@antoneeo/mkt-agentic-sdlc-skill 0.17.0 → 0.19.0

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@@ -89,6 +89,14 @@ ARCHITECT_PASS_EPOCH = "2026-07-28"
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  # row. Same grandfathering discipline as the pass above -- never nag work that
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  # predates the rule.
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  DESIGN_REVIEW_EPOCH = "2026-07-28"
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+ # Chronology (F-073): an L3 ANALYSIS started, or an L3 HANDOFF updated, on/after
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+ # this date is read for undated Diary text and a multi-step `next:`. Advisories,
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+ # like the two gates above: a fixed epoch cannot protect a late upgrader, so a
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+ # warning here would redden --strict CI on work written before the upgrade.
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+ CHRONOLOGY_EPOCH = "2026-10-18"
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+ NEXT_MAX_CHARS = 240 # this repository's longest `next:` was 214 at the epoch
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+ ID_SCAN_MAX_REFS = 300 # A3 is skipped above it (one advisory says so, T9)
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+ ID_SCAN_REFS_PER_CALL = 50 # keeps one git command line far below 32k chars
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  def review_log_rel():
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  return f"{docs_dir()}/audit/reviews/REVIEW_LOG.md"
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  # Component Map 'Where' refs: a dotted token counts as a path only with one of
@@ -834,6 +842,10 @@ def build_registry(root):
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  return ""
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  stamp = max(str(m.get("updated") or m.get("since") or "").strip() or "0000-00-00"
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  for _p, m in rows)
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+ return _render_registry(root, rows, stamp)
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+
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+
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+ def _render_registry(root, rows, stamp):
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  lines = ["# Handoff — workstream registry",
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  f"Date: {stamp} (UTC)",
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  "",
@@ -867,6 +879,35 @@ def parse_registry_rows(text):
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  return ids
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+ def is_generated_registry(text):
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+ # "Ours" = written by ANY family entry point: the header is WRITTEN with
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+ # entry_script(), so recognition must not hard-code one distribution's
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+ # script name (a registry generated by mkt_check.py is just as generated).
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+ return bool(re.search(r"GENERATED by \S+ index - do not edit by hand", text))
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+
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+
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+ def generated_registry_rows(text):
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+ """Workstream rows of a generated registry, ignoring the project notes
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+ (free text that may carry tables of its own)."""
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+ return parse_registry_rows(text.split("\n## Project-wide notes", 1)[0])
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+
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+
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+ def build_empty_registry(root, existing):
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+ """The generated registry once the last source is gone (F1, found by F-068).
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+
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+ Only for a registry that is already ours: a hand-written handoff with no
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+ sources is a project that never converted, and stays untouched. The Date is
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+ kept while the view is already empty -- re-running index on a clean tree
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+ must not change it -- and becomes today's when rows are being dropped:
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+ there is no source left whose `updated:` could date the closure."""
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+ m = re.search(r"Date:\s*(\d{4}-\d{2}-\d{2})", existing)
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+ if m and not generated_registry_rows(existing):
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+ stamp = m.group(1)
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+ else:
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+ stamp = datetime.now(timezone.utc).strftime("%Y-%m-%d")
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+ return _render_registry(root, [], stamp)
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+
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+
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  def registry_conversion_blockers(root):
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  """What stops `index` from writing over a hand-written handoff.md.
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@@ -879,10 +920,7 @@ def registry_conversion_blockers(root):
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  if not hand.is_file():
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  return []
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  text = read_text(hand)
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- # "Already ours" = written by ANY family entry point: the header is WRITTEN
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- # with entry_script(), so recognition must not hard-code one distribution's
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- # script name (a registry generated by mkt_check.py is just as generated).
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- if re.search(r"GENERATED by \S+ index - do not edit by hand", text):
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+ if is_generated_registry(text):
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  return []
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  blockers = []
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  known = {str(m.get("workstream")).strip() for _p, m in list_workstreams(root)}
@@ -1015,10 +1053,21 @@ def cmd_index(root):
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  def rc_registry(root):
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  """Write the generated workstream registry, or refuse and say why (F-028)."""
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  ws = list_workstreams(root)
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+ hand = ai_path(root, "audit", "handoff.md")
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  if not ws:
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- return 0 # no sources: a hand-written handoff is untouched
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+ # No sources: a hand-written handoff is untouched; a generated one is
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+ # emptied, or the last closed workstream would stay listed forever.
