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Tom Boucher 062f3fda90 chore(#2371): representative gate-fixture corpus + document-shaped property test (#2380)
* chore(#2371): representative gate-fixture corpus + document-shaped property test

Adds tests/fixtures/representative/ — a permanent corpus of verbatim,
incident-sourced fixtures (never author-invented) from #2286, #2347,
#2365, #2366, each labeled with its expected gate verdict in a
MANIFEST.json and driven through the real CLI gate entrypoint via
tests/representative-corpus.test.cjs.

Adds a document-shaped fast-check property test alongside the existing
writer-seeded bijection test in tests/api-coverage.test.cjs: the existing
generator produces rows and renders them through the writer, so the
document shape is a constant and it cannot fail against a decoy table;
the new one generates the document space instead.

Two gates (#2365, #2347) are still open, so their corpus/property
assertions are marked with node:test's official `todo` option — the test
executes and reports its failure without affecting the process exit code
(https://nodejs.org/api/test.html#test-options). The audit-uat corpus
(#2286, fixed by #2317) is a normal passing assertion, proving the
methodology works end to end and not just cataloguing gaps.

Records the fixture-provenance rule in CONTRIBUTING.md: a gate's fixtures
may not be derived from the gate's own writer, grammar, or docstring
examples; a negative fixture must come from a source that doesn't know
the gate exists.

No production src/*.cts changes — validation only, per #2371's scope.

Closes #2371

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(#2371): address orthogonal-review findings — dedup generators, fix field naming, wire dead fields

Standards-axis review findings, all fixed:

- Deduplicated the row-shape generators (capabilityGen/rowGen/validRowGen)
  that were copy-pasted between the parse/render bijection test and the
  new document-shaped property test in tests/api-coverage.test.cjs — a
  future edit to one could have silently desynced the two properties.
  Hoisted to a single module-scope declaration both tests reference.

- Renamed decision-coverage-guard/MANIFEST.json's expectedOutcome ->
  expectedReason. It asserted against the gate's `reason` field, but this
  codebase already has a real, different `outcome` field at parser
  altitude (extractDecisions' DecisionOutcome) — naming the manifest
  field after the wrong altitude's term was exactly the ambiguity the
  "Fixture provenance" rule this PR adds exists to eliminate.

- Removed the unused `role` field from three MANIFEST.json files (never
  read by any test) and wired the previously-dead per-fixture
  `expectedMinItems` in audit-uat/MANIFEST.json into a real per-file
  assertion in tests/representative-corpus.test.cjs, using cmdAuditUat's
  `results` array — catches a regression that moves items between the
  two fixture files while preserving the aggregate total, which the
  existing total_items check alone would miss.

No changes to test intent or coverage — same assertions, correctly named
and fully wired.

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* fix: remove dead capabilityState/capabilityWriter requires from gsd-tools.cjs

Surfaced by the mandatory pre-PR lint gate (no-unused-vars) while
preparing this PR — unrelated to #2371's own changes, but a defect
found while working is fixed in place rather than deferred.

Leftover from #2368/#2370 (merged just before this branch rebased onto
it): the case 'capability' arm that needed these two requires was
relocated to bin/lib/capability-command-router.cjs, which already
requires both modules directly (lines 24-25) and is their only real
consumer (cmdCapabilityState, resolveCapabilityRuntimeState,
cmdCapabilitySet). The two requires left behind in gsd-tools.cjs had
zero other references in the file and were never re-exported —
confirmed via grep across the file and its module.exports.

Behavior-preserving: Node's require cache means the underlying modules
still load exactly once via capability-command-router.cjs's own
requires; gsd-tools.cjs never used its now-removed local bindings.

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* fix(#2371): replace todo-marked assertions with characterization tests

gsd-test's own JSONL result parser (gsd-test-runner's
internal/pipeline/parse.go, verified directly against that repo's
source) has no concept of node:test's `todo` option — it only
recognizes kind:"pass"|"fail" and hard-errors on anything else. A
{ todo: true } test whose body throws is counted as a real failure in
gsd-test's own verdict, exactly as if it weren't marked todo — proven
by an actual gsd-test run against this branch, which reported
outcome:"failed" with all six todo-marked assertions (the property
test plus five representative-corpus fixtures) in the failure list,
each carrying the correct raw node:test `todo` field the tool's parser
simply doesn't read.

Replaces todo with characterization: MANIFEST.json now carries both
the correct target verdict (expected*) and the exact current observed
verdict (currentBuggyOutput, directly verified against live CLI
output for all five fixtures). Tests assert currentBuggyOutput — an
honest, non-vacuous pin of today's known-broken reality that passes
today and will fail loudly the moment the referenced fix changes the
observed output, at which point the assertion should be flipped to
expected* and currentBuggyOutput deleted.

The document-shaped property test switches from throwing fc.assert to
non-throwing fc.check (returns RunDetails per fast-check's own docs)
and asserts report.failed === true directly, for the same reason.

