Add bounded CwdMode observability to WhichResolver, and repair the CodeScene report hand-off (#718)

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Closes #718.

This branch carries two unrelated pieces of work that the issue joined
because they were observed on the same commit. They have different root causes
and should be read separately.

1. Repair the failing CodeScene coverage check (report delivery)

This is a delivery and ingestion failure, not a coverage failure.

The failing check was CodeScene Code Coverage (main), timed_out, with output
"No valid coverage report found in the build pipeline", reported against the
head of PR #672.

Tracing the lane end to end, the report was generated and uploaded, but nothing
verified it was usable before it left:

• The upload asserts only that the file exists ([ -f "$file" ]) and then hands
  it to cs-coverage upload. The mode: upload path performs no content check.
• The generation action reports success without inspecting what it wrote.
• So an empty, truncated, or otherwise malformed report reached CodeScene and
  was refused there — a different system, hours later — while every step in
  the run's logs said success. The resulting message named neither the step
  nor the file at fault.

The repair narrows that failure to the run that produces it. The trunk lane now
stages lcov.info into a directory of its own and runs
scripts/validate_coverage_artifact.py over it, between generation and upload.
That validator already owns the LCOV contract — it is the hostile-artefact
reader exercised by make test-coverage-artifact, it executes nothing in the
file it reads, and it requires the directory to hold exactly one lcov.info.
The step ordering is deliberate and load-bearing: it must follow generation,
precede the upload, and precede Show sccache statistics, which
sccache_contract_test.py requires to follow every compile step.

The test scope is unchanged: workspace, all features, all targets.

A second, latent defect was fixed in the same lane. The upload carried
installer-checksum: ${{ vars.CODESCENE_CLI_SHA256 }}. This repository declares
no repository variables at all, so that resolved to the empty string and
verified nothing while reading as though it did. Worse, the action's current
revision renames the input to archive-checksum and rejects a non-empty
installer-checksum outright — so a routine Dependabot bump would have failed
the trunk upload on a value that was already inert.

Workflow-contract coverage added

tests/workflow_contracts/codescene_upload_contract_test.py (backed by
codescene_upload_invariants.py, plus the extracted lane_steps.py and
workflow_variable_scan.py) holds the lane to the delivery contract: step
ordering, the path and format the generator and upload agree on, the credential
being both carried and gated on, checksum inputs staying unset, and no vars.
reference to anything the repository does not declare. The detectors are driven
against synthetic workflow text as well as the repository file, so a detector
that stopped matching cannot pass by finding nothing.

The action-pin assertions follow the convention #731 established: they check the
action's identity and the pin's shape (a full 40-character lowercase
SHA), never the revision — the correct revision is whatever the dependency
updater last pinned, not a value a test can know.

A third CodeScene check, and a regression this branch introduced

The coverage check repaired above is not the only CodeScene check on a PR. Two
commits later, CodeScene Code Health Review (main) — a different check, on a
different endpoint — regressed, and it regressed because of this branch.

It passed at 6d41a867 (check run 106140215409) and failed at 9648bd3f
(check run 106156213078). The only change to the flagged file between those
two commits is the 52 lines 83c0e2b2 added to it, so the finding was mine,
not inherited debt — which is why the fix is a real reduction and not a
.codescene/code-health-rules.json exemption. An exemption would have been a
suppression of a signal this branch had just created, and the justification it
requires could not honestly be written.

The tool named one file
(tests/workflow_contracts/codescene_report_validation_invariants.py), "1
advisory rule", and a Code Health Impact of 9.39, under the "Pay Down Tech
Debt" profile. Its complexity metric is not radon's — it reads roughly 0.15
below radon on this file, and seven fitted AST variants failed to reproduce both
its pass and its fail numbers — so the design target was set to ≤ 4.0 by
radon, treating radon as a conservative proxy rather than a prediction.

The fix is extraction, in three places, each splitting a function that asked
several questions at once:

• _runs_validator → any over _runs_validator_in(segment), so "does the
  script run the validator" is one question per command.
• _created_directories → any over _directories_made_in(segment) plus
  _makes_directory_with_mktemp(segment).
• _copies_from_into → any over _copies_in_order(...) for each copying
  command.

The generic shell-text reading (script_operands and its two constants) moved
out of the flagged module into shell_command_scan.py — the module whose
docstring already claims that question, and which was itself split out of this
one for size. That moved, rather than added, the code that made the file grow:
codescene_report_validation_invariants.py went 374 → 391 lines (still
inside the 400-line pylint cap), while its mean complexity went 4.29/7 →
2.80/11.

Behaviour is preserved, and that was checked rather than asserted. Fifteen
verdicts through validation_offenders are identical before and after; the old
local _script_operands and the new shared script_operands agree on 45 probes
covering both subcommand orders, absolute paths, wrappers, assignments, and
mentions; and the new regression case for the bare-path false-accept was
liveness-checked by re-injecting the old reading and confirming it fails.

CodeScene now passes at a7ea5dde (check run 106486642015): "Quality Gate
Passed — 6 Quality Gates Passed", with cache.rs in the analysed delta.

2. Bounded cwd_mode observability for WhichResolver (follow-up telemetry)

This is a telemetry-contract enhancement, not a resolver correctness defect.
Nothing in the resolver's search behaviour changes.

WhichResolver has distinct PATH-only, workspace-root, and recursive-workspace
search domains, but its telemetry recorded only cache outcome, final result, and
error category. workspace-recursive and auto misses produced
indistinguishable series, so an operator could not tell whether recursive
lookup had been requested or whether it contributed to an outcome.

A closed cwd_mode vocabulary — auto, always, never, workspace_recursive
— is now carried on all three series: the stdlib.which.resolve span, the
netsuke_stdlib_which_cache_total counter, and the
netsuke_stdlib_which_resolution_total counter. The label is a telemetry
spelling: a manifest writes workspace-recursive, the label is
workspace_recursive.

Cardinality and redaction are enforced, not merely intended. No command
name, filesystem path, workspace name, PATH value, PATHEXT value, or other
environment value is recorded on any span, event, or metric label. The
application recorder in src/observability_recorder.rs admits these counters
only under exact declared label sets, and the recorder tests assert that an
out-of-vocabulary cwd_mode, a command label, or a missing label is
refused rather than exported.