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+ if not hand.is_file():
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+ return 0
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+ existing = read_text(hand)
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+ if not is_generated_registry(existing):
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+ return 0
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+ empty = build_empty_registry(root, existing)
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+ if norm_text(existing) != norm_text(empty):
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+ hand.write_text(empty, encoding="utf-8")
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+ print(f"[ok] workstream registry emptied (no open workstreams): {hand}")
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+ return 0
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  blockers = registry_conversion_blockers(root)
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- hand = ai_path(root, "audit", "handoff.md")
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  if blockers:
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  print(f"[ERROR] {docs_dir()}/audit/handoff.md NOT regenerated -- it still holds "
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  "state no source accounts for:")
@@ -1060,6 +1109,298 @@ def section_body(text, aliases):
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  return None
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+ def section_lines(text, aliases):
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+ """(heading_line, body) for the first matching `## ` section, or None: the
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+ body NOT stripped, so body line n is file line heading_line + n, and an
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+ indented first line keeps its indentation. The readers below use it; a
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+ stripped body would shift every line number and move ` - DATE` to column 0."""
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+ lines = (text or "").splitlines()
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+ for i, line in enumerate(lines):
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+ if any(line.startswith(a) for a in aliases):
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+ body = []
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+ for nxt in lines[i + 1:]:
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+ if nxt.startswith("## "):
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+ break
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+ body.append(nxt)
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+ return i + 1, "\n".join(body)
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+ return None
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+
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+
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+ # ---------------------------------------------------------------- chronology
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+ # One grammar for a dated entry (F-073), read by the validator and by any
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+ # consumer that lists events (F-072's chronology): both call these readers, so
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+ # they cannot disagree on what an event is. The readers return openers only --
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+ # date, label, line -- and format nothing for display.
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+
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+ DIARY_SECTION = next(s for s in ANALYSIS_SECTIONS if s[0] == "## Diary")
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+ _ISO = r"\d{4}-\d{2}-\d{2}"
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+ # At column 0: optional list marker, optional `###`/`####`, optional bold, then
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+ # the ISO date and a word boundary. The date FIRST is the rule; markup is
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+ # tolerated so the dated forms already written stay readable with no migration.
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+ ENTRY_OPENER = re.compile(r"^(?:([-*]) |(#{3,4}) )?(\*\*)?(" + _ISO + r")\b(.*)$")
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+ _LABEL_SEP = re.compile(r"^(?:\*\*)?\s*(?:[—–:-])?\s*")
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+ _REQUEST_HEADING = re.compile(r"^### (R\d+) [—–-] (" + _ISO + r") [—–-] (.+)$")
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+ _ADR_BODY_DATE = re.compile(r"^\**Date:\**\s*(" + _ISO + r")\b", re.M)
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+ _ADR_NAME_DATE = re.compile(r"^ADR_(" + _ISO + r")_", re.I)
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+ UNIT_ID_RE = re.compile(r"\b([A-Z]-\d{3,})\b")
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+
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+
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+ def _entry_label(bold, rest):
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+ rest = _LABEL_SEP.sub("", rest, count=1)
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+ if bold and "**" in rest:
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+ rest = rest.split("**", 1)[0]
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+ else:
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+ rest = re.split(r"(?<=[.!?])\s", rest, maxsplit=1)[0]
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+ return rest.strip(" .:—–-*")[:120]
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+
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+
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+ def _opener_at(lines, i):
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+ """The match when lines[i] opens an entry. It must also START A BLOCK -- the
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+ line above is blank, absent or a heading, or the line is itself a list item
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+ or a heading -- so a hard-wrapped prose line that happens to begin with a
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+ date is never an event. (A separator after the date is NOT required: real
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+ openers read `DATE (qualifier)` and `DATE word`.)"""
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+ m = ENTRY_OPENER.match(lines[i])
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+ if not m:
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+ return None
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+ prev = lines[i - 1] if i else ""
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+ if not prev.strip() or prev.startswith("#") or m.group(1) or m.group(2):
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+ return m
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+ return None
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+
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+
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+ def entry_openers(body):
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+ """[(date, label, line)] -- one per dated entry opener; line is 1-based
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+ within `body`. An undated paragraph belongs to the entry above it. Comments
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+ are blanked first, exactly as `undated_diary_lines` does, so an entry
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+ written under the template's comment is an event to both."""
