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Closes #486.

Summary

Extracts the fence classification every pass depends on into a pure transition
kernel, routes the streaming tracker through it, makes the compression rewrite
decision a pure function of (opening state, line), and machine-checks the
region-preservation theorem against that same production body.

The classification now answers one question per line — Delim, Literal, or
Prose — from fence_step, a pure function of pre-parsed line features and the
previous state. FenceTracker's public API is unchanged; observe_parsed now
calls the kernel rather than owning a second copy of the rules.

What is proved, and what is not

LEM-FENCE-NORMALIZATION-PRESERVES-REGIONS is stated one-sidedly: over the
lines a delimiter-compression pass leaves alone, no line moves between the
literal and prose regions. The symmetric claim — that every line keeps its
closer status — is false, and the verifier is what caught it: a tilde line
closes a tilde opener but cannot close the three-backtick opener the pass writes
in its place. The pass is nonetheless entitled to respell that line, so the two
runs legitimately disagree about delimiter identity. Nothing but a prover would
have said so, and the theorem was restated over the lines the pass actually
preserves.

Residual boundary, recorded in docs/verification.md rather than hidden: the
regex-facing recognition (features_of_line, classify_regions) is excluded
from the Verus build, so the claims hold for pre-parsed line features, not for
the parse that produces them. That is the same boundary the existing classifier
uses. The compress_fences pass itself is not proved; what is proved is the
predicate it consults and the region-level consequence of consulting it
correctly, with an executable corpus sweep as the bridge.

Evidence

  • make verus: 81 verified, 0 errors.
  • make verus-fence-mutation: drops the marker-character check from the closing
    rule and requires Verus to reject the proof for the intended reason — the
    output must name both postcondition not satisfied and the falsified
    contract, so a parse error cannot satisfy the gate.
  • tests/fence_regions.rs: replays the argument over every fixture in
    tests/data/ plus whole-file documents that reach the unclosed-fence path.
  • Non-vacuity: lemma_witness_interior_is_literal exhibits a witness satisfying
    the main lemma's hypotheses and pins the resulting region sequence;
    lemma_witness_conflict_is_rejected proves the guard fires on the compress_fences rewrites an unmatched longer opener so an interior shorter fence closes the block #480 shape.
  • make check-fmt, make verus, make verus-selftest, make verus-mutation,
    and make verus-fence-mutation all pass locally at c9ea885.

Known blocker at time of opening

make lint, make typecheck, and make test could not be run locally. The
shared Cargo package-cache lock is held in a closed wait cycle inside one other
agent's process tree — the exclusive-lock holder is parked in do_wait, its
child in futex_wait_queue, and that child's own cargo job in
locks_lock_inode_wait on the lock its grandparent holds. CPU counters are flat
across a 100-minute sample and no rustc has run for the whole period; 46
processes are queued behind it. --offline still contends for the same lock, so
there is no supported route around it, and clearing it means killing another
agent's job. The three gates are therefore delegated to CI, which runs all three
on pull requests. No gate has been observed to fail on this commit.

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Unify fence classification and delimiter-compression safety around a verified transition kernel, proving and testing that normalization preserves literal and prose regions.

New Features:

  • Add a pure fence transition kernel and public batch region classifier that consistently classify lines as delimiters, literals, or prose.
  • Add machine-checked proofs and mutation testing for fence transitions and one-sided region preservation during delimiter normalization.
  • Add corpus-wide regression coverage for balanced and unclosed fenced documents.,

Bug Fixes:

  • Prevent fence compression from changing fenced payload lines into rewritable prose when interior delimiters conflict with the normalized opener.
  • Keep streaming fence tracking and compression decisions aligned with the same line classification rules.

Enhancements:

  • Refactor fence tracking and compression decisions to share production-used transition logic and parsed line features.
  • Expand verification documentation and user-facing API documentation for fence region classification.

Build:

  • Add a Make target for the fence-specific Verus mutation check and update shared verification-kernel tooling.

Documentation:

  • Document the fence kernel's verification boundary, preservation theorem, mutation gate, and batch classification API.

Tests:

  • Add kernel witness tests, transition logging coverage, corpus-wide region equality checks, and literal-content preservation checks.

Chores:

  • Rename and generalize the shared verified-kernel macro module.

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Summary

  • Route FenceTracker through a pure fence-classification kernel without changing its public API. The kernel classifies lines as delimiters, literal content or prose, and handles explicit and implicit fence closure.
  • Use kernel features to make compression decisions from the opening state and line features. Flag rewrites that could change a line’s region.
  • Add a Verus specification and prove one-sided preservation of interior regions when its stated preconditions hold. The proof uses pre-parsed line features; it does not prove text recognition or compress_fences itself. The symmetric closer-preservation claim is not established.
  • Add corpus tests for region preservation and literal-line content, plus a mutation gate that checks whether removing the marker-character comparison causes verification to fail.
  • Document the proof scope, assumptions and verification ledger in the new ExecPlan and the verification ledger. The work addresses issue #486.

