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A green build that hid five test roots that never compiled

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PR: #1207

Head SHA: 14c595aae4b13fb5f60d729578d46046c2fce8d3

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Work report

CI judges the headless test graph against a declared profile instead of piping it through tee, so the five test roots that do not compile on main are named, with reasons, and a sixth fails the job.

What changed

• Added specs/reproduce/headless.t27: the headless profile measured at afc9d38 with Zig 0.15.2, its commands, dependency pins, 46 installs, 67 compiled test roots, graph floors and five blocked roots with errors and capability cards.
• Added tools/reproduce.py: the clean-clone command that builds and tests with fresh zig caches, reads every exit code from the process and judges the result against the spec, with a self-check of fifteen planted defects.
• Replaced the tee-piped CI test step with the same judge, keeping the leak check, and added a reproduce workflow that runs the whole profile on a runner with no cache and uploads the record.

Context and reasoning

How a pipe without pipefail turns a failed test step green, and what the build summary said all along.

Declaring the headless profile as data: commands, pins, installs, test roots, floors and the blocked roots with their reasons.

What is still open: fixing the five roots one by one, the pinned contract lock, the evidence index and the end-to-end task.

Reported verification

• [passed] Command: python3 tools/reproduce.py --self-check. Result: All fifteen planted defects are reported under their own codes, including the swallowed exit code of CI: main has no build.zig matching its own source tree (2217 files vs a build script from March) #616, and a conforming record stays silent.. Evidence: tools/reproduce.py self_check; run locally on macOS Python 3 before the commit
• [passed] Command: python3 tools/reproduce.py headless --zig zig-0.15.2 in ubuntu:24.04 aarch64 with empty caches. Result: Build 94/94 steps with 46/46 installs; test 124/135 steps with exactly the five blocked roots failing, 61 run steps with tests, one empty, 2510 tests passed; no violation.. Evidence: Run on tree e5bb811d4eaf (this commit) in ubuntu:24.04 aarch64 with empty caches, 2 min 43 s; record zig-out/reproduce/headless.json lists no violation
• [passed] Command: Build and Test job of CI run 36875247882 on main afc9d38, read from its log. Result: The log prints the same summary, 124/135 steps succeeded with five failed compiles, while the job reported success through tee.. Evidence: https://github\.com/gHashTag/trinity/actions/runs/36875247882

Limits and open questions

• The five blocked roots are named, not fixed; each fix is a separate small change that makes one capability's tests run again and removes its line from the spec.
• Only the headless profile is reproduced; web, native, FPGA, training and network profiles keep their present status.
• The pinned t27 lock, the capability evidence index, the end-to-end task and the catalog publication of [spec][Trinity S12] Consume canonical t27 contracts and prove clean-clone project reproduction #989 come in later parts.

Receipts

• gHashTag/trinity PR #1207
• Reported head commit 14c595aae4b1
• Merge commit 3c33adbdb7b0

Topic tags

#Engineering #Verification #CI