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+ lines = _blank_comments(body).splitlines()
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+ out = []
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+ for i in range(len(lines)):
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+ m = _opener_at(lines, i)
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+ if m:
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+ out.append((m.group(4), _entry_label(m.group(3), m.group(5)), i + 1))
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+ return out
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+
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+
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+ def _blank_comments(text):
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+ # comments become blank lines, so line numbers still point at the file's lines
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+ return re.sub(r"<!--.*?-->", lambda m: "\n" * m.group(0).count("\n"), text or "",
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+ flags=re.S)
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+
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+
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+ def undated_diary_lines(body):
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+ """[(line, text)] a Diary body cannot date: text before the first opener,
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+ and any `### ` heading that is not an opener. `####` and deeper headings are
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+ sub-structure of an entry and stay legal. Comments are ignored."""
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+ lines = _blank_comments(body).splitlines()
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+ out, seen_opener = [], False
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+ for i, line in enumerate(lines):
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+ if _opener_at(lines, i):
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+ seen_opener = True
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+ elif line.startswith("### "):
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+ out.append((i + 1, line.strip()))
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+ elif not seen_opener and line.strip():
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+ out.append((i + 1, line.strip()))
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+ return out
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+
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+
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+ def request_entries(text):
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+ """(entries, unparsed) for a request record: entries are
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+ [(rid, date, label, line)]; a `### ` heading that does not match
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+ `### R<n> — YYYY-MM-DD — <label>` is returned in unparsed as (line, text),
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+ never dropped."""
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+ entries, unparsed = [], []
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+ for i, line in enumerate((text or "").splitlines()):
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+ if not line.startswith("### "):
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+ continue
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+ m = _REQUEST_HEADING.match(line.rstrip())
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+ if m:
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+ entries.append((m.group(1), m.group(2), m.group(3).strip(), i + 1))
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+ else:
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+ unparsed.append((i + 1, line.rstrip()))
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+ return entries, unparsed
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+
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+
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+ def adr_date(name, text):
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+ """An ADR's date: `**Date:** YYYY-MM-DD` in the body, else the
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+ `ADR_YYYY-MM-DD_*` file name, else None."""
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+ m = _ADR_BODY_DATE.search(text or "") or _ADR_NAME_DATE.match(name or "")
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+ return m.group(1) if m else None
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+
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+
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+ def _meta_date(meta, key):
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+ return parse_iso(str(meta.get(key) or "").strip().strip("'\"")[:10])
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+
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+
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+ def chronology_advisories(root):
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+ """A1 (undated Diary text) and A2 (`next:` is not one step), as advisory
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+ strings. Gated on `level: L3` and on a date the file carries -- never an
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+ mtime -- so L1/L2 work and anything written before the epoch see nothing."""
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+ epoch = parse_iso(CHRONOLOGY_EPOCH)
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+ out = []
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+ for p, meta, text in list_analyses(root):
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+ started = _meta_date(meta, "start_date")
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+ if str(meta.get("level", "")).upper() != "L3" or not started or started < epoch:
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+ continue
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+ section = section_lines(text, DIARY_SECTION)
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+ if section is None:
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+ continue
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+ head, body = section
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+ rel = "solutions/" + p.name
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+ lines = undated_diary_lines(body)
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+ preface = [(n, t) for n, t in lines if not t.startswith("### ")]
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+ if preface:
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+ out.append(f"{rel}: line {head + preface[0][0]}: Diary text '{preface[0][1][:60]}' "
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+ "comes before the first dated entry -- open entries with "
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+ "**YYYY-MM-DD — label.**, and write the current state as the latest "
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+ "dated entry")
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+ for n, t in lines:
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+ if t.startswith("### "):
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+ out.append(f"{rel}: line {head + n}: Diary heading '{t[:60]}' is not a dated "
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+ "entry -- open entries with **YYYY-MM-DD — label.**")
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+ for p, meta in list_workstreams(root):
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+ updated = _meta_date(meta, "updated")
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+ if str(meta.get("level", "")).upper() != "L3" or not updated or updated < epoch:
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+ continue
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+ nxt = str(meta.get("next") or "").strip()
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+ if len(nxt) > NEXT_MAX_CHARS:
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+ out.append(f"audit/{p.name}: next: is {len(nxt)} chars (> {NEXT_MAX_CHARS}): one "
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+ "next step here, the state goes to the Diary as a dated entry")
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+ return out
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+
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+
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+ def _open_units(root):
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+ """{id: {analysis name}} for the tree's open L3 units: an L3 ANALYSIS that is
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+ PLANNED or IN_PROGRESS, or a request record (L3 only, r26) whose `analysis:`
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+ is absent from the tree or names such an open ANALYSIS. A closed unit's
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+ record, kept forever, does not count."""
