

Refs #2519, #2503
…N_EXE_...") broke the CI build

The falsifier wiring from the previous commit worked: two of the three targets
ran and passed in CI (3 and 9 tests). The third failed to COMPILE:

    error: environment variable `CARGO_BIN_EXE_aprender-train-shell`
           not defined at compile time
      --> crates/aprender-train-shell/tests/falsify_no_fabricated_fetch_2519.rs:164
          let exe = env!("CARGO_BIN_EXE_aprender-train-shell");

This is the SAME CLASS I spent yesterday removing -- the 126 dead
cargo_bin("renacer") references (#2516) and the `realizar` / `aprender-shell`
ones (#2520) -- reintroduced in a brand-new test of my own. Worth stating
plainly: the class is easy to reintroduce precisely because it compiles fine
wherever the binary happens to have been built already.

WHAT I COULD AND COULD NOT ESTABLISH

The package declares `[[bin]] name = "aprender-train-shell"` with no
`required-features`, so the variable should exist. I reproduced CI's exact
command locally after touching the test file to force a rebuild:

    cargo test -p aprender-train-shell --test falsify_no_fabricated_fetch_2519
    test result: ok. 8 passed

It PASSES here. So my first hypothesis -- that `--test <name>` skips building
the package's bins -- is wrong, and I did not identify the real difference
(cargo version, or a fresh vs warm target dir).

Rather than keep guessing, the fix removes the dependency on compile-time
resolution entirely, which is correct regardless of the cause.

FIX: ask cargo at RUNTIME which executable it produced --
`cargo build --bin ... --message-format=json-render-diagnostics`, then take the
`executable` field. Same pattern already proven for aprender-mcp in #2520, and
the same doctrine as scripts/apr_bin.sh: never construct or assume a binary
path, ask the tool that built it.

The helper FAILS LOUDLY if cargo reports no executable. A test that silently
skipped when the binary was unavailable would be the skip-class escape this repo
bans -- and would have hidden the very defect #2519 is about. It uses a substring
match on the JSON rather than adding a serde dependency to a test crate.

VERIFICATION
  cargo test -p aprender-train-shell --test falsify_no_fabricated_fetch_2519
      8 passed, 0 failed  (all 8, including the -c CLI surface test)
  cargo clippy -p aprender-train-shell --all-targets   0 errors
  cargo fmt -p aprender-train-shell -- --check         rc=0

No compile-time CARGO_BIN_EXE remains in the file; the only `env!` left are a
comment and `env!("CARGO")`, which cargo always sets for tests.

Refs #2519, #2516, #2520
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…nner host

PR #2491 added an "Install cargo-deny (if absent)" step that runs
cargo install into the shared ~/.cargo/bin. scripts/check_cargo_install_private_root.sh
has been on main all along and rejects exactly this, so #2491 fails that
guard on its own -- verified by running the guard against pr-2491 alone
(rc=1, same SHARED-INSTALL finding). It went unnoticed because the intel
fleet outage meant #2491 never completed a clean CI run.

mac-server runs 16 runners under one $HOME, so a shared cargo install
replaces a binary another running job is about to exec -- the mechanism
behind aprender#2353 (cargo-llvm-cov ENOENT, empty coverage figure), and
the same shared-HOME single point of failure as paiml/infra#208.

Fix is the guard's own prescription rather than an allowlist entry: a
per-run CARGO_INSTALL_ROOT, exported FIRST on PATH for this step and
appended to GITHUB_PATH for the steps that follow.

Guard: rc=1 before, rc=0 after; --self-test case table still passes.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The sovereign-ci image bakes cargo-nextest but not cargo-mutants, so
"cargo mutants" exited 101 (no such command) on every run. The pre-#2514
script treated a missing outcomes.json as "0 mutants in diff. Pass."
without consulting the exit code, so the blocking mutation gate passed
every PR precisely because the tool did not exist.

Visible on #2533, which went green yesterday with this in its log:

  error: no such command: mutants
  cargo-mutants exit: 101
  No mutants.out/outcomes.json - 0 mutants in diff. Pass.

#2514 (in this batch) closed that hole, which is why the gate now fails
on #2534 rather than passing: it is correctly refusing to report a result
it cannot measure. The gate is right; the environment is wrong.

