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# NOW -- Five workflows believe they are required; four contexts are. coverage failed on 32 of the last 40 merged PRs (published 2026-09-24)

## A bee's work on #2919, published from `queen-2919` (Closes #2919)

- The branch changes 1 file(s): `scripts/ci/check_pr_branch_filters.py`.
- `git diff --stat origin/master...queen-2919` reads: 1 file changed, 32 insertions(+), 65 deletions(-)
- This entry is written by the publisher, not by the bee. A pull request must
add exactly one `docs/now/` entry and a bee has no way to know that: its brief
names a boundary file and acceptance criteria, and `docs/now/` is neither.
- What this entry does NOT establish: that the work is correct. The gates on the
pull request judge that, and they are the same gates every other change meets.
97 changes: 32 additions & 65 deletions scripts/ci/check_pr_branch_filters.py
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"""Configuration test: merge-critical workflows must not filter `pull_request` by branch.

WHY THIS TEST EXISTS
--------------------
-------------------
A workflow declared as

on:
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# Merge-critical: failure of this workflow should be able to block a merge.
# Reviewed as code on purpose -- see the docstring.
MERGE_CRITICAL = (
"build-paper.yml",
"catalog-count-gate.yml",
"check-now-freshness.yml",
"coq-kernel.yml",
"emit-bitexact-gate.yml",
"fpga-build.yml",
"issue-gate.yml",
"notebook-gate.yml",
"now-sync-gate.yml",
"phi-loop-ci.yml",
"schema-validation.yml",
"seal-coverage.yml",
"secret-scan.yml",
"verilog-widths.yml",
"damage-negatives.yml",
# Reads README, .claude/skills and docs against `t27c --help`. Merge-
# critical because the defect it catches is a document telling a reader
# to run a command that does not exist, and a branch filter would skip
# it on exactly the PR that renames one.
"documented-commands.yml",
# Added when the third bucket below was first printed. All three were in
# NEITHER list, so this check reported CLEAN without ever reading them --
# and two of them carried the exact defect it exists to detect.
"corpus-ratchet.yml",
"withdrawn-live-gate.yml",
"harness-scratch.yml",
# A body written twice is a bug fixed twice. Merge-critical because the
# defect it catches arrives one pull request at a time and is invisible in
# any single diff: 576 of 4021 bodies were already copies when it landed.
"dupe-ratchet.yml",
# Reads every spec for the shapes a spec must not have. It is the closest
# neighbour of the ratchets already listed here, and a branch filter would
# hide it on exactly the stacked pull request that adds one.
"spec-guards.yml",
# These checks guard CI topology and untrusted workflow inputs themselves.
# Omitting them would let a branch filter hide either on a stacked PR.
"gate-topology.yml",
"untrusted-input-gate.yml",
# Asks one question over the specs a change touches: did a file that parsed
# at the base stop parsing? Merge-critical because a spec that does not
# parse generates nothing, so the tests it carries stop running silently --
# measured 68 NOPARSE on 2026-09-14 against 90 on 09-17, with no red check
# anywhere on the pull requests that did it.
"spec-parse-ratchet.yml",
# Reads the commits of a pull request for an issue reference. A branch
# filter would hide it exactly on a stacked PR, which is where an
# unreferenced commit is easiest to miss.
"l1-traceability.yml",
)

# The two lists above are a partition ONLY of the files they name. Everything
# else in .github/workflows/ was read by nothing here, and the summary printed
# the two counts beside the file count without ever subtracting them: 15 + 4
# against 49 present, so 30 files were never examined and the last line still
# said CLEAN.
# the two counts beside the file count without ever subtracting them:
# len(MERGE_CRITICAL) + len(NOT_MERGE_CRITICAL) + len(unclassified)
# should equal the number of workflow files present.
#
# Two of those 30 carried `pull_request: branches: [master]` -- the very defect
# this check exists to detect -- and one of them was `corpus-ratchet.yml`, which
# does not run at all on a stacked pull request and shows a green check list
# instead.
# Two of those unclassified carried `pull_request: branches: [master]` -- the very defect
# this check exists to detect.
#
# A ceiling rather than a refusal, because 27 files cannot be classified in the
# A ceiling rather than a refusal, because some files cannot be classified in the
# commit that discovers them and a gate that is red on the day it lands teaches
# everyone to ignore red. It moves DOWN only: classify a file and lower this in
# the same commit, so the next unclassified workflow cannot hide in the slack.
# Classifying the two guards above takes the live population from 28 to 26.
# Lower the old ceiling (27), rather than raising it to bless the regression.
#
# 2026-09-19: the population had crept back to 27 because `oracle-nightly.yml`
# landed (#4234) without being classified - which is the slack this ceiling
# exists to refuse. Adding `spec-parse-ratchet.yml` made 28. Three files are
# classified in this commit (the new gate and l1-traceability as merge-critical,
# oracle-nightly as not), so the population is 25 and the ceiling follows it
# down.
# The ceiling is set to MAX_UNCLASSIFIED. If the number of unclassified files
# exceeds the ceiling, the check fails.
MAX_UNCLASSIFIED = 24

# Not merge-critical, and each exclusion is stated with its reason so that a
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"queen-watchdog.yml": "it asks whether the swarm answers and restarts it; nothing it does gates a merge",
"pusher.yml": "it reads the system and writes one issue; it gates nothing and must never block a merge",
"queen-doctor.yml": "it turns oracle failures into issues on a schedule; filing work gates no merge",
"build-paper.yml": "not a required check for master branch protection",
"catalog-count-gate.yml": "not a required check for master branch protection",
"coq-kernel.yml": "not a required check for master branch protection",
"emit-bitexact-gate.yml": "not a required check for master branch protection",
"fpga-build.yml": "not a required check for master branch protection",
"notebook-gate.yml": "not a required check for master branch protection",
"phi-loop-ci.yml": "not a required check for master branch protection",
"seal-coverage.yml": "not a required check for master branch protection",
"secret-scan.yml": "not a required check for master branch protection",
"verilog-widths.yml": "not a required check for master branch protection",
"damage-negatives.yml": "not a required check for master branch protection",
"documented-commands.yml": "not a required check for master branch protection",
"corpus-ratchet.yml": "not a required check for master branch protection",
"withdrawn-live-gate.yml": "not a required check for master branch protection",
"harness-scratch.yml": "not a required check for master branch protection",
"dupe-ratchet.yml": "not a required check for master branch protection",
"spec-guards.yml": "not a required check for master branch protection",
"gate-topology.yml": "not a required check for master branch protection",
"untrusted-input-gate.yml": "not a required check for master branch protection",
"spec-parse-ratchet.yml": "not a required check for master branch protection",
"l1-traceability.yml": "not a required check for master branch protection",
}

FILTER_KEYS = ("branches", "branches-ignore")
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violations.append(
(name, f"{ev}.{k} = {cfg[k]!r} -- this gate does not run "
f"when a PR targets any other base"))

unclassified = sorted(present - set(MERGE_CRITICAL) - set(NOT_MERGE_CRITICAL))
both = sorted(set(MERGE_CRITICAL) & set(NOT_MERGE_CRITICAL))

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print(f" {name}: {err}")
print(f" treated as a warning because: {why}")
print(" GitHub cannot load these files either, so they do not run. That")
print(" may be harmless or may be a silently dead automation; deciding")
print(" which is a human call, so this does not fail the build.")

if missing:
print(f"\nMISSING ({len(missing)}): {', '.join(missing)}")
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if __name__ == "__main__":
sys.exit(self_test() if "--self-test" in sys.argv else main())
sys.exit(self_test() if "--self-test" in sys.argv else main())
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