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+ units, present, open_names = {}, set(), set()
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+ for p, meta, _ in list_analyses(root):
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+ present.add(p.name)
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+ if (str(meta.get("level", "")).upper() == "L3"
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+ and meta.get("status") in ("PLANNED", "IN_PROGRESS")):
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+ m = UNIT_ID_RE.search(str(meta.get("id") or ""))
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+ if m:
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+ open_names.add(p.name)
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+ units.setdefault(m.group(1), set()).add(p.name)
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+ req = ai_path(root, "audit", "requests")
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+ if req.is_dir():
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+ for p in sorted(req.glob("REQUEST_*.md")):
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+ meta = load_frontmatter(read_text(p).splitlines())
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+ name = str(meta.get("analysis") or "").strip().strip("'\"`")
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+ m = UNIT_ID_RE.search(str(meta.get("unit") or meta.get("id") or ""))
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+ if m and name and (name not in present or name in open_names):
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+ units.setdefault(m.group(1), set()).add(name)
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+ return units
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+
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+
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+ def _git_out(root, *args, timeout=30):
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+ r = subprocess.run(["git", *args], cwd=str(root), capture_output=True, text=True,
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+ encoding="utf-8", errors="replace", timeout=timeout)
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+ return r.stdout if r.returncode == 0 else None
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+
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+
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+ def ids_on_other_refs(root, max_refs=ID_SCAN_MAX_REFS):
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+ """[(id, mine, theirs, [refs])] -- an open unit's id that another ref (heads,
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+ remotes, tags) uses for a DIFFERENT analysis. Identity is the ANALYSIS file
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+ name, declared by the ANALYSIS or announced by a request record's
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+ `analysis:`. One `git grep` over local refs, fixed arguments only (T8);
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+ as fresh as the last fetch. [] with no open L3 unit or no git; None when
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+ skipped -- above `max_refs` refs, or git failed or timed out -- so the
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+ caller can say the check did not run instead of reporting it clean."""
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+ mine = _open_units(root)
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+ if not mine or not git_available(root):
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+ return []
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+ try:
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+ head = (_git_out(root, "rev-parse", "HEAD") or "").strip()
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+ listing = _git_out(root, "for-each-ref",
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+ "--format=%(objectname) %(objecttype) %(*objecttype) %(refname)",
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+ "refs/heads", "refs/remotes", "refs/tags")
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+ if listing is None:
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+ return None
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+ refs = []
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+ for line in listing.split("\n"):
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+ parts = line.split(" ")
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+ if len(parts) == 3: # %(*objecttype) empty: not a tag
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+ parts.insert(2, "")
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+ if len(parts) != 4:
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+ continue
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+ sha, kind, peeled, ref = parts
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+ # only refs that resolve to a commit can be grepped (a tag on a blob
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+ # would fail the whole batch); the tree's own commit is not "another
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+ # ref"; symbolic HEADs repeat a branch
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+ if "commit" not in (kind, peeled) or ref.endswith("/HEAD") or sha == head:
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+ continue
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+ refs.append(ref)
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+ if not refs:
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+ return []
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+ if len(refs) > max_refs:
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+ return None
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+ # Pathspecs are relative to cwd=root, so a docs root inside a monorepo
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+ # subdirectory is found. -z keeps a path with ':' or non-ASCII intact
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+ # (quotePath off); -n plus the fence lines confine hits to frontmatter.