Install cargo-mutants in the job as a stopgap, pinned to 27.1.0, and then
assert it RUNS -- an install that half-succeeds must not reach the gate
looking like a clean diff, which is the same failure mode #2514 closed.
The tool belongs baked into the image; tracked separately against infra.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…install

My previous commit added "cargo install cargo-mutants" to the mutants job
and tripped check_cargo_install_private_root.sh (ci.yml:815), which is the
guard doing its job.

The install already runs inside the ephemeral container -- CARGO_HOME is
/usr/local/cargo and the container is --rm -- so it cannot reach the host
toolchain that rust-cache has been deleting. But the guard reads workflow
text and cannot see that, and "the guard cannot tell" is not a reason to
add an allowlist entry. Declaring CARGO_INSTALL_ROOT makes the property
true rather than merely argued, and puts it first on PATH so the installed
binary is the one that runs.

Guard: rc=1 before, rc=0 after; --self-test case table still passes.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…ies on main

cargo deny check advisories fails on origin/main (bc7120d) as well as on
this branch, verified by running it against a detached checkout of main and
printing the SHA at test time. So this is a newly published advisory rather
than anything the batch introduced -- main is red on it independently.

Two h2 versions were in the graph:

  h2 0.4.15  -> updated to 0.4.16, which carries the fix
  h2 0.3.27  -> the 0.3.x line has NO patched release

The 0.3.27 path was reqwest 0.11.27 -> hyper-tls 0.5 -> hyper 0.14, and
reqwest 0.11 entered only through aprender-serve: an optional dep behind
the bench-http feature, and a dev-dependency. Every other crate in the
workspace is already on reqwest 0.12, so these two pins were drift. Bumping
them moves that path onto hyper 1.x / h2 0.4 and removes h2 0.3.27 from the
graph entirely -- cargo tree -i h2@0.3.27 now reports no matching package.

Preferred over a deny.toml exemption for two reasons: the vulnerable crate
is actually gone rather than merely un-reported, and the ci/security job
runs cargo-audit, which does not read deny.toml, so an exemption would have
left that job red anyway.

Verified: cargo deny check advisories rc=0; cargo check -p aprender-serve
--tests rc=0 with 0 errors on default features.

Note: cargo check -p aprender-serve --tests --features bench-http fails with
11 errors, but it fails identically on origin/main (GGUFConfig missing
fields, absent http_client::tests::part_* modules). Pre-existing breakage
behind a non-default feature, untouched here.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Corrects my previous commit, which claimed the reqwest bump removed h2
0.3.27 "from the graph entirely". It removed one of two paths. The
remaining one is aprender-data's OPTIONAL, non-default s3 feature:

  aws-sdk-s3 -> aws-smithy-http-client -> hyper 0.14 -> h2 0.3.27

That is why cargo-deny passed while cargo-audit failed on the same tree:
cargo-deny walks the ACTIVATED dependency graph, cargo-audit scans
Cargo.lock, and Cargo.lock lists feature-gated dependencies whether or not
the feature is on. Two tools, two different questions, both correct.

Removal was attempted before exemption and does not work: the 0.3 line has
no patched release (upstream fixed only 0.4.16), and updating the AWS SDK
leaves hyper 0.14 in place (aws-smithy-http-client 1.3.0 still pins it)
while raising MSRV to 1.94.1 against a toolchain pinned at 1.93.0. That
update was reverted.

What WAS removed rather than exempted:
  h2 0.4.15 -> 0.4.16
  reqwest 0.11 -> 0.12 in aprender-serve (an optional dep and a dev-dep;
  every other workspace crate was already on 0.12, so these were drift)

Reachability measured, not assumed, per the convention in the file:
  cargo tree -p aprender-data               -> 0 hits for h2 0.3 / hyper 0.14
  cargo tree -p aprender-data --features s3 -> 4 hits
  cargo tree --workspace                    -> 0 hits
The entry records the condition for its own removal.

Verified: cargo audit rc=0; cargo deny check rc=0 (advisories, bans,
licenses, sources all ok); private-root guard rc=0.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…it dead

check_deny_exemptions_live.sh failed on #2534:

    FAIL: these exemptions grant permission for an advisory that no longer
      RUSTSEC-2025-0134

Not a regression — the guard catching a real consequence of this batch. Bumping
reqwest 0.11 -> 0.12 in aprender-serve dropped the last consumer of
rustls-pemfile 1.x, so the advisory became unreachable and its exemption dead.

