fix(gates): make the path contract resolvable, and give the table alternation - #651
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WalkthroughThe update standardises repository path references, adds alternative capability and gate paths, and extends profile checking for canonical locations and spine-carried workflows. ChangesRepository profile and gate updates
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Pull Request Overview
The pull request successfully implements path alternation support and a carrier exemption for spine-role repositories. However, there is a critical logic gap: the is_carrier function still performs literal string matches, meaning it will fail to recognize carried files that utilize the new pipe-delimited alternation syntax.
Additionally, there is a contradiction between the gates table and the universal criteria specification for MAINTAINERS.adoc (Criterion 2.1.7) that remains unresolved. While Codacy indicates the PR is up to standards, these logical inconsistencies should be corrected to ensure the profile checker functions accurately for downstream consumers.
About this PR
- The PR acknowledges a contradiction for Criterion 2.1.7 (MAINTAINERS.adoc) between the 'universal' spec and the 'governance-tier' gate but does not resolve it. This may cause validation 'catch-22s' for users who include the file as per the universal spec but lack the governance capability.
Test suggestions
- Alternation logic: Verify that 'present()' in the check script returns true if any alternative in a '|' separated string exists.
- Carrier exemption: Verify that a repo with 'role = "spine"' does not flag files in the [carrier] section as VESTIGIAL.
- Legacy profile resolution: Verify the script successfully falls back to '.machine_readable/rsr-profile.a2ml' if the canonical path is missing.
- Deno gating: Verify that criterion 4.3.1 can now be activated by the 'deno' capability.
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In `@rhodium-standard-repositories/spec/rsr-criteria-v2.a2ml`:
- Line 109: Update criterion 2.1.6 so its desc and template_ref fields reference
the same canonical changelog format, preserving the existing criterion structure
and detection key.
In `@scripts/check-rsr-profile.sh`:
- Line 113: Update the ROLE lookup in the profile-checking flow to read the
selected profile’s supported profile section, including role = "spine", rather
than only the rsr-profile section. Preserve the existing extraction and
carrier-exemption behavior for other profiles.
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GitHub Actions: Self Test / 0_Repo self-tests.txt: fix(gates): make the path contract resolvable, and give the table alternation
Conclusion: failure
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GitHub Actions: Self Test / Repo self-tests: fix(gates): make the path contract resolvable, and give the table alternation
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scripts/check-rsr-profile.sh
[failure] 31-31: Use '[[' instead of '[' for conditional tests. The '[[' construct is safer and more feature-rich.
[warning] 120-120: Assign this positional parameter to a local variable.
[failure] 120-120: Use '[[' instead of '[' for conditional tests. The '[[' construct is safer and more feature-rich.
[failure] 115-115: Use '[[' instead of '[' for conditional tests. The '[[' construct is safer and more feature-rich.
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Addressed in 1. Proved with a control rather than by inspection:
2. ROLE lookup bypassed the 3. Criterion 2.1.6 Deliberately still open: criterion 2.1.7. Codacy is right that gating For the record, one finding elsewhere in this sweep was rejected on evidence rather than adopted: Codacy called removing a |
…ernation
The canon named module paths that no repo has had for months, and had no way to
express an alternative, so conforming repos were reported as drift.
VERIFIED BEFORE: running this repo's own scripts/check-rsr-profile.sh against
rsr-template-repo exited 2 at the hardcoded profile path before evaluating a
single gate. VERIFIED AFTER: exit 0, "scaffold matches declared capabilities".
Alternation. Gate rows may now list alternatives separated by '|', satisfied if
ANY exists. Without it every row was an independent AND, which is why the table
demanded BOTH build/guix.scm AND flake.nix for one capability - contradicting
criterion 1.2.1 ("Nix fallback only") and making reproducible-build
unsatisfiable for any repo that had correctly retired Nix. Those two rows are
now one. Alternation is what the table always meant; it had no way to say it.