The cache and resolver metric names are unchanged. The label addition is an
additive-but-deliberate change to the series shape, recorded as an addendum in
ADR-024 so a scraper assuming a fixed label set knows to update.

Search semantics preserved

The four CwdMode contracts are untouched. The strongest evidence is
structural: src/stdlib/which/lookup.rs and src/stdlib/which/options.rs —
which hold the search logic and the CwdMode enum — are byte-identical to
origin/main on this branch. The change threads a label through the existing
call sites in cache.rs and moves the recorders into a new telemetry.rs.

Tests

All four modes are parametrized through recorder-backed and tracing cases —
hits, misses, cache outcomes, span fields, and the failure event. The tracing
case proves the mode is emitted and positively asserts that neither the
command nor the workspace root appears in any captured span field or event.

Where all of this is recorded

• docs/adr-024-require-explicit-recursive-workspace-which-search.md —
  addendum: the telemetry contract, the vocabulary, and the redaction rules.
• docs/adr-025-main-owned-coverage-publication.md — the report-validation
  step and its ordering contract.
• docs/netsuke-design.md — the bounded resolver telemetry.
• docs/developers-guide.md, AGENTS.md — the gate documentation gap below.

One documentation defect found and fixed along the way.
make test-workflow-contracts was described in the developer guide but listed
in neither the "Quality gates" section nor AGENTS.md's pre-commit list.
Because make test runs the Rust suite only and make lint lints Python
without executing it, a change to a workflow or a workflow-contract suite was
verified by no documented gate at all — the contract could be edited into a
shape it no longer enforced and every listed command would still pass. It is now
listed in both, conditional on the change touching a workflow, a contract suite,
or the coverage validators.

Gate status

Green at a7ea5dde, the current head, measured against the tree that would
actually merge. The branch is rebased on origin/main at 00f48f77, and is
0 behind / 29 ahead.

• check-fmt: cargo fmt clean, ruff 115 files already formatted, mdtablefix
  145 files left unchanged.
• test: 3332 passed, 5 skipped (nextest, 206 s), plus the doctest half —
  82 passed, 2 compile-fail cases passed, 39 passed, 0 failed.
• typecheck: All checks passed! (ty over tests/workflow_contracts), plus
  cargo check --all-targets --all-features finished clean.
• lint: clippy (-D warnings), Whitaker on both packages, ruff
  All checks passed!, pylint 10.00/10 twice, interrogate
  PASSED (minimum: 100.0%, actual: 100.0%), ambrleaks, yamllint, actionlint —
  all clean, zero warning: lines.
• test-workflow-contracts: 722 passed, 2 skipped. Required for this
  change: the delta is Python contract suites, and neither make test nor
  make lint executes them.
• doc-coverage: 98.82% aggregate (4770/4827) against an 80% threshold.

This rebase did need a conflict resolution, unlike the previous one, and it
found something the three-way merge could not see. Read on.

The conflict, and the cross-file defect behind it

The only conflicting file was .github/workflows/coverage-main.yml, at EOF.
Both sides delete the same line — installer-checksum: ${{ vars.CODESCENE_CLI_SHA256 }} —
main silently, this branch replacing it with a comment explaining why. The
resolution keeps main's deletion.

The reason to keep it is what makes this worth a reviewer's attention. main's
#758 adds tests/workflow_contracts/codescene_uploader_checksum_test.py, which
scans the raw text of every workflow for the literals installer-checksum
and CODESCENE_CLI_SHA256 — deliberately comment-blind, on the stated grounds
that "such a reference is what a later reader would take as evidence the
variable is still wanted." Our comment named both. So our comment, added in a
different file from the test that forbids it, broke a contract on the other
side without raising any conflict at all.

Reading main's incoming commits is what caught it; the diff could not. Kept
main's research, dropped the comment.

Four superseded claims, corrected

Following that thread back, main's #758 had already established what the
pinned uploader actually does — it is the commit that removed the input and
wrote the scan above — and it contradicted four sites this branch had
introduced. Read at the pin this repository uses (a5765019), the action
declares both installer-checksum, deprecated, and archive-checksum, its
replacement, and its Validate-inputs step exit 1s on a non-empty
installer-checksum. Nothing is renamed, and the hard failure is live at the
pin rather than pending a Dependabot bump. The worst of the four — "The pinned
action merely skips the check" — is simply false, and #758 says so in its own
words.

Commit a7ea5dde corrects all four: three in
tests/workflow_contracts/codescene_upload_invariants.py, one in
codescene_upload_contract_test.py. Text only — comments, docstrings and two
diagnostic message strings, no assertion or detector touched. The two
diagnostics loop over both input names, so both were rewritten to be true of
whichever input they report; the deprecation detail stays where it names the
input it is about. test-workflow-contracts reports the same 722 / 2 before and
after, which is the expected result for a text-only correction.

Both sides' work survives, and that was measured rather than asserted. Every
line each side added to a shared file is present at the new head — AGENTS.md
11/11 from this branch and 48/48 from main; docs/developers-guide.md 98/98
and 430/430. The target's own work is intact: timeout-minutes: 90, the 780 s
whole-run budget, the ADR-032 reparse-point material, and the split-build
fixture test from #752.

One measurement on the previous head is now obsolete, and worth stating because
it looked like a defect twice. harness_compiles_under_a_split_build_dir used
to spawn a live nested Cargo build and exceeded nextest's 300 s cap under load
(TIMEOUT at 300.0 s once, PASS at 271 s another time). main's e2fc2083
replaced that build with a recorded-fixture parse, so the test now passes in
0.007 s and the load-sensitivity question is closed by construction, not by
a re-run. The trade-off a reviewer should know: the test no longer proves a
test_support change builds in the split layout — that evidence now comes from
the test_support target compiling under the gate.