Validation

The change adds corpus sweeps and Verus proof checks. The supplied evidence does not establish their results or report current review-finding counts.

Walkthrough

The change adds a shared fence-classification kernel and connects it to fence tracking and delimiter compression. It also adds Verus specifications and proofs, regression and corpus tests, and mutation-check tooling with supporting documentation.

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Fence classification and compression

Layer / File(s) Summary
Shared fence kernel and tracker integration
src/wrap/fence/kernel.rs, src/wrap/fence.rs, src/wrap.rs, src/wrap/tests/fence_tracker.rs, proptest-regressions/wrap/tests/fence_tracker.txt
The kernel classifies fence lines and document regions. FenceTracker uses its transitions, and the fence API exposes batch classification and supporting types. Tests cover tracker features, region classification and compression predicates.
Compression and corpus regression tests
src/fences/compress.rs, tests/fence_regions.rs
Compression uses the opener state and region-change predicate from the kernel. Tests check region and line-count preservation, literal payload retention and formatter output across fixtures.
Verus specification and production-kernel wiring
verus/fence_spec.rs, verus/lib.rs, src/verified_kernel_macros.rs, src/classify_kernel.rs
The Verus specification describes fence transitions, regions and compression predicates. Proofs establish region preservation under stated conditions and include witness cases.
Mutation gates and verification record
scripts/check-fence-mutation.sh, scripts/check-classifier-mutation.sh, Makefile, .gitignore, docs/verification.md, docs/execplans/*
The new fence mutation gate checks for a failed closing-fence contract after removing marker comparison. The classifier mutation setup, Make target, ignore rule and verification records are updated.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant FenceTracker
  participant fence_step
  participant compress_fences
  FenceTracker->>fence_step: Pass parsed line features
  fence_step-->>FenceTracker: Return next state and region
  FenceTracker-->>compress_fences: Provide observation and line features
  compress_fences->>compression_changes_region: Check the opener against an interior line
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Priority: ➖ Normal

Change: Refactor

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 6f9ec

The change is mergeable with bounded follow-up on regression coverage and proof documentation. Confirm the intended fixture set before treating skipped files as a coverage failure.


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Check name Status Explanation Resolution
Unit Architecture ❌ Error The new corpus test hides environmental read failures. In tests/fence_regions.rs, data_files returns an empty or partial corpus when read_dir or an entry fails (lines 64-81), and both corpus s… Make fixture discovery and reads explicitly fallible. Return Result<Vec<PathBuf>, io::Error> from data_files, propagate read_dir and directory-entry errors instead of using else { return } and entries.flatten(), and return errors …
Linked Issues check ⚠️ Warning Implement the verified transition kernel and its deterministic sequence classifier for pre-parsed LineFeatures. The production kernel carries Verus postconditions, regions has a loop invariant, an… Extend the formal result to the compress_fences boundary, or document an explicit accepted proof boundary in #486. Establish cross-pass agreement for every fence-skipping consumer by sharing the classifier or by adding executable equivale…
User-Facing Documentation ⚠️ Warning The pull request adds the public mdtablefix::wrap::{classify_regions, Region} API, but docs/users-guide.md is unchanged and contains no documentation for either item. The source comments provide R… Add a classify_regions section to the Library API notes in docs/users-guide.md. Document the accepted line input, the one-result-per-line contract, and the meanings of Region::Delim, Region::Literal, and Region::Prose. Include a s…
Developer Documentation ⚠️ Warning The pull request introduces a documented proof ledger and ExecPlan, but it does not update docs/developers-guide.md. The code adds the src/wrap/fence/kernel.rs abstraction, public Region and `cl… Update docs/developers-guide.md to describe the fence kernel, its public and internal APIs, the pre-parsed LineFeatures recognition boundary, FenceTracker routing, compression decisions, and make verus-fence-mutation. Correct the re…
✅ Passed checks (11 passed)
Check name Status Explanation
Title check ✅ Passed Accept the title: it accurately describes the fence transition kernel and region-preservation proof, and it references issue #486.
Description check ✅ Passed Accept the description: it directly explains the kernel extraction, compression changes, Verus proof scope, tests, verification gates, and known limitations.
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed Keep the mutation gates, regression seed, verification ledger, ExecPlan, and corpus tests. They support the #486 kernel and region-preservation objectives. The Makefile and .gitignore changes suppor…
Docstring Coverage ✅ Passed Docstring coverage is 92.11% which is sufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 38 functions across 12 files. (5 skipped: 5…
Testing (Overall) ✅ Passed The pull request adds substantive coverage for the changed fence behaviour. src/wrap/tests/fence_tracker.rs retains broad tracker tests, property tests for marker, length, depth, implicit close and …
Module-Level Documentation ✅ Passed Accept the module-level documentation. Every changed Rust module has module documentation that states its purpose and use. src/wrap/fence/kernel.rs and verus/fence_spec.rs also document their rela…
Testing (Unit And Behavioural) ✅ Passed Pass this check. Additions cover meaningful local behaviour and edge cases: marker family, marker length, blockquote depth, implicit closure, info strings, non-ASCII trailing characters, literal paylo…
Testing (Property / Proof) ✅ Passed Accept the check. The changed FenceTracker path is covered by existing proptest! cases over marker family, run length, quote depth, nesting, and info strings, with a new saved regression seed. The…
Testing (Compile-Time / Ui) ✅ Passed Pass this check. The pull request adds no Rust or TypeScript compile-fail/UI diagnostic contract. Its Verus proof is covered by the language-specific make verus gate and the targeted `verus-fence-mu…
Domain Architecture ✅ Passed Keep the change. The new src/wrap/fence/kernel.rs isolates fence policy in pure functions over FenceState, LineFeatures, and Region. It has no filesystem, environment, transport, persistence, …
Observability ✅ Passed Pass this check. The PR changes fence classification and compression behaviour, but it retains structured, content-free tracing at fence state transitions. FenceTracker reports open, `matching_clo…
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Explanation