Paths corrected - five of these were already stale before the 2026-08 template
reorganisation, and would have been wrong regardless of it:
* governance set AUDIT/AFFIRMATION/GOVERNANCE/MAINTAINERS.adoc -> docs/
(moved by the April 2026 root cleanup)
* community health SECURITY/CONTRIBUTING/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md -> .github/
(GitHub resolves these from .github/ as readily as the root; the estate's
canonical location IS .github/)
* CHANGELOG.md -> CHANGELOG.adoc (AsciiDoc is the estate standard; canon's
criteria contradicted canon's own practice here)
* EXPLAINME.adoc -> docs/
* src/interface/Abi/ - both cases accepted
and three from the reorganisation:
* machine tree .machine_readable/ -> machine-readable/
* container/ -> build/container/
* build/guix.scm -> guix.scm
Machine tree: BOTH names accepted. The canon itself, scaffoldia, the julia
variant and ~300 minted repos still carry the dotted form, so flipping in one
move would strand every one of them on the same day. Verified: a legacy-layout
repo is still read via the fallback (exit 1, violations - not exit 2, setup
error). Remove the legacy branch once the estate migration completes.
Vocabulary: "deno" added to [capabilities].known. Criterion 4.3.1 gates on it,
but it was never declared, so that criterion could never become applicable to
any repo - a gate that cannot fire.
New [carrier] section. A spine repo may carry capability-gated modules it does
not declare, because it carries them for the repos minted from it:
rsr-template-repo ships rust-ci.yml so a Rust project minted from it has one,
while itself carrying no Rust. The model could not express that, so it reported
the template's entire purpose as VESTIGIAL - while the template's own profile
[notes] had already argued, correctly, that declaring capabilities it lacks
would be worse. Applies only where the profile declares role = "spine"; a minted
repo doing the same is still drift.
template_ref traceability: RSR-SPEC-v2 says "a dangling template_ref is a defect
in either the spec or the template". 20 of 74 dangled. All 44 distinct refs now
resolve against the template - verified by checking every one. Includes
repointing npm-bun-blocker.yml and ts-blocker.yml at runtime-policy.yml, which
states in its own header that it REPLACES the former.
Left deliberately unresolved: criterion 2.1.7 gates MAINTAINERS.adoc as
"universal" while this table gates it as "governance-tier". That contradiction
is canon-internal and needs an owner ruling rather than a silent pick; noted in
place.
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…log desc
Three review findings, all verified against the code before acting, all real
and all gaps in the previous commit rather than in the reviewers.
1. is_carrier() exact-matched the whole gate row (Codacy). Gate rows may now be
alternations ("a|b"), while a [carrier] entry names one path, so an
alternation row whose alternatives are carried was silently NOT exempted.
Latent today (no carrier path is currently an alternation) but a trap for
whoever adds one. Now tests each alternative in turn.
Proved with a control: with the fix, exit=0 and 0 VESTIGIAL findings;
reverting is_carrier to the old form gives exit=1 and 1 VESTIGIAL on the
same fixture.
2. The ROLE lookup re-read [rsr-profile] directly (CodeRabbit), bypassing the
$PBODY that already falls back from [rsr-profile] to [profile] — the two
spellings this script explicitly supports. A repo using [profile] therefore
lost its role, and with it the carrier exemption. Now reads $PBODY.
Verified on a fixture using the [profile] spelling: role is read and the
exemption applies.
3. Criterion 2.1.6 desc said "CHANGELOG.md" while the previous commit changed
its template_ref to "CHANGELOG.adoc" (CodeRabbit) — an inconsistency I
introduced. Both now name the same thing, with .md still accepted.
Still deliberately NOT resolved: criterion 2.1.7 gates MAINTAINERS.adoc as
"universal" while the gates table gates it as "governance-tier". Codacy is
right that this can produce a validation catch-22, but which side is correct is
a canon-governance decision for the owner, not something to settle silently in
a path-contract PR. It remains flagged in place.
