delegation-and-review §2: scope a sweep by every generator, not one grep pattern - #50
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…rep pattern A find-and-fix-every-instance sweep needs the same rigor as any other owned-scope field. Private incident: a 53-file styling sweep, three review rounds, and a merged fix all missed the real defect — it lived in a shared global utility class the token grep pattern never touched — and each follow-up round's "still broken?" surfaced a different category (a color-tier band, a class-emitting helper function) the prior round's search structurally excluded. Rule: enumerate every generator (literals, shared/global definitions, class- emitting helpers) and the full value space before dispatching or accepting such a sweep, and gate acceptance on observing the effect rather than on the search returning zero. Ships unprobed per the README covenant.
…al review PR F-e-u-e-r#50 round-1 gate (grok-4.5 high: FIX 1,2,3,4; gpt-5.6-sol max: FIX 1-5). Reproduced and addressed: - search scope vs write scope split: inspecting a generator does not own it; out-of-scope generators are reported, never edited on discovery (codex F2) - generator inventory from definition surfaces, never the token grep; unresolved discovery gaps block exhaustive claims (grok F2 / codex F1) - acceptance moved into the Proof gate field and bound to every inventoried surface and tier, declared partitions the only shortcut; zero-hit search demoted to a report (grok F1, F4 / codex F3) - open-ended families get a declared bound per S3's bounded-sweep clause instead of a forbidden-sampling mandate (grok F3 / codex F4) - pos/neg pair added at the proof gate; dangling 'not that the defect is' parallel completed (grok n5, n6) - S3 sweep bullet now points at the S2 sweep fields so the review path lands on the acceptance rule (grok F4) - codex F5 (contributor Checks self-vouch) rejected-with-reason: factual process self-report, independently re-verified by this gate; packet rubric clarified to stop this recurring false-positive class Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01GhLu6NCGzM9HxnqNb87MAx
…y closure via S3's own loop PR F-e-u-e-r#50 round-2 gate (grok-4.5 high: FIX 1,2,5; gpt-5.6-sol max: FIX 1,2,3,4,5,7). All reproduced and addressed: - inventory gains a concrete build procedure (axis-diverse searches) and a closure criterion borrowed from S3's discovery loop (two consecutive empty passes); the token-grep ban is now aimed at the completeness INFERENCE, not at using search - fixes the direct- literal flip (grok F1, F2 / codex F1) - partition shortcut replaced: equivalence-class observation with the shared-outcome reason stated; unobserved = reported unverified, never folded into exhaustive (codex F2) - S3 pointer now quotes the canonical report-not-the-gate sentence verbatim instead of paraphrasing it (codex F3) - pos example covers every inventoried surface class (codex F4) - WRITE-scope referent pinned to the explicitly listed owned files/modules (grok F5 / codex F7) - PR body Checks line to be updated to disclose the S3 amendment (grok n4 / codex F5); codex n6 (in-packet unverifiability of checks.py claim) recorded - the gate-runner re-runs checks.py independently each round Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01GhLu6NCGzM9HxnqNb87MAx
…axis, verbatim loop cite, textual carve-out PR F-e-u-e-r#50 round-3 gate (grok-4.5 high: FIX 1,2; gpt-5.6-sol max: FIX 1,2,3,4). All reproduced and addressed: - at least one inventory axis must never match the target's spelling (effect-source definitions/constructors) - the axis set was spelling-seeded and could not reach the cited utility class (grok F1) - S3 anchors cited by real name with the loop quoted verbatim ('Stop only after two consecutive empty rounds; one clean round is not convergence'), a round defined as every-axis-ran, dedup imported (grok F2 / codex F1 / grok r3 n5 of r2) - equivalence classes need verified branch-free shared paths, not a stated reason (codex F2) - textual-invariant carve-out: an exact-spelling sweep over a declared corpus is gated by the scoped search itself; effect-gate scoped to behavioral targets (codex F3) - bounded/gap-carrying sweeps return a non-exhaustive outcome; scope reduction needs the dispatcher's say; every-instance claims with unobserved members are false (codex F4) - inventory neg example added; pos example names per-surface observations (grok n6 / codex n5); target forms glossed (grok n4) Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01GhLu6NCGzM9HxnqNb87MAx