Implement the verified transition kernel and its deterministic sequence classifier for pre-parsed LineFeatures. The production kernel carries Verus postconditions, regions has a loop invariant, and the witness and mutation checks support [#486]. The formal normalisation lemma is conditional on pre-parsed interior features and permitted rewrites. It does not prove regions(compress_fences(ls)) == regions(ls) for arbitrary source line sequences or prove compress_fences itself. The corpus and unclosed-document tests provide executable evidence, not that missing universal proof. The available summary also does not establish that every listed fence-skipping pass consumes this classifier or has an equivalence proof.

Resolution

Extend the formal result to the compress_fences boundary, or document an explicit accepted proof boundary in #486. Establish cross-pass agreement for every fence-skipping consumer by sharing the classifier or by adding executable equivalence checks and ledger entries. Keep regex recognition as an explicit external contract if it remains outside Verus.

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Explanation

The pull request adds the public mdtablefix::wrap::{classify_regions, Region} API, but docs/users-guide.md is unchanged and contains no documentation for either item. The source comments provide Rust API documentation, but they do not satisfy the required user-guide documentation for library API consumers. The existing --fences behaviour is documented, but the new public classification interface is not.

Resolution

Add a classify_regions section to the Library API notes in docs/users-guide.md. Document the accepted line input, the one-result-per-line contract, and the meanings of Region::Delim, Region::Literal, and Region::Prose. Include a short Rust usage example and explain that the function uses the same fence recognition semantics as FenceTracker, including blockquote depth and bare closing-marker rules.

Full details: Developer Documentation

Explanation

The pull request introduces a documented proof ledger and ExecPlan, but it does not update docs/developers-guide.md. The code adds the src/wrap/fence/kernel.rs abstraction, public Region and classify_regions re-exports, the compression_changes_region boundary, and the verus-fence-mutation build gate. The unchanged guide still describes the older fence architecture and still references the renamed src/classify_kernel_macros.rs file instead of src/verified_kernel_macros.rs. The new ExecPlan is also inconsistent: its progress list marks M5 complete, but the M5 section still contains the unfinished instruction to update documentation and open a draft PR, and its revision note does not record the completed work.

Resolution

Update docs/developers-guide.md to describe the fence kernel, its public and internal APIs, the pre-parsed LineFeatures recognition boundary, FenceTracker routing, compression decisions, and make verus-fence-mutation. Correct the renamed macro path. Update the relevant architecture or design document and its index if required. Complete the ExecPlan M5 section, record the actual documentation and gate results, and add a revision entry so the plan has one consistent completed status.

Full details: Unit Architecture

Explanation

The new corpus test hides environmental read failures. In tests/fence_regions.rs, data_files returns an empty or partial corpus when read_dir or an entry fails (lines 64-81), and both corpus sweeps skip fs::read and UTF-8 conversion failures (lines 100-107 and 211-219). The tests can therefore pass after silently omitting fixtures. This makes filesystem fallibility less visible and weakens the claimed whole-corpus boundary. The production fence queries and state mutation remain clearly separated; the failure is introduced by the new test boundary.

Resolution

Make fixture discovery and reads explicitly fallible. Return Result&lt;Vec&lt;PathBuf&gt;, io::Error&gt; from data_files, propagate read_dir and directory-entry errors instead of using else { return } and entries.flatten(), and return errors for fs::read and UTF-8 conversion failures instead of skipping files. Propagate these errors from both tests with path context. Keep the external formatter invocation behind the existing Result boundary.


Trace each fence line through the kernel.
Mark delimiters, prose and literal content.
Keep each transition clear in the proof.
Test compressed fences against the corpus.
Let the mutation gate check the marker rule.

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The PR centralizes fence classification and compression safety in a shared production transition kernel, routes existing tracking and rewriting through it, and verifies the kernel plus a one-sided region-preservation theorem with Verus, mutation testing, witnesses, and corpus-wide executable checks. Recognition remains outside the proof boundary, and the full lint/typecheck/test gates were not run locally because of a shared Cargo cache lock.

Sequence diagram for shared fence transition and compression decisions

sequenceDiagram
    participant Line as Source line
    participant Tracker as FenceTracker
    participant Kernel as fence_step
    participant Compression as compress_fences

    Line->>Tracker: observe_source_fence(line)
    Tracker->>Kernel: fence_step(state, features)
    Kernel-->>Tracker: next state, Region
    Tracker-->>Compression: observation and features
    Compression->>Kernel: compression_changes_region(opening, features)
    Kernel-->>Compression: preserve or compress decision
    Compression->>Compression: opening_rewrite(conflict)
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State diagram for the fence transition kernel

stateDiagram-v2
    [*] --> Prose
    Prose --> Open: fence-shaped line
    Open --> Literal: non-closing line
    Literal --> Literal: interior line
    Open --> Prose: matching close
    Literal --> Prose: matching close
    Open --> Open: incompatible delimiter
    Literal --> Open: depth drops below opener and line opens fence
    Prose --> Prose: non-fence line
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Change Details Files
Extract the shared fence classification rules into a production pure transition kernel and route streaming tracking through it.
  • Introduced Region, FenceState, LineFeatures, fence_step, and whole-document region classification.
  • Moved fence transition decisions out of FenceTracker::observe_parsed while preserving its public API and tracing behaviour.
  • Kept regex-based feature recognition outside the Verus boundary and documented the pre-parsed-feature contract.
src/wrap/fence/kernel.rs
src/wrap/fence.rs
src/wrap.rs
src/verified_kernel_macros.rs
src/classify_kernel.rs
Make fence compression safety decisions derive from the same kernel predicates used for classification.
  • Replaced duplicated marker-conflict logic with the pure compression_changes_region predicate.
  • Represented pending blocks with kernel opener state and applied the shared decision in both matched and unmatched flush paths.
  • Centralised delimiter rewrite strategy selection while retaining the existing compression semantics.
src/fences/compress.rs
Add machine-checked specifications and proofs for transition correctness and one-sided region preservation.
  • Included the production fence kernel directly in the Verus harness via #[path].
  • Proved kernel refinements, rewrite safety, state preservation, and LEM-FENCE-NORMALIZATION-PRESERVES-REGIONS.
  • Added non-vacuity witnesses and documented why the stronger symmetric closer-status theorem is false.
verus/fence_spec.rs
verus/lib.rs
docs/verification.md
Add executable regression and corpus evidence for region preservation and mutation resistance.
  • Added unit witnesses for nested or incompatible fence markers and compression conflicts.
  • Swept the fixture corpus plus unclosed-fence documents for region equality and literal-line preservation.
  • Added a Verus fence mutation gate that verifies weakening the marker-family check is rejected for the intended contract.
src/wrap/tests/fence_tracker.rs
tests/fence_regions.rs
scripts/check-fence-mutation.sh
scripts/check-classifier-mutation.sh
Makefile
proptest-regressions/wrap/tests/fence_tracker.txt
Record the implementation plan and verification boundary.
  • Added the issue-specific ExecPlan covering kernel extraction, compression integration, proofs, corpus tests, and residual limitations.
  • Recorded new verification ledger claims and the regex-recognition boundary.
docs/execplans/issue-486-proof-fence-transition-kernel-and-lem-fence-normalization-preserves-regions.md
docs/verification.md

Assessment against linked issues

Issue Objective Addressed Explanation
#486 Prove that the fence transition kernel exactly implements its specification and that folding the transition over a sequence deterministically classifies each line as Delim, Literal, or Prose. ✅
#486 Prove that fence compression preserves payload-line regions for every line sequence, while allowing explicitly permitted delimiter rewriting. ❌ The PR explicitly narrows the theorem to one-sided preservation over lines that the compression pass leaves unchanged. It does not prove the full theorem over arbitrary line sequences or prove the compress_fences implementation itself; regex-based feature recognition is also outside the Verus proof boundary. The corpus tests provide executable evidence but do not replace the requested general proof.
#486 Ensure all passes that skip fenced content use the shared fence classification kernel or provide an equivalent, verified classification. ✅

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@docs/execplans/issue-486-proof-fence-transition-kernel-and-lem-fence-normalization-preserves-regions.md:
- Around line 373-378: Update obligations 3 and 4 in the proof plan to match the
delivered proof: state obligation 3 as the one-sided non-closing
guarded-interior lemma over parsed LineFeatures, with both runs classifying the
line as Literal, and retain the mutation-gate requirement for the marker check.
Scope obligation 4 to pre-parsed block bodies whose lines satisfy the
compression guard; describe complete-pass equality as executable corpus evidence
from M4, not a general Verus theorem, and retain the issue #480 corpus test.