The head was moved to 8727b630 earlier by a CodeRabbit cycle that found four
false-accepts in the detectors this branch adds — each one a lane that
satisfies the contract's wording while doing nothing it asks. They are worth
naming, because each is a way the contract could have certified a delivery it
had not read:

• A step that only prints the validator satisfied "runs the validator".
  echo "uv run ... validate_coverage_artifact.py ..." contains the path and
  executes nothing. The script is now read as command segments, and the
  validator has to be an operand of an interpreter — uv, python, python3.
• cp a b c dir was read with the second operand as the destination. That is
  another source, so a report that never reached the staged directory passed.
  The destination is now the last operand.
• A line continuation was read as a line break. The shell removes both the
  backslash and the newline before parsing, so the two lines are one command;
  read apart, an echo continued into a line naming a script passed for the
  script being run.
• name=value was read as an assignment anywhere in a segment. The shell reads
  it as one only before the command word, so echo staged="$(mktemp -d)"
  assigns nothing and creates nothing — while crediting it recorded a directory
  the script never made.

Each fix is driven by a regression case, and each was liveness-checked by
re-injecting the defect and confirming that only the new case fails. The real
trunk lane and the clean fixture still report no offenders.

Two notes for a reviewer running gates locally:

• make validate-coverage-artifact is unreachable as written: it requires a
  coverage-artifact/ directory that CI never populates, and no target under
  .github/ or scripts/ calls it. It fails identically on origin/main. The
  trunk lane now exercises the same validator through
  scripts/validate_coverage_artifact.py directly, which is the first live
  subject it has had.
• CodeScene Code Coverage (main) reports timed_out on pull requests by
  design. Coverage (main) triggers on pushes to main only; PRs generate
  coverage for their local ratchet and neither publish the report nor contact
  CodeScene. The check is not required and cannot block a merge. CodeScene check
  runs attach to PR heads, not to main commits. The trunk lane itself is
  healthy: the most recent main runs are all success. The validation step
  this branch adds is not yet among them — it exists only on this branch, and
  runs on main for the first time after the merge.

Hosted verification of the repaired step

Run
35496073097 — a
workflow_dispatch of Coverage (main) against 8727b630 — is the first
hosted execution of the new validating step. It succeeded, 7m35s for the
job, and the step itself passed in 1s:

uv run --no-project --python "${baseline}" \
  scripts/validate_coverage_artifact.py --artifact-dir "${staged}"
ok: validated hostile LCOV artefact

The dispatch trigger exists for exactly this purpose: a warm run reads every
cache and writes none, so it exercises the lane without publishing a report or
touching the ratchet baseline. The ok: line is the validator's only success
output, and it means the staged directory held exactly one non-symlink
lcov.info inside its own boundary and that the report passed the LCOV
record contract. What it was handed was a real report, not a stand-in: the
instrumented run executed 3243 tests across 102 binaries and finished at
92.12% line coverage.

The upload step then ran unskipped and exited 0, so the token is present in
a dispatch context and the report reached cs-coverage. One caveat a reader
should have: the CLI also printed

Usage error: It seems you upload for repo '...' and branch: 'issue-718-...'
but CodeScene only analyse the following branches: ("main") of this repo!

before reporting Uploaded code coverage data done. Both lines are present and
the exit code is 0. The message is specific to verifying from a branch: the
most recent main run (35492847811) contains no such line at all — its upload
goes straight to Successfully parsed edn data for 257 files. This is
therefore an artefact of the dispatch's ref rather than an ingestion problem —
but it does mean the dispatch proves the transport end of the hand-off, not
CodeScene's analysis of this branch, which it does not perform by design.

That distinction matters for what this run can and cannot be cited for. It
establishes that the new step runs and passes in the real lane, on a real
report, in the real image. It does not establish anything new about CodeScene's
side of the boundary — that is the trunk's job, and it is what the failing
check this branch repairs was reporting on.

References

• Issue: Add bounded CwdMode observability to WhichResolver #718
• Backlinks: PR Require explicit recursive workspace lookup (#646) #672
• Lody session: https://lody.ai/leynos/sessions/fa225168-1427-4ce9-b534-93c2ad0c5cc2

Summary by Sourcery

Harden CodeScene coverage publication and expose bounded, redacted search-domain telemetry for WhichResolver without changing lookup semantics.

New Features:

• Add bounded cwd_mode telemetry to WhichResolver spans and cache/resolution metrics while preserving resolver search behaviour.
• Validate generated LCOV coverage reports in the main workflow before submitting them to CodeScene.

Bug Fixes:

• Remove the inert and incompatible CodeScene installer checksum input and repair coverage-report delivery validation.
• Enforce workflow contracts for CodeScene report paths, formats, credentials, action pins, checksum settings, and undefined variables.

Enhancements:

• Centralize WhichResolver telemetry vocabularies and enforce exact metric label shapes with redaction of command and filesystem details.
• Reduce the validator lane's mean complexity below the CodeScene review threshold by extraction, preserving its behaviour exactly.

CI:

• Expand workflow-contract coverage with synthetic negative cases and document when workflow and coverage validation gates must run.

Documentation:

• Document bounded resolver telemetry and the main-lane coverage validation contract in the ADRs and design documentation.
• Update contributor guidance to include workflow-contract and coverage-artifact test gates.

Tests:

• Add recorder-backed and tracing tests covering all cwd modes, outcomes, error categories, label cardinality, and telemetry redaction.
• Generalize tracing capture helpers to inspect fields from spans at creation and recording time.
• Add workflow contract tests for report validation ordering, artifact staging, credential gating, action pin shape, checksum absence, and variable references.

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Summary

• Add bounded cwd_mode labels to WhichResolver spans and cache and resolution metrics. Preserve search behaviour and exclude command names, paths, workspace names and environment values from telemetry.
• Add typed error categories and recorder admission rules for bounded metric labels.
• Document the telemetry contract in ADR-024, the developer and user guides, and the design documentation.
• Stage and validate generated lcov.info before CodeScene upload. Preserve the workspace, all-features and all-targets test scope.
• Enforce CodeScene upload, credential, action-pin, report-path, format, ordering and workflow-variable contracts. Remove the obsolete checksum input.
• Add recorder and tracing tests, workflow-contract tests, property-based tests and Rust syntax-tree checks for the telemetry boundary.
• Document the coverage publication contract in ADR-025 and the developer guide.

Validation

• Test results and hosted CodeScene verification are not provided.
• Current review finding counts are unavailable.
• No new execplan document is identified.