…y, equivalence evidence, contained observation PR F-e-u-e-r#50 round-4 gate (grok-4.5 high: FIX 1,2; gpt-5.6-sol max: FIX 1,2,3,4). All reproduced and addressed: - textual carve-out guarded: only when the declared corpus covers every inventoried surface AND no inventoried generator can emit the target without the literal; token sweeps with emitters stay on the effect gate (grok F1 / grok n6) - value family closes only via its named canonical source (file:line) or the same discovery loop, else bounded - the color-tier axis of the incident (grok F2) - rounds must add a broadened or new query; identical reruns count for nothing (codex F1) - equivalence requires evidence across inputs, backing data, and downstream context; branch-free control flow alone is not equivalence (codex F2) - observation runs inside an authorized side-effect-contained harness; undrivable outward effects reported unverified + escalated, never fired for the gate (codex F4) - 'behavioral target' qualifier restored at both categorical zero-hit statements and the S3 pointer, which now also carries the positive half of acceptance (codex F3 / grok n4); scope-side pos example added (grok n5) Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01GhLu6NCGzM9HxnqNb87MAx
…vs target, ledgered hunt, clean textual discriminator PR F-e-u-e-r#50 round-5 gate (grok-4.5 high: FIX 1,2,3; gpt-5.6-sol max: FIX 1-6). All reproduced; the fix removes guarantee surfaces instead of adding conditions: - TARGET defined as the defect/effect, spellings demoted to probes; trigger gains task-phrasing synonyms (grok F1, F3) - generator hunt delegated to S3's miss-is-costly loop as written (axis-diverse finders, dedup, stop rule) instead of restating a two-axis floor with its own round semantics (codex F1 / grok F3) - per-round query/result ledger (empty rounds included) carried in the packet; seed inventory + worker-continues resolves the packet- closure-vs-delegation tension (codex F5 / grok r5 n6) - value-family closure needs a verified-finite source; extensible registries/configs are never closed (codex F2) - gate covers declared variation axes where the outcome can differ; untested combinations reported unobserved (codex F3) - textual branch rewritten to a single discriminator (string-absence IS the invariant; nothing produces the outcome without the exact spelling) - removes the self-contradicting emitting-generator clause (codex F4 / grok F1) - S3 pointer reduced to a pure pointer, no acceptance restatement (grok F2); unprobed marker added on the proof-gate half (grok n5); 53-file unit drift fixed in both examples (codex F6) Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01GhLu6NCGzM9HxnqNb87MAx
…mandatory producer axis, honest closure PR F-e-u-e-r#50 round-6 gate (grok-4.5 high: FIX 1; gpt-5.6-sol max: FIX 1-7). All reproduced and addressed: - textual-vs-behavioral branched FIRST; textual gate claims corpus- level absence only, corpus = packet's readable scope named explicitly, never the seed hit list (codex F3 / grok n4-of-r6) - producer/effect axis made a MUST before loop close; spelling-only axis sets non-compliant regardless of rounds (grok F1) - S3 finder list quoted verbatim; dedup + stop rule cited, not restated (codex F4) - closure honesty: producer surfaces/variation axes not closable from a verified-finite source -> non-exhaustive outcome (codex F1); verified-finite wording covers const unions (grok n5-of-r6) - equivalence requires the producing implementation itself; unproved divergence -> per-member observation (codex F2) - search bounded to the packet's readable scope; outside surfaces are reported gaps (codex F6) - outward effects carry per-invocation authorization at fire time (codex F7) - PR-body Rule sync next (codex F5) Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01GhLu6NCGzM9HxnqNb87MAx
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What
delegation-and-review§2 (The dispatch packet): scope a find-and-fix-every-instance sweep by every surface that can generate the target pattern, not by
one search pattern.
Why
Private incident: a 53-file styling-token sweep, three review rounds, and a
merged fix all missed the actual defect — it lived in a shared global utility
class the token grep pattern never touched. Each follow-up round's "still
broken?" re-ask surfaced a different category (a color-tier band, a
class-emitting helper function) that the prior round's search pattern
structurally excluded — the sweep converged only by exhausting the user's
patience for re-asking, not by a scope definition that covered the space up
front.
Rule
(this Rule summary tracks the current diff; original filing in edit history)
Ships
unprobedper the README covenant.Checks
python3 .github/checks.py— all pass.proof-gate amendments, one §3 cross-reference line, one Provenance paragraph.