Review comments at @tests/fence_regions.rs:
- Around line 96-108: Update assert_regions_preserved to record paths whose
reads fail or whose contents are not UTF-8, then assert that no fixtures were
skipped after the sweep; apply the same handling to the corresponding loop
around normalize_fixture_regions.
- Around line 237-247: Update the literal-line preservation check in the test to
classify output lines with classify_regions, filter to Region::Literal, and
compare each source literal line against the next output literal line in order.
Afterward, assert that no output literal lines remain, rejecting both missing,
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Taking PR #588 out of draft started the GitHub App review, which
reviewed the same commit as the passing CLI round and returned a
materially stricter result. The lesson is that a clean CLI pass does
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reviewers with separate rule sets.

Add the hosted-review remediation as a progress entry, the four fixes
that landed in 4c3b4c5, and the split that landed in 9288d42.

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leynos and others added 26 commits October 4, 2026 01:11
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The closing-fence rule the kernel implements is now cross-checked against
the normative sentences of CommonMark §4.5, and the gate sweep's
contention on the shared Cargo package-cache lock is recorded as
infrastructure rather than as a code failure.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Code <noreply@anthropic.com>
The three remaining Cargo gates are blocked by a closed wait cycle inside
another agent's process tree: the holder of the exclusive lock on
`.package-cache-mutate` is parked in `do_wait`, its child is parked in
`futex_wait_queue`, and that child's own cargo job is parked in
`locks_lock_inode_wait` on the lock its grandparent holds. CPU counters are
flat across a 100-minute sample and no `rustc` has run for the whole period,
so the lock will not release on its own. Forty-six processes are queued
behind it.

Record the evidence, note that `--offline` still contends for the same lock
so there is no supported route around it, and mark this as the escalation
the plan's Tolerances section exists to catch: clearing it means killing
another agent's job, which is outside this work's authority.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Code <noreply@anthropic.com>
`assert_regions_preserved` reads each fixture with `let Ok(..) else
{ continue }`, so it never propagates a failure and its `Result` return is
unnecessary. Clippy's `unnecessary_wraps` rejected it under `-D warnings`.

Caught by CI rather than locally: the shared Cargo package-cache lock is
held in a deadlock, so `make lint` could not run on this machine. The
parallel assertion that does use `?` — `assert_literal_lines_survive`,
which constructs a `TempDir` — keeps its `Result`.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Code <noreply@anthropic.com>
Removing the helper's unused `Result` left its caller with no `?` either,
so clippy's `unnecessary_wraps` fired here next. Both sweep tests that only
assert are now plain `fn`; the two functions that still construct a
`TempDir` or read a formatted file keep theirs, and both use `?`.

Detected by the CI lint job, which is the only place `make lint` can
currently run: the local Cargo package-cache lock remains deadlocked.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Code <noreply@anthropic.com>
The draft PR's `build-test` job caught two `clippy::unnecessary_wraps`
errors in `tests/fence_regions.rs` that the local lint gate could not see,
and now passes lint, format, markdownlint, and the full suite (2544 run,
2544 passed, 0 skipped, 0 failed). Also note that the four Verus gates are
lock-independent — they run `rust_verify` through `uvx` and never touch the
Cargo package cache — so a green Verus run says nothing about whether a
Cargo gate has been attempted.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Code <noreply@anthropic.com>
Clears all 11 distinct findings from `coderabbit review --agent --base main`
(16 finding entries). None was a correctness defect in the proof; the two
major ones were API documentation and test structure.

The substantive change is in `ObservedFence`. `ParsedLine::observe` was
calling `features_of_line(line)`, a second full regex pass over a line the
tracker had already parsed, because `ObservedFence` carried only the
structural `(indent, marker, info)` capture. Exposing the features the
tracker already computed lets `compress.rs` consume them directly. That
made `features_of_line` dead in production, so it is deleted along with its
re-exports; the parent's `line_features` remains the single producer of
kernel features.

Also:

- Drop the production `.expect()` in `start_fence_block`, handling a missing
  marker by falling through to the verbatim push instead of panicking.
- Document `Region` and `classify_regions` in the `wrap` re-export block.
- Consolidate the four `compression_predicate_*` tests into one `#[rstest]`
  table, and fix the doc comment that contradicted its own assertion.
- Compare whole output lines rather than substrings in the corpus sweep, so
  a literal line cannot be "found" inside a longer rewritten one.
- Add `verus-fence-mutation` to `.PHONY`.
- Correct the field count in the `verus/lib.rs` `View` doc and the scope
  restriction in the `spec_rewrite_permitted` doc.
- Correct the ExecPlan trace path and bring its Outcomes and Progress into
  agreement.

`make verus` reports 81 verified, 0 errors; `make verus-selftest`,
`make verus-fence-mutation`, `make markdownlint`,
`make check-static-regexes`, `make check-verification-ledger`, and
`cargo fmt --check` pass locally. `make lint`, `make typecheck`, and
`make test` remain blocked by the shared package-cache deadlock and are
delegated to CI.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Code <noreply@anthropic.com>
The whole-line comparison added in d5e6232 failed in CI on
`tests/data/document/mixed_in_fence.dat`, in both `build-test` and the
Windows `atomic write contract` job. The cause is not a fence defect.

The I/O boundary selects one line ending for the whole document and
re-applies it to every line (ADR 0007, `src/io/line_endings.rs`), so that
CRLF-majority fixture is emitted entirely as CRLF even where the source
used a bare line feed. `lines_of` keeps the `\r` as line content, so the
previous `output.contains(line)` assertion had been passing only because
a substring match ignores terminators, and comparing raw split lines fails
for every deliberately mixed-ending fixture.

Strip the terminator from both sides and document why. The payload text
still has to match exactly, and the binary confirms on that fixture that
`echo hi` survives the full flag set. The weaker assertion was also worse
in a second way: it would have accepted a literal line that a pass had
merged into a longer one.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Code <noreply@anthropic.com>
CI passes at `e810a01`: 2544 tests run, 2544 passed, 0 skipped, with
Format, Markdown lint, Lint, and the Windows `atomic write contract` job
all green. Record that, note that the whole-line comparison finding was
substantive rather than cosmetic, and open the next Progress item as the
CodeRabbit re-run.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Code <noreply@anthropic.com>
The re-run returned 3 findings across 2 files, down from 16 across 10.

`src/wrap/tests/fence_tracker.rs`: the shared doc above the two
region-classification witnesses said an interior marker "never becomes
literal", which is backwards — the interior three-backtick line is literal
in both witnesses. What actually differs is the trailing line: four
backticks closes the opener and is itself a delimiter, three is too short
and stays literal interior content. Said so.

The ExecPlan: the Outcomes paragraph still credited the CI gate results to
`58d4fca` while Progress credited `e810a01`, which is the revision the gates
actually ran on. Both now name `e810a01`.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Code <noreply@anthropic.com>
The ExecPlan claimed the proof relied on no external contracts, but every
fence row in the verification ledger names "fence recognition and
blockquote parsing" in its assumptions column. The claim was wrong in the
direction that matters: it read as though the obligations covered the
parse, when they hold only for pre-parsed line features.

State the contract explicitly, name where the ledger records it, and
reduce the residual-gaps paragraph to a pointer rather than a second
restatement of the same boundary.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Code <noreply@anthropic.com>
Round 4 returned zero findings, so the concern list is empty and the PR is
clear to leave draft. Record the gate results, the CI run ids at b53a7e9,
and two findings worth keeping visible: the mutation gate cannot show its
own evidence on the pass path because it deletes its temporary directory
in a trap, and the review was run against origin/main rather than a local
main ref that was 29 commits stale.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Code <noreply@anthropic.com>
All five M5 items are closed: gates green, CodeRabbit rounds 4 clean, and PR
#588 out of draft with the required title, Closes line, and session link.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Code <noreply@anthropic.com>
The hosted review found that a line which drops below the open fence's
blockquote depth and then opens a fresh fence leaves both states `Some`,
so `report_fence_marker` matched the "unchanged" arm with reason
`incompatible_active_opener`. Subscribers filtering for state changes
missed both the implicit close and the new open. Add a dedicated
replacement arm and pin it with a traced test that also asserts the
content-free contract.

Also address the hosted review's findings on the corpus sweep: a fixture
that cannot be read or is not UTF-8 now fails the sweep instead of being
skipped, so a corpus read in part cannot pass; and the literal-line check
walks both literal subsequences in step rather than testing membership,
which rejects a merged, reordered, or duplicated line that the old
`contains` check would have accepted. Restate verification obligations 3
and 4 to match the one-sided lemma and the pre-parsed interior scope the
proof actually delivers.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Code <noreply@anthropic.com>
`fence_tracker.rs` had grown to 478 lines, past the 400-line limit AGENTS.md
sets and this ExecPlan lists as a constraint. The growth came from the
kernel-level cases added by this work: the batch `classify_regions` witnesses
and the compression-predicate table, which exercise the pure kernel rather
than the streaming tracker.

Move them to `fence_kernel_tests`, following the split that already exists
for `fence_tracker_logging`, and drop the imports that became unused. The
file is back to 384 lines and the kernel cases now sit with the concern they
test.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Code <noreply@anthropic.com>
Taking PR #588 out of draft started the GitHub App review, which
reviewed the same commit as the passing CLI round and returned a
materially stricter result. The lesson is that a clean CLI pass does
not establish that the PR is clean, because the two are separate
reviewers with separate rule sets.

Add the hosted-review remediation as a progress entry, the four fixes
that landed in 4c3b4c5, and the split that landed in 9288d42.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Code <noreply@anthropic.com>
The sweeps split documents on the line feed alone and kept the carriage
return as line content, but the product never produces such a line: it
parses a document into a `SourceDocument`, which strips a leading
byte-order mark, and then splits with `str::lines`, so a line never
carries its terminator.

The mismatch was not benign. `FENCE_RE` excludes carriage returns from
its info capture, so a delimiter carrying a stray `\r` is not
recognised as a fence at all. On `tests/data/document/mixed_in_fence.dat`
that misfiled the closing delimiter as literal content on the input
side, and classified the CRLF output as unbroken prose, leaving the
output-side literal subsequence empty. The comparison then failed with
`left: None, right: Some("echo hi")`, which is the build-test failure
this commit clears.

Split both sides through one helper that mirrors the product, and drop
`line_content`, whose terminator-stripping rationale no longer applies
once neither side carries a terminator.

This also makes the fence-compression sweep real on the eight
carriage-return fixtures, where no fence was previously recognised and
the sweep compared all-prose against all-prose. Verified against the
whole corpus through the real binary: 153 fixtures, zero mismatches,
and the walk still detects the issue #480 defect.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Code <noreply@anthropic.com>
The first explanation put the build-test failure down to ADR 0007
re-applying one line ending to the whole document, and the fix was to
strip the terminator before comparing. That made the assertion pass
locally and the same failure returned in CI, because the real defect was
upstream: the sweep's line model disagreed with the product's.

Record the corrected diagnosis, and note that sweep #1 was vacuous on all
eight carriage-return fixtures under the old model.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Code <noreply@anthropic.com>
The hosted review flagged that the public `Region` and `classify_regions`
API shipped undocumented, and that the developer guide still described
the fence architecture before the kernel existed.

Correct the stale `src/classify_kernel_macros.rs` reference -- the file
is `src/verified_kernel_macros.rs` -- and note that it is now included by
the fence kernel as well as the classifier. Add a paragraph on the fence
kernel covering its `#[path]` inclusion, the `LineFeatures` recognition
boundary that keeps the regex outside the proof build, the
`compression_changes_region` guard, and the `verus-fence-mutation`
negative control.

Add a Batch fence classification section to the users guide describing
the accepted input, the one-result-per-line contract, the three region
meanings, and the rule that a pass may rewrite a line only while it is
`Prose`.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Code <noreply@anthropic.com>
The Format gate runs `mdtablefix --check` over the tracked Markdown, and
the two prose additions were wrapped by hand rather than by the tool
that gate uses. Re-wrap them with the same rule set, which changes no
content: it reflows the paragraphs and adds one cross-reference from the
new batch-classification section to the existing fence-normalization
section.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Code <noreply@anthropic.com>
Add the documentation milestone and the Format-gate failure that followed
it, plus the surprise entry explaining why hand-wrapped prose fails a
gate whose authority is mdtablefix's own reflow rather than a line-length
rule. Note the two traps that make this easy to hit: `--in-place` without
the rule flags is a no-op, and two execplans are already unformatted at
origin/main so the gate reports pre-existing failures.

Also correct the reconnaissance note that named
`classify_kernel_macros.rs`, which no longer exists.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Code <noreply@anthropic.com>
The hosted CodeScene check failed on src/wrap/tests/fence_tracker.rs with
8.03 -> 7.79 and the Large Assertion Blocks biomarker, while main passes the
same check at 8.03. The decline is this branch's: three assert_eq! on
.features, added mid-run to
observe_source_fence_exposes_structural_marker_with_prefix_indent, pushed
three consecutive-assert runs from 3 to 4 and took the flagged-case count
from 7 on main to 8 here.

The biomarker counts consecutive assertions per test case, not assertions per
file, which is why splitting fence_kernel_tests.rs earlier changed nothing:
the long runs stayed where they were. CodeScene's own wording for it is
"Consecutive assert statements indicate missing abstractions", so the remedy
is extraction rather than suppression.

Every run of four or more is now collapsed to at most three, through helpers
named for the invariant under test: assert_fence_state, assert_fence_step,
assert_transition, and assert_fenced_line. The property block moved verbatim
to fence_tracker_props.rs so both files stay under the 400-line limit; its
text and both helpers were diffed against the original and are byte-for-byte
identical, and Proptest/Rstest coverage is unchanged.

One conversion was weakened in passing -- it substituted in_fence_for_line
for a direct observation.is_in_fence, two predicates that agree today but
need not -- and has been restored to the direct assertion.

Max consecutive-assert run across both files: 8 -> 3.

The focused test run could not be executed locally: the Cargo package-cache
lock is held by another agent's process and must not be killed. cargo fmt
parses both files and reports them clean, so the change is syntactically
valid; behavioural verification is owed to the gate run.
The Lint gate failed on the previous commit with
clippy::trivially_copy_pass_by_ref at src/wrap/tests/fence_tracker.rs:39:
FenceObservation is three booleans behind a Copy derive, so an
&FenceObservation parameter is 3 bytes passed by reference, under clippy's
8-byte limit and denied by -D warnings.

The helper now takes the value and the three call sites pass it directly.
The other two borrowed parameters are correct as they stand: ObservedFence
carries a three-tuple of &str plus an Option<LineFeatures> and is well over
the limit, and FenceTracker is stateful rather than trivially copyable.

Found by the Lint gate. cargo fmt had reported the file clean because
formatting only parsed it; the lint needs type information this failure
carries, which is why the refactor's structural checks could not see it.
CodeScene now passes at 8.03 -> 10.00 with both the Large Assertion Blocks
and Duplicated Assertion Blocks biomarkers cleared, and CI is green at
a55e030 including the full test suite. The Duplicated Assertion Blocks
clearance was not planned: consolidating the assertions into shared helpers
removed duplication a second rule was also flagging.

Also records the Lint-gate failure that the first push of this fix hit
(clippy::trivially_copy_pass_by_ref) and what it demonstrates -- the
structural checks that verified this refactor was faithful could not have
caught it, because the defect was in a signature choice rather than in the
logic those checks compared. cargo fmt reported the file clean because
formatting parses a file; the lint needs type information.

Adds the Cargo package-cache deadlock to Constraints, since it blocks
lint/typecheck/test locally for the rest of this work and is not this
branch's to clear.
The commit that recorded the CodeScene fix was documentation only, so it
skipped the Rust gates -- but `make markdownlint` still applied to it, and
it failed: MD012/no-multiple-blanks at one stray double blank left behind
when an edit re-inserted a bullet into the middle of the Surprises list.
Format, the full 3618-test suite and every other job passed in the same
run; this lint was the entire failure.

Remove the blank and add two Surprises entries. The first draws the
lesson that "docs only" narrows which gates apply without removing the
obligation to run those that do, and that this is the second time here a
structural check caught what reasoning missed. The second records that a
stale vendored `target/debug/mdtablefix`, built before the fence work
landed, flags two execplans this branch never touched, while the CI-built
binary reports all 41 files unchanged -- so a local self-format check that
disagrees with CI should have its binary mtime checked against the commit
before its result is believed.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Code <noreply@anthropic.com>
Two Progress entries. The first records that all four hosted-review threads
are now resolved, and the method that closed them: each finding was verified
against the revision it was raised on (6f9ece9 for the CodeRabbit review,
63d4672 for the codex one) rather than against the branch tip, because a
finding stale at the tip may still have been valid when raised. All four
were valid on their reviewed revision and are fixed at the tip by 4c3b4c5.
The codex thread was answered with that provenance and resolved.

The second records the MD012 docs-gate failure and its fix in 044abca.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Code <noreply@anthropic.com>
The Hosted review remediation entry said the two documentation warnings
were "in flight", but the Documentation entry further down records them
fixed in b9fe398. Point at that entry instead, so the Progress section
does not contradict itself.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Code <noreply@anthropic.com>
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leynos force-pushed the issue-486-proof-fence-transition-kernel-and-lem-fence-normalization-preserves-regions branch from f9e332b to 33ae6ef Compare October 3, 2026 23:16
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The hosted review's Linked Issues check found the verification plan's
obligations 3 and 4 broader than what the code proves. Obligation 3 is the
one-sided guarded-interior lemma over parsed `LineFeatures`, with both runs
classifying the line `Literal` and the mutation gate retaining the
marker-character requirement; obligation 4 is scoped to pre-parsed block
bodies whose lines satisfy the compression guard, with complete-pass equality
recorded as executable corpus evidence rather than a general Verus theorem.

The same review found the ExecPlan inconsistent: Progress marked M5 complete
while the M5 section still read as an open instruction, and the revision note
did not record the completed work. Both are corrected, and the revision note
gains the 2026-10-04 rebase entry.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Code <noreply@anthropic.com>

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