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Summary

  • Enforce the ordinary absolute PR-size ceiling (30 meaningful files, 3000 meaningful lines, 15 commits) on every active exception registry entry.
  • Keep exception authority base-ref governed and prevent governed PRs from authorizing changes to the registry, checker, declaration, or CI workflow.
  • Require short single-line exception rationales and retire the historical PR fix(e2e): eliminate WelcomePortal startup/navigation nondeterminism (#532) #596 record without changing its recorded authorization values.
  • Add focused regression coverage for absolute ceilings, allowlists, self-expansion, historical entries, and valid boundary/supplemental exceptions.

Why

Issue #625 hardens the exception mechanism against self-expansion and retroactive elevation. This PR does not redesign the trusted workflow boundary owned by #510.

Validation

  • pnpm exec vitest run tests/unit/tooling/checkPrSize.test.ts — 68 passed
  • pnpm run ci:prepush — passed
  • git diff --check — passed
  • targeted Biome — passed
  • signed commit verified locally

Scope

No runtime product behavior, #553 filesystem semantics, or #654 source was changed. The README test-count update is the mechanically required docs-truth correction reported by ci:prepush.

Summary by Sourcery

Harden pull-request size exception governance by enforcing absolute limits and preventing exceptions from modifying the controls that govern them.

New Features:

  • Add governance safeguards that constrain and validate pull-request size exceptions.

Bug Fixes:

  • Prevent active exceptions from exceeding the ordinary 30-file, 3,000-line, and 15-commit ceilings or authorizing changes to governance-control files.
  • Prevent historical exceptions from being applied to current pull requests.

Enhancements:

  • Require unique, safe exception paths, recognized non-executable supplemental artifacts, and short single-line rationales.
  • Preserve historical exception records while keeping their legacy authorization values unchanged.

Documentation:

  • Update README test-count metrics to reflect the expanded test suite.

Tests:

  • Add regression coverage for governance bypasses, absolute limits, historical exceptions, supplemental allowances, and boundary cases.

CodeAnt-AI Description

Prevent PR-size exceptions from weakening the rules that govern them

What Changed

  • PR-size exceptions can no longer authorize changes to the exception registry, checker, type declarations, or CI workflow.
  • Active exceptions must stay within the ordinary limits of 30 files, 3,000 meaningful lines, and 15 commits; invalid entries are rejected.
  • Historical exceptions remain recorded but are no longer applied to current pull requests.
  • Exception reasons are limited to short, single-line text, with validation for duplicate and unsafe paths.
  • Added regression coverage for governance bypasses, absolute limits, historical entries, and valid boundary cases.
  • Updated documented test counts to match the current suite.

Impact

✅ Fewer PR-size governance bypasses
✅ Consistent enforcement of 30-file, 3,000-line, and 15-commit ceilings
✅ Historical exceptions no longer affect active pull requests

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Harden PR-size exception governance per issue #625: active exceptions are now capped at the absolute ceiling (30 files, 3000 meaningful lines, 15 commits) and can no longer let a governed PR rewrite the files that govern it.

Behavior changes

  • Exception entries that exceed the absolute ceiling now fail closed instead of being applied.
  • Governance control paths (config/pr-size-exceptions.json, scripts/ci-prepush-classifier.mjs, scripts/check-pr-size.mjs, scripts/check-pr-size.d.mts, .github/workflows/ci.yml) are rejected from allowedPaths, and any PR touching them cannot use an exception.
  • Supplemental line allowances are only allowed for recognized non-executable artifacts (docs, generated reports) and must already be in allowedPaths.
  • Exception rationales must now be a single line of at most 500 characters.
  • The PR fix(e2e): eliminate WelcomePortal startup/navigation nondeterminism (#532) #596 record is marked status: "historical", preserving its recorded values without ever applying them.
  • Added regression coverage for absolute ceilings, allowlists, self-expansion, historical entries, and boundary/supplemental cases; README test count updated to match (7516+).

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  • Documentation

    • Updated project metrics to reflect 7,516+ tests across 602 files.
  • Chores

    • Improved pull request size validation with clearer exception handling and stricter limits.
    • Added protections preventing size exceptions from covering governance-control changes.
    • Historical exceptions are now recorded separately and cannot be used for new resolutions.
    • Expanded validation for exception status, limits, allowed paths, justification format, and supplemental allowances.
    • Added broader test coverage for boundary conditions, registry validation, and historical exceptions.