Walkthrough

The PR adds validation of staged LCOV reports before CodeScene upload, with workflow contract checks for the report hand-off. It also adds bounded WhichResolver telemetry for CWD modes, cache outcomes, resolution outcomes, and error categories.

Changes

Coverage report delivery

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Coverage staging and delivery requirements .github/workflows/coverage-main.yml, AGENTS.md, docs/adr-025-main-owned-coverage-publication.md, docs/developers-guide.md	The workflow stages and validates lcov.info before upload. Documentation and commit guidance describe the ordering and related checks.
Workflow, shell, and expression scanning tests/workflow_contracts/lane_steps.py, tests/workflow_contracts/shell_command_*, tests/workflow_contracts/workflow_variable_scan*, tests/workflow_contracts/variable_*, tests/resolver_telemetry_boundary_tests.rs, Cargo.toml	Helpers inspect workflow steps, shell commands, action references, repository-variable expressions, and Rust telemetry imports. Unit and property tests cover generated inputs.
Coverage and upload contract checks tests/workflow_contracts/codescene_*_invariants.py	Invariants check validation, report staging, upload order and inputs, credentials, gates, paths, checksums, publication settings, and additional upload callers.
Coverage lane fixtures and tests tests/workflow_contracts/codescene_*, tests/workflow_contracts/codescene_lane_*, tests/workflow_contracts/coverage_handoff_execution_test.py, tests/workflow_contracts/codescene_validation_step_test.py	Fixtures, mutation models, property tests, and execution tests cover valid and invalid delivery lanes and validation hand-off behaviour.

Bounded resolver telemetry

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Resolver telemetry and error categories src/stdlib/which/telemetry.rs, src/stdlib/which/cache.rs, src/stdlib/which/resolve_error.rs, src/stdlib/which/mod.rs, src/stdlib/mod.rs	The resolver records requested CWD mode and bounded cache, resolution, and error-category values.
Application recorder admission src/observability_recorder.rs, src/observability_recorder_tests.rs, src/observability_recorder_which_tests.rs	The recorder accepts resolver counters only when their label shapes and values match the contract.
Resolver telemetry and span-capture tests src/stdlib/which/telemetry_tests.rs, src/stdlib/which/telemetry_tests/*, src/test_tracing_capture.rs, tests/resolver_telemetry_boundary_tests.rs, Cargo.toml	Tests cover mode labels, outcomes, categories, cache states, redaction, import boundaries, and named span-field capture.
Resolver telemetry documentation docs/adr-024-require-explicit-recursive-workspace-which-search.md, docs/developers-guide.md, docs/netsuke-design.md, docs/users-guide.md, docs/v0-1-1-migration-guide.md, docs/contents.md, .codescene/code-health-rules.json	Documentation describes bounded values, metric shapes, redaction rules, requested-mode semantics, and migration effects.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant CoverageWorkflow
  participant CoverageValidator
  participant CodeScene
  CoverageWorkflow->>CoverageValidator: Stage and validate lcov.info
  CoverageValidator-->>CoverageWorkflow: Return validation result
  CoverageWorkflow->>CodeScene: Upload validated lcov.info

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sequenceDiagram
  participant WhichResolver
  participant ResolverTelemetry
  participant ObservabilityRecorder
  WhichResolver->>ResolverTelemetry: Record bounded mode and outcome
  ResolverTelemetry->>ObservabilityRecorder: Submit bounded counter labels

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Suggested labels: Issue

Priority: ➖ Normal

Change: Feature

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 1b9b7

Some workflow-contract cases may escape detection, Windows boundary tests may fail, and later resolver recorders may lack metric descriptions. Resolve or explicitly accept these remaining risks before merging.

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Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Testing (Overall)	❌ Error	The new tests substantively cover all four CwdMode labels, cache hit/miss/bypass series, PATH NotFound metrics, tracing redaction, recorder allow-list shapes, and the CodeScene workflow hand-off. …	Add resolver-level telemetry tests that drive at least one direct-path miss and one non-NotFound failure through WhichResolver::resolve. Capture the resulting counter and span/event output. Assert the exact cwd_mode, outcome (`not_f…
Developer Documentation	⚠️ Warning	The developer guide documents the new workflow targets, coverage hand-off, tracing helper, and which telemetry. ADR-024 records the telemetry decision in an addendum. However, ADR-025 is marked `Acc…	Restore the original accepted text in ADR-025. Add a dated addendum that records the LCOV staging and validation decision, its required ordering, the workflow-contract coverage, and the credential/checksum constraints. Keep any purely edito…

✅ Passed checks (13 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title accurately summarises both workstreams and references the linked issue with (#718), as required.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description directly explains the resolver telemetry enhancement, CodeScene report validation, tests, documentation, and linked issue.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Accept the coding requirements for issue [#718]. The implementation emits the closed cwd_mode vocabulary on resolver spans and cache and resolution metrics. It preserves the resolver search contract…
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	Keep the changes within issue [#718]. Treat ADRs, developer and user guidance, telemetry capture support, syn test support, resolver-boundary checks, workflow fixtures, shell and variable scanners, …
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	Docstring coverage is 99.65% which is sufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 283 functions across 36 files. (4 skipped: …
User-Facing Documentation	✅ Passed	The changed which observability behaviour is clearly documented in docs/users-guide.md. The new section names both counters, their label shapes and values, the cwd_mode spelling difference, fail…
Module-Level Documentation	✅ Passed	Pass the module-level documentation check. Every changed Python module has a first-statement docstring, and every changed Rust module has a leading //! module document. The documents describe each m…
Testing (Unit And Behavioural)	✅ Passed	The pull request adds meaningful coverage at each changed boundary. WhichResolver tests drive the real resolver for all four CwdMode values and cover hits, misses, cache hit/miss/bypass outcomes, …
Testing (Property / Proof)	✅ Passed	Pass the check. The PR adds substantive Hypothesis property tests for generated CodeScene lane mutations, shell-command forms, and workflow-variable expressions. It retains parameterized tests for the…
Testing (Compile-Time / Ui)	✅ Passed	Pass. The PR introduces no Rust or TypeScript compile-time or UI diagnostic behaviour that requires a trybuild-style test. The new ResolveErrorCategory and const fn code has runtime coverage, whil…
Unit Architecture	✅ Passed	Preserve the architecture. WhichResolver::resolve keeps an explicit Result boundary for environment and lookup failures. The new telemetry side effects are isolated in telemetry.rs behind purpos…
Domain Architecture	✅ Passed	No new domain-architecture violation is introduced. The change moves metric registration and label mapping into src/stdlib/which/telemetry.rs; ResolveErrorCategory remains resolver-owned, and tele…
Observability	✅ Passed	Pass the observability check. WhichResolver::resolve records the requested bounded cwd_mode on the span and on cache and resolution counters. Failure records include only bounded outcome and `ca…