Verified: the checker still exits 0 against rsr-template-repo.
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…ecks (#44) ## What broke `validate-a2ml.sh` exempts files under a repo's machine tree from the in-file identity requirement — per RSR convention those carry identity *structurally* (owning repo + path + filename), not via `name`/`agent-id`. That exemption matched `.machine_readable/` **only**. `rsr-template-repo` has renamed its machine tree to `machine-readable/` (un-hidden, 2026-08), so its 16 typed manifests fell out of the exemption's reach and this action began reporting 16 spurious *"Missing required identity field"* errors against a tree that hadn't changed in any way relevant to identity. ## Measured, run as the action runs it | form | files scanned | errors | |---|---|---| | old, single-path | 123 | **16** | | new, dual-path | 123 | **0** | ## How this was missed — worth recording The template vendors its own copy at `.githooks/validate-a2ml.sh`, which *was* updated with the rename and reported 0 errors locally. **This action is a separate implementation of the same rule, in a different repo, invoked as a pinned action.** So the local run was green while CI was red — the local checker simply wasn't the checker CI uses. Two copies of one rule; only one updated. That is the actual defect class, and it is worth knowing the estate has at least one more of these. ## Both names, not a swap The canon, scaffoldia, the julia variant and ~300 minted repos still carry the dotted form. Matching only the *new* name would relocate the same breakage onto them rather than fix it. The new `case` matches a **strict superset** of the old pattern, so it can only ever exempt more — a legacy repo cannot regress. Verified: scaffoldia (legacy tree) still reports 0 errors. Remove the legacy alternative once the estate migration completes. Companion to hyperpolymath/rsr-template-repo#43, hyperpolymath/standards#651, hyperpolymath/hypatia#725. 🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code) --------- Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
## The defect `governance / Validate Hypatia Baseline` is a **required** status check across the estate, and the job carried a job-level guard: ```yaml if: needs.workflow-staleness.outputs.has_baseline == 'true' ``` **A skipped job never satisfies a required context.** So any repo without a `.hypatia-baseline.json` was blocked *forever, by construction* — not by a failure anyone could fix by making CI pass, because the check could not be satisfied at all. ## Measured | repo | baseline? | job | |---|---|---| | `standards` | yes | runs | | `hypatia` | yes | runs | | `rsr-template-repo` | **no** | **skipped → blocks** | | `a2ml-ecosystem` | **no** | **skipped** | | `scaffoldia` | **no** | **skipped** | That's why hyperpolymath/rsr-template-repo#43 sits at `BLOCKED` with this context reported `skipped`, while **none of its eight failing checks is even required**. ## Why not just add baseline files Adding an empty `[]` baseline to ~300 minted repos treats the symptom, and it would make this job — which clones and **builds the Hypatia escript** — run on every PR estate-wide purely to validate nothing. ## The fix The job now **always runs**; the eight expensive steps carry the guard individually. A repo with no baseline executes a single `echo` and reports success. A repo with one behaves exactly as before. Cheap **and** satisfiable, where it was previously cheap **xor** satisfiable. Structure verified by parsing the YAML: no job-level `if`, 9 steps, 8 guarded on `== 'true'`, 1 always-pass arm on `!= 'true'`, every step conditional — so exactly one arm executes. Deliberately **not** bundled into #651: different concern, and this changes behaviour for every repo calling the reusable workflow. 🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code) Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…ations (#725) Companion to hyperpolymath/rsr-template-repo#43 and hyperpolymath/standards#651. ## The problem The oracle could not score the estate's own spine. It hardcoded `.machine_readable/` in eight places, and eleven criteria detectors named root paths that the April 2026 root cleanup had already moved. ## Measured, against `rsr-template-repo` with the standards SSOT | stage | result | |---|---| | before | **could not read the profile at all** | | after path fix | `tier=none` · 74.29% · pass=31 · fail=14 | | after detector fix | **`tier=silver` · 92.77% · pass=42 · fail=3** | ## Nothing stranded A fabricated legacy-layout copy of the template (`machine-readable/` renamed back to `.machine_readable/`) scores **identically** — `tier=silver`, 92.77%, `profile=true`. Both layouts, same verdict. `Hypatia.Paths.machine_tree/1` + `machine_tree_join/2` resolve per repo at check time. Resolving to one name only would make whichever half of the estate had not migrated unscoreable — the same failure being fixed, in mirror image. ## The three that still fail are real Left failing **because they are failing**: - `4.1.3` sha-pinned — `dogfood-gate.yml` uses unpinned `@main` actions - `5.1.1` no-python — the template ships `strip-instruction-blocks.py` and `prune-dependabot-ecosystems.py` while the estate bans Python; it bans Python and ships Python, and every minted repo inherits both - `8.1.4` no-scaffold-stub ## What this does NOT change `coverage` stays 69% and `provisional` stays true, because **19 of 74 criteria are `detect="manual"`**. A provisional scorecard never satisfies `--fail-under`, so the dogfood gate's Gold requirement remains **structurally unreachable** until those detectors exist. Separate defect; not papered over here. ## Scope This fixes the scoring path. **Ten other files** under `lib/` still construct `.machine_readable` paths directly (19 `Path.join` sites). They should move to the same resolver — left as a follow-up rather than half-done silently. Compiles clean. 🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code) Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Companion to hyperpolymath/rsr-template-repo#43 and hyperpolymath/hypatia (path-contract branch).
The measurement
Running this repo's own
scripts/check-rsr-profile.shagainstrsr-template-repo:Alternation
Gate rows may now list alternatives separated by
|. Without it every row was an independent AND, which is why the table demanded bothbuild/guix.scmandflake.nixfor one capability — contradicting criterion 1.2.1 ("Nix fallback only") and makingreproducible-buildunsatisfiable for any repo that had correctly retired Nix. Those two rows are now one.Paths corrected
Five were already stale before the template reorganisation and would be wrong regardless of it: the governance set (
AUDIT/AFFIRMATION/GOVERNANCE/MAINTAINERS.adoc→docs/, moved by the April root cleanup), community health (SECURITY/CONTRIBUTING/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md→.github/, which is the estate's canonical location and one GitHub resolves natively),CHANGELOG.md→CHANGELOG.adoc,EXPLAINME.adoc→docs/, andsrc/interface/Abi/case.Three from the reorganisation: machine tree,
container/→build/container/,build/guix.scm→guix.scm.No flag day
Both machine-tree names are accepted. The canon itself, scaffoldia, the julia variant and ~300 minted repos still carry the dotted form; flipping in one move would strand every one of them the same day. Verified: a legacy-layout repo is still read via the fallback (exit 1 = violations, not exit 2 = setup error). Remove the legacy branch once migration completes.
New
[carrier]sectionA spine repo may carry capability-gated modules it does not declare, because it carries them for the repos minted from it —
rsr-template-reposhipsrust-ci.ymlso a Rust project minted from it has one, while carrying no Rust. The model could not express this, so it reported the template's entire purpose asVESTIGIAL, while the template's own profile[notes]had already argued (correctly) that declaring capabilities it lacks would be worse. Applies only torole = "spine"; a minted repo doing the same is still drift.Traceability
RSR-SPEC-v2 states "a dangling
template_refis a defect in either the spec or the template". 20 of 74 dangled. All 44 distinct refs now resolve — verified by checking every one.Vocabulary
denoadded to[capabilities].known. Criterion 4.3.1 gates on it but it was never declared, so that criterion could never become applicable to any repo — a gate that cannot fire.Left for an owner ruling
Criterion 2.1.7 gates
MAINTAINERS.adocasuniversalwhile the gates table gates it asgovernance-tier. Canon-internal contradiction; flagged in place rather than silently picked.🤖 Generated with Claude Code