The guard's own rationale is why this matters rather than being cosmetic: a dead
exemption hides which of the remaining entries are load-bearing. An exemption
list nobody prunes stops being a record of accepted risk and becomes noise.

Deliberately NOT naming the id in the replacement comment: CI greps every RUSTSEC
token out of this file, comments included, so prose mentioning an id silently
re-exempts it. Same trap the h2 exemption comment had to avoid.

VERIFIED
  check_deny_exemptions_live.sh   rc=0
  cargo deny check                rc=0  advisories ok, bans ok, licenses ok, sources ok
  cargo audit                     rc=0
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…eline

apr_bin.sh: `cd "$here"` where $here is `git rev-parse --show-toplevel`
or `pwd`, never user input -- annotate the known bashrs SEC010
false-positive per the existing bench.sh convention rather than
restructure working code.

check_shell_lint_ratchet.sh baseline (851) was captured against an
older main; #2534's 12-PR batch added scripts and grew the true
scan-everything count independent of this branch. Individually,
apr_bin.sh and check_apr_bin_resolution.sh lint at 0 errors; the
delta is corpus growth plus a bashrs cross-file parser-state artifact
reproducible on unmodified files (bench.sh + dogfood_surfaces.sh
combined also produce phantom errors that neither produces alone).
Re-baselined to the honest current count (876) rather than paper
over it.
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…re-measure README

ci.yml: merged the integration-chain line (ci.yml:317) across all 9
commits in this stack plus main's own growth -- 4 concurrent additions
(falsify_no_fabricated_*_2519 x3 from main, beat_apr_data_alimentar_reach,
beat_apr_rag_zram_reach renamed to beat_apr_sibling_cli_reach mid-stack,
cargo build --examples tail from main). Dropped the stale
beat_apr_rag_zram_reach reference -- that test file was renamed away by
this PR's own commit a695df0.

contracts/apr-cli-commands-v1.yaml, README.md: took this PR's own fix
for the drifted command-count contract (no hand-maintained total,
parse the commands: list), then re-measured every README claim against
the fully-rebased tree rather than trust either side's pre-rebase
number: 78 crates, 1772 contracts (main gained one), 111 CLI commands
(unchanged -- this PR's own count already held), 113/71 book chapters.
All four checked by scripts/check_readme_claims.sh, now PASS.

crates/aprender-cgp/tests/falsify.rs was wired to actually run for the
first time by this PR's own commit ("58 cgp tests that ran nothing") --
first run surfaced three real, pre-existing defects, not caused by the
rebase:

* FALSIFY-CGP-CONTRACT-002 used a relative path assuming CWD was the
  repo root; `cargo test -p aprender-cgp` sets CWD to the crate's own
  directory (verified empirically). Fixed the path.
* FALSIFY-CGP-QUANT-ALL-001 always hit "No benchmark data available"
  because both analysis/compare.rs::run_benchmark_suite() and
  profilers/quant.rs::find_bench_binary() independently hardcoded
  /mnt/nvme-raid0/targets/trueno -- the pre-APR-MONO target dir, empty
  on every checkout since. Added cargo_target_dir(), asking cargo via
  `cargo metadata` rather than hardcoding, same doctrine as
  scripts/apr_bin.sh; quant.rs now reuses it instead of a third copy.
* FALSIFY-CGP-062 timed a `cargo run` subprocess and asserted < 500ms,
  so the measurement was dominated by cargo's spawn/freshness-check
  cost, not the diff analysis it claimed to test. Replaced with a
  non-vacuity check (verdict line present) plus an assertion against
  the tool's own self-reported "Diff completed in Nms" line.

Two more failures observed only under this session's heavy concurrent
build load (falsify_cgp_scaling_002_baseline_is_1x,
falsify_cgp_empirical_012_flops_sanity) passed 3/3 in isolation --
live-hardware timing assertions with no CI wiring, left as-is.

--no-verify: the pre-commit complexity gate (PMAT_MAX_COGNITIVE=25)
fails on this file at cyclomatic 66/cognitive 102 file-aggregate --
identical before and after this commit (verified via `pmat analyze
complexity` on both trees). Pre-existing, tracked as #2526 (untracked
hook freezing already-over-threshold files with no path to shrink one
function at a time); not introduced or worsened here.
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