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+ docs = docs_dir()
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+ chunks = []
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+ for i in range(0, len(refs), ID_SCAN_REFS_PER_CALL): # command-line length
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+ r = subprocess.run(
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+ ["git", "-c", "core.quotePath=false", "grep", "-z", "-n", "-I", "-E",
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+ r"^(id|unit|analysis):|^---\s*$", *refs[i:i + ID_SCAN_REFS_PER_CALL],
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+ "--", f"{docs}/solutions/ANALYSIS_*.md", f"{docs}/audit/requests/REQUEST_*.md"],
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+ cwd=str(root), capture_output=True, text=True, encoding="utf-8",
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+ errors="replace", timeout=60)
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+ if r.returncode not in (0, 1): # 1 = no match
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+ return None
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+ chunks.append(r.stdout)
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+ except Exception:
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+ return None
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+ per = {}
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+ for line in "".join(chunks).split("\n"): # not splitlines: \x1c.. are content
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+ parts = line.split("\0")
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+ if len(parts) != 3 or ":" not in parts[0] or not parts[1].isdigit():
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+ continue
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+ ref, path = parts[0].split(":", 1) # a ref name cannot hold ':'
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+ content = parts[2].rstrip("\r")
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+ st = per.setdefault((ref, path), {"fences": 0, "kv": {}})
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+ if int(parts[1]) == 1 and content.strip() == "---":
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+ st["fences"] = 1 # frontmatter opens on line 1
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+ elif st["fences"] == 1 and content.strip() == "---":
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+ st["fences"] = 2 # ...and closes here
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+ elif st["fences"] == 1:
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+ key, _, val = content.partition(":")
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+ st["kv"].setdefault(key, val.strip())
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+ found = {}
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+ for (ref, path), st in per.items():
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+ kv = st["kv"]
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+ fname = path.replace("\\", "/").rsplit("/", 1)[-1]
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+ name = fname if fname.startswith("ANALYSIS_") else kv.get("analysis", "").strip("'\"`")
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+ m = UNIT_ID_RE.search(kv.get("id") or kv.get("unit") or "")
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+ if not (m and name) or m.group(1) not in mine or name in mine[m.group(1)]:
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+ continue
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+ short = re.sub(r"^refs/(heads|remotes|tags)/", "", ref)
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+ found.setdefault((m.group(1), name), [])
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+ if short not in found[(m.group(1), name)]:
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+ found[(m.group(1), name)].append(short)
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+ return sorted((fid, ", ".join(sorted(mine[fid])), theirs, sorted(refs_))
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+ for (fid, theirs), refs_ in found.items())
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+
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+
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+ def id_advisories(root):
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+ """A3 as advisory strings, for every entry point's `check`."""
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+ hits = ids_on_other_refs(root)
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+ if hits is None:
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+ return [f"id check skipped (more than {ID_SCAN_MAX_REFS} refs, or git grep failed "
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+ "or timed out) -- choose a new unit's id after fetching, as the first id "
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+ "free on every ref"]
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+ out = []
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+ for fid, mine, theirs, refs in hits:
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+ more = f" (+{len(refs) - 1} more)" if len(refs) > 1 else ""
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+ out.append(f"id {fid} ({mine}) is also used by {theirs} on {refs[0]}{more}: choose "
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+ "the first id free on every ref -- if this is the same unit under its "
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+ "old name, ignore it")
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+ return out
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+
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+
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  def design_review_due(meta):
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  """True when an L3 ANALYSIS owes a design-review row (review.md moment 1):
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  implementation has started or finished, and it began on/after the gate
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  "workstream — decide which file owns it")
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  else:
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  seen[wid] = p.name
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+ elif hand.is_file():
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+ text = read_text(hand)
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+ if is_generated_registry(text) and generated_registry_rows(text):
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+ errors.append(f"{docs_dir()}/audit/handoff.md lists workstreams no HANDOFF_*.md "
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+ "source exists for any more: run 'sdlc_check.py index' to drop "
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+ "the closed rows")
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  if hand.is_file():
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+ # A3 (F-073): check only -- it reads git refs, and validate stays file-local.
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+ # Advisory: printed, never part of any rc.
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+ print(f"[note] {a}")
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@@ -461,7 +461,8 @@ status: DRAFT
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  ## Time-box
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  ## Method & sources
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+ <!-- open with **YYYY-MM-DD — label.**, dated the day the answer was reached;
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  ## Consequences
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  ```
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  pointers (the ANALYSIS, a review log entry); the generator prepends this file's own
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+ `next:` is **the next concrete step, in one sentence** (at most 240 characters;
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+ `validate` notes a longer one on an L3 file updated under the rule). What happened,
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+ and the state of the work, go to the Diary as a dated entry: the registry is what
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+ `orient` shows at every session start, cut at a fixed size, so a paragraph here
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+ costs the next agent the rows below it.
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  everyone rather than for one workstream. It exists so that generating the registry
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+ A note that records an **event** (a release, a migration, an incident) opens with its
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+ date — `**YYYY-MM-DD — label.**` — so it is read as one; a **standing** note (an
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+ environment quirk) stays undated, and is not an event.
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  ## strategic/architecture.md and existing_features.md (under the docs root)
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  Canonical docs: they open with the header (`description:`/`status:`) so they enter the `INDEX.md` manifest cleanly.