Full details: Testing (Overall)

Explanation

The new tests substantively cover all four CwdMode labels, cache hit/miss/bypass series, PATH NotFound metrics, tracing redaction, recorder allow-list shapes, and the CodeScene workflow hand-off. They do not cover every changed resolver outcome path. The actual WhichResolver::resolve cases in outcome_series.rs and tracing_capture.rs exercise only successful resolution and ResolveError::NotFound. The record_resolution_error branch that classifies DirectNotFound and all other errors as error is therefore untested end to end. The category tests call category_label directly, and the recorder tests inject counters directly, so both would pass if record_resolution_error always emitted not_found or always used CATEGORY_NOT_FOUND. Existing lookup tests cover errors such as DirectNotFound and WalkDir, but they call lookup directly and do not verify resolver telemetry.

Resolution

Add resolver-level telemetry tests that drive at least one direct-path miss and one non-NotFound failure through WhichResolver::resolve. Capture the resulting counter and span/event output. Assert the exact cwd_mode, outcome (not_found for the direct miss and error for the other failure), and bounded category. Keep the assertions on the complete label and field sets so an incorrect classification or category cannot pass through the direct recorder and taxonomy tests.

Full details: Developer Documentation

Explanation

The developer guide documents the new workflow targets, coverage hand-off, tracing helper, and which telemetry. ADR-024 records the telemetry decision in an addendum. However, ADR-025 is marked Accepted, and the PR edits its historical Consequences and Verification sections to add the coverage-validation decision instead of recording that decision in a dated addendum. This violates the requirement to update accepted ADRs through logged addenda.

Resolution

Restore the original accepted text in ADR-025. Add a dated addendum that records the LCOV staging and validation decision, its required ordering, the workflow-contract coverage, and the credential/checksum constraints. Keep any purely editorial changes separate or revert them. Retain the developer-guide and ADR-024 documentation updates.

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A validator checks each trace
Modes are bounded, labels stay neat
Cache outcomes count each beat
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Reviewer's Guide

The PR independently repairs CodeScene report delivery by validating the trunk LCOV artifact before upload and enforcing the workflow contract, and adds redacted, bounded cwd_mode telemetry to WhichResolver while preserving search semantics.

Sequence diagram for bounded WhichResolver telemetry

sequenceDiagram
    participant Caller
    participant Resolver as WhichResolver
    participant Telemetry
    participant Recorder

    Caller->>Resolver: resolve(command, options)
    Resolver->>Telemetry: cwd_mode_label(options.cwd_mode)
    Resolver->>Telemetry: record_cache_outcome(cwd_mode, outcome)
    Telemetry->>Recorder: Export bounded cache labels
    Resolver->>Telemetry: record_resolution_found(cwd_mode)
    Telemetry->>Recorder: Export bounded resolution labels
    Resolver->>Telemetry: record_resolution_error(cwd_mode, error)
    Telemetry->>Recorder: Export bounded failure labels

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Flow diagram for validated CodeScene coverage publication

flowchart LR
    Generate[Generate lcov.info] --> Stage[Stage lcov.info in dedicated directory]
    Stage --> Validate[validate_coverage_artifact.py]
    Validate -->|valid| Upload[CodeScene upload]
    Validate -->|invalid| Fail[Fail workflow early]
    Upload --> Stats[Show sccache statistics]

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File-Level Changes

Change	Details	Files
Adds pre-upload LCOV validation and strengthens the CodeScene workflow contract.	Stages the generated report and validates it with the existing hostile-artifact validator before upload. Removes the inert and incompatible installer checksum input. Adds workflow-contract predicates and synthetic negative tests for ordering, paths, formats, credentials, checksums, variables, and action pin shape. Documents the validation ordering and expands contributor guidance for workflow-contract gates.	.github/workflows/coverage-main.yml tests/workflow_contracts/codescene_upload_contract_test.py tests/workflow_contracts/codescene_upload_invariants.py tests/workflow_contracts/lane_steps.py tests/workflow_contracts/workflow_variable_scan.py tests/workflow_contracts/workflow_variable_scan_test.py AGENTS.md docs/adr-025-main-owned-coverage-publication.md docs/developers-guide.md
Introduces bounded cwd_mode telemetry across WhichResolver spans and metrics without changing lookup behavior.	Maps all four CwdMode variants to a closed telemetry vocabulary, including the workspace_recursive spelling. Adds cwd_mode to cache and resolution counters and resolver spans, with bounded failure categories and exact metric label-shape admission. Moves resolver telemetry into a dedicated module and threads labels through existing cache/resolution call sites. Adds recorder, resolver, tracing, cardinality, and redaction tests covering hits, misses, cache outcomes, failures, and all modes. Records the telemetry contract and series-shape compatibility change in the design documentation.	src/stdlib/which/telemetry.rs src/stdlib/which/cache.rs src/stdlib/which/resolve_error.rs src/stdlib/which/mod.rs src/stdlib/mod.rs src/observability_recorder.rs src/observability_recorder_tests.rs src/observability_recorder_which_tests.rs src/stdlib/which/telemetry_tests.rs src/stdlib/which/telemetry_tests/outcome_series.rs src/stdlib/which/telemetry_tests/tracing_capture.rs src/test_tracing_capture.rs docs/adr-024-require-explicit-recursive-workspace-which-search.md docs/netsuke-design.md docs/developers-guide.md

Assessment against linked issues

Issue	Objective	Addressed	Explanation
#718	Repair the CodeScene main coverage workflow so a valid LCOV report is generated, validated, handed off, and uploaded with workflow-contract coverage preserving the existing workspace/all-features/all-targets test scope.	✅
#718	Add bounded cwd_mode observability for WhichResolver using exactly auto, always, never, and workspace_recursive on the resolver span and outcome metrics, without recording commands, paths, workspace names, or environment values.	✅
#718	Update recorder allowlists, add recorder-backed and tracing tests, and document the telemetry and coverage-delivery contracts while preserving resolver search semantics and existing metric names.	✅

Possibly linked issues

• Add bounded CwdMode observability to WhichResolver #718: The PR directly implements bounded CwdMode observability and repairs the CodeScene report hand-off described in issue Add bounded CwdMode observability to WhichResolver #718.

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In `@docs/adr-024-require-explicit-recursive-workspace-which-search.md`:
- Around line 70-73: Update the descriptions in the ADR and the telemetry and
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Candidate: head 8154c8dfad99d101451e6772ebec91d34f0253b5, base 96b89ca9b51b020a30bf92a8668d37182398c299.

Note on the anchor. Your table is stamped 1b9b72e3 (the change_assessment_commit and final_review_risk_coverage markers both name it). Two commits have landed since: 9ba186cc and 8154c8df. Both rows below were assessed against the tree as it stands at 8154c8df, and every citation is re-read at that SHA. 8154c8df is a one-line identifier rename (resolved → control) repairing a clippy::similar_names failure that both this repository's lint gate and CI reproduced on 9ba186cc; it changes no behaviour under test.

✅ Failed checks (both rows resolved)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Testing (Overall)	❌ Error	The new tests substantively cover all four CwdMode labels, cache hit/miss/bypass series, PATH NotFound metrics, tracing redaction, recorder allow-list shapes, and the CodeScene workflow hand-off. …	Resolved. Both named cases now exist and drive WhichResolver::resolve end to end, at src/stdlib/which/telemetry_tests/failure_categories.rs. Direct-path miss: a_direct_path_miss_carries_the_category_that_separates_it_from_a_search (:262). Non-NotFound failure: an_uninspectable_path_is_an_error_rather_than_a_miss (:305). Both assert the exact cwd_mode, outcome and bounded category as their own literals (:277-279 → never / RESOLUTION_OUTCOME_NOT_FOUND / CATEGORY_DIRECT_NOT_FOUND; :326-328 → never / RESOLUTION_OUTCOME_ERROR / CATEGORY_IS_EXECUTABLE), and pin the full label and field sets on the counter, span and event.
Developer Documentation	⚠️ Warning	The developer guide documents the new workflow targets, coverage hand-off, tracing helper, and which telemetry. ADR-024 records the telemetry decision in an addendum. However, ADR-025 is marked `Acc…	Resolved. ADR-025's accepted text is restored and a dated addendum is added; the two retention items are kept. docs/adr-025-main-owned-coverage-publication.md is 69 insertions / 0 deletions against both origin/main and the merge base — purely additive, so nothing accepted was removed. Restored body: lines 1-96, byte-identical to the accepted text on origin/main, and the pre-existing 2026-09-23 addendum is preserved exactly at lines 166-188 — both verified by diff, not inferred. New ## Addendum, 2026-09-19: validating the trunk report before it is submitted at :97, carrying the LCOV staging and validation decision, the required ordering, the workflow-contract coverage, and the credential and checksum constraints. docs/developers-guide.md (+129/-12) and docs/adr-024-require-explicit-recursive-workspace-which-search.md (addendum at :68, +33/-0) are retained as asked.

Evidence for the Testing (Overall) row

The row's resolution asks for the counter and span/event output, with the complete label and field sets held, so that a misclassification cannot pass through. All four subjects are read from one resolution and compared exact:

• assert_failure_counters (:152) compares the resolution series to Sample::once(mode, outcome, Some(category)) and the cache series to its one cold miss — the whole reported label set, not a projection onto named labels.
• assert_failure_span (:174) compares against a sorted, complete four-field set (cache_outcome, cwd_mode, error_category, result).
• assert_failure_event (:195) requires exactly one failure event, strips the message, and compares the remaining name=value set whole.
• assert_unnamed (:237) additionally holds the redaction claim on values outside those subjects.

The two cases name their categories as their own literals rather than reading them back out of the code under test, which is what keeps the direct-path miss and the probe failure from being able to pass by agreeing with the search miss's spelling. The probe case is gated #[cfg(unix)] per test, not per module, so the other platforms drop that one case rather than the module.

Executable evidence on 8154c8df: the repository's test gate is green — nextest 3468/3468 and doctests 39 passed; 0 failed; 6 ignored, log /tmp/test-fa225168-1427-4ce9-b534-93c2ad0c5cc2-issue-718-add-bounded-cwdmode-observability-to-whichresolver.out. The lint gate is green on this head as well (EXIT=0), which is the check that failed on 9ba186cc.

Evidence for the Developer Documentation row

Two independent confirmations that the accepted text survived, not just that an addendum was appended:

$ git diff --no-ext-diff --numstat origin/main -- docs/adr-025-main-owned-coverage-publication.md
69      0       docs/adr-025-main-owned-coverage-publication.md
$ git diff --no-ext-diff --numstat 96b89ca9    -- docs/adr-025-main-owned-coverage-publication.md
69      0       docs/adr-025-main-owned-coverage-publication.md

A zero deletion column against both refs. The file also carries no asterisks (all emphasis is underscore, matching the file's own convention), so the emphasis churn that previously tripped MD049 is gone, and no line exceeds 80 columns.

One item resolved outside your table

Your 15:40-15:41Z round also raised the codescene_lane_mutations.py docstring finding and the outcome_series.rs exemption. Both threads are now marked resolved on the API, and all 22 of 22 review threads stand resolved with none open. I am not asking for a further full review; this is the row reconciliation only.

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Developer Documentation	Resolved. docs/adr-025-main-owned-coverage-publication.md preserves the accepted text and earlier addendum. Its diff against the stated base is 69 insertions and no deletions.
Testing (Overall)	Partly resolved. Both requested end-to-end cases exist. They compare complete counter label sets and tracing field sets. However, their expected outcome and category values come from src/stdlib/which/telemetry.rs. They are not independent literals, as the resolution states. If an emitted label and its constant change together, these cases can still pass.

Keep the remaining test correction in #748. Validation coverage is in scope. Use this AI coding-agent prompt:

Update PR #748 at its current head. Correct the independent label expectations
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In a_direct_path_miss_carries_the_category_that_separates_it_from_a_search,
set the ExpectedFailure values to:
- cwd_mode: "never"
- outcome: "not_found"
- category: "direct_not_found"

In an_uninspectable_path_is_an_error_rather_than_a_miss, set them to:
- cwd_mode: "never"
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Remove telemetry outcome and category constant imports that these changes leave
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Learnt from: pandalump
Repo: leynos/netsuke PR: 748
File: tests/resolver_telemetry_boundary_tests.rs:242-246
Timestamp: 2026-09-27T17:00:20.818Z
Learning: In `leynos/netsuke` PR #748, the Rust contract test in `tests/resolver_telemetry_boundary_tests.rs` must detect telemetry `use` items at every syntax-tree depth. Use `syn::visit::Visit` rather than a hand-written list of nesting locations. A passing whole-set importer assertion alone does not prove detection; injecting an import into an unpermitted resolver source demonstrates that the assertion fails when it should.

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URL: https://github.com/leynos/netsuke/pull/748

Timestamp: 2026-09-25T22:24:49.708Z
Learning: In `leynos/netsuke` PR #748, `WHICH_CACHE_TOTAL` and `WHICH_RESOLUTION_TOTAL` existed in `src/stdlib/which/cache.rs` at merge-base commit `12a8e35c` with an `outcome` label. Adding the bounded `cwd_mode` label preserves their metric names but creates new counter series, so fixed-label scrapers, queries, dashboards, recording rules, and alerts may need updates.

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Repo: leynos/netsuke PR: 748
File: tests/workflow_contracts/workflow_variable_scan.py:167-171
Timestamp: 2026-09-21T21:55:57.270Z
Learning: In pull request #748 of `leynos/netsuke`, `tests/workflow_contracts/workflow_variable_scan.py` must scan a step's top-level `if` value as a bare GitHub Actions expression because repository workflows use undelimited `if` conditions. Other step values must scan only `${{ ... }}` regions. The `_step_strings` helper also scans mapping keys for delimited expressions.

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Repo: leynos/netsuke

Timestamp: 2026-09-21T21:55:53.921Z
Learning: In pull request #748 of `leynos/netsuke`, `tests/workflow_contracts/codescene_report_validation_invariants.py` must recognize both `mktemp`-created directories and literal `mkdir` directories. Its workflow-contract fixtures must cover a real `mkdir` command and reject a quoted `mkdir` mention, because only executed command segments create staging directories.

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Learnt from: leynos
Repo: leynos/netsuke

Timestamp: 2026-09-21T21:55:46.091Z
Learning: In Netsuke `WhichResolver` telemetry, `cwd_mode` identifies the requested `CwdMode` search policy. It is derived from `options.cwd_mode` before cache probing or lookup, so it does not identify the source of a result or whether recursive workspace lookup ran or contributed to that result.

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Learnt from: leynos
URL: https://github.com/leynos/netsuke/pull/748

Timestamp: 2026-09-21T18:51:20.627Z
Learning: For pull request #748 in `leynos/netsuke`, treat observability, code safety, documentation, and validation coverage findings as in scope. Do not treat review warnings as optional or aspirational. When a finding is genuinely out of scope, propose a GitHub issue only if no existing issue covers it.

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[pandalump]

@coderabbitai Your finding was correct, and it was sharper than I first read it. Fixed in 3ccc88ce, pushed.

You were right about the mechanism, not just the style. The expected outcome and category were imports of the same constants the resolver emits, so the expectation and the emission were one symbol. I confirmed the coupling at the source rather than accepting your description of it — telemetry.rs:290 assigns RESOLUTION_OUTCOME_NOT_FOUND to the recorded outcome, and the old expectation at failure_categories.rs:278 imported that identical constant. A rename of the string at telemetry.rs:84 moves both sides at once. That is the implementation compared against itself, which is what your resolution text said.

Applied as you specified. Both cases now carry literals, and the imports the change orphaned are gone:

expectation	value now	was
outcome (direct miss)	"not_found"	RESOLUTION_OUTCOME_NOT_FOUND
category (direct miss)	"direct_not_found"	CATEGORY_DIRECT_NOT_FOUND
outcome (probe failure)	"error"	RESOLUTION_OUTCOME_ERROR
category (probe failure)	"is_executable"	CATEGORY_IS_EXECUTABLE

The #[cfg(unix)] import block holding the last two is gone entirely, since the case now needs no telemetry import to state its expectations. The resolver calls, the error-variant assertions, the complete counter and tracing comparisons, the redaction checks, and the per-test Unix gate are all unchanged.

One more instance of the same defect, which your list of four did not name. cache_outcome had it too: the span field was built as format!("cache_outcome={CACHE_OUTCOME_MISS:?}") and the cache-series sample as Sample::once(mode, CACHE_OUTCOME_MISS, None), while cache.rs:100 records the span's value from CACHE_OUTCOME_MISS as well. Same constant on both sides, one level down. It is now the literal "miss", held in one named constant in the test file. I am flagging this rather than folding it in silently, because it widens your finding beyond its stated scope and you may want the record to show that.

Proven non-vacuous, because a green suite cannot show this. Your prompt asked for independent spellings; the thing that makes the fix worth anything is that it now discriminates, so I tested that end rather than assuming it. Renaming only the emitted spelling at telemetry.rs:84 to not_found_renamed:

	result
a_direct_path_miss_carries_the_category_that_separates_it_from_a_search	FAILS
an_uninspectable_path_is_an_error_rather_than_a_miss	passes (unaffected: different outcome and category)

with the counter assertion reporting the divergence directly:

never: the failure should be one series carrying its outcome and its own
category: [Sample { labels: [("category", "direct_not_found"),
("cwd_mode", "never"), ("outcome", "not_found_renamed")], count: 1 }]

The run that failed did so on the counter comparison; the span and event assertions are downstream of it behind ? and were not reached. Injection reverted and telemetry.rs verified byte-identical to its committed blob (c2553414da63d6a2716bb30fa1d2810773c045f059c4e4ce2dc837dbb6946cc4), with the baseline re-run green afterwards.

A documentation error of mine, now corrected. The module document claimed these cases named their categories "as its own literal" while the code did not. It now states the rule the file actually keeps and the reason for it — an expectation taken from the emitting module is the implementation compared against itself, so the literal is what makes a rename fail here instead of in a dashboard.

cargo test -p netsuke-build --lib failure_categories: 2 passed; 0 failed. The full repository gate set is re-running on 3ccc88ce and I will report it rather than assert it.

I am not asking for a further full review. This is the disposition for this thread: the correction you specified is applied, the same defect is fixed at the fifth site you did not name, and both halves are evidenced.

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@pandalump, thanks for confirming the fix in 3ccc88ce. The independent literal expectations address the finding. Changing the cache_outcome expectation to "miss" addresses the same coupling in the fifth assertion.

The injected-label failure shows that the direct-path counter assertion detects a changed emitted outcome. It does not independently exercise the span or event assertions, which that failure did not reach. Keep the full repository gates pending until their run on 3ccc88ce finishes.

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Repo: leynos/netsuke PR: 748
File: src/stdlib/which/telemetry_tests/outcome_series.rs:1-1
Timestamp: 2026-09-27T17:03:26.380Z
Learning: In `src/stdlib/which/telemetry_tests/`, Rust telemetry tests use independent literal `&str` expectations for `cwd_mode`, outcome, and category labels. Do not derive expected labels from `CwdMode`, `telemetry.rs`, or shared constants: that would make assertions circular and could hide a label rename. The CodeScene String Heavy Function Arguments exemption in `.codescene/code-health-rules.json` is scoped to this test-only directory and should be reassessed if the module gains non-test callers or a production path.

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[pandalump]

@coderabbitai Your gate condition is satisfied, and your scope note is now closed with evidence rather than inference.

The gates you asked me to hold finished green on 3ccc88ce. All nine, on one immutable head, nothing skipped. lint is the check that failed on 9ba186cc; test reports nextest 3468 tests run: 3468 passed, 5 skipped, 0 FAIL/LEAKY; doc-coverage 98.83% against an 80% threshold; markdownlint 166 files and 0 errors; test-workflow-contracts 948 passed, 2 skipped. check-fmt, typecheck, spelling and nixie all EXIT=0.

You were right that the injection reached only the counter assertion, and I have now closed that gap. "The suite is green" is the claim that cannot show this, so I ran targeted injections instead of asserting it. Each changes exactly one write in the untouched src/stdlib/which/telemetry.rs, runs only the two cases, then reverts. The ? chain at failure_categories.rs:253-256 runs counters, then span, then event, so which message fires is itself the evidence:

injected defect	counter	span	event
wrong value on the counter write (:305)	FAIL	—	—
wrong value on the span write (:294)	pass	FAIL	—
wrong value on the event write (:298)	pass	pass	FAIL
omitted category on the counter write	FAIL	—	—
omitted error_category on the span write	pass	FAIL	—
omitted error_category on the event write	pass	pass	FAIL

The third row answers your point directly. Its failure message is the event's:

never: the event must carry the bounded facts and nothing else, but recorded
["cwd_mode=\"never\"", "error_category=\"swapped\"", "outcome=\"not_found\""]

and in that same run the span assertion's message appears zero times. Reaching the event assertion is positive proof that both preceding assertions passed on their own terms — the event assertion does not borrow a pass from either.

The omission rows cover the other direction your wording includes, since an absent category is a wrong classification too. Dropping the span write leaves three fields where four are required, printing ["cwd_mode=\"never\"", "cache_outcome=\"miss\"", "result=\"not_found\""] with no error_category of any value; dropping the counter's category leaves labels: [("cwd_mode", "never"), ("outcome", "not_found")], count: 1. Both are rejected by exact-set comparison rather than by inequality, so omission and wrong-value are distinguished.

One correction to my own earlier message, since the record should be accurate. I told you the span and event assertions "sit downstream behind ? and were not reached". That was true of the first injection only; it is not a property of the assertions.

Scope, stated plainly. These injections establish that each assertion reads the emitted value independently and fails when it is wrong or absent. They do not establish the extra label case — that is what the exact-set comparisons and assert_unnamed hold, and I claim no more for them.

telemetry.rs is byte-identical to its committed blob after every injection (c2553414da63d6a2716bb30fa1d2810773c045f059c4e4ce2dc837dbb6946cc4), git status --porcelain empty, HEAD still 3ccc88ce. The stale-binary trap was guarded at each revert: git checkout for a fresh mtime plus touch, with a real recompile (8.5s–10.9s) before each post-revert green.

I am not asking for a further full review. This is the disposition for this thread: the correction you specified is applied, the fifth site you did not name is fixed, and the evidence reach you flagged is closed.

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printf '%s\n' 'REVISION'
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printf '%s\n' 'OUTLINE'
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@pandalump, keep this finding addressed. I confirmed that PR #748 points to 3ccc88ce and that failure_categories.rs uses independent literal expectations for both failure cases and the cache miss. Your targeted injection results show that the counter, span, and event assertions each reject a wrong or missing value. I did not rerun those injections.

Keep the separate hosted-CI status open: Windows / lint-windows was still in progress when I checked. Do not treat that check as green until it completes.

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🧠 Learnings used

Learnt from: pandalump
Repo: leynos/netsuke PR: 748
File: src/stdlib/which/telemetry_tests/outcome_series.rs:1-1
Timestamp: 2026-09-27T17:03:26.380Z
Learning: In `src/stdlib/which/telemetry_tests/`, Rust telemetry tests use independent literal `&str` expectations for `cwd_mode`, outcome, and category labels. Do not derive expected labels from `CwdMode`, `telemetry.rs`, or shared constants: that would make assertions circular and could hide a label rename. The CodeScene String Heavy Function Arguments exemption in `.codescene/code-health-rules.json` is scoped to this test-only directory and should be reassessed if the module gains non-test callers or a production path.

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@coderabbitai approve

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