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Hardens PR-size exceptions by constraining active allowances to the ordinary absolute ceilings, making authority base-ref governed and immune to self-expansion, retiring historical entries from resolution, and adding focused validation and regression coverage.

Flow diagram for PR-size exception validation and resolution

flowchart TD
    Registry["Exception registry"] --> Validate["validateExceptionRegistry"]
    Validate --> Ceilings["validateExceptionCeilings"]
    Validate --> Paths["validateExceptionPaths"]
    Validate --> Allowances["validateSupplementalAllowances"]
    Ceilings --> Active{Active entry?}
    Active -->|Yes| Absolute["Enforce 30 files / 3000 lines / 15 commits"]
    Active -->|No| Historical["Retain historical authorization values"]
    Paths --> Controls["Reject governance control paths"]
    Allowances --> Scope["Require supplemental paths in allowedPaths"]
    Absolute --> Resolve["resolveException"]
    Historical --> Resolve
    Controls --> Resolve
    Scope --> Resolve
    Resolve --> Status{Active and base-ref match?}
    Status -->|No| Reject["Exception not applied"]
    Status -->|Yes| Changed["Check changed paths"]
    Changed --> Governed{Governance control changed?}
    Governed -->|Yes| Reject
    Governed -->|No| Allowed{All paths allowed?}
    Allowed -->|Yes| Apply["Apply exception"]
    Allowed -->|No| Reject
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Change Details Files
Harden exception registry validation and lifecycle handling.
  • Add active/historical status support and reject invalid statuses.
  • Enforce 30-file, 3000-line, and 15-commit ceilings for active entries while preserving historical legacy values.
  • Require unique entries, bounded single-line rationales, safe allowlists, and valid supplemental allowances.
  • Exclude historical entries from exception resolution.
config/pr-size-exceptions.json
scripts/check-pr-size.d.mts
scripts/check-pr-size.mjs
Prevent exceptions from governing the files that define exception authority.
  • Define registry, checker, declaration, and CI workflow as governance-control paths.
  • Reject registry entries that allowlist control paths.
  • Fail exception scope matching when a governed PR changes any control path.
scripts/check-pr-size.mjs
tests/unit/tooling/checkPrSize.test.ts
Expand regression coverage for fail-closed governance and boundary behavior.
  • Test absolute ceilings, ordinary PR blocking, historical entries, control-path allowlists, rationale validation, and an exception at exact absolute limits.
  • Update expected test totals in project documentation.
tests/unit/tooling/checkPrSize.test.ts
README.md

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The PR strengthens PR-size exception validation, marks an existing exception as historical, blocks governance-control paths, adds boundary tests, and updates README test metrics to 7,516+ tests across 602 files.

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PR size governance

Layer / File(s) Summary
Exception contract and registry
scripts/check-pr-size.d.mts, config/pr-size-exceptions.json
Exception entries now support active and historical statuses. The PR #596 entry is marked historical and uses a concise reference.
Exception validation
scripts/check-pr-size.mjs
The checker validates exception status, ceilings, reasons, paths, supplemental allowances, duplicate IDs, and required fields. Governance-control paths are excluded.
Exception enforcement and tests
scripts/check-pr-size.mjs, tests/unit/tooling/checkPrSize.test.ts
Only active exceptions match. Scope resolution rejects governance-control changes. Tests cover historical entries, absolute limits, path restrictions, reason formatting, and boundary allowances.

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Layer / File(s) Summary
README test metrics
README.md
README metrics now report 7,516+ tests across 602 files.

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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to f4ee8

The historical exception points to the wrong issue, and the new test group needs its required rationale annotation. These are bounded governance workflow issues that should be corrected before merge.

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  participant ExceptionRegistry
  participant GovernancePathRules
  PRSizeEvaluator->>ExceptionRegistry: validate exception entries
  ExceptionRegistry->>GovernancePathRules: check changed paths
  GovernancePathRules-->>ExceptionRegistry: allow or reject scope
  ExceptionRegistry-->>PRSizeEvaluator: apply active exception
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[check-pr-size] PR size is over the target tier (normal profile): 5 files, 411 meaningful lines, 2 commits — limit ≤8 files / ≤400 lines / ≤6 commits. Consider splitting into smaller, independently reviewable PRs.

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