Updates all prose (CONTRIBUTING.md, the fixture READMEs) that
previously claimed todo would be respected — that claim was
factually wrong for this repo's actual tooling and must not ship.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* chore: regenerate golden-install-parity fixtures after rebase onto next

Rebasing onto the current next (which now includes #2381's
todo-severity changes to gsd-core/bin/gsd-tools.cjs) produced real
conflicts in all 18 golden-install-parity fixtures — expected, since
both branches changed the same gsd-tools.cjs hash entry. Resolved by
taking one side to unblock the rebase, then regenerating fresh from
source via npm run gen:golden and verifying the result; every file's
diff is exactly the one hash line for gsd-core/bin/gsd-tools.cjs,
correcting a stale intermediate hash from the arbitrary conflict pick.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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# Representative Gate Fixtures (#2371)
Every fixture in this tree is **verbatim** (or, where noted, a minimal
faithful subset) of an artifact that a real user actually produced and
reported against a real GSD gate. None of it was written by a gate's own
author to exercise that gate.
## Why this directory exists, and why `tests/fixtures/adversarial/` isn't enough
`tests/fixtures/adversarial/` covers hostile input — unicode, CRLF, nested
fences, heredoc breakout. Nobody attacked the gates these fixtures target.
A developer wrote an ordinary, well-formed artifact — a plan, a coverage
matrix, a CONTEXT.md — that a gate misjudged anyway. That input is neither
synthetic-happy nor adversarial; it's simply *real*, and until #2371 no gate
had coverage for it.
The pattern this corpus exists to break: a gate's test fixtures were
authored by the same person (or model) who wrote the gate, from the same
mental model, so they can only confirm what the author already believed —
never surface what the author didn't anticipate. See #2371 for the full
diagnosis (four incidents across three gates in ten days, including a
fast-check property test whose generator was seeded from the parser's own
writer function and therefore could not fail).
## Rule
**A gate's fixtures may not be derived from the gate's own writer, grammar,
or docstring examples. A negative fixture must come from a source that
does not know the gate exists.** Recorded in `CONTRIBUTING.md` under
"Fixture provenance."
## Layout
Each subdirectory is one gate:
- `api-coverage-detector/` — `detectApiIntegration` (#2365)
- `api-coverage-matrix/` — `parseCoverageMatrix` (#2366)
- `audit-uat/` — `parseUatItems` / `parseVerificationItems` (#2286, fixed by #2317)
- `decision-coverage-guard/` — `extractDecisions`'s could-not-parse guard (#1365 gap, #2347)
Each carries its own `README.md` (what each fixture is and where it came
from) and `MANIFEST.json` (machine-readable: file → source issue → gate →
expected verdict). `tests/representative-corpus.test.cjs` loads every
manifest and drives each fixture through the gate's real CLI entrypoint —
never the parser function directly — so the assertion is at gate-verdict
altitude (the boolean/JSON a user actually sees), not parse-tree altitude.
## Why the still-broken fixtures assert `currentBuggyOutput`, not a red `todo`
Three of the four gates here are still open bugs (#2365, #2366, #2347) at
the time this corpus was added. Their `MANIFEST.json` entries carry BOTH
the correct target verdict (`expected*` — what the eventual fix must
produce) and the exact CURRENT observed verdict (`currentBuggyOutput` —
what today's code actually returns). The test asserts against
`currentBuggyOutput`: an honest, non-vacuous characterization of today's
known-broken reality, not a fake pass.
This is deliberately NOT node:test's `todo` option. `todo` looked like the
right tool — a todo test executes and reports its failure without
affecting Node's own process exit code
(https://nodejs.org/api/test.html#test-options) — but this repo's actual
test-runner (`gsd-test` / `gsd-test-runner` v1.6.2) has no concept of it:
its JSONL result parser (`internal/pipeline/parse.go`'s `parseJSONL`, in
the separate `gsd-test-runner` repo) only recognizes `kind: "pass" | "fail"`
and hard-errors on anything else — verified directly against that source,
not assumed. A `{ todo: true }` test whose body throws is still counted as
a real failure in `gsd-test`'s own verdict, which would block the push
gate exactly as if it weren't marked todo at all.
Asserting `currentBuggyOutput` sidesteps this because the test genuinely
passes today — no runner-level "expected failure" feature required. The
fixes belong to #2365 / #2366 / #2347, not to this corpus. When one of
those lands, the corresponding assertion will fail (the gate now returns
something other than the pinned buggy value) — at that point, flip the
test to assert `expected*` instead and delete the stale
`currentBuggyOutput`.
The `audit-uat/` corpus has no `todo`: #2286 was fixed by #2317 before this
corpus was written, so its assertions are ordinary, currently-passing
tests — the proof that a representative fixture, driven through the real
gate, is not automatically doomed to fail. It demonstrates the methodology
working, not just